Author: Lucie Smith

Year 6 Maths —Autumn 2

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Vocabulary
Consecutive— numbers/integers which follow in order (e.g5,6,7,8,9)
Descending— numbers which decrease in value or amount
Ascending— numbers which increase in value or amount
Sum/total— the result when two or more numbers are added together
Difference— Result when a smaller number is taken away from a larger number
Product— Result when two or more numbers are multiplied together
Quotient— Result when one number is divided by another
Operations— +(add), - (subtract), x (multiply), ÷ (divide)
Integer— A negative or positive whole number

Year 6 Maths —Autumn 2

Knowledge Organiser

Vocabulary
Numerator— shows how many parts that you have
Denominator— shows how many parts there are in total
Whole— where the numerator is equal to the denominator
Equivalent— equal in value or amount
Improper— where the numerator is of greater value than the denominator
Integer— a whole number which is not a fraction

Amazing Americas

Year 6 Geography —Autumn term

Vocabulary
Continent— the world’s main continuous expanses of land.
Country— a nation with it’s own government, occupying a particular territory.
Latitude— angular distance north or south of the Earth’s equator.
Longitude— angular distance east or west of the Earth’s equator.
Equator— a line drawn onto the Earth, equidistant from the poles.
Hemisphere— half of a sphere. In this case the Earth, usually divided into Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Tropics— the parallel of latitude 23°26ʹ north tropic of Cancer or south tropic of Capricorn of the equator.
Climate— the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
Landscape— all the visible features of the land.
Ancient Wonders — impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe.

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Climate change
Climate change (or global warming), is the process of our planet heating up. The Earth has warmed by an average of 1°C in the last century, and although that might not sound like much, it means big things for people and wildlife around the globe. Unfortunately, rising temperatures don’t just mean that we’ll get nicer weather – if only! The changing climate will actually make our weather more extreme and unpredictable. As temperatures rise, some areas will get wetter and lots of animals (and humans!) could find they’re not able to adapt to their changing climate.

Automata Animals

Year 6 D&T—Autumn term

Vocabulary
Cam— a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
Follower— reciprocate motion according to the profile of each cam.
Mechanism— a system of parts working together in a machine.
Components— a part or element of a larger whole, especially a part of a machine or vehicle.
Rotary— revolving around a centre or axis; rotational.
Linear— arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line.
Motion— the action or process of moving or being moved.
Material— the matter from which a thing is or can be made.
Coping saw— a saw with a very narrow blade stretched across a D-shaped frame, used for cutting curves in wood.
Blade— the flat cutting edge of a knife, saw, or other tool or weapon.

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Important measures conversions
1cm = 10mm 1m = 100cm 1km = 1000m
12inches = 1 foot 3foot = 1 yards

Coping saw
To safely use the coping saw, firmly hold the material in a vice. Place the saw's central teeth on the line to be cut and push the saw in a short stroke to start the cut. Continue the cut, turning the handle and frame as needed to follow the cut line. For safety, keep hands and other objects away from the sharp teeth.

Year 6 English —Autumn 2

Our English focus :
An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
-Use a wide range of punctuation and grammar skills within our writing.
-Respond appropriately to the writing task with word and phrase choices in writing.
-Be able to articulate point of view in a debate style presentation.
-Use good presentational skills in delivering debate speech to class.

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Spellings: Rules and Y5/6 list
Prefixes - ‘trans’ ‘bi’ ‘tri’ and ‘semi’ as in transform, bilingual, tricycles and semicircles.
Hyphenating prefixes - for example: re-sent to show you sent it again instead of resent to show you didn’t like a comment.
The following is a list of our Y5/6 vocabulary which children should have the ability to spell with a high degree of accuracy by the end of the year.
accommodate, accompany, according, achieve, aggressive, amateur, ancient, apparent, appreciate, attached, available, average, awkward, bargain, bruise, category, cemetery, committee, communicate, community, competition, conscience*, conscious*, controversy, convenience, correspond, criticise (critic + ise), curiosity, definite, desperate, determined, develop, dictionary, disastrous, embarrass, environment, equip (–ped, –ment), especially, exaggerate, excellent, existence, explanation, familiar, foreign, forty, frequently, government, guarantee, harass, hindrance, identity, immediate(ly), individual, interfere, interrupt, language, leisure, lightning, marvellous, mischievous, muscle, necessary, neighbour, nuisance, occupy, occur, opportunity, parliament, persuade, physical, prejudice, privilege, profession, programme, pronunciation, queue, recognise, recommend, relevant, restaurant, rhyme, rhythm, sacrifice, secretary, shoulder, signature, sincere(ly), soldier, stomach, sufficient, suggest, symbol, system, temperature, thorough, twelfth, variety, vegetable, vehicle, yacht

Key Reading Questions
In Year 6 children need to show their understanding of a text. So we use a selection of different questions which are from ‘Bloom’s Taxonomy’. When reading with your child, you can help them show their fluency in understanding the text by asking them some of these questions.

How has the author used description to show how the
character is feeling?
How does the layout help you understand the text?
Why did the author choose those words?
Can you explain why…?
Can you find one word that describes a character in your book well?
If your story happened a long time ago, can you compare that time with today?
What evidence can you use to support your view?
Can you suggest a different ending to this story?
What is the author trying to tell you by describing the
character behaving like that?

Types of sentences
Command: Look at the test carefully. (telling someone to do something)
Statement: In Year 6, children are assessed in their reading skills. (claims something)
Question: Can you try to work out what is being asked? (ends with a ?)
Exclamation: You’ve done brilliantly at this work! (always ends with a !)

Evolution and Inheritance

Year 6 Science: Autumn 2

Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) English naturalist who first set out his theory of evolution and natural selection in his book 'On the Origin of Species' published in 1859.
Darwin started to study other animals and plants, and he began to piece together his theory of natural selection which explains how populations evolve.

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Adaptation

Vocabulary
Adaptation – The process of change so that an organism or species can become better suited to their environment
Body fossil – Preserved remains of the body of the actual animal or plant itself
Breeding – The mating and production of offspring by animals
Environment – The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives
Evolution – The process by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth
Fossil – The remains or impression of a prehistoric plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved
Inherit – To gain a quality, characteristic or predisposition genetically from a parent or ancestor
Offspring – A person’s child or children/ an animal’s young
Reproduction – The production of offspring by a sexual or asexual process
Selective breeding – The process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to develop selective characteristics by choosing particular animals and plants
Trace fossil – Indirect evidence of life in the past such as the footprints, tracks, burrows, borings and waste left behind by animals