MEDIUM TERM PLANNING TEMPLATE - Spring 2016, Year 6
Subject
Literacy
Week 1
Monday 4 - 8 Jan
Non Fiction
Recounts A day in my Christmas
Holiday.
Reinforce letter
orientation, handwriting
and pen licenses.
Reinforce marking
procedures.
Adverbial sentence
starters and time
connectives
APP – recount text
Weeks 2 and 3
Monday 11 - 22 Jan
Discussion texts –
Read ‘Should mobile
phones be allowed in
school?’
Reading
comprehensions.
Discussion texts –
Read ‘Is Fairtrade
always fair?’ linked to
Geography work on S.
America.
Nouns all types.
Sp – prefixes and
suffixes.
Class book Macbeth
playscript.
Theme: INCA civilization 1300 - 1600
Weeks 4, 5 and 6
Monday 25 – 12 Feb
Weeks 7 and 8
Monday 22 – 4 Mar
Persuasive texts –
Non Fiction
Read adverts and
Biography
analyse the advertiser’s The life of Michael
art.
Faraday. Pupils
Create adverts for
research and write.
products of pupils own Reading
design and link to
comprehension –
packaging.
Female astronaut
Persuasive texts –
biography.
Read house details from Sp – middle vowel
estate agents.
combinations.
Write a house detail
Pronouns
based on pupils own
house.
Reading comprehension
– volcanoes from the
2007 SAT tests (The
new destruction of
Pompeii).
Sp – silent consonants.
Class book Macbeth
playscript.
APP – persuasive text
Weeks 9 and 10
Monday 7 – 18 Mar
Fiction Poetry
To read and analyse a
selection of poems
(investigating rhythm
and rhyme).
Poems analysed to
include ‘The
Nightmail’ by WH
Auden.
Reading comps –
Poetry sections from
past papers.
Sp – compound words.
Noun verb agreement
Week 11
Monday 21 – 24 Mar
Fiction – narrative
writing
Finish the term with a
story writing unit
encouraging pupils to
write individual
stories based on 5
part adventure
stories in a South
American setting.
APP – narrative
story
MEDIUM TERM PLANNING TEMPLATE - Spring 2016, Year 6
Subject
Maths
Week 1
Monday 4 - 8 Jan
Weeks 2 and 3
Monday 11 - 22 Jan
Decimals and fractions.
To understand
equivalence in fractions.
To know basic
equivalence between
common fractions and
their decimal matches.
To be able to convert
fractions to decimals
and vice versa using
calculators. To be able
to order decimals and
fractions.
To be able to add and
subtract fractions
Decimals fractions and
percentages. To be able
to convert fractions to
decimals and vice versa
without calculators. To
be able to convert
between both and
percentages.
To be able to find
fractions of amounts.
To be able to multiply
and divide fractions
Assessment
Theme: INCA civilization 1300 - 1600
Weeks 4, 5 and 6
Monday 25 – 12 Feb
Weeks 7 and 8
Monday 22 – 4 Mar
Weeks 9 and 10
Monday 7 – 18 Mar
Week 11
Monday 21 – 24 Mar
Percentages.
2 D shape.
Measuring lines and 3D shape.
To know that
Recognizing
angles and
To know relevant
percentages are out of quadrilaterals.
constructing accurate language such as
100 and be able to find Parallel and
2 D shapes.
faces, edges and
percentages of
perpendicular lines. Protractor and ruler vertices.
numbers, by first
Identifying symmetry use.
To be able to
finding 10, 5 or 1% of in 2 D shapes.
Basic geometry rules recognize common 3D
amounts.
Types of triangle.
eg angles on a
shapes such as prisms
To be able to find
straight line etc.
and pyramids.
percentage, fraction
To recognize 3D
and decimal equivalence.
shapes from their
In word problem
nets.
scenarios know which is
the best deal in a
supermarket between
20% off and 1/6th off.
