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Spring Term – Dinton Through Time

Dear Year 6 parents and children,

The Spring term focuses on the local area, exploring what the school’s logbooks tell us about what life was like in Dinton during the late 19th and early 20th century.

We will be creating mixed media landscapes in Art and creating Easter related food in Design and Technology. Within Geography, we will be walking the children to Eythrope for a river survey, testing the PH levels of the water and exploring the ecosystem around the river.

As part of a culture of exploring worldviews and beliefs, years 5 and 6 have the fantastic opportunity to take part in the Bedfordshire Faith tour, where the children visit a Sikhi Gurdwara, a Muslim Mosque and a Christian church, all in one day.

English

During English, the children will start by learning how to write a balanced argument by discussing topics such as screen time. Then they will begin their travels at the ghostly Thornhill before travelling to a lighthouse off coastal Devon, finally crashlanding in the Amazonian Rainforest. We will be further consolidating the children’s understanding of grammatical terms through short activities to enable them to access the test material in the summer.

Maths

As we move towards the Summer Standard Assessment Tests, Year 6 will be developing their understanding of ratio, algebra and decimals, fractions and percentages. We will be looking at area, volume and perimeter before finishing the term investigating statistics. We will continue to practise the arithmetic tests and send them home for you to see how your chid is progressing.

Science and RE

In science, we will learn about light in the first half term, and in the second half term, our topic will be ‘Living things and their habitats’.

In RE, our topics are: ‘How do Hindus celebrate important events in their lives?’ and ‘Why don’t all members of Christianity believe and live in the same way?’.

Additional information about all curriculum areas is in our long-term overview.

Homework

Homework will be weekly spellings, a maths task and reading and at various points in the year, a specific one-off Learning Log homework linked to an annual or national event such as World Book Day. It is important that all children complete the homework. Please email me, through the office, if your child is experiencing any particular difficulties with the completion of the homework.

For the Easter holidays, your child will be sent home with a revision pack for reading, grammar and mathematics. Please encourage your children to read quality texts daily.

PE

This term, PE lessons will take place on a Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon. Please ensure that your child has warm layers for outside sports. Please remind your child to include spare socks so that they have something to change into if their socks happen to get wet or if they are wearing tights.

Thank you for your continued support,

Mrs Reed

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