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Year Six - The Reef

Mrs Taylor is the teacher in our Y6 class. Mrs Christlo is the teaching assistant on Tuesday & Wednesday. Our PE days are Monday & Thursday. Our class name is the reef and we are the turtles.

Our Class Saint

St Carlo Acutis. Patron The Patron Saint of the Internet. Feast day 12th October.

Carlo Acutis an Italian website designer who documented Eucharistic miracles and approved Marian apparitions, and catalogued both on a website he designed before his death from leukaemia. Acutis was noted for his cheerfulness, computer skills, and devotion to the Eucharist, which became a core theme of his life.

Keen to transmit the faith to a younger generation, Acutis applied himself to creating a website dedicated to cataloguing each reported Eucharistic miracle in the world and maintaining a list of the approved Marian apparitions of the Catholic Church. He appreciated Blessed Giacomo Alberione's initiatives to use the media to evangelise and proclaim the Gospel, aiming to do likewise with his own website. Acutis launched the website in 2004 and worked on it for two and a half years, involving his entire family in the project. It was unveiled on 4 October 2006, the Feast of St. Francis, only days before his death.

St Carlo pray for us.

Our Current Class Book

Our Curriculum Overview

Autumn Term: History Driver

Spring Term: Geography Driver

Summer Term: Art Driver

Big Question: What legacy are we leaving? Ancient Civilisations

Authentic Outcome: A legacy for St Mary’s Project Concepts: Identity, Change, Influence

Catholic Social Teaching: Community and Participation

Science: Electricity

Computing: How do I build complex physical systems? / How do I use Scratch as a game designer?

D&T: Monitoring and Control – link to electricity in science

PE: Football / OAA / Indoor athletics

RE: Loving / Vocation & Commitment / Expectations

PSHE: Relationships

RSHE: Created to Love Others

Online Safety: The Social Web / Protecting Ourselves

Big Question: Where is the most dangerous place in the world? Natural Disasters

Authentic Outcome: Fundraising activity

Project Concepts: Sustainability, Compassion, Poverty, Wealth

Catholic Social Teaching: Concern for the Vulnerable / Rights and Responsibilities / Care for Creation

Science: Light

Computing: How do I use a computer as a designer? Leaflet for place visited in Geography / How do I use Scratch as a game designer? Animation of natural disaster

D&T: Frame structures – link to earthquakes

PE: Martial art dance / Gymnastics

RE: Sources / Unity / Death and New Life

PSHE: Living in the wider world

RSHE: Created to Live in Community

Online Safety: Commercial Risks / News and Media

Big Question: Who Am I?

Authentic Outcome: St Mary’s Sculpture Park

Project Concepts: Individuality, Identity, Truth, Spirituality

Catholic Social Teaching: Human Dignity / Community and Participation

Art: Sculpture

Music: Music as an expression of identity