Year 6

Curriculum Overview

Autumn Spring Summer

Theme Changes

Electricity

Residential

The

Buddha

American

Adventure

Why do

people

follow the

teachings

of

Buddha?

DT/

Enterprise

We’ll meet again

Living as a

Buddhist

The Buddhist

Community

Worldwide

Living Things What a

Performance

Transition

Time allocation

2 weeks 1 week 1 week 9weeks 1 week 1 week 10 weeks 1 week 2 weeks 6 weeks 2 weeks 2 weeks

Class Visit Thornbridge Mayan

Temple

Building in

school

Eden Camp Buddhist

Centrre

University of

Sheffield Science

Visit

‘Hook / Wow’

Make a

human

circuit

Journey

To

Thornbridge

20 questions USA Road trip

– TES

resources –

Learn about

key cities in

USA

Video

Chocolate

taste

testing

Experience an air raid and

Evacuation

Buddhist

Centre Visit

Interview

Buddhist

visitor

University of

Sheffield Science

Visit

Drama

Games

Secondary

visits

End of theme

celebration

Chocolate

shop/cafe

VE day celebration

Street party etc

Celebration of

work – Showcase

for parents

Book Study

Holes

Floodland

Goodnight Mr Tom

The Nowhere

Emporium (Possible

Visit to Grimm & Co)

Room 13

Wonder

Year 6 Autumn - English & Maths

Theme Changes Electricity (2 weeks)

Residential (1 week)

The Buddha (1 week)

American Adventure (9 weeks)

Why do people follow the teachings

of Buddha? (1 week)

DT Enterprise (1 week)

English Theme

Explanation text Diaries/recount of residential

Story of Siddhartha Gautama?

Persuasive leaflet Information text – Living as a Buddhist

Instructions / How to guide

Speaking & Listening

Talk confidently and fluently in a range of situations, using formal and Standard English, if necessary.

Ask questions to develop ideas and take account of others’ views.

Explain ideas and opinions giving reasons and evidence

Reading Apply knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes to read aloud and understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Read further exception words, noting the unusual correspondences between spelling and sound.

Attempt pronunciation of unfamiliar words drawing on prior knowledge of similar looking words.

Become familiar with a range of narrative genres.

Know that texts can have elements of more than one text type.

Explain why I enjoyed a book or poem and explain who might enjoy it.

Evaluate the usefulness of a non-fiction book to research questions raised.

Use dictionaries to check the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Use meaning-seeking strategies to explore the meaning of words in contexts.

Give personal points of view about a text.

Explain reasons for a viewpoint.

Listen to others’ ideas about a text.

Identify and summarise key information from a text.

Summarise key information in sentences.

Find and summarise key information from different parts of the text.

Present an oral overview or summary of a text.

Understand the difference between fact and opinions and explain the difference.

Use point, evidence and explanation to respond to questions about the text. (PEE)

Writing Use a thesaurus to develop word understanding and build a bank of antonyms and synonyms

Explanation text ,

Diary Entry (Holes),

Informal letter,

Complaint letter,

Non-chronological report ,

Persuasive writing

Grammar Use the correct tense all the way through a piece of writing.

Use modal verbs mostly to suggest degrees of possibility.

Add precision, detail and quantification using prepositional phrases and adverbs.

Effectively draft my work to enhance meaning and adapt grammar choices for effect.

Use commas correctly to mark phrases and clauses – clarity.

Follow Active English Programme – Y6

Spelling Use a range of spelling strategies, not just phonics.

Use a dictionary to check spelling/meaning.

I proof read and edit my work to check for spelling and punctuation errors.

Use the correct homophones.

Spell most words with silent letters.

Spelling Shed – Step 11 - 24

Handwriting Dictation Specific handwriting intervention with TA for those who need it following usual scheme.

