St Godric’s RC Primary School
Year 6
Medium Term Planning – Autumn Term 2016
Subject
National Curriculum Programme of Study
Literacy
Reading
 Read aloud and to understand the meaning of new
words that they meet.
 maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of
what they read by:
Comprehension
 continuing to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of
fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or
textbooks
 reading books that are structured in different ways and
reading for a range of purposes
 increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books,
including modern fiction and fiction from our literary
heritage,
 recommending books that they have read to their peers,
giving reasons for their choices
 identifying and discussing themes and conventions in and
across a wide range of writing
 making comparisons within and across books
 participate in discussion about books
 summarise main ideas from more than one paragraph
Writing:
 Non-chronological reports, impersonal language,
implicit and explicit language
 In narrative describe settings, characters and
atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey
character and advance the action
 Use handwriting joins in independent writing across
whole curriculum.
 identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing,
selecting the appropriate form and using other similar
writing as models for their own
 selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary,
understanding how such choices can change and
enhance meaning
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assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’
writing
Vocabulary Grammar and Punctuation:
 Revise construction of complex sentences of Standard
English.
 Revise active and passive verbs.
 Connecting words, phrases and sentence clauses.
 Using commas, brackets, dashes
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Recognising vocabulary and structures that are
appropriate for formal speech and writing, including
subjunctive forms
 using passive verbs to affect the presentation of
information in a sentence
 using the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of
time and cause
 understand how words are related by meaning as
synonyms and antonyms
Resources
Collins – Focus on
Literacy
Fiction & NonFiction books
Durham Learning
Resources
Models for Writing
Y6
Wordsmith
Waiting for Anya
Nelson –
development and
skills books
Education City
CPG books
 use colons and semi-colons.
Spelling
 Homophones and other words often confused
 Use thesaurus efficiently and effectively
Mathematics
Number and Place Value
 Extend written methods to x of Th, H, T, U.
 Use all 4 operations to solve money / real problems.
 Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 5 000
000 and determine the value of each digit
 Use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals
across zero
 Identify common factors, common multiples and prime
numbers
 Use most appropriate operation to solve multi-step
problems.
Calculation
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Multiply 4 digit number by two-digit number.
 Divide number up to four digits by two-digits using
formal methods of short division
 Perform mental calculations
 Identify common factors; multiples and prime numbers
Fractions:
 Change an improper fraction to a mixed number.
 Compare and order fractions
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Recognise equivalent fractions, reduce fractions by
cancelling
 Use common factors to simplify fractions; use common
multiples to express fractions in the same denomination
 Add and subtract fractions with different denominators
 Identify the value of each digit in numbers given to
three decimal places
Ratio and Proportion
 Solve simple problems involving the calculation of
percentages
Algebra
 Use simple formulae
 Generate and describe linear number sequences
 Express missing number problems algebraically
Measure
 Solve simple ratio / proportion.
 Calculate the perimeter and area of regular and
irregular shapes
 Convert standard units of measurements
 Use formulae to work out area
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Recognise that shapes with the same areas can have
different perimeters and vice versa
Geometry
 draw 2D shapes using given dimensions and angles
 recognise , describe and build simple 3-D shapes,
including making nets
 fin unknown angle in triangle and polygons
 name part of circle- diameter radius and circumference
 recognise angles meet at a point on a straight line.
Positon and direction
 describe positions on the coordinate grid
 translate shapes on the coordinate plane
Statistics
 begin to interpreted and construct pie charts and line
graph
 begin to calculate the mean as an average
Abacus Scheme
Collins Scheme
Variety of practical
apparatus
Maths games
Shapes
Practical resources
MyMaths
CPG books
Education City
Science
Scientific Enquiry
 Formulate key questions that can be scientifically
investigated
 Decide which factors/ variables to change and which to
keep constant
 Explain fair testing; Interpret results
Light
Investigate a range of simple
ight challenges; investigate how light travels; investigate
shadows and how they change; investigating reflections; splitting
and mixing light
Electricity
Begin with revision of simple circuits & then lots of hands on
experience with symbols, diagrams & incomplete circuits. Two
enquiries about the length of wire in a circuit & the use of cells.
Compare series & parallel circuits then face some challenges!
Religious
Education
Come and See
 Loving
 Vocation and commitment
 Expectations
Computing
Computer Science - use selection in programs; work with
variables; use logical reasoning to explain how some simple
algorithms work;
IT - analyse & evaluate data
select, use and combine software Understand the opportunities
computer networks offer for collaboration
Digital Literacy - be discerning in evaluating digital content
Life for British Children AD 1000 -2000
 Children pre 20th century – research project
 Children during WW1
 What was it like for children during World War II?
 Recognise some similarities and differences between
the lives of children during the war and present day.
History
Durham Learning
Resources
School Science
Resources
CGP resources.
Hamilton Trust
Come and See.
 Listen.
 Praise.
 Way the Truth
and the Life
 Gospels
 Bibles
 internet
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Geography
Design and
Technology
Map work
 Location and Place Knowledge
 Map Skills
Making Shelters linked to world War II air raid shelters
 Design and make a shelter to carry weight
 Focussed Practical Task: weight and materials to be
specified – which structure can bear the greatest load?
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Art and Design
Linked to Project on Life for Children AD 1000-2000
 Line and Tone, watercolour paints, colourwashes,
observational sketching.
 Printing
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Pictures,
posters,
artefacts.
Durham
Learning
Resources.
Teacher
resources
Channel 4
programme
Internet
Maps
Internet
Globes
PIAT planning.
paper, card,
collage
Various forms
of material.
Art resources.
Digital camera.
School camera
Watercolour
pencils and
paints.
Physical
Education
Personal, Social
and Economic
Education
Primary
Languages
Tops programme
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Invasion games
Athletics
Rights and Wrongs
 Moral dilemmas
 Fairness
 Honesty
French:
 Revision unit 1 introducing self , counting, classroom
objects
 Unit 2: introducing self, counting to 20 and beyond,
everyday objects
P.E. resources
LCP
Pathfinder resources
Info from Epehy