Pupils, teachers and TAs have all settled in and are full of energy after a great holiday.

We hope that you have a good understanding of our reward and behaviour policies at BCB and encourage your children to try their best. The children are steadily progressing towards their marble rewards. Marbles are given for good behaviour and helpfulness, and already the children in Year 6 are well on their way to their first marble reward. It has been very pleasing to already be able to award many House Points this term, as the children are producing some excellent work both in class and at home. The children work towards gaining a Bronze, Silver and Gold Certificate and their Platinum certificate for those children who reach 200 House Points. Each child belongs to a particular House (Viking, Roman, Norman and Saxon) and any House Points gained are also added together to get a weekly total for each House throughout the school. We do encourage you to support your child with homework but do ask that they remain wholly independent tasks. Nightly reading with your child is encouraged and appreciated. On a Friday I will email you a link to our Class website where you will be able to read about what we have been doing in school that week, access homework tasks, view photographs and much more. I have included my email address below; please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Yours sincerely, Miss Beverley laura.beverley@britishcollegebrazil.og Miss Danielle Rocha (Teaching Assistant)

Curriculum Outline
Term 1 Year 6

Welcome to Year 6 ! We are very pleased to welcome you and your child to the new school year. This booklet aims to provide an indication of the areas of the curriculum that it is expected the children in Year 6 will be studying this term.

English (Literacy)

During this term, the children will read and analyse imaginative poetry and poetic devices used. Narrative poems will also be studied and the children will be able to compare the two forms. The children will be given the chance to demonstrate their creative style during our mystery stories unit and will also develop their ability to write arguments and persuade people. Autobiographies and biographies of well know people will be studied and the children will try to use their features to write their own. Our final unit will involve the children becoming journalists where they will interview people and write newspaper reports.

Physical Education

Mathematics (Numeracy)

In mathematics there will be a focus on understanding the number system where children will round, compare and order whole and decimal numbers. Numbers will be analysed in terms of their properties and the children will develop their vocabulary in order to describe them. Number patterns and sequences will be examined and formula generated. We will examine the properties of 2d and 3d shapes and work in different units of measure. During our data handling work, graphs and charts will be read and interpreted and the children will collect data and present their own.

Invasion Games- children will develop skilful attacking and team play; learn how to work well as a team when attacking, and explore a range of ways to defend. Children will start to look at and apply rules of games. Athletics- the focus is on developing technical understanding of athletic activity, learn how to set targets and improve performance in a range of running, jumping and throwing activities. As in all athletic activities, children think about how to achieve the greatest possible speed, height, distance or accuracy. Swimming- children will have the opportunity to increase their confidence in a swimming pool. They will become fully aware of safety measures and how important they are and develop their water survival skills. They will also develop different strokes, play games that focus on swimming more fluently and meet challenges like breathing while swimming.

Art, Design & Technology (DT)

Science
There will be two science topics this term, the first one looking at life processes and will enable the children to classify living things, develop their understanding of plants and flowers and consider how plants and animals adapt to their environments. Our second topic 'Changing State' will build on the work from Year 5 and will look at changes between solids, liquids and gases, reversible and irreversible changes and separating mixtures and solutions. This will also support our Topic work.

In Art & DT the children will use their skills of observational drawing to create sketches of plants and flowers. Paint for the planet posters will be analysed and discussed and the children will create their own to highlight the problems of Global Warming. Our DT work will involve recycling and will result in the children having designed their own pieces of clothing.

Portuguese

I.C.T.
The children will use and develop their word processing skills by presenting some of their Literacy work as typed documents. They will use the internet to research 'Global Warming' and to calculate their own Carbon Footprint. Video software will also be used to make documentaries, as a way of campaigning against Global Warming.

Music
The children will explore melodic and rhythmic cyclic patterns and will be taught to perform them with precision. They will also start to learn and use harmony, singing canons, polyphonies, consonant and dissonant chords.

The children will be involved in three Language Units:Living on a boat,Spaceand Brazilian Stories. The main objective is to develop childrens vocabulary and improve social language skills while through interactive activities. PAL (Portuguese as Additional Language) children work on understanding and giving instructions and engage in conversations to be able to:listen carefully in order to discriminate sounds, identify meaning and develop auditory awareness; understand pronunciation and intonation; use context and clues to interpret meaning;ask and answer questions.PL (Portuguese Language for native speakers) children will take part in activities based on our Brazilian National Curriculum, exercising grammar (focus on: punctuation, nouns, adjectives, pronouns and gender); spelling (focus on use ofch, lh, nh, c, ;use of similar words with different meanings); reading and writing techniques related to our units. Please visit our website to get to know about your weekly news and Portuguese homework: www.portuguesewl.weebly.com