Miss Clifford, Mrs Verhoeven & Mrs Whitten
assisted by Serena, Yasmine & Mohammed
CURRICULUM
OVERVIEW
Click here for Year 6 overview
HOMEWORK EXPECTATIONS
Weekly homework is set. Please see the expectation for Year Six on the Home Learning Overview for more information. ​
USEFUL NOTICES
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Reading records must be in 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.
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Homework is set daily and must be brought to school each day.
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Spelling tests will take place each Monday and Thursday and results recorded in reading records.
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 spring term, we will be working through the ‘Personal’ and ‘Social’ cogs in our weekly PE lessons.
Our PE day is Friday.
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
Our first writing stimulus will be The Arrival by Shaun Tan. This is a beautifully illustrated story of being a stranger in a strange place. Through this wonderful book, the children explore immigration and gain a deeper understanding of the experiences and challenges faced. Children will complete a number of different writing tasks both fiction and non-fiction, including writing letters, diary entries, stories, newspaper articles and non-chronological reports. In all lessons, children will be learning or consolidating skills in spelling, grammar, punctuation and handwriting.
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 is Being Me in My World. In this unit, children think about understanding their identity and how they fit well in the class, school and global community.
READING
We will be studying the non-fiction text, A World Full of Journeys and Migrations by Martin Howard and Christopher Corr, which will take the children through some of the most fascinating stories of migration throughout history.
We will also be spending some of our session delving into Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho Yen, which is a narrative text exploring themes such as friendship, loyalty and bravery. This book will also be read independently by your child at home each evening.
RECOMMENDED READS
Click here for Year 6 book list
MATHS
During this half-term, we’ll be looking at numbers to 10 million and then move on to the four operations on whole numbers, ensuring that all children have secured a good understanding of place value.
If your child doesn’t already know their times tables up to 12 in line with the national expectation for the end of Year 4 please keep practising with them. The best way to practise these is for short periods (5-10 minutes) each day using Times Tables Rock Stars.
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Click here for Maths Methods Handbook
R.E
We will be trying to answer the question, how has the Christian message survived? Before moving onto understanding faith in Bermondsey and how it has changed over the years and factors such as migration that has caused it. Through our lessons children will have the opportunity to develop their understanding of theology, philosophy and sociology through the believing, thinking and living strand underpinning the units.
SCIENCE
We will be learning about light. We will have opportunities to learn about reflection, refraction and how we see shadows. We will learn how light travels and how it enables us to see. There will be opportunities to work scientifically and carry out investigations through this topic.
We will then move onto study evolution and inheritance where children will recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things. They will learn that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents and how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.
TOPICAL TALK
We will continue to have weekly Topical Talk lessons. Through these lessons children will have opportunities to develop their critical thinking and communication skills and apply these to complex real-world issues. We will also participate in the annual Topical Talk festival.
FRENCH
French will be taught by Miss Simmons on Wednesday mornings and children will practise French throughout the week with their class teacher through daily greetings and classroom instructions. Taught lessons will focus on revisiting me, telling the time and everyday life. Later in the term, children will move onto learn about homes and houses.
HUMANITIES
In geography we will be studying Why Does Population Change? Through this topic we will be investigating why certain parts of the world are more populated than others; exploring birth and death rates; discussing social, economic and environmental push and pull factors; learning about the population in Britain and its impacts. We will also be taking part in fieldwork.
In history we will be studying What can the census tell us about local areas? Through this topic, we will be investigating the census records of different areas, the children will make inferences about the lives of people from the past. They will explore what the census can show about Victorian jobs, the suffrage movement and the interwar period. The children will identify how the census changes and consider the usefulness and limitations of census data. In Lesson 6, they will plan and carry out their own enquiries about who lived in their local school area.
