Year  6  Autumn Term 2008

LITERACY:

• Biography and autobiography
• Journalistic writing (newspapers)
• Extending stories
• Different types of narrative genres
• Poetry

NUMERACY:

• Place value: focusing on decimals
• Multiplication: focusing on decimals
• Measure: focusing on decimals
• Data; finding averages
• Calculation
• Finding fractions & % of whole amounts
• Problem solving

SCIENCE:

• Dissolving solids
• Reversible and irreversible changes
• How we see things (light & vision)
• Changing circuits - electricity

ICT:

• Multi-media presentations
• Using the internet to research and interpreting information (linked to newspapers)

HISTORY:

Next term

GEOGRAPHY:

Topic on St Lucia:

• Mapwork
• Social/physical/ cultural geography

RE:

• Christianity – focusing on Bible Stories and Jesus

DT:

• Designing and making St Lucia inspired fruit bowls

ART:

Art linked to Caribbean artists and St Lucian landscape, including

·         Paper craft, oil pastels, watercolours, painting.

MUSIC:

• Exploring rounds
• Melody/chord and ostinato composition
• Traditional African songs using instruments

PSHE:

New Beginnings;

• Have opportunities to appreciate and celebrate differences and similarities between them
• To value their gifts and talents

Getting on and falling out:

• Consider the qualities of becoming good friends
• Practise using ‘peaceful problem solving’

• Electronic sequences and layering sounds