Year 6 - Aslan & Gryffindor

YEAR 6 - ASLAN & GRYFFINDOR

CURRICULUM FOR SUMMER 1

This half term we will focus on History and The Atlantic Slave Trade. We will be learning about the history of slavery before exploring the triangular slave trade between Britain, West Africa and the Americas. We will also learn about the life of Harriet Tubman and how she helped to free slaves during her lifetime.

AS READERS 

We will read a variety of texts relating to The Atlantic Slave Trade and discover a range of motivational and inspirational speeches, such as: Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream…”

We will continue to build core reading skills including vocabulary and word meaning in context, inference, prediction, retrieval and summary.

AS WRITERS 

We will build on our writing skills and become more cohesive and sophisticated writers, to produce texts that are engaging and appropriate for the intended audience. Children will write both fiction and non-fiction pieces of extended writing. Using the animation film ‘Francis’, we will retell a tense tale of unexplained happenings on a lake in the middle of an Ontario nature reserve. We will be linking our non-fiction writing to our history topic, where we will write a biography about Harriet Tubman and why she is such an important historical figure.  

AS MATHEMATICIANS 

We will be continuing to develop our number fluency as well as arithmetic and reasoning problem skills. Our main areas of learning will be shape, statistics, algebra and consolidation of arithmetic skills. After SATs, we will be exploring the Fibonacci sequence and how it is used in real life.

AS SCIENTISTS 

Our topic this half term will be 'living things and their habitats'. We will take an in-depth view at classifying animals, plants and micro-organisms. We will recap our knowledge of broad groups of organisms before taking a detailed look at the Linnaeus classification system, how it works and how different species of organisms that are closely related can be identified.

PE 

Lessons will continue to take place on Thursdays. This term, pupils will be learning cricket, rounders and athletics. Please ensure pupils have the correct PE kit each week. 

RE

We will be learning about Humanism and investigating how inspirational people impact on how Humanists live today. We will consider Humanist role models and how they impact on actions a Humanist might take.

ART

We will be discovering the art of Georgia O’Keeffe, replicating O’Keeffe’s style and focusing on the line, tone and colour within her desert landscapes.

COMPUTING

We will continue to develop our coding skills to create a ‘collector’ game, learn about simulations and explore how AI works.

HOME LEARNING 

In Year 6, pupils will receive English and Maths homework every Friday that must be handed in on Wednesday of the following week, which will be marked as a class. Please remind your child of the sanctions that are in place for non-completion of homework. In addition, pupils will be given a list of 20 spellings from the statutory spelling list each week, which they are expected to learn in preparation for a spelling test every Monday. (Pupils are expected to demonstrate learning using EdShed or, if this cannot be accessed at home, by writing spellings in their homework book).

Please continue to read regularly with your child at home, as reading regularly will help your child’s vocabulary knowledge, spelling and writing skills. Furthermore, we ask that you encourage your child to learn their multiplication tables up to 12. This is an ongoing expectation until your child can confidently recall them in a mixed order and using inverse operations. (Times Tables Rock Stars should be accessed to help them).