Year 6 curriculum

As your child enters the final year of key stage 2, the creative curriculum continues to excite, stimulate and challenge. The children are given a wonderful opportunity to develop their team building and leadership skills during a week at Manor Adventure, an outdoor pursuit activity centre, as well as participating in a year group theatre production, performed at the Solihull Sixth Form College theatre.

Autumn term 2019

Journeys

Autumn 1 – Journeys Knowledge Organiser

Literacy

• The Arrival (Shaun Tan)
  • diary, letter, story chapter, a balance argument
• The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
  • retelling, diary, setting and character descriptions

Maths

• The children will be given opportunities to develop their mathematical fluency, reasoning and problem solving skills through the mathematical themes and cross curricular activities:
  • Number and place value
  • Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Fractions and decimals
  • Ratio and proportion
  • Algebra
  • Measurement
  • Statistics

Science

• Classification
• Study of plants and animals

Religious Education

• Human Rights
  • Exploration of the work and impact of significant figures including Martin Luther King, John Bunyan and Guru Hargobind

Geography 

• Migration and immigration
• World biomes
  • rainforests
  • distribution of natural resources

Computing

• Blogging
• Online safety

Physical Education

• Tennis
• Hockey
• Gymnastics
• Dance

Art, Design and Technology

• Dragon eyes
  • sketch
  • clay
• Zooming in
  • oil pastels

Personal, Social and Health Education 

• Being me in my world
• Taking care

French

• Verbs and grammar

Music

• Charanga music
  • classroom jazz

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Spring term

Adventure

Literacy

• Captain Scott
  • Reading and writing for different purposes from the perspective of a cross-curricular project on explorers
  • Grammar focus on advanced punctuation (semi-colons and colons) and passive and active voice, perfect and progressive verb tenses
  • Reading comprehension activities to develop the skills of selecting and evaluating the use of evidence and authorial intent.
• Multi-genre: Journey to the River Sea
  • The novel addresses many issues: growing up; respect for traditions; people and cultures; racism; approaching new experiences. Pupils respond creatively to its many themes.

Maths

• The children will be given opportunities to develop their mathematical fluency, reasoning and problem solving skills through the mathematical themes:
  • Number and place value
  • Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Fractions and decimals
  • Ratio and proportion
  • Algebra
  • Measurement
  • Position and direction
  • Properties of shape
  • Statistics

Science

• Electricity
  • Circuits
  • They investigate how different components affect the flow of electricity and at the difference that the length and thickness of wires can make
  • use their knowledge of series and parallel circuits to build games
• Light
  • They study shadows and reflectivity, build a periscope and investigate the effectiveness of sunglasses

Religious Education

• Hindu worship
• The Final Mystery

 Geography

• Study of Biomes
  •  children will be identifying natural environments around the world and recognising how humans can cause both improvement and damage

History

• Study of Mayan Civilisation

Computing

• Design digital games using Scratch, Kodu and Makey Makey software
• App creation

Physical Education

• Football
• Netball
• Dance
• Gymnastics

Art, Design and Technology

• Pupils will explore the use of colour, pattern, line and texture through the completion of portraits of Antarctic explorers and line drawings of ships
• Making a miniature sleeping bag

Personal, Social and Health Education 

• My Feelings
• Drugs

French

• Hobbies and preferences
• Identifying big cats, describing them and their habitats

Music

• Pupils will sing and perform ‘The Ship of Dreams’

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Summer term

Challenges

Literacy

• An encounter with Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Pupils will explore a range of themes such as power, fate, free will, relationships and betrayal
• Pupils will become familiar with Shakespeare’s language in both prose and poetry

Maths

• The children will be given opportunities to develop their mathematical fluency, reasoning and problem solving skills through the mathematical themes:
  • Number and place value
  • Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Fractions and decimals
  • Ratio and proportion
  • Algebra
  • Measurement
  • Properties of shape

Science

• Evolution
  • Pupils learn about the life and work of Charles Darwin
  • They learn how animals and plants are adapted to their environment

Religious Education

• The Bible

Geography

• Earthquakes and volcanoes
  • Map Skills
  • Naming the physical features of the Earth
  • Study of people and places

Computing

• Film making (using Windows Movie Maker)
• E-mail and blogging

Physical Education

• Rounders
• Cricket
• Athletics

Art, Design and Technology

Personal, Social and Health Education 

• Moving On

French

• Transition
  • Exploring future tenses

Music

• Mayan Music

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