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The children will be consolidating and improving their throwing, catching, hitting and kicking skills through a variety of manipulative skill games.

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The focus this term is on Hinduism, with the children taking part in a Hindu education workshop.

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This term the children will be doing coding and learning about online safety.

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Year 6:
Numbers to 10,000,000 - reading, writing, comparing, ordering and rounding
Number operations - BODMAS, multiplying and dividing by 2-digit numbers, multiples, factors and prime numbers
Fractions - simplifying, comparing, ordering, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing by whole numbers
Decimals - reading, writing, writing fractions as decimals, multiplying and dividing
Measurements - length, mass, volume and time
Word problems related to the above

Year 5:
Numbers to 1,000,000 - reading, writing, comparing, ordering and rounding
Number operations - adding and subtracting within 1,000,000, multiples, factors, prime numbers, square numbers, cube numbers, multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000, multiplying and dividing by whole numbers
Graphs - reading tables and line graphs
Word problems related to the above

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We realise that children need to feel happy and confident in school to be successful.  Using Coram Life Education, we will be equipping them to make safe and informed decisions and helping them to develop a happy and healthy lifestyle. This term we will focus on 'Relationships' and 'Valuing Differences'.

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Reading:
In Y5/6, the expectation is that the children read every day for at least twenty minutes.  This should be recorded in their Reading Records as home reading and should, ideally, be initialled by an adult.  Reading Records will be checked once a week by the class teacher.

Spelling:
The children will have weekly spellings which will be given to them on Mondays and tested on Fridays.  Children will be given a paper copy to take home and spellings will also be added to Doodle on a weekly basis.

Times Tables:
The National Curriculum expectation is that children should be able to recall and use multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 x 12 by the end of Year 4.  If your child does not, yet, have rapid recall of all these facts, times tables practice should be done at least five times per week.

Doodle:
Children should be accessing the four areas of learning at least five times per week.  This will ensure that they consolidate the basic skills and stay in the green zones.  Look out for any assignments being set as these will be linked to current learning in school.

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We will be having lots of fun singing and playing musical instruments using the units 'Happy' and 'Classroom Jazz' on Charanga Music.

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The History National Curriculum requires that the children learn about a non-European society that provides contrasts with British history – this term the children will be learning about the Mayan civilisation c. AD 900.  Geography will focus on the Americas and human geography linked to the ancient Maya people.

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Our books for this term are:
Bold and Brave Women in Shakespeare
Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
The Selfish Giant
The Happy Prince and Other Stories

We will continue to focus on the non-negotiables in writing alongside developing writing skills in line with National Curriculum expectations.

Every time the Y6 children write they should remember:

accurate punctuation (capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists and after fronted adverbials, punctuation for parenthesis and accurate speech punctuation)

legible, fluent and joined handwriting, even at speed, ensuring that capital letters and lower case letters are of a consistent size

accurate spelling of the Y3/4 statutory words and spelling patterns

accurate spelling of some of the Y5/6 statutory words and spelling patterns

Every time the Y5 children write they should remember:

accurate punctuation (capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists and after fronted adverbials)

legible, fluent and joined handwriting, ensuring that capital letters and lower case letters are of a consistent size

accurate spelling of the Y3/4 statutory words and spelling patterns

beginning to have accurate spelling of some of the Y5/6 statutory words and spelling patterns

In drama, we are very excited to be working alongside the Storyhouse focusing on Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

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Working alongside Mrs Anderson, the skills of weaving, dying and mask making will all have an ancient Maya theme.
Friday afternoon cooking sessions will take place throughout the term in addition to Mayan hot chocolate making.

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This term's science topic is:  Properties and Changes of Materials

Through this topic, the children will be taught to use a range of practical scientific methods, processes and skills - these, alongside knowledge quizzes, will form the basis for assessment in science.

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The children will be revising greetings, the alphabet, numbers, days of the week and months of the year.  In addition, they will be learning about objects around the classroom.