Empire -Year 6
Welcome to Year 6 and Empire Class
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you and your children to Empire Class and Year 6.
The Empire Team includes:
Ms Marsh (Teacher)
Mrs Andrews (TA)
Mrs Kirkness (Teacher)
Miss Sran (Teacher)
Mr Harrison (Headteacher)
Empire class has PE lessons on a Monday and Tuesday. Please ensure your child comes to school these days dressed in a full outdoor PE kit.
We look forward to a successful and happy year.
Ms Marsh and the Empire Team
Term 5
Term 5 curriculum letter
Subjects and Learning for Term 5
During this term we will 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
Investigating sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks using sweets
Science - Investigating the hardness of rocks
Term 4
Term 4 curriculum letter
Subjects and Learning for Term 4:
During this term we will be learning about the following:
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; in addition, children will be having cricket coaching sessions delivered by Kent Cricket's Chance to Shine Programme
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: arithmetic 1 & 2; data and measure; geometry and reasoning
Design and Technology (DT) - creating playground structures
First Aid Training at Canterbury College
Working collaboratively to create a junk model Canterbury Cathedral at Canterbury College
We visited Canterbury Cathedral this term.
World Book Day - Enjoying 'bedtimes stories' in the Reading Cafe
Working as a team
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
Maths lessons: arithmetic 1 & 2; data and measure, geometry and reasoning
We wrote a discussion inspired by the book Holes by Louis Sachar
Creating patterns and Piet Mondrian style art, using Python coding
We used oil paints or acrylic paints to create artwork inspired by the Japanese artist, Hokusai.
