Upper KS2

Summer 2015

Texts we will use: The Scarab’s Secret by Nick Would

Stunning start: The children receive are transported back to

November 1922 to join Howard Carter excavate

the mysteries of the Ancient Egypt and

Tutankhamun’s tomb.

Marvellous middle: The children will enjoy a day making all things

Egyptian, from making amulets, creating

cartouches to Egyptian necklaces.

Fabulous finish: The children will visit the British Museum in

London.

Every two weeks, your child will

choose a new activity from the

homework grid.

Please continue to support your

child with their spellings and

try to listen to them read at

home at least 2 times a week.

Maths Children will continue and extend

their knowledge and understanding of:

Counting, partitioning, using data,

understanding shape and measuring.

Year 6 will also be focusing on

preparing for the SATs by practicing

exam questions.

Teachers will also provide different

learning styles, including outdoor

learning and ICT.

Literacy The children will investigate non-

fiction and fiction texts - based on

significant and inspiring characters

from stories and in real life from

Ancient Egypt. Children will write

stories using their new found

knowledge and vocabulary acquired

through this term’s topic. They will

also write their own creative story

inspired by Nick Wood’s The Scarab Beetle.

Science Children will undertake various

investigations linked to the term’s

topic. The children will learn about

light and how it travels and changes

what we see. They will also learn

about evolution and how animals and

humans share features through

inheritance and the changes to their

bodies. The children will also

experiment further with materials,

exploring changes of state and

forming new materials.

PHSE Through circle time and lessons, the

children will be learning about staying

safe and improving with Year 6 also

looking at managing changes in their

lives and starting to look at being

financially responsible. Our values this term are:

perseverance and appreciation.

DT This term, the focus will be on food

technology. Children will look at

making bread and how this forms part

of a healthy diet. The children will

learn about the importance of

hygienic food preparation and how to

use kitchen tools safely.

Music Children will continue to learn to play

the recorder and untuned

instruments. They will compare and

contrast instruments of today with

the traditional instruments of Egypt;

They will try and recreate some of

these sounds using percussion and

learn and play an Egyptian sounding

scale – ABCDEFG#A – using

chromatic glockenspiels.

French Children will initially revise the

French they learnt last term to

include greetings, family, colours,

days, months and weather.

They will then develop their

vocabulary to name different food

and drink and practice ordering food

in French.

Art Inspired by this term’s topic, the

children will develop their skills of

sketching by using a range of drawing

media. They will use collage to create

Ancient Egyptian wall art and also use

paint to create an Egyptian portrait.

The children will also learn about

hieroglyphics and create their own

cartouche.

Geography

Children will extend their

geographical vocabulary by looking at

the geographical and physical

features of Egypt. They will use

atlases, maps and globes in a range of

scales to locate different places.

They will learn about Ancient Egypt’s

climate and seasons and how this

affects what kind of food was grown.

ICT

Children will look at networks and how

on-line services work, how they are

set up and used. They will continue to

use the internet to support cross

curricula links – using a range of

software packages to present their

work to others. The children will

develop their programming skills to

plan, predict and test instructions to

make basic puzzles using Scratch.

PE

The focus this term for all children

will be on Kwik Cricket and athletics.

In Kwik Cricket children will develop

their throwing, catching and fielding

skills, whilst in athletics, children will

develop their skills in running, jumping

and throwing, using their bodies and a

variety of equipment with greater

control and coordination.

RE Children will continue to develop their

understanding of different beliefs by

looking at the values and teaching of

Christians and Humanists. They will

develop their philosophical thinking by

discussing how beliefs about right and

wrong affect people’s behavior and

their actions as well as looking at

stories that involve moral dilemmas.