Dosbarth Limeslade (Yr 6)

LANGUAGE, LITERACY  & COMMUNICATION

Write a journal entry as a rainforest animal

Conduct a debate on deforestation

Produce  a fact file  as rainforest animals

Write a persuasive letter

Non-chronological report writing

Write a journal entry as a rainforest animal

 

MATHS & NUMERACY

Create line graphs to show temperature differences between temperate Cardiff, UK and  Tropical Rainforest( Manaus,Brazil)

Calculate temperature differences, including those involving temperature rise and fall across 0°C in 8 rainforests across the world.

 

EXPRESSIVE ARTS

Create picture of the Rainforest based on John Dyer or  Nixiwaka Yananawam’s work

 

HEALTH AND WELL BEING

Write a prayer asking God to reduce our demands, and live more lightly on the earth

 

HUMANITIES

Use appropriate geographical vocabulary,

Label the continents and rainforests on a world map

 Identify and label the 4 layers/strata of a rainforest

Research the different types of foods that contain Palm Oil.

 

SCIENCE

Research using a variety of websites to find out interesting facts about the Rainforests of the world

Identify the different plants and animals you find in the rainforest, specific to the 4 layers. Understand and explain what deforestation is.

Understand and describe the reasons for the destruction of the Rainforest

 

 

DIGITAL

Use search technologies for locating information.

Find and organise relevant information

 

 

Croeso i Blwydden 5/6. 

An awesome year is ahead. You will experience a range of different topics which are fun and exciting and which will support, challenge and extend your learning and consequently allow for high achievement. 

 

SPRING TERM

This term our topic is Rainforests. You will learn what and where rainforests are, what they contain and who lives there. Along the way you will also develop your writing using rainforest stories and persuasion. Explore the issues confronting indigenous peoples and the environment. Cherish rainforests and persuade others to do so too. You will get to know the four main layers of a rainforest and find out about the plants and the creatures that grow in the different layers and how they are adapted to live there. You will explore the life of tribal families who live in the rainforest and compare the way they live to your own family life. You will earn about the destruction of the rainforest. and research the arguments for and against deforestation.

 

SCIENCE

In science we will be learning:

1. A comparison of the features of some natural and man-made materials.

2.. The properties of materials related to their uses.

5. How some materials are formed or produced

 

RELIGION

 

In RE Topic Books we will be learning:

To understand about a wide variety of books and the purpose for which they were written and that the Bible is the story of God’s love, told by the People of God.

 

In RE Topic Eucharist we will be learning:

To understand what nourishes and what spoils friendship and unity,and that the Eucharist challenges and enables the Christian family to live and grow in common every day.

 

 In RE Topic Books we will be learning:

To understand that loss and death bring about change for people and the Church’s seasons of Lent, Holy Week and Easter; the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus led to new life.

 

WELSH

In Welsh we are revising and drilling previous language patterns and learning to use the past tense to retell events and experiences to write ‘Newyddion.’ Use e.g

Ble est ti?  ▪ Es i i/i’r [place] gyda [person] ar/yn [when] .   ▪ Est ti i/i’r [place] ? Do/Naddo    ▪ Sut est ti?     ▪ Es i mewn/ar y/yn y [noun] .      ▪ Gyda pwy?       ▪ Es i gyda [person].        ▪ Rydyn ni’n mwynhau [verb] .         ▪ Dydyn ni ddim yn mwynhau [verb] .          ▪ Maen nhw eisiau [verb] .           ▪ Beth wyt ti’n feddwl o [noun/verb/person/book etc.] ?            ▪ Yn fy marn i mae [noun/verb/person/book etc.] yn                 [adjective] .             ▪ Dw i’n cytuno. Dw i’n anghytuno.              ▪ Beth wyt ti wedi bod yn wneud?               ▪ Dw i wedi bod yn [verb].

 

EPIC PLANNING     YEARS 5 & 6

 

 

Rainforests

Years 5& 6

Memorable Experience

Visit to Plantasia

 

 

 

 

Autumn Term.

This term our topic is ‘Fabulous Forensics.’ We will explore the world of human identity. We will be thinking about what makes us unique and we will be learning how our unique features can be used to tell us apart from others or help to solve a crime. Our topic will start with a visit from a team from Gower College. They will teach us how to take our own fingerprints, identify blood groups and analyse hair under a microscope and look at shoe print casts and explain how these are used to solve crimes. In literacy we will be writing newspaper feature articles, descriptions and non chronological reports. In numeracy we will be measuring the height of all the children in the class, calculate the average, produce bar graphs and pie charts to look for patterns and relationships among individual and class measurements.

Science, RE and Welsh will be taught separately.

 

SCIENCE

In science we will be learning:

1.Through fieldwork about the plants and animals found in two contrasting local environments. We will pay a visit to Margam Discovery Centre.

2.The interdependence of living organisms in the environments and their representation as food chains

3.The environmental factors that affect what grows and lives in the environment, e.g. sunlight, water availability, temperature.

 

Year 6. RELIGION

In RE Topic Loving we will be learning:

To understand the love and care of people and that God’s love is unconditional and never ending.

 In RE Topic Vocation and Commitment we will be learning:

To know and understand about ‘commitment in life’ and the vocation to the priesthood and religious life.

In RE Topic Expectation  we will be learning:

 

To understand that Advent, a time of joyful expectation of Christmas, the Word becoming a human person, Jesus.

 

WELSH

In Welsh we are learning to speak, read and write Year 5/6 sentence patterns which describe us. ‘DYMA FI.’

 

FABULOUS  FORENSICS

Years 5&6

Memorable Experience

Visit from Gower College Team

( Forensic Department)