Bredbury Green Primary School

Curriculum Overview – Year 6

Term

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Sticky Knowledge Weeks

Wb 6.9.23 – Core

Wb 11.12.23 – Wider Curriculum

Wb 18.3.24 – Wider Curriculum

Wb 24.6.24 – Wider Curriculum

Class Texts

The Nowhere Emporium, A Christmas Carol

Letters from the Lighthouse, Safiyyah’s War

The Unstoppable Lettie Pegg, Darwin’s Dragons

Science

Living things and their habitats

Animals including humans  

Light

Electricity

Evolution and inheritance

History

The Mayans – Ancient Civilisation and impact upon modern society

The outbreak of WW1 and WW2 – Turning point in British History and the impact upon Britain and beyond.

The Suffragettes – Votes for women with a local history focus. Changing roles of women.

Geography

Mexico – Human, physical and and topographical features 

 

Galapagos – Locational knowledge including climate zones and biomes

RE

Ahimsa, Grace and Ummah

Racism and Religion

Christians and Humanists

Creation and the afterlife

Art

Mixed media – shape, proportion, perspective

Sculpture – using frameworks and moulds (Forest)

Making amendments and improvements

Explaining choices behind tools and techniques used

Artwork from a specific period in history – The Suffragettes

Impact and influence of artwork

Music

Musical notation, including time signatures

Mriachi music and associated instruments

 

Chants and songs – Suffrage

Design and Technology

Food Technology – sources of food (Subsistance Farming in Mexico)

Food Technology – sources of food

(Food Shortages and rationing)

Resistant Materials – Anderson Shelter

Computer Aided Design – Propaganda Posters

Computing

Searching effectively and presenting information

 

Create sophisticated algorithms, predict errors, debug errors and evaluate outcomes

PE

Invasion Games

Gymnastics

Striking and Fielding

Dance

Fitness

Invasion Games

PSHEE/RSE

 

Being me in my world

Celebrating differences

Dreams and goals

Healthy me

Relationships

Changing me

Spanish

Dia de los Muertos

Food

Conversations – restaurant role play

Emotions and conjugation of verbs (tense)

Enrichment Opportunities

Mayan Archaeologist

Electricity Workshop

Residential

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