Spellings set every week. SPAG/Maths homework given on Fridays dependent on the work in the week and returned or tested on Friday week after.
Reading – Children are expected to read at home at least three times a week. They will have the opportunity to read to an adult in school at least once a week.
Children access these websites in Year 6 to help enhance their learning journey. Each child will have their own log in details and can also access the sites at home. Please click on the picture to be taken to the website.
Further information on these websites and other we use in school are linked here.
Y6 | Autumn | Spring | Summer | |||
English | The Arrival
Extended own version narrative- Character Description | Explanatory Texts- Circulation, Volcanoes, Earthquakes – Paragraphing to link ideas – Headings, Sub-headings and cohesive devices – Passive Voice – Formal tone – Subordinate clauses- subordinate conjunctions Parenthesis | Windrush Child Letters formal and informal -Modal verbs -Writing informally -Dashes and semi-colons -contrasting conjunctions -Subjunctive form# -Figurative language -Relative clauses -range of adverbials
| Can We Save the Tiger? Discussion Text -Subjunctive form -Modal verbs -Commas to demarcate clauses – Varying position of subordinate conjunctions -Write multi-clause sentences -Prepositional phrases – Semi-colons and colons -Parenthesis, using punctuation for effect -Main clause and subordinate clause -Formal tone
| The Wind in the WallSally Gardner
Extended narrative -Setting Descriptions –Figurative language techniques – A range of noun phrases – Use of colons -Subjunctive form – Repetition for effect -Adverbial phrases -Passive voice -Past participles – Convery character through speech – Change in tense- flashback |
Fairytales
Shakespeare
Transition Work |
Maths | Place Value Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division Fractions Measurement converting unit | Ratio Algebra Decimals Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Area, Perimeter and Volume Statistics | Shape Position and Direction Consolidation and Problem solving | |||
Science | Electricity
Animals Inc. humans | Animals inc. Humans
Light | Evolution and inheritance
Living things and their habitats | |||
Geography | Study physical processes – Earthquakes, mountains and volcanoes | Study and compare places – regions in the UK, Europe and North America | Study human geography – economics, settlement and trade links
Orienteering – map and fieldwork skills | |||
History | Study five Monarchs
| Local history – How did conflict change our local area in WW2
| The Windrush generation – A study that extends chronological knowledge
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Art | Drawing
Painting and collage – cubism | Printmaking and Textiles
| 3D | |||
STEM/DT | Structures – designing structures | Food and Nutrition – eating ethically
| Mechanisms – gears | |||
Music | Dynamics, pitch and tempo
Film music | Songs of WW2
Theme and variation | Baroque
Composing and performing a Leavers song | |||
Computing | Computing systems and networks – communications and collaboration
Creating media – web page creation
| programming A – variables in games
Data and information – introduction to spreadsheets
| Creating media – 3D modelling
Programming B – sensing movement
Using the microbit | |||
French | Let’s visit a French town Let’s go shopping
| This is France All in a day | Our precious planet More to explore | |||
PE | Parkor Invasion Games (hockey, football or dodgeball) Dance Net and Wall (Badminton)
| Invasion Games (Tag Rugby.- Barrow Raiders) Gymnastics Invasion Games (Netball) Striking and Fielding (Rounders) | Swimming OAA (Orienteering) Swimming Athletics | |||
PSHE | Me and my relationships
Valuing difference | Keeping safe
Rights and respect
| Being my best
Growing and changing
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RE | Stories of Hinduism
What is a church?
| What is the Qur’an?
Expressing faith through the Arts
| Sikh worship and community
What happens when we die?
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