Curriculum Map Spring 2016 - Year 6

English
Week 1: Wedding Ghost blurb/character description
Week 2: Building Suspense
Week 3: Describing a Scene
Week 4: Oral recall of story
Week 5: Planning a Flashback
Week 6: writing and up levelling a story
Week 7:World War 2 – Rose Blanche
Week 8: Diary entry
Week 9:informal and formal letters
Week 10:informal and formal letters
Week 11:Up level and revision
Grammar: Nouns, Pronouns, Verb Tenses, Active and Passive and Clauses
Spelling: shul/shun/shus sound, unstressed vowels, words with ‘qu’, ‘gu’ and ‘ough’ / Maths
Week 1: Long Division/ Short Division
Week 2: Formal Methods for Multiplication
Week 3: Adding and Subtraction Fractions
Week 4: Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Week 5: Statistics – pie chart
Week 6: Statistics - mean/average
Week 7:Shape – rotation/translation
Week 8: Problem solving/ Revision
Week 9:Problem solving/ Revision
Week 10:Problem solving/ Revision
Week 11:Problem solving/ Revision
Mental: times tables, efficient strategies, number bonds and four operation work. / Science:
First Half Term: Electricity
Week 1: Electricity – recap from Year 4
Week 2 & 3:Circuit symbols
Week 5: Conductors and Insulators
Week 6: Series and parallel circuits
Second Half Term: Light
Week 1 & 3: Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines
Week 4 & 5:Explore the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them
PSHE
Week 1: Personal learning goals
Week 2: Steps to success
Week 3: My dream for the world
Week 4: Making a difference
Week 5: Recognising our achievements
Week 6: Drugs
Week 7: Alcohol
Week 8: Emergency Aid
Week 9:Emotional/mental health
Week 10:Managing stress
Week 11:Food / The Big Idea
The world’s rivers are our most precious resource. This Unit studies the impact of the world’s rivers on people and landscapes in the past, present and future. / French
Week 1: School Subjects: To learn the school subjects in French
Week 2: To use feelings in a sentence
Week 3: To use reasons and opinions in a sentence
Week 4: To use different connectives in a sentence
Week 5: To build complex sentences in French ( connectives + adjectives + adverbs)
Week 6: To understand a French text and be able to answer some questions
Week 7: My autobiography: To understand how to write an autobiography in French
Week 8: To write about my childhood and family in French
Week 9: To write about where I live
Week 10: To write about what I would like to be in the future
Week 11: To write the complete autobiography in French
Geography/History
Week 2: Knowledge Harvest and the Big picture
Week 3: Research activity: find the longest, famous, favourite river
Week 4: Cities built along the banks of rivers.
Week 5: History of the River Nile
Week 6: River shapes and Structure.
Society/International
Week 8: Managing rivers and water supply. / Topic: Rivers
Entry Point: 8th January 2016
Exit Point: (Open Afternoon for parent/carers - TBC)
Topic Talk Assembly: 15th January 2016 (Parent/Carers welcome) / RE
Spring 1
Jewish and Islamic Prayer – How, What and Why?
Spring 2
Buddhist and Christianity; Religion and the individual.
PE

Baseball – Spring 1
Dance – Spring 1
Gymnastics – Spring 2
Invasion games –Spring 2 / ICT
Week 1:Practice creating a simple tune
Week 2:Improve the tune by looking at rhythms
Week 3:Begin to make more professional music thinking about tempo
Week 4:Begin to make more professional music thinking about tempo and sequences
Week 5:Begin to make more professional music thinking about tempo, sequences and samples
Review blogging / Design Technology
Week 9, 10 & 11
Research Bridge designs and plan to make own. Create these bridges and evaluate why it is effective. Research different ways in which rivers may be crossed or navigated and evaluate which is most effective.

January 2016