Year 6

Find out what your child will be learning this year in Year 6

Year 6

Find out what your child will be learning this year in Year 6

Curriculum overview

Find out what your child will be learning this year:

Year 6 Overview

This term’s curriculum

RE:

Autumn 1: In the Beginning

This topic focuses on the two Hebrew creation narratives recorded in Genesis. The children will also use Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical – Laudato Si’ – to identify similarities and differences with the Genesis passages.

Autumn 2: Advent to Christmas

This topic focuses on the season of Advent as the time of preparation for the celebration of Christmas.

It includes teaching on the ‘O’ Antiphons and Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus.

English:

Writing:
Key text: Firebird

Use of figurative literary techniques
Poetry
Informal letter writing

Key text: Skellig by David Almond

Narrative —short story/descriptive writing
Interviewing
Biography
Journalistic writing
Writing in role
Poetry exploration

Reading:

Destination Reader programme.

Key skills: Prediction, Questioning, Clarifying, Summarising, Inferring, Evaluating and Making

Connections.

Year 6 Grammar objectives

Year 6 Spelling objectives and revision of Year 3/4/5 statutory word lists

Maths:

Number and Place Value
Number — addition, subtraction, multiplication and division: formal written methods
Fractions — addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of.
Reasoning and problem solving

Science

Biology: Living things and Habitats

Skills:

Planning different types of scientific enquires to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary.

Knowledge:

Describe how living things are classified into broad groups
Life cycles of mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds
Life processes of reproduction in some animals
Life processes of reproduction in some plants
Comparing life cycles of animals and plans in the local environment with others around the world.

Computing

E Safety
Coding
App developing
Computer literacy

History/Geography

Victorian Britain

Constitutional monarchy
Ideas of Empire
Victorian society
Lives of the rich and poor
Industrial Revolution
Workhouses
Victorian Politics
Children and Education

PE

Year 6 have PE on Tuesdays. However, please ensure PE kits are in school Monday to Friday.

Art & Design

Linked to topic work in Literacy / History / RE

MFL

Spanish

Music

play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using voices and musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
develop an understanding of the history of music