St James' CE Primary School
Together in Faith, We Achieve

With Miss Parnell, Mrs Lok and Mrs Lowe

Class 6: Our School Day

Arrive between 8:35am - 8:45am

Home Time: 3:15pm 

Class 6 SATs timetable 2024

Homework: Learning logs in Summer 1   

Week 1 Produce a fact file about Nina Simone. Inc. instruments she played and some of her famous songs.

Week 2 Find out about some achievements and inventions during the Early Islamic civilisation.

Week 3 Design a poster about how light travels.

Week 4 Label body parts in French

Week 5 Would you like to live forever?

Week 6 Let’s start rehearsing! Time to learn your lines!

Summer 1

The Golden Age of Islam

 

This is a history topic.

We will be using a range of sources to find out where and how the Early Islamic Civilisation began and explore life in Baghdad during that time.  We will then identify some of the achievements of the Early Islamic Civilisation and the impact of these on life today.  We will also compare how life was similar and different in Britain and the Islamic Empire in 900AD.

 

Have a look at these websites/videos:

BBC Bitesize - When and where was the Early Islamic civilisation?

Lumen Learning - The Islamic Golden Age

BBC Teach - Baghdad 900AD, the Golden Age of Islam

 
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ENGLISH

We are going to start the term reading 'How to live forever' by Colin Thompson.

Our Writing Publications (so far)

Autumn Spring Summer

Newspaper Report: The War in Ukraine

 

Inspired by the books we have read and our geography research, we wrote and presented persuasive speeches about climate change to the rest of school. Click the links to listen.

  
Discussion: What are the positive impacts of migration? In our music lessons we have composed rainforest soundscapes. What better way to bring them to life than narrate them with our rainforest setting descriptions. Click here to listen.  
Inspired by 'The Boy at the Back of the Class', we wrote own story opening imagining a refugee's journey from their homeland. Click here to read our finished publications. We wrote formal letters to Sir David Attenborough to thank him for his outstanding career and the way he has inspired us. We were very excited to receive a reply from Sir David himself!  
In our second writing unit we wrote the endings to our own twisted fairy tale. We have used our word processing skills to type and publish our work in our class book. Click here to read it. For our second writing unit this term, we delved into the Land of Oz. We have handwritten letters home from Dorothy to Aunt Em and Uncle Henry to tell all about her adventures.   
We wrote and published our setting descriptions for our own twisted fairy tale. Click here to read them. We loved reading The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and wrote a story excerpt in the same style: Aslan's Fate. Click here to read it. Our first writing unit is to write a prequel to a fantastic story, How to Live Forever, by Colin Thompson.

 

Have a go at practising your weekly spellings with these three fun games (below).

 

More spelling practice: Spellings for Year 6 | Spelling Ninja 

MATHS

Arithmetic practice:

Beat the Clock! 

Maths Question Generator 

SATS - Key Stage 2 Arithmetic

SATS - Key Stage 2 Arithmetic - Compact Version 

 

 

SCIENCE

This half-term, we will be learning about 'Light', as well as improving our working scientifically skills. 

Children should be able to explain that light travels in straight lines and explain how they know this. They should be able to describe the basic anatomy of the human eye and explain how we see things. By learning about Alhazen (birth name: Ibn al-Haytham) they may aspire to be scientists or opticians and help them learn that discoveries in the past have an impact on life today. Children should use their enquiring minds to explore shadows and create their own investigations relating to light.

KS2 Science: The work of the ‘father of optics’ Alhazen
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RE (Religious Education)

This half term we will be thinking about the question, 'What does it mean to be  a Muslim in Britain today?'  We will explore the five pillars of Islam and the importance of these to Muslim believers. 

BBC Bitesize - The 5 Pillars of Islam

Link to our virtual prayer page.

DT

Our theme this half term is, 'Digital World: Navigating the World', which is a computing unit using Tinkercad 3D Modelling to design a navigation tool.

We will:

  • know that accelerometers can detect movement.
  • understand that sensors can be useful in products as they mean the product can function without human input.
  • know that designers write design briefs and develop design criteria to enable them to fulfil a client’s request.
  • know that ‘multifunctional’ means an object or product has more than one function.
  • know that magnetometers are devices that measure the Earth’s magnetic field to determine which direction you are facing.

French

Our fifth unit this year is Chez le médicin - At the doctors. We will revise and learn new body parts and have a conversation at the doctors to say what hurts.

BBC Bitesize: Parts of the Body

KS2 French: A French song about masculine and feminine body parts - BBC Teach 

KS2 MFL: 'Talking About Myself' in French with Mwaksy Mudenda - BBC Teach

 

Computing

This half-term, our computing lessons will further our programming skills and will be linked to our DT unit.

Learning how to touch type is such an important life skill. You can practise at home with these fun BBC Bitesize activities - Dance Mat Typing.

And all the rest...

Music - Mrs Chambers from Tameside Music Service will continue to teach us to play the ukulele each Tuesday and on Wednesday afternoons we will join with the rest of KS1 and 2 to sing with Miss Parnell and Mrs Lok playing the piano. 

PSHE - Our theme for this term is 'Relationships'.

 

PE - Our PE lesson with Coach Jake is on a Friday afternoon. Children should bring their PE kit to school in a small bag that can hang on their peg on Monday morning. They will get changed for PE before their lesson at school on Friday and then come home in their PE kit so it can be washed along with their uniform ready for Monday morning. There is an after school sports club for children in year 5 and 6 on Friday as well. Class 6 will do the mile run each week as well as other physical activities. 

Art (Autumn 2 2023)

Here are some wonderful examples of our photography artwork from our topic: Craft & Design - Photo Opportunity.

  Lunch time Prayer

For health and strength and daily food, 

We thank you, God. Amen

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Our End of Day Class Prayer

Now the day is over, we lift our hands and say,

Thank you heavenly God - for today,

We're sorry for the wrong things, but glad about the right,

Keep us heavenly God, in your love tonight. 

Amen

Visit our School Library Page to find our more about Class 6`s author of the year, Onjali Q Rauf.
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Mrs Lok loke@sja.fa1.uk 

Miss Parnell parnellc@sja.fa1.uk

 

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