St Francis Primary School - Half-Termly Overviews
Curriculum Overview for Autumn Term2 : Year 6
Second Half of Autumn Term 2011 Year 6
Y6 Team: Mrs James, Miss Thorpe, Mrs Savage, Mrs Porter & Mrs Sandall.
This is an overview of the work we will be covering this half term.
English (as well as the Primary Framework)
Journalistic Writing – looking at newspaper reports and writing own reports
Extending narrative- Quests – Reading quest genre stories and writing own Quest style stories
Poetry- Power of imagery, personification and similes
Mathematics
Whole school maths targets for this half term are based on ordering numbers.
The Year 6 targets are displayed in the classrooms.
Counting, partitioning & calculating
Use efficient written methods to add and subtract integers and decimals, to multiply and divide integers and decimals by a one-digit integer, and to multiply two-digit and three-digit integers by a two-digit integer
Solve multi-step problems, and problems involving fractions, decimals and percentages; choose and use appropriate calculation strategies at each stage, including calculator use
Securing number facts, understanding shape
Express a larger whole number as a fraction of a smaller one (e.g. recognise that 8 slices of a 5-slice pizza represents 8/5 or 1 3/5 pizzas); simplify fractions by cancelling common factors; order a set of fractions by converting them to fractions with a common denominator
Explain reasoning and conclusions, using words, symbols or diagrams as appropriate
Handling data and measures
Suggest, plan and develop lines of enquiry; collect, organise and represent information, interpret results and review methods; identify and answer related questions
Science
Relating to the National Curriculum, children will learn about Forces and Motion including:
about the forces of attraction and repulsion between magnets, and about the forces of attraction between magnets and magnetic materials
that objects are pulled downwards because of the gravitational attraction between them and the Earth
about friction, including air resistance, as a force that slows moving objects and may prevent objects from starting to move
that when objects [for example, a spring, a table] are pushed or pulled, an opposing pull or push can be felt
how to measure forces and identify the direction in which they act.
obtaining and presenting evidence
use a wide range of methods, including diagrams, drawings, tables, bar charts, line graphs
Other areas of the Curriculum
Geography: Mountain Explorers - Researching two contrasting mountain ranges
DT: Making a bag project
PE: Indoor PE- Dance West Side Story
Outdoor PE- Basketball
ICT: Handling Data- Excel Spreadsheets
RE: A modern Christmas
Music: Stars Hide Your Fires –composition and singing
PSD: Going for Goals – choices and problem solving
Spanish: Everyday conversation
Other things we would like to let you know about
Friday 18th November – SFSA Coffee morning (9am, staff room)
Friday 25th November: Non-uniform Day
Tuesday 29th November Trip to INTECH
Saturday 3rd December: Christmas Fayre 12.30-3.00pm
Wednesday 7th – Friday 9th December Presents for Parents
Friday 9th December: KS2 Christmas Lunch
Thursday 15th December: Year5/6Christmas Party
Friday 16th December – Term ends 1.30pm.
Y6 Team: Mrs James, Miss Thorpe, Mrs Savage, Mrs Porter & Mrs Sandall.
This is an overview of the work we will be covering this half term.
English (as well as the Primary Framework)
Journalistic Writing – looking at newspaper reports and writing own reports
Extending narrative- Quests – Reading quest genre stories and writing own Quest style stories
Poetry- Power of imagery, personification and similes
Mathematics
Whole school maths targets for this half term are based on ordering numbers.
The Year 6 targets are displayed in the classrooms.
Counting, partitioning & calculating
Use efficient written methods to add and subtract integers and decimals, to multiply and divide integers and decimals by a one-digit integer, and to multiply two-digit and three-digit integers by a two-digit integer
Solve multi-step problems, and problems involving fractions, decimals and percentages; choose and use appropriate calculation strategies at each stage, including calculator use
Securing number facts, understanding shape
Express a larger whole number as a fraction of a smaller one (e.g. recognise that 8 slices of a 5-slice pizza represents 8/5 or 1 3/5 pizzas); simplify fractions by cancelling common factors; order a set of fractions by converting them to fractions with a common denominator
Explain reasoning and conclusions, using words, symbols or diagrams as appropriate
Handling data and measures
Suggest, plan and develop lines of enquiry; collect, organise and represent information, interpret results and review methods; identify and answer related questions
Science
Relating to the National Curriculum, children will learn about Forces and Motion including:
about the forces of attraction and repulsion between magnets, and about the forces of attraction between magnets and magnetic materials
that objects are pulled downwards because of the gravitational attraction between them and the Earth
about friction, including air resistance, as a force that slows moving objects and may prevent objects from starting to move
that when objects [for example, a spring, a table] are pushed or pulled, an opposing pull or push can be felt
how to measure forces and identify the direction in which they act.
obtaining and presenting evidence
use a wide range of methods, including diagrams, drawings, tables, bar charts, line graphs
Other areas of the Curriculum
Geography: Mountain Explorers - Researching two contrasting mountain ranges
DT: Making a bag project
PE: Indoor PE- Dance West Side Story
Outdoor PE- Basketball
ICT: Handling Data- Excel Spreadsheets
RE: A modern Christmas
Music: Stars Hide Your Fires –composition and singing
PSD: Going for Goals – choices and problem solving
Spanish: Everyday conversation
Other things we would like to let you know about
Friday 18th November – SFSA Coffee morning (9am, staff room)
Friday 25th November: Non-uniform Day
Tuesday 29th November Trip to INTECH
Saturday 3rd December: Christmas Fayre 12.30-3.00pm
Wednesday 7th – Friday 9th December Presents for Parents
Friday 9th December: KS2 Christmas Lunch
Thursday 15th December: Year5/6Christmas Party
Friday 16th December – Term ends 1.30pm.
