Thu Sep 9 2010

Year 6

THE NATIONAL NUMERACY STRATEGY

KEY OBJECTIVES TAUGHT IN YEAR 6

  • Multiply and divide decimals mentally by 10 or 100, and integers by 1000, and explain the effect.
  • Order a mixed set of numbers with up to three decimal places.
  • Reduce a fraction to its simplest form by cancelling common factors.
  • Use a fraction as an operator to find factions of numbers or quantities (e.g. 5/8 of 32, 7/10 of 40, 9/100 of 400 centimetres.
  • Understanding percentage as the number of parts in every 100, and find simple percentages of small whole number quantities.
  • Solve simple problems involving ratio and proportion.
  • Carry out column addition and substraction of numbers involving decimals.
  • Derive quickly division facts corresponding to multiplication tables up to 10 x 10.
  • Carry out short multiplication and division of numbers involving decimals.
  • Carry out long multiplication of a three digit by a two digit integer.
  • Use a protractor to measure acute and obtuse angles to the nearest degree.
  • Calculate the perimeter and area of simple compound shapes that can be split into rectangles.
  • Read and plot co-ordinates in all four quadrants.
  • Identify and use the appropriate operations (including combinations of operations) to solve word problems involving numbers and quantities and explain methods and reasoning.
  • Solve a problem by extracting and interpreting information presented in tables, graphs and charts.

THE NATIONAL LITERACY STRATEGY

THIS IS A SUMMARY OF THE RANGE OF WORK FOR EACH TERM IN YEAR 6

TERM 1

  • Classic fiction, poetry and drama by long established authors including, where appropriate, study of a Shakespeare play
  • Adaptations of classics on film/TV

TERM 2

  • Longer established stories and novels selected from more than one genre
  • A range of poetic forms

TERM 3

  • Comparison of work by significant children's authors and poets:
    • By the same author
    • Treatment of the same theme by different authors

THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CURRICULUM

The RE Curriculum followed by all Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Birmingham is called LEARNING AND GROWING AS THE PEOPLE OF GOD. It has five strands. In Year 6 the following areas are covered.

THE LITURGICAL YEAR

  • Advent
  • Christmas
  • Lent
  • Holy Week
  • Easter
  • Pentecost

SCRIPTURAL KNOWLEDGE

  • The Story of the People of God
  • Followers of Christ
  • Belonging to the Church

THE SACRAMENTS

  • Baptism and Confirmation
  • The Holy Spirit
  • Pentecost

LIVING AS CHRISTIANS

  • Followers of Christ
  • Belonging to the Church Community
  • Celebrating the Life of Mary and the Saints

PRAYER

  • Prayer in the Lives of the Followers of Christ
  • Celebrating the Life of Mary and the Saints

THE SCIENCE CURRICULUM

  • Life Processes and Living Things
    • Healthy Living
  • Materials and their Properties
  • Physical Processes
    • The Earth and Beyond

THE HISTORY CURRICULUM

  • The Victorans including Victorian Birmingham
  • The Second World War (including The Holocaust)

THE GEOGRAPHY CURRICULUM

  • Brazil

THE ART CURRICULUM

The following elements are the basis of the art curriculum and are taught through various ways as follows:

  • Painting
    • inks
    • oil paint
    • choosing and using all types of implements and materials as appropriate
    • greater accuracy in composition
    • experiment more freely with textured paint
    • use of cloth, canvas and textured surfaces on which to paint
  • Line and Tone
    • choose media to express qualities of line and tone
    • use oils, pastels ink and wash
  • Drawing
    • develop observational drawing
    • draw maps, plans and diagrams
    • draw with increased detail i.e. shape proportion shading
    • use of camera
    • ink drawing
  • Colour Mixing
    • revise mixing socondary and tertiary colours, shades, tones and hints
    • own use of colour mixing
    • colour mixing with a variety of materials
    • overlaying colours to mix : printing, ink crayon
  • Pattern and Texture
    • textured paint
    • design a two or three colour repeat pattern
    • pattern and texture in buildings
  • Textiles
    • print on fabric
    • group project
    • batik
  • Information Technology
    • create and develop more sophisticated images
    • produce patterns for textiles
  • Printing
    • press print
    • screen print
  • Shape Form and Space
    • experiment with angles and looking from top or bottom of object

THE MUSIC CURRICULUM

  • Continue to extend the range of skills and musical knowledge taught in earlier years with even greater emphasis on individual and group composition and extending the religious repertoire
  • Recorder lessons continue but may be extended to include a range of recorders. Children may audition for the school choir and classical guitar lessons are available after school as private tuition.
  • Sing part songs developing control of diction, phrasing and musical structures and an awareness of other performers.
  • Improvise, compose and record music by selecting from a variety of structures to create contrasts in mood and atmosphere.
  • Refine, rehearse, share and communicate their own performances with others using notations where appropriate.
  • Identify and respond to musical elements, intentions and a variety of resources which contribute to character and mood in music.
  • Distinguish and discriminate between the uses of musical elements and resources in a variety of music from different times and places.