Oak

Our teacher is Mr Ward.

Welcome To Our Class

Oak is a fantastic class to be part of. Y6 is a busy year which requires a lot of hard work and resilience. There is a great team of staff who are committed to helping the children achieve their best and be well prepared for the next stage of their education.

Organisational Information

Key Dates For Our Class This Term

Summer Term

Topic: Is this a wonderful world?

This term the whole school will considering the challenges that our planet and the living things on it face. We will be looking at the amazing work that geographers, scientists and religious leaders and charities do to help us protect our planet and make it a positive place to live.

Summer 2

Week 7 & 8 – RE

To consider how religious and spiritual thoughts and beliefs are expressed in arts and architecture and in charity and generosity. 

Week 9 – Music

Sounds of the river

To perform with accuracy, fluency, control and expression from simple staff notation.

To perform a solo or take a leadership role within a performance

Week 10 – Science

Earth and Space

To describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies

To describe the movement of the Earth & other planets relative to the Sun in the solar system

To use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky.

To describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth

Week 11 – PSHE

Making positive decisions

To know that pressure to behave in an unacceptable or risky way can come from a variety of sources, including people I know (peer pressure) and have a range of strategies to resist.

To understand the nature and consequences of discrimination, teasing, bullying and aggressive behaviours and how to respond to them and ask for help.

To understand my role in keeping myself and my peers safe.

To understand the potential risks of providing personal information including the distribution of images of myself and others in an increasing range of online technologies both within and outside school.

To recognise my own right to be protected from the inappropriate use of technology by others and the need to respect the rights of other users.

Week 12 – Music

Creating river music

To record own composition, using appropriate forms of notation and/or technology.

To compose an original song, incorporating lyric writing, melody writing and the composition of accompanying features.

To suggest and incorporate improvements to own and others’ work.

Week 13 – PSHE

Sex and relationships education

To understand why the body changes during puberty in order to prepare the body for reproduction.

To know some facts about human reproduction including conception, pregnancy and birth, and that conception can be prevented.

To know how to keep my body healthy and clean during puberty and that it occurs at different times for different people.

To understand risks in different situations and know how to behave responsibly, including judging what kind of physical contact is acceptable or unacceptable.

To know the qualities of a positive relationship.

To know when it is appropriate to share personal information in a relationship.

E-safety

• Thinkyouknow (advice from the National Crime Agency to stay safe online)
• Internet matters (support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online)
• Parent info (support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online)
• LGfL (support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online)
• Net-aware (support for parents and carers from the NSPCC)

Accelerated Reader

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