Year Six

Classic fiction, poetry and drama by long-established authors including the study of a Shakespeare play

Adaptations of classics on film / TV

Autobiographies and biographies, diaries, journals, letters, anecdotes, records of observations which recount experiences and events

Journalistic writing

Non-chronological reports

Longer established stories and novels selected from more than one genre, e.g.  mystery, humour, sci-fi, historical, fantasy worlds

Range of poetic forms e.g. kennings, riddles, limericks, cinquains, tanka, poems written in other forms as adverts, letters, diary entries, conversations, free and nonsense verse, Discussion texts, Formal writing: notices, public information documents etc

Revision & extension of work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting.

Comparison of work by significant children’s author(s) and poets: a) by same author (b) different authors’ treatment of the same theme

Explanations linked to work from other subjects,

Non-chronological reports linked to work from other subjects

Use of reference texts, range of dictionaries, thesauruses, including I.T. sources.

Revision & extension of work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting.

Place value, ordering, rounding, using a calculator, Mental calculation strategies and pencil and paper procedures (+ and –)

Understanding, mental calculation strategies and pencil and paper procedures (x and symbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 8∏)

Money and ‘real life’ problems, making decisions and checking results including using a calculator, Fractions, decimals and percentages, ratio and proportion, Handling data, using a calculator, Shape and space, reasoning about shapes, Measures including problems,

Properties of numbers, reasoning about numbers

Place value, ordering, rounding, using a calculator, Mental calculation strategies and pencil and paper procedures (+ and -)

Understanding, mental calculation strategies and pencil and paper procedures (x and symbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 8∏)

Money and ‘real life’ problems, making decisions, checking results, including using a calculator, Fractions, decimals and percentages, using a calculator, Shape and space, reasoning about shapes, measures including problems, handling data,

Properties of numbers, reasoning about numbers

Place value, ordering, rounding, using a calculator

Mental calculation strategies and pencil and paper procedures (+ and -)

Understanding, mental calculation strategies and pencil and paper procedures (x and symbol 184 \f "Symbol" \s 8∏), Money and ‘real life’ problems, making decisions and checking results including using a calculator

Handling data, using a calculator

Fractions, decimals and percentages, ratio and proportion, Shape and space, reasoning about shapes, Measures, including problems, Properties of numbers, reasoning about numbers

Forces in action Changing circuits, Interdependence & adaptation, Micro-organisms

More about dissolving, Reversible & Irreversible, How we see things.

SATs

Victorian Britain – children

Life in Britain since 1948

The Mountain Environment

What’s in the News?

Warhol / People in Action

Hockney / A sense of place

What a performance