Autumn - Core Subjects

English

Writing

In literacy, the children will listen to the audio of Carrie's War by Nina Bawden which is linked to our history topic WWII. We look at the experience of an evacuee and examine recounts in the form of a diary.

Otto by Otto Ungerer - Continuing the theme of War we study this picture book and examine the key features of newspaper reports.

Biographies - the children will use research skills effectively and choose relevant details to create biographies of significant people through history.

Reading

The children read a wide range of genres throughout the year within literacy lessons.

In guided reading, we will continue to build upon comprehension skills.

The children will enjoy listening to a whole class text - this is related to a theme in topic/literacy if possible.

SPAG

The children revise grammar from previous years through literacy and grammar lesson they will cover the following:

Adverbs, Adjectives, and Noun phrases.
Relative clauses
Subordinate clause
Prepositions and prepositional phrases.

Punctuation will revise the accurate use of full stops, capital letters, and commas.

Handwriting

As one of our morning tasks we carry out handwriting practice. In order to obtain the expected standard at the end of KS2, the children's handwriting must be legible and joined.

Mathematics

Place Value and the four operations

The children will start Year Six by recapping their place value knowledge to ensure they have a secure understanding before moving on to larger numbers. They will learn how to read, write and represent numbers up to ten million in a variety of different ways. The children will build on their prior knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They will consolidate and apply these formal written methods to reasoning problems.

Fractions

The children will use a variety of representations to help them with ordering and comparing fractions. They will revisit how to add and subtract fractions, and then learn how to multiply and divide them by an integer. Children will explore the concept of equivalent fractions and represent them in their simplest forms.

Religious Education

Loving

Our first Autumn topic the children will be looking at love. In this topic we will be exploring the theme of love. It is in the love of family that most Christians first experience the reality of the Church. Everyone begins life in a home and family or community of some kind.

Vocation and Commitment

In this topic, we will be examining how through Baptism and Confirmation, all Christians are called to share the mission of Jesus. In the words of Blessed John Henry Newman: ‘He has committed some work to me, which he has not committed to another. I have my mission’. The children will learn that there are many different ways of carrying out that mission. For some people their mission or vocation is as a priest or member of a religious order.

Expectations - Advent

In our final Autumn topic, the children will be exploring how Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, given by God as a sign and expression of God’s love. We will be learning how giving and receiving reflects the truth that all life is given by God and life is given meaning through the birth of Jesus. We will remember that Advent is a time of joyful expectation, as we prepare to receive Jesus into our lives and to share this gift with others at Christmas and throughout the year.

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