MEDIUM TERM PLANNING TEMPLATE - Spring 2016, Year 6
Subject
Science:
Animals
including
humans
Music:
Week 1
Monday 4 - 8 Jan
Weeks 2 and 3
Monday 11 - 22 Jan
Theme: INCA civilization 1300 - 1600
Weeks 4, 5 and 6
Monday 25 – 12 Feb
Weeks 7 and 8
Monday 22 – 4 Mar
To be familiar with animal To know that food chains Define habitat as the natural
groupings.
can be used to represent environment in which plants Half term
To introduce ideas of
feeding relationships in a and animals live. Make a list of
the different habitats taking
habitats and feeding
habitat.
suggestions from the chn e.g. Animals including
relationships. Remind the To know that food chains polar, desert, rainforest and
humans.
chn of previous work on
begin with a plant. Focus seas. Select 1 habitat
To establish what the
habitats. Give the chn the their attention on the
(desert/Egypt) and ask the
main animal groupings and direction of the arrows.
chn to think about what this children already know
categorisation definitions Make class definitions of habitat is like. What plants about the main body
e.g. what defines a
key food chain vocabulary are there? What animals are parts and internal
there? Explain that Darwin
mammal. Ask the chn to
e.g. producer, consumer,
organs. – A*
first suggested all plants and
complete the chart with 10 prey and predator,
To know there are 4
animals have adapted over
examples of different
carnivore and herbivore. time to suit their habitat.
main systems in the
animals in each grouping. Finish the session with a This is where they get their
human body (skeletal,
Make a class list and
mini-assessment from past food, water and shelter. They
circulatory, muscular
discuss any uncertainties SAT papers (testbase) on also breed in their natural
using the definitions.
food chains, some of which habitat. The success of this and digestive).
adaptation determines the
require arrows to be
animal’s survival. Darwin called
inserted. I can use
it natural selection – the
scientific terms such as
strongest survive.
producer, consumer, prey Ask the chn to explain how
and predator, carnivore
the polar bear is adapted to
and herbivore in their
living in the arctic.
correct sense.
Simon to plan and teach.
Weeks 9 and 10
Monday 7 – 18 Mar
To identify and be
able to name the main
parts of the human
circulatory system.
To be able to
describe the main
functions of the
heart, blood vessels
and blood.
Week 11
Monday 21 – 24 Mar
Pupils should know
how to keep their
bodies healthy and
how their bodies
might be damaged –
including how some
drugs and other
substances might be
harmful.
MEDIUM TERM PLANNING TEMPLATE - Spring 2016, Year 6
Subject
Week 1
Monday 4 - 8 Jan
Art:
No lesson
DT
No lesson
Weeks 2 and 3
Monday 11 - 22 Jan
Theme: INCA civilization 1300 - 1600
Weeks 4, 5 and 6
Monday 25 – 12 Feb
Using and reinforcing
In support of our Inca
the skills taught last
topic pupils will be
term pupils begin an
looking at Inca
Inca display as part of a artefacts and
dual timeline in the
developing an
class, to show parallel appreciation for the
developments in the
artistic ideas of Inca
Inca/European cultures Art.
from 1300 -1600AD.
Weeks 7 and 8
Monday 22 – 4 Mar
We will create Inca
masks and showcase
design concepts of
the Incas – pattern,
repetition and
adornment.
Half term
Cooking and nutrition
(science link)
Pupils are taught to
apply the principles
of nutrition and
healthy eating
through developing a
love of cooking and an
understanding of the
principles of a
healthy and varied
diet.
Dishes to be cooked
eg Caesar salad.
Weeks 9 and 10
Monday 7 – 18 Mar
Week 11
Monday 21 – 24 Mar
Pupils will use clay to No lesson
experiment with, and
recreate Inca pottery
displaying the design
concepts of the Inca
– pattern, repetition
and adornment
To prepare and cook To understand the
savoury dishes using a concept of
range of cooking
seasonality and cook
techniques.
with a variety of local
Links with South and ingredients
Central America and understanding how
our history and
these are grown,
geography topics.
reared, caught and
processed.
Dishes to be cooked:
Chilli
Dishes to be cooked:
Guacamole
Pancakes with a
variety of fillings
MEDIUM TERM PLANNING TEMPLATE - Spring 2016, Year 6
Subject
Week 1
Monday 4 - 8 Jan
Weeks 2 and 3
Monday 11 - 22 Jan
Theme: INCA civilization 1300 - 1600
Weeks 4, 5 and 6
Monday 25 – 12 Feb
Weeks 7 and 8
Monday 22 – 4 Mar
Weeks 9 and 10
Monday 7 – 18 Mar
Week 11
Monday 21 – 24 Mar
PE – Hockey
Hockey with Keith from Hockey with Keith from Hockey with Keith from Hockey with Keith
and basketball Sherborne Hockey Club. Sherborne Hockey Club Sherborne Hockey Club from Sherborne
(outside club
Hockey Club
coaches)
Half term
Science. Health and
exercise.
