Miss Clifford, Mrs Verhoeven
& Mrs Whitten
assisted by Natalie & Sophie
CURRICULUM
OVERVIEW
Click here for Year 6 overview
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 Friday so please have your library book in school to renew or change.
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Spelling tests will take place each Wednesday.
HOMEWORK EXPECTATIONS
We will continue to have daily homework. Please see the expectation for Year Six on the
Home Learning page for more information.​
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 ‘cognitive’ cog in our weekly PE lessons.
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
We will start the term we by using The Invention of Hugo Cabret for our writing lessons. Hugo is an orphan clock keeper and thief who lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and her grandfather, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. Through this text we will use many of the key grammar requirements of Y6 and have opportunity to apply them by writing a missing flashback chapter exploring Hugo’s experience of living Uncle Claude, as well as researching the famous film director George Méliès and writing a biography about his life.
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 Dreams and Goals. In this unit, children will think about their aspirations, how to achieve goals and develop their understanding of the emotions that go with this.
READING
This term we will cover all aspects of the Key Stage 2 content domain through reading Real-Life Mysteries by Susan Martineau and Vicky Barker. This exciting text offers many rich opportunities for children to develop their vocabulary as well as their debating skills. We will begin by asking the question: how do we know if something is true or not?
Through this text children will have the opportunity to examine and weigh up various strategies to determine if a statement they have come across can be verified as fact.
BOOK LIST
Click here for Year 6 book list
MATHS
During this half-term, we’ll be looking at measure then moving onto percentages, ratio and algebra. If your child isn’t confident in multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000 please keep practising with them.
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Click here for Maths Methods Handbook
R.E
This term our topic is, How Do Muslims Show Commitment to Allah? We will start the topic by considering what is commitment? The children will have opportunities to develop three ways of thinking through opportunities to explore and question whilst developing their understanding of the Muslim religion,. We will end the topic with the children having the opportunity to choose another religion to compare to Islam in terms of commitment to faith.
SCIENCE
This term, we will be learning about living things and their habitats. We will build on prior learning by sorting animals into groups based on their similarities and differences. We will find out about the standard system of classification first developed by Carl Linnaeus. We will have the opportunity to design their own ‘curious creature’ and classify it based on its characteristics. We will learn about micro-organisms, and investigate the growth of mould on bread.
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. This term, we will also be participating in the Topical Talk Festival. During the Festival period, children will have access to the online hub and we encourage them to engage with and continue the discussion online.
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 playing and enjoying sport.
THEME
This term our topic will be Globalisation. We will learn what globalisation is, how it has changed the way we communicate and affects trade. We will learn about the impact of globalisation on fashion, food and how it impacts our own lives.
