Year 6

For our final (ever!) unit at Crescent, we will be focusing on Geography and travelling all the way to South America to explore the Amazon Rainforest. We will be using an atlas and online mapping to discover where it is and using academic research to explore why the Amazon Rainforest is so important – not just in South America but for us here in Stoke and people all around the world. Inspired by our Love of Reading text ‘The Explorer’, we will be conducting an in-depth study into the area of Manaus to discover what it is really like there. In Year 3, we ‘travelled’ to Stoke in New Zealand to compare the area and the climate to our area – this year we thought we would do the same with South America. Finally, we will combine our knowledge from the beginning of the year as we look at how the Amazon is changing and what we can do to stop the negatives.

Our Love of Reading text for this unit is ‘The Explorer’. We have already read the text in class but can’t wait to now delve deeper into it in our English lessons. We have been inspired by this brilliant text to write as much as we can before the end of the year so watch out on our blog for our finished pieces!

In Science, we are excited to be learning about electricity and how it has changed over time. We will be recalling learning from Year 4 to create working circuits and build upon our knowledge to control the speed of objects, the amount of light and the pitch of sound. We can’t wait to get going.

Well, SATs is now over and all our hard work has not gone unnoticed. From everyone at Crescent, a huge well done for your determination, strength of character and motivation to succeed Year 6! You’ve done us proud! There is still so much to learn and experience at Crescent over the next 8 weeks to round off your time with us. Let’s head into that next 8 weeks with smiles on our faces and enjoy every last second that remains!

During the next ten weeks, Year 6 will be journeying back to Ancient Greece to understand what the Ancient Greeks did for us. Initially, we will be connecting our local pottery industry to the Ancient Greek pottery that we will create through a range of art media. Throughout the unit, we will study key aspects of Ancient Greek culture and life: Government systems, religion and the legacy of the Olympic Game. We will be exploring democracy in-depth and how the Ancient Greeks influenced the democratic system of government that we now have in Britain. It’s not just government systems that the Ancient Greeks influenced! We will be learning about how they influenced Maths, writing systems, arts and theatre and much, much more.

Our Love of Reading text this half term will be ‘Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief’. This will help inform our writing in English, whilst also studying different Myths and Legends. In Maths, we will be continuing to work on our arithmetic, focusing on speed and accuracy, whilst also continuing to develop our reasoning skills so that we are preparing the children for their SATs later in the year.

In Science, we are excited to be learning about light and sources of light. This will enable us to draw on prior learning from every year of our primary education to test our knowledge and gain new knowledge along the way.

The preparation for SATS and High School starts now and we can’t wait to head into this with determination, strength of character and, as ever, a thirst and love of new learning. Let’s go Year 6!

This term, we’ll embark on an eye-opening journey to uncover the key events and human stories of the Second World War. Through a series of thought-provoking questions and engaging activities, we’ll dive into this pivotal chapter of history, exploring the complex causes behind the conflict and challenge the idea that it was simply "Germany’s fault.". We shall uncover whose war it was, answering was it just England Vs. Germany? Investigations will be carried out to discover how ordinary Britons coped during the Blitz and comparisons will be drawn about how life for a child in war times differs to ours. Throughout this unit, we’ll consider why it’s vital to study history from multiple perspectives and avoid oversimplified narratives. Together, we’ll explore the resilience, bravery, and humanity that defined the Second World War.

In our first unit of the year, Year 6 will be answering the question ‘Are we damaging our world?’ This is a Geography focus as we investigate whether our planet is sustainable and whether human activity on earth has a positive or negative impact on the planet. We will begin by exploring the local impacts in Meir and then branching out to explore impacts on the UK and then the world. We will be hearing from famous voices such as David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg to explore what we can do better!

Our Science unit during the first ten weeks will be exploring ‘How to make the most of our body’ as we recall our learning from Year 4 and explore the inner workings of our body. We will be exploring the key organs that make our body work, including dissecting a heart! This will be lots of fun and very informative! We will also be conducting experiments to consider how what we eat and how people choose to live has both a positive and negative impact on their bodies.

In English, we will be using our Love of Reading text ‘Rooftoppers’ to focus our writing. We will be hitting the ground running in terms of learning key grammar and grammatical structures that will help us create our very best pieces of writing now we are in Year 6. We will also be using our writing skills to promote positive change in our local environment through letters and formal writing.

In Maths, our focus in the first ten weeks will be on our times tables, place value and arithmetic skills. We will be doing lots of recall from previous years and building on this knowledge to learn everything that we need to know ready for May and beyond! Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division will all be explored, including decimals and working on percentages.

We can’t wait to get started in Year 6!