Spring Term

After a super first term we are READY to begin our Spring learning! 

This term, in English, our writing will be based on a Literacy Shed Animation named Beyond the Lines. We will focus on fact files linked to our WW2 topic and also create an extended narrative piece depicting the experience of soldiers on D-Day. We will recap prior knowledge from Autumn term in grammar, punctuation and spelling whilst also learning about active and passive voice, apostrophes for contraction, modal verbs, expanded noun phrases, relative clauses, subject and object and perfect forms of verbs. 

Our Maths learning will continue to follow White Rose Maths supported by Maths Shed and NCETM Teaching for Mastery. In Year 6 we have high expectations that all pupils can achieve; we teach a rich, balanced and progressive curriculum using Maths to reason, problem solve and develop fluent conceptual understanding in each area. We will cover a range of areas this term including written and mental calculations, sequences, coordinates, calculating with fractions, measure, shape, ratio and proportion, area and perimeter.

Our Catholic Religious Education programme will focus on Expectation, Sources and Unity as we prepare for the celebration of Easter.

Science will look at Evolution and Inheritance before moving on to the topic of Earth and Space. We have now returned to our normal PSHE session of one per week where we will study diversity and challenging discrimination before moving on to evaluating media sources, sharing things online, influences and attitudes to money and financial risks. Our computing program will focus on Spreadsheets and in French we will be doing a recap of all of the KS2 French learning objectives.