Spring 2 Curriculum Maps

Spring 2 Curriculum Maps

Literacy:

Mathematics:

High quality texts have been chosen to inspire the

When counting children will continue to assign one number to

learning in Nursery. Children will continue to be encouraged to join in with repeated words and phrases and encouraged to share their views about the characters and plot.

Children will continue to be encouraged to give meaning to the marks they make through a range of writing opportunities. Children will learn to recognise and write their special letter/name.

Communication and Language: Children will continue to develop their active listening skills in a range of different scenarios. This will include listening to stories of increasing length and to be able to talk about what happens.

Children will be exposed to talk norms and will learn how to take turns when having a

each object. They will know that the final number said is the total (cardinal principle).

Children will continue to recognise numerals and begin to place them in the correct order on a number line.

Children will begin to use positional language to describe where an object has been placed.

They will build on their knowledge of 2D shapes and be able to

Understanding the World: Through our upcoming topic we will learn about different modes of transport. A key learning point for Nursery will be learning how to stay safe when crossing roads and riding on bikes and scooters.

We will also look out for signs that spring is on its way and will learn how some people celebrate Easter.

name and describe square, rectangle, triangle and circle.

Nursery Curriculum Map Spring 2

conversation with others.

Physical Development: Children will continue to develop fundamental movement skills in PE sessions and outdoors. They will develop their movement skills including balancing and riding on balance bikes.

Children will be encouraged to consistently use a tripod grip when mark making and forming their special letters.

Children will put on their coat independently and attempt to zip it up.

Expressive Arts & Design: Children will listen to pieces of music and songs and will be encouraged to respond to what they have heard, expressing their thoughts and feelings.

They will continue to explore a range of arts and crafts where we will be paying particular attention to their ability to clean their paintbrush before changing colour.

Children will also continue to develop their cutting skills in a range of different activities.

Additional Information: Please remember to send in ‘Share a Story’ books on Monday morning so they can be swapped for a new one.

Remember to send in a pair of named wellies for your child if they do not already have a pair in Nursery. We will be outdoors in all weathers and don’t want the children to get wet feet!

It would be great if you could support your child with putting coats and shoes on independently.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Children will continue to be encouraged to play alongside other children in a friendly manner taking other people’s feelings into account. They will be encouraged to find their own solutions when faced with challenges.

Children will continue to be encouraged to take care of toys and resources, and will be an active participant during tidy up time.

Literacy: Children will listen to a wide variety of high quality animal based stories and will be encouraged to use the vocabulary they hear in their independent play. Children will continue to learn individual phonemes and digraphs (special friends). Children will read alongside an adult a minimum of twice weekly. Children will continue to read words in small sentences and phrases. Children will develop their ability to use their phonic knowledge to write words and short phrases that can be read by themselves and others.

Understanding the World:

Mathematics:

In maths, children will be continuing their mastery based approach in numbers to 10. Children will continue to develop their perceptual subitising skills (seeing the quantity without counting) to build on their understanding of number patterns within 10, including doubles. Their developing sense of the numbers to 10 will support a deeper understanding of the composition of those numbers. The children also have previous experience of investigating groups that have an equal number of objects. This will support their increasing

fluency with number bonds and help them to develop efficient and flexible calculation strategies. Children will play number games using objects to enable 1 to 1 correspondence and

Through a focus on animal stories, children will be exposed to a growing number of animals, and they will learn about their natural habitats and how they grow. They will use non-fiction texts and an atlas to learn about different countries linked to the setting of the book. Children will learn how Christians

celebrate Easter across the world

and find out why pancakes are eaten on Shrove Tuesday. Linking to their knowledge of bread making and baking gingerbread, children will follow a recipe to make their own pancakes, discussing their preferences.

increase their understanding of cardinality.

Physical Development:

Communication and Language: The children will continue to develop their

In P.E, children will be focusing on speed agility travel.

ability to respond to an instruction with

They will work on being able to travel and negotiate space with control and coordination. They will develop ways of

more than one part. Children will be taught

changing direction at speed through choice and direction.

