What the children will be learning in Year 6

During the course of the year, in addition to Literacy/English and Numeracy, your child will be studying the following subject areas.  We hope this information will be of interest and will help you to share the work with your child by providing further reading material, or perhaps arranging a trip to a suitable museum, etc. 
 
  Autumn 1 Autumn 2  Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2
Topic
Tudor Exploration
Crime and Punishment
Natural disasters Evolution Battles
Text Holes - Louise Sacher
 
Kensuke's Kingdom Non-fiction information texts
Stone Girl Bone Girl - Laurence Anholt, Shelia Moxley
Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Science
Health and lifestyle - life onboard boats etc, how has it changed now?
Light and electricity - create a detector - how does a seisometer work?
Evolution and inheritance
Information Technology Coding Coding  Coding Coding  Coding Coding
History 
Tudor exploration - Changing of the monarchy.
Significant turning point in British history 
 Key events, how has monitoring etc changed over time? Learning from past events  Darwin WWI-poetry, significant turning point in British history
Geography
Mapping and local area maps - local history, changing of use of area
 
 Volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes  Coastlines
 Design Technology  Structures  Food - celebrating culture and seasonality Textiles - combining different fabric shapes
 Music Music from around the world  Keyboards  Production
 Art Holbein -Moving skull    Katsushika Hokusai   Andy Goldsworthy  Bayeux tapestry - create own - sewing
 RE
Protestant - Catholic - turning points
N.I troubles 
Islam
Discuss challenges
 Christianity Opposition to theory not religion related  Witch craft - priests
 PE
Real PE
Real
PE
Real PE  Real PE Real PE Real PE 

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