Curriculum – Year 6

SUBJECT AUTUMN TERM SPRING TERM SUMMER TERM
 
ENGLISH
  • Fiction Genres
  • Biography and Autobiography
  • The power of Imagery
  • Extending Narrative
  • Authors and Texts
  • Journalistic Writing
  • Finding a Voice
  • Short Stories with Flashbacks
  • Argument
MATHEMATICS SET 1
  • Multiplying decimals
  • Dividing decimals
  • Conversion Graphs
  • Travel Graphs
  • Areas and perimeters of squares and rectangles
  • Area of triangle
  • Constructing triangles
  • Angle searching
  • Bearings
  • Percentages
  • Probability
  • Isometric Drawing
  • Nets
  • Volumes of Cubes and Cuboids
  • Mean
  • Median
  • Mode
  • Range
  • Fractions – 4 rules with Mixed Numbers
  • Harder probability
  • Mean, mode and median
  • Frequency tables
  • Pie charts
  • Harder decimals 4 Rules
  • Angles and Polygons
  • Harder percentages
  • Ratio
  • Scale drawings
  • Enlargement
MATHEMATICS SET 2
  • The metric system
  • Adding and subtracting
  • Measurements
  • Decimals and fractions
  • Months
  • The day
  • 24 hour clock
  • time as fraction
  • distance, speed and time
  • frequency tables
  • pictograms
  • pie charts
  • credit and debit
  • calculating with a negative
  • numbers
  • brackets
  • double negatives
  • negative co-ordinates
  • drawing axes
  • translation
  • transformations on a grid
  • Introducing algebra – simplifying and equations
  • Calculator
  • BIDMAS
  • Multiplying decimals
  • Dividing decimals
  • Conversion graphs
  • Travel graphs
  • Areas and perimeters of squares and rectangles
  • Area to triangle
  • Constructing triangles
  • Angle searching
  • Bearings
  • Percentages
  • Probability
  • Isometric drawing
  • Nets
  • Volumes of cubes and cuboids
  • Mean
  • Median
  • Mode
  • Range
GEOGRAPHY
  • Compare different vegetation and climate types around the world.
  • Natural hazards (earthquakes and volcanoes + global warming).
  • Tourism and national parks.
HISTORY
  • The Normans
  • William I consolidates
  • Castles and importance to Norman control
  • Feudal system
  • William II
  • Henry I
  • Civil War 1135-54
  • The Plantagenets
  • Henry II and the settlement of England
  • Henry II and Becket
  • Henry II and law and order
  • Richard I and the third crusade
  • John and the Barons
  • Magna Carta
  • Village life
  • Town life
SCIENCE
  • Separating Mixtures
  • Human Biology
  • Gases of the Air
  • Acids and Alkalis

 

  • Energy
  • Units, Measuring
  • Accuracy and Density
RS
  • Buddhism
  • Sikhism
  • New Testament Parables
LATIN
  • Introduction to language
  • Verb endings
  • Noun Cases
  • All noun cases
  • 3rd and 4th conjugation verbs
  • Questions
  • Prepositions
  • All conjugations
  • Personal pronouns
  • Neuter nouns
PE
  • Invasion games in the Sports Hall
  • Swimming
  • Invasion games
  • Swimming
  • Athletics (including discus, shot put and javelin)
MUSIC
  • Sea & Ships (music inspired by the sea. Pupils study and compose the music of Britten and Debussy
  • Notes & Keyboards (Recording musical ideas using notation bass and treble clef using ICT)
  • Benjamin Britten (pupils will learn about the life and music of Benjamin Britten and will create a written project)
GAMES
  • Rugby (boys)
  • Hockey (girls)
  • Hockey (boys)
  • Netball (girls)
  • Cricket (boys)
  • Rounders (girls)
ICT
  • An introduction to email
  • An introduction to Google documents
  • Miscrosoft Excel – Pocket money manager
  • An introduction to serifs Drawplus
  • Making websites in Google apps
ART
  • Chinese painting techniques
  • 3D work – clay, tropical birds
  • Silhouettes, skin patterns for design projects
  • Observational drawing / painting
  • Colour mixing techniques
  • Designs generated from skin patterns
  • Architectural drawings
  • The school – in crayon and graphite
  • Pen and ink work
DT
  • Bridging structures
  • A cam-operated machine
  • Model making in card
  • Graphic display work
  • Concrete casting
FRENCH Topics

  • Revision of Y5 topics
  • Height, hair/eye colour
  • Personality description
  • Describing others
  • Clothes + colours
  • Describing what other people do
  • Weather
  • “Ma famille imaginaire” ICT/French project
Topics

  • School subjects
  • Opinions and reasons
  • Revision of analog / digital time
  • Describing one’s timetable
  • Daily routine
  • Writing project “Brochure sur mon collège”
  • Speaking project “Ma routine quotidienne” (with Power Point presentation)
Topics

  • Food and drinks
  • Shopping dialogues
  • Money
  • Revision
Grammar & Language

  • Personal pronouns
  • Avoir + être (present tense)
  • Adjectival agreement
  • Porter, mettre, acheter (present tense)
  • –er verbs (present tense) + negative
  • Quand + weather
Grammar & Language

  • Likes/dislikes, “ma matière préférée, c’est…”
  • Connectives to extend sentences (parce que, mais..)
  • Genders
  • Reflexive –er verbs in the present tense
Grammar & Language

  • Partitive: du / de la / de l’ / des
  • Manger and boire (present tense)
  • Transactional language (je voudrais, combien ça coûte, etc)
Phonics

  • i / y / ill
  • a / â
  • j / ch
  • on / an
Phonics

  • d / t
  • g / k
  • oi / ui
  • silent endings –s/-p/-t/-d/-ent
Phonics

  • euil / ouil
  • s / z
  • eil / ail
PSHE   Myself & Relationships

  • Friends & Family
  • Hygiene
  • Making the most of my ability
  • Voicing and Explaining viewpoints
  Citizenship

  • Peer Group Pressure
  • Age of criminal responsibility
  • Moral dilemmas
  • Consequences of inappropriate behaviour
 Health

  • Exercise
  • My lifestyle
  • Safety & relationships
  • What affects mental health?
  • Disabilities