Pupils will be paired Assessments
to engage in a series Maths. Recording our
of 1min activities
PE data.
designed to develop Record personal
flexibility, strength, performance and set
technique, control,
against class mean
balance and stamina: data.
‘are physically active Pupils to construct
To be able to
for sustained periods line graphs and use
recognize and discuss of time’.
them to record two
the impact of
Activities will be
variables, arising
exercise, diet, drugs preceded by warm ups from their own
and lifestyle on the and finished with
enquiry in other
way their bodies
warm downs. Pupils
subjects such as PE.
function.
will be taught the
value of warm
ups/downs and will
eventually lead these
sections.
Games –FTball Basketball with Poole
NTball
coach
Basketball with Poole
coach
Basketball with Poole
coach
Football / netball /
rugby free choice
Football / netball /
rugby free choice
House matches
MEDIUM TERM PLANNING TEMPLATE - Spring 2016, Year 6
Subject
History –
Theme: INCA civilization 1300 - 1600
Week 1
Monday 4 - 8 Jan
Weeks 2 and 3
Monday 11 - 22 Jan
Weeks 4, 5 and 6
Monday 25 – 12 Feb
To understand the
origins of Inca
civilization from their
arrival across the Asian
landbridge, to their
settlement as one of a
number of Andean
tribes.
To investigate the rise
to prominence of the
Incas in their harsh
Andean environment.
Why did they become
the dominant culture in
this part of S America?
Why was the Inca
empire so successful?
Understanding the
Inca people.
Investigate the lives
of both ordinary
Incas and the
biographies of key
leaders.
Themes to include:
religion, agriculture
and contacts with the
outer world.
Weeks 7 and 8
Monday 22 – 4 Mar
Weeks 9 and 10
Monday 7 – 18 Mar
Week 11
Monday 21 – 24 Mar
To enable pupils to To know what
To discuss the legacy
place Inca
happened when Inca of the Incas in South
civilization alongside and European
America and the
parallel
civilizations collided. wider world today.
developments in
Discuss the moral and
Britain and Europe; practical interaction.
using the classroom
timeline as a visual
stimulus and
reinforcement.
A non-European society that provides contrasts with British and European history – The Incas
MEDIUM TERM PLANNING TEMPLATE - Spring 2016, Year 6
Subject
French
Week 1
Monday 4 - 8 Jan
Weeks 2 and 3
Monday 11 - 22 Jan
To revise basic French
vocabulary and
pronunciation (e.g.
answering the register
in French – present et
presente where boys do
not pronounce the final
t and girls do not
pronounce the final e).
To include days of the
week, months of the
year and numbers to
100.
Pupils engage in common
conversational
situations and using the
powerpoint books from
Catherine Cheater,
children continue their
immersion and
pronunciation
development.
Develop an
understanding of
reading French books
for understanding even
when many words are
not known or
understood.
Theme: INCA civilization 1300 - 1600
Weeks 4, 5 and 6
Monday 25 – 12 Feb
Weeks 7 and 8
Monday 22 – 4 Mar
Weeks 9 and 10
Monday 7 – 18 Mar
Using early dictation
To know and
To learn new
strategies pupils begin understand
vocabulary and know
to write and draw from similarities and
masculine nouns begin
French instructions e.g. differences between with a consonant.
“draw me je vois dans le English and French
Introduce the game
jardin un chien marron” syntax.
of ‘repetez si c’est
or “dans le sac il y a un Pupils understand
vrai’ (only repeat if it
furet”.
that in French the
is true).
To be able to listen to adjective comes after Show a picture, say
and write simple French the noun. And are
“un petit lion jeune”
sentences from a
aware of certain
and the children
limited vocabulary.
exceptions e.g. petite, repeat if this is true.
