Miss Clifford, Mrs Whitton
& Mrs Verhoeven
assisted by Yas & Serena
CURRICULUM
OVERVIEW
Click here for Year 6 overview
HOMEWORK EXPECTATIONS
We will continue to have daily homework. Please see the expectation for Year Six on the Home Learning Overview for more information.
USEFUL NOTICES
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Homework is set daily and therefore Maths books, SPaG books, SATS prep folders and reading records must be brought to school every day.
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Bring a water bottle to school each day
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PE will be on a Friday and you are to come to school wearing your kit.
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Our library session is on a Tuesday so please have your library book in school to renew or change.
PE
At Boutcher, we follow the ‘Real PE’ approach. Real PE is a unique, child-centred approach that engages and challenges children in their PE lessons. It focuses on the development of agility, balance and coordination, healthy competition and cooperative learning. Real PE focuses on six key cogs, these are: Creative, Cognitive, Health and Fitness, Personal, Physical and Social.
In the summer term, we will be working through the ‘physical’ cog in our weekly PE lessons and will move on to ‘fitness’.
Our PE day is Friday and you should wear your PE kit to school.
PE kit is as follows:
- plain white t-shirt or polo top
- navy blue jogging bottoms, leggings or shorts (no logos)
- school navy blue jumper or cardigan
- suitable trainers for PE
ENGLISH
This term, our writing stimulus will be a video advertisement created by the Guardian newspaper, which won the Cannes-Lion award upon its release. We will explore bias, objectivity and justice as we unpick the different voices and perspectives which make up the well-known story. The advert will open up plenty of opportunities for debate and children will understand the importance of considering all sides of a story before jumping to conclusions. There will be a range of writing tasks both fiction and non-fiction, including writing letters, diary entries, stories, newspaper articles and speeches.
PSHE
At Boutcher School, we teach Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) and relationships as a whole-school approach to underpin children’s development as people and because we believe that this also supports their learning capacity. We use the Jigsaw Programme which offers us a comprehensive, carefully thought-through Scheme of Work which brings consistency and progression to our children’s learning in this vital curriculum area. This term the topic being covered across the school In PSHE is relationships and how to to build and develop healthy connections.
READING
We will be studying Incredible Journeys by Levison Wood which will take the children on a journey around the world, discovering the most daring pioneers. Through this text we will develop key reading comprehension skills.
RECOMMENDED READS
Click here for Year 6 book list
R.E
This term our topic is, how does the Torah help Jewish people to understand what being Jewish means? We will start the topic by considering why Abraham is significant figure in the Jewish faith and how he demonstrated the belief in One God. We will also consider the importance of the Torah, Jewish prayer and worship and Bar/Bat Mitzvah. At the end of the unit, children will have the opportunity to create their own rite of passage for leaving primary school.
SCIENCE
We will be learning about animals including humans. We will build on prior learning and knowledge through understanding different systems within the body. We will research the parts and functions of the circulatory system, focusing on how nutrients are transported around the human body. We will explore how a healthy lifestyle supports the body to function and how different types of drugs affect the body.
TOPICAL TALK
We will continue to have Topical Talk lessons using their one-hour materials. Through these lessons the children will participate in informed and open-minded discussions about the biggest issues of our time, whilst developing essential critical-thinking and communication skills.
HUMANITIES
In our geography lessons, we will be trying to answer the question – where does our energy come from? We will learn about the benefits and drawbacks of renewable energy, understand how energy sources are distributed in an area, carry out field work and collect and present data on where to position a solar panel on our school grounds.
In History, we will be considering the question – what was the impact of World War 2 on the people of Britain? We will identify the causes of World War 2, explore the impact of the Battle of Britain on the Royal Air Force, use photographs to develop our understanding of the Blitz and consider the experiences of evacuees, women and migrants.
FRENCH
We will continue to have French lessons taught by Miss Simmons on a Wednesday morning and children will practise French throughout the week through daily greetings and classroom instructions. This term our topic will be French café culture.
MATHS
During this term, we’ll be revising and consolidating much of the KS2 expectations for maths.
Click here for Maths Methods Handbook