Year 6 Overview

Creative Writing

Trips

Drama Science

Real Life Maths

Year 6 Southfield

Curriculum Journey Planner

Goodnight Mister Tom

The Other Side of Truth

The Giant’s Necklace

Bi-Weekly Creative Writing

Half termly non-fiction writing (foundation topics)

Comprehension 4 weekly sessions

1:1 weekly reading sessions

Daily read aloud sessions

Library visit weekly

Reading partners weekly

Read a broad range of genres

Recommend books to others

Make comparisons within/across books

Support inferences with evidence

Summarising key points from texts

Identifying how language, structure, etc. contribute to meaning

Discuss use of language, including figurative

Discuss and explain reading, providing reasoned justifications for views

Use knowledge of morphology and etymology in spelling

Develop legible personal handwriting style

Plan writing to suit audience and purpose; use models of writing

Develop characters and setting in narrative

Select grammar and vocabulary for effect

Use a wide range of cohesive devices

Ensure grammatical consistency

Use appropriate register/style

Use the passive voice for purpose

Use features to convey and clarify

Meaning

Use full punctuation

Use language of subject/object

Use questions to build knowledge

Articulate arguments and opinions

Use spoken language to speculate, hypothesis and explore

Use appropriate register and language.

Arithmetic 4 weekly sessions

Bi-weekly Real Life Maths sessions

Booster 2 weekly sessions

Order and compare numbers up to 10 000 000.

I know the value of each digit in an eight-digit number.

Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers.

Use the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the four operations.

Solve problems involving the calculation and comparison of percentages.

Solve problems using similar shapes where the scale factor is known or can be found.

Solve problems about unequal grouping using knowledge of fractions and multiples.

Solve addition multi-step problems

Create and describe linear number sequences.

Estimate answers

Multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit number.

Solve multiplication word problems

Draw 2-D shapes using dimensions and angles.

Recognise, describe and build simple 3-D shapes.

Compare and classify shapes based on their properties and sizes. Find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons.

Name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference.

Use common factors to simplify fractions

Use common multiples to express fractions in the same denomination. Compare and order fractions.

Add and subtract fractions with different denominators and mixed numbers.

Multiply pairs of proper fractions and divide proper fractions by whole numbers.

Convert between fractions and decimals.

Identify the value of each digit in numbers up to 3 decimal places.

Multiply and divide numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 giving answers up to three decimal places

Multiply one-digit numbers with up to two decimal places by whole numbers.

Use written division methods where the answer has up to two decimal places.

Solve problems with answers to be rounded to specified degrees of accuracy. Use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages.

Use simple formulae.

Express missing number problems algebraically. Find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with two unknowns.

Read, write and convert between standard units of length, mass and volume

Read, write and convert between standard units of time.

Convert between miles and kilometres.

Recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters.

I know when 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 cubic centimetres and cubic metres

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.

Interpret and construct pie charts and use these to solve problems.

Interpret and construct line graphs and use these to solve problems.

Calculate and interpret the mean as an average

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 The Suffragettes

 The Rise OF Hitler and World War II

 World War II and The Holocaust

 The Cold War

 The History of Human Rights

The Suffragettes, World War I, World War II and The History of Human Rights cover a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066

Local Study can be included in World War I and World War II units

 Spatial Sense

 British Geographical Issues

 North America

 South America

 Africa

 Globalisation

All above topics cover objectives of locational knowledge, place knowledge, human and physical geography and geography skills and fieldwork which are required to be leaned by the end of Key Stage Two.

 The Human Body – The Heart

 Classification

 Electricity

 Light

 Reproduction

 Evolution

All above topics cover statutory and non-statutory working scientifically objectives set out to be learned by the of Key Stage Two.

