Our Summer Term topic in Year 6 is 'A Time of Change'
To view our curriculum map and our suggested activities for the Summer term please click here
Reading
SAT preparation work in the first half of the term. When SAT testing is over, reading is still very important. Please read as much as possible at home. Find something that you enjoy and read it.
Guided Reading
This term, we are focusing on SATs-style comprehension questions, such as retrieval, inference, word meaning, sequencing, summarising, as well as test strategies and how to answer more challenging, three-mark questions.
PE
PE and Games are taught by our Sports coach on Wednesdays, and on Friday we will be visited by Lancashire Cricket coaches who will develop our cricket skills. The focus this term is athletics and cricket.
English
Summer 1:
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We will be creating survival guides based on the settings we have met in our units and novels this year.
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We will be focusing on SATs preparation and revision for the Reading and English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling.
Summer 2:
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Writing and redrafting more independently and applying all grammar skills to their writing through a range of genres.
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Creating an end of year show including the children's own ideas and memories. This will involve shared writing and scripting, along with the main focus of speaking, listening and performing.
PSHE – SRE
To explore physical, social and emotional changes through puberty.
To gain a basic understanding of human reproduction.
To learn about the need for good personal hygiene as your body goes through puberty.
To consider gender stereotypes and peer pressure through drama and role play.
Year 6 Team
Teachers:
Mrs Phillips
Mrs Sims
Teaching Assistants:
Mrs Evans
Miss Wright
Miss Worrall
Miss Shaw
Curriculum support:
Mrs Makin
Mrs Southern
Notices
Summer term trips & events
Move-up days to High Schools
End of Year Show
End of Year Celebrations
Mathematics
The main focus of the first half of the term will be consolidation and revision of KS2 work in preparation for end of year tests as well as the final topics, such as algebra. In the second half term, maths will include plenty of fun maths puzzles, challenges and investigations.
National Curriculum
To view the National Curriculum expectations for Year Six children please click here
Homework
Leading up to SATs, the homework focus will be reading, grammar, spelling and maths using the children's CPG revision books. After SATs, we will continue to set homework (perhaps not quite as much!) to keep skills ticking over.
Spellings
Spellings are taught in classes and a differentiated group on a Friday. As well as this, we have regular spelling slots in the daily English lesson and spelling challenges first thing in the morning.
By the end of the year, children are required to know all of the Year 3/4 key word spellings and most of the Year 5/6 key words spellings. There are also Year 5/6 spelling patterns to learn and apply.
Science
We will be working on our Evolution topic and then do a whistle-stop revision tour of all the science learned in KS2, before we have to submit teacher assessment.
Our Topic Learning:
History:
Local study on Victorian Tyldesley, and how it was historically a time of change because of the industrial revolution.
Art:
3D artwork inspired by Gabriel Dawe
Computing:
Children will begin work on Binary, spreadsheets and text adventures in computing.
Children will also learn how to create an online quiz and how networks work.
DT:
Children will design and make a photo frame to hold a picture of Garrett Hall or their friends.
Basic frames will be made by joining wood. Children will investigate how the frame will hang or stand, and how to decorate the frame to record their memories of the school.
RE:
Children will learn about and analyse Buddhism, Buddhist beliefs and Buddhist teachings, including the life of Prince Siddhartha, the Eight-Fold Path and The Four Noble Truths
