Year 6

WELCOME TO

 YEAR 6!

Spring 1st Half Term 

Our new enquiry question for this term is:

Are we always on a journey?

Alongside this we will be exploring the following key concepts:

segregation, compassion, conflict, discrimination, integration

English

The text we will be exploring to begin the term is 'The Arrival'  by Shaun Tan. This is a wordless graphic novel that we will use as a reading and writing stimulus for poetry and a fictional account. We will then use 'The Journey' by Francesca Sanna as a stimulus. The half term's work will culminate in a multimodal non-fiction text that we will create. Throughout the term, we will be analysing the themes running through these texts, including the key concepts above. 

Don't forget to continue to practise using Read Theory. This is a reading comprehension tool, and we would urge all of Year 6 to access this at home to further develop their skills.

Maths

We will cover the following areas in maths throughout the Spring Term:

• Decimals
• Percentages
• Algebra

Within these areas, we will also be developing our problem solving and reasoning skills, and will be applying different strategies to arithmetic questions, as well as SATs style multi-step word problems.

We will be continuing to use Times Table Rockstars to further develop children fluency with times tables. Last year we saw some FANTASTIC progress being made with children's confidence, fluency and speed when recalling their times tables, and believe TTRS played a HUGE part in this. In school, we will be dedicating some time each week to using TTRockstars and would urge all of Year 6 to access TTRS at home to further develop their skills 

Science

Our new Science unit in this half term will be LIVING THINGS AND THEIR HABITATS - below are the objectives that we will cover with this unit of work:

• Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including microorganisms, plants and animals. 
• Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics.

Geography

Our Geography focus throughout the first part of the Spring term will be around the theme of Globalisation. All our learning will centre around our enquiry question, Are we always on a journey?

We will be developing our understanding of Globalisation, considering the impact of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and examining why we import and export goods and services. We will then look at development within countries and consider the inequality this can create, look at the poverty that inequality can encourage and consider the effects of an increasing global population.