Welcome to Year 6

SATs Parents' Presentation - details  of the date of the SAT, papers and support.

Y6 Residential Presentation - what to expect and other information.

Year 6 Curriculum Map

The Year 6 long term plan is below.  This shows the coverage of work for the whole year.  Items to note: Art and DT are generally taught on alternative terms; this is the same for History and Geography.  

As with other half terms, we will be covering many topics across the curriculum in the first half of the Spring Term.

English

This half term, English is split into Reading, Writing, Grammar and Spellings.

Reading

We will be looking a range of texts (both fiction and fiction) to build the suite of reading skills - fluency, vocab knowledge, retrieval, inference, explanation and summary.  A greater focus will be given to deeper retrieval questions and inference skills (including explanations).  Mainly, a text will be read each week to develop each skill; some of the texts are linked to our current half term value and out Science and History units.

Please ensure your child is reading at the very least 3 times per week at home to support them, not just reading independently but also support learning across the curriculum.  Planners should be signed on the day they have read, with a comment as appropriate.  If children particularly like a word or phrase they can write it in their planner as well.

Writing

We will be writing two pieces in different styles this half term.  There is a focus on building and embedding existing writing skills, as well as develop some new skills and authorial style and  The writing units this half term are:

• Explanation report - Blitzed based
• Narrative

Grammar

We are continuing with dedicated grammar lessons and testing into the timetable.  This is to help children prepare for their SATs and be as successful as possible.  The grammar to be covered this half term is:

• Word types: conjunctions; Verb forms
• Tense: simple present, simple past, perfect, present progressive, past progressive, model form.
• Tense consistency; subjunctive form; passive and active voice
• Punctuation including full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas and inverted commas
• Punctuation including apostrophes, parenthesis, colons, semi-colons, dash, hyphen and bullet points
• Synonyms/antonyms; prefixes/suffixes; word families

Spelling

Spelling is still an important part of learning, helping children develop their vocabulary, how they convey meaning and how they are understood.

New spellings will be learnt weekly, supported by activities in class and homework.  Spelling will come in two lists: rules and common exception words.

The Rule Spelling words for this half term are:

• Homophones 1
• Homophones 2
• Homophones 3
• Words containing 'ough'
• Words with silent letters
• Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable

Maths

As in Spring 1 and Autumn terms, Maths will be structured to recap existing knowledge and teach new learning.  This also continues with the application of the concrete, pictorial and abstract strategies, and knowing when it is best to apply them.  The topics covered this term are:

• Decimals
• Fractions, decimals and percentages
• Area, perimeter and Volume
• Statistics
• Shape

Extra lessons will be including this half term to allow for revision sessions in Summer 1 before the SATs.

We are still continuing with arithmetic practise, which includes a weekly test and times table practise.

Science

This half term sees children focussing on the question: How can we classify living things according to their characteristics?  This involves recapping how animals are classified by observable characteristics; applying this knowledge to explain how animals have changed over time.  Additionally, children learn that adaptation leads to evolution and within this learn the process of evolution. 

RE

This half term are tackling a new question: What difference does the resurrection make to Christians?  This falls under the topic of Salvation.  Children will recap the Easter story and look for evidence that Jesus was resurrected and learn about difference Christian practices for Good Friday and Easter Sunday, including how these are reflected in hymns sung on these days.  The unit will end with a silent debate about the resurrection and how this makes a difference to how people live today.

Geography

In Geography we will be looking national parks - public spaces that were created after WW2.   Children will cover the number and location of the national parks, then look in at detail at human and physical features of the national parks local to Adel St John: the Yorkshire Dales and The Peak District (the first national park).  The unit will close with looking at the impact of tourism and a debate on whether tourism is always positive or not for national parks.

Art

Tying in with the Geography unit, children will be creating a painting based on the Yorkshire landscapes of David Hockney.  Within this unit, they will be looking at perspectives in his landscapes, as well palette and composition.

Computing

This half term, children will be data organisers and recorders, learning about how to record, organise and manage data in spreadsheets. 

PE

In PE, children will be focussing on fitness, build up their speed and stamina, and netball (building on their skills learnt in basketball)