Yr.6 Autumn Term 1

Added on 31st August 2015 by Admin

Dear Parent/Carer,

During the Autumn term, year 6 will be covering the following topics:

Numeracy: Place value, ordering and rounding, multiplication and division, fractions, decimals and percentages and measure.

Literacy: Myths, explanatory texts and fables

Science: Micro-organisms: What micro-organisms are; how micro-organisms can be both helpful and harmful and how to prevent micro-organisms from spreading.

Electrical Circuits: Investigations into how to change circuits, standard symbols, conductors and insulators.

History: Ancient Greece

ICT: Using the internet to search large databases and to interpret information

PE: Football, Rounders and Swimming

Music: Composition

DT: Moving Greek monsters – pneumatics

RE: The Bible – why it is important to Christians and the different literary forms within it.

French: Fashion

PSHE: Rules, group work and ‘the ideal school’

The following homework will be given each week:

Literacy, Numeracy, Topic or Science and Reading. Spelling homework will also be given weekly, please encourage your children to read regularly and to play word games as this is beneficial to so many areas of the curriculum.

Each piece of work should take no longer than half an hour and your child should be able to complete this independently. If children regularly have difficulty with homework, please let me know.

I hope this will give you further insight into your child’s education.

Yours sincerely,

Miss S Laws

Here are some websites with interesting activities to support the work which we are doing in class.

Electricity:

http://www.engineeringinteract.org/resources/siliconspies/siliconspieslink.htm

http://www.hyperstaffs.info/work/physics/child/index.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/10_11/changing_circuits.shtml

http://thefusebox.ce-electricuk.com/page/electricity/home.cfm

http://www.andythelwell.com/blobz/

http://www.edfenergy.com/powerup/keystage2/index.html

Micro organisms: