Jupiter
Welcome to Year 6 and Jupiter Class.
Here you’ll find updates, announcements and important information to keep you connected throughout the year.
Key Information
Adults:
We are very fortunate to have a wide range of adults teaching your child over the course of the year; this allows for the children to experience a range of teaching styles which is excellent preparation for their eventual transition to secondary school.
- Ms Marsh will be teaching the class on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
- Mrs Kirkness will be teaching Maths to the class everyday.
- Mrs Harmer will be teaching the class all day on a Friday.
- Throughout the week, there will be other school adults teaching and/or supporting in the class such as: Mrs Andrews, Mr Rees, Ms Hopkins and Mrs Blake.
Classroom Information:
- PE lessons will take place on a Tuesday and Friday
- Children are to bring in a bottle filled with WATER from home daily
- Any pencil cases must be named and should be small enough to fit in a class tray; the children will be expected to use the school handwriting pens for all written work in their class books
Letters
Year 6 - School Council Representatives
TERM 4
Subjects and Learning for Term 4:
PE – Tag Rugby and Chance to Shine Cricket
Wellbeing – connect: community
PSHE/RSE- economic well-being
DT – textiles
Online safety – collecting evidence in incidents of cyberbullying
Computing - codebreaking
Writing genres – i) narrative poetry ii) debate iii) Big Write – descriptive writing
Maths lessons daily
DT - Practising running stitch
TCS Mini London Marathon
Computing: Coding and Big data 1
Music - whole class recorder performance
EKC Trust - Collaboration Portrait Project
PE - Live Online Lesson
Term 3
Learning:
During this term the children will be learning about the following:
Art - Screen Printing - inspired by Alice Pattullo
Wellbeing – Take Notice: Myself (self-care)
RSE – Citizenship
PE – Quicksticks hockey & handball
Computing – Online Safety
Maths - Daily Maths lessons
Writing – Science-Fiction Stories
Journalistic Writing - Moon Landing Articles
Circuit Saboteurs. Jupiter Class created a circuit then sabotaged it! The children then had to problem-solve to get the circuit to work. How many of these circuits will work?
Intra-House Competition New Age Kurling
Science Fiction Narratives
Electricity - Testing Circuits
Art - Screen Printing inspired by Alice Pattullo - Final Artwork
TERM 2
Learning:
During this term the children will be learning about the following:
DT – Electrical systems
Art - Painting: Colour - inspired by Katsushika Hokusai
Wellbeing – People around me: Resolving conflict
RSE – Health and wellbeing
PE – Swimming
History – The Tudors – Dissolution of the Monasteries
Maths - Daily maths lessons
Writing – Narrative with a Flashback (A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)
Christmas Service at St. Mary's Church
DT - Steady Hand Games
Our visit to Canterbury Cathedral - linked to the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Kent Police Online Harms & Media workshop - making a podcast
Intra-House Competition - Benchball
Online Safety board games linked to safe sharing online
Mapping the Battle of Bosworth
Art Days: sketching a drawing, inspired by the Japanese artist, Hokusai
Term1
Term 1 Learning:
- Geography – Japan
- Art – Colour mixing and drawing skills
- Wellbeing
- Computing - Online Safety
- Writing – Persuasive non-chronological text (holiday brochure); poetry (haiku including personification and imagery)
- GPS – Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation
- Maths – Place value
- PE – Swimming
- Class reading text – Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
Writing: Persuasive Holiday Leaflets about Japan
Japanese Culture - trying on a traditional kimono
Geography Display - Japan
Using maps to locate places in Japan
Writing - Japanese inspired haikus
Bravo Horse Show - a captivating equestrian theatre performance set at White Horse Farm in Meopham, Kent. It tells the heartwarming tale of a little horse named Bravo with one big dream—to dance.
