St John's C of E Primary - Nurturing Excellence

Eagle Class

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English

This half term Year 6 are going to be continuing to use the book Letters from the Lighthouse and complete several pieces of writing from this. The first piece will be a persuasive text based on a scenario in the book. Year 6 will be consolidating grammar and punctuation they have learnt this year and building on their independence in writing throughout the half term.

Maths

Throughout the half term, both maths groups will be focusing on various reasoning topics on the build up to SATs week. We will be covering a range from: fractions, ratio, mutli-step word problems and graphs. Within this, the children will be continuing to practice their arithmetic skills as well.

History

Summer term involves year 6 exploring the Cold War. This unit allows the children to understand different social constructs that appear across the world and the impact these have on the people living within these countries. This history unit also is supported and complemented by reading Animal Farm in English and we make numerous connections between the two subjects.

Geography

Year 6 are learning about Africa. Throughout the half term children will learn about: desertification, food security, globalisation and ending on a closer look into the country Kenya.

Science

This half term, year 6 will be learning about reproduction of plants and animals. Year 6 will learn the difference between asexual and sexual reproduction in plants; they will also learn about the reproduction of some animals and the difference between external and internal fertilisation.

Art

In the summer term, children will be looking at artist William Morris. We begin by focusing his prints and emulate one of our own. The children will then etch their design into a polystyrene tile and print their own William Morris style piece of work.

Year 6 are focusing on games. We will be hoping to get outside and explore various types of field games including: cricket, rounders and tennis.

RE
This half term we are studying Buddhism. Children will explore the religion and continue to make connections between this religion and others they have learnt about throughout the year.