Summer 1 Curriculum Maps

Summer 1 Curriculum Maps

Mathematics:

Literacy:

Children will continue to work on their counting

High quality texts have been chosen to inspire the

skills. They will know that the final number said is the total (cardinal principle). Children will know that we can count things that we cannot hold (claps, stamps, and jumps).

Children will continue to recognise numerals and use this knowledge within learning tasks.

Children will be able to make comparison between objects relating to size and weight (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter)

learning in Nursery. They will be used to encourage children to talk about significant events in stories and discuss different characters and settings.

Children will learn that information can be gained from non-fiction texts, specifically linked to mini-beasts and plants.

Children will be given opportunity to give meaning to the marks they make and will continue to work on forming the letters in their name correctly.

Expressive Arts & Design: Children will be encouraged to think about what they would like to create using a range of different materials. Children will be supported to use their creative skills to create props to support their imaginative play (making magnifying glasses to go on a bug hunt).

Children will learn to follow instructions regarding

Nursery Curriculum Map Summer 1

dynamics and tempo when playing instruments

Understanding the World: Children will be exploring the great outdoors and finding out about the immediate world around them. They will be hunting for mini-beasts in the Nursery garden and learning interesting facts from our non-fiction texts.

Children will be testing out their green fingers by planting and caring for their own seeds.

Children will be investigating what materials can be used for different purposes.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Children will continue to develop their friendship groups. They will begin to understand how their actions can impact others (in positive and negative ways). They will continue to navigate how to share with others and resolve disagreements in a calm manner.

Children will be encouraged to talk about themselves and say what they are good at or how

and singing.

they have achieved success.

Physical Development: Children will have the opportunity to develop

Communication and Language:

fundamental movement skills in PE sessions and

Children will be exposed to a wide range of new

outdoors. They will be developing ball skills (rolling,

vocabulary taught through language rich stories.

throwing, catching and bouncing).

Children will also learn subject specific vocabulary

Children will be encouraged to remove their own

through varied learning experiences.

jumpers/cardigans and be able to put them back

Children will be encouraged to think carefully

on again (this includes making sure their clothes

before responding to questions to ensure their

are the correct way round).

responses are relevant.

Children will continue to work on their tripod grip

Children will continue to use past and future tense with accuracy.

when making marks and writing letters from their name

Additional Information: The weather continues to be unpredictable, please ensure your child is suitably dressed for learning outdoors. Waterproof coats in case of showers and sun cream and sun hats on warmer days.

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Literacy: Children will listen to a wide variety of carefully planned texts based on the concept of heroes. We will explore new vocabulary that is linked to the story and develop their conceptual vocabulary alongside their learning through play.

The children will continue to develop their phono-

This half term we are becoming super heroes

In maths, children will be looking at numbers to 20

and looking at the real life heroes that help us every

and beyond. They will be given opportunities to build and

day. We will be talking about important people in our

talk about numerical patterns to 20 and how these patterns

community like the fire and rescue teams, the police,

continue in numbers greater than 20. Children will be encour-

the paramedics and doctors and also dentists. In com-

aged to notice similarities and differences between the numbers

logical knowledge and be able to read more single

as they match and sort objects using new concepts. The children

and multi syllabic words as they learn more di-

will continue to compare quantities and measures and say which

graphs and tri-graphs (special friends). Children

has more, fewer and when quantities are equal. The children

will use this phonic knowledge to work through

will continue to develop their understanding of how quantities

short ditties and reading books, including e-books.

Understanding the World:

Mathematics:

puting, the children will be learning how to log on to Seesaw. They will learn how to scan a QR code and create responses to teacher tasks and planned activities.

They will use the camera feature on an iPad and learn about Green Screen tech-

are composed of smaller amounts, recalling number bonds to 5

nology by becoming super heroes flying

and 10. Reception will also continue to develop subitising skills by

through Throckley.

recognising small quantities without the need for counting.

Communication and Language: To develop their use of questioning, the children will take part in hot seating activities where they will ask questions and respond accordingly. The children will focus on listening attentively and responding using full sentences. Children will be able to agree and disagree with their peers using sentence stems. Children will continue to give reasons and explanations for their

Reception Curriculum Map

Physical Development: In P.E, the children will be learning all about

problem solving and working

together as a

team. They will take part in activities that focus on

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answers using the word ‘because’. The children will use

organising and matching items, images, colours and symbols. They will also be working with partners to share ideas, question, listen and choose. Together, they will collect , distinguish, and differentiate col-

past, present and future tense accurately when

ours as a team. They will continue to develop ways of

talking about events and experiences.

moving confidently and negotiate space safely, travelling in a variety of ways.