Talk Partner rules and will be encouraged to use

They will also look at the ways they can perform actions

sentence stems when working in Talk Partners

at various speeds. They will develop their use of vocabulary

in lessons. This will allow children opportunities

in P.E focusing on subject specific words such as start,

to extend their sentences and agree or disagree

stop, pause, prepare and anticipate, and be able to use this

with their peers in a respectful way.

language when describing their movement.

Personal, Social & Emotional Development:

Expressive Arts & Design:

This half term, the children will be developing their understanding of

The children will become more skilled in observational drawing making representations of things they can see within their environment,

Additional Information:

concen-

trating on colouring and painting within an outside line. Drawing on their skills of representing people and objects, children will study the artist Maria Moss and her multi coloured paintings. Skills in making music using a variety of instruments will devel-

op along with joining in with familiar songs and dances.

1st March—PTFA Pancake day 3rd March—World Book Day 14th and 16th March—Parent Evenings 18th March—Red Nose Day Friday 8th—Easter egg activity in school.

themselves as a living thing and how all living things go through an aspect of change. They will observe their local surroundings and see how the natural features change within the season and reflect on how they have changed since they were young. The children will focus on how we keep their bodies healthy and the sort of foods that are good for them and those that they should avoid. The children will learn about where their food comes from and the important people in the world that pro-

vide food for them including

farmers, fishermen and produce providers.

Mathematics: In Mathematics, we will

Year 1 Curriculum Map

building on the children's knowledge of

Spring 2

both place value and addition and subtraction by moving on to numbers

elements into our lessons using partwhole models, bar models and ten frames.

Science – Animals Including Humans:

our lives?

In History, we will be building on

book The Way Back Home by Oliver children’s understanding of punctuation and the use of nouns,

In Early Years, children began to learn the names of

adjectives and verbs. We will

common animals and explored some simple life cycles.

continue to build the children’s

This half term, we will be building on this within our

knowledge of phonics through a

Animals Including Humans topic. We will be identifying History - How have explorers changed

learning in English will focus on the Jeffers. We will be building on the

up to 50. We will continue to embed concrete, pictorial and abstract

English: To begin this term our

and classifying common vertebrates; carnivores, herbivores and omnivores as well as looking at the structure of animals linking to human body parts and senses.

the children’s understanding of

dedicated daily phonics lessons. In addition, opportunities to consolidate and extend their phonics knowledge will be delivered throughout the day using games and quick fire phonics sessions.

innovation. Comparing how George Stephenson’s invention changed the way we live and how Neil Armstrong’s and Mae Jemison’s explorations in space have also changed the way we live. They will further consider what these three people have in common.

As part of our learning the children will visit the Centre for Life and take part in a workshop all about space, this will enhance their learning and inspire their thinking!

Art - Printmaking In Art, we will build on our prior knowledge of primary colours and our ability to use paintbrushes to make controlled marks and brushstrokes. We shall explore the marks that can be made by printing with a range of different objects. We will be taught the techniques of stencilling and relief printing. We will combine these printing techniques to create a final piece which shall be inspired by the work of the contemporary artist Karen Lenderer.

RE – What is Easter?

This half term, we will build upon our understanding of religious festivals, focussing on the major Christian festival of Easter. We will explore the belief that Jesus brings new life and is God’s gift to the world.

ICT/Computing: This half term, children will be putting their mouse and keyboard skills learned in Autumn 1 to the test.

Children will continue to use www.code.org to build their knowledge of coding by sequencing algorithms and recognising and creating loop patterns.

PE – Attack, Defend, Shoot:

PSHE: Relationships Children will building on their knowledge of relationships with friends and family. They will look at how to show respect to each other, with a focus on online relationships. * Link to Computing

Music: Rhythm In music, we will be performing short copycat rhythm patterns accurately, led by the teacher.

We will be using both body and instrument percussion to play repeated rhythm patterns.

This term we will be building upon our basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching.

Whilst constantly improving our agility, balance and coordination, we will start to develop our attacking, defending and shooting skills and learn new rules to apply in both competitive and cooperative games.

Use and apply simple strategies for invasion games.

Reading and Spellings at home: To reach their full potential, children must be reading aloud with an adult at home every night. Reading develops skills which are invaluable across the whole curriculum and this extra practise can have a significant impact on the amount of progress made, and the speed in which it is made. When you are reading or practising spellings with your child, please remember to sign in their reading record for a chance to win fantastic prizes.

Maths Basic Skills: Every Friday, we will be having a maths basic skills quiz alongside our spelling test. We will be improving our fluency with our addition and subtraction skills and working to really embed our

Homework: In Year 1, children will receive one piece of homework each

number bonds.

week. This will alternate between maths and English and will be a consolidation of what we have been learning in class that week. Homework

Knowledge organisers which outline the key content covered in History, Science and R.E. will be uploaded onto Seesaw. Please take

a look and quiz your child on their newly acquired knowledge!

will be sent out on Friday afternoons and will be required back in school by the following Friday. Please encourage and support your child with their homework by making sure it is completed.

Year 2 Curriculum Map

English: For our writing focus this half term, we will be exploring a variety of big

Spring 2

cats! We will be using what we find out through research to inform some well-

environments.

Extra treats!

Mathematics:

Attenborough and reading about our

their life cycles.

We will begin to use our knowledge and

We will explore parts of a whole, find unit and non-

understanding to identify the stages of

unit fractions as well being able to identify equivalent

human development.

fractions.

We will then be moving on to measurement where will explore length and height.

world in ‘A planet full of plastic’ by Neal Layton.

learning from spring 1 and will develop

In Mathematics, we will be introducing fractions!

We will also be diving in to a book all about the life and works of Sir David

This half term, we will be building on our

our understanding of living things and

detailed non chronological reports about big cats in their natural

Science–Animals including humans:

We will describe the importance of humans exercising, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.

As always, we will continue to build our knowledge, pace and fluency with the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

*Link to Science and history

History Why will we remember David Attenborough? - Innovation

Art Textiles and collage

We will be looking closely at Attenborough’s achievements throughout his time as an English broadcaster,

We will be reconstructing painting

biologist, natural historian and author. We will examine some of his famous documentaries and discuss

using images and materials that

how they help us to learn about fascinating animals that we have never heard about before. We will look

were originally part of something

at how he has influenced others through his work to become more environmentally aware.

Links to science and English *Link to science and English

else such as magazines or clothes.

ICT/Computing: This half term, we will continue to work with www.code.org to build our coding and debugging skills. We will sequence a programme and use loops to make the games we have created run effectively.

We will explore the impacts of computing

PE – Dance:

PSHE: Being safe This half term we will explore how to keep ourselves, and

This half term, Year 2 will be applying agility, balance and co-Ordination skills to dance routines.

others, safe when navigating

We will perform basic actions with control and

the virtual and wider world.

consistency at different speeds and on different levels. We will challenge ourselves to move imaginatively responding

* Link to Computing

to music.

and build on our knowledge from Year 1 to plan events within a game sequence.

Basic skills tests: Every week, we will be testing our maths basic skills on a Friday Phonics: We have been so impressed by the

after spellings. We will send the focus each week out to you via Seesaw.

pace and fluency with sounds and work on segmenting and blending words.

As always, the spellings each week will reflect the phonics sound we are working on in class.

To reach their full potential, children must be reading aloud with an adult at home every night. Reading develops skills which are invaluable across the whole curriculum and

excellent progress made in phonics so far.

This term, we will continue to build our

Reading and Spellings at home:

this extra practise can have a significant Music: Inventing a musical story

impact on the amount of progress made, and

We will extend our understanding of

the speed in which it is made. When you are

listening/appraising, singing and

reading or practising spellings with your child,

improvisation/composition through our

please remember to sign in their reading

performances.

record for a chance to win fantastic prizes.

RE: How do the events of Easter make me feel?

We will develop an understanding of why Christians take part in Lent and make connections between the stories of Jesus and Christian attitudes to gifts, giving and forgiveness.

Homework: Reminder: Homework will continue to be sent through Seesaw every Friday which will consolidate learning from the week. Due back: Friday!

Please continue to encourage and support your child with their homework by making sure it is completed as if any homework is missed, it will need to

Knowledge organisers which outline the key content covered in History, Science and R.E. will be uploaded onto Seesaw!

be completed during break times or lunch times in school.

English: The reading focus this half term will be the book ‘The Incredible Book-Eating Boy’ by Oliver Jeffers.

This comedic narrative tells the story of a boy called Henry and how he

Year 3 Curriculum Map

Science – Animals Including Humans:

Spring 2

Children will explore and compare nutrition between animals. They will identify and explain the movement of humans through skeletal and muscular

came to love reading. Through sentence stacking lessons, children will

structures. Children will build on their

familiarise themselves with a breadth

knowledge of the parts of the body from

of grammar knowledge. Over time

Mathematics: In mathematics, children will be

KS1 and link their learning to human

children will independently plan,

explicitly taught their 2, 4 and 8 times tables.

write and edit their very own

nutrition from their DT food unit.

Children will spend time becoming fluent and

*Link to DT.

narrative. During whole class reading sessions, children will delve into the story ‘Sam Wu is Not Afraid of Ghosts’ by Katie and Kevin Tsang.

reach automaticity with these times tables by identifying relationships and patterns between the 2s, 4s and 8s. Children will be able to apply their

Geography – What’s beneath my feet?

learning around times tables to help them solve

Children will complete their learning

disciplines, children will broaden and

problems. When confident with their times tables,

from Spring 1 by exploring how the

deepen their understanding of

children will be able to scale known multiplication

structure of the Earth has changed over

vocabulary, inference, predictions,

and division facts (2s, 5s, 10s, 4s and 8s) by 10

Applying the VIPERS reading

explanations, retrieval and summaries.

time.

before moving on to the formal written methods for multiplication and division.

Art – Print making (line and pattern):

RE – What is the significance of the events of Palm Sunday and Holy Week?

This half term, in the lead up to Easter, children will describe the story of the last week of Jesus’ life, recall his death and resurrection and know why the cross is important for Christians.

History – Should we celebrate the Ancient Egyptians? This unit builds on children’s knowledge of inventions and how a civilisation has developed over time. Children will gain an understanding of Ancient Egyptian life including the use of the River Nile, homes, jobs, food and important figures such Tutankhamun.

Children will create monoprints and explore mark making and pattern with printing tools.

ICT/Computing: This half term, children will continue to work with www.code.org to build on children’s coding and debugging skills. They will also build on their understanding of digital literacy, looking at how to be safe online and refreshing their knowledge and understanding of digital

PSHE - Relationships

PE – Net/Wall Games: Building on disciplinary

Children will continue to explore

learning in Year 2, children will develop their

the relationships that they have

game skills through footwork, aiming and use of

with their family and friends.

a range of apparatus. Children will enjoy

They will discuss what respect looks like both in person and online. * Link to Computing

participating in sports such as tennis, badminton and squash.

relationships; online bullying; and selfFrench:

image and identity.

In French, children will recognise six new Paris landmarks, use fronted adverbials and invariable verbs.

They will continue to develop counting up to 12.

Reading and Spellings at home:

Times Tables: Children should all be able to quickly recall the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. This year we will be catering our learning towards the 2, 4 and 8 times tables. It is essential for children to be accurate and quick with tables so that they can

To reach their full potential, children must be reading aloud with an adult at home every night. Reading develops skills which are invaluable across the whole curriculum and this extra practise can have a significant impact on the amount of progress made, and the speed in which it is made. When you are reading or practising spellings with your child, please remember to sign in their reading record for a chance to win fantastic prizes.

confidently access the full maths curriculum. Keep practising!

Homework: In Year 3, children will receive two pieces of homework each

Knowledge organisers, which outline the key content covered in History, Science and R.E. will be uploaded onto Seesaw. Please take a look and quiz your child on their newly acquired knowledge!

week. They will have one piece of English or maths homework and one piece focussed on times tables practice. Homework will be sent out on Friday afternoons and will be required back in school by the following Friday!

Please encourage and support your child with their homework by making sure it is completed on time this will consolidate your child’s learning as well as earning them achievement stars.

