Mr J Peck
Class 14 Teacher and Assessment & Intervention Coordinator
Curriculum Links
Year 6 Curriculum
Our experienced and highly dedicated teachers and assistants in Year 6 pride themselves on their creative approach to teaching. We continue to build upon children’s prior knowledge in Lower KS2 and strive to embed a love of learning that encourages all children to be self-motivated, inquisitive and happy learners. We recognise that every child is special and unique. Working closely together, teachers plan and deliver creative lesson that cater for pupils of all abilities and dispositions. We have a dedicated team of support workers who help pupils where needed.
We strive to create a stimulating classroom environment, which is steeped in mutual respect. The children are immersed in a plethora of curriculum workshops and activities in science, PE and history. We encourage creativity in every area of the curriculum and endeavour to foster a love of the Arts through drama, dance, literature and music.
We also ensure that children have the skills they need to be a successful member of our modern British society. We ensure they have an understanding of different beliefs and cultures and learn acceptance, tolerance and respect towards others.
Year 6 is a pivotal phase in school life and part of the teacher’s role is to prepare children for secondary school. Moreover, the pupils are given the opportunity to think carefully about what they can offer the outside world as a British citizen and the crucial role they can play in later life. We have very high aspirations for all our pupils all the way through their school life and this culminates in Year 6.
Children have a wide range of opportunities to take part in business activities, performing arts and meet members of the community who we consider to be role models. Children have the opportunity to demonstrate the teamwork skills they have learnt throughout their time at Penpol during school camp and the highly challenging Year 6 production.
By the end of Year 6 we want our pupils to:
- Be successful, confident, self-motivated and dedicated learners
- Recognise their strengths and weaknesses and take decisive action to improve their work
- Intrinsically motivated to work at home
- Show the highest level of courtesy and respect to all members of our school community and beyond
- Pro-actively contribute to the well being of their school, community and world around them
Year 6 Teaching Staff
Mr J Woolcock
Computing Teacher and Computing & Digital Learning Coordinator
Mr N Stanlake
Class 13 Teacher, Upper KS2 Phase Coordinator and Physical Education Coordinator
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Year 6 Support Staff
Ms C Holland Lloyd
Teaching Assistant and Lunchtime Supervisor
Mrs W Turner
Teaching Assistant, PFA Chairperson and Lunchtime Supervisor
Mrs M Smart
Teaching Assistant and Lunchtime Supervisor
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Year 6 Curriculum Overview
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Autumn Term: Wartime Britain
Spring Term: Early Islamic Civilisation
Summer Term 1: Our Nation’s Capital
Summer Term 2: The World is My Oyster (Enterprise)
The White Rose Scheme supported by The Hamilton Trust flexible blocks
Autumn Term 1: Light
Autumn Term 2: Electricity
Spring Term: Evolution and inheritance
Summer Term 1: Living things and their habitats
Summer Term 2: Animals including humans
Autumn Term 1: Locate the worlds countries using maps and digital media
Autumn Term 2: Map work with a focus on Europe
Spring Term 1: Understand geographical differences and similarities
Spring Term 2: Time zones, tropics and hemispheres
Summer Term 1: London, national map work
Summer Term 2: Plan the trip of a lifetime, human and physical
Autumn Term: A study of War in British history that extends pupils chronological knowledge beyond 1066
Spring Term: A study of a non-European society which provides contract to British History (Early Islamic civilisation)
Summer Term 1: A study of London’s history
Summer Term 2: Identify key dates and moments in the history of a chosen country
Autumn Term: Christianity – eternity and Christianity at Christmas
Spring Term: Islam
Summer Term: Christianity in Cornwall
Autumn Term 1: Goal setting and Growth Mindset
Autumn Term 2: Tolerance and respect, anti-bullying
Spring Term 1: Making choices and resolving conflict
Spring Term 2: My healthy mind
Summer Term 1: Changes, SRE
Summer Term 2: Moving on, looking forward
Autumn Term 1: Composition – listen to battle music, select elements and instruments to create group battle composition
Autumn Term 2: WW2 songs – listen to and perform songs. Create lyrics for WW2 songs and perform
Spring Term 1: Listen to and describe music from Islamic culture
Spring Term 2: Create rhythmic patterns – Islam. Transcribe notation to support beats
Summer Term 1: Digital technology to compose music
Summer Term 2: Performance – perform solos or part of an ensemble
Autumn Term 1: Spanish – A new start
Autumn Term 2: Spanish – Calendar and celebrations
Spring Term 1: Spanish – Animals
Spring Term 2: Spanish – Celebration and playground games
Summer Term 1: Spanish – Food and drink
Summer Term 2: Spanish – World around me
Autumn Term 1: Invasion games
Autumn Term 2: Invasion games, gymnastics
Spring Term 1: Health related exercise, swimming
Spring Term 2: Dance, invasion games
Summer Term 1: Athletics, tennis
Summer Term 2: Cricket, rounders
Autumn Term 1: Wartime themed art, poppy artwork, Flanders fields
Autumn Term 2: Wartime themed art, WW2, Blitz silhouettes
Spring Term 1: Take inspiration from Early Islamic patterns to create geometric patterns and vegetal patterns
Spring Term 2: To use Early Islamic calligraphy
Summer Term 1: Draw inspiration from famous artists
Summer Term 2: Draw inspiration from local artists
Autumn Term 1: 3D Printing
Autumn Term 2: Scratch 3
Spring Term 1: MicroBits
Spring Term 2: E-Safety
Summer Term 1: Multi Media Project
Summer Term 2: Sphero Robotics
Autumn Term 1: 3D Decorations
Autumn Term 2: Design, make and evaluate a Morse Code machine
Spring Term: Textiles – Use Islamic patterns to print or sew
Summer Term: Food – Design, make and market a food product for the enterprise project for sale at the summer fayre
The Penpol Times
Super Sixes Announced!
The long awaited announcement of this year’s first crop of ‘Super Six’
Mr Stanlake
17th January 2019
Year 6 Evacuated Back To WW2
Nearly eighty years after thousands of children and young vulnerable adults were
Mr Stanlake
18th December 2018
Penpol School make their own 3D Winter Ornaments on our 3D Printer!
This year, for the for the third time, we gave every child
Mr Woolcock
17th December 2018
“You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” – Dr Seuss
What an amazing half term it has been. Thank you to everyone
Mrs Riches
11th December 2018
