Year 6 – Curriculum T5&6

Churchill Class Term 5 and 6 Resources

We are delighted to continue our French lessons with Mrs Cackett, our resident native French speaker. Over the course of the summer term, we will be thinking about “Monter un café- creating a café” Term 5 and 6: Throughout this topic, we will learn the French vocabulary for food and drink, quantities of food, transactional

Term 5 Sing Up Music – Year 6: Race! Pieces: Main theme from Chariots of Fire (Vangelis) About the unit: Film composing is an art form all of its own, different and distinct from other forms of composition. Composers use moving images (and often story) to inspire, shape and structure their ideas. In this unit

Following the GetSet4PE scheme of learning, our Physical Education (PE) lessons for term 5 will focus on Outdoor Adventurous Activities (OAA)  and athletics. Our PE lessons for term 6 will focus on cricket and rounders. Our PE lessons will be on Tuesdays and Wednesdays; children can wear their PE into school on both of these

Over the course of term 5 and 6, we will continue to follow our Jigsaw PSHE scheme of learning. Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE, is a progressive and spiral scheme of learning. In planning the lessons, Jigsaw PSHE ensures that learning from previous years is revisited and extended, adding new concepts, knowledge and skills,

Our Religious Education lessons will continue to be based upon our “Love to Celebrate” projects. Basing the “Love to Celebrate” projects around festivals gives a real-life context to the children’s learning and a structure to the projects. However, the celebration itself is only a small part of each “Love to Celebrate” project. Each set of

Following the Purple Mash scheme of learning, our two main computing topics, this term, will be text adventures and blogging. Text Adventures In term 5, we will be focusing upon text adventures. We will learn about: What is a Text Adventure? Planning a Story Adventure Making a Story-based Adventure Game Introducing Map-Based Text Adventures Coding

Art: Distortion and Abstraction Our art topic for this term is “Distortion and Abstraction”. Throughout this topic, we will learn about the concepts of abstraction and distortion. We will study the visual characteristics of abstraction and create a musically-inspired, abstract painting. To find out more, view our Distortion and Abstraction Knowledge Organiser. Design and Technology:

This term, our topic is “Light Theory”. In this project, your child will create a mind map to recap their prior learning about light sources, reflectors, day and night, sun safety and shadows. They will observe how light travels in straight lines. They will use their research skills to discover what happens to light when

Following the White Rose Maths scheme, year 6 will cover six main blocks of learning over the course of the spring term: ratio; algebra; decimals; fractions, decimals and percentages; perimeter, area and volume; and statistics. The blocks of learning for ratio and algebra have been moved to earlier in the year to give more time