Woodberry Down Community Primary School New Wave Federation

Woodberry Down Community Primary School Woodberry Grove

London N4 1SY 02088005758

Woodberry Down Primary School

Curriculum Information Spring 1

Year 6

Computing

Religious Education

Physical Education

Please Remember

As athletes, we will be learning the fundamentals of basketball; dribbling, passing, shooting and game strategies.

We will also develop our eye-hand coordination, team work, and endurance are skills that are vitally important for developing a healthy outlook, mind and body.

As digital learners, we will be using a range of apps on the iPads to support us in all areas of the curriculum. We will be using My Maps to create an identity map of ourselves and our aspirations.

We will be continuing using various apps and formats, such as Google Classroom, to enhance and support our learning across the curriculum.

As religious learners, we will be learning about Islam. We will be focusing on:

Important dates and festivals in the Muslim calendar.

The importance of the Mosque.

The history of Islam.

How Islamic belief link to other world faiths.

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PE:

6W will now have double PE on Fridays

6B: Monday and Friday

6D:Tuesday and Friday

As the weather gets colder please ensure children have appropriate PE kit.

Homework:

Children receive Maths and Spelling homework every Friday to be returned the following Wednesday. Please encourage children to check google classroom for assignments.

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How can you help me at home? Help me practise my times tables at speed. By the end of the term children should be confident with all their times tables up to 10.

Help me practise my spellings. Spelling tests will happen every Thursday and a new set of words to learn will be given to your child to take home for the following week.

Curriculum

REMEMBER OUR IPC

PERSONAL LEARNING GOALS

RESILIENCE Adaptability

thoughtfulness

morality

respect

enquiry

communication

cooperation

Reading Mathematics

Writing

As readers and writers, we will be applying our skills by focusing on a book called ‘The other side of truth’.

Our aims are to explore a powerful narrative with strong links to factual events and explore complex emotions and hard—hitting themes in a fictional narrative.

We will be making inferences about the book, referring to evidence in the text and checking that what we read makes sense.

We will also be reading for a wide range of purposes and audiences by writing imaginatively. We will plan, draft, edit and proof—read through our writing to ensure it reflects the audience and purposes for which it is intended.

As readers, we will be focusing on making inferences from texts. This is ‘reading between the lines’ - what clues can we find about how characters are feeling, why things are happening and what predictions we can make.

In class, we will be spending lots of time reading independently to build up our reading stamina and filling in our reading journals. Journals and books must be brought to school everyday.

As mathematicians, we will be getting ready for our SATs exams in May. We will be spending lots of time this term going over various topics that we have studied already. We will continue to develop our skills at solving real-life word problems involving a wide range of mathematical skills.

We will also be looking at exam techniques and how to ensure that we all know how to achieve our potential during the tests. This half-term we will be focussing mostly on fractions work as well as looking at time, space and measure.

Please continue to support your child with the four operations, quick calculation methods and rapid recall of times tables.

As writers, we will be doing lots of writing activities in our classes. There is no writing SATS exam but children’s writing will be assessed by their teachers for their end of Key Stage 2 level. We will be revising a range of non-fiction text types as well as writing some of our own narrative pieces.

As part of our SFA lessons, we will produce fiction, non-fiction and poetry pieces of writing. These will be based on the books that we read in our SFA groups. Also we will be undertaking a ‘Free Write’ once per week based on a stimulus. This will help us to develop independence.