WW1 – Poems from the War

Suffragettes – The Diary of a Suffragette

WW2 – The Blitz Trips – Imperial War Museum, National Army Museum

History Day – Suffragettes

Portrait Gallery – Suffragettes

World War History Exhibition

Emily Pankhurst and Alan Turning workshops

Life in the Andes

Vasco Da Gama

The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

Native Americans Geography Week

Orienteering

Forest School

Wildlife Area

JASS Award

 Art in the Italian Renaissance

 Renaissance Architecture and Sculpture

 Victorian Art and Architecture

 William Morris

 Impressionism and Post- impressionism

 Art in the 20th Century – modernism and beyond

All the above cover the aims set out in the Key Stage 2 Art curriculum. Books related to Monet, Cezanne, Michelangelo, Victorian Architecture, William Morris, Renoir Trip

National Gallery/Portrait Gallery Art Exhibition

 What can we learn from Humanism?

 Why is the Torah so important within Judaism?

 In what ways do Christians in different denominations worship?

 How can religion promote peace and justice in our society?

 What happens in the mosque?

 What happens in the Gurdwara?

These three dimensions of religion – believing, behaving and belonging

Carolus Linnaeus – Biography

The First Heart Transplant

Charles Darwin – biography

Being colour blind – video

Science Week

Trip – Science Museum

Forest School

Wildlife Area

JASS Award

 Being in my world – who I am and how do I fit in?

 Celebrating differences – respect for similarity or difference. Antibullying and being unique

 Dreams and goals – aspirations and how to achieve goal and understanding the emotions that go with this

 Healthy me – being and keeping safe and healthy

 Relationships – building positive, healthy relationships

 Changing me – coping positively with change

Islam and Me

The Life of Guru Nanak

What is Judaism Trip

London Synagogue

These areas encompass our Southfield TRUE values and British Values of democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

 Gymnastics

 Dance

 Invasion Games

 Striking and Fielding

 Net/Wall Games

 Athletics

Children in Key Stage 2 will also complete their swimming requirement to swim 25 metres before they leave Year 6.

 Glockenspiel

 Percussion and Rhythm

 Exploring Classical Music

 Composition

 Exploring Pop Music

 Music for Film and TV

Children will be:

Layering parts and instruments, Performing own compositions to the Class, Playing song featuring the full pentatonic scale on the glockenspiel

Improvising and composing melodic and rhythmic pieces using different instruments, Experimenting with known songs by changing musical elements to create different moods

Comparing the use of dynamics, texture and tempo, Internalising the pulse to recognise structure

Children will learn about Latin through the life of Minimus the mouse. The curriculum and story is set in a real life Roman town of Vindolanda in Northern England. There is a direct focus on grammar and etymology as well as the story-based aspect of the curriculum. They will learn how to greet each other, how nouns and adjectives form and how to recognise aspects of Latin in modern English.

Online Safety:

We are Year 6 rule writers

We will not share inappropriate images

We are safe social networkers

We are respectful of others

We are online safety problem solvers

We are safe gaming experts

Switched On

We are toy makers

We are computational thinkers

We are publishers

We are connected

We are advertisers

6.6 We are AI developers

By the end of these sessions children will:

 Have used a range of dramatic techniques to explore the issues and themes within Goodnight Mister Tom

 Have considered some of the themes outside the context of the book

 Have undertaken significant exploration into how we use body language and facial expression

 Have experience of working in small groups to produce tableaux and short scenes

 Have experience of feeding back to each other and participating in group discussions.

By the end of these sessions children will:

 Understand the key reasons behind Britain’s participation in World War II

 Have a strong grasp of the impact that the war had on the Home Front

 Have experience of using dramatic techniques such as tableaux, pair improvisations and role on the wall to explore characters’ thoughts and feelings, and the reasons behind them

 Have experience of writing in role, and of improvising a short script and committing it to paper

 Be able to evaluate the outcome of in-role exercises, and have experience of sharing their responses to their own work and that of others

Links are made to the children’s knowledge of Romans in History and the geography of the United Kingdom..

 Food - Celebrating culture and seasonality

 Textiles - Combining different fabric shapes

 Structures - Frame structures

 Electrical Systems - More complex switches and circuits

 Mechanical Systems - Pulleys or gears

These projects are taught in a two year cycle with Year 5 and based on the six essentials of good practice in D&T:

1. User

2. Purpose

3. Functionality

4. Design decisions

5. Innovation

6. Authenticity

Links will be made to other topics studied in our curriculum where applicable