Mississippi
Mississippi - Year Six
This half term our topic is the Vikings which the children and I are already very excited about!
In History, we will be looking at Viking life, people, houses, clothing, food, longships and the invasion at Lindisfarne as well as finding out about some famous Vikings. We will be making our own longships, dragon eyes out of clay, using pastels to create Viking portraits and will be making bags embroidered with Viking runes. In Science, we will be finishing our topic on light then we are going to be looking at classification. We will find out how to sort animals and plants into different groups according to their characteristics. In PSHE, our Mindmate lesson will be on Life Changes. We will then begin our Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco topic. In Spanish we will be starting our unit all about ‘Animales’ where we learn how to name common animals and learn to say and ask if we have pets. In PE we are going to be playing dodgeball in our REAL PE unit, with a focus on our cognitive skills.
In English, we will be reading Beowulf. We will write our own versions of the story, write descriptions, reports and much more! To make reading this book even more exciting, we will be taking part in four drama sessions led by a drama specialist called Pavla. The children have already worked with Pavla and `really enjoyed the sessions so I am sure it will be a great success. All of the drama we do will link directly to the book which will help us to improve our writing. In Maths, we will continue to revise our written methods before moving on to shape and time. These are some things your child MUST know by the end of this half term so please support them:
· 7, 8, 9 and 12 times tables
· names and properties of quadrilaterals (square, rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram, kite, trapezium)
· types of angles (acute, obtuse, reflex, right angle)
Books we will be reading in year 6
