Christ Church Primary School
Year 6
Year 6 Spring Letters
What did the Ancient Greeks ever do for us?
Spring Term
This unit of work focuses on Ancient Greece and their legacies: government systems, culture and art and science and technology. Children will learn important historical skills of analysing evidence, using timelines as well as hypothesising, justifying and evaluating their ideas. They will make comparisons, study artefacts to inform decisions, explore the achievement and influences on Ancient Greek life.
Welcome to Year 6
Mrs Proctor
"Is it too late to save the rainforest?"
Autumn Term
Photo courtesy of www.wwf.org
This term we will be exploring South America in particular looking at the Amazon Rainforest
and its importance globally. We will also do a river study finding out the effects rivers can have on their environment.
Year 6 Autumn Term Letters
Year 6 2019-2020 Long Term Plan
Year 6 Useful Information
Hindu Mandir Visit
Christmas Fun!
D+T Sock Monkey Project
Rainforest Animal Clay Tiles
Carol Singing at Sandfields Care Home
Police e-Safety Visit
Kindness Week
Squash Session
Life Education Visit
Cheltenham Literature Festival - Teddy Keen "The Lost Book of Adventure"
Year 6 Book Club
Bristol Zoo Trip
Exploring the hidden den...
iPad Music Sessions - garage band
STEM Day - Design and make a fan boat
Summer Term - Topic Web - A Life of Crime
Summer Term - Welcome Letter to Parents - A Life of Crime
"Hoodwinked" Year 6 Show
CD Recording Day
Everyman Theatre Author Visit - Reading Teachers=Reading Pupils
Engineering Day - Fan Boats
Mock Trial Competition 2019
Sport's Day 2019
Quidditch PE Session
Cheltenham Science Festival 2019 - Guts and Gases with Stefan Gates
NHS Hygiene Session
Leavers Service at Gloucester Cathedral
Dogs Trust Workshop
NSPCC Speak Out workshop
Year 6 Cheltenham Science Festival Letter to Parents
Spring Bake-Off Winners Year 6
History Students - Local Victorian Crime Investigation
Year 6 PGL Week at Tregoyd House, Hay on Wye
PGL Information for Parents 2019
Climbing Wall
Red Nose Day 2019
Year 6 SATS Meeting for Parents 2019
World Book Day 2019
Greek Art Walk - Regency Cheltenham influenced by Greek Architecture
Greek Art Day - clay pots and patterns
Wicked Weather Watch - Arctic Quest and Climate Change https://wickedweatherwatch.org.uk/
Suffragette Day
Greek Artefacts
Ultimate Frisbee
Year 5/6 Samba Drumming Club
Year 6 Book Club
Greek Drama Day Letter
Spring Term Topic Web Gods and Warriors
Spring Term Welcome Letter to Parents
"Gods and Warriors" - Spring Term
We will be exploring why Ancient Greece has had such a long and dramatic legacy as well as working as history detectives to piece together the fragments from the past. We are focusing on the Ideas, beliefs, attitudes (esp. the role of women); Way of life (contrasting Athens with Sparta and grasping that ideas flourished in a society where there were so many slaves to do the hard work!); Achievements in a range of disciplines so that pupils are aware of the heights they scaled compared to other societies at the time; Legacy more than just influence on today but on other periods as well (e.g. Victorians and Tudors). We hope to go on a walk through Cheltenham looking at the architectural influences the Greeks had throughout history.
Christmas Fun in Year 6
D+T Textiles - Sock Monkeys Project
Cheltenham Town FC Maths Session
Science-classification of animals
Class Collective Worship - Friendship and Anti-Bullying
Sock Monkeys - DT Project
Thank you to Salo and Ben from TheMusicWorks for our 10 week iPad music sessions
Making friendship bracelets
Life Education Van - A session on drugs, medicines, human body, choices, peer pressure and friendship.
Values Day - Making books for our Y1 reading buddy on Friendship/Perseverance/Respect/Compassion/Creativity
iPad Music - "The Music Works" details
Waitrose Supermarket Sweep
During our visit to Waitrose, pupils explored the aisles looking for products that originate in South America. Most of the tropical fruits were grown in Brazil with all the melons were grown in Brazil, blueberries from Chile and Brazil Nuts from Bolivia.
We looked closely for logos for FairTrade products including chocolate/coffee/fruit and FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) logos on many paper, tissue and card products.
We also found Rainforest Alliance products and many of Cadbury's chocolate bars had Cocoa Life logos on them, telling us that the areas produce has been taken from is sustainably grown.
The most worrying find was the use of Palm Oil in hundreds of products and we only found 2 examples of sustainable palm oil (Whole Food Peanut Butter and Kingsmill Bread.
Waitrose Cookery Studio - ham and cheese pinwheel scones
Basketball WOW Day with Paul Sturgess
Remembrance Day 2018 - "A Hundred Years On"
Geography map sessions
Cheltenham Literature Festival 2018
Cheltenham Literature Festival letter
Maths Art Day
Year 6 Trip to Bristol Zoo
Bristol Zoo Trip letter
Year 6 iPad Music sessions using Garage Band
Year 6 Samba Drumming
Autumn 2018 Topic Overview
Autumn 2018 Welcome letter to parents
Year 6 Long Term Plan 2018-2019
Beneath the Canopy - Autumn Term
This term Year 6 are learning about the importance of the Amazon River and rainforest in S America. The children will journey down the Amazon River exploring key features. They will discover how the rainforest ecosystem is changing, the effect it has on humans living there and explore how we can reduce our impact on rainforests, thinking about deforestation and palm oil.
