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St Anne’s R.C. Primary School Year 6 Long Term Plan September 2017 – July 2018 SPRING
6 ½ weeks
8 weeks
6 weeks
5 weeks
7 weeks
6 weeks
Why do we need maps?
Is it alright to be different?
How did the Victorian period help to shape the Manchester we know today?
Did WWII impact on life in Manchester?
Would you have joined Shackleton’s crew?
Why do we love to be scared?
Emotions – The Colour Monster The Day the Crayons Quit
Wonder - Palacio (PSHE Link)
The Girl of Ink and Stars Hargrave (Geography/ link) The once upon a time map book – Hennessy & Joyce
Black History Month (celebrating diversity/living in fear/suffering) Little Mouse’s Book of Fears - Gravett
Skellig - Almond FArTHER – Baker-Smith Wordsworth Oliver Twist (Science link + DT & Art link + History)
25/9/17 – World Wise
Writing opportunities
Song/film link
Grammar
Spellings
SUMMER
Partly Cloudy/Inside Out UP/Adele/Christina Perri/John Legend/Pixar
Wonder (Nov 17th)/ Little Freak The Help
Skellig drama Imitation Game
Personification poetry Love letters Explanation text Maps - The Atlas of True Names by Kalimedia (etymology)
Emails/letters/texts Survival Guides Speeches Precepts
Newspaper reports Guides Explanation text Letter to the baby
Coordinating/subordinating conjunctions Adjs, Advs, prepositions (incl. phrases), conjunctions, determiners Settings + descriptions Fronted Adverbials commas Tenses Sentence forms
Relative Clauses Modal/Passive Verbs Noun Phrases Expanded noun phrases Present/Perfect form of verbs
Statutory Word List Able/ible Adding suffixes SATs practice Proofreading
Statutory Word List Homophones (ce/se) Personal Spellings ‘cious’/’tious’
WWII War Boy/Goodnight Mr Tom/ Lion and the Unicorn/WWII My Diary/Flossie Albright/ Rose Blanche/war poetry (History link) Refugees The Island/The Arrival/The Journey World Book Day – 26/02 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Goodnight Mr Tom Hope and glory
Alma/Monster Calls/Francis
Blackout poetry Haiku Diaries Description Posters - propaganda
Sowerberry’s letter Application to join Fagin’s gang Eye-witness report Direct/Indirect speech Apostrophes & Inverted commas Parenthesis
‘ough’ Statutory Word List Personal Spellings ‘cial’/’tial’ Prefixes
Suspense Monster Calls/Room 13/Mr Mumbles/The Graveyard Book
Statutory Word List Homophones Proofreading Prefixes and roots
Short stories Description Explanation Campaign poster/speech
Year 6 Revision
Year 6 Revision
Rare GPCs Personal Spellings ‘ant’/’ance’/’ancy’ Proofreading Root words and meanings
Statutory Word List Personal Spellings ‘ent’/’ence’/’ency’ Homophones