Year 6 Curriculum Overview

 

Year 6 Autumn term welcome letter

 

Autumn

Spring

Summer

English

Book study:

Holes by Louis Sachar

Coming home by Michael Morpugo

Diary writing

Interviews

Instructions

Persuasive writing

Discussions and debates

 

Poetry: Lady of Shallot including reciting and performing

Mary Celeste

 

Tyger Tyger

Writing their own poems

Grammar

Nouns, adverbs, verb tenses, simple present and past tense, progressive tense. Active verbs, clauses, relative and subordinate modal verbs, subjunctive verbs, pronouns and determiners

Book study:

The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Video animation

persuasive writing

letter writing

discussion texts

narrative writing

Literacy devices, including: imagery, personification, metaphors, similes.

Grammar

Parenthesis, expanded noun phrases, colons, semi-colons, formal/informal register, direct and reported speech, apostrophes for contraction and possessions, perfect tense, hyphens and bullet points.

 

 

 

SATS Revision  

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Playscripts: Macbeth

 

 

Grammar

Revision of all grammar

Maths

Number-Ordering, rounding, estimating, halving & doubling, multiply & divide by 10, 100 & 1000.

Four rules – Long multiplication, division with remainders, multi-step word problems.

Common factors, multiples & prime numbers

Fractions, decimals & percentages â€“ simplifying, comparing and ordering fractions, add, subtract multiply and divide fractions, compare & convert fractions, decimals and percentages,

Percentage problems.

Algebra – simple formulae

 

Geometry- measuring and missing angles.

Co-ordinates all four quadrants, translation and reflection.

 

 

Number â€“ Negative numbers

Problem solving involving all four rules

Algebra – number puzzles, patterns & missing numbers. Revision of the four rules.

 

Measurement â€“solve problems involving calculation & conversion of units of measure

Use, read, write & convert between standard units including length, mass, volume & time

Perimeter & area of parallelograms and triangles.

Formulae for area & volume

 

Geometry â€“ 2D & 3D shapes using given dimensions and angles

Recognise, describe & build 3-D nets

Find unknown angles in triangles, quadrilaterals & regular polygons

Work out missing angles of a straight line and point.

Statistics - interpret and construct pie graphs.

Mode, mean, median & range.

Number â€“ Word problems

Four rules & estimating

Multiply and divide decimals, Comparison fractions, decimal & percentages,

Ratio & proportion – scale factors

Problem solving

 

Geometry â€“ circles: illustrate and name -radius, diameter & circumference.

 

Measurement - Convert miles and kilometres

Formulae for area & volume

SATs Revision

Science

Living things and their habitats

Evolution and Inheritance

Plants

Light and Sight

Separating Materials

Drugs and Bugs

Art and Design

Artist Study - Tamara Madden

Observational drawings

Observational drawings

Gaudi

Clay Sculpture

Computing

E-Safety

Communication

Coding

Research

Databases

Multimedia

Design and Technology

Cooking

 

Fairgrounds

Geography

All around the world

 Rivers 

Mountains

History

Kingdom of Benin

 

Ancient Greece

Languages

Let's visit a French town

Let's go shopping

This is France

Our Precious Planet

More to Explore

All in a day

Music

 

Duration/Structure

Composing and appraising

PSHE

Enjoy & Achieve

Being Healthy

Staying Safe

Relationships

Emotional Health

Positive Contribution

RE

Art in Christianity

Life after death

Similarities and differences in religion

Easter Sunday

Religious leaders

Celebrations

PE

Invasion Games

Gymnastics

Dance

Netball

Athletics

Cricket

Orienteering

Games

 

 

 

Furze-Warren

Hard Federation

 On behalf of the staff, pupils and governors of Furze Infants and Warren Junior School I would like to welcome you to our federation. We are two schools working together under one Governing Body for the benefit of our pupils and the success of the community we live in.

We believe our schools gain from working collaboratively, more importantly, we strive to provide a seamless transition for our pupils between the two schools.

Mr. G. Wilder OBE

Executive Consultant

A WELCOME FROM THE EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT A Welcome from the Chair of Governors