St Francis Primary School - Half-Termly Overviews
Curriculum Overview for Summer Term1 : Year 6
First Half of Summer Term 2011 Year 6
Teachers: Mrs James, Miss Thorpe, Mrs Lea and Mrs Savage.
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Sandall
This is an overview of the work we will be covering this half term.
English - as well as the Primary Framework
Preparation for SAT’s by revisiting all writing genres:
Persuasive writing, letters, explanations, news reports, story writing, playscripts, character descriptions
Developing comprehension skills for fiction, non-fiction and poetry
Poetry - themes
Mathematics
This half term the whole school maths targets are based on Multiplication. The Year 6 targets are displayed in the classroom.
Counting, partitioning and calculating
Solve multi-step problems and problems involving fractions, decimals and percentages, choose and use appropriate calculation strategies at each stage including calculator use.
Use efficient written methods to add and subtract integers and decimals, to multiply and divide integers and decimals by one digit integer and to multiply two digit and three digit integers by a two digit integer.
Securing number facts and understanding shape
Use knowledge of multiplication facts to derive quickly squares of numbers to 12 X 12 and the corresponding squares of multiples of 10.
Use knowledge of place value and multiplication facts to 10 X 10 to derive related multiplication and division facts involving decimals.
Tabulate systematically the information in a problem or puzzle; identify and record the steps or calculations needed to solve it, using symbols where appropriate; interpret solutions in the original context and check their accuracy
Science
Revisiting a variety of topics through open ended skills based investigations looking at children’s application of skills and knowledge.
Other areas of the Curriculum
RE: Jesus in Art
DT: Model making and control – Fairground rides.
ICT: Science and DT based simulation program – Return to Mechania
Music: Singing songs for end of year production “Blast from the past”
PE: Kwik cricket and gymnastics – Synchronisation and Canon
PHSE: New beginnings. Rights and responsibilities.
Other things we would like to let you know about
Thursday 28th April 2011 Royal Wedding Party
9th – 13th May 2011 SATS Week
16th – 20th May Walk to School Week
18th May 2011 Science lesson at Thornden
Teachers: Mrs James, Miss Thorpe, Mrs Lea and Mrs Savage.
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Sandall
This is an overview of the work we will be covering this half term.
English - as well as the Primary Framework
Preparation for SAT’s by revisiting all writing genres:
Persuasive writing, letters, explanations, news reports, story writing, playscripts, character descriptions
Developing comprehension skills for fiction, non-fiction and poetry
Poetry - themes
Mathematics
This half term the whole school maths targets are based on Multiplication. The Year 6 targets are displayed in the classroom.
Counting, partitioning and calculating
Solve multi-step problems and problems involving fractions, decimals and percentages, choose and use appropriate calculation strategies at each stage including calculator use.
Use efficient written methods to add and subtract integers and decimals, to multiply and divide integers and decimals by one digit integer and to multiply two digit and three digit integers by a two digit integer.
Securing number facts and understanding shape
Use knowledge of multiplication facts to derive quickly squares of numbers to 12 X 12 and the corresponding squares of multiples of 10.
Use knowledge of place value and multiplication facts to 10 X 10 to derive related multiplication and division facts involving decimals.
Tabulate systematically the information in a problem or puzzle; identify and record the steps or calculations needed to solve it, using symbols where appropriate; interpret solutions in the original context and check their accuracy
Science
Revisiting a variety of topics through open ended skills based investigations looking at children’s application of skills and knowledge.
Other areas of the Curriculum
RE: Jesus in Art
DT: Model making and control – Fairground rides.
ICT: Science and DT based simulation program – Return to Mechania
Music: Singing songs for end of year production “Blast from the past”
PE: Kwik cricket and gymnastics – Synchronisation and Canon
PHSE: New beginnings. Rights and responsibilities.
Other things we would like to let you know about
Thursday 28th April 2011 Royal Wedding Party
9th – 13th May 2011 SATS Week
16th – 20th May Walk to School Week
18th May 2011 Science lesson at Thornden
