Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
Year 6
Curriculum Summary
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
ENGLISH
TERM
1
2
TOPICS COVERED
Literature: Goodnight Mister Tom and/ or Private Peaceful and/or War Game
Poetry: War poetry, Poetic form- Kennings
Writing: Develop as writers of narrative. Setting, characterisation, vocabulary and varied syntax
Grammar: Main parts of speech revision
Spelling: Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to word endings in ‘-fer’, Rare grapheme-phoneme
correspondences (Revise Y5), homophones advice/advise, device/devise, licence/license, practice/practise,
prophecy/prophesy, Possessive apostrophe with singular proper nouns, proofreading, learning and practicing
Spellings.
Punctuation: Accuracy of basic punctuation e.g. capitals for the personal pronoun I and names
Handwriting: Develop smooth, flowing, functional style
Literature: Tuck Everlasting or Chinese Cinderella
Poetry: Revision of poetic terminology and techniques
Writing: Argument and persuasive devices, writing stories, accounts, descriptions and essays
Grammar: More detailed work on adjectives, nouns, pronouns and conjunctions
Spelling: Generating words from prefixes and suffixes, homophonescompliment/complement, desert/dessert, principal/principle, profit/prophet, stationery/ stationary. All
homophones from KS2, proofreading, learning and practicing Spellings.
Punctuation: Write in varied sentences with basic punctuation including apostrophes of contraction and
possession and inverted commas
Handwriting: Develop smooth, flowing, functional style
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
3
Literature: Boy-Tales of Childhood or The Hobbit
Poetry: Riddles
Writing: Literature essay writing. Descriptive writing. Autobiographical and biographical writing.
Grammar: Identification of eight parts of speech including prepositions
Spelling: Revise words with rare GPCs from the Years 5 and 6 word list (bruise, guarantee, queue,
immediately, vehicle, yacht) Words ending in ‘-ant’, ‘-ance’/‘-ancy’, ‘-ent’, ‘-ence’/‘-ency’ and near
homophones draft/draught, dissent/descent, precede/pro- ceed, wary/weary, proofreading, learning and
practicing Spellings.
Punctuation: Revision of direct speech
Handwriting: Develop smooth, flowing, functional style
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
Drama
TOPICS COVERED/ SCHEMES OF WORK
1
Introduction to Drama. A brief reminder of the rules and expectations in these lessons. Ice breakers to
positively begin the year.
Roald Dahl’s Characters. A moment to celebrate and explore the diverse and fantastically brilliant
characters, created by this genius!
2
3
The Christmas Truce. A scheme of work that encourages the students to explore and begin to understand
this historical event. The focus is on empathy through discussion, creation of characters and scenes.
Year 6 Production. To be confirmed.
Confidently Playing with Shakespeare. An introduction to performing and enjoying Shakespeare’s most
famous scenes and plays. To support transition to Year 7.
Midwitch. A scheme of work exploring styles of performance. The focus is on developing their physical skills
using this supernatural story as a stimulus.
Games, skills and creativity.
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
MATHS
Term
1
2
3
TOPICS COVERED
Place Value
Rounding
Factors
Multiples
Primes
Product of Primes
Squares
Cubes and Roots
Angle Chasing
Divisibility tests
Division
Coordinates
Simple Straight-Line Graphs
Transformations, Decimals
Simplifying algebraic expressions
Substitution
Probability
2D and 3D shapes
Perimeter
Scatter Graphs
Number patterns
Multiplying and Dividing
Doubling and Halving
Decimal places
Significant figures
Units of Measure - Length, Mass, Capacity
Tally and Bar Charts
Averages, Pie Charts
Conversion Graphs
Frequency Diagrams
Histograms
Fractions
Directed Numbers
Four Rules of Fractions
2D Shape
Symmetry
Venn Tree and Carroll Diagrams
Area of rectangles and triangles
Nets
Drawing nets on isometric paper
Volume
Function machines
Equations
Percentages
Time
Points of the compass
Bearings
Calculator Skills
Algebra
Revision for exams
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
SCIENCE
Term
1
2
3
TOPICS COVERED
BIOLOGY: Life processes, major organs in plants and animals; nutrition and digestion; healthy living.
