Curriculum Overview
Year 6 Curriculum Overview 2024-2025
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English | *Narrative Story: additional chapter *Persuasive Letter *Recount: Diary Contemporary Fiction
Wonder
| *Narrative story: modern version *Playscript *Persuasive Letter Classic Literature
A Christmas Carol
| *Persuasive Debate Who is to blame? Classic Fiction/significant author
Macbeth
| Imaginative Writing Writing Portfolio
| Poems on a theme On the Move
Classic Poems The Road Not Taken | *Recount: Biography *Journalistic Report (Feature writing) *Historical Essay
*Explanation: Scientific Report Electricity |
Maths | Number: place value Number: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division | Number: fractions Measurement: converting units | Number: ratio Number: algebra Number: decimals | Number: fractions, decimals and percentages Measurement: area, perimeter and volume Statistics | Geometry: shape Geometry: position and direction
Consolidation | Consolidation, investigations and preparation for KS3 |
Science | Evolution and Inheritance | Living things and their habitats | Light | Electricity | Climate change and Sustainability STEM | Animals, incl Humans - circulatory system, healthy lifestyle. The Human Body (RHE link) |
History |
| What happened as a result of the Industrial Revolution? Consequence enquiry |
| How do we know about the Maya Civilisation of Central America? Evidential Thinking enquiry Historical interpretation |
| How has Migration Influenced the Food Londoners Eat? Consequence enquiry
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Geography | Darwin’s Voyage on the Beagle Exploring South America
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| Brazil A South American case study |
| Migration over time Case study of 20th century migration
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Computing | Computing and Networks Internet communication | Creating Media Web page creation | Programming A Variables in games | Data and Information Spreadsheets | Creating Media 3D modelling | Programming B Sensing |
Design and Technology | Textiles Combining different fabric shapes Project: Actions for Happiness calendar | Mechanical Systems Pulleys Project: sports car/ off road vehicle | Mechanical Systems Gears Project: fairground ride | Food Celebrating culture and seasonality Project: 2 course meal | Food Celebrating culture and seasonality Project: 2 course meal
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Music | Music and Technology How does music bring us together? | Developing Ensemble Skills How does music connect us with our past?
| Creative Composition How Does Music Make the World a Better Place? | Musical Styles Connect Us How Does Music Teach Us About our Community? | Improvising with Confidence How Does Music Shape our Way of Life? | Farewell Tour How Does Music connect us with the Environment? |
Art | Drawing Detailed analytical drawings Enlarge Tone Fernando Botero Kehinde Wiley Francis Bacon Frank Auerbach Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Pablo Picasso | Painting Apply understanding of line, shape, colour and texture Work collaboratively Patrick Heron Patrick Caulfield Cubism | Collage Respond to artist’s work Combine visual and tactile qualities of materials Compare and modify Review and modify artwork Gustav Klimt Pablo Picasso Georges Braque | Printmaking Press print reduction blocks Batik process Frank Bowling Elizabeth Catlett
| 3-D/Sculpture Observe from viewpoints Respond to artist’s work Research work of craftspeople and designers Review and modify work Henry Moore | Textiles Respond to artists work Relief printed textile process Investigate, collect, select visual information Multi media weaving Norman Foster Hundertwasser Antonio Gaudi |
PSHE/ safeguarding
| Physical & Mental Health | Keeping Safe | Relationships: Friends & Family | Respectful & safe Relationships | Living in the Wider World: Financial Literacy | Health & Wellbeing: Ourselves- Growing & Changing (RHE day) |
RE | What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today? (part 2) | What difference does it make to believe in Ahimsa, Grace and/or Ummah? | Is it better to express your beliefs in arts and architecture or in charity and generosity?
| What do religions say to us when life gets hard?
| Celebrating the food of faith | |
PE | Invasion Games Basketball
| Invasion Games Hockey
| Gymnastics | Dance | Strike and Field Games Rounders | Net and Wall Games Tennis |
French | Half-term 1: Describing me and others Half-term 2: Saying what I and others have Phonics: the SSC (sound-symbol correspondences) revisited and/or introduced this term are:
Silent Final Consonant [SFC] |Silent Final E SFe] [a ] [an/am/en/em] [i] [in/im] [qu] [u] [ou] [on] [au/eau/o/ô] open and closed [eu] We also revisit liaison.
Vocabulary: greetings, adjectives to describe mood and character, months, numbers 13-31, dates, nouns and adjectives for places, festivals, physical description, interrogatives qui ? quell ? quelle ?
Grammar: être (plural) regular plural adjective agreement (-s) avoir (plural), singular and plural indefinite articles (un, une, des), intonation questions (including with quoi, où, qui, quand, comment) | Half-term 1: Saying what I and others do Half-term 2: Saying how many and describing things Phonics: the SSC (sound-symbol correspondences) revisited and/or taught this term are: [é/et/ez/er] [è/ê] [oi] [(a)in] [ai] We also revisit liaison.
Vocabulary: verbs and nouns to describe activities in school, at the weekend, life in the city and country, journeys
Grammar: -ER present tense (singular) and 1st person plural (we), JOUER + à + sports, ALLER (singular), definite articles (le, la, les), regular plural marking on nouns (-s), indefinite articles (un, une, des), il y a, Est-ce que questions (including with WH-words), negation (ne ... pas) | Half-term 1: Describing things and people Half-term 2: Expressing likes and saying what I and others do Phonics: the SSC (sound-symbol correspondences) revisited and/or taught this term are: [SFC] |Silent Final E [SFe] soft [c/ç] [ch] [-ien] [qu] [j/soft g] [-tion] We also revisit liaison.
Vocabulary: verbs and nouns to describe sports, playing instruments, activities in different countries, life at home, home town, requesting food and drink
Grammar: FAIRE (singular), weather expressions with faire, faire vs. jouer with sports, jouer + de + instruments, pronoun on meaning you (general) and we, 2-verb structures (aimer, detester, devoir, vouloir, pouvoir - singular) | |||
School Events | Natural History Museum Science | Young Vic Theatre Production English | Globe Theatre English | St Paul’s Cathedral RE | Migration Museum -History/Geography British Library - History/Geography Henry Moore Studio - Art Junior Citizens - PSHE Residential to York (optional)
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