Year 6

This summer, Year 6/7 will be studying how robotics has the potential to enhance human life, through medicine, advancements in technology and industry. The children will be looking at how robotics currently affect their lives, and how industries around Stoke on Trent such as JCB, Wade Pottery, Toyota are currently used. At the same time, the children will be asking the question: Are there any ethical implications with the use of robots?

In this unit, children investigate our local area of Stoke-on-Trent considering what it is like to live in the region as well as how it has changed over time. They will locate the local area on a national map and focus on the key physical features in this area and understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography. We will be recreating historical photographs of Meir and a field study of the physical and human features of the area, comparing these to the past. The children will also delve into historical events and icons and understand when in time these events occurred and people were born and the impact they have had on Stoke-on-Trent. Up The Potters and Up The Vale!!

In this unit, the children will learn about aspects of political, social and cultural Ancient Greek life. They will focus on some areas in depth, such as the systems of government, religion and the importance of the Olympic Games. They will examine the legacy of the Ancient Greeks.

Our unit this half-term has a History focus as we look into the Ancient Maya. We will be studying what we can learn from the modern Maya people studying their ancient cities and their many gods and evaluating them as a people compared to our own lives. As last half term we will be using primary and secondary sources for this with a focus on chronology.
 
Our science unit this half-term is based upon light and shadow. During this unit we will be looking into shadows reflection of light and the bending of light through planning carrying out and recording investigations and understanding how to carry out fair tests.

In Design and Technology we will be following the process of design make evaluate whilst creating pyramids based on those built by the Ancient Maya.

Our unit this half-term has a History focus as we look into The First World War and The Second World War and answer the key question above. During this unit, we will be exploring the impact of war upon daily life, children’s lives, women’s lives and who we should celebrate, through memorials, as heroes of our locality. We will do this by using historical skills such as scrutinising sources, reading primary and secondary sources and looking at data and heat-maps.

Our topic for this half term focuses upon the question ‘Are we damaging our World?’  During Geography, we will be learning all about the environmental threats that face our world , in the present and the potential for the future, and look at ways that we can help to prevent these. The children will investigate energy production, the oceans and minerals, as well as conducting an enquiry into how the school can become more sustainable.