1. Learning Map for Year 6: Spring 1
It’s All Greek To Me
Please
encourage
your child to read
each day
Computer Science
Complete ‘if/when’ statements online.
Debug (fix) programmes/algorithms,
Programmes of increasing complexity.
Starting to write out code using technical coding language.
Instructions & Explanations
Exploring instructions and explanations in the context of changing technology.
Creating instructions for their invention and pitching their products in the ‘Dragon’s Den’.
Persuasive Writing
Persuasive writing based on ‘The Tin Forest’.
Persuasive writing based on whether the Elgin marbles should be returned to Greece or to stay in the British museum.
Dance
Netball
Science
Computing
English PE
Electricity
Associating the brightness of a lamp or volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit.
Comparing and giving reasons for variations in how components function.
Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit diagram.
Classic Poems
Performance, discussion and persuasive writing based on ‘The Walrus and The Carpenter’ by Lewis Carroll.
Debating based on ‘Cautionary Tales’ by Hilaire Belloc.
Writing their on Cautionary Tale.
Year 6
It’s All Greek To Me
PSHE
History
Going For Goals
Knowing that if at first you don’t succeed, it is worth trying again.
Finding ways around problems.
Music DT
Ancient Greece
Daily life in Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek Buildings
The Elgin Marbles
Greek Inventions
British Museum Trip
Eco – Music
Greek Patterns and Textures
Composition Work
Negative numbers in the context of temperature.
Place value in 7-digit numbers.
Exploring the order of operations using brackets.
Multiplication and division by 10, 100 and 1000.
Rounding decimals in measures contexts.
Long multiplication
Mental Strategies
Solving problems involving rate.
Maths RE
Plot points and draw polygons in all four quadrants.
Work out new coordinates after reflection and translation.
Interpret and construct pie charts.
Drawing conversion graphs and reading off equivalent measures.
Creation
What do Christians believe about Creation? What is my own understanding of how the world was made?
The remembrance of creation in Judaism.
To know that the creation story is based on passages from the Qur’an and the sayings of prophet Mohammad.
How can we live thoughtfully as global citizens?
Greek inventions.
Designing and making an invention which includes a simple series circuit.