Class:

Year 6

Topic for this term:

Healthy Body Healthy Mind

Any further details about this term’s topics:

This term’s topic is all about our health and wellbeing. We will be covering the following areas:-

Literacy Languages and Communication

• Write an explanation text (how the heart pumps blood around the body)
• Record a podcast
• Write a recipe (instruction text) of a healthy food
• Write a fact file about an unusual sport
• Write a biography of a famous sports person
• Write a narrative
• Vocabulary about the body in Welsh and Spanish.

Mathematics and Numeracy

• angles, height, triangles and angle of elevation
• convert between km and miles, and between £ and €
• measure weight of bike, distance on playground, length of tyre and spokes, time taken to cycle and heart rate
• probability of winner being Welsh, English, French, British, European
• mean, median and mode of race data     design a map to scale
• compare numbers up to 1 million    budget and compare prices
• data from a sleep app, multiply by days, weeks, years etc 
• fractions, decimals and percentages
• coordinates in four quadrants,
• line graphs, pie charts and interpreting them
• ratio

Humanities

• Research the history of the Olympics / other sporting events
• Geography of Austria and Switzerland (Women’s Euros)
• Mountains locally /around the UK
• History of medicine
• Sikhism, the 5 K’s, sacred stories and how they show commitment to God.

Expressive Arts

• Draw and label body organs, e.g. eye, whole body
• Sculpture of the body
• Crick Voices concert
• Draw and label food chains, what drugs do to the body, the digestive system.

Science and Technology

• Find out about the important organs of the body
• Food chain in the UK, link to farming and local produce
• Parts of the brain
• how do medicines work?
• Muscle groups in the body
• The effect of drugs on the body
• Why do we need sleep?
• Dissect a heart.
• Present work using Slides/PowerPoint.
• Microbits – fitness tracker
• heart rate

Health and Wellbeing

• Jigsaw – Healthy Me, Changing Me
• dangers of drugs, drink and substance misuse for athletes, effects of vaping and addiction
• positives of active living
• mental health and yoga
• healthy foods and diet (food groups)
• origin of food – different countries and food miles
• the beep test

As far as other experiences go this term, there will also be the Hay Festival, Sports Day, residential trips, a cricket tournament, the Crick Voices concert and the Digital Wizards being involved in a cluster sharing event in CHS. Year 6 will also have the additional experiences of transition days, basketball coaching and a Leavers Concert/Assembly.

Days which PE kit will be needed:

For P.E. lessons children will need to wear a white polo shirt, sweatshirt/hoodie, black shorts or black jogging bottoms and black trainers. P.E. lessons will take place on a Monday afternoon, so hoodies should not be worn on other days, except for sports tournaments.

Any other ways parents can help (e.g. help needed with readers, items that can be sent in related to the topic)

A homework menu will be provided at the start of each term. We expect the children to do one item from the menu every other week. On the weeks in between, we will provide some Maths homework to consolidate learning. Homework books will come home on a Friday and should be returned by the following Tuesday.

Spelling lists for the term are already on Google Classroom. Children can access this by using their Hwb email.

Please ensure that your child has their reading book in school every day and we ask that you read with them often. In preparation for high school, we ask that children take their book home every day and return it to school the following day.

Please could you also help your child with learning their times tables. By Year 6, they should know all the times tables up to 12.

If you have any information, knowledge or interesting ideas for any of the above topics and you are happy to share this with the children, then please get in touch.

Any other general reminders (not specific to your class) that you think should be included on the information sheet.

We have already started going to Greenhill on a Thursday afternoon to spend time socialising with the residents. Year 6 will have several more visits this term. Thank you to the parents who have volunteered to accompany us.

Your child will need a healthy snack at break time and may bring a water bottle to school. Please ensure all clothing and water bottles are labelled with your child’s name.

If you have any questions or wish to contact the Year 6 class teachers, our email addresses are as follows:

PughT96@hwbcymru.net

soram@crickhowell.powys.sch.uk

Many thanks, Mr Oram and Mrs Pugh.