Year 6: What do we understand by discrimination?
NC - links
WOW: Art Gallery (African Art – paintings and masks)
LC1
What do we know about Africa: its
traditions and its positive features?
LC2
Can I develop an awareness of the nature
of prejudice and ways to combat it?
LC3
Can I understand a character’s viewpoint?
LC4
How different would my school day be if I
lived in South Africa?
How did Nelson Mandela help the world
have greater awareness of discrimination?
Can my art speak to all?
LC5
LC6
Literacy Link: Diary, Newspaper, Biography,
Narrative, Letters, Persuasive Writing
Geography Link: Maps, Location, Human and
Physical Geography
Numeracy: See Medium Term Plans
History: Life of Nelson Mandela
Art: African Art
Music: African Song/Drumming
Journey to
Jo’burg
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Year 6: What do we understand by discrimination?
Art
History
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Do their sketch books contain detailed notes, and quotes explaining about items?
Do they compare their methods to those of others and keep notes in their sketch books?
Do they combine graphics and text based research of commercial design, for example magazines etc.,
to influence the layout of their sketch books.
Do they adapt and refine their work to reflect its meaning and purpose, keeping notes and
annotations in their sketch books?
Can they explain what their own style is?
Can they use a wide range of techniques in their work?
Can they explain why they have chosen specific painting techniques?
Can they make a record about the styles and qualities in their work?
Can they say what their work is influenced by?
Can they include technical aspects in their work, e.g. architectural design?
Do their sketches communicate emotions and a sense of self with accuracy and imagination?
Geography
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Can they confidently explain scale and use maps with a range of scales?
Can they choose the best way to collect information needed and decide the most appropriate units of
measure?
• Can they make careful measurements and use the data?
• Can they use maps, aerial photos, plans and web resources to describe what a locality might be like?
• Can they give an extended description of the human features of different places around the world?
• Can they map land use with their own criteria?
• Can they describe how some places are similar and others are different in relation to their physical
features?
• Can they give extended description of the physical features of different places around the world?
• Can they describe how some places are similar and others are different in relation to their human
features?
• Can they accurately use a 4 figure grid reference?
For the HA
• Can they define geographical questions to guide their research?
• Can they use a range of self selected resources to answer questions?
Forest Academy
Can they say where a period of
history fits on a timeline?
• Can they place a specific event
on a timeline by decade?
• Can they place features of
historical events and people
from past societies and periods
in a chronological framework?
• Can they look at two different
versions and say how the
author may be attempting to
persuade or give a specific
viewpoint?
• Can they identify and explain
their understanding of
propaganda?
For the HA
• Can they suggest why there
may be different
interpretations of events?
• Can they suggest why certain
events, people and changes
might be seen as more
significant than others?
• Can they pose and answer their
own historical questions?
Music
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Can they sing a harmony part
confidently and accurately?
Can they perform parts from
memory?
Can they perform using
notations?
Can they take the lead in a
performance?
Can they take on a solo part?
Can they provide rhythmic
support?
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Year 6: What do we understand by discrimination?
LC1 - What do we know about Africa: its traditions and its
positive features?
LC2 - Can I develop an awareness of the nature of prejudice
and ways to combat it?
Can I locate Africa on a world map?
Can I identify the location of South Africa and other
key African countries?
Can I identify features on a map?
Can I explain the colours and features of the flag of
South Africa?
Can I explain a bar graph showing the average amount
of rainfall in South Africa?
Can I identify places using the 8 point compass?
Can I make links between my own life and the lives of
other people?
Can I understand that a photo shows only a single
moment in time?
Can I understand the term what is a global citizen?
Can I develop an awareness of the nature of prejudice
and ways to combat it?
(Oxfam)
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/global
-citizenship-in-the-whole-school/key-stage-two
Can children talk about a time when they felt they had
been discriminated against?
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Year 6: What do we understand by
discrimination?
LC3 - Can I understand a character’s viewpoint?
(Jouney to Jo’burg)
LC4 - How different would my school day be if I lived in South
Africa?
Can I understand how a fiction text can be based on factual evidence and
can I explain how characters show their strength in dealing with difficult
situations?
Can children ask and answer questions of the characters from the book?
Can children use descriptive language to describe setting?
Can chn ask question of characters that will explore their motives and
behaviour?
Can chn answer interview questions inferring knowledge from the text? Or
from another viewpoint?
Can I write a diary extract as Naledi?
Can I identify examples of persecution and fear from within the text?
Can I explain how the events and feelings described by the author effect the
reader?
Can I understand how different characters feel when Naledi and her brother
meet their mother?
Can I write a newspaper report?
Can I use freeze framing to show a scene from the story and characters?
Can I use my knowledge and skills to text mark and identify different
language elements within a text? Recognise Grace may be feeling as she re
tells the story from her past.
Can I evaluate the style of an individual writer?
Can I learn to write a persuasive letter?
Can I find out about schools in rural South Africa using
primary evidence?
Can I compare schools in rural South Africa to Forest
Academy?
Can I create my own messages using African drums?
Can I use African drum tones to create and convey a
message?
Can I write a non-chronological report about South
Africa today?
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Year 6: What do we understand by
discrimination?
LC5 - How did Nelson Mandela help the world have greater
awareness of discrimination?
LC6 - Can my art speak to all?
Can I identify the features and purpose of a
biography?
Can I use the internet/written sources to find facts
about Nelson Mandela?
Can I draft a biography on Nelson Mandela?
Can I say what their work is influenced by?
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