English: For our reading focus this half term, we will explore the nonfiction text ‘Gut Garden’ by Katie Brosnan. This will be used to inspire the children as they write an explanation text on how our digestive system works. After this, we will return to entertaining our

Year 4 Curriculum Map Spring 2 Mathematics: In Mathematics, we will continue to work on our knowledge of fractions, moving from addition and subtraction to quantities of

audience through writing a short

amounts, securing the children’s understanding of

narrative based upon the picture

equivalence. Following this, we will compare

book ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker.

fractions with decimals as we apply our place

Finally,

we

traditional

will narrative

rewrite with

a an

exciting twist! * Link to Year 4 Science – Animals Including Humans (digestive system)

value knowledge to understand fractions of amounts in binary ten. This will include our ability to multiply and divide by orders of ten whilst using the formal written methods.

Science – States of Matter: This half term, we will be expanding our understanding

of

materials

investigating what everything around us is made of. Having established the structure and nature of the three states of mater (as well as plasma), we will use a variety of equipment to explore what happens when we apply or withdraw heat from a substance.

As the days become warmer, we will link this to the changing seasons and the process of evaporation and its place within the water cycle with reference to our local environment.

Geography – Natural Disasters: Building on our Spring 1 history unit ‘Pompeii’, children will explore natural disasters RE – What is the significance of

including earthquakes. The children will explore the invention

the events of Palm Sunday and Holy

of the Richter scales and how these can be used to measure

Week?’ This half term, children will

how powerful earthquakes are. Furthermore, children will

develop their understanding of the

dive into the layers of the Earth including: the crust; the

significance of Easter for Christians

mantle; outer core and inner core. Finally, children will

and their beliefs about Jesus and his relationship with God.

explore the role of tectonic plates and how some areas in the world are more prone to earthquakes due where they sit on the tectonic plate edges. * Link to Year 4 History – Pompeii

by

DT – Structures: Children will explore structures, buildings and stability through exploring the question ‘Which shapes will give a structure stability?’ * Link to Year 4 Science – States of Matter (solids)

ICT/Computing: This half term, children will continue to work with www.code.org to build on children’s coding and debugging skills. They will also build on their understanding of digital literacy, looking at how to be safe online and refreshing their knowledge and understanding of digital relationships; online bullying; and self-

PSHE: Families and people who care for me Children will consider what characteristics make a healthy family life and explore how family members can support each other in challenging times. * Link to Computing

PE - Gymnastics: Building on disciplinary learning in Year 3, where children used core strength to link elements, children become increasingly competent and confident to link their elements and perform these skills more consistently. Building on their knowledge of working in pairs, children will perform in time with a partner and later in groups. They will work together to create compositional ideas and sequences.

image and identity.

Times Tables: French: In French, children will be developing their knowledge of complex sentences by adding further fronted adverbials to their repertoire. They will focus on using co-ordinating conjunctions to add evermore varied masculine and feminine nouns to their menagerie of animals, with corresponding colours.

Children should all be able to quickly recall all times tables up to 12 x 12 = 144 now. It is essential for children to be accurate and quick with tables so that they can confidently access the full maths curriculum.

Keep practising!

Music:

Reading and Spellings at home: To reach their full potential, children must be reading aloud with an adult at home every night. Reading develops skills which are invaluable across the whole curriculum and this extra practise can have a significant impact on the amount of progress made, and the speed in which it is made. When you are reading or practising spellings with your child, please remember to sign in their reading record for a chance to win fantastic prizes.

This half-term, children will use glockenspiels. They will use these to develop their knowledge of musical components by composing music to create a specific mood, for example creating music to accompany a short film clip.

Knowledge organisers which outline the key content covered in History, Science and R.E. will be uploaded onto Seesaw. Please take

a look and quiz your child on their newly acquired knowledge!

Homework: In Year 4, children will receive one piece of homework a week. Homework will be sent out on Friday afternoons and will be required back in school by the following Friday! Please encourage and support your child with their homework by making sure it is completed as if any homework is missed, it will need to be completed during break times or lunch times in school.

