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Warren Junior School

A member of the Furze-Warren Hard Federation

Warren Junior School ~ Curriculum Overview  ~ Year 6

Year 6 Autumn term welcome letter

 

Autumn

Spring

Summer

English

Book study:

Holes by Louis Sachar

Coming home by Michael Morpugo

Diary writing

Interviews

Instructions

Persuasive writing

Discussions and debates

 

Poetry: Lady of Shallot including reciting and performing

Mary Celeste

 

Tyger Tyger

Writing their own poems

Grammar

Nouns, adverbs, verb tenses, simple present and past tense, progressive tense. Active verbs, clauses, relative and subordinate modal verbs, subjunctive verbs, pronouns and determiners

Book study:

The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Video animation

persuasive writing

letter writing

discussion texts

narrative writing

Literacy devices, including: imagery, personification, metaphors, similes.

Grammar

Parenthesis, expanded noun phrases, colons, semi-colons, formal/informal register, direct and reported speech, apostrophes for contraction and possessions, perfect tense, hyphens and bullet points.

 

 

 

SATS Revision  

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Playscripts: Macbeth

 

 

Grammar

Revision of all grammar

Maths

Number-Ordering, rounding, estimating, halving & doubling, multiply & divide by 10, 100 & 1000.

Four rules – Long multiplication, division with remainders, multi-step word problems.

Common factors, multiples & prime numbers

Fractions, decimals & percentages – simplifying, comparing and ordering fractions, add, subtract multiply and divide fractions, compare & convert fractions, decimals and percentages,

Percentage problems.

Algebra – simple formulae

 

Geometry- measuring and missing angles.

Co-ordinates all four quadrants, translation and reflection.

 

 

Number – Negative numbers

Problem solving involving all four rules

Algebra – number puzzles, patterns & missing numbers. Revision of the four rules.

 

Measurement –solve problems involving calculation & conversion of units of measure

Use, read, write & convert between standard units including length, mass, volume & time

Perimeter & area of parallelograms and triangles.

Formulae for area & volume

 

Geometry – 2D & 3D shapes using given dimensions and angles

Recognise, describe & build 3-D nets

Find unknown angles in triangles, quadrilaterals & regular polygons

Work out missing angles of a straight line and point.

Statistics - interpret and construct pie graphs.

Mode, mean, median & range.

Number – Word problems

Four rules & estimating

Multiply and divide decimals, Comparison fractions, decimal & percentages,

Ratio & proportion – scale factors

Problem solving

 

Geometry – circles: illustrate and name -radius, diameter & circumference.

 

Measurement - Convert miles and kilometres

Formulae for area & volume

SATs Revision

Science

Living things and their habitats

Evolution and Inheritance

 

Plants

Light and Sight

Separating Materials

Drugs and Bugs

 

Art and Design

Gaudi

Observational drawings

Observational drawings

Pop Art

Computing

E-Safety

Communication

Coding

Research

Databases

Multimedia

Design and Technology

Cooking

Shelters

Fairgrounds

Geography

All around the world

 Rivers 

Mountains

History

Kingdom of Benin

 

Ancient Greece

Languages

Let's visit a French town

Let's go shopping

This is France

Our Precious Planet

 

More to Explore

All in a day

Music

Duration/Structure

Composing and appraising

PSHE

Enjoy & Achieve

Being Healthy

Staying Safe

Relationships

Emotional Health

Positive Contribution

RE

Art in Christianity

Life after death

Similarities and differences in religion

Easter Sunday

Religious leaders

Celebrations

PE

Handball

Gymnastics

Dance

 

 Basketball Athletics

 Cricket

Orienteering