Year 6

It’s Spring! Welcome back to what looks to be an incredible term of hard work, success and wonderful memories. We’re excited to be continuing our ‘I AM WHO I AM year and with this, there promises to be endless dreaming, asking, aspiring, achieving and believing.

 

Within our theme of creating, we will focus our learning this term on ‘I AM WHO I AM: How Has Greece Shaped Our World?’ This will involve an exploration of life in Ancient and modern Greece, with a particular focus on life in Ancient Greece, Greek warfare, Athens, migration and Greek influence over art, science and technology.

Religious Education

RE will follow the Come and See topics of:

Sources: in which we will explore the resources we use to deepen our spirituality, with a clear focus on  the Christian Bible.

Unity: in which pupils will deepen their understanding of their church community, and how the Eucharist unites Christians.

Death and New Life: were pupils will learn more about and celebrate Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection.

English

In English, Year 6 will continue to familiarise themselves with a range of texts, punctuation and grammar. We will explore these alongside our class read: ’The Girl of Ink and Stars’, We also hope to link the monsters of Ancient Greek mythology to a beautiful booked aimed at 9-11 year old readers: ’A Monster Calls’.

Maths

Maths: This term we will focus on revising all aspects of the curriculum as well as perfecting our arithmetic and written skills, and applying these to a range of problems, building on our fluency and resilience even further.

Science

Science will involve a look at Evolution and Inheritance, especially survival of the fittest and genetic variation. We will explore the Ancient Greek theories of where we came from too!

Wider Curriculum

History lessons will be looking at the timeline of Ancient Greece’s key periods, compare ancient Greece to modern Greece and answer thought provoking key questions.

Geography lessons will  focus on an European region study of Greece. We will be using atlas’ to locate Greece and identifying its physical and human characteristics. Additionally, we will be looking at the climate of Greece and which biome it belongs to, and finally exploring life in Athens and the migrant crisis.

Art lessons will provide opportunity for the children to analyse pattern art by Damien Hirst and to create their own Ancient Greek vases inspired by him.

In DT children will be creating their own Greek frames and structures, inspired by Gustav Eiffel and Ancient Greek columns.

In PE we will begin our gymnastic lessons linking to the ‘Athleticism’ of the Ancient Greeks..

Our MFL focus will continue to develop our understanding of French this term, by writing letters to our French pen-pals!

We will also be spending some dedicated time on RHE again—that’s ‘Relationship and Health Education’. We will explore body-image, feelings, and internet safety as well as revisiting and deepening our understanding of different forms of abuse.

Educational Visits and Visitors

We are lucky to have local PCSOs coming into school to deliver a crime prevention programme to the Year 6s. In addition, we plan to experience some contemporary art by visiting the Contemporary Gallery in the city centre. Whilst there, we hope to organise our very own private screening of a film with a Greek link at a city centre cinema. Plan and dates to be confirmed.

NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS

As you are already aware, the Year 6 National Assessments are fast approaching. You will be receiving more information about the tests in due course.

Your child has a Maths, one English and one SPaG CGP revision book as well as SPaG glossary to help them learn key facts and practise the skills they have been taught in class. Please encourage them to use these regularly to help with daily homework, revision and recall of knowledge. They will continue to have daily homework to help with this.

Topic Links

And these links and videos will help to deepen your understanding too!

Art 

  • https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/damien-hirst-2308

DT

  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/design-and-technology-ks2-making-structures-stronger/z626hbk

History

  • https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/ancient-Greece/353213
  • https://www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_greece.php
  • https://www.historyforkids.net/ancient-greece.html
  • https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/greece/10-facts-about-the-ancient-greeks/
  • https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/ancient-greece/

Geography

  • https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/where-we-work/europe/greece
  • https://www.unicef.org/greece/en/refugee-and-migrant-children#:~:text=These%20children%20and%20their%20families,unaccompanied%20children%20are%20particularly%20exposed.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_P9huLYmS0