CHEMISTRY: Introduction to the senior lab (safety, using the Bunsen burner)); materials and separating
mixtures of materials; Acids and Alkalis.
PHYSICS: Sound; light.
BIOLOGY: Movement; circulation; growth and reproduction.
CHEMISTRY: Changing materials.
PHYSICS: The Earth and beyond.
BIOLOGY: Green plants.
CHEMISTRY: Grouping and classifying materials.
PHYSICS: Electricity.
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
GEOGRAPHY
TERM
1
TOPICS COVERED
Weather and Climate
Settlement and Population
Migration
Location Knowledge – physical and human locations around the world using atlases
Climate Zones and longitude and latitude
Plate Tectonics
2
Plate Tectonics
Mapping skills using Ordnance Survey maps
Location Knowledge
Global Location (The Middle East)
Population and Settlement
3
Earth's Resources
Location Knowledge
Fieldtrip – Studland
End of Year Examination (60 minutes)
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
HISTORY
TERM
1
TOPICS COVERED
The Stuart Kings and Stuart England
James I – Religion, Finance, Parliament & Foreign Policy.
Gunpowder Plot
The Duke of Buckingham
Divine Right of Kings and Charles I
2
The Personal Rule of Charles I
The Bishop’s Wars
Conflict between Crown and Parliament
The Civil War
3
The Trial and Execution of Charles I
The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell
Charles II and the Restoration
Great Plague, Great Fire of London
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
LATIN
The course followed in Latin: Practice Exercises by RC Bass and is available on the website www.galorepark.co.uk Chapter
titles refer to the chapters in these books.
TERM
1
2
3
TOPICS COVERED
What is Latin?
 verbs
 present tense – amo
 the persons
 hidden subjects in English
PE1 Ch 2-7
 people in Latin
 people doing things
 present tense – moneo
 person doing and person done to
PE1 Ch 8-12
 present tense: rego, audio
 open questions – ne
 the cases
 verb summary
 servus: nom / acc only
 servus – other endings
PE1 Ch 13-16
 adjectives – bonus
 imperatives
 numbers
 infinitives
 revision: nouns and verbs
 cur? and quod
 singulars and plurals
 plural objects in –as
 conjunctions
 present tense – sum
Roman Myth: Romulus and Remus
ASSESSMENT -Test 1
 puer and ager
 prepositions
 to and with
 ego, tu nos, vos
 neuter nouns – bellum
Roman Myth: Horatius
ASSESSMENT - Test 2
 miser
 sacer
 imperfect tense
Roman Myth: Cloelia
ASSESSMENT – Test 3 (Chapter 14)
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
FRENCH
TERM
1
TOPICS COVERED
Describe a town
Ask for and give directions
Arrange to go out
Discuss meeting places
Talk about clothes and say what style you like
Talk about the weather and what you wear on different occasions
Watch and understand a film in target language
2
Talking about holidays in present and past tenses
Time phrases
Irregular verbs
Some conditional tense phrases
3
Sports and hobbies
Parts of the body, injury and illness
Modal verbs
Formal and informal language
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
SPANISH
TERM
1
2
3
TOPICS COVERED
Talking about school subjects.
Expressing likes and dislikes.
Asking and saying the time.
Talking about your school timetable.
Talking about meal times.
Saying what you have to eat and drink
Describing your school.
Saying how you get to school.
Talking about your home and saying where it is.
Describing your house.
Describing the rooms in your house.
Describing your bedroom.
Talking about your daily routine.
Saying where you are going.
Giving and understanding directions.
Describing the location of places in a town.
Talking about distance.
Talking about what your town is like.
Talking about the weather.
Talking about sports.
Talking about what you like doing in your free time.
Arranging to go out.
Saying what you are going to do at the weekend.
Saying how you help at home and how you are going to help at the weekend.