Expressive Arts & Design: Children will begin to design and make reference to planning before creating with materials. Children will think more about the resources they need before beginning he

Additional Information: 02 May 2022—Bank holiday Monday (Children to return to school 3rd May 2022.

process of creating. Children will create props and scenes that they can use in their imaginative play within their provision. They will create representations of

30 May 2022—Half term (Children return to school 7th May 2022

Personal, Social & Emotional Development: Children will show less need for support and be more independent when finding resources needed to complete a task. They will be confident to talk about their learning and be able to reflect on what they have done well and how they can further

challenge themselves. Chil-

dren will be able to make healthier food choices when met with an

people and objects using a range of media

option based on what they have learned about food and good

and can talk confidently about their work.

oral and physical health.

Mathematics: In Mathematics, we will be

Year 1 Curriculum Map Summer 1

introducing weight and volume to the children, comparing and measuring mass and capacity. We will also build on our current knowledge of counting in both 2’s and 5’s. We will then move onto a new topic of multiplication and division – making doubles and sharing.

English: To begin this term, our learning in English will focus on the book The Queen’s Hat by Steve Antony. We will be building on the

Science – Plants:

children’s understanding of punctuation and the use of nouns,

In science, our learning shall build on our current

adjectives and verbs. We will

knowledge and understanding of plants within the

continue to build the children’s

world. We will learn about and compare both wild and

knowledge of phonics through a

garden plants, as well as finding out about the different types of trees – evergreen or deciduous. We shall learn about the parts of a plant and think about the growth of flowers and vegetables.

Geography – Where do different

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.

animals live?

In History, we will be building on our understanding of continents and

RE – Why is Moses

oceans and developing this further by learning about the equator and how this affects the temperature around the world.

DT – Textiles Within our textiles unit in DT, our key question for the topic is ‘How can two squares of fabric keep you warm?’ Within this unit, the children will learn how to sew pieces of fabric together to form

We will be learning about different natural environments and habitats across the globe and using a compass to help us find our way!

a pouch. They will learn to name parts and the needle and also how to thread it! This builds on current knowledge around the identification of materials. The children will work as designers to map out the product, make the pouch, evaluate their creation and apply their knowledge in a real life scenario.

important to the Jewish faith?

Our learning shall build on current knowledge about the origins of Christianity, stories in the Bible and the festival of Hanukkah. The children will be introduced to the religion of Judaism, exploring beliefs and practices.

ICT/Computing: Information Technology Without our computing sessions, we will be revisiting the computing and ownership knowledge we gained in the autumn term, alongside building on our iPad skills. We will be introduced to ‘green screen’, using this feature to help us create a short documentary!

PSHE: Living in the Wider World In PSHE this half term, we will be building on our understanding of our place in the world by exploring our community, environment and rule of law. We will ensure we have ambitious aspirations whilst exploring

PE – Send & Return: 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 sending and returning skills with a variety of balls. We will be playing some net/wall games throwing, catching and sending over a net.

different careers.

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.

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: This half term, we will begin by focusing on spelling and grammar to

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underpin our learning on ‘The Baker’s Boy and The Great Fire of London’ by

This half term, we will complete our animals including humans topic by

Tom and Toby Bradman. Then, we will embark on a poetry journey and

Science–Animals including humans:

Mathematics:

rounding off our learning so far.

In Mathematics, we will be looking closely at

explore ‘If I were in charge of the world’ by Judith Viorst to create our very own free-verse poem.

measurement. We will look at length and height and

Throughout summer term, we

what we would use to measure certain objects as

will move onto our new topic

Watch this space!

well as comparing and ordering.

Then, we will move onto time. We will be learning

Extra treats!

Along with a wider selection of books on The Great Fire of London, we will

of plants where we will get hands on with some

about how to tell time to the nearest five minutes

planting of our own, as

and test our knowledge with tricky time problems.

well as identifying the

also be reading ‘George’s Marvellous

As always, we will continue to build our knowledge,

parts of a plant and

Medicine’ by Roald Dahl as a class.

pace and fluency with the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

the best conditions for a healthy plant to flourish.

*Link to history

History Who was to blame for the Great Fire of London?

In history this half term, we will become detectives exploring London in 1666 and who really started

Design Technology How can you repurpose an item of clothing?

the Great Fire of London!

This half term in textiles, we will

We will step through a timeline of the events that led up to the catastrophic event and evaluate what

use needles and thread to sew old

could have stopped it from happening. *Link to history and English

pieces of clothing to one another and create a brand new item.

ICT/Computing:

PSHE: Living in the wider

In computing, we will be using tripods,

world.

