Waingroves, Ripley, Derbyshire DE5 9TD

01773 744106

Waingroves Primary School

Think. Do. Achieve

Year 6 Curriculum

Termly curriculum overviews are available on class pages 

 

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Topic Focus:

WHY DO PEOPLE GO TO WAR?

WHAT WOULD A JOURNEY THROUGH THE HUMAN BODY BE LIKE?

CHOCOLATE: GOOD OR BAD?

WERE THE GREEKS REALLY GLORIOUS?

HAVE WE ALWAYS LOOKED LIKE THIS?

WHAT WILL I FIND IN THE HOUSE OF WISDOM?

 

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Goodnight Mr. Tom (Classic Fiction) by Michelle Magorian

Running Wild (fiction) by Michael Morpurgo

The Tyger (Poetry) by William Blake

Running Wild (fiction) by Michael Morpurgo

Greek Myths

Macbeth (Scripts) by William Shakespeare

There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom (modern fiction) by Louis Sachar

1001 Arabian Nights (stories from other cultures)

Geraldine McCaughrean

ENGLISH

Letter

Diary entry (Kindertransport)

Newspaper report

Non-chronological report

Information text

Film review

Poetry

Balanced Argument

Story continuation

Myths

Persuasive text

Script

Biography

Letter

Diary

Description

Story (in the style of 1001 Arabian Nights)

MATHS

Place value

Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

Fractions

Position and direction

Decimals

Percentages

Algebra

Converting units

Perimeter, area and volume

Ratio

Properties of shape

Problem solving

Statistics

SATs revision

Post-SATs investigations

SCIENCE

 

Circulatory and digestive systems

 

 

Evolution

 

HISTORY

World War II

 

 

Ancient Greece

 

Baghdad 900AD

GEOG

 

 

Rainforests

 

 

 

RE

Leaders

Hard Times

Natural World

Sacred Spaces

Respect For Others

Faith Through Art

PSHE

Being Me

Being Safe

Money Matters

Drug Addiction

Changes Transition

Growing Up/ SRE

ART

Pastels and silhouettes

Christmas

Rousseau

Green patterns (printing)

Portraits

Geometric Patters

DT

 

DT WEEK

 

 

 

 

MFL

French – House and home

French – Sport and Leisure

French - School

PE

Invasion games (basketball)

Athletics

Dance/Gymnastics

Invasion games (basketball)

Gymnastics

Dodgeball

Dance

Invasion games (uni-hoc)

Net/wall (tennis)

Striking and fielding (cricket)

Net/wall (tennis)

Athletics

Outdoor and adventurous

ICT

Digital imagery

Music and sound

Programming and controlling

Online safety

Communicating and collaborating

Cyber bullying and  

Online safety

Digital exploration (search technologies)

Presenting data

Online safety

Digital exploration (search technologies)

Online safety

Text adventure (multimedia)

Online safety

Digital exploration (search technologies)

Online safety