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    • Sycamore Class

    Year Group: 5/6

    Teachers: Mr Stewart (Mon-Thu) & Mr Ramshaw (Fri)

    Teaching Assistant: Mrs Stavri & Mrs Greatrex Smith

    PE Days: Tuesday & Friday

    Other Useful Information: 

    Please ensure that reading books are brought in every day.

    Spellings are tested every Friday.

    Homework:

    In preparation for the transition to secondary school, where they will need to be more self-sufficient and organised, the Y6 students have homework to complete beyond the school's expectation that they will read at home. It is set on Thurdays and due in on Tuesdays. Homework will sometimes take the form of Mathletics tasks (if there are issues around accessing this at home please let us know and we can make other arrangements).

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    2027 SATs Timetable [1]

    • Monday, May 10: English Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling (Papers 1 & 2).
    • Tuesday, May 11: English Reading Test.
    • Wednesday, May 12: Mathematics Paper 1 (Arithmetic) & Paper 2 (Reasoning).
    • Thursday, May 13: Mathematics Paper 3 (Reasoning).

    Term 1

    Elizabeth's Sea Dogs

    We will investigate the importance of a unique group of adventurers such as Francis Drake, John Hawkins and their fellow English privateers who served their queen, repelled the Spanish and made their fortunes in the age of sail.

    Term 2

    Britain's Former Empire

    We will investigate what international trade entails – the manufacture, selling and buying of goods and services between countries through exports and imports – and the fact that trade has been operating for thousands of years. Later on we will introduce pupils to the concept and practice of Fairtrade through the experiences of real banana farmers in St Lucia.

    Term 3

    York

    The first part of our enquiry focuses on the Roman occupation of York and in particular the legacy and internal family feuding of one emperor, known as the ‘African Emperor’.

    The second investigation presents pupils with an Anglo-Saxon mystery to solve from the seventh century: The discovery at Coppergate in the 1980s of the magnificent ‘York helmet’.

    The final enquiry examines two important effects of the coming of the industrial age to York in the early 1800s: the influence of the arrival of the railway and the growth of large factories in which products were manufactured for the first time using steam-driven machinery.

    Term 4

    The Golden Age of Islam

    We will focus on Baghdad, using historic sources to draw a representation of what Abu Jafar al Mansur’s ‘city of peace’ might have looked like in AD 766

    We will later evaluate the impact of the work of inventors, designers and engineers of the Golden Age of Islam

    Term 5

     

    Term 6

    Britain through time

    We continue our whistle-stop tour through time, exploring Britain's later history: Middle Ages,  the Tudors and onto recent history

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