IPC - Brainwave
Year 6 kicked off the new year with the IPC unit Brainwave. Our learning has been focusing on how we learn. We have focused on the parts of the brain, the different types of learners that there are and how to teach new skills to other people. We have created graphs, written information reports and created our very own brain hats.
IPC
- In History, we’ll be:
- Thinking about periods of history and placing them in chronological order.
- Finding out where and when the Maya lived.
- Using historical artefacts and sources of information to find out about the Mayan way of life.
- Exploring Maya rituals and beliefs.
- Studying the ways in which the Maya communicated using hieroglyphs and how they counted using their unique number system.
- Investigating the theories behind why and how the Maya Empire collapsed.
Maths
In Maths, we’ll be:
- Exploring the properties of numbers and finding out about the Mayan number system.
- Understanding the importance of place value and using this to help us order and round numbers.
- Developing our written methods for the four operations.
- Investigating the properties of 3D shapes and identifying shapes used in Mayan architecture.
- Applying our knowledge of fractions to solve problems.
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English
In English, we’ll be:
- Revising key writing skills: Vocabulary, conjunctions, adverbials and punctuation.
- Exploring how to vary our sentence structures for effect.
- Looking at the novel “Skellig” written by David Almond, to inspire writing of different genres.
- Thinking about the grammar terminology we already know and the new Year Six vocabulary.
- Learning spellings of words with common prefixes and suffixes.
Science
In Science, we’ll be:
- Investigating how light travels.
- Learning about famous scientists like Sir Isaac Newton and his theory of colour.
- Exploring refraction and how it occurs.
- Researching how shadows are formed and how we can change their appearance.
- Identifying light sources.
Headboy & Headgirl Elections
Headboy & Headgirl
This coming week Year 6 will be very busy preparing for the Head Boy & Head Girl elections that are due to take place on the 24th September. This week, in class, we will be focusing on what makes a good election speech and what techniques are used in order to write an effective speech. We will be writing our own speeches detailing what we would change in the school and make better if we were elected as Head Boy or Head Girl.
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Information
Year Six PE will be as follows:
6L – Tuesday & Thursday
6F – Monday & Tuesday
6P – Tuesday & Thursday
- Homework will be set on a Friday and due in on the following Tuesday
- Spellings will be handed out on Friday and the children will be tested on Wednesday
- Children need to be reading at least three times a week and a comment recorded into their reading record every time they read.