Maths Place Value Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy Use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across zero Solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above Addition, Subtraction, Division and Multiplication Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contxts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why Multiply multi-digit number up to 4 digits by a 2 digit number using the formal written method of long multiplication Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a 2 digit number using the formal written method of long division, and interpret remainders as whole number remainders, fractions, or by rounding as appropriate for the context Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a 2 digit number using the formal written method of short division, interpreting remainders according to the context Perform mental calculations, including with mixed operations and large numbers Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers Use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the four operations Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division Use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy Fractions

Use common factors to simplify factions, use common multiples to express fractions in the same denomination

Compare and order fractions, including fractions greater than 1

Generate and describe linear number sequences (with fractions)

Add and subtract fractions with different denominations and mixed numbers, using the concept of equivalent fractions

Multiply simple pairs of proper fractions, writing the answer in its simplest form

Divide proper fractions by whole numbers

Associate a fraction with division and calculate decimal fraction equivalents

Recall and use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages, including in different contexts Position and Direction Describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all four quadrants) Draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes

Maths Themes Data handling – facts and figures about landmarks and climate Money – real life context from working out profit

Year 6 Autumn – Foundation Subjects

Theme Changes Electricity (2 weeks)

Residential (1 week)

The Buddha (1 week)

American Adventure (9 weeks)

Why do people follow the teachings of Buddha?

(1 week)

(1 week)

Science Concluding: Pupils should be taught to: report and present findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations. Measuring & Recording: Pupils should be taught to: record data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs Investigation: Does the number of bulbs in a circuit affect the brightness? Asking Questions: Pupils should be taught to: plan different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary. Evaluating: Pupils should be taught to:

use test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

Computing UNIT 5.6 Information Technology Introduce 2Design and Make Explore the effects of moving points when designing. Design for a purpose. Understand printing and making. (Scratch/Purple Mash) introduction – preparation for later in the year )

UNIT 6.3Information Technology Create a spreadsheet to answer a mathematical question Explore probability within spreadsheets Know why spreadsheets are used in real life Use a spreadsheet to plan pocket money spending and a school event 2019 (used due to beign half way through topic): Make advert for chocolate brand. (imovie)

Identify and use appropriate hardware and software to fulfil a specific task.

Identify a success criteria for creating digital content for a given purpose and audience.

Remix and edit a range of existing and their own media to create content.

Evaluate their own content against success criteria and make improvements accordingly.

Recognise why films have certain ratings.

History Chronology: Order significant events, movements and dates on a timeline. Identify and compare changes within and across different periods. Historical terms: Record knowledge and understanding in a variety of ways, using dates and key terms appropriately Historical Enquiry: Investigate own lines of enquiry by posing questions to answer. Significance: Give reasons why some developments are seen as more significant than others Eg astronomers, mathematicians, chocolate and how they influence life today Similarities & Differences: Show understanding of some similarities and differences between different periods Eg social, belief, local

Geography Field Study Skills: Bakewell Gather information Select appropriate methods for data collection eg interviews Evaluate the quality of evidence collected and suggest improvements Sketching Evaluate their sketch against set criteria and improve it Use sketches as evidence in an investigation. Audio/Visual Use photographic evidence in their investigations Evaluate the usefulness of the images Place knowledge: understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region within North America Location knowledge: Identify the position and significance of the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/ Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night)

PSHE Autumn 1 It’s our world

- Devise a class charter L2 R9 - Understand democracy L2 - Develop environmental awareness L7 - Develop awareness of climate change x 2 - Develop understanding of sustainability L7

Autumn 2 Understand how to use my phone safely, (passcodes, time limits, turning off at night) Plus safe and kind use of messenger apps H24 To understand personal boundaries, that we all have a right to privacy, and that they can choose what to share with friends. R21 To critically examine what is presented to them in social media, understand why this is important, that social media can misinform and misrepresent, the importance of being careful of what they forward to others. L18 Recognise the role of voluntary, community and pressure groups especially in relation

to well being. L10

RE Belief and Practices: Know the Four Noble Truths Know the Five Morale Precepts Know the story of Siddhartha and the Swan Meaning and Purpose: Know and explain the meanings and significance of the Buddha. Reflect and Respond: Understand the stories about the birth, search and enlightenment of the Buddha and present their thoughts through a comic strip

Belief and Practices: Know the Noble Eightfold path Know the symbols (the wheel, lotus, the Darmha) Meaning and Purpose: Understand the commitment needed from Buddhists to try to learn and practice the Dharma Reflect and Respond: Understand the impact of Religious teachings on people’s views: How Buddhists teaching on the practice of harmlessness on how we eat and treat animals

Music Ostinatos and Notation

Create & play ostinatos, read patterns from the stave.

