Year 6
Curriculum Summary for Parents
Term 1 • 2025/26
This information represents a summary of plans for the term. Please understand that all plans are flexible; there is always the possibility that fewer (or more) topics will be covered than those stated.
Subject Topics
Genres:
• Fantasy Worlds and Narratives
• Coming of age/personal narratives
• Complex sentences, tense consistency, punctuation for dialogue and emphasis, spelling of fantasy vocabulary
English
Science
French
• SPAG
• Spelling, Grammar and Vocabulary: spelling patterns and statutory spellings in tandem with dictation tests for punctuation accuracy.
• Understand and apply parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions
• Use sentence types effectively: simple, compound, and beginning complex sentences.
Number: Place value to 10 million; rounding large numbers; negative numbers; factors and common factors; multiples and common multiples; prime numbers; writing numbers as a product of their prime factors; rules of divisibility; division using factors; order of operations; equivalent fractions; compare fractions; add and subtract fractions with different denominators; multiply and divide fractions by integers; calculate fractions of amounts;
Measure: convert between units of time; convert between metric units of distance, mass and capacity.
TWAS (Thinking and Working as a Scientist)
• Planning investigations
• Fair testing & variables
• Recording and presenting data
Living Things
• Classification of organisms
• Life cycles
• Microorganisms
Our Bodies
• Skeleton and muscles
• Circulation and breathing
• Healthy lifestyle
• Greetings: formal vs informal
• Classroom items using the indefinite/definite articles
• Days, months and numbers 1-31
• Ask/state birthdays
• Ask/say how old one is
• Classroom instructions
• Christmas activities
• Talking about myself in detail
• Name
• Nationality
• Age
• Appearance
• Personality
• Likes and dislikes
• My family, My friends, My pets
Maths
Kiswahili
Spanish (SFC)
Humanities
Who Am I?
• Introduce themselves and give basic personal details.
• Describe what is in their school bag/classroom.
• Use present tense, near future and opinions with justifications.
• Express ambitions using conditional and profession phrases.
• Engage in a short conversation with questions and answers.
Geography
• An Introduction to Geography/Why am I a geographer?
• The Geography of Kenya
• Tourism: What is it? Is it good or bad? Detailed Example
• How can we make tourism more sustainable? Detailed Example
• Tourism in the 21st Century: Movie Tourism; Space Tourism; Extreme Tourism - Deserts
History
• The First World War (1914-1918)
• Introduction, Origins and Background to WWI
• The Origins and Causes of WWI – ‘M.A.I.N’
• Recruitment and Conscription & the Treatment of Conscientious Objectors
• Government Propaganda & Persuasion – Evaluating Propaganda Posters
• Trench Warfare – The Nature of Daily Life and Living Conditions
• Technology of War – Advent of New Weaponry and Tactics Employed
• ‘Letters from the Trenches’ – Censorship issues
• The Christmas Truce (December, 1914) – Mid-term source work assessment
• The Battle of the Somme (July-November 1916) – ‘Slaughter in the Trenches’
• Assessing the Leadership of Sir Douglas Haig – Class Debate - ‘Hero, Butcher or Bungler?’
• Tunnelling activities on the Western Front
• The Home Front – The Role of Women
• The East African Campaign (1914-1981) – Case Study
• ‘Shot at Dawn’ – ‘Heroes, Cowards or Traitors?’
• The End of WWI – The Effects, Consequences and Enduring Legacy
End of Unit assessment – an extended piece of writing TPR
• Importance of Religious story telling: stories from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism
• Comparison of Creation stories across religions. Art
• Understand, analyse and evaluate how artists Thandiwe Muriu, Lizzie Thurman and Mark Powell convey personal and cultural identities through their work
• Explore and represent aspects of personal identity using identity mapping techniques
• Experiment with a wide range of collage and print making techniques to explore pattern, texture and symbolism
• Explore both realistic and expressive drawing and painting styles – develop proficiency in brush control as well as applying tone, mark-making and texture.
• Collaborative photoshoot inspired by the work of Thandiwe Muriu
• To evaluate own work and identify strengths and areas of improvement
• Graphic products – packaging
• variety of purposes in packaging
• The design process
• Presentation in design
• Thick and thin lines
Design Engineering
• Formal drawing techniques - Lettering, orthographic drawing ,Scale dimensions Isometric projection and Two-point perspective
• Investigation of nets of 3D shapes
• Identify hazards and risk assessment for using tools
• CAD (Computer Aided Design)
Computing
Music
Drama
P.E.
Swimming
P.S.H.E.
• Designing the interface for a smart smartphone app; To design the look/feel of their app’s interface – sketch ideas, plan the different screen layouts for simple Apps.
• Creating an app and testing it in an Emulator- Becoming familiar with another programming toolkit or development platform, importing existing media assets to their project, writing down the algorithms for their app program, debugging and refining the code for their app, thoroughly testing and evaluating their app.
• Pupils will create an app using AppInventor.
World of Tones
• Skills review
• Literacy check-in
Instrumental Interlude
• Popular Forms
• Song writing
Rhythm of Life
• Layered rhythms
• Groove building
Devising Theatre
• Spontaneous Improvisation
• Polished Improvisation
Demands of Theatre
• Imaginative Physicality
• Lifts & Balances
• Fitness Training: developing endurance; strength; flexibility; speed & agility; skipping
• Understand benefits of exercise on body and dangers of poor fitness
• Athletics: improve techniques and skills learnt in the Junior school to facilitate improved PBs in all the following disciplines; sprinting 100m and 200m; middle distance running for 800m; 4 x 100m Relays; Long Jump; High Jump, Ball Throw; an introduction to Basic Triple Jump
• Develop pacing techniques for sustained running in 1,500m.
• Most children in Year 6 have progressed to the Swim Skills stage of the Swim England Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD). The Year 6 lessons in term 1 focus on swimming more confidently, improving their strokes, coordination, breathing techniques, stamina and learning personal survival skills.
Being me in my world – the key topics covered in this puzzle piece include looking at our role as a global citizen and understanding that although children have rights many of them are not respected. We will have discussions about child labour and also fair-trade practices. Finally, we ask pupils to try and form their own Learning Charter to aid positive learning throughout the year as well as set targets.
Celebrating differences - the key topics covered in this puzzle piece include understanding that although everyone is different, they should all be celebrated. Discussions may include topics about different types of bullying and their causes – such as banter & cyberbullying – and how we can work to re-balance power within relationships. Pupils will also look at celebrating inspirational people – such as Paralympians – who work hard to achieve despite their disabilities.