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Potters Green School Year 6 Work Outlines Spring Term 2010	English Children will be reading extracts from longer established stories and novels selected from mystery, humour, sci-fi, and fantasy and they will also study and compare a range of poetic forms. The children will continue with regular spelling tests and will read in school in silent reading and guided reading groups with their literacy teacher. Children will revise work on complex sentences, investigating further the use of active and passive verbs. The children will also be required to complete a piece of work within a given time limit as well as completing a mock S.A.T. test. Maths Year 6 children will bring home a Maths target this term and a minimum of one piece of linkwork each week. Each week children will be given a mental maths and tables test to improve their instant recall. In school the areas of money, division multiplication, fractions, percentages and decimals will be explored. Mental skills will be stretched.	Topic This term children will be learning about the lives of people in Britain during the 1930's. Children will have the opportunity to interview and talk to older people who will visit school and share their experiences of Britain since the 1930's. Children will also be designing and making a house that people lived in during the 1930's and this will develop during the term with the impact of Rationing World War II and the Blitz. During the term children will have a field trip to Plas Dol-Y-Moch and Coombe Park. Children will learn about rivers and undertake analysis of fieldwork information and explain data. Looking at how the area has changed over the last seventy years. Use images and learn how a river originates and moves. The children will work with geographical vocabulary and make and use maps.
Science During this term, children will extend their investigative work, find answers to technological questions and collect and record their results. They will learn about forces, electricity, sound and light. All children will also work through a revision module in preparation for their transition to secondary school. I.C.T. The children will use the computers for a range of activities. They will use the Internet, or web, to search for information for their Britain since the 1930's topic and will also use Power point to present their work. Music Children will be exploring musical processes. They will invent symbols to represent percussion sounds and compose a piece of music. They will study different styles from the 20th Century.	R.E. All year 6 children will be looking at the Christian beliefs and consider the meaning of Easter.   P.S.H.E. Children will consider how they can achieve their personal goals using the SEAL project. This will involve a great deal of class, group and paired discussion. P.E. Invasion games, basketball, football and netball are taught this term. Children will be developing their ball skills, play a variety of small sided games which will lead to an intra-school competition at the end of the term.	How You Can Help Read with your child several times each week. Talk to them about topics. Practise termly Maths targets. Dates to Remember Monday 25th January & Thursday 28th January: Open Evenings Friday 12th February: Break up for Half-term Holiday Monday 22nd February: Teacher Day Tuesday 23rd February:School starts after half term Thursday 1st April:Break Up for Easter holiday Monday 19th April: Summer Term begins