What are we learning this week?

English – 

This week, we shall be starting our brand new text, Shackleton’s Journey, by William Grill.

Our English lesson learning objectives this week are:

• To ask questions to improve my understanding.
• To build a character profile.
• To write a fact file based on my research.

What is our class reading book?

We shall be starting our new text, Orange for the Sunsets, by Tina Athaide. We were very lucky to have a live Zoom session with her on World Book Day, where she introduced the book to us.

Maths –

• To identify factors and multiples of a number
• To identify squared and cubed numbers
• To identify prime factors of a number
• To complete problem solving challenges using reasoning

Science – 

We shall be starting our new topic, Evolution and Inheritance. This week, we shall be eliciting our existing knowledge about this week.

Spanish – 

We shall be starting our new topic talking about School!

PE – 

This term, we are working on co-ordination and static balance.

Computing – 

To create and design a year book.

What are we learning this week?

English – 

In our English lessons, we shall still be using a range of different adaptations to understand the story of Macbeth. In our daily Reading lessons, we shall use supplementary texts. This weeks supplementary texts will be a mixture of Shakespeare’s sonnets and non-fiction texts about: the Tudors, the theatre, newspaper reports about Shakespeare and Shakespeare – himself.

Our English lesson learning objectives this week are:

• To identify and evaluate the key features of a balanced argument.
• To plan a balanced argument.
• To write a balanced argument.
• To edit and up-level my writing.

What is our class reading book?

Since we are studying the Shakespeare classic Macbeth, we have decided to read from a collection of Shakespeare short stories, by Andrew Matthews. Each week, the children in Year 6 vote for which two of the Shakespeare short stories that they would like to listen to. Afterwards, we shall be looking to identifying similarities and differences across the collection.

Maths –

• Revision of Y6 Maths objectives.

Science – 

Continuing with our unit, Living Things and their Habitats, we shall be planning our investigation as to what affects the growth of mould.

Foundation subjects to be taught this week:

Art, PE, RE (Eid) and Spanish