CURRICULUM NEWSLETTER AUTUMN 1

QUIZ ME QUESTIONS AUTUMN 1

 

READING RESPONSE: 

Year 6 have been reading Skellig, by David Almond, this half term and have worked hard to develop their VIPERS skills (vocabulary, infer, predict, explain, retrieve and summarise). There have been many cliff hangers where the class have been desperate to keep reading. As part of their reading response lessons, they have rewritten part of the story where Michael enters the garage and sees the ‘creature’ for the first time. They focused on building up suspense and using a wide vocabulary.  

  

 

 

ENGLISH: 

In English, Year 6 have been developing their understanding of grammar and punctuation and have moved onto setting description, looking at using similes, metaphors and effective adjectives. They used the beginning of a film clip – Alma – to really set the scene and produced some excellent starters. 

 

 

SCIENCE: 

The first science topic of Year 6 has been electricity. They have created series and parallel circuits and explained clearly the difference between these.  

  

 

One of the challenges was to create circuit diagrams rather than pictures and work out which diagrams would work 

 

They also carried out an investigation to find out whether the length of a wire affects the brightness of a bulb. The conclusion was: the longer the wire the dimmer the bulb. The shorter the wire, the brighter the bulb. 

  

 

MATHS: 

Year 6 have been really working to get to grips with all 4 operations. They have been rather competitive when playing a subtraction game and have persevered amazingly when carrying out long division. Miss Rowe was blown away by their efforts and achievements! 

  

  

 

ART: 

The art topic for the first half term was ‘How can I make my voice heard?’ Year 6 learnt a new technique called chiaroscuro, created their own Mayan spiritual companions and worked in groups to create pieces of street art to convey a message they felt strongly about. This fit in very well with our work on courageous advocacy where we thought about how we could make a difference to the world.