YEAR SIX: SPRING TERM

SPRING TERM IS SHORTER BUT NO LESS NON-STOP!

OUR CORE INTENTION IN ACTION

Take a look at the page below, including our curriculum project posters and mats, and download copies at the base of the page.

It always feels like a shorter but packed time of year during Spring Term in Year 6. Lets share some of the I Dream Of Being.... subject highlights.

Our students have continued to support our school community citizenship work through their student leadership roles throughout the term. We sharpened our History focus upon World War Two, which began in Autumn Term, by drilling down to life on the Fylde Coast during this time via our latest local history study. Looking at the vital role that the coastline played in training, manufacture and housing wartime leadership and services was surprising for many of our students and gave them a new perspective on the traditional views of life in wartime. Design & Technology continued to draw meaningful links from our World War Two projects with Vickers Wellington Bombers being designed and created in our final Moveable Mechanics project. (The bombers were built in the nearby Squires Gate airport and therefore have a very important and local theme attached to them.)

The STEM Agency continued to direct and provide context for our Science work. We studied the circulatory system and causes of damage to the human body within our research this term, whilst undertaking detailed classification of some plants, animals and micro-organisms.Casting a magnifying glass over lots of fine details and information! 

Earthquakes and tsunamis were studied during our Geography project: 'Restless Earth'. We looked at the impact of these natural events for those closely affected and also the geography beyond why they happen. There were many questions asked as everyone really become engrossed in this interesting and powerful project. We returned to study sculpture one last time through our Art & Design project. Studying the work of Antony Gormley and Alberto Giacometti  we drew inspiration from the 'Olympic Pictograms' that have been used at recent games to form our own sculptures, experimenting with cutting, joining, bending and twisting. The Olympic theme continued into our French project ’Les Jeux Olympiques’.We learnt a range of new French vocabulary connected with the events at the games.

Mathematics is about application in many ways during Autumn Term: trying as much as possible to place the methods and knowledge, that the children have gathered over the years, into a range of different problem solving contexts as possible. Extending knowledge but reinforcing, re-visting and applying in order to deepen understanding. We would call this on a daily basis in the classroom as moving the learning from 'Green to Gold' in terms of adapting what we teach and aim for in Mathematics each day. 

In Year 6, we take a slightly different stimulus for our English projects. We remain focused on key purposes for reading and writing but more directly within the context of two chosen texts. Letters From The Lighthouse by Emma Carroll and Macbeth by William Shakespeare form the basis for this work. We have been writing to re-tell and entertain through diary entries, narratives, character descriptions and news articles. 

We have been looking at journeys in Religious Education, namely through pilgrimage and its meaning and life journeys for people of differing faiths and beliefs. Then moving into have people of faith prepare for Christmas celebrations. Autumn Term in Music means our singing focus. Three and four part rounds have been our goal with a focus upon Danny Boy and Gold Save The King as anthems to share. Two of our popular mini league sports: netball and football have formed the focus for our Autumn Term Physical Education work. Our Year 6 Computing work is planned as a Skills Showcase. For this term we created 'The Good Tank Guide' named On Track (a fabulous play-on-words), this allowed the classes to apply their text and multimedia skills within a project drawn from our history studies. Safe research including considering content of websites and its accuracy and bias has formed our E-Safety work alongside considering relationships from an online point of view and how bullying can occur through this. My Happy Mind has focused upon considering how mental health is something we all share, looking at possible ways in which we can keep a healthy mind through healthy habits and delving further into rights and responsibilities as young citizens within our community.