Ipads and green screens to develop our

Year 2 will be exploring

very own Newsround segments all about

belonging to a community

the Great Fire of London.

and what it means to look

We will explore how to save and use

after the world we live in.

backgrounds with our videos and edit

We will also embark on an

together our finished pieces.

investigation into careers.

*Link to history

PE – Send and return: We will be focusing on being able to track the path of a ball over a net and move towards it. We will begin to hit and return a ball with some consistency and play modified net/wall games. (throwing, catching and sending over a net)

Basic skills tests: Every week, we will be testing our maths basic skills on a Friday

Phonics: This term, we will continue to build our

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

share book time, where we will become more fluent reading whole texts.

As always, the spellings each week will reflect the phonics sound or spelling rule we are working on in our groups.

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

pace with sounds and work on segmenting and blending words. We will

Reading and Spellings at home:

this extra practise can have a significant Music:

impact on the amount of progress made, and

This half term, we will continue to play

the speed in which it is made. When you are

drums through Tardis Education. We will

reading or practising spellings with your child,

be building on beats and rhythms to

please remember to sign in their reading

contribute to whole class performances of

record for a chance to win fantastic prizes.

short songs.

RE: What is worship/ why is it so important to religious people?

Children will be introduced to the idea that religious beliefs and faith require expression both individually through living and collectively in communities through worship.

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: Linked to our Zones of Regulation and mental wellbeing in PSHE, children will explore the text,

Year 3 Curriculum Map Summer 1

‘My Strong Mind’ by Niels van Hove.

nutrition between animals. They will

humans through skeletal and muscular

instructions on how to grow a strong stack using the FANTASTICS,

Children will explore and compare

identify and explain the movement of

Children will write a set of mind. They will continue to sentence

Science – Animals Including Humans:

structures. Children will build on their Mathematics: In mathematics, children will recognise,

knowledge of the parts of the body from

BOOMTASTICS and GRAMMARISTICS

find, write and count in unit and non-unit fractions.

KS1 and link their learning to human

to construct effective sentences.

They will use diagrams to represent equivalent

*Linked to PSHE

nutrition from their DT food unit in the

fractions and identify numerators and denominators

Spring term.

During whole class reading sessions, children will delve into the story ‘Charlotte’s Web’ by E. B. White.

Applying the VIPERS reading

to compare and order fractions. Following this, children will move onto adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator and to make a

disciplines, children will broaden and

whole. They will apply their learning to allow them to

DT – Structures – What makes a

deepen their understanding of

reason and solve problems.

bridge strong?

vocabulary, inference, predictions,

shape and features of a bridge can

explanations, retrieval and summaries.

History – Should we celebrate the Ancient Egyptians? This unit builds on children’s

RE – Who is Jesus?

This half term, children will investigate what is known about Jesus through history and the gospels. They will explore how Jesus is represented through art in different periods, places and think about what this conveys and reflect on their own interpretations

Children will investigate how the

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.

affect how strong it is. They will also identify types of bridges and the structural changes that engineers and architects make to increase the stability of structures. By the end of the unit, children will have created their own bridge.

PE – Striking and Fielding: Building on Computing: This half term, children will build on their knowledge of copyright and ownership from out digital literacy lessons in Autumn to ensure that when they create images and films, they follow the rules. Children will use the iPad camera,

PSHE – Living In the Wider World

disciplinary learning in Year 2, children will

Children will explore what it

develop their game skills by adhering to basic

means to be part of a community and identify where they belong.

They will also begin to understand the importance of saving money.

game rules of rounders and cricket. Children will become more confident in bowling, catching and striking different ball types.

Green Screen and iMovie apps to develop their disciplinary knowledge within

French:

information technology.

In French, children will recognise landmarks in Cardiff, Belfast and Edinburgh. They will learn how to say how old they are and where they live.

Times Tables and Basic Skills: Children should all be able to quickly recall addition and subtraction facts to 100 and 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

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.

confidently access the full maths curriculum. Keep practising for your weekly Friday tests!

Knowledge organisers, which outline the key content

Homework: In Year 3, children will receive two pieces of homework each week. They will have one piece of English or maths homework and one piece focussed on times tables/basic skills practice. Homework will be sent out on

covered in History, Science and R.E. will be uploaded onto

Friday afternoons and will be required back in school by the following

Seesaw. Please take a look and quiz your child on their

making sure it is completed on time this will consolidate your child’s

newly acquired knowledge!

Friday! Please encourage and support your child with their homework by learning as well as earning them achievement stars.

