Year 6 Autumn Term Curriculum

8th September 2006

Dear  Parents,

We hope you had a pleasant summer.
This is the curriculum for the first half of the Autumn term.

English: we are looking at Great Expectations and Treasure Island, focusing on descriptive writing. Every pupil will have a personal target relating to their use of punctuation – please discuss these targets with the children and the progress they are making. We will be joining the initiative 'Raising Attainment in writing through Sports' (RATS) with other local schools. The launch will be at Aldersley Stadium and we will send you further details nearer the time. Children are expected to read each evening as part of their homework as well as receiving a weekly spelling activity.

Maths: we will be following the National Numeracy Strategy, with an emphasis on mental maths.  Solving practical problems at home would provide valuable practise.  Our targets for this term are: to know place value up to three decimal places; to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000 and to be able to order a set of positive and negative numbers.

Science: we will be looking at the processes of filtering, dissolving and evaporation. This will be supported with practical experiments.

Geography: the focus for this term is on the River Severn. To support this, we are planning a visit to Carding Mill Valley during the week we are at Coven.

RE: our theme is rules for living and we will look at this in the context of Christianity, Buddhism and Sikhism.

Art: we are looking at the work of L S Lowry and building on this using ICT.

Music: Bedrich Smetana is the focus of music lessons this term, with emphasis on listening and composition. During this topic we will particularly look at his piece ‘The Moldau’.

PE: this will be linked to our sport and literacy project.

PSHE: This year we are very fortunate to be taking part in a project sponsored by the Staffordshire ambulance service’ ‘What me, save a life?’ The children will learn basic first aid skills including CPR and will have the opportunity of obtaining a certificate in first aid. We are hoping that it will be this term but this is dependant on the availability of the paramedics who run part of the course.

ICT: our ICT work this term will cover using several programmes such as Word, Publisher and PowerPoint.  Children will learn to use the Internet to search for and collate text, graphics and audio/video.  The focus will be on Citizenship and PSHE, as well cross-curricular activities.

Additionally whilst we are at Coven we will be learning literacy, maths, science, geography, PE, PSHE and ICT in a very practical, enjoyable and memorable way.
We hope you find this information useful, and look forward to seeing you at parents' evening on 10th & 12th October.

Yours sincerely,

Pupil targets:

WRITING:

Must use full stops, capital letters, question marks, exclamation marks and commas (where used) correctly in most sentences.

Should use commas effectively in sentences, separating elements such as short phrases, clauses and items in a list.

Could  use capital letters, full stops, commas, parenthetic commas, dashes, brackets, colons and semi colons effectively.

READING:

Must  be able to explain the author’s choice of punctuation and relate this to meaning.

Should read with fluency using colons, semi colons, parenthetic commas,, dashes, brackets, question marks, exclamation marks, full stops and speech marks to support intonation & phrasing.

Could understand the use of connectives as sign posts to indicate a change of tone of voice, and recognise how this changes dependent on text type.

MATHS:

Must know what each digit in any number represents and partition into thousands, hundreds, tens and units.

Should know what each digit represents in a number up to two decimal places.

Could know what each digit represents in a number up to three decimal places.