Curriculum Bulletin January 2009

At Fairisle Juniors, we would like to provide you with as much information about your child’s education as possible. Every half term, we will send you details of the curriculum your child will be following. In Year 6, the children will be taught the following subjects this half term:

Literacy:
Your child will be taught further skills for writing non fiction and fiction texts. They will study a module of play scripts, narrative, poetry as well as report writing, recounts, instructional texts and explanations. They will also be taught higher order skills of passive and active sentences, punctuation and complex sentence structure.
Numeracy:
This half term our focus is to reinforce their mathematical ability, particularly in the
addition, subtraction, division and multiplication of decimals. We expect our children to be able to use these methods to solve real life word problems. We also aim to ensure that they can complete all of their tables and consequently their division facts within eight minutes.
Science:
We will be concentrating on experimenting with light and electricity. The children will learn how to reflect light and how light enables us to see. As part of the electricity work, the children will be creating circuits and explaining why some circuits do not work. This will involve lots of hands on practical experiments.
Information Technology:
This half term your child will use the skills developed since Year 3 to produce a booklet based upon the topic Britain since 1948. They will use electronic resources to focus on an aspect of the last 60 years which may interest them.
History:
This links to the ICT and develops the children’s skills in enquiry and analysing historical information. It follows on from the World War 2 topic and will focus particularly on aspects of how life in the UK has changed since 1948.
Music:
Music will be taught by the Southampton Music Service and will focus on teaching
electronic music, mixing and layering!
Physical Education:
Over the half term your child will continue to develop ball skills with our regular Saints coach and our indoor unit this half term is gymnastics. Please ensure your child has a plain red T-shirt and black shorts for indoor gym every day as we will take every opportunity to use the hall whenever possible.

Obviously, these are only broad headings. The teachers have detailed plans for each of the above subjects. Should you wish to see them, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher.
Saints Wednesday,
Homework: Given out Friday and expected in on Tuesday.
Thank you very much for your support.
Spring (1) 2009
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