Year 6 Curriculum Overview

  YEAR  6                                                                                KEY STAGE 2      Curriculum Overview / Long Term Planning

 

AUTUMN TERM

SPRING TERM

SUMMER TERM

Literacy

 

·    Text type:

Autobiography and Biography

Biography and diary comparisons

Classic fiction

Adaptation of classics on film/TV

Recount/Biography

Non chronological reports

Poetry by established writers

Shakespeare play (extract)

Instruction/Explanation/report text

 

·    Sentence/Word Level Work:

    Active and passive verbs, use of third person.

Semicolon, conjunctions and mnemonics

Language change over time – expressions not in use today.  Paragraphing, summarising, use of dialogue. Connectives and complex sentences.  Features of recount/biographical text, use of quotes.  Features of report text.  Use of adjectives, word order, how words can be extended.  Difference between fact and opinion.  Use of imperative verbs.

 

·          Extended writing.

 

 

·    Text type:

Traditional stories and longer established stories and novels - from more than one genre.

Range of poetic forms.

Texts that set out a different point of view.

Official language.

Information text.

 

·    Sentence/Word Level Work:

Varying sentence length.  Active and passive verbs, derivation.  Formal language, contracting sentences, conditional, common prefixes and suffixes.  Features of formal writing.  Features of official language.  Use of imperative verbs.  Punctuation in complex sentences.  Word origins and language change.  Revise complex sentences, understand conditionals.  Impersonal and passive voice.  Features of non-fiction texts.  Use of similes.

·          Revision.

·          Extended writing.

 

 

·     Text type:

Different writers treatment of the same theme – comparison of work by significant children’s authors.

Sustained reading and work from significant children’s authors and poets.

Explanation text.

Reference text.

 

 

·       Sentence/Word Level Work:

Formal language, dialect and standard English.

Formal/informal writing, 1st and 3rd person.  Compare writers.  Language investigations, manipulation of clauses.  Content, structure and language features of explanation texts.  Content, structure and organisation of encyclopaedias.  Purpose and organisation of dictionaries, explore word origins.  Poetry style.  Language investigations, manipulation of clauses.  Revise conventions of narrative.  Control of complex sentences.

 

·          Extended writing.

 

 

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 (Cont.) 

 

AUTUMN TERM

SPRING TERM

SUMMER TERM

ICT

Finding information

·          Mars-searching the Internet for information

·          Victorian children-searching the Internet for information

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

·          Powerpoint presentation

·          Group evaluation

·          Newspaper

Using e-mail

Analysing data and asking questions

·          Smarties spreadsheet

·          Classifying data

·          Producing charts

·          Modelling

Making things happen

·          Superlogo

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

·          Athletics Cards

·          Graphic modelling-photo

Exchanging information

·          SAT’s Science revision-Who wants to be a Millionaire presentation.

Control

·          Flowel

Finding things out and graphical modelling

·          Board game-explorers

Simulations

·          Crocodile clips

ART

·    Colour and Form – Orphism and Op Art

·    Aztecs (3-D)

·    Textiles (Water Theme)

·    Pop Art (Print making)

·    Portraiture (Sketch and collage)

·    Land Art (nature)

FRENCH

Revise and extend:

·    School subjects

·    Timetable

·    Time

·    School day

·    Clothes

·    Sport

·    Free-time

·    Weekend

·    Weather

·    House

·    Bedroom

·    Evening activities

HUMANITIES

·    Victorian Great Britain

                                                                 Environmental

                                                                      Landforms

 

System                                                   Exploration  and

Water                                          15th Century Explorers

 

 Encounters

Aztecs

MUSIC

·    Underground Music:

reinforce note values, including dotted notes

simple time signatures

word setting

·      Songwriter: Exploring lyrics and Melody:

lyrics tell a story

Christmas songs

·    Chinese Music (Fen Yang)

culture

pentatonic scale

instruments

·      ‘Stars Hide Your Fires’

performance unit

expression and control

·    Keyboard Skills 2

dotted notes

use of auto accompaniments

·    Who knows? – exploring musical processes

various stimuli

elements of music

PE/Games

·    Dance and Gymnastics

·    Netball and Football

·    Dance and Gymnastics

·    Hockey, Rugby and Cross-Country

·    Athletics and Adventurous Activities

·   Rounders, Cricket and Short Tennis

PHSE/Cit.

·    Looking after myself

·    Caring for my body

·    Things that worry me

·    Keeping safe

·    Road Safety

·    Firework Code

·    Facing challenges

·    Critical thinking

·    Taking risks

·    Pressures and influences

·    Learning new skills

·    Listening and Communicating well

·    Drug Education-  Bedfordshire scheme

 

·    Growing and changing

·    Sex Education

·    HIV and Aids

RE

·      Stories and Festivals of the Natural World

·    Jesus and the Bible

·    Leaders and sacred writings from religions other than Christianity

TECHNOLOGY
2 week blocks

Resistant Materials:

·    Design and Planning   

Food Technology:

·      Recap Safety / hygiene

·    Cutting away waste

·    Design and make a ‘Crazee Creature’

 

·    Look at Pasta and Sauces

·    Jointing – Drilling and Dowelling

·    Design and make an ‘Electrical Buggy’

 

·    Milk, Taste and Smell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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