Jupiter
Welcome to Jupiter Class
We would like to welcome you to Year 6 and the Jupiter team;
Class Teachers: Ms Marsh, Mrs Harmer and Mrs Kirkness
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Andrews and Mr Grainger
Please read the termly curriculum letters to find out what we will be learning about
PE: Tuesday & Wednesday
Forest School: Thursday morning
Curriculum Letters
Jupiter Class School Councillors: Millie and Nathan
Term 5
Term 5
Subjects and Learning for Term 5
During this term we will also be learning about the following:
Science – Rocks and Fossils
RE – What do religions say to us when life gets hard?
Music – Theme and variations (Theme: Pop art)
PE – Swimming and rounders (not at the same time!!)
Wellbeing – Healthy body, healthy brain
RSE – Safety and the changing body
Writing genres – non-chronological report and newspaper recount
Class reading book - Skellig by David Almond
Visit to Faversham Charters and Magna Carter Exhibition
Term 4
Subjects and Learning for Term 4:
History – The Tudors and the Dissolution of the Monasteries (including an educational visit to Canterbury Cathedral)
Music – playing the recorder – Hot Cross Buns
PE – Tag Rugby and Netball
Wellbeing – Resilience
RSE – Family and Relationships
RE - Is it better to express your beliefs in arts or in charity and generosity?
DT – structures
Writing genres – i) narrative with a flashback ii) explanation iii) Big Write – descriptive writing
Maths lessons daily
Online safety – collecting evidence in incidents of cyberbullying
Holi Lunch Term 4
Art Days - Paint - Printing - Final Relief Screen Prints
Art Days - Paint - Screen Printing Final Design - Layer 1
Art Days - Paint - Design - Creating Final Template on Acetate
Art Days - Paint - Explore Screen Printing
Art Days - Paint - Explore Screen Printing - Making a practice template
Visiting Canterbury Cathedral linked to the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Measuring Faversham Abbey Footprint
6 Figure Grid References
World Book Day - Where's Wally? Reading can take you places.
History - Using secondary sources to create a Tudor family tree and timeline
Online Safety - Capturing Evidence
Scholastic Book Fair
Term 3
During this term we will be learning about the following:
RE – What difference does it make to believe in ahimsa, grace and/or Ummah?
Music – evaluating classical music: Fingal’s Cave composed by Felix Mendelssohn
PE – Quicksticks hockey and handball
Computing – Python Programming
Wellbeing – Meaning and purpose: What can I be?
RSE – Economic wellbeing
Art – Painting and Colour in the style of Hokusai
Writing genres – narrative poetry; discussion
Daily Maths lessons
Class text - Holes by Louis Sachar
Writing - narrative poems inspired by traditional fairy tales
Holes - Discussion: should children be sent to Camp Green Lake?
Music - reading recorder music
Computer Programming - Creating shapes using Logo and creating Mondrian inspired art using Python
Computing - Python programming
Intra House Competition - New Age Kurling
Art - Hokusai inspired art work on display
Art - Colour mixing in the style of Hokusai
Final piece inspired by the Japanese artist Hokusai.
Term 2
Learning
During this term the children will be learning about the following:
Science – electricity
DT – electrical systems
RE – What matters most to Christians and Humanists?
Wellbeing – People around me: Resolving conflict
RSE – Health and wellbeing
PE – gymnastics and cross-country running
History – Crime and Punishment
Music – improving recorder playing and techniques
Maths - daily maths lessons
Writing – Recounts (police report); science-fiction narrative
Science Fiction Stories
Term 2 Classroom Displays
Christmas in the Forest
DT - Making Steady Hand Games using a complete electrical circuit
Making Polar Bears for School Entrance Winter Display
Gymnastics - Counterbalances
Electricity - Investigating bulb brightness in electrical circuits
Maths - Pictorial Long Division using Place Value Counters
Children in Need Day 17th November
Science - Electricity (Investigating Circuits)
P.E - Cross Country Running
Diwali Celebration Lunch 14.11.23
Happy birthday to Riyah and thanks for the lovely cakes on Friday!
Polly brought in Christmas cards for the class to send to a special friend in hospital. Thanks Polly!
Visiting Faversham Police Museum
Crime & Punishment Workshop - 6.11.23 The Victorians
Term 2 - Crime & Punishment Alexander Centre Trip (Tudors - Detectives/Thomas Arden Murder)
Term 2 - Gymnastics - Performing shapes and balancing to make a short sequence
Term 2 - Neil Tonge Crime & Punishment Workshop: Introduction & Case Scenarios
TERM 1
Term 1 Learning
Our learning journey for this term will be linked to geography and finding out about the country of Japan. Other subjects will include:
- Computing – online safety: data handling investigation (focus on weather)
- Art and Design – Japanese artists; Zentangles – printing
- PE – football and basketball
- Wellbeing – Wonderful Me and Social Media
- RSE - Citizenship
- English – writing: stories from other cultures, persuasive holiday brochure
- Class reading book – Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
- Maths – daily lessons
End of Term 1 Displays
Japanese Culture Day - Food Tasting; sushi, miso soup, sea weed crisps and Japanese miso rice
Japanese Culture Day - Trying on a traditional Kimono
Geography - Measuring distance and places using online maps - Google Earth
Bikeability Training - carrying out safety checks on our bikes
Japanese Writing
1970s Dress Up Day - Catwalk
