Curriculum Overview
Year 6 Curriculum Overview 2022-2023
| Autumn 1 (7 weeks) | Autumn 2 (7 weeks) | Spring 1 (6 weeks) | Spring 2 (6 weeks) | Summer 1 (6 weeks) | Summer 2 (7 weeks) |
English 1
| Recount: What Mr Darwin Saw *diary *newspaper *letters | Entertain: Narrative Classic Literature Novel Study
A Christmas Carol -Charles Dickens | Entertain: Narrative Visual Literacy
| Describe Non chronological Geographical Report The Amazon Basin | Entertain Narrative: Classic Literature (Shakespeare)
Macbeth *dialogue
| Entertain: Narrative Dilemma /Social Issue Novel Study The Bone Sparrow- Zana Fraillon *newspaper *diary |
English 2 | Entertain: Narrative Social Issue: Novel Study Wonder | Explain Policy Statement | Explain: Scientific Report Electricity | Entertain: Poetry On the Move-MichaelRosen | Persuade Debate | |
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 Link with Geography/inter-disciplinary topic | Animals, incl humans – circulatory system, healthy lifestyle, human body (RHE)
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History |
| How did London change between 1066 and the Tudor period? Continuity and Change enquiry |
| How do we know about the Mayan Civilisation of central America? Evidential Thinking enquiry Historical interpretation | What happened as a result of the Industrial Revolution? Consequence enquiry |
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Geography | What Darwin Saw
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| Brazil South American study |
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| Migration over time Case study of 20th century migration |
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: mobile phone case | Textiles Combining different fabric shapes Project: fabric advent calendar
| Mechanical Systems Pulleys Project: sports car/off road vehicle | Mechanical Systems Pulleys Project: fairground ride | Food Celebrating culture and seasonality Project: savoury scones | Food Celebrating culture and seasonality Project: pizza (making dough) |
Music | Developing Melodic Phrases How does music bring us together? | Understanding Structure and Form How does music connect us with our past?
| Gaining confidence through performance How Does Music Make the World a Better Place? | Exploring notation further How Does Music Teach Us About our Community? | Using chords and structure How Does Music Shape our Way of Life? | Respecting each other through composition How Does Music connect Us with the Environment? |
Art | Drawing Detailed analytical drawings Enlarge Tone Key artists: portraiture e.g. Rembrandt, Modigliani, Claudette Johnson, Aubrey Williams, Frida Kahlo | Painting Apply understanding of line, shape, colour and texture Work collaboratively Key artists: Patrick Heron, Patrick Caulfield, Cubist artists | Collage Respond to artist’s work Combine visual and tactile qualities of materials Compare and modify Review and modify artwork Key artists: Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso | Printmaking Press print reduction blocks Batik process
Key artists: Chinwe Chukwuogo Roy
| 3-D/Sculpture Observe from viewpoints Respond to artist’s work Research work of craftspeople and designers Review and modify work Key artist: Henry Moore | Textiles Respond to artists work Relief printed textile process Investigate, collect, select visual information Multi media weaving Key artists: 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?
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PE | Invasion Games Basketball
| Invasion Games Hockey | Gymnastics | Dance | Strike and Field Games Rounders | Net and Wall Games Table 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 | Class Charters Black History Month | Anti Bullying Week Children in Need Winter Festivals
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| Red Nose Day |
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