Subject Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6
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History

Geography Our Changing World Sow, Grow and Farm Geography revision and retrieval practice: interpreting geographical sources.
English

Freedom by Catherine Johnson

Freedom 1783 by Catherine Johnson

The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell

Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian

Spellings
  • Suffixes 1: Revise instances where the root word does not change when adding a suffix
  • Suffixes 2: Revise Adding -ing, -ed, -er, -est and -y to words ending in -e with a consonant before it
  • Words containing the letter-string “ough”
  • Learn words from the Y5/6 word list
  • Revise the suffix –“ment” -“ness”, “ful”, “less”, “ly”
  • Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words with more than one syllable.
  • Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in – “fer”.
  • Homophones and other words that are often confused
  • Suffix 5: Revise Adding -ing, -ed, -er, -est and -y to words ending in -e with a consonant before it
  • Learn words from the Y5/6 word list
  • Revise the suffix “cious” or “tious”
  • Homophones and other words that are often confused
  • Endings spelt “tion,” “sion,” “ssion,” and “cian”

 

  • Learn words from the Y5/6 word list
  • Words with ‘silent’ letters
  • words with the “i” sound spelt “ei” after c (and other ie/ei words)
  • Use of the hyphen (to spell words)
  • Words ending in –“able” and “ible”

 

 

  • Common mistakes: homophones and other words that are often confused
  • Revise adding “es”  to nouns and verbs ending in y. (Plural nouns)
  • Learn words from the Y5/6 word list
  • Homophones and plural nouns 2
  • Homophones and other words that are often confused

 

  • · Practise and check any problematic homophones from Y5-6 Spelling Appendix·
  • Revise all previously learned homophones

 

  • Use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words.
  • Know when and when not to use an apostrophe for possession in given examples
Punctuation
  • Discuss idea of ambiguity, when meaning is not clear
  • Edit deliberate punctuation errors
  • Revise use of possessive apostrophe for singular plural nouns
  • Model and practise punctuating parenthesis, using pairs of commas, dashes or brackets;

 

  • Use a colon to introduce a list
  • Discuss and use commas, semi-colons and colons to separate clauses effectively

 

  • · Identify and model use of hyphen
  • Use a single dash

 

  • Use comma for all its purposes
  • Use bullet points where appropriate

 

 

  • Revise use of apostrophe
  • Make decisions about punctuation, sometimes including dash, semi-colon and colon
  • Discuss, highlight and analyse range of punctuation in texts.
Grammar
  • Types of nouns
  • Identify synonyms and antonyms
  • Expanded noun phrases
  • Possessive pronoun
  • Relative Clauses
  • Read and enjoy poetry, comparing its use of sentence structure and punctuation with that of prose
  • Write different types of poems

 

  • Revise four types of sentences
  • Modal verbs

 

  • Determiners
  • Revise preposition phrases in sentences, including prepositions of place and time
  • Use fronted adverbial ensuring correct placement of comma
  • Verb forms-Active and passive
  • Subjunctive verb forms

 

  • Revise word class, including pronouns, prepositions and determiners
  • Strengthen and improve verbs in writing
  • Write formal and informal sentences, selecting conjunctions and cohesive devices to suit level of formality
  • Compare sentences in simple past with perfect past verb form
Mathematics Number

  • Place value
  • Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Fractions

 Geometry

  • Position and Direction
Number

  • Decimals
  • Percentages
  • Algebra
  • Ratio

Measurement

  • Converting units
  • Perimeter, area and volume
Geometry

  • Properties of shapes

Statistics

Consolidation and themed projects

Science The Circulatory System Electrical Circuits and Components  Light Theory
Computing Coding Spreadsheets Online Safety Blogging Text Adventures Quizzing
PE Invasion Games

  • Tag Rugby

Health Related Fitness

Sports Hall Athletics

Invasion Games

  • Hockey
Gymnastics

Multi skills

Net and wall games

  • Tennis

Invasion games

  • Netball
Athletics

Striking and Fielding

  • Rounders
  • Cricket
RE Judaism

Passover

 

Sikhism

Guru Arjan Gurpurab

Buddhism

Dharma Day

 

Islam

Ramadam and Eid al-Fitr

Hinduism

Holi

Christianity

Pentecost

 

PSHE Being me in my world Celebrating difference Dreams and goals Healthy me Relationships Changing me
Art
  • Tints, Tones and Shades – Colour in Landscape
  • Taotie
  • Inuit
  • Environmentalist artists
  • Distortion and abstraction
  • Bees, beetles and butterflies

 

DT
  • Food for Life (DT)
  •  Engineer
  • Make Do and Mend
Music Hey, Mr Miller

Swing music, syncopation, swing rhythm, big band instruments, scat singing, social and historical context (WWII, segregation) progression snapshot 1.

Shadows

Artists and their influences, compare musical genres (country, electronic dance music, rock, classical, soul).

Composing for protest!

To create music inspired by Ethel Smyth and a picture of the suffragettes, composing using a non-musical stimulus, lyrics, melody, steady beat, tempo, ostinato, coda.

Instrumental Unit

Calypso solèy lev

Calypso clave rhythm, hand drumming, hand-to-hand sticking, tuned playing within I-IV-I-V chord structure, ensemble performance, learning to play by ear.

You to me are everything

1970s soul music, comparing cover versions.

You to me are everything

To use Twinkle, twinkle little star as a composing tool, theme and variations form, passacaglia, improvisation.

Year 6 production
French What’s the time? 
School
Places in towns
  
That’s a date 

Then and now

A guide for tourists The café song  Food

 

 

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