YEAR  6                                                                               KEY STAGE 2      Curriculum Overview / Long Term Planning  2009/10

AUTUMN TERM

SPRING TERM

SUMMER TERM

Literacy

·         Getting to know your pupils

NFER reading tests & Blackwell Spelling testing.  Expectations for English lessons introducing yourself incl.

·         Narrative Writing

Pupils will be taught the skills of story writing.

·         Poetry unit/Journalistic Unit

Jabberwocky & The Lady of Shallot or My Mother saw a Dancing Bear.

·         Class Readers

(Class reader incorporating many skills especially Narrative reading & writing)

One of the following:

The Street Child, Private Peaceful, Journey to the River Sea.

·         Formal and Explanatory Writing

·         Instructions

·         Argument

·         Report Writing

Practice SAT papers to be taken in January and April.

·               Revision

·               Class Readers

One of the following:

War Horse, Private Peaceful, Secret Friend’s Tom’s Midnight Garden

·          ‘Boy’ transition unit.

Numeracy

·         Place value

·         Multiplication and division, mental methods

·         Multiplication and division, written methods

·         Fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion

·         Handling data

·         Using a calculator

·         Shape and space: reasoning about shapes: measures

·         Shape and space; Position, movement and scales, and

        solving problems

·         Addition and subtraction, problems and checking

        solutions

·         Number sequences

·         Place value

·         Multiplication and division

·         Problem solving

·         Fractions, decimals and percentages

·         Rotations and reflections

·         Addition and subtraction

·         Angles, 2D and 3D shapes, perimeter and area

·         Measures and problem solving

·         Ratio, proportion, data handling and problem

         solving

·         Properties of and reasoning about numbers

·         Decimals, fractions and percentages

·         Calculations

·         Shape and space

·         Problem solving

·         Division, decimals and problem solving

·         Perimeter, area, calculation and problem solving

·         Calculation, percentage, ratio and problem solving

·         Calculation and problem solving

·         Fractions, proportion, ratio and problem solving

·         Angles, graphs and problem solving

Science

·   Ecology

·   Forces

·   Changing materials

·   Sound

·   KS2 Revision

·   KS3

·   Electricity

·   Variation

  YEAR  6                                                                               KEY STAGE 2      Curriculum Overview / Long Term Planning 2009/10 

AUTUMN TERM

SPRING TERM

SUMMER TERM

ICT

Finding information

·         Internet research

·         Sorting and filtering spreadsheets

Developing and refining ideas by bringing together, organising and reorganising text, tables and images.

·         Powerpoint presentation

·         Group/peer evaluation

·         Newspaper

·         Package design

Modelling control sequences

Analysing data and asking questions

·         Setting up spreadsheet

·         Identifying fields

·         Sorting and filtering

·         Producing charts

·         Modelling

Making things happen

·         Control activities

Collecting and analysing data

·         Searching databases

·         Construction databases

·         Entering data

·         Analysing data

Developing and refining ideas by brining together, organising and reorganising text, tables, images and sound.

·         Athletic Cards

·         Band promotion

Modelling

·         Music sequencing

·         Artwork

·         Animation

Reviewing and testing

·         Board game

ART

·   Colour and Form – Orphism and Op Art

·   Water  - Painting

·   Painting – based on artists work inside rooms/interiors

·   Natural Environment Landscapes

·   Portraiture (Sketch and collage)

·   Mythical Creatures

FRENCH

·   School subjects

·   Timetable

·   Time

·   School day

·   Clothes

·   Sport

·   Free-time

·   Weekend

·   Weather

·   House

·   Boulogne preparation

                     -      shops

-          shopping dialogues

-          Euro

GEOGRAPHY

HISTORY

·   Ecosystems – Learning about the rainforest

·   Victorian Britain

·   Development

·   Fairtrade

·   Comparing countries – Japan and Brazil

·   The Tudors

MUSIC

·   Keyboard Skills 2 – dotted notes, auto  accompaniments, playing in 2 parts.

·     Songwriter: Exploring Lyrics and Melody:

- how lyrics tell a story

- word – setting to a melody

- simple accompaniments

- composing Christmas songs

·   Pentatonic Music (Chinese Music)

    -  culture and instruments

    -  pentatonic scale

    -  ostinato street cries

·   Ways into Composition

-          using a variety of stimuli

-          writing music for a special occasion

·   Instruments of the orchestra

    -  construction and sounds of each section

    -  beating time –  role of conductor

    -  Orchestra Song -  part-singing and played on    

        keyboards

·      African Drumming (Cyclic patterns)

-  call and response structure

-  polyrhythms and mnemonics

-  improvising rhythms

PE/Games

·   Dance, Gymnastics and Fitness

·   Netball, Football and Basketball

·   Dance, Gymnastics and Fitness

·   Rugby, Cross-Country, Short Tennis and Uni Hoc

·   Athletics and Adventurous Activities

·  Rounders, Cricket and Short Tennis

PHSE/Cit.

·   Looking at me

·   Being part of a family

·   Problems

·   Coping with loss

·   Growing up (Puberty)

·   Your decision

·   Get fit/Stay fit

·   Germs Germs Germs

·   Looking at Parliament

·   Organising your  time

·   Exploring Disability

·   Growing and Changing (Becoming confident)

·   Personal problems -  Skin

-          Hair

-          Feet

-          Personal Hygiene

RE

·     Worship – what does it mean?

·   Journeys – Why do some people travel to sacred places?

·   The Hindu Family

·   How does religion affect family life?

TECHNOLOGY
2 week blocks

Resistant Materials:

·   Design and Planning - Puppets  

Food Technology:

·     Recap Safety / hygiene

·   Cutting away waste

·   Design and make a ‘Crazee Creature’

·   Look at Pasta Sauces and Pastry

·   Jointing – Drilling and Dowelling

·   Design and make an ‘Electrical Buggy’

·   Milk, Taste and Smell