Welcome to Class 6

Autumn term 2024

English

In English this term, we are going to be studying:

• Dialogues and writing dialogues based on Beauty and the Beast and Toy Story, showing how characters contrast and how authors reflect this in their language.
• An instructions text based on a bun baking recipe.
• A persuasive travel brochure advertising a holiday to a South American city.

 Maths

This half term we will be looking at place value of numbers to ten million, rounding and negative numbers. Will be practising our four operations, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, this will include long division. We will also be learning about the order of operations (BODMAS), common factors and common multiples and prime numbers. We will finish the half term by beginning to look at fractions, their equivalents and how to simplify them.

Religious Education

In RE, this half term, the topic from ‘The Way, the Truth & the Life’ is Kingdom of God.' In this topic we will be thinking about what the Kingdom of God is, what its values are, who is invited and what this means to us in our daily lives. We will be reflecting on some of Jesus’ parables and his miracles and what they teach us Jesus, God and his Kingdom. We will also be learning about people through history who have lived out the values of the Kingdom of God.

Science

In Science, we are looking at the heart. The unit will cover the different parts of the heart and the circulatory system as well as the path blood takes around the body and the role the lungs play in oxygenating the blood. The unit also covers the risk of drugs and smoking as well as looking at our scientist Santorio Santorio and his work on making the pulsilogium.

Geography

In geography, we are starting a unit of work on South America. The unit will study all the countries in South America and their capital cities. It will also look at the mountainous regions of South America, especially the Andes mountain range and how many countries that stretches across. We will also be comparing two cities of high and low altitude (La Paz and Paramaribo) and the physical features and the way they differ.

History

In history, we will be learning about the Aztecs, including pastimes and hobbies they had and also the settlements they made around Lake Texcoco and how this differs to a map today. We will also study the conquistador Hernan Cortes and the techniques he used to conquer the Aztec Empire.

Other subjects:

PE - We are completing a unit on dance.

PSHE - In PSHE this half term will be looking at the topic, ‘Me and My Relationships’. We will be thinking about healthy, positive friendships and how to work will within a team; what it means to be assertive and how to negotiate.

Art - We will be studying Pop Art and how this has evolved 

Design Technology - In Design Technology will be looking at arch structures, their features and how they are built. We will experiment with different methods and design and build our own arch structure

Computing - We are looking at creating media on Scratch along with what the internet is - learning about different components such as IP addresses, packets and servers.