Practise do pentatonic

Prepare/present low la

Practise quaver- 2 semiquavers

Prepare/present 2 semiquavers-quaver

Don’t Stop Believin’ (Genre Study)

Characteristics of 80’s Rock

Perform ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey

Play 4 chords on guitar or ukulele

Improvise an accompaniment

Sing in parts

Practise low la

Practise 2 semiquavers-quaver

Prepare split ti / syncopa

Christmas Rehearsals Singing in parts

Practise low la

Prepare/present

low so

Art/DT DT - Moving vehicles Sketching, Pastel, Painting Sketch in detail applying shading. Use pastel to create tone. Mix secondary and pastel colours. Apply paint with a range of tools. Monet’ style Basic history of Claude Monet Mix colours Create tone in pastel and various pencil grades

DT - Chocolate branding and packaging – create own chocolate bars Painting, Colour Mixing, Sketching Mix secondary and pastel colours with a variety of mediums. Apply paint with a cotton bud, cocktail stick and a straw. Sketch in detail using H and 2B pencil grades-applying shading, tone and mark making. Seurat’ style Basic history of George Seurat. Mix colours Create tone in various pencil grades and paint.

PE (specialist teacher)

Gymnastics: NC: Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance. NC: compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. Week 1: Assessment Week 2: Sequence Week 3: partner work Week 4: apparatus Week 5: apparatus vaulting Week 6: Vaulting

Netball: NC: play competitive games, modified where appropriate and apply basic principle suitable for attacking and defending. NC: Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination. NC: compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. Week 1: passing Week 2: passing and footwork Week 3: interception and dodging Week 4: attacking and defending Week 5: Shooting Week 6: Mini tournament

Basketball NC: play competitive games, modified where appropriate and apply basic principle suitable for attacking and defending. NC: Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination. NC: compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. Week 1: Ready position, movements Week 2: passing games (bounce, chest, overhead pass) throwing target games Week 3: shooting games Week 4: attacking and defending Week 5: small sided games Week 6: mini tournament

Year 6 Spring - English & Maths

Theme We’ll meet again (10 weeks)

Living as a Buddhist (1 week)

English Theme

Dairy of an evacuee Newspaper reports of The Blitz/VE Day

Recount/reflections of visit to Buddhist Centre

Speaking & Listening

Take an active part in discussions and can take on different roles.

Listen to, and consider the opinions of, others in discussions.

Make contributions to discussions, evaluating others’ ideas and respond to them. Sustain and argue a point of view in a debate, using the formal language of persuasion.

Reading Know that non-fiction texts may include a creative, fictional element.

Explain how the choices the author has made about the structure support its purpose.

Make predictions using knowledge of the conventions of different genres and text types.

Understand that non-fiction texts may present the same information with different viewpoints.

Identify the characteristics of a writers’ style.

Know that the word and language choices support the writers’ purpose.

Record examples of words and language from reading to use in my own writing.

Ask questions to improve and deepen my understanding.

Re-read to check the text is meaningful.

Know that a text may need to be read slowly or re-read to deepen my understanding.

Know that texts have different layers of meaning – between the lines and beyond the lines.

Summarise the main ideas drawn from a text.

Build on others’ ideas and opinions about a text in discussions.

Questions others’ ideas about a text.

Make connections between texts which may not initially seem similar.

Explain why there are connections, using evidence.

Explain the similarities and differences between different versions of texts.

Understand that a narrative can be told from different points of view.

Identify the point of view in a narrative.

Explore how events are viewed from another perspective.

Identify the techniques used to create feelings, atmosphere, mood or messages.

Comment on how the writer’s intent affects the reader.

Writing Use paragraphs correctly so that each one has a clear topic and has a signal of change in time, place or event.

Adapt the grammar and vocabulary used in my writing to suit the audience and purpose.

Create atmosphere and describe settings

Use antonyms and synonyms to enhance descriptions.

Describe and integrate dialogue to convey character and advance the action. Add detail to writing using expanded noun phrases to add precision, detail and qualification Senses poetry, Newspaper report, Letter home (goodnight Mr Tom), Flashback narrative (piano), Write a ‘wonder’ for the emporium

Grammar Use a range of cohesive devices, including adverbials, within and across sentences and paragraphs.

I ensure correct subject verb agreement in singular and plural.

Use a wide range of clause structures, sometimes varying their position within the sentence.

Use structures typical of very formal speech.

Use a range of punctuation across a range of writing, including colons and semi-colons.

Use punctuation for parenthesis, mostly correctly.

Follow Active English Programme – Y6

Spelling Change verbs into nouns by adding suffixes. Spelling Shed – Step 25 – Challenge 6

Handwriting Dictation Specific handwriting intervention with TA for those who need it following usual scheme.

