Week beginning 28th March 2022

March 27, 2022

What are we learning this week?

English –

We shall be moving over to a new 10-day cycle approach to the teaching of English in Year 6. The outline is as follows:

In our English lessons, we shall still be using a range of different adaptations to understand the story of Macbeth. In our daily Reading lessons, we shall use supplementary texts. This weeks supplementary texts will be a mixture of Shakespeare’s sonnets and non-fiction texts about: the Tudors, the theatre, newspaper reports about Shakespeare and Shakespeare – himself.

Shakespeare Stories: Amazon.co.uk: Leon Garfield, Michael Foreman: 9780140389388: Books Macbeth The Graphic Novel: Plain Text British English: Amazon.co.uk: William Shakespeare, Clive Bryant, Jon Haward, Gary Erskine, John McDonald, Karen Wenborn, Nigel Dobbyn, Jo Wheeler: Books Macbeth (A Shakespeare Story): Amazon.co.uk: Andrew Matthews, William Shakespeare, Tony Ross: 8601200716023: Books

Our English lesson learning objectives this week are:

To use formal and informal language accurately and appropriately.
To engage in Book Talk.
To perform a scene using different interpretations.
To create a character profile.
To write an informal letter.

What is our class reading book?

Since we are studying the Shakespeare classic Macbeth, we have decided to read from a collection of Shakespeare short stories, by Andrew Matthews. Each week, the children in Year 6 vote for which two of the Shakespeare short stories that they would like to listen to. Afterwards, we shall be looking to identifying similarities and differences across the collection.

Maths –

To use fractions, angles, percentages and understanding proportional relationships
To draw attention to the central angle and the area of the ‘slice’ being important compared to the whole
To construct pie charts, relate the central angle of each slice back to 360°. For example, an angle of 90° is 1⁄4 of the circle because 90⁄360=1⁄4.
To know that the size of the circle can be different but still represent the same data.
To be able to read scales/number lines with labelled intervals
To draw and interpret Line graphs used to represent continuous data; time, length, etc. and to show conversion rates (e.g. kilometres to miles

Science –

Continuing with our unit, Living Things and their Habitats, we shall be researching the scientist Carl Linnaeus and evaluating his contributions to Science.

RE –

It’s RE week, this week. We shall be learning about the Jewish festival, Passover.

RHE –

This term’s unit is called Healthy Me. Our learning objective this week are:

To understand that some people can be exploited and made to do things that are against the law.

PE –

To gain possession through tackling.
Real PE – dynamic balance to agility.

What are we learning this week?

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