Year 6 2023 - 2024

Ms Dickenson

Welcome to the Summer Term 2024. The welcome letter is available in the files section below.

HOMEWORK: PLEASE SEE THE BLUE BUTTONS AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE.

Ms Dickenson, Mrs Townson and Mrs Stokes welcome you to the Year 6 page!

We have lots of exciting things planned for this term and we can't wait to get started.

Key Dates for Year 6:

30/4/24: Talk by Harry Carlisle - First World War historian

30/4/24: HAL Science

1/5/24: Open morning

6/5/24: Bank holiday

7/5/24: Return to school

7/5/24: Final maths booster session

7/5/24: HAL Science

8/5/24: Final reading/grammar booster session

13/5/24: SATs week

20/5/24: Interhouse handball

21/5/24: Alsager School transition meeting for children

22/3/24: National Numeracy Day

23/5/24: Break up

24/5/24: INSET day

3/6/24: Return to school

5/6/24: Maths Adventure Day

17/6/24: Athlete visit/fitness circuit

18/6/24: Inter-house cross-country competition

19/6/24: Sports day - KS1 morning; KS2 afternoon

20/6/24: ASM activity day - orienteering

1/7/24: Inter-house rounders

1/7/24: Town Sports

2/7/24: Art exhibition

3/7/24: J6 day

9/7/24: SATs results & reports

11/7/24: Optional Drop In Parent/teacher meetings

19/7/24: Leavers' assembly

19/7/24: Break up

22/7/24: INSET day

23/7/24: INSET day

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Please see below for an overview of our learning this term. For more detail, please see the Welcome Letter which will be sent home within the first few days of term. This letter will also be available in the files section below once term begins.

Curriculum for the Summer Term

Religion

Summer One - The Transforming Spirit

To know about the Ascension
To understand what happened at Pentecost
To understand Peter the Apostle
To understand the transformation of Paul
To understand that all popes are descendants of St Peter

Summer Two - Called to Serve

To know and understand that God made every person in his image
To know how some people have responded to God's call
To know about the sacrament of marriage
To know about the sacrament of Holy Orders

Maths (more detail in maths overview in files section below)

Decimals - converting fractions to decimals; fractions as division
Percentages - fractions to percentages; equivalent fractions, decimals & percentages; percentages of amounts
Measure - perimeter, area & volume
Geometry - angles in triangles, quadrilaterals & polygons; circles and nets of shapes; position & direction
Statistics - line graphs, pie charts, bar charts, mean average

English

Key texts: When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle & The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow

Reading comprehensions on a variety of texts including modern classics.

Writing - Descriptive narrative; diary entry, information text & explanation

Spelling - Revision of 3/4/5/6 statutory words; Year 6 spelling patterns

Grammar:

Revision of nouns, verbs, adjectives
Noun phrases
Adverbs & adverbials
Homophones
Coordinating Conjunctions
Verb tenses: simple past/present; present perfect

Whole class guided reading - Funny, Frightening, Fantastic - collection of stories

Science

Evolution & Inheritance

Identify inherited characteristics
To learn about Charles Darwin
To learn about theories of evolution and natural selection
To learn how plants and animals adapt to their environments
To learn about Mary Anning and her work

Living Things and their Habitats

To group animals according to characteristics
To learn about Carl Linnaeus and his work
To learn about the Linnaen system of classification
To understand how to use a branching diagram of classification
To learn about and classify micro-organisms
To develop a system of classification for plant and animals in the school grounds

History

The Impact of War

To use war memorials and war graves to assess the impact of war on Alsager
To show how the first and second world wars impacted children
To know and understand how the wars impacted daily life
To explain if life was more dangerous in Alsager in the first or second world war
To design a memorial for local people who served in the wars
To present knowledge gained about Alsager during the war

Geography

Our World in the Future