English: For our reading focus this half term, we will be studying the adventure story: ‘The Explorer by Katherine Rundell’ As this narrative unfolds, the reader is taken on a journey through the Amazon rainforest and a battle for survival as the characters discover that they are not alone. As well as being a gripping read, this book will inspire the children to

Year 5 Curriculum Map Spring 2 Mathematics: In Mathematics, we will be building on our understanding of fractions. Children can already add and subtract fractions so now they will learn to multiply them! They will use this knowledge when finding

write their own adventure story that

fractions of quantities and solving a range of complex

will engage the reader using advanced

mathematical problems. Once their fraction knowledge is

language features (such as personification, similes and metaphors) and complex sentences with exciting fronted adverbials, subordinate clauses

embedded, they will explore how it links to decimals and percentages. By Easter, all children will understand decimal place value and what a percentage is.

and advanced punctuation (such as

Science – Forces (continued from Spring 1) Building on children’s Year 3 learning of what a force is, we will explore the difference between mass and weight. We will also develop an understanding of: how forces interact with our every day lives and their uses. Through scientific investigations, we will find out how to increase or decrease air resistance. Finally, we will look at how leavers, pulleys and gears can be used to move heavy objects with less effort. *Link DT mechanisms

colons and brackets).

Geography – How does Paris compare to London? Building on their Year 2 learning about our capital city, children will locate both cities on a globe, developing their understanding of scale

Art – Printmaking Children will use the reduction method to create a piece of printed artwork. They will explore the

RE –What does the Qur’an teach about

and distance. They will use six figure grid references when

God?

looking at maps to be able to describe the location of human

work of John Brusdon and make

and physical features such as: population, climate, time zone,

links between his work and Andy

Children will explore this sacred text and how it influences Muslims’ lifestyle, how it is taught and why it is significant today.

economy, education and food and culture.

They will investigate landmarks and why tourists may visit each destination before planning a tour Around Paris. *Links to French

Warhol’s.

PSHE: Relationships Children will continue to explore family relationships as well as respectful and caring relationships with their peers.

Physical health and mental wellbeing Pupils will learn key facts about puberty and the

ICT/Computing:

PE – Tennis and Badminton:

This half term, children will continue to

Building on disciplinary learning in Year 4 (where children

work with www.code.org to build on

learned forehand and backhand) children will learn

children’s coding and debugging skills.

different types of serves and shots to develop further ways

Children will create nested loops to achieve

of playing with each other cooperatively and

a set goal within their algorithms and using

competitively. They will use footwork techniques to move

while and if/then statements to program

confidently around the playing area.

sprites.

changing adolescent body, particularly from age 9 through to age 11, including physical and mental changes.

Reading and Spellings at home:

Times Tables: Children should all be able to quickly recall all times tables up to 12 x 12 = 144 now. It is essential for children to be accurate and quick with tables so that

French: In French, children will build on their knowledge of numbers extending from 29 to 39. They will be introduced to ordinal numbers (first, second, third) and

they can confidently access the full maths curriculum. We are now having weekly times tables tests to check children’s recall so keep practising regularly at home!

To reach their full potential, children must be reading aloud with an adult at home every night. Reading develops skills which are invaluable across the whole curriculum and this extra practise can have a significant impact on the amount of progress made, and the speed in which it is made. When you are reading or practising spellings with your child, please remember to sign in their reading record for a chance to win fantastic prizes!

begin to explore the districts of France (arrondissement).

They will also revisit and build upon their ability to tell the time in French and apply adverbs to simple phrases.

Knowledge organisers which outline the key content covered in Geography, Science and R.E. will be uploaded onto Seesaw. Please

take a look and quiz your child on their newly acquired knowledge!

Homework: In Year 5, children will receive one piece of homework each week relating to work we have done that week. Homework will be sent out on Friday afternoons on Seesaw and will be required back in school by the following Friday! Children can also take a paper copy if they would prefer.

Please encourage and support your child with their homework by making sure it is completed as this supports their learning in school.

English: For our reading focus this half term, we will be a range of fiction and nonfiction texts to help support pupils with wider curriculum reading As well as this, in reading sessions, we will be enjoying the much-anticipated sequel to The Nowhere Emporium: The Elsewhere Emporium. This novel will form the basis of in-depth discussions around plot and characters.