Maths Decimals Identify the value of each digit in numbers given to 3 decimal places and multiply numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 giving answers up to 3 decimal places Miltiply 1 digit numbers with up to 2 decimal places by whole numbers Use written division methods in cases where the answer has up to 2 decimal places Solve problems which require answers to be rounded to specified degrees of accuracy Percentages Solve problems involving the calculation of percentages and the use of percentages for comparison Recall and use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages including in different contexts Algebra Use simple formulae Generate and describe linear number sequences Express missing number problems algebraically Find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with the two unknowns Ensure possibilities of combinations of two variables Measures – converting, area, perimeter and volume Solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to three decimal places where appropriate Use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and voce versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places Convert between miles and kilometres Perimeter, Area and Volume Recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa Recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes Calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles Calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cm3, m3 and extending to other units (mm3, km3) Ration Solve problems involving the relative sizes of two quarters where missing values can be found by using integer multiplication and division facts Solve problems involving similar shapes where the scale factor is known or can be found Solve problems involving unequal sharing and grouping using knowledge of fractions and multiples

Maths Themes Ratio –Anderson shelters (DT link) Units of measure - recipes

Year 6 Spring – Foundation Subjects

Theme We’ll meet again (10 weeks)

Living as a Buddhist (1 week)

Science Concluding: Pupils should be taught to: report and present findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations. Measuring & Recording: Pupils should be taught to: take measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate record data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs Investigation: Is the shape of a shadow the same as the objects that cast them? Asking Questions: Pupils should be taught to: plan different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary. Evaluating: Pupils should be taught to: use test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests Physics: 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

Computing UNIT 6.1 Computer Science

Plan a program before coding to anticipate variables that will be required

Use variables within a game to keep track of the properties.

Use functions and understand why they are useful in 2code.

Debug a program and organise the code into tabs and functions.

Explore the options for getting text input from the user into 2code.

Know how to include interactivity in programming.

Use flowcharts to test and debug a program.

Create a simulation of a room in which devices can be controlled.

Explore how 2Code can be used to make a text-based adventure game.

UNIT 6.6 Computer Science

Know the difference between the WWW and the internet.

Know about their school network, LAN and WAN and how we access the internet.

Research and find out about the age of the internet.

Review the meaning of a digital footprint and understand how and why people use their information and online presence to create a virtual image of themselves

Clear idea of appropriate online behaviour

Understand how information online can persist and give away details of those who share or modify it.

History Chronology: Order significant events, movements and dates on a timeline. Historical Terms: record knowledge and understanding in a variety of ways, using dates and key terms appropriately Historical Enquiry: Analyse a range of source material to promote evidence about the past Interpreting History: Understand that the past is represented and interpreted in different ways and give reasons for this. Causes & Consequences: Begin to offer explanations about why people in the past acted as they did Continuity & Change: Describe and begin to make links between main events, situations and changes within and across different periods and societies

Geography Human Geography: describe and understand key aspects of human geography: trade links between the UK, Europe and the res of the world. Identify fair trade deals. Map skills: Using maps Follow a short route on a OS map Describe the features shown on an OD map Use atlases to find out data about other places Use 8 figure compass and 6 figure grid reference accurately Use lines of longitude and latitude on maps Map knowledge: Locate the world’s countries, focus on North and South America Locate the world’s countries on a variety of maps, including the areas studied throughout the key stages Making Maps: Draw plans of increasing complexity Begin to use recognisable atlas symbols

PSHE Spring 1 Money Matters - Understand how money is earnt - Appreciate what value for money means L13 - Understand how lending and borrowing works, understand the terms ‘interest’ ‘loan’ ‘debt’ and

‘tax’ and their contribution to society though the payment of VAT L14 - Achieve goals in the project - Understand what reductions and expenses are - Appreciate inequalities around the world L15

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Spring 2 Who likes chocolate? - Identify rich and poor nation around the world L15 - Appreciate trade links across the world - Understand global footprints - Understand why some people are hungry round the world - Appreciate differed morals attitudes to fairness - Appreciate and critique how news and media is reported around the world L17

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RE Belief and Practices: Know why the Buddhist centre is important Know the significance of images of Buddha

Meaning and Purpose: Understand how the Sangha (Buddhist community) support one another. Know how the meaning of the story, The King’s Elephant, is significant to how Buddhists live as a community Reflect and Respond: Understand the importance of a sacred space and compare to the other places of worship visited throughout the school.

