What was life like at the height of the Mayan
civilization?
How can we possibly know what life was like for the
Mayan people 1,000 years ago?
Can we solve the riddle of the decline of the Maya?
Why do we study the Maya in history?
Children will have a better understanding of the
achievements of an early civilisation. Children will
understand how our knowledge of the past is
constructed from a range of sources.
Children will devise historically valid questions about
the Maya and construct responses that involve
thoughtful selection of historical information.
To find out what we know about the Maya from the
drawings of Frederick Catherwood.
Art and Design
Maya masks
Maya headdresses
Maya weaving
Maya pottery
When so much of the land they lived
in was mountain and jungle, how did
the Maya manage to become so
important?
GeographyChildren will extend their knowledge and
understanding beyond the local area.
Locate the world’s countries using maps
and name key topographical features.
Describe and understand the key
aspects of human geography including
settlement and land use.
Describe and understand the key
aspects of physical geography including
mountains and vegetation belts.
Computing
Plan a game for other people containing a
quiz. Program it using Scratch and use
Scratch online community to share with
others
Collect/create sound and image files to use
within game for different backgrounds,
characters and objects. Comment on own
and each other’s games.
Science
Circulation
Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and
describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood.
Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way
their bodies function.
Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within
animals, including humans.
Evolution and Inheritance
Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils
provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions
of years ago.
Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but
normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents.
Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in
different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.
JIGSAWBeing me in my world
Celebrating Difference
MYSTICAL MAYA
YEAR 6 2015-2016
Music
Maya music
Play and perform in solo
and ensemble contexts
Improvise and compose
music for a range of
purposes.
Listen with attention to
detail and recall sounds.
Use and understand staff
PE
Swimming
Tag Rugby
MFL- FRENCH
Practical communication with a balance of spoken
and written language. To enable children to
understand and communicate ideas, facts and
feelings in speech and writing
Mathematics
read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10 000
000 and determine the value of each digit
round any whole number to a required degree of
accuracy
use negative numbers in context, and calculate
intervals across zero
solve number and practical problems that involve all
of the above
use common factors to simplify fractions; use
common multiples to express fractions in the same
denomination
solve problems involving the calculation and
conversion of units of measure, using decimal
notation up to three decimal places where
appropriate
compare and classify geometric shapes based on
their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in
any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons
interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs
and use these to solve problems
Literacy
Writing
Children will plan their writing drawing on research and
reading of the Maya culture.
Letter writing- Catherwood’s correspondence to his family
and other explorers
Diary of Frank Catherwood- noting his finds, chronological
work, feelings and questions
Narrative writing- adventure and suspense- The Lost
Kingdom
Explorer’s suitcase- what to take/ historical Vs now
News articles- the archaeological findings of Catherwood
Debate and argument- Catherwood sometimes arranged
his findings to draw them, should he do that?
A day in the life of…… (slaves or Nobles)
Leaflets-tourist information
The life and death of Frank Catherwood