Frome Vale
Long term curriculum plan
2016 - 2017
Year 6
Subject / Term 1 / Term 2 / Term 3 / Term 4 / Term 5(SATs) / Term 6
(Writing SATs and Residential Trip)
English / Stay where you are and then leave
Diary Extracts
Letters / Non chronological reports – Science
(Circulatory System and Healthy Lifestyles)
The Lost Happy Endings - narrative / Secret Friends / The Viewer / Rose Blanche / Pig Heart Boy
Journey to the River see
Maths / Place Value
Addition/ Subtraction / Subtraction
Multiplication / Division
Fractions
Decimals
Percentages / Fractions
Decimals
Percentages
Measure / Measure
2D/3D shapes / Maths Investigations
On- going Maths in LE and Science – Statistics; collecting, collating and interpretation of data
History / How did World War One affect the people of Great Britain?
A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066 / What were Britain’s Dark Ages?
(Anglo Saxons
and Vikings)
Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward
the Confessor / What evidence do we have that the Romans invaded after the Vikings?
The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain / How did Britannia Woods get its name?
A local history study.
Geography / Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities.
Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/ mapping to locate countries. / What is Climate change?
Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities.
Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/ mapping to locate countries.
Name and locate counties and cities of the UK, geographical regions and identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features and understand how some of these features have changed over time.
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes and the water cycle. / Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key
physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities.
Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/ mapping to locate countries. / Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time
human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water / Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities.
Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/ mapping to locate countries.
human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water / Counties and cities of the UK, geographical regions and identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features and understand how some of these features have changed over time.
RE / Why are pilgrimages important in life?
Science / How does our body work? What makes a healthy body? / What is electricity? How do we use electricity? / Where have we evolved from? How do our genes make us who we are? How do animals adapt to their surroundings? What does evolution mean? What does inheritance mean? Can you explain how these words have different meanings in different contexts? What characteristics could a child inherit from their parents? / How are living things classified?
What is light? How does light travel?
Art & Design/
DT / Make a world war 1 dish
Science – dips
Science – Modroc
Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer aided design. (Modroc)
Understand the principles of a healthy and varied diet.
Prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques
Understand seasonality and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed. / (see note above)
Junk modelling to represent climate change - Week 7
Evaluate their ideas and produce against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work.
Apply their understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen and reinforce more complex structures
Improve their mastery of art and design techniques including sculpture with a range of materials / Make modern day wooden chariots in small groups
Select from and use a wide range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks (gears, pulleys, cams, levers and linkages)
Understand and use electrical systems in their products (for example, series circuits incorporating switches, bulbs, buzzers and motors)
Select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities.
Investigate and analyse a range of existing products – designers
Great artists, architects and designers in history
Create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
Improve their mastery of art and design techniques including drawing and painting
PE / Basket ball / Inclusive team sports
Throwing and catching skills for a tournament / Netball / Dodge ball
Tag Rugby / Rounders
Dance / Athletics
Gym
Music
weekly singing sessions in assembly
PHSE / Living in the wider world- economic wellbeing and being a responsible citizen
Relationships / Relationships / Relationships /sex education