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Welcome to Year 6!

Mrs Kuhne - Class Teacher 

Important Information

• P.E. is on Mondays and Fridays. Kit can be worn to school on these days.
• Reading diaries are to be brought in on your child's reading day.
• Pupils can bring in a healthy snack for morning playtime and a water bottle daily.
• We utilise our outdoor space daily so please always have appropriate outdoor clothing.

Hola Mexico!

Welcome to Mexico. Get ready to explore this unique country, from its towering temples and stunning geography to its pulsing rhythms and fun festivals. Is your tummy rumbling? Concoct a traditional fruit cocktail or a delicious Mexican meal. What’s on your shopping list? Go steady with the spices. Discover the mysterious world of the ancient Mayan civilisation. Eat their food, learn their poetry, play their ball game and discover all of their curious rituals. Just try to keep your head. Feel like celebrating? Design a flute, grab a drum, join a tribe and make some noise. Have you got what it takes to be chief? Let’s find out.

Language, Literacy, and Communication: In Year 6, writing skills such as sentence structure and grammar will be taught through daily language lessons.  Through our topic work, we will be developing our understanding of recount writing by reading and retelling Mexican myths and legends. We will also be using Mexican heritage as a stimulus for performance poetry writing.

As well as your child reading their independent reading book at home, in school we will continue to develop reading skills, such as inference and deduction, during daily guided group reading sessions. Reading skills will be enhanced through a carousel of activities each day. We will also be reading the class novel ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. 

We will be learning year 6 specific sentence patterns and applying them to our topics., where appropriate.   Over the course of the term we will be developing skills in speaking, writing and reading Welsh. Specific focus will be orally practicing and revising a range of sentence patterns and reading stories with Welsh Heritage.

Mathematics and Numeracy: In our maths lessons this term we will be looking at number and place value and the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will be reading, ordering and comparing numbers and rounding decimals to the nearest 0.01. Through our topic work these skills will be applied to tasks such as planning a Mexican ‘fiesta’. We will be learning how to manage a budget and applying these skills to a shopping task in which we have to buy ingredients for a Mexican recipe.  We will also be measuring and recording temperatures, involving positive and negative readings, as well as representing data using a variety of tables and graphs.  We will learn how The ancient Mayans used mathematics to support many activities in their daily lives, from market transactions to predicting eclipses and making sophisticated calendar calculations.

Science and Technology: Through our topic, we will be investigating ‘How can we make red?’ and ‘What colour is a shadow?’ Through these investigations, your child will develop scientific skills, such as developing scientific vocabulary, predicting, carrying out investigations, measuring and comparing data, identifying bias and evaluating. In IT we will collect, evaluate and digitally present information gathered through online research using online platforms such as HWB.

Health and Wellbeing: PE we will taught on a Thursday afternoon and the children are allowed to wear their PE kit into school on that day.  Through our topic, we will develop our understanding of healthy eating and create healthy Mexican smoothies. In PSE, our focus will be creating and implementing our Class Charter and becoming successful prefects.

Expressive Arts: Through our topic work, your child will experience photography, painting and block printing! We will also be creating ‘Day of the Dead’ masks out of clay and other media.  In DT, we will investigate the food of Mexico and plan recipes for a Mexican fiesta.  In music, we will experience Mexican music and study musical notation.

Humanities: Through our topic Hola Mexico! your child will investigate the features of tropical and desert regions and use maps and grid referencing as a tool to find and compare locations. This will also develop their understanding of the human and physical geography of Mexico.  In history, we will study the ancient Mayan civilization and its impact on the modern day. In RE, the focus will be comparing a variety of different religions and how they are celebrated.