Mission:

To nurture a globally-minded community of learners working towards fully recognized international standards integrated with the British National Curriculum

Beliefs:

The CES community believes and promotes the principle, “Together Achieving Personal Excellence”.

This policy supports the following guiding statements (bolded). To aim to:

1.	be BETTER THAN BEFORE (BTB) in everything we do and achieve a culture where personal excellence is paramount 

2.	show kindness and respect for others through demonstrating strong ethical values and character 

3.	reach our full potential through active engagement in lessons and co-curricular activities 

4.	understand and respect others cultural beliefs and belief structures 

5.	be effective communicators 

6.	experience success and have it recognised 

7.	identify talents through the programme of co-curricular activities and events 

8.	promote a holistic approach to health and well-being 

9.	develop open-minded reflective learners 

10.	promote the principle that differences define, not divide 

11.	take pride in the richness of the Egyptian culture, language and curriculum 

The next six weeks curriculum in Year 6 Term 1a

Dear Parents,

This is what we plan to cover in this next six week block:

In Mathematics we will be:

Counting, Partitioning and Calculating

•	Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing whole numbers and decimals mentally 

•	Estimating and checking calculations 

•	Using a calculator to solve multi-step problems 

•	Using times tables facts to work out other facts with decimals 

•	Rounding large numbers to the nearest multiple of 10, 100 or 1000 

•	Understanding the difference between positive and negative integers 

•	Explaining why a number will occur in a sequence, explaining the reasoning 

Number Facts and Shapes

•	Making and drawing shapes accurately 

•	Classifying 2-D shapes with perpendicular or parallel sides 

•	Working out which numbers less than 100 are prime numbers 

•	Using times tables facts to work out other facts with decimals 

•	Saying the squares of numbers to 12 and working out the squares of multiples of 10 

•	Describing and explaining sequences, patterns and relationships 

•	Writing and using simple expressions in words and formulae 

English:

During the next six weeks students in Year 6 will be working on Autobiography and Biography. Students will research information on a subject and construct and follow a plan. They will begin to evaluate and appraise source material. They will start to recognise rhetorical devices used to argue, persuade, mislead and sway the reader. Students will explore understanding of the form, language conventions and grammatical features of non-chronological reports. At the end of the unit students when planning their writing will select the appropriate style and form to suit a specific purpose and audience. They will draw on their knowledge of different non-fiction text types and use the language conventions and grammatical features of different text types as appropriate.

Mission:

To nurture a globally-minded community of learners working towards fully recognized international standards integrated with the British National Curriculum

Beliefs:

The CES community believes and promotes the principle,

“Together Achieving Personal Excellence”.

This policy supports the following guiding statements (bolded). To aim to:

12.	be BETTER THAN BEFORE (BTB) in everything we do and achieve a culture where personal excellence is paramount 

13.	show kindness and respect for others through demonstrating strong ethical values and character 

14.	reach our full potential through active engagement in lessons and co-curricular activities 

15.	understand and respect others cultural beliefs and belief structures 

16.	be effective communicators 

17.	experience success and have it recognised 

18.	identify talents through the programme of co-curricular activities and events 

19.	promote a holistic approach to health and well-being 

20.	develop open-minded reflective learners 

21.	promote the principle that differences define, not divide 

22.	take pride in the richness of the Egyptian culture, language and 

Reading:

We will be continuing to improve our comprehension and reading skills by reading a range of books at our reading level. Students will be completing activities to improve their understanding of what they have read.

The International Primary Curriculum:
We will be following a unit of work called Here and Now: There and Then. 

The Big Idea:

Some of you are lucky enough to have had the chance to live in more than one country. You can talk about your ‘host country’ and ‘home country’. You will have learned so much from this experience – let’s find out what you know and what more there is to learn …
In Geography, we’ll be finding out:
• How to locate the host and home countries
• How these countries are connected
• What these countries are like
• How they are similar and different
In History, we’ll be finding out:
• The history of our host and home countries
• About history from people, photographs and maps
• About history from museums and books
• About history from buildings and architecture
In Society, we’ll be finding out:
• If the host/home countries are in the news
• About issues that affect the host/home countries
In International, we’ll be finding out:
• What things we have brought to the host country
• How the host and home countries have worked together

In Science we will be focusing on the topic: Living Things and their Habitat
Aims
The National Curriculum for Science aims to ensure that all pupils:
•	develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics
•	develop understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them
•	are equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future
Students will be learning to:
•	describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals 
•	give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics

Mission:

To nurture a globally-minded community of learners working towards fully recognized international standards integrated with the British National Curriculum

Beliefs:

The CES community believes and promotes the principle, “Together Achieving Personal Excellence”.

This policy supports the following guiding statements (bolded). To aim to:

23.	be BETTER THAN BEFORE (BTB) in everything we do and achieve a culture where personal excellence is paramount 

24.	show kindness and respect for others through demonstrating strong ethical values and character 

25.	reach our full potential through active engagement in lessons and co-curricular activities 

26.	understand and respect others cultural beliefs and belief structures 

27.	be effective communicators 

28.	experience success and have it recognised 

29.	identify talents through the programme of co-curricular activities and events 

30.	promote a holistic approach to health and well-being 

31.	develop open-minded reflective learners 

32.	promote the principle that differences define, not divide 

33.	take pride in the richness of the Egyptian culture, language and curriculum 

All of the work we are going to do has been specially written to help your child reach the learning goals. Children will be reading, researching, writing, illustrating, working on their own and working in groups. We will be checking to see how well your child has learned through particular activities and asking children to explain their work, perhaps to you.

We already know the interest you take in your child’s work. If you can, please discuss with your child the work they have done as the term progresses and let them teach you.

If your child has some work to research, please help them, but without actually doing the work. If you have the chance to further their interest in the ideas of this theme please take it, but your enthusiasm and interest is most important.

By the end of the unit, we hope your child has achieved all of the learning targets. We hope they have had an enjoyable time in the classroom. And we hope you have enjoyed seeing your child work with enthusiasm. If you have any comments about the work your child has done, please get in touch.

Kind Regards,
The Year 6 Team
Andrew McGregor Year Group Leader-	 amcgregor@cesegypt.com

Karen Moore 	 kmoore@cesegypt.com
Yvonne Fisher	 yfisher@cesegypt.com
Stephen Cresswell 	 scresswell@cesegypt.com