I know 4 nouns, 4 verbs, grand, jeune et joli.
4 adjectives and 4
Thus children begin
adverbial sentence
to write more
starters.
complex French
sentences including
commas to mark
clauses.
Week 11
Monday 21 – 24 Mar
Children begin to
write their own
french sentences
using a sentence
frame.
Pupils demonstrate
their vocabulary and
knowledge of word
order e.g. dans le
jungle il y a un lion
jeune.
MEDIUM TERM PLANNING TEMPLATE - Spring 2016, Year 6
Subject
ICT
Week 1
Monday 4 - 8 Jan
No lesson
Theme: INCA civilization 1300 - 1600
Weeks 2 and 3
Monday 11 - 22 Jan
Weeks 4, 5 and 6
Monday 25 – 12 Feb
To introduce the pupils
to Microsoft Excel as a
system/program for
collecting, analyzing,
evaluating and
presenting data and
information.
Design an algorithm
using Excel formula for
summing columns, which
allows incorporates
additional information
or changes in data.
Expand this work to
include averages work.
Weeks 7 and 8
Monday 22 – 4 Mar
Weeks 9 and 10
Monday 7 – 18 Mar
Pupils select and use a Pupils learn to use
variety of data
technology safely,
presentation forms respectfully and
including graphs, bar responsibly.
and pie charts.
What is
Pupils learn to
cyberbullying?
incorporate these
How do I stay safe
into powerpoint and online?
other presentational
devices.
Poster creation for
peers and younger
Half term
children.
Internet safety
Week 11
Monday 21 – 24 Mar
Pupils are taught to
identify a range of
ways to report
concerns about
unwanted contacts
and dangerous
content.
Scenario training
MEDIUM TERM PLANNING TEMPLATE - Spring 2016, Year 6
Subject
RE
Driver 1a –
SMSC
(Spiritual)
Week 1
Monday 4 - 8 Jan
No lesson
Weeks 2 and 3
Monday 11 - 22 Jan
Theme: INCA civilization 1300 - 1600
Weeks 4, 5 and 6
Monday 25 – 12 Feb
Weeks 7 and 8
Monday 22 – 4 Mar
Introduce this term’s
key question: Is
anything eternal?
From a selection
including oceans,
celebrities, friendship,
love, water, Jesus, the
Sun etc. ask pupils to
sort according to time
lasted and explain and
justify their responses.
Does anything last
Explore the terms
forever?
eternal and
Discuss what is
unconditional in
promised at a Christian relation to Love.
wedding. How does the Explore the Christian
ring symbolize eternity? belief that because
Can love last forever? of Jesus’
Pupils investigate
resurrection,
through a series of
Christians will also be
Bible references how
able to have life
Jesus portrayed Love. after death (eternal
life). Can a nonChristian go to
heaven? Is going to
heaven a Christian’s
only motivation for
doing good things?
Pupils reflect on
different perspectives
on life and other
people’s feelings and
experiences.
Martin Luther King
story and the biblical
story of David and
Goliath (1 Samuel 17).
Pupils sense of
enjoyment and
fascination in learning
about themselves and
others in the world.
Weeks 9 and 10
Monday 7 – 18 Mar
Week 11
Monday 21 – 24 Mar
Pupils to write their Whatever you believe
own answers to the
in it is important to
following questions. lead a good life. Why
Do Christians believe is this so? Consider
that anything is
the Humanist
eternal and if so what perspective.
and why?
Discuss how as
Do you think anything individuals and in
is eternal and why?
social groups we can
Teacher summarizes do this.
the Christian
teaching of eternal
life and unconditional
love. Explain that
many religions believe
that some things are
eternal.
Pupils are passionate Within the context of Pupils are aware of
and confident in
poetry week pupils
concepts of spiritual
expressing their
illustrate Psalm 148. health, happiness and
thoughts and views on Compare with other self-esteem. Present
spiritual and moral
faiths creation
at the ‘Healthy me’
Invite John into school issues.
stories and reflect on Jigsaw assembly a
again for a follow up
Children are given the their own beliefs
selection of ‘Reasons
Q+A. Follow up
opportunity to draw within the context of to be thankful 1,2.3’.
discussions on John’s
links between the
awe and wonder at
experience, persistence collective worship
the natural world
and positivity in
story of ‘Saying
around them.
adversity.
