Year 6
Summer Term 2021
English
The Arrival
Writing opportunities include letter writing, diary entry, writing in role, description, narrative and poetry.
Autobiographical writing focusing on poetry
Incredible Journeys
Focusing on non-fiction writing e.g. non-chronological reports and fact files.
Maths
Number:
Approximating, place value, decimals and written addition.
Percentages
Algebra
Ratio
Problem solving
Measurement
Length, weight and capacity (conversion of units)
Mixed units to decimals
Problem solving
Geometry
Properties of shapes
Science
1.Living things and their habitats
Pupils will be taught 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.
- Evolution and Inheritance
Pupils will be taught to:
- Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.
- Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents
- Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.
History
The Stone Age to Iron Age
In this topic, the children will learn about life in Britain in the Stone and Iron Ages, a period covering a million years of history and understand the chronology of this fascinating time to create timelines of the periods from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. The children will also discover developments in food and cooking, and the move from hunting and gathering to farming. Explore developing technology and inventions, and speculate why these changes occurred.
RE
The Way, The Truth and The Light series
- The Transforming Spirit
Pupils will explore:
- the Disciples of Jesus,
- the Ascension
- Pentecost
- Peter, the Apostle.
2.Called to Serve
Pupils will explore:
- The Sacrament of Confirmation
- Sacrament of Marriage
- Sacrament of Holy Orders
- And the responses to God’s Call.
ICT
E-safety
Stop-motion animation
PE
Dance
Athletics
Cardiovascular exercise
ART
Drawing and sketching techniques
Curved stitching
Portraits
PHSE
Transition to Secondary School
Financial Literacy
Sex Education
Spring Term 2021
English
The children will continue to develop their love of reading and writing through a range of rich texts and short films. They will listen to and write in a range of genres to develop their understanding of the key features (diaries, reports, articles and writing speech).These are some of the key texts for this term: ‘Jabberwocky’ (poetry unit), The Arrival- a fabulous wordless book by Shaun Tan, and The Rain Player ( linked to our History Topic). We will also do some work linked to the award winning ‘Guardian’ advert that depicts the tale of ‘The Three Little Pigs’.
Grammar:
Recognising Word types- Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs
Sentence structure- subject and object, Passive and Active Voice
Writing Style – Formala and Informal writing, Standard and Non -Standard English
Punctuation:
Develop and consolidate basic punctuation from Year 4 and Year 5
Continue to develop correct comma use (avoiding comma splicing)
Introducing-Using colons and semi colons correctly
Spelling
Prefixes- e.g. trans, bi, tri and semi and hyphenating prefixes
Confusing words- words ending in ‘ise’ and ‘ice’
Maths
Number:
Approximating, place value, decimals and written addition.
Percentages
Algebra
Ratio
Measurement
Length, weight and capacity (conversion of units)
Mixed units to decimals
Perimeter, area and volume
Statistics
Read, interpret and draw line graphs and pie charts
Circles
Science
Light
The children will be taught to:
– recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines;
– use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye;
– explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes
– use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them.
Living things and their habitats
Pupils will be taught to:
- Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.
- Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents
- Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.
History The Maya Civilisation
In this topic, the children will explore the secrets of Mayan life. How did the Maya live? Where were they found? What were they known for? The children will learn about how the Maya excelled at architecture, agriculture, pottery, hieroglyph writing and mathematics.
RE The Way, The Truth and The Light series
1.Exploring the Mass
2.Jesus, the Messiah
ICT Word processing
Research
Geography UK and Spain study
Focus on the similarities and differences of these two countries- food, people, history and geography
DT Shadow puppets
Jabberwocky models
PE Cardiovascular exercise
ART Researching famous artists
Drawing and sketching techniques
Comparing and contrasting styles
PHSE E-safety, Well-being, Understanding Mental Health Issues, Keeping Safe