*Autumn Term - What are we learning?*

English - Key reading, writing, grammar, comprehension, spelling and language skills taught through a wide variety of text-types (disaster stories, newspaper reports, explanation texts, narrative poetry, stories with a moral, discursive writing).

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Maths - Revision of place value and fractions, reflection and symmetry, imperial and metric units of measure, decimals and percentages, properties of 2D and 3D shapes, area and perimeter, statistics, algebra, ratio, volume and problem-solving.

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Whole-Class Novel - Crater Lake by Jennifer Killick / When The Sky Falls by Phil Earle

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Science - Electricity / The Circulatory System

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PE - Yoga / Swimming / Karate

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History - The Battle of Britain

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Geography - Earth Processes (earthquakes, volcanoes etc.)

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ICT - Internet safety, Digital Literacy, SAMLABS coding skills

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Art - Graffiti / Claude Monet

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Design and Technology - Sewing stuffed toys

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RE - How do people explain the suffering in the world? What does it mean to be human? (Christianity and Buddhism)

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PSHE - Being Me / Celebrating Difference

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French - Key vocabulary revision (including numbers to 79), Days, Months, Clothes, Colours, Family, Pets

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Music - Singing

Important Information

PE

Year 6 have Swimming every TUESDAY morning and PE every WEDNESDAY afternoon.
 

Please ensure your children come to school with their full swimming kits every Tuesday:

* Swimming costume / swimming trunks

* Spare underwear

* Bobble if hair needs tying back

* Towel

* NO JEWELLERY IS PERMITTED

Please ensure your children come to school in their full PE Kits every Wednesday:

• Yellow PE shirt (COMPULSORY)
• Non-branded, plain black shorts (COMPULSORY)
• Black pumps (COMPULSORY)
• All jewellery is to be removed before every PE session and long hair is expected to be tied back. Children MUST be able to take their own earrings out for swimming.

Homework

•  Reading- children should be reading daily, covering a wide range of genres (please ask for advice)
• Weekly homework will be given out on Mondays, due back the following Monday.

If you have any questions or want to speak to me, please do not hesitate to contact me by coming into school, phoning school or signing up to Class Dojo and speaking to me directly there through its secure messaging system. Thank you!