Year 6
2025 Spring Newsletter
Our Curriculum
Our Frozen Kingdom project teaches children about the characteristics and features of polar regions, including the North and South Poles, and includes a detailed exploration of the environmental factors that shape and influence them. Linked to this, we will do two art projects, one will teach children about the Inuit way of life, including some of their cultural and artistic traditions. The other will teach children about the genre of environmental art. They will study how artists create artwork that addresses social and political issues related to the natural and urban environment. Children work collaboratively to create artwork with an environmental message.
Our companion projects include Light, The Circulatory System and Diet, Drugs and Lifestyle in Science. In Design Technology, we will become engineers. This project teaches children about remarkable engineers and significant bridges, learning to identify features, such as beams, arches and trusses. They complete a bridge-building engineering challenge to create a bridge prototype.
In Design Technology, we will become engineers. This project teaches children about remarkable engineers and significant bridges, learning to identify features, such as beams, arches and trusses. They complete a bridge-building engineering challenge to create a bridge prototype.
We will celebrate the topic with an exciting trip to the Natural History Museum in Tring (Wednesday 8th January 2025) which will consist of a guided tour and learning all about adaptation.
Overview of the ‘Frozen Kingdom’ project:
English: Spring 1:
Purpose: To inform and to entertain
Outcomes: Formal letter, Narrative and a Diary
Texts: Just So Stories and Shackleton’s Journey
Spring 2:
Purpose: To inform
Outcomes: Newspaper, non-chronologic report and persuasive leaflet
Texts: Holes by Louis Sachar
Maths: Decimals, Ratio, Percentages, Algebra, Area, Perimeter and Volume and Statistics.
Science: Light, the circulatory system and diet, drugs and lifestyle.
Geography: Frozen Kingdom
PSHE: Dreams and Goals and Healthy Me
PE: Hockey and Football
RE: Christianity – Beliefs and meaning and Easter
Computing: History of computers and Scratch
Learning Behaviour: Ambition and Honesty
Important information
Timetable
Start: 8:40am Finish: 3:15pm
PE Session 1
Jaguar Class and Ocelot Class – Wednesday
Jaguar and Ocelot Class – Alternate Thursdays (Ocelot week 1/ Jaguar week 2)
PE Session 2/ Forest School
This will be on alternate weeks: each class will have a full afternoon of P.E instead of a single session in order to maximise the learning time.
Ocelot class will be week 1 and Jaguar class will be week 2. As children will be going to forest school in the alternate weeks, please send them to school every Wednesday in their P.E kit for ease.
Children will come into school in PE kits. All children must have a white top or house colour, black or navy shorts. Trainers, joggers and jumpers will be required for outdoor PE.
Forest School
Wednesday all children need wellies and a waterproof coat.
Key dates
Start school: Tuesday 7th January
Natural History Museum Trip: Tuesday 4th February (separate letter)
Half term: Monday 17th February – Friday 21st February
Parents evenings: Tuesday 25th March and Thursday 27th March
Break up for Easter: Friday 4th April
How can you support your children at home?
Reading – You should read with your child at least 5 times a week at home. We will check reading diaries on a Monday.
Spellings – Sent out on a Friday and tested on the Friday after. These can be completed on Spelling Shed
TT Rockstars- Use TT Rockstars to practise times tables. Children will be tested through the ’99 club’ on a Tuesday.
CGP reading homework: to be handed in every Monday
Topic homework:
There is a topic homework sheet attached. We would like the children to choose at least one piece to do and bring in to share with the class.
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