Grace’ and modern
debates on Fairtrade.
MEDIUM TERM PLANNING TEMPLATE - Spring 2016, Year 6
Subject
Week 1
Monday 4 - 8 Jan
Weeks 2 and 3
Monday 11 - 22 Jan
Theme: INCA civilization 1300 - 1600
Weeks 4, 5 and 6
Monday 25 – 12 Feb
Weeks 7 and 8
Monday 22 – 4 Mar
Weeks 9 and 10
Monday 7 – 18 Mar
Week 11
Monday 21 – 24 Mar
Driver 1b –
Pupils develop an
Developing pupil’s ability Developing pupil’s ability Pupils offer reasoned Pupils continue to
Explore an
SMSC (Moral) interest in investigating to recognise the
to recognize the
views about moral and develop ideas of right understanding of
and offering reasoned difference between
difference between
ethical issues e.g.
and wrong within the human freewill and an
views about moral and right and wrong.
right and wrong.
Fairtrade.
context of their own appreciation of the
ethical issues;
Martin Luther King’s
The Inca’s moral code: Focus in particular on lives in relation to
idea that pupils
understanding and
fight for equality.
don’t steal, don’t lie,
cocoa grown in South internet safety,
enjoy/suffer the
appreciating the
Pupils link their
don’t be lazy. Contrast America – link to
cyberbullying and
consequences of their
viewpoints of others on behaviour to biblical
with our school values geography topic.
have the confidence behaviours and
these issues.
teaching.
of behaviour.
Pupils are given the to identify a range of actions.
Argument texts to be The biblical story of
opportunity to
ways to report
Celebrate personal
studied/written to
David and Goliath (1
articulate the link
concerns about
self-esteem, good
include: ‘Should animals Samuel 17) – teaching
between their
unwanted contacts
work attitude and
be kept in zoos?’ and
having the courage of
behaviour and biblical and dangerous
mutual support based
‘Should homework be
might over right.
teaching (Saying
content.
upon Christian values.
banned from schools?’
Grace).
Driver 1c –
We celebrate
Courage and self-belief. Class engages with
Explore concepts of
SMSC (Social)
volunteering and
The Malala Yousafzai
Fairtrade fortnight,
fairness and
cooperating with others. Story
displaying a
sacrifice. Consider
Sports leaders and
Learners reflect on and willingness to
the Easter story and
playground leaders tell respond to beliefs and participate in local,
Jesus’ example of
tales of difficulties
values contained in
national and
giving oneself for
(mutual respect and
profound human
international issues.
others.
tolerance),
experiences from a
Pupils run Fairtrade
Further interrogate
perseverance and
range of faith
stalls including cakes
this story and in
success.
perspectives.
and healthy snacks
particular the lessons
Highlight good examples Pupils write biographies with fairtrade
to be learnt from
of cooperating well with of Malala Yousafzai.
ingredients.
Judas’ betrayal and
others, including
Peter’s denial.
younger pupils, and
being able to resolve
conflicts effectively.
MEDIUM TERM PLANNING TEMPLATE - Spring 2016, Year 6
Subject
Driver 1d –
SMSC
(Cultural)
Week 1
Monday 4 - 8 Jan
Weeks 2 and 3
Monday 11 - 22 Jan
Theme: INCA civilization 1300 - 1600
Weeks 4, 5 and 6
Monday 25 – 12 Feb
The inspirational story Courage and self-belief.
of Martin Luther King The Malala Yousafzai
Junior. His sense of
Story.
persistence in the truth Showing Malala as a
and non-violent means superb example of
of protest. Link to the courage, selfdevelopment of
confidence and the
democracy and votes
perseverance towards
for all.
truth in an Islamic
setting.
Weeks 7 and 8
Monday 22 – 4 Mar
Weeks 9 and 10
Monday 7 – 18 Mar
Week 11
Monday 21 – 24 Mar
History link To investigate what
happened when
European culture
clashed with ancient
Inca culture in the
16th Century.
Develop pupils
understanding of the
British democratic
parliamentary system
in preparation for
next terms mock
general elections.
To discuss questions
of tolerance and
respect for different
people and ways of
life.