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 use reported and direct speech accurately and appropriately.
• To use role play and drama to explore atmosphere.
• To write a newspaper report.
• 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 –

• To know the order of operations
• To recap on Place value and solve a variety of questions
• To be able to add and subtract Fractions with different denominators
• To be able to simplify fractions
• To be able to divide proper fractions by a whole number  ​
• To solve problems involving division

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 and Spanish

 

 

What are we learning this week?

English – 

We shall be moving over to a new 10-day cycle approach to the teaching of English in Year 6. The outline is as follows:

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 explore a character’s thoughts and motives.
• To identify and evaluate the key features of a play script.
• To up-level a playscript.
• To plan a playscript.
• To write a play script.
• 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 –

• To describe the relationship between two factors (in a ratio context)
• To explain how to use multiplication and division to calculate unknown values (two variables)
• To use multiplication and division to calculate unknown values (three variables)
• To use a ratio grid to calculate unknown values
• To use multiplication to solve correspondence problems​

Science – 

Continuing with our unit, Living Things and their Habitats, we shall be looking at Classifying Plants and Classifying Micro-organisms.

RE – 

It’s RE week, this week. We shall be learning about Holy Week.

RHE – 

This term’s unit is called Healthy Me. Our learning objective this week are:

• To understand that some people can be exploited and made to do things that are against the law.

PE –

• To gain possession through tackling.
• Real PE – dynamic balance to agility.