Year 6 Summer Term Curriculum

Summer Term – Branching Out

Successful Learners

Areas of learning

As geographers we will look at where rainforests are located around the world, how they are structured and human impact upon them.
As scientists we will explore concepts of evolution and inheritance, identifying how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment.
Within computing we will model climate change whilst developing independent research skills.

Confident Individuals

PSHE

We will consider how to be well prepared for our move to secondary school.

Responsible Citizens

Environment

We will visit Kew Gardens to gain first hand experience of what a rainforest looks and feels like.

Spiritual & Moral

We will consider the competing uses of land and the difficulty of making the right decision.

Communities

We will look at ways that we can conserve and preserve our local environment for the benefit of all living things. We will investigate the concept of ‘fair trade’.

Summer Term – Subject Skills

English

To consolidate all areas of learning through the use of engaging texts and a variety of teaching approaches
To analyse literature in increasing depth, articulating thoughts and opinions with specific reference to texts and to the breadth of personal reading experience
To explain and discuss their understanding of what they have read, including through formal presentations and debates, maintaining a focus on the topic and using notes where necessary
To provide reasoned justifications for their views
To write for a range of purposes and audiences, expressing ideas confidently and coherently across a range of genres
To routinely plan, draft, edit and revise writing in pursuit of quality pieces, involving peers as critics
To incorporate the full range of punctuation with understanding in order to provide clarification and enhancement of meaning

Mathematics

To consolidate all areas of learning through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems
To reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification and proof using mathematical language
To apply mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems, including breaking down problems into a series of smaller steps and persevering in seeking solutions
To solve number and practical problems involving place value, rounding and negative numbers
To solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
To use estimation to check answers and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy
To solve problems which require answers to be rounded to specified degrees of accuracy
To recall and use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages, including in different contexts

Science

We’re evolving: adaptation, evidence of changes over long periods, Charles Darwin

To understand that although we are similar in many ways, there are also differences between people
To recognise that those differences include eye colour, hair colour, height and shoe size
To recognise that offspring resemble their parents in many features
To recognise that we inherit characteristics from our parents
To collect and present data in a variety of ways
To recognise that offspring are different from each other and their parents
To understand that animals best suited to their environment survive to breed and pass
on their characteristics to their offspring
To recognise that this process is known as natural selection
To develop research skills and interpret data
To recognise that observations can be used to support ideas
To understand that living things can change over time

History

Martin Luther King

To recognise the characteristic features of the periods and societies studied
including ideas, beliefs, attitudes and experiences of men, women and children
To appreciate the social, ethnic, cultural, religious diversity of the societies studied
To identify and describe reasons for, and results of events and changes
To recognise the past can be interpreted in different ways, and give reasons for this
To understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources
To note connections, contrasts and trends over time
To understand both the long arc of development and the complexity of specific aspects of a topic under study

Geography

Investigating Rainforests

To develop contextual knowledge of globally significant places, including their defining physical and human characteristics
To communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, quantitative skills and writing at length
To identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, the Equator, the hemispheres and the Tropics
To understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region within South America

Computing

We are environmentalists: modelling climate change

To develop strategies for exploring and experimenting with interactive computer simulations
To develop an understanding of the model underlying one or more computer
simulations
To develop independent research skills, including questions of reliability and
authority
To develop technical skills in recording narrated screencasts
To develop skills in discussing findings on video and video editing skills

We are publishers: creating a yearbook

To develop skills in writing for an audience using a word processor
To develop skills in taking, selecting and manipulating photographs
To develop page design skills, including typography and page layout
To develop document production skills, including editing, sub-editing, reviewing and document design
To develop their understanding of project management
To develop their capacity to work collaboratively in an extended team

Art

2a Investigate and combine visual and tactile qualities and match them to the purpose of their work.
2b Apply and develop use of tools and techniques, including drawing.
4a How visual and tactile elements including colour, pattern, texture, line, tone, shape and, form can be combined.

DT

1a Generate ideas after thinking about who will use them and what they will be used for, using information from a number of sources.
1c Plan, suggesting a sequence of actions or alternatives if needed.
2a Select tools, techniques and materials.
2d Measure, mark out, cut and shape materials accurately.
3c Recognise quality depends on how something is made and if it meets its intended use.
4a Learn how the working characteristics of materials affect the way they are used.

PE / Games

2a Plan, use and adapt strategies, tactics and compositional ideas for individual, pair, small group and small-team activities.
3a Identify what makes a performance effective.

Music Links

1c Rehearse and perform with others.
2a Create musical patterns.
2b Explore, choose and organise sounds and musical ideas.
3a Explore ideas and feelings about music using movement, dance and musical language.

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