Music Partner songs, ostinatos and canons (Including War songs)

Singing in parts

Prepare la pentatonic (natural minor)

Prepare/present syncopa

Prepare 3-beat metre

Major v. Minor

Prepare/present la pentatonic (natural minor)

Practise synocpa

Prepare tim-ka dotted quaver-semiquaver

Prepare/present 3-beat metre

Art/DT Food tech – war time recipes DT – Anderson shelters Sketching, Still life, Painting, Colour-Mixing Create tone and movement whilst blending oil pastels. One- point perspective. Sketch in detail using H and 2B pencil grades-applying shading, light, tone and mark making. Apply paint with forks and various sized paint brushes. Van Gogh’ style Basic history of Vincent Van Gogh Mix colours Create light, tone ,texture, pattern and movement in various pencil grades and paint.

Landscape Sketching, Painting Colour Mixing Sketch in detail using H and 2B pencil grades-intricate detail, texture from mark making, applying shading, various lines, light and tone. Mix and paint with watercolours to create accurate tones. David Hockney’ style Basic history of David Hockney Mix tertiary colours Create light, tone, lines, texture, pattern and movement in various pencil grades and paint.

PE (taught by specialst)

Hockey: NC: play competitive games, modified where appropriate and apply basic principle suitable for attacking and defending. NC: compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. Week 1: ball and stick familiarisation, hand positions for stick Week 2: passing, and receiving the ball Week 3: passing on the move Week 4: possession and outwitting an opponent Week 5: Shooting and accuracy Week 6: Game development, tactical awareness.

Dance – two sides come together at the end to show the end of the war. Badminton: NC: play competitive games, modified where appropriate and apply basic principle suitable for attacking and defending. NC: compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. Week 1: familiarisation racquet, shuttlecock, and court Week 2: Serving Week 3: Overhead clear Week 4: forehand/backhand shots Week 5: underarm lob Week 6: tournament

Year 6 Summer - English & Maths

Theme The Buddhist Community Worldwide (2 weeks)

Living Things (9 weeks)

What a Performance

(2 weeks)

Transition (2 weeks)

English Theme

Information text – prominent Buddhists worldwide Explanation text – The Circulatory System Biography Personal reflection – (autobiographical) Highlights of Primary School and looking forward to secondary school

Speaking & Listening

Express possibilities using hypothetical and speculative language.

Engage listening through choosing appropriate vocabulary and register that is matched to the context. Perform own compositions, using appropriate intonation, volume and expressions so that literal and implied meaning is clear.

Perform poems and plays from memory, making deliberate choices about how to convey ideas about characters, contexts and atmosphere.

Reading Know that style and vocabulary are linked to the purpose of the text.

Explain how the style and vocabulary are linked to the purpose of the text.

Evaluate the usefulness of different non-fiction texts by comparing how different writer’s present the same information.

Explain the characteristics of a writer’s style

Explain how the word and language choices support the writer’s purpose.

Explain how the techniques and structures used to support the writer’s purpose.

Record examples of techniques and structures used support the writer’s purpose.

Record examples of technique and structures from reading to use in my own writing.

Comment on the effectiveness of the writer’s use of language structures.

Find the layers of meaning in a text.

Explain how they contribute to the reader’s understanding of the overall meaning, characters and themes.

Make predictions from evidence found and implied.

Know that the context in which it was written can effect a text.

Explain how the context of a text reflects the reaction of the audience it was written for.

Identify themes in books which have different cultural, social or historical contexts.

Compare and contrast themes in a range of books.

Explain how there are common themes in different books.

Know that points of view can also be implied and identify the point.

Explain implied points of view.

Understand that the writer may have a viewpoint.

Identify the writer’s viewpoint, for example, how different characters are presented.

Explain the writer’s viewpoint with evidence from the text.

Explain the effect of the writer’s viewpoint on the reader.

I can explain how the techniques using feelings, atmosphere, mood or messages.

Writing Second drafts show evaluative and reflective thinking which is evidenced by thoughtful and effective changes made to create effects and to impact on the reader. Writing is evaluated as a matter of course and proof reading ensures a high level of accuracy. Room 13 – Narrative Description Spooky setting, Fact File/Description linked to Pandora, Biography Narrative and description linked to class text

Grammar Use modal verbs and adverbs to position an argument as well as indicate degrees of possibility, probability and certainty.

