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Summer Term

Year 6 Curriculum – Summer Term

 

At Millfield, our curriculum is based around

 ‘Repeat, Revisit, Remember’

Instead of doing a set topic for each half term, our curriculum is designed so that we repeat topics every few weeks.

 

Below are some of the specific things we are doing this term in each subject

 

 

Literacy (writing)

  • Advertisements – writing a persuasive leaflet
  • Setting the scene – descriptive writing

 

Guided Reading

  • Comprehension skills
  • Holes (Fiction)
  • Born on a Blue Day (Memoir)
  • Hostages to Handheld Devices (News article)
  • Cider With Rosie (Autobiographical novel)
  • Olympic Torch Relay (News article)
  • Poems about Seasons (Poetry)
  • A Letter from C.S. Lewis (Non-fiction)
  • The Lord of the Rings (Classic fiction)
  • Queen Victoria’s Diary (Non-fiction)
  • If- (Classic poetry)
  • Theseus’s Adventures (Myth)
  • I Can Jump Puddles (Autobiography)
  • White Fang (Fiction)
  • Macbeth (Play)

 

Maths

  • - Arithmetic
  • - Times tables
  • - Varied fluency and representations
  • - Reasoning and problem-solving

 

Science

  • Science is covered in a rolling schedule of eleven strands of Science (space, forces, light, sound, electricity, materials 1, materials 2, living things, plants, animals, evolution).

 

Topic – Geography

Guatemala and Central America

  • Rainforests
  • Land use
  • Features

Topic - History

Mayan Civilisation

  • People
  • Places
  • Homes
  • Technology
  • Beliefs
  • Sport

 

Music

  • Singing and performing
  • Listening and appraising
  • Tchaikovsky 
  • Debussy

 

Art

  • Drawing and Sketching skills
  • Drawing landscapes
  • Illustrator Study
  • Matt Groening

 

Computing

 

Digital Literacy 

  • Word processing and data handling

Computer science

  • Programming

 

 

RSE

  • Human reproduction

 

PSHE

  • How money affects us
  • Human rights

 

P.E.

  • Athletics
  • Rounders

 

Design and Technology

  • Textiles
  • Combining different fabric shapes 
  • CAD