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Y6 Term 1end

2017年01月23日
LITERACY
In our third week of Literacy we will be continuing a series of lessons investigating information texts and how opinions differ from facts. We will be interrogating some high quality non-fiction books to discover how important our oceans are for life on Earth. We will then be using our sentence-level work to construct sophisticated sentences using colons and semi-colons to add to our information texts from last week.

KEY VOCABULARY
Fact, opinion

MATHS
In our third week of Maths we will be investigating volume and capacity. This will involve an initial study of how to differentiate between the two. We will then build up into a week of practical maths involving the practical applications of volume and capacity with a series of real-life investigations. We will use a range of resources and challenge the students with open-ended, high-ceiling problems.

KEY VOCABULARY
Volume, capacity, formula

THEMED LEARNING
This term our new Themed Learning topic is water. This will be a unit that will involve a great deal of practical scientific investigation and the study of some challenging geographical case studies. In the second week we will be looking at the issue of water scarcity across the globe and how communities overcome these challenges. We will also be beginning some scientific investigations into the properties of water.

KEY VOCABULARY
Physical scarcity, economic scarcity, abundance

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND DIGITAL LITERACY
This week the children will use a new touch typing program and will continue to learn the coding language ‘Python’.

KEY VOCABULARY
Touch-typing, coding, Python

PSHCE
In PSHCE this week we will focus further on fostering new relationships, creating rules and expectations for the group and how to work together successfully. We will reflect on what we achieved last term and discuss new personal targtes for the term ahead. We will also welcome some new children to Year 6 and will discuss how we can be helpful in settling them into their new school.

KEY VOCABULARY
Targets, goals, aims, kind, helpful, responsible citizens

MANDARIN