As pupils continue to develop their writing skills and style through learning and revising a range grammatical features, they will be writing a non-chronological report, which links to our history unit, on the Industrial Revolution and what life would have been like back then.

Year 6 Curriculum Map Spring 2 Mathematics: In Mathematics, we will be continue to be working hard on our arithmetic skills to ensure quick and accurate answers. Additionally, we will be building on our knowledge of converting between units, through our study of ratio- how exciting!

As well as this, we will be revisiting shape and its properties. This will provide the opportunity to use protractors to measure angles and construct shapes.

As always, times tables are at the forefront of our learning and therefore children will be using Times Table Rockstars to aid this.

Geography – Is the damage to our world irreplaceable?

RE – How do religious people

Linking well to our recent history unit, pupils will be exploring

make moral and ethical choices?

climate change and how this impacts us. We will consider how

This half term, we will continue

industrial change has affected our world and discuss whether

our understanding of Jesus and

this damage is reversible or not.

Muhammed. We will also consider what it means to be moral and

A significant person that the children will meet, is Greta

ethical and how religious people

Thunberg. This exciting, young activist will hopefully inspire the

use these principles in their daily

children to discover their own way to help protect our

lives.

wonderful, precious planet.

Science - Electricity: Before starting our new topic, we shall be consolidating ‘Light’ to ensure children can confidently discuss how we are able to see items and how light travels. This half term, we will be building on our knowledge of physics through our exploration of electricity. Children will learn through hands-on, practical scientific investigations using wires and batteries to create their own circuits.

They will also consider which items are conductors and insulators and how these items differ. Furthermore, we will also be discussing the importance of electrical safety.

DT- How strong is a piece of spaghetti?

Children will test the strength of a piece of spaghetti and then use their understanding to construct a 1m tower.

Art- Painting and Collage Pupils will develop refined skills in layering and overworking. By studying Pablo Picasso and Patrick Caufield to create a series of still life drawings combined with collaging.

ICT/Computing: This half term, children will continue to work with www.code.org

PSHE:

PE - Football:

Relationships

to build on children’s coding and debugging

Children will consider actions

skills. They will also build on their

and conduct online and discuss

understanding of digital literacy, looking at

appropriate behaviours in

how to be safe online and refreshing their

online relationships. They’ll also

knowledge and understanding of digital

look at respectful relationships.

relationships; online bullying; and self-

* Link to Computing

Building on their prior learning from Year 5, children will develop their co-ordination skills by practising dribbling, running with ball and shooting. They will also look at the game with more of a strategic approach to help make their team successful and ensure they’re all working together as a cohesive unit.

image and identity.

Times Tables: French: In French, children will build on our knowledge of a range of adverbials and will begin to explain tasks in French as well as become confident at naming classroom objects.

Building on the previous term, we will continue to practise greetings in French and spelling their name.

Children should all be able to quickly recall all times tables up to 12 x 12 = 144 now. It is essential for children to be accurate and quick with tables so that they can confidently access the full maths curriculum. Every week they will be tested on one. Keep

Supporting with Assessments

practising!

Reading and Spellings at home: To reach their full potential, children must be reading aloud with an adult at home every night. Reading develops skills which are invaluable across the whole curriculum and this extra practise can have a significant impact on the amount of progress made, and the speed in which it is made. When you are reading or practising spellings with your child, please remember to sign in their reading record for a chance to win fantastic prizes.

This is a crucial half term for children and in order to help them we have set up a Bright Start Club on Wednesday mornings and a Booster Club on Tuesdays after school.

Knowledge organisers which outline the key content covered in History, Science and R.E. will be uploaded onto Seesaw. Please take

a look and quiz your child on their newly acquired knowledge!

Homework: In Year 6, children will receive two pieces of homework each week. They will have one piece of English homework and one piece of maths homework. Homework will be sent out on Friday afternoons and will be required back in school by the following Friday! Please encourage and support your child with their homework by making sure it is completed as this will aid them with their transition to secondary school.