Year 6
Autumn 1 / Autumn 2 / Spring 1 / Spring 2 / Summer 1 / Summer 2
RE / LOVING – God who never stops loving
VOCATION AND COMMITMENT – The vocation of priesthood and the religious life
OTHER FAITHS JUDAISM – Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur
EXPECTATIONS – Jesus born to show God to the world
CHRISTMAS PLAY / SOURCES – The Bible, the special book for the Church
UNITY – Eucharist enables people to live in communion
DEATH AND NEW LIFE – Celebrating Jesus’ death and resurrection
OUR LADY OF LOURDES FEAST DAY / WITNESSES – The Holy Spirit enables people to become witnesses
HEALING – Sacrament of the sick
OTHER FAITHS rolling programme:
2015 ISLAM – Belonging and values
2016 HINDUISM – Belonging and values
2017 SIKHISM – Belonging and values
COMMON GOOD – Work of the worldwide Christian family
Science / Micro organisms
Look at the history of classification. Describe how living things are classified and give reasons for classifying. / Light
Sources of light, how light travels in straight lines, investigate light reflection and refraction. / Healthy Bodies
The impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function. / Healthy Bodies
Explore structure of heart and lungs. Learn more about blood. Describe functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood. / Electricity
Revision of circuits. Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function. / Evolution and inheritance
Discuss fossils as evidence of life millions of years ago. Recognise living things produce offspring of the same kind.
History & Geography / Geography
Holiday locations and map work / British History
-British history beyond 1066
- WW1 and Battle of Britain
- Timeline
- Significant events leading up to the battle
- Role of Allied and German leaders
- Churchill’s’ quotation ‘so many…owe so few…’
- Identify principle aircraft
- Roles played by people on the ground
- How it ended and significance with wider context or the war
- Latitude, longitude, tropic lines, time zones, compass points, OS map, the world.
- Understand similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of North America (California)
- Describe and understand the key aspects of volcanoes and earthquakes
- Human: settlement, economic activity, trade etc
- Maps, atlases, globes, digital/computer mapping, 8 point compass, 4-6 fig. grid references. Observation, measure, sketch, map
-Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the kingdom of England
- Viking raids and invasion
- Alfred the Great and Athelstan, first king of England
- Anglo-Saxon law and justice
- Edward the Confessor and his death in 1066
Computing / We are app planners.
Planning the creation of a mobile app. / We are project managers.
Developing project management skills. / We are market researchers.
Researching the app market. / We are interface designers.
Designing an interface for an app. / We are app developers.
Developing a simple mobile phone app. / We are marketeers.
Creating video web copy for a mobile phone app.
P.E.
Indoor / Gym
Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance. / Dance
LCP Unit -During the Blitz
Perform dances using a range of movement patterns. Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. / Gym
Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance. / Dance
Perform dances using a range of movement patterns. Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. / Gym
Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance. / Dance
LCP unit -Diwali dance
Perform dances using a range of movement patterns. Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.
P.E:
Outdoor / Isolated skilled work –
Running, Jumping, throwing and catching.
(Invasion) / Basketball
Play competitive games, modified where appropriate.
Apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending. / Isolated skilled work –
Running, jumping, throwing and catching.
(Striking games). / Cricket
Play competitive games, modified where appropriate.
Apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending. / Athletics
Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination / Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team.
Sports day training,
PSHE / Class Charters
Class Rules / Anti-Bullying Week / Internet Safety (SID) / Lent Fundraising / Personal Care and Hygiene
Summer Uniform / New Ambassadors
Moving Up
Journey in Love – The Wonder of God’s love in creating new life (link to R.E.)
Music / Exploring beat and syncopation
World music (PE)
Exploring rhythm and melody in singing, movement and dance.
Pupils learn about beat, syncopation, pitch and harmony, and looks at the universal language of music. / Exploring street dance
Growth (Geography)
“The street” is the setting for buskers and flash mobs, exploring the music “Bolero” by Ravel, through mime and learning songs with instrumental accompaniment leading to creating a dance to build into a street performance. / Exploring performance
Reflecting (Computing)
Looking at two songs – one looking back and one looking forward, and a music device to link them will provide pupils a chance to create a celebration of happy memories of primary school and hopes for the future.
Art / People in action
Observational drawing of figure movement
Drawing human figure in proportion
Making template
Montage
Contrasting colours
String print plate
Creating movement using arrays and repeated print
Print and mixed media
Artists
Muybridge
Singer
Boccioni
Haring / Moving along
Design figure mid normal movement based on artist Giacometti
Draw design and annotate own additional features
Exaggerated proportions
Make frame from wire
Use papiermache to add form and shape
Paint and finish to a high standard
Artists
Giacometti / Around and about
Landscape painting
Using a viewfinder for composition
Replicate famous artists work use of colour-oil pastels- blending, colour layering
Draw local landscape- use perspective
Create and use grid system to transfer ideas and enlarge images for own work.
Mix and apply paint in variety of ways stippling, washes, brush strokes, textured.
Use colours in unusual ways-Hockney
Artists
Hockney
Turner
Monet
Seurat
Design & Technology / Shelters – Based on WW2 Anderson shelters:
Develop a design criteria to inform the design/product.
Generate ideas through discussion and sketches.
Use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks.
Evaluate design and comment on changes from original design to end product. / Fairground rides:
Develop a design criteria to inform the design/product.
Generate ideas through discussion and sketches.
Use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks.
Build an electrical circuit for the ride.
Use woodwork skills(cutting and shaping wood).
Evaluate design and comment on changes from original design to end product.