Use a range of verb forms to create more subtle meanings.

Use the passive voice to present information with a different emphasis. Follow Active English Programme – Y6

Spelling Spell the vast majority of words from the Y5/6 statutory list. Spelling Shed - Challenge 7 – Challenge 10

Handwriting Dictation Specific handwriting intervention with TA for those who need it following usual scheme.

Maths Shape Draw 2D shapes using given dimensions and angles Compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any tringles, quadrilaterals and regular polygons Recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles Problem Solving Revision Statistics Illustrate and name parts of circles. Including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius Interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems Calculate the mean as an average Investigations

Maths Themes Timetables – bus – planning a route Sorting diagrams Keys

Year 6 Summer– Foundation Subjects

Theme The Buddhist Community Worldwide (2 weeks)

Living Things (9 weeks)

What a Performance

(2 weeks)

Transition (2 weeks)

Science Concluding: Pupils should be taught to: identify scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments Biology: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 identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function

describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Concluding: Pupils should be taught to: identify scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments. report and present findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations.

Demonstration: Pretend to be ‘Darwin’s birds’ using straws, pegs, tweezers and chopsticks as beaks. Children to pick up different ‘round foods’ with these to demonstrate natural selection and adaptations

over time.

Biology: 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

Computing UNIT 6.7 Computer Science

Consider audience and create a picture based quiz.

Learn how to use question types within 2Quiz.

Explore quizzes and know why they are successful

Make a quiz that requires the player to search a database.

UNIT 6.4 Information technology

Know why people write blogs.

Identify features of a successful blog.

Understand how to write a blog.

Know how to contribute to an existing blog.

Peer assess blogs.

Understand the importance of balancing game and screen time with other parts of their lives.

Identify positive and negative influences of technology on health and the environment.

Identify benefits of mobile devices broadcasting the location.

Identify secure sites.

Identify benefits and risks of giving personal info and device access to different software

History

Geography Physical Geography: describe and understand key aspects of: physical geography: - climate zones - biomes and vegetation belts

PSHE Summer 1 People around us

- Explore and research a range of identities in the UK L1 - Understand different types of relationships R4 and ways these can be unhealthy (eg.

Controlling) and who to go to for support R3 - That civil partnership and marriage are commitments made by 2 people who love each

other and want to commit for life, regardless of sexuality R5 - That marriage should be entered freely by both people and you should not be pressured

or forced to marry someone R6 - Consider stereotyping and judgement R16 - Identify put-downs and conflict R12 - Understand ways of dealing with or ending friendships - Understand forgiveness

Summer 2 Growing Up - Consider puberty and reproduction - Consider reproduction in relationships - Explore pregnancy and conception - Appreciate what being a parent involves - Appreciate the range of responses to change - To be able to mark transition, moving on and saying goodbye.

RE Belief and Practices: Know which places are special to Buddhists Know why people go on a pilgrimage Meaning and Purpose: Compare Buddhist pilgrimages to those undertaken in other religions – Haj Reflect and Respond: Know who the Dalai Lama is and understand the impact he has had on Buddhists

Music End of year musical Performance skills Singing as an ensemble, singing in harmony

Art/DT Sketching Portraiture, Collage, Colour Mixing, Oil pastel Painting Draw 3d shapes. Draw various lettering styles accurately. Sketch realistic facial features. Use a variety of paper types to create a Pop Art portrait. Warhol’ style Basic history of Andy Warhol Mix tertiary colours Create light, tone, lines, texture, pattern and movement in various pencil grades and paint.

DT – Leavers T shirt Sketching Portraiture Comic strip Colour Mixing Painting Draw 3d shapes. Draw various lettering styles accurately. Sketch realistic facial features including mark making, shading and highlights. Mix and paint with paint to create accurate tones and tints. Lichtenstein’ style Basic history of Roy Lichtenstein Mix tertiary colours Create light, tone, lines, pattern and movement in various pencil grades and paint.

PE (specialist

Rounders/Cricket NC: play competitive games, modified where appropriate and apply basic principle suitable for attacking and defending. NC: Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination.

Athletics NC: play competitive games, modified where appropriate and apply basic principle suitable for attacking and defending. NC: Use running, jumping

teacher) NC: compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. NC: Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination. Week 1: Ball familiarisation Week 2: Throwing and catching Week 3: Batting Week 4: fielding Week 5: Bowling Week 6: Mini tournament