1. Learning Map for Year 6: Autumn 1
Woeful World War Two
Please
encourage
your child to read
each day
E-Safety
Using technology safely, respectfully and responsibly.
Recognising acceptable/unacceptable behaviour.
Identifying a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact.
Historical Stories: War Horse & War Game
Comprehension of texts
Character and setting descriptions
Prediction of future events
Writing historical stories
Letter writing
Playscript writing
Writing character dialogue
Significant Authors: Northern Lights & Clockwork by Philip Pullman
Creating a daemon for a friend
Improvising a section of clockwork as a play
Planning and writing a graphic novel
Planning and writing a film script
Cross Country
Gymnastics
Science
Computing
Choral & Performance Poetry
Identifying features of good narrative performances.
Investigating expanded noun phrases, subjunctive verb forms and figurative language.
Writing own poems retelling a fairy tale. PE
English
Animals Including Humans
Identifying and naming the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describing the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood.
Recognising the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way the body functions.
Describing the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans.
Year 6
Woeful World War Two
PSHE
History
New Beginnings
Rights, rules and responsibilities in school and society.
Working well as a group.
Music
World War Two
Understanding how the second world war started and who the key figures in conflict were.
Understanding The Blitz.
Understanding the experiences of an evacuee child and the people who were not evacuated.
Understanding why rationing was introduced.
Art
War Music and Songs
Maths
Place Value in 6-digit numbers.
Revision of column addition and subtraction including decimals.
Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.
Rounding numbers with 2dp.
Multiples, factors and prime numbers.
Revision of short multiplication.
Using different shades of pencils, chalk and charcoal creating a variety of tones and lines.
Exploring WW2 artwork.
Researching and analysing artist, L.S. Lowry.
Creating own representations of WW2 in the style of L.S. Lowry.
Naming parts of a circle.
Classifying and sorting quadrilaterals.
Finding angles in triangles, polygons, quadrilaterals and around a point.
Equivalent fractions, fractions of amounts, simplifying fractions, and comparing /ordering fractions. RE
Saints
Understanding the life of a Christian saint.
Knowing how ordinary people can become saints in their community.
Understanding the character of St. Peter.
Knowing that Mary the Mother of Jesus is a focus of devotion.