Welcome to Year 6 – Diamond Class!

White Hall Sats Meeting Y6 Meet the Teacher 2024-25

Maths

This term, we shall be consolidating what we have already learned about place value, the four operations, and fractions before tackling the areas of ratio and algebra. We will be paying close attention to the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages and will also venture into the realms of measurement, geometry and statistics. During this Summer term, through the consistent cycle of assessment and revision, we will endeavour to prepare the children as much as possible for the SAT's tests that will occur the week commencing 12th May . In many ways, this will be child-led, focusing on the areas that cause the greatest amount of difficulty in order to boost fluency and confidence across all areas and across all of the children.

English
For the first half of this term, both our writing and reading stimuli come from the mind of the great Victorian writer Oscar Wilde. In our writing lessons, the children will be inspired by the tale of The Selfish Giant, and will build up to writing a narrative retelling the story (or a similar moral tale) from either a first person or third person perspective. The focus of this narrative will be to firstly write cohesively so the story makes sense (cohesion is king!) and to distinguish between the language of speech and the language of narration, choosing vocabulary carefully in order to manipulate the reader's opinion of a character, place or situation.

In a similar way, through our Guided Reading sessions, we will be analysing the tale of The Happy Prince for the language features mentioned above – inferring characters' feelings and motives based on their actions and vocabulary choice of the author.

We shall learn spellings and read for pleasure, every day, and will have regular handwriting practice until the children have developed a joined clear handwriting style.

History & Geography
By adhering to our History and Geography Golden Threads: Leaders, Invasion, Innovation, Communication & Religion and Location, Human Features, Physical Features, Economy & Climate respectively, the children will explore, analyse and discover as much as they can about the Maya civilisation, the countries that they inhabited and how these people and places contrasted with the concurrent UK.

Science
In Science, the children will be learning about light; how it travels in straight lines and how it interacts with different types of objects. They will investigate: shadows and how they change; how light splits; reflects; and how coloured light mixes. They will learn to work scientifically by planning lines of enquiry, using measuring equipment and recording results. They will also begin to learn about electricity, investigating simple circuits and drawing diagrams. They will also find out about what affects the brightness of a bulb.

Creative
In Art, we will explore Mayan patterns, the artists inspired by them, such as Diego Rivera, and mark-making utilising non-conventional tools.
In D&T we will be we will continue to study Mexican cuisine; learning about famous Mexican chefs and their recipes; discovering the journey our ingredients take (from farm to fork) and creating our own meal inspired by the flavours of Mexico. In the latter half of the term, the Year 6's will create memory boxes relating to their time at Audlem St. James.

In Music, the class will continue to progress on the guitar through their lessons with Mr Pinfold from LoveMusicTrust.

RE
As always, our RE lessons with contain a healthy dose of self-reflection and philosophical independent thought. The children's own beliefs and worldview are an integral part of this process and the children will become increasingly able to express and justify their ideas.
We will be discussing the children's views on the afterlife and how these relate to the major world religions and private spiritualities.

Computing
In Computing, we will be learning to use MS Excel and how spreadsheets can not only help with the organisation of data, but can be used to perform complicated calculations for us and turn the data we have inputted into charts and graphs.

The children will learn to write helpful formulae to this end, and will use Excel to help them organise an event they have created (including pricing, number of guests, items needed etc.)

We look forward to an exciting new term.

Mr Blenkiron

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