Year 6

Summer 2 - 2017

Welcome back, we hope you all had a fantastic half term.

The Theatre

This term, our topic will continue to be ‘The Theatre.’

Central Idea: Performance allows people to express thoughts, ideas and emotions to an audience.

Guiding questions: How do people express themselves? What affects the way in which people express themselves? How do people express themselves through performance?

Last half term, the children enjoyed designing costumes for a theatre character. We will now be learning different techniques and creating a sample of the final costume. We will be continuing to learn about electrical circuits and the children will have a challenge to a prototype of a light up background. We will be looking at coastlines in geography and comparing them to a contrasting location.

English and Maths

In english, we will be focussing our learning around the text ‘Lord of the Flies’ This is a sophisticated text and so far the children are extremely excited about the storyline! We will be writing island descriptions and a diary entry focusing on a main event in the story.

Maths

In maths, we will be applying our number skills and understanding to a range of investigations linked to our topic learning. We will be developing the children’s resilience skills and working collaboratively to solve problems.

Year 6 Events

There are a number of exciting events happening in this half term. Please see below for dates:

Aladdin theatre trip – Wednesday 14th June 2017

Trip to Broadstairs beach – Tuesday 18th July 2017

Year 6 leavers disco – Thursday 20th July 2017

There will also be a special year 6 leaver’s assembly. We will provide you with details nearer to the time.

Year 6 performance

As you may be aware, our end of year performance will be Aladdin. After some fantastic auditions, acting parts have now been cast. The children have been been busy working in their teams and all children have a role in the production. There will be two performances and information on tickets will be sent out soon.

Thank you for your continuing support.

Mrs Martin                 Mrs Chana                Miss Walters                         Miss Phillips