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 2020

Journeys- What kind of journeys do people and animals take? 

Conflict- How was everyday life in Great Britain affected by both World Wars? 

Literacy

• The Arrival (Shaun Tan)
• The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
• The Incredible Ecosystems of Planet Earth (Rachel Ignotofsky)
• Rose Blanche (Roberto Innocenti)
• The Harmonica (Tony Johnston)
• Letters From the Lighthouse (Emma Carroll)
• WW1 poetry
• Throughout the half term, children will write for a range of purposes – including fiction and non-fiction and sometimes poetry
• Writing is linked to other subjects such as Science, Humanities and RE where applicable
• Grammar is taught in context, with children learning to extend their vocabulary, improve their understanding of sentence structure and explore a range of punctuation
• Spelling is taught and tested weekly

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, decimals and percentages
  • Ratio and proportion
  • Algebra
  • Measurement
  • Statistics

Science

• Light (reflection, the eye, colour and shadows)
• Animals including humans (circulation, respiration and water transportation in the human body)

Religious Education

• Human Rights
  • Exploration of the work and impact of significant figures including Martin Luther King, John Bunyan and Guru Hargobind
• Messiah: Incarnation: was Jesus the messiah?

History

• Study a theme in British history (migration) that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066
• Study WWI & WWII
  • Understanding of the causes of war. 
  • Impact of war on Great Britain and Europe
  • Reaction of the government to German invasions and reactions of the people of Great Britain and Europe
  • Events leading to the end of WWI
  • Evacuation of children
  • Lessons of war and outcomes (creation of the United Nations, collaboration and agreement between world countries)

Geography 

• Understanding of migration, causes of migration, its effect and the impact; terms: migration, seasonal migration; asylum seeker, refugee
• Understand the reasons that people become a refugee and know the cause and effect of being a refugee in another country
• Geographical locations of migration from and to, routes of migrants from a physical geography aspect and destinations
• Current migration situation around the world; destinations and political responses. Geographical location of source of refugee and destinations
• World biomes
  • rainforests
  • distribution of natural resources

Computing

• Computer science- introduction to Python programming
• Revision of using email (Office 365)
• Online safety (privacy & security, online reputation, online bullying, online relationships)

Physical Education

• Tennis
• Hockey
• Gymnastics
• Dance
• Real PE (coordination: ball skills, agility: reaction & response, static balancing)

Art, Design and Technology

• Dragon eyes
  • sketch
  • clay
• Zooming in
  • oil pastels
• Kate Scott Illustrations– create watercolour paintings of flora and fauna  
• Shaun Tan Art – Children practise drawing skills using images from The Arrival
• Origami birds made in the style of the bird in the book- mono-printing of a scene from the book
• Watercolour/Artist Study (Vincent Van Gough) – poppy paintings for WWI poetry
• Landscape Collage – Create a WW2 landscape collage

Personal, Social and Health Education 

• Being me in my world (Jigsaw)
• Taking care

French (Language Angels)

• Verbs and grammar
• At school

Music

• Charanga music
  • classroom jazz

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Spring term 2021

Conflict- How were lives in Great Britain affected by both World Wars? (continued)

Rule Britannia- Who fought for the English crown? 

Literacy

• The Dreadful Menace (poem)
• Sherlock Holmes & The Speckled Band- Sir Arthur Conan (retold by Lucy Corvino)
• The Highwayman (Alfred Noyes)
• Throughout the half term, children will write for a range of purposes – including fiction and non-fiction and sometimes poetry
• Writing is linked to other subjects such as Science, Humanities and RE where applicable
• Grammar is taught in context, with children learning to extend their vocabulary, improve their understanding of sentence structure and explore a range of punctuation
• Spelling is taught and tested weekly

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, decimals and percentages
  • Ratio and proportion
  • Algebra
  • Measurement
  • Statistics

Science

• Chemical changes (reversible & non-reversible change, burning, rustling & other chemical reactions)
• Electricity (circuit diagrams, voltage and investigating circuits)

Religious Education

• Hindu worship
• Resurrection: what difference does resurrection make to Christians?

 Geography

• Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied. 
• Use 8 points of the compass, grid references, symbols and key (inc OS maps) to build knowledge of the UK and the wider world

History

• Understanding where the Anglo-Saxon, Viking invaders and Norman conquest are sequenced within British history 
• The changing power of monarchs in Britain and a significant turning point in British history  

Computing

• Microsoft office: Excel
• Film making
• Online safety (managing online information, Safer Internet Day- teaching objective according to the yearly theme, self-image & identity)

Physical Education

• Football
• Netball
• Dance
• Gymnastics
• Real PE (dynamic balancing on a line, counter balancing with a partner, static balancing and jumping & landing

Art, Design and Technology

• Children will create a simple cross-stitch to depict a battle scene (Bayeux Tapestry) 

Personal, Social and Health Education 

• Celebrating difference (Jigsaw)
• Dreams & goals (Jigsaw)

French (Language Angels)

• The weekend
• World War II

Music

• Charanga

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Summer term 2021

Disaster! – Why do people live near volcanoes and earthquakes? 

Yes, Minister! – How does Politics affect the world I live in today?

Literacy

• Survivors (David Long)
• Black Powder (Ally Sherrick)
• Throughout the half term, children will write for a range of purposes – including fiction and non-fiction and sometimes poetry
• Writing is linked to other subjects such as Science, Humanities and RE where applicable
• Grammar is taught in context, with children learning to extend their vocabulary, improve their understanding of sentence structure and explore a range of punctuation
• Spelling is taught and tested weekly

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, decimals and percentages
  • Ratio and proportion
  • Algebra
  • Measurement
  • Statistics

Science

• Evolution and inheritance (variation & inheritance, how fossils provide evidence for evolution)
• Living things and their habitats (classification)

Religious Education

• Kingdom of God: what kind of king is Jesus?
• Creation & science: conflicting or complementary?

Geography

• Earthquakes and volcanoes
  • Map Skills
  • Naming the physical features of the Earth
  • Study of people and places
• Focus on London as a settlement and capital city
• Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns
• Use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and key (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom
• Understand how some of these aspects of London have changed over time

History

• Children will study London and trace the origins of the parliamentary system
• Use sources of evidence to deduce information about the past
• Select suitable sources of evidence, giving reasons for choices
• Gain and use historically grounded understanding of terms such as civilisation and parliament

Computing

• Computer science: networks
• Understanding binary
• Online safety (copyright & ownerships and health, wellbeing & lifestyle)

Physical Education

• Rounders
• Cricket
• Athletics
• Real PE

Art, Design and Technology

Personal, Social and Health Education 

• Healthy me (Jigsaw)
• Relatiohsips (Jigsaw)
• Changing me (Jigsaw)

French (Language Angels)

• Healthy lifestyles
• The Olympics

Music

• Charanga

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