1. Learning Map for Year 6 : Autumn 2 2015 The Big Bang!
Please
encourage
your child to read
each day
ICT at Tolworth Girl’s School (Programming using Logicator)
Rose Blanche –WW2 Picture Book
Understanding what a historical fiction genre is.
Understanding underlying issues and features of the text
Analysing the images
Analysing the viewpoint of children living in Nazi Germany
Gymnastics
Science
Autobiographies and Biographies
Analysing the biographies of Walt Disney and Charles Dickens
Writing our own biographies about Anne Frank
Writing our autobiography
Micro-organisms
Understanding what microbes are
Understanding the diseases caused by microbes and looking at how scientific theory is based on evidence
Understanding how mould on food is caused by microbes and investigating the conditions which affect the growth of mould on bread
Understanding how to prevent food spoilage
Knowing how decay is useful in the environment
How to prevent the spread of disease in the kitchen
Identifying good, bad and useful micro-organisms
Swimming
ICT PE
English
Play scripts: ‘A Christmas Carol’
Writing our own play scripts based on the story of ‘A Christmas Carol’
Making Anderson shelter models from recycled materials
Year 6
The Big Bang! DT
Music
PSHE
Christmas music and singing RE
New Beginnings
Maths
History
Handling data and measures – Converting measurements, reading and interpreting different scales, calculating averages – mean, median, mode and range; constructing and interpreting tables, bar charts, line graphs and pie charts.
Securing number facts, relationships and calculating – Solving problems involving fractions, decimals and percentages, relating fractions to multiplication and division; solving simple problems scaling quantities up and down.
World War Two
Looking at the different aircraft used in WW2
Understanding the plight for Jewish people during the Holocaust
Understanding the story of Anne Frank
Understanding that not just British children were evacuated – looking at the Kindertransport
Understanding the affect of WW2 around the world
The Sermon on the Mount
Understanding how Christians can make a difference in the community
The significance of being ‘the light of the world’
Understanding how to empathise with the poor in the local community and overseas
Understanding the meaning behind prayers
How the Christmas story challenges Christians to care for the homeless and refugees
How learning about the homeless affects my thoughts about Christmas.
Counting, partitioning and calculating – Understanding decimals up to three places, solving money problems using a calculator; using the times tables to work out other problems.