English: For our reading focus this half term, we will focus on writing to

entertain

and

inform

our

audiences. First, we will explore the non-fiction text ‘Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp’ by Philip Pullman. This will be used to inspire the children as they write a traditional tale. After this, we will return to Pompeii as we write a

non-chronological

report

inspired by the text ‘A World of Cities’ by James Brown. * Link to Year 4 History – Pompeii * Link to Year 4 Geography –

Year 4 Curriculum Map Summer 1 Mathematics: In mathematics, we will continue to work on our knowledge of decimals, beginning by securing our number bonds to 10 and 100. After this, we will relate to our fractions unit as we consider how to make a whole with decimal notation. This knowledge will enable to us compare, order and round decimals. Finally, we will consolidate our learning by exploring halves and quarters in relation to their decimal form.

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Science – Sound: This half term, we will

be

expanding

upon

our

knowledge of states of matter by considering how sound waves travel by contrast to light waves. Using a variety of media, we will prove that sound waves require atoms to move longitudinally. In class, we shall be applying

our

experience

with

variety of musical instruments to discover how to manipulate the pitch and volume of sound waves. * Link to Year 4 Science – States of Matter * Link to Year 3 Science – Light

History – The Victorians: This half term, we will explore RE – How do Hindus show their devotion to God? This half term, children will develop their understanding of Hindu ideas about God and develop their understanding of how Hindus worship and why this is important in their community.

the question ‘Did the Victorian Empire benefit everyone?’

Children will consider the technological advances of the era as well as the role of the British Empire in combatting slavery and promoting democracy. However, children will consider how the Victorian Empire did not benefit everyone. For example, the children will explore the brutal conditions of workhouses for poor people including young children.

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DT – Food and Nutrition: Children will explore various flavours, seasonings and cultural delicacies as we prepare and cook various dishes which are ethically sourced. * Link to PSHE – Understanding the World Around Us

ICT/Computing: This half term, children will move on to the ‘Information Technology’ strand of computing. They will use iPads to film and edit their own short movie. Using this technology, the children will become competent in using iMovie and green screens as well as exploring multiple angles and sharing their work through exporting their clips using Airdrop.

PSHE: Living in the Wider World Children will consider what it means to belong to a community, focusing on how their choices can make a difference to others and their environment. * Link to Year 4 RE – Religious Communities

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.

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 tardis.

Homework: In Year 4, children will receive one piece of homework a week. Homework will be sent out on Friday afternoons and will be

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!

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 sciencefiction narrative Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce followed by the fantasy story Matilda by Roald Dahl. We will also be reading a balanced argument titled “Are playtimes essential to children’s wellbeing?”, during which we

Year 5 Curriculum Map Summer 1 Science – Animals Including Humans Building on their Year 4 learning about humans, this term,

will develop our writing skills in

children will learn about changes in humans throughout

preparation for writing our own

their life. Beginning with embryos in the womb, children

balanced argument titled “Should Year 5 children do homework?”. We will use language features, such as causal conjunctions, as well as collecting evidence and quotes for both sides of our argument. Children are now confident using advanced punctuation and will use

will learn the physical and emotional changes that they can expect to go through as they progress through their adolescence years and into adulthood. In addition, they will explore gestation periods of different animals and conduct a

*Link PSHE health and wellbeing

manipulate decimals. They will solve a range of real life mathematical problems involving adding and subtracting decimals as well as multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.

DT - Cooking

over time? We will build on our understanding of civilisation

causing a need for dietary

(Egyptians and Romans in year 3, Greeks in year 5 and

changes. They will look at other

make comparisons to other civilisations. We will learn all

Building on their learning of the Qur’an,

about what life was like for the Vikings, as well as their

provides a role model for Muslims.

exploring different ways to

lifestyles have changed over time

life influences the life of Muslims today?

idea of role models and how Mohammad

and percentage equivalents before

History – Barbaric or civilised: How did the Vikings develop

Maya in year 5) and as we learn about the Vikings, we will

significant for Muslims. They explore the

knowledge of fraction, decimal

Children will learn about how

RE -How do the events in Mohammad’s

teachings of Mohammad and why he is

children will further embed their

scientific enquiry about baby growth rate.

this to create complex, formal sentences.

children will find out about the life and

Mathematics: In mathematics,

invasions and why some people tried to stop the Vikings.

cuisines, such as Asian, and get ideas and see how this could positively influence our diet to ensure it is healthy. Children will learn safe knife skills for chopping

Children will develop chronologically secure knowledge and

vegetables, along with the

understanding of this element of history.

ribboning technique. *Link PSHE health and wellbeing

PE – Tag rugby and tennis

ICT/Computing: PSHE: Living in the wider world.