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
COMPUTING
TERM
1
2
3
TOPICS COVERED
Photo editing
PowerPoint
Internet/mobile phones
Graphics – logos and patterns in GIMP
Stop-frame animation
Stop-frame animation
Web design from templates
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
RE
TERM
1
2
3
TOPICS COVERED
God’s covenant with Abraham
Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac
The promised land (Canaan)
The story of Joseph
The Israelites as slaves in Egypt
The story of Moses and his arrival in the Egyptian court
Moses fleeing Egypt
Moses time in exile and the burning bush
The Ten Plagues
The Passover
Moses and the Ten Commandments
The Exodus
The connection between Moses and Jesus
Christ’s Life
The teachings of Christ
The Sermon on the Mount
Examples of Christ’s teaching in action
Who was Jesus Christ?
The importance of St. Peter and St. Paul
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
MUSIC
TERM
TOPICS COVERED
1
Maths and Music, Africa/Mathematical problems/animals/conservation
Popular styles, Britain since 1900/dance
Bones Bells and Drums, different cultures/sound/materials
2
Scales and Modes, electricity/different cultures
Texture, Light and sound/America (north and south)
Early Music, Tudors/Music as a historical source
3
Communication, Communications
Adapting Music, Change
Past, Present and Future, Victorians/change/London
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
ART
TERM
1
2
3
TOPICS COVERED
Clock Art: telling the time
Collage Exercises
Greek Vases and Pottery (2D and 3D studies)
Painting on canvas
Charcoal Drawing (Observational studies)
The art of Constable
Chagall (Life story through painting)
Christmas Art
Drawing Techniques: upside down/ continuous line
Pop Art (Commercial art and repetition/ Andy Warhol)
Tile Design (Geometry and pattern)
Raoul Duffy (A fresh approach to painting/ mixed media)
16th C Dutch Art: Landscape and weather
Mondrian (Geometry and colour)
J.W. Derby (The Lunar Society)
Newspaper collage: Images and words
Observational skills: Sherborne Castle
Miro (Abstraction and experimentation)
Holbein (German school of painting)
Photography (Introduction and history)
Women Artists (Portraiture)
Water and Reflections (Watercolour technique)
Drawing and Painting glass
Preparing for an Exhibition: Commissions and Public Art
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
DT
Term
TOPICS COVERED
1
‘Hazard Hunting’ in the DT workshop & classroom.
Investigating properties of metals. Developing sketching skills using construction lines. Pupils will design
and make a mould to manufacture / cast a pewter key fob.
More about mechanisms – using a mechanism and motor to produce reciprocating movement. They will
use this to design and make a walking monster or vehicle, assembling the different parts, including an
introduction to strip heating/ forming acrylic. They will learn how controllers can be used to program
movements and other outputs, introducing and gaining an understanding of robotics.
2
3
Introduction to plastics – learning to use the vacuum-forming machine. Pupils will design and make a
mould for forming a plastic product such as a post-it holder or desk tidy.
Planning & organisation – learning how to plan and sequence the steps required for manufacturing a
product. They will reuse materials to make a ukulele.
Decorating textiles using appliqué – developing sewing machine skills. Pupils will design and make a felt
monster.
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
PE
TERM
1
2
TOPICS COVERED
Sport: Basketball
Skills developed: Dribbling, passing, evasion, shooting and game play. Defensive theories and strategies
explored and put into practice
Sport: Badminton
Skills developed: Range of fore and back hand shots. Use of overhead clears, serves and basic game play.
Deception and court management. Scoring and singles and doubles matches.
Sport: Dodgeball
Skills developed: Dodging, blocking, importance of positions on court, attacking and defending play
Sport: Team building
Skills developed: team work, communication, leadership, cohesion learnt through physical and mental games
and activities
3
Sport: Athletics
Skills developed: Refinement of techniques with a focus towards Senior Wessex and sports day competition.
Sport: Tennis
Skills developed: Developing ground shots and volleys on full sized courts. Understanding of how to
construct points, with movement round the court of both yourself and your opponent.
Curriculum
Summary
Year 6
PSHE
TERM
1
2
3
TOPICS COVERED
Team work
Decision making
Leadership and government
Rights and responsibilities
Rule breaking
Capital Punishment Debate
Legal and Human Rights – All Together Now Video
Healthy eating and personal hygiene
Self Esteem/Assertiveness/Body Language
Mindfulness and wellbeing
Drugs
Stealing/Vandalism
Cyber Bullying
Cleanliness and Hygiene
Dealing With Loss
Racism and disability
Study skills/Revision skills and personal organisation