Emmer Green Primary School
Termly Curriculum Overview
English
Text Genres:
 Argument
 Non-chronological reports
 Performance poetry
 Suspense writing
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar:
 Grammar - revision
 Active and passive voice, including
subject, verb and object (SVO).
 Punctuation
 Tenses
 Silent letters i.e. Gnome
 Use of the hyphen, such as non-toxic.
 Verb forms
 Clauses and phrases
Science
Evolution and Inheritance
 Fossils and Mary Anning
 Darwin, Wallace and Mendal and the
theory of evolution
Animals including Humans
 Human circulatory system
 The impact of diet, exercise, drugs and
lifestyle on the way bodies function
 Describe how nutrients and water are
transported within animals, including
humans

Year 6 Spring 2018 Topic—History / Geography
Mathematics  Where is Jamaica?
 Comparing the life of a Jamaican
child with that of a child living in
 Interpret and construct pie charts and
England.
line graphs.
 Jamaica’s coral reef and how it can
 Calculate the mean set of data
be protected
 Use simple formula and express missing
 Dealing with hurricanes
number problems algebraically
 Carnival
 Add, subtract, multiply and divide
 Revise the position of the equator,
fractions
tropics, Arctic and Antarctic
 Calculate equivalent fractions decimals
circles, Greenwich Meridian,
and percentages
longitude and latitude.
 Solve multi-step problems including all
 Identify the world’s oceans and
four operations
seas.
 Positive and negative numbers in
 Understand a river system from the
context
source to the mouth and explore the
 Identify common factors, multiples and
different features i.e. meander and
prime numbers
ox bow lake.
 Converting units of measure
 Scale factors (ratio & proportion)
Useful Websites:
http://jamaicans.com/
You can help your child by:
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/
Learning times tables to 12 x 12 and applying
countries/jamaica.html
this knowledge to decimal multiplication.
Useful Websites:
http://www.woodlands-
junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/index.html
 Emmer Green Primary School
Termly Curriculum Overview

Year 6 Spring 2018

Computing Religious Education Personal Social and Health Education

 Islam - Does participating in worship Good to be me

 We are architects – developing special help people to feel closer to God or  Feelings
awareness by exploring and experimenting their faith community?  Developing self-awareness
with a 3D virtual environment
 Christianity - Is it possible to hold Getting on and falling out
 We are bloggers – Becoming familiar with religious beliefs without trying to make  Empathy, managing feelings (with a
blogs as a medium and genre of writing the world a better place? focus on anger)
 Social skills

Art Physical Education Modern Foreign Language (French)

Carnival
 Looking at the costumes and masks of Games Notre école (Our School)
carnival  Tag Rugby
 Design and make own carnival mask  Netball  Revision of numbers and time
 Tennis  School timetable and preferences
 Revision of masculine and feminine
Gymnastics adjectives
 Explore and combine different
Design Technology movements and balances Monter un Café (Creating a Café)
 To develop their own gymnastic
 Recycled Fish – design and make a fish from sequences  Learning a range of café vocabulary
a plastic bottle and paper mache  To use equipment responsibly  Asking for drinks and snacks
 Understanding sums of money