Spring & Summer 2021-2022
Welcome! Croeso!
This is the Year 6 webpage.
Welcome to the Spring term in Year 6. On this page you will find information about topics, activities and our timetable for this half term.
I am looking forward to sharing lots of fun learning experiences with your children this term and I cannot wait to tell everyone about our first theme. Let's find out what we will be studying in Year 6 this Spring half term...
Our theme for the first half of the term is
This half term, we will be going on a journey around our locality, the UK and the World as we investigate ‘Our Changing World’. We will need to develop our map skills and knowledge before we embark on our journey … so, my little explorers, what do you already know about the features of Earth? How can we use map scales and grid references to find places? What are lines of longitude and latitude? Hmmmm …. I wonder what time it is in Australia when we are eating our breakfast? What are the children in America doing when we are eating our lunch? We will be investigating the different time zones around the world as part of our theme so we will soon be able to find out!
We will then be learning more about climate change and the causes and consequences of global warming … I wonder how Pembrey and Burry Port will be affected by climate change in the future? Will it change in our lifetime? Last term, we learnt how looking after the environment is a shared responsibility and this term, we will be finding out what exactly is being done by different people to protect our local environment and the part that we can play in determining its future.
I wonder … you know what this is a picture of? It is something very exciting, very new and it will be the FIRST of its kind in the whole of the WORLD … and it is very, very close to us! Maybe we should find out this term?
We are also going to be looking forward to our St David’s Day celebrations, Dydd Gwyl Dewi. As you know, each year we learn all about a different Welsh legend or tale – this year we will be learning about a Welsh legend called…
A tale all about a beautiful and kind princess whose fate was sealed by marriage to an Irish King.
So, get your thinking caps on, dig out your globes and atlases and gather some ideas about what you might like to learn about the changing world around us! Let’s have even more fun experiences in Year 6 this term!
After the Spring half term we will be studying
Forces! This half term, the junior scientists in Pembrey will be learning all about forces and how they act on objects to make them move. We will then use everything that we have learned to plan and conduct a fair test to investigate the factors that affect the speed at which parachutes fall to the ground. We have also been set a very special science challenge by a well-known character who has a BIG problem to solve … I wonder what it could possibly be? I hope that we can help!
We will be continuing our work on climate change this term – we will be going on a walk along the coast to see for ourselves how climate change has affected our locality and what this could mean for our future. Not only are we junior scientists in Year 6 but we are junior reporters, too! We will be using everything that we have learned to write a newspaper article about our findings … notepads at the ready! Maybe you will spot some of our environmental art in the community? Keep a look out!
It’s going to be a very busy half term as we celebrate St David’s Day, World Book Day, Fairtrade Fortnight and Comic Relief to name but a few! Not forgetting our Thrilling Thursday outdoor days, too!
It is also a very important time of year as we celebrate Easter; we will be learning all about the meaning of Easter and why it is important to us and everyone around the world.
Does this sound exciting? Remember in our EPIC sessions it's your ideas that count so get your thinking caps on ... what would YOU like to find out about climate change?
Below is our class timetable - what happens in Year 6 and when.
If you have any other queries please email me on the address below:
andrea.davies@pembrey.ysgolccc.cymru
Kind regards.
Mrs Davies