St Mary’s CE Primary School Horsham Termly Curriculum Map Year 6 Autumn Term

English
Genre:Narrative (Michael Morpurgo), recipes and other examples of instructional text, non-fiction (topic based), poetry
Writing Focus:narrative – writing in the style of the author,
write instructional text, autobiographies, war poems
organisational and presentational devices of non-fiction text
plan,draft, proof read, evaluate
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Reading comprehension and assessment. / World War Two Britain
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Scratch -Programming and Debugging
design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts
use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output / RE
Faith Through Art
following West Sussex Agreed Syllabus
Understanding Christianity -Incarnation
History
World War Two Britain
know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales.
Geography
Linked to World War Two locally
Work during residential trip to France- maps, location of Hardelot, coastal path, Town Trail
Horsham in 1945 – local history
Maths
Place value and rounding off
Multiplying decimals by 10, 100 and 1000
Mental and written addition and subtraction of large numbers
Algebra
Written methods for the four operations
Roman Numerals
Units of measure
Comparing, ordering and simplifying fractions
Adding and subtracting fractions
Ratio and Proportion
Order of operations / Music
Charanga Unit-
Living on a Prayer
Singing and ongoing skills- Christmas
Spanish
led by Spanish teacher
French
Cultural aspects of residential visit to France / PE
Invasion Games- hockey, tag-rugby
use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination
play competitive games, modified where appropriate and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending
Gymnastics
develop flexibility, strength, technique,control and balance / Art and Design
World War Two themed artwork – Blitz scene
to create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay]
Science
Electricity and Light
  • recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines
  • use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye
  • explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes
  • use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them.
  • associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit
  • compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches
  • use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram.

PSHE and SRE
Getting on and Falling Out (SEAL)
RRS- Class Charter / Design and Technology
Structures – WW2 Anderson Shelter Model, Cookery – WW2 Rations
Design
generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design
Make
select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [forexample, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately