Second Half of Autumn Term 2016 Year 6
Teachers: Miss Thorpe, Mrs Porter, Mrs Savage, Mr Taylor and Mrs Lea
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Sandall.
This is an overview of the work we will be covering this half term.
English
Spoken Language
Across all curriculum subjects children will be taught to:
Listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge
Use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary
Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings
Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas
Speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English
Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates
Gain, maintain and monitor the interest of listener(s)
Consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others
Select and use appropriate registers for effective communication
Reading: Word Reading
Across all curriculum subjects children will be taught to:
Apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet
Reading: Comprehension
Across all curriculum subjects children will be taught to:
Maintain positive attitudes to reading and an understanding of what they read by:
Continue to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of text types including Factual Mountain texts, Newspapers, Adventure stories, Personification poetry
Recommend books read to their peers, giving reasons for their choice
Identify and discussing themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing
Learn a wide range of poetry by heart
Writing: Transcription
Across all curriculum subjects children will be taught to:
Use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them
Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters
Continue to distinguish between homophones and other words which are often confused
Use knowledge or morphology and etymology in spelling and understand that the spelling of some words needs to be learnt specifically
Use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words
Use the first three or four letters of a word to check spelling, meaning or both of these in a dictionary
Use a thesaurus
Specific Spelling units covered this half term:
The suffixes - ent, ence, ency
Words containing - eigh and ey
Words ending in – fer, ology, phobia, ough
Writing: Composition
· Journalistic Writing – looking at newspaper reports and writing own reports
Choose form and content to suit newspaper report writing. Consider layout and presentation
· Extending narrative- Quests – Reading quest genre stories and writing own quest style stories
Use vocabulary in inventive ways and in a style appropriate to the reader
· Poetry- Power of imagery, personification and similes
Use and adapt the features of poetry to compose own poetry
Across all curriculum subjects children will be taught to:
Plan writing by identifying audience and purpose of writing
Draft and write selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary
Evaluate and edit
Proof read for spelling and punctuation errors
Perform their own compositions with clarity and intonation
Specific Grammar units covered this half term:
Complex Sentences
Punctuation
Inverted commas
Apostrophes
Parenthesis
Active and Passive voice
Relative clauses
Mathematics
Measurement
· solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to three decimal places where appropriate
· use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to three decimal places
· convert between miles and kilometres
Number – number and place value
· use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across zero
Geometry – position and direction
· describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all four quadrants)
· draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes
Geometry – properties of shape
· illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius
· recognise, describe and build simple 3-D shapes, including making nets
Statistics
· interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems
Algebra
· use simple formulae
· express missing number problems algebraically
· find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with two unknowns
· missing numbers, lengths, coordinates and angles
· enumerate possibilities of combinations of two variables. number puzzles
· generate and describe linear number sequences
Science
Evolution and Inheritance
· recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago
· recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but offspring vary and are not identical to their parents
· identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution
Other areas of the Curriculum
Geography: Shake, Rattle and Roll - mountains, earthquakes and volcanoes
DT: Making a bag for a mountain explorer
PE: Indoor PE- Counter-balance and Counter-tension
Outdoor PE- Hockey
Computing: Mountain research
RE: A modern Christmas - Incarnation
Music: Angry Earth Composition
Spanish: Basic vocabulary and pronunciation