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Year 6 – Spring 1

History: Year 6 will be studying the Vikings: The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor. There lessons will involve analysis, enquiry, evaluations and higher order skills required to be a historian. They will end the topic with writing a discussion.

Children will also be visiting Yorvik at the beginning of their topic.

Geography: Children will be studying Biomes. They will learn:

• To locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans.
• To locate North America, South America and Europe in relation to the Poles and the Equator.
• To locate Europe and some of its countries including Russia.
• To explain what a biome is.
• To identify the different biomes in Russia and describe how the environment and landscape vary between Russia’s biomes.
• To explain why vegetation changes according to latitude and altitude.
• To use globes and atlases to locate places studied in relation to the Equator, latitude and longitude and time zones.
• To give direction instruction using the eight points of a compass.
• To recognise that contours show height and describe height and slope from a map.
• To sketch maps of areas using symbols, a key and a scale.
• To use digital maps to research factual information about features.
• To present data collected in a range of charts and graphs, justifying their choice of presentation and drawing conclusions.

Narrative: Children will be reading and studying the text: Frankenstein. As part of this unit, they will write a description, characterising speech and a story.

PE: Swimming and hockey on alternate weeks.

RE: What does it mean to be a Jew?

Many thanks,

Year 6 team