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Summer Term 2023
Summer 2 Newsletter & Geography Knowledge Organiser
Lotte Reiniger Inspired Art - Friday 26th May 2023
This afternoon, along with an audience of parents, the class used their puppets to create their own animation story inspired by those we explore created by Lotte Reiniger. Thank you to all of the parents who came to see their children's work.
Art - Creating our Puppets
This week, the children have begun to create their puppets. They used black sugar paper and coloured cellophane to create their designs.
They used the white board in the classroom to test their designs out.
Testing out designs
End of SATs Beach Trip - Monday 15th May 2023
Following great effort in their SATs test last week, Year 6 journeyed by bus to Exmouth. Once they were there, they played happily together on the beach, got an ice cream and even had a paddle in the sea.
Thank you for FOSSS for allowing us to have an ice cream, which wouldn't be possible without the support of the events such as discos, bake sales and fairs.
Year 6 have a great day making memories together. They are looking forward to the rest of their time together before moving on to secondary school in September.
Art - Shadow Puppets
This half-term in art, we are exploring the work of Lotte Reiniger. We have explored her work and learnt some interesting facts about her, such as that she was the first person to create an animation film and not Walt Disney as it is popularly believed. We also discovered how her type of art has inspired may other pieces of work including 'The Tale of the Three Brothers' from a Harry Potter film.
In our learning, we will take inspiration from her work and explore both traditional and contemporary artists and craftspeople using intricate cutouts to create artwork which is meaningful to the culture in which it is created. The children will them work in collaboration to create shadow puppets
Lotte Reiniger Exploration
Summer Term 1 2023
English | In English, we will be completing our information and instruction text as we write our own ;Desert Survival Handbook'. Moving on from this, we will delve back into our fiction text exploring the well known story 'Varjak Paw'. The outcome for this sequence will be for the children to write their own chapter of the book for this adventurous cat. |
Maths | At the beginning of this half-term, we will focus on statistics and geometry - both properties of shapes and position and direction where we will use coordinates. We will then focus on revision for our SATs tests which will be on Thursday 11th May and Friday 12th May. A letter with more information about this will be sent shortly. |
Science | Our topic in Science is 'Evolution and Inheritance'. Our learning will focus on exploring Charles Darwin's finches, exploring adaptations and evolution as well as considering what we have inherited as offspring from our parents. |
History | Our key question this half term is: 'Why did Britain once rule the largest empire the world has ever seen?' We will explore the British Empire at its peak in 1921 and we will look at the geographical extent of the British imperialism at the time, as well as evaluate the major reasons why Britain sough dominion over what was a quarter of the world's land area. We will also consider the factors which led to the decline of the empire and the rise of independence. There will also be an opportunity to assess the Commonwealth's significance in the world today. |
Music | Music lessons will be focusing on inspirational women working in music. Throughout the lessons, we will explore the concept of ‘identity’ – the various elements that shape us. In this unit, we will start with gender, with reference to social and cultural differences. We will then try out different ways of making our own music, while exploring the work of some of the most influential women in music over the last 100 years. |
Art | In Art, we will explore the work of Lotte Reiniger. We will take inspiration from her work and explore both traditional and contemporary artists and craftspeople using intricate cutouts to create artwork which is meaningful to the culture in which it is created. The children will them work in collaboration to create shadow puppets. |
PSHE | Our Puzzle Piece for our JIGSAW learning is 'Relationships'. We will focus on mental health, love and loss, power and control and how we behave online being responsible technology users. |
RE | Our RE learning will explore the question: For Christians what kind of king was Jesus? |
MfL | In French, we will be using the Salut! program to explore 'the future'. |
Computing | Using Purple Mash, we will look at different types of quizzes and how we can create and program our own quizzes. |
PE | We will be continue to develop our attacking and defending skills and team work through netball and develop our personal achievements in athletics. |