Year 6
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Year 6 Team 2025/26 - Teacher Letters
The Wider Curriculum
Across the summer term, in art, the children will be learning to recognise and be able to talk about the work of Yayoi Kusama and Banksy making some links to their own creations.
By the end of this unit, children should also have an understanding:
- That artists use a variety of media to respond to the world around them and share a message.
- That as artists we can experiment with materials, combining them to see what happens. We can feel free and safe to take creative risks, without fear of getting things “wrong”.
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We can use sketchbooks to focus this exploration and we do not always need to create an “end result” – sometimes the exploratory journey is more than enough.
Our history topic is around the Mayans. The VIPs that the children will be focussing on are:
Maya civilisation started in 250AD and ended in 1697.
Mayans lived deep in the rainforest and their daily lives were affected by the region and the weather.
Stella are statues designed by Mayans to commemorate important people.
The religion that we will be studying in RE this half term is Christianity. Our key question is "Should believing in the resurrection change how Christians view life and death?"
We will be studying the same unit in biology between now and the end of the year; we will be learning about the circulatory system in mammals, including humans. The children will learn about blood, the parts and function of the heart, and about making healthy lifestyle choices. Our VIPs are:
The heart pumps blood in the blood vessels around to the lungs.
Oxygen, nutrients and water are carried on the blood to different parts of the body.
Carbon dioxide is removed from the blood when it gets to the heart.
Diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle have an impact on the way our bodies function.
English
In English, our new book is 'Once' by Morris Gleitzman. It is a story of two children and what their life was like in Nazi-occupied Poland during 1942. We will be using this text as inspiration for class discussions, making predictions and drawing inferences about characters.
In writing, we will be revising key grammatical techniques to apply to our work. We will be writing a suspense narrative, creating atmosphere and tension, and a recipe, focussing on how we can inform and entertain an audience at the same time.
Maths
In maths, we will be studying shape and space. We will be calculating missing angles within triangles and quadrilaterals, using our knowledge of shape rules. We will also revise key topics that have been taught this year so that we are ready to show off what we know in our SATs tests this half term.
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