St Edward’s Catholic Primary School

Curriculum Framework Overview Year 6 2017-2018

AUTUMN TERM 1STHalf / AUTUMN TERM 2NDHalf / SPRING TERM 1STHalf / SPRING TERM 2NDHalf / SUMMER TERM 1STHalf / SUMMER TERM 2NDHalf
RE
Come and See / Loving / Judaism / Vocation and commitment / Expectations / Sources / Unity / Death and new life / Witnesses / Healing / Common Good / Islam
Class Theme / World War II / Extreme Earth / Inventions that shaped the world
NASA - Space
Tom Edison – Light bulb
Einstein – Gravity and Forces
Female inventors (Marie Curie etc)
Curriculum Enrichment Opportunity / WOW Day – Are you good enough to win the war?
Code breaking
Parachute testing
Fitness assault course.
Trip: Holdenby House
Parent Celebration Assembly / WOW Day - tbc
Natural disaster preparation – building a shelter
Science experiments to build a building to withstand an earthquake. / WOW Day - tbc
Dragons Den – Creating their own inventions
Or inventing something to solve a problem.
Trip: Space Centre
Parent Celebration Assembly.
English / Narrative
Persuasive leaflet
Letter from an evacuee’s point of view.
Fact Files
Poetry / Tbc
Poetry
Narrative / Tbc
News reports of new inventions (from Wow day)
Instructional writing
Non Fiction reports
Quality Text / Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Video extracts from the literacy shed. / Kensuke’s Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo
Flood (picture book) by Alvaro F. Villa
Escaping the Giant Wave - Kehret / TBC
On a beam of light – Jennifer Berne
Fantastically great women who changed the world – Kate Pankhurst
Science / Working scientifically
Light / Working scientifically
Evolution and Inheritance / Working scientifically
Earth and Space
Forces
Electricity
Geography / Locational Knowledge of countries involved in war and key battles.
Geographical skills and fieldwork – use of maps. / Geographical skills and fieldwork
Human and Physical Geography / Geographical Skills and fieldwork
History / Local History
Extended Chronological study
Significant people / Significant people and discoveries that changed history.
Art / Propaganda posters
Blitz silhouette paintings
Holocaust mixed media artwork with limited colour palette
Blackout poems for armistice day /

Art inspired by The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai

Tornado perspective pictures
Volcano artwork / Key desingers and architects who changed aspects of the creative arts world.
Technical drawing
Design & Technology / Making a successful parachute.
Make an Anderson shelter that could hold a number of children and withstand an attack (paper balls and shaking)
Make a silver cross medal out of clay for the end of the topic.
Build a war plane or parachute to test as part of a DT project. / Build and design a building that can be on land and water for a flood. / Making their invention based on the Wow day projects.
Music / War Time songs / Sound effects and Onomatopia work to accompany natural disaster clips. / The development of instruments and sound equipment over the years.
Physical Education / Real PE
Pacestters Football Coaching / Real PE
Pacestters Coaching / Real PE
Pacestters Coaching
PSHE / Healthy Lifestyles/Eating
‘Say no to bullying’
Road Safety
Keeping safe / E.safety
Going for Goals
Good to be Me / Truth and Honesty
Fairness and Justice
Famous People
Looking Ahead - confidence
Changes/ New beginnings
Successes
SMSC Links / The effects of War
Modern and current wars
Is it ever justified?
Who is responsible? / Current/recent natural disasters
Disaster relief and charity work
Global warming and the effects. / The role of women through history with inventions
Overcoming adversity
Making mistakes