Year 6 - Willow

Welcome to Willow Class!

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• English - We are studying Odysseus by Hugh Lupton - looking at narrative writing, the use of speech and scene setting. His adventures are legendary, and we plan to produce some next chapters along the way. We will be writing and re-drafting creative individual and collaborative pieces by hand and with the computer. Our class reading book is From Hereabout Hill by M. Morpurgo but the children will be reading as often as possible as well! After half-term we study Carrie's War by Nina Bawden, looking especially at letter writing, development of characters and key punctuation. We have plenty of opportunities to develop paired creative writing!
• Maths:  we will be consolidating our understanding of the four operations as well as looking in detail at fractions.  Our work will also cover measurement, and we will be solving real-life problems to help apply our learning effectively.
• Science:  we are learning about 'Electricity', including circuits and fixing problems and 'Light' this term. We work in small groups as well as individually - with plenty of practical experiments.  
• History : our main focus looks at the influence of ancient Greece on our lives today - our democracy and British Values, our language and civilised society. After half-term, we study World War Two on a local scale
• P.E:  this term we will be improving our gymnastic and football/ basketball skills. Gymnastics is delivered with specialist PE partners, and we hope to supplement the football with plenty of competetive experiences, both inter and intra school.
• RE: we will be studying how religion helps us when life is hard.
• Computing: - collaboration and communicating.
• Black History Month: will see us looking at the remarkable lives of Olive Morris and Walter Tull in the first half-term and Lilian Bader during World War Two.
• Spanish : instruments and sports

English - We will be studying Skellig by David Almond in close detail, and look at writing as a character, creating new chapters as well as the famous linked poetry work of William Blake. We will also look at Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick which links with our geography studies and whether Findern School is situated in the best position in its locality.

We will be spending plenty of time using a variety of maps, including Digimaps and OS maps of the locality and further afield - including using 6-figure grid references. In Maths, we look at ratio and proportion as well the properties of shapes and statistics. Science sees us study Evolution and Inheritance as well as Living Things and their Habitats.

In PE, we are continuing with our Dance studies, including Bhangra dancing and also start our tennis and hockey lessons. 

In PSHE, we look at Money Matters. We will continue to keep up-to-date with online safety in computing and it will see us using creative media and programming. In RE, we will study What Matters Most to Humanists and Christians.