Year 6 – Woodham Burn Primary School

Welcome to Year 6

Hello and welcome to our class information page. We hope that you will find it useful in keeping you up to date with what we are learning in Year 6.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our curriculum or your child’s learning, please do not hesitate to contact me via the school office. Thank you.

Mrs Graham Year 6 Class Teacher

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Children will be writing a narrative in the style of an Arabian myth and their aim is to try to interweave the religious and cultural references into their writing. They will do a lot of work on language and how to use appropriate language in their descriptive writing.

This half-term will see a focus on writing with different sentence structures and ensuring that they are using the correct punctuation within each sentence.

Within Number and place value we are looking at reading, comparing and ordering numbers including negative numbers. We will be exploring negative numbers in contexts and solving problems. We will introduce the term BODMAS/BIDMAS in order to calculate problems using order or operations and also be introduced to and refine our written method of long division skills. Finally we will be regularly practicing SAT’s style questions to build our confidence.

Within this topic, children will concentrate on the middle east of the world and the impact that Ancient civilizations have had on modern day. They will investigate the Round City of Ancient Baghdad and its importance, as well as looking at some of the great scientists and their discoveries at that time. The children will incorporate their science learning into the topic by investigating properties of materials and looking at methods of dissolving, separation and mixing to see changes of states occur. Their geographical studies will involve learning about locating places, particularly the UK and Baghdad, on the globe using atlases and working with 6 figure grid references and how these references relate to lines of longitude and latitude. In addition, they will compare the climate, vegetation belts and biomes of different regions. With this in mind, the children will learn about weather, geographical features and continents and rivers in their French lessons. As the children investigate the past and how it has influenced modern times, the children will be asked to think about the future and their dreams and aspirations.