Author: Jane

Year Group: 6 Oak Woolmer Green St Michael’s - School Topic map Date: Summer 2024

English: Non-fiction - Reports: Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You; JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Narrative Fiction - The Errand Leo La Fleur.
Fiction - Performance Poetry: Fluffy’s Song by Francesca Beard.
Non-fiction: Discussion/debate.
Can draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justify inferences with evidence.
Uses a range of cohesive devices, including adverbials, within and across sentences and paragraphs.
Uses and distinguishes informal and formal structures in writing.
Applies the full range of punctuation taught at Key Stage 2 correctly.
Evaluates and edits by assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing.
Can join letters legibly and fluently. Can match the style of handwriting to the task.

Music: Music and Me.
Can appreciate and understand a wide range of recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians.

Science: Evolution and Inheritance:
Can explain the concept of inheritance;
Can demonstrate understanding of the scientific meaning of adaptation;
Can identify the key ideas of the theory of evolution.

The Ancient Maya
Civilisation

RSE:
Staying Safe: Crucial Crew; First Aid; Sex Education.

PSHE: Watford FC Transition Programme
Mental health, positive relationships, resilience, wellbeing, Internet Safety, Body Image and emotional literacy.

RE: Christianity: People of God.
To learn about the main events in Moses’ life and think about how these made him feel.
Judaism:
To learn about Jewish festivals and faith.

French: WWII - La seconde guerrre mondiale

Art: Still Life; D&T: Maya Temples
Select materials and tools looking at colour, form, texture.
To design a Maya style temple with a modern purpose.

History: The Ancient Maya Civilisation:
Knows where and when the remains of the Maya civilisation were discovered.
Has carried out research to find out about Maya society.

Geography: Our Changing World
To understand how coastal features are formed and identify features in the UK.
To explain how the make-up of UK has changed over time.
To predict how physical factors might change the landscape in the future.

Computing: Spreadsheets:
To enter formulae into cells, editing data and discussing effects on result, using further functions including Average, Min and Max. To create graphs and design their own spreadsheets for a specific purpose.
Computing: Networks:
To learn about what the Internet consists of. To find out what a LAN and a WAN are. To find out how the Internet is accessed in school and find out about the age of the Internet.

Maths:
Can solve problems involving the relative sizes of two quantities where missing values can be found;
Can solve problems involving similar shapes where the scale factor is known or can be found;
Can solve problems involving unequal sharing and grouping using knowledge of fractions and multiples;
Revision of topics/consolidation;
enrichment activities.

PE: Rounders, Cricket, Tri Golf, Athletics.