Week beginning 4th April 2022

April 4, 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 explore a character’s thoughts and motives.
To identify and evaluate the key features of a play script.
To up-level a playscript.
To plan a playscript.
To write a play script.
To edit and up-level my writing.

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 describe the relationship between two factors (in a ratio context)
To explain how to use multiplication and division to calculate unknown values (two variables)
To use multiplication and division to calculate unknown values (three variables)
To use a ratio grid to calculate unknown values
To use multiplication to solve correspondence problems

Science –

Continuing with our unit, Living Things and their Habitats, we shall be looking at Classifying Plants and Classifying Micro-organisms.

RE –

It’s RE week, this week. We shall be learning about Holy Week.

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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