Year Six - Term One
The student should be able to:
Objective
Literacy
Speaking and Listening
- To consider the opinions of others
- To use appropriate language when discussing plot, characters and narrative plots
- To discuss and explain personal responses to poetry drawing on evidence from the text
- To describe events from the point of view of different characters
Reading - To identify why and how a text affects the reader
- To be able to identify what is special about an established author
Writing
Word Level Work
- To use prefixes and suffixes – aero, bi, con, micro, photo etc to support spelling of unknown words
- To identify mis-spelt words in writing and keep individual lists.
- To using visual skills to support the spelling of unknown words
Sentence Level Work
- To revise from Y5 different word classes e.g. prepositions, nouns, connectives, pronouns
- To investigate and collect connecting devices
- To explore how meaning is affected by the use of connective devices
- To revise verb usage in sentences.
Text level Work
- To write a autobiography and biography using the key features
- To plan the plot, characters and structure of their own narrative writing
- To prepare a short section of a story as a script
- To write own poems experimenting with active verbs and personification
- To use the styles and conventions of journalism to report on
- To write non-chronological reports linked to other subjects
Mathematics
Counting, partitioning and calculating
- To find the difference between a positive and negative integer, or two negative integers in context
- To use decimal notation for tenths, hundredths and thousandths; partition, round and order decimals with up to three places, and position them on a number line
Securing number facts, understanding shapes - To describe, identify and visualise parallel and perpendicular edges or faces; use these properties to classify 2D shapes and 3D solids
- To make and draw shapes with increasing accuracy and apply knowledge of their properties
Handling data and measures - To suggest, plan and develop lines of enquiry, collect, organise and represent information, interpret results and review methods; identify and answer related questions.
- To construct and interpret frequency tables, bar charts with grouped discrete data, line graphs; interpret pie charts
Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
- To select and use standard metric units of measure and convert between units and using decimals to two places
- To calculate the perimeter and area of rectilinear shapes; estimate the area of an irregular shapes by counting the squares.
Science
Interdependence and Adaptation
- To make careful observations of plant growth and to explain these using simple scientific knowledge and understanding
- That green plans make new plant material using air, water in the presence of light
- That food chains can be used to represent feeding relationships in a habitat
- To uses keys to identify animals and plants
- To construct food chains for a particular habitat
History
Britain at War
- To recognise the effects of wars today
- To know about life previous to World War II
- To identify the characteristics of the Blitz
- To describe the experiences and feelings of evacuees
- To understand how World War II changed British lives
- To identify the impact rationing had on life during the war
Design & Technology
Shelters – (structures)
- To investigate several shelters
- To produce drawings showing several alternative shelter ideas
- To evaluate their product, identifying strengths and areas for development
Information Technology
Multimedia presentation
- To design multimedia pages
- To sample sound
- To create buttons to link pages
Art
People In Action
- To look at the work of artists and compare methods and approaches used to show figures and forms in movement
- To draw from observation and use sketch books to develop ideas
- To use a variety of methods and techniques to show movement
- To describe how they might develop their work further
Personal, Social and Health Education
Citizenship
- To explore how the media presents information
- To know what a democracy is, and about the basic institutions that support it locally and nationally
- To consider social and moral dilemmas that they come across in life
Spanish
Advanced – Mitos y Leyendas
- Identificará las características y el carácter narrativo del mito.
- Leerá, interpretará y distinguirá los mitos de creación y los mitos del origen del hombre.
- Organizará sus ideas para producir un texto oral seleccionando el léxico apropiado y acomodará la entonación y articulación según la situación comunicativa.
- Distinguirá la entonación característica y el vocabulario particular utilizados por los habitantes de distintas regiones del país. Reconocerá la lengua que se habla en diferentes países del mundo.
- Leerá diversos tipos de textos: literarios, descriptivos, informativos, narrativos, explicativos y argumentativos y descubrirá la intención comunicativa que hay detrás de cada texto.
- Escribirá un texto informativo... lo re- escribirá y después de releerlo y comentarlo con otros, lo corregirá hasta llegar a la versión final
Second Language - Learning vocabulary and talking
- Identificar nuevas letras y sonidos del alfabeto español. Deletrear.
- Presentarse utilizando los verbos ser, llamarse, tener. Saludar y despedirse.
- Describir personas. Utilizar algunos posesivos.
- Hablar de la familia y hacer su árbol genealógico.
- Aprender los números del 1 al 100
- Aprender algunas nacionalidades e idiomas
- Reconocer los países de habla hispana
- Hablar de existencia. Diferenciar haber/ estar.
Cultura Colombiana I
Colombian Context I
- Locate and describe varying landforms and geographic features and explain their relationship with the ecosystem.
- Identify and describe way regional ethnic and national cultures influence individuals´ daily lives.
- Identify and describe selected periods and patterns of change within and across Colombian culture.
- Use economic concepts to help explain historical and current events in Colombia.
Cultura Colombiana II
Media 1
- Describe and analyze the role of television as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
- Describe and analyze the role of radio as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
- Describe and analyze the role of newspaper as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
Sociales
Historia y cultura // Espacio y ambiente
- Identificar las coordenadas terrestres y sus aplicaciones.
- Utilizar mapas y planos para localizar fenómenos geográficos.
- Conocer las distintas formas de desarrollo cultural y de adaptación al territorio.
- Comprender los diferentes procesos históricos de las culturas.
- Identificar situaciones de conflicto durante la colonia.
- Establecer causas y consecuencias de la desintegración de la sociedad colonial.
Physical Education
Formas Jugadas Derivadas del Rugby y Balón Mano
- Posibilitar al niño experiencias colectivas sobre juegos derivados del rugby y balonmano.
- Favorecer en el niño el desarrollo de habilidades par recibir, pasar, driblar y lanzar durante la ejecución de juegos relacionados con el rugby y balonmano.
Music
Violin I – Twinkle Twinkle Theme in Pizzicato
- Bowings strokes on the open strings: Four eighth notes and two quarter notes.(Variation 1)
- Eight eighth notes (Variation 2)
Violin II – Suzuki Songs 2 and 3
- Christmas Songs
- Singing and clapping 4 beat rhythmic patterns.
- Working on the correct position of the body
Choir – Learning to Sing in Good Intonation
- Preparing for Christmas Night
- Singing and clapping 4 beat rhythmic patterns.
- Working on the correct position, breathing and warming up.
Percussion – Learning the C Major Scale
- Singing and clapping 4 beat rhythmic patterns
- Working on the correct position of the hands.
Recorder – Learning G, A, B, C, D notes on the Recorder
- Learning the basics of breathing.
- Singing and clapping 4 beat rhythmic patterns.
- Working on the correct position.
Guitar – Learning the Chords of A, D and E
- ABRSM Music theory 1
- Learning different strommings
- Learning the C major scale and arpeggio