Summer Term in Year 6

Mrs Helen Romain

Mrs Donna Corke

TEACHING ASSISTANTs

Mrs Vanessa Gates

Mrs Elaine Hepke

PE DAYS

WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY

Homework will continue to be given out on

a Thursday and is expected back by the

following Wednesday.

Homework will consist of a writing or

comprehension

activity, section/s from their Mental

Arithmetic booklets and any practise

papers to hep prepare for the SATs.

During the second half of the term the

class will be introduced to their project

homework. TRIPS/EVENTS

Year 5 and 5 K-Nex challenge—30th April

SATs— Week of 13th May

Cycle Training—20th May

Half term—27th-31st May

INSET—3rd June

Non-uniform (tombola) - 7th June

Summer Fair—15th June

School Journey— 17th June

Open display evening—10th July

Secondary Transfer day—11th July

Sports day—12th July

Year 6 performance and Leaver’s assembly—

22nd July 7pm

Your Child’s School Day

LADBROOKE JMI SCHOOL

Literacy

During this term we will be covering units

that include, journalistic

writing,

figurative language, biography skills and

non-chronological reports.

We will continue to develop our

comprehension skills through explicit

lesson as well as our guided reading

sessions.

We will also be working through a range

of Key Stage 3 transitional activities,

including studying a range of texts

written by William Shakespeare.

Maths This term, the children will continue to

further develop confidence and skills in key concepts such as, properties of shape,

angles, statistics, ratio, position and direction, as well as key preparation for their tests in May and secondary school in September. They will continue to be taught a separate

Arithmetic lesson which will focus on rapid response

and showing workings.

PE

PE continues to be on a Wednesday

afternoon with Mr Palmer where the

children will be concentrating on Games, as

well as the usual Thursday morning session,

with Mrs Corke, where we will be focusing

Gymnastics and Dance.

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AFRICA

Science

Within our topic lessons, the children will

be:

Identifying and naming the main

parts of the human circulatory

system.

Describing the functions of the

heart, blood vessels and blood.

Describing the way in which

nutrients and water are

transported within animals,

including humans.

Demonstrating their understanding

of the principles of being healthy.

Finding out about the effects of

tobacco, alcohol and drugs can have

on the body.

Making observations and

comparisons.

Recording results in an organised

way.

Interpreting patterns and drawing

conclusions.

We will also be using our Science lessons to

work through our Sex and Relationships

Education.

ICT

Children will be:

Working within a group to understand,

develop, promote and market their

app.

Using feedback to re-design and

evaluate the app.

Presenting the app including relevant

technical details.

Discussing how the app would be used

in real life.

Become aware of the availability of

other apps.

PSHE Children will be:

Understanding the role that

charities play

Identifying ways in which money

raised can help

Understand disease prevention

Know about the problems faced in

less-developed countries.

Humanities Children will be:

Locating Africa on different maps

and atlases.

Drawing maps from memory.

Interpreting different climate

charts and using these to discuss

associated problems.

Understand why explorers went to

Africa.

Considering Africa as a holiday

destination.

Beginning to understand the

dangers of diseases such as

Malaria.

Studying African communities.

Art & DT Children will be:

Replicating African Art.

Observing and producing

detailed drawings of African

animals.

Adapting and refining art work.

Exploring the media of pencil

and paint in more detail and

developing techniques.

Music Children will be:

Listening and responding to

different African music.

Using this to create their own

traditional rhythmic melodies.

MFL Children will be:

Revising French vocabulary from

Spring term curriculum.

Continuing to develop conversation