Maple - Year 6

Mrs Shilladay, Miss Simper & Ms Feng

Autumn Term

In Art and Design this term we will explore 'How can I use photos in my artwork?', where children will explore creative photographic techniques, creating new images through photomontage, understanding photorealistic self-portraits, and applying digital photography to art design, enhancing their skills in composition and editing. 

In Computing this term we will explore 'How does coding help us in the real world?' and 'How can I refine my data handling skills?' The children will explore code-breaking at Bletchley Park, historical figures in computing, the evolution of computers, understand the use of big data including barcodes, QR codes, infrared and RFID technologies.

In Design and Technology, we will ask the questions, 'Can I construct a playground?' and 'What are automato toys?', where the children will create five apparatus designs, applying the design criteria to their work, make suitable changes to their work after peer evaluation, make three different structures from their plans using the materials available, develop functional automata toys for a window display using cams and followers and axles to create movement.

In French, we will ask the question, 'Can I talk about sport?', where the children will use different forms of verbs to do or play sport and express preferences, revisit country names and explore the verb 'aller'.

In Geography, we will ask the question, 'Why does the population change?', where the children will identify the most densely and sparsely populated areas, describe the increase in global population over time, begin to describe what might influence the environments people live in, define birth and death rates, suggesting what may influence them and define migration, discussing push and pull factors.

Our History focus for this term is 'What does the census tell us about our local area?' and children will identify the type of information the census gives about people, use the census to make inferences about people from the past, create questions about Victorian working conditions and the thoughts and feelings of a Victorian working child, identify and describe the changes between periods of time using the census and use other primary and secondary sources to verify the data in a census.

Our Music focus for this term is 'Can I use dynamics, pitch and tempo in my composition? ' where children will eegage in discussion about the sounds of an orchestral piece, have a selection of varied vocabulary in response to what they hear and change dynamics and pitch, differentiating between the two.

Our PE focuses for this term are 'Football', 'Netball', 'Dodgeball' and 'Tennis'.

In PSHE, we will ask the questions, 'What do I know about family and relationships?' where the children will understand that everyone can expect a level of respect but this can be lost, understand what respect is and how they should be respected and understand how stereotypes influence our ideas and opinions.

In RE this term we will explore the questions 'How and why do some people inspire others?' and 'How do Christians decide how to live? What would Jesus do?' The children will explain beliefs about how inspirational people can bring believers closer to God, describe examples of texts or quotes which explain what an ideal way of life might be, compare inspiring leaders from different religions, identify features of Gospel texts, for example, teachings, parable, narrative and compare their own ideas with Christian interpretations of Bible texts.

In Science this term we will explore the question, 'Can I classify animals and plants?' and 'How does light travel and reflect?' The children will define the term ‘organism’ and 'vertebrate' and name the seven life processes of all living things, describe the work of Carl Linnaeus, name the vertebrate groups, describe the characteristics of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, explore how light travels in straight lines and that this explains observations of shadows and reflection.

Timetable

Please note that our timetable is flexible and may be subject to change.

Useful Information

PE is every Thursday and Friday. Please ensure your child wears their named, correct PE kit in school on these days, that earrings are not worn and long hair is tied up.

The children have access to their water bottles in the classroom during the day. Please ensure that your child has a named water bottle in school.

Your child is welcome to bring in a healthy snack of fruit or vegetables each day. 

Reading books are your child's responsibility and they will be responsible for changing their own reading book and library book. Please ensure your child has recorded the date and title of the book that they have chosen in their reading record and make sure that your child’s reading record is written in daily and read as regularly as you can with them at home.