Primary Curriculum

Welcome to Year 6

Although at the beginning of the year Mr. Ives and Ms Jacobs thought about feeding the class to the sharks.......most have now settled in well and we are having an exciting time using the Creative Curriculum to inspire and develop key skills.

This Term

Our creative curriculum theme this term is ´The Ancient Egyptians´. Our main focii are Literacy and History. In Literacy the children have been researching using books, film and the internet in order to present their own work in various formats. These include :-

• an autobiographical educational poster written from the view of an ancient Egyptian (e.g.)

• orally presenting information about Cleopatra to the class using visual aids and the interactive whiteboard

• writing a story and then presenting this as a series of images set to music, edited and displayed on the computer (link )

• In addition we are researching ´in the field´ to stimulate an audio-visual tour of Almuñécar.

(downloadable file mp3 )

Year 6 learn about digestion at the “Giant Woman

Exhibition” Malaga March 2009

Web links

Many relevant educational links for this term can be found from this single website :www.hvlc.org.uk/pupils.htm

Revision activities, quizzes and games relevant to Literacy, Numeracy and Science can be found at :http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/

Other links to all of the primary curriculum, including advice for parents to help, can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/

Designing, making and painting

What we can work on

Over the coming weeks all children in Year 6 should ensure that they are regularly reading from a variety of texts (books, newspapers, the internet, packaging, signs in the street...... anything that involves language). Something which not many children read through choice is poetry. Over the next few weeks it would be great to see children choosing poetry books from the school library or reading their own – not just comical, school based themes but more serious themes by poets from different countries and from different times.

They should make it a habit to enquire about vocabulary that is unknown to them – this may involve using dictionaries. They should all have an English dictionary as well as a Spanish / English dictionary at home.

Each child should be comfortable with writing in a joined script. This is something that they have been expected to do in school, it can mean they will gain extra marks in their end of year tests, it also means writing is quicker and can often contain less spelling mistakes.

Each child has been recently given a long list of spellings that really should be basic knowledge at the end of Year 5, most have a very good command of this list, some do need to work on it.