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Needwood Church of England VA Primary School
Class: 3
TERM: Summer 1
THEME TITLE: My Amazing Body
Details / notes / changes / specific to class
This letter outlines the topics that the children will be covering throughout Summer 1.
Year 6 SAT’s commence Monday 11th May.
Please refer to the Homework guidance sheet your child has brought home for information about reading, spelling
and Numeracy homework.
Should you have any questions please don’t not hesitate to contact either Mrs Pendleton or Mrs Ellis.
English
Maths
Fiction, The children will explore and compare style in
We will continue to use the carefully crafted
different genres. They read the interactive eBook, asking
Abacus learning resource to support the delivery of
questions and developing understanding of inference and the
the new maths national curriculum. The children will
author’s use of language, structure and presentation. They use be exploring a range of areas within maths this half
discussion and role-play to explore formal and informal
term and these will include –
language. They develop editing, proof-reading and peer-review
- Fractions/Decimals/Percentages
skills. After exploring different genres, they select their
- Mental and Written calculations for addition,
favourite and write stories for younger readers.
subtraction, multiplication and division.
- Statistics/ probability
The children will also continue to take part in specific SPAG
(Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar) lessons with a specific
Over the next few weeks Year 6 will be focussed on
focus this half term on sentence types and structure, using
revision of a variety of areas before SATs, this will
punctuation effectively and how to link ideas using
include looking at past written and mental papers.
conjunctions and linking paragraphs together.
Reading Comprehension: Pre SATs and internal assessments
focus in some lesson will be based around how the children can
develop accuracy and detail in answering written
comprehension tests.
THEME: My Amazing Body
Science
Areas covered will include:
Identifying and naming the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the
heart blood vessels and blood.
To recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function describe
the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans.
This unit will include 2 lessons led by staff from John Taylor (About digestion and the Heart).
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RE (Religious Education)
PE (Physical Education)
Why is Easter important to Christians? Cont.
Mondays: Athletics
The children will reflect on the events of Holy Week and Wednesday: Hockey – shin pads and gum
have the opportunity to investigate the reasons behind
shields needed please.
some of the most important days in the Christian
calendar.
PLEASE NOTE: For PE lessons children need to
Caring for the environment.
remove any earrings or have them covered with
The children will explore how people respect and care
tape. If your child has pierced ears please
for the natural world, or fail to do so. They will link some provide tape such as micropore tape, for them
religious teachings and stories with the attitudes people to use during lessons.
have towards the natural world and be able to identify
and describe the things they value in the environment
and suggest reasons for their choices.
Computing
Learning to be Creators - The children will complete a unit exploring how technology can be used to alter
and manipulate images, combine a variety of software to design and create digital and print media and
begin to explore and create short movies.
Music
Music will continue to be taught by Mr Mansfield and he
will be delivering units of work based on the new
curriculum.
MFL (Modern Foreign Languages)
FRENCH – This term the children will be exploring
the language associated with the body. This will
range from naming and labelling body parts, taking
part in conversations about the body and learning
songs.