Year Six

Miss Carberry is the teacher in our Year Six class. Our PE days are Monday and Tuesday.

Class Saint

St Patrick. The Patron Saint of Ireland. Feast day is 17th March

Saint Patrick was born in England, but when he was a teenager, he was captured by Irish pirates who took him to Ireland as a slave. After six years, Saint Patrick escaped and returned to England and his family.

When Saint Patrick became a priest, he traveled back to Ireland as a missionary so that he could teach the people about God. He used examples to explain the mysteries of the faith in simple ways. One day, Saint Patrick compared the Trinity to a shamrock. He said that the shamrock has three leaves, but it is only one plant. In the same way, God is three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—but one God.

St Patrick, pray for us.

Autumn Term Curriculum Overview

Maths

• Calculate missing parts
• Solve addition and subtraction calculations
• Read and write numbers up to one million
• Round seven-digit numbers to the nearest million and hundred thousand
• Add and subtract numbers with up to seven digits
• Area and perimeter

English

The Y6 class text this term is War Horse.

Key learning includes:

• Make predictions and inferences when reading with evidence
• Simple, compound and complex sentences
• Speech punctuation
• Expanded noun phrases
• Semi-colons
• Edit and improve writing
• Summarise ideas
• Parenthesis—brackets, dashes

RE

Creation and Covenant

- Explain the second Creation story

- Understand ‘original sin’

- Sacrament of Baptism

- In Jesus, a new covenant is made

Prophecy and Promise

- The importance of women in salvation history

- Mary is the fulfilment of the Old Testament promises

- Understand how and why the Magnificat prayer forms radical expectations of the Messiah

- Understand the lives of individual women today who are responding to God’s call

History

Y6 will be studying Ancient Civilisations.

Key learning includes:

· Periods of Ancient Greece

· Political and social change has an impact on society

· Alexander the Great

· Fact and bias

· Cleopatra

Science

Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells

Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches

Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

Design and Technology

Electrical Systems - More complex switches and circuits

Use research to develop a design specification. Generate and develop innovative ideas. Communicate ideas through annotated sketches, pictorial representations or diagrams. Formulate a step-by-step plan. Competently select and accurately assemble materials, and securely connect electrical components. Create and modify a computer control program. Continually evaluate and modify the product to match the initial design specification. Test the system to demonstrate its effectiveness. Investigate famous inventors. Understand and use electrical systems in their products. Apply their understanding of computing to program, monitor and control their products.

PE

Basketball

Demonstrate attacking skills. Move into and create space. Choose when to pass and when to dribble. Use appropriate defensive techniques. Develop shooting techniques. Apply rules and tactics to a tournament. 

Gymnastics

Develop the straddle, forward and backward roll. Develop counterbalance and counter tension. Develop jumps and explore the effect of height. Use flight from hands to travel over apparatus. Create a group sequence. 

Computing

Computing systems and networks - Communication and Collaboration 

Explain the importance of internet addresses. Recognise how data is transferred across the internet. Explain how sharing information online can help people work together. Evaluate different ways of working together online. Recognise how we communicate using technology. 

Music

Rhythmic devices and structure

Explore time signatures - get a feel for 6/8 rhythms and learn to identify changes in time signature and musical style. Explore rhythmic poems and songs. Experiment with vocal and instrumental effects by varying articulation, dynamics and timbre and learn to identify these features when listening to each other perform. Listen to rhythms from around the world such as djembe drumming from West Africa, Latin American rhythms such as tango, salsa and samba and Konnokal from South India. Learn to play polyrhythms and experiment with creating different polyrhythmic textures. Capture rhythmic ideas in a musical structure. 

French

Greetings, days of the week, how people are and what they are like

Personal Development

Anti-Racism, Abelism, Changes during puberty