Year 6 2024 - 2025
Mrs Chidgey
Mrs Sanderson
Welcome to Year 6.
Our mini Geography topic is ‘A Sense of Place’.
This topic allows children to explore our local area, make comparisons with other areas in the UK and enable children to develop a sense of how our local area fits into the wider areas around us.
This term our History topic is 'Maafa'.
This project teaches children about Africa past and present, with a particular focus on Benin. It traces the development of the slave trade and explores Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, the causes and consequences of the European colonisation of Africa and the worldwide communities that make up the African diaspora.
Science:
Living things and their habitats -This project teaches children about the transport role of the human circulatory system, its main parts and primary functions. They learn about healthy lifestyle choices and the effects of harmful substances on the body.
Circulatory System -This project teaches children about the transport role of the human circulatory system, its main parts and primary functions. They learn about healthy lifestyle choices and the effects of harmful substances on the body.
RE:
Life as a Journey - This project will give children an opportunity to think about the idea that that life is a journey and what it means to make that journey as a Christian.
Advent – This project will delve deeper into the themes of the season of Advent.
Art: Trailblazers, Barrier Breakers - This project teaches children about significant black artists and their work, and provides opportunities to analyse and create artwork inspired by them.
DT: Food for Life: This project teaches children about processed food and healthy food choices. They make bread and pasta sauces and learn about the benefits of whole foods. They plan and make meals as part of a healthy daily menu, and evaluate their completed products.
PSHE:
Me and My Relationships - This unit will help children will learn about feelings and emotions, friendships and the impact of bullying.
Valuing Differences - This unit will teach the children about the importance of including everyone, recognising and understanding that everyone’s differences should be celebrated.
PE: Our units of study for this term will be swimming, teamwork, which will include problem solving, and invasion games, with a focus on rugby.
Music: Happy - The learning in this unit is focused around the song: Happy, a Pop song by Pharrell Williams. This unit contains sessions linked to listening to and appraising music, performing musical skills, improvising and composing music.
Computing:
Online Safety – Children will learn about privacy seals on sites. They will develop an understanding of appropriate online behaviour and how this can protect themselves and others.
Coding - Children will design a game to meet a given criteria using timers, scores, selection and variables.
Blogging - Children will identify the purpose of writing a blog and the features of successful blog writing.
MFL: French Children will explore French vocabulary and key phrases.
For more information on our curriculum, please see our curriculum tab on the homepage.
Pick and Mix
Your child will bring home their Pick and Mix linked to their topic. Pick and Mix projects are suggested activities that help to inspire children beyond the classroom. Each activity provides an opportunity for children to explore their topic further using a number of different skills. When children have finished a project, they can bring this into school where each class will have a designated time to celebrate the learning that has taken place. Projects can stay in school and be displayed on each class’s working wall or can be taken home.
If you have any questions about how to further support your child's learning at home, please contact your child's class teacher via Class Dojo or the school office.