Children will explore how they can be an active member of their local community. They will find out why they do not get to keep all of the money they

This half term, children will revisit their learning on Copyright and Ownership from Autumn 1. Children will create their own video project using iMovie on an iPad and our green screen, learning to airdrop between iPads, import movies, rearrange the order of their clips, crop their clips and create smooth transitions.

Building on disciplinary learning in Year 4 (where children learned forehand and backhand) children will learn different types of serves and shots in tennis to develop further ways of playing with each other cooperatively and competitively. They will use footwork techniques to move confidently around the playing area. Children will build on sending and receiving and increase power and strength of passes.

earn if they get a job.

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 French: In French, children will build on their knowledge of numbers. They will be able to use ordinal numbers (first, second, third) and further explore the districts of France (arrondissement).

accurate and quick with tables so that they can confidently access the full maths curriculum. We are have weekly times tables tests on Friday’s to check children’s recall so keep practising regularly at home!

They will also revisit and continue to

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!

build upon their ability to tell the time in French and apply adverbs to phrases.

Homework: In Year 5, children will receive one piece of homework each week

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

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: This half term will begin with revision on a variety of grammatical devices (word class, tenses, speech and punctuation). As well as this, pupils will examine a plethora of poetry, fiction and non-fiction texts to consolidate a range of reading strategies and comprehension skills. Within reading sessions, we will immerse ourselves in traditional tales using the Grimm

Year 6 Curriculum Map Summer 1 Mathematics: In mathematics, we will continue to revise key operations and formal methods to aid arithmetic skills. As well as this, pupils will consolidate their understanding of properties of shape such as: nets of shapes, constructing shapes accurately and comparing

tale postcard. Not only this, pupils will

shapes and their characteristics. As pupils approach

Back of the Class’ by Onjali Rauf. This emotive novel will incite important discussions surrounding discrimination,

secondary school transition, they will apply their knowledge of the Key Stage Two maths curriculum to solve real life, maths-based problems.

tolerance and stereotypes; you’re in for

History- How fierce were the Anglo-Saxons?

RE – How does belief influence This half term, the children will

In history, the children will discover who the Anglo-Saxons were and evaluate the impact their lifestyle had on modern-

recap their understanding of

day Britain. Within this unit, pupils will examine significant

different religions and we will

figures (such as Bede and Alfred the Great) and unearth the

critically analyse how religious

influence they had. Using primary and secondary sources,

beliefs influence some people’s

children will uncover facts about their local area. To round off

choices. The children will examine their own identity and evaluate their own decision making.

Darwin and Alfred Wallace children will recognise that living things have provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago. In addition to this, pupils will explore the cycle of life through reproduction and discuss how offspring are similar, but not identical to their parents. During this unit, the children will explore Darwin’s theory of natural selection and consider how animals adapt to survive to their environment and query how climate change poses a threat to this, which builds upon their geographical knowledge from Spring 2

a treat, Year 6!

life choices?

In this riveting topic, featuring Charles

changed over time and that fossils

Brothers’ stories resulting in a twisted also enjoy reading ‘The Boy at the

Science – Evolution and inheritance.

the unit, pupils will collate l facts on Alfred the Great to produce some historical art work.

*Links to art.

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

PSHE: Living in the wider

will continue to work with www.code.org

world

to build on children’s coding and debugging

Children will consider how they

skills. They will also be utilising their

can be an active member of

teamwork skills in order to create their

their community. They will

own video. They will use the IMovie app to

explore different career paths

design their video adding sound effects,

and think about their economic

pictures and using the green screen!

wellbeing.

PE – Rounders and Cricket: Building on their prior learning from Year 5, children will develop their knowledge of rules when playing field games.

They will use a range of attacking and defending tactics to ensure their team is successful. In turn, this will enable the children to develop their teamwork skills.

*Links to computing.

*Links to PSHE.

French:

Times Tables:

In French, children will build on their knowledge of

Children should all be able to

numbers as they develop their understanding of

quickly recall all times tables

numbers to 100. Using this knowledge, children will

up to 12 x 12 = 144 now. It

begin to ask what time it is and respond appropriately.

is essential for children to be

As well as this, their understanding of number will

accurate and quick with tables

allow them to learn their 1o, 6 and 4 times tables in

so that they can confidently

French.

access the full maths curriculum. Every week they

Assessments This half term, the children will undertake their SATs

will be tested on one. Keep 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.

exams. This is a crucial time for our children and in order to support them we have set up a Bright Starts Club on a Wednesday morning and a Booster club on a Tuesday evening.

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 Tuesday afternoons and will be required back in school by the following Tuesday! 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.