Curriculum Overview
Year 6 Curriculum Overview 2020-21
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Renewal Curriculum |
Recharge Curriculum |
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Autumn 1 (7 weeks) |
Autumn 2 (8 weeks) |
Spring 1 (6 weeks) |
Spring 2 (6 weeks) |
Summer 1 (5 weeks) |
Summer 2 |
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Topics |
What was the impact of the Victorians on Britain? (H) Y5 curriculum |
What can we learn from Darwin? Evolution (Science) |
Where have you travelled from? (G) Refugees |
Time Travel (G- Time zones) |
Kingdoms, Law and Order- Anglo Saxon Britain (H) |
The Blitz- all we need to know about World War 2? (H) |
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Literacy: units |
Narrative Newspaper |
Recount – formal diary entries Persuade (Y5) – Discussion text
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Persuade – propaganda Zoomed in Narrative
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Explain – Explanation text Describe – Non-chronological report Entertain – Poetry |
Entertain – Narrative Persuade – Letters Recount – Biography
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Newspaper Narartive |
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Key texts (Literacy) |
Street Child |
Wonder |
The Bone Sparrow
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Floodland |
Shakespeare: Macbeth |
Rose Blanche |
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Maths |
Number: place value Number: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division |
Number: fractions Geometry: position and direction |
Number: decimals Number: percentages Number: algebra |
Measurement: converting units Measurement: perimeter, area and volume Number: ratio Statistics |
Geometry: properties of shape Securing formal methods for the 4 operations Operations involving fractions and decimals Conversion between FDP Measurement/angles/shape contextual problems
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Consolidation, investigations and preparations for KS3 |
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Science |
Living Things and their Habitats- Y5 and Y6 curriculum |
Evolution & Inheritance |
Short 2 x 3-week units to close Y5 gaps: Forces and Magnets Materials |
Electricity |
Light |
The Human Body (links with SRE) |
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Computing |
Communicating: emails / school blog Using data: databases |
Using the Internet: plausibility/ validity of info/ plagiarism |
Programming: create/ edit/ refine algorithms (create a game) |
Digital Media: podcast & animation |
Programming: Create complex algorithms/ write simple coding scripts |
Creating/ publishing: design/ create an app |
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Creative- Music |
Roundabout: Exploring rounds |
Journey into space: exploring sound sources |
Songwriter: Exploring lyrics and melody |
Cyclic patterns: Exploring rhythm and pulse |
Stars, hide your fires: performing together |
Who Knows? Exploring music processes |
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Creative- Art |
Drawing |
Painting |
Printmaking |
Collage |
Textiles |
3D |
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PSHE/ safeguarding
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Physical & Mental Health |
Keeping Safe |
Relationships: Friends & Family |
Respectful & sage Relationships |
Living in the Wider World: Financial Literacy |
Health & Wellbeing: Ourselves- Growing & Changing |
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RE Day |
Places of worship: Judaism |
Festivals: Islam (Eid- ul- Adha) |
Important stories in religion: Sikhism & Islam |
A day in the life... Hinduism |
RE through art (symbols): Islam |
Values through religion: Buddhism & Christianity |
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PE |
Basic Movements |
Net Games |
Team Games |
Gymnastics |
Dance |
Strike and Field Games |
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Home Learning Projects
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The Great Exhibition- make a model of a Victorian invention and write on its importance |
Sketches of Charles Darwin’s findings and an account of the importance of Charles Darwin to the natural world |
Refugee poem |
Time travel presentation |
Timeline of Bristish History (consolidation of Primary History) |
How does the human body work? Choose an area of the human body, explain how it works and create a 3D model to demonstrate this |