CURRICULUM OUTLINE
Year 6
Autumn 2014
LITERACY
 Class reading of Street Child.
 Writing narratives – short stories, detective stories.
 Poetry - personification
 Revising prefixes, suffixes and plurals for spelling.
 Using advanced punctuation: colon, semi-colon, brackets.
 Investigating and using connectives to improve writing.
 Developing biographical and auto-biographical writing.
 Writing in report styles.
MATHEMATICS
 Revising approaches to calculation – addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division.
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Reading and writing whole and decimal numbers.
Memorising all multiplication facts to 10x10
Multiplying whole and decimal numbers by 10, 100, 1000.
Solving ‘real life’ problems including money.
Converting between km, cm, m and mm.
Constructing and interpreting pie and line graphs.
Rounding decimals to nearest whole number or place.
Calculating area and perimeter of different shapes.
Finding fractions and percentages of numbers and money.
OTHER WORK
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Light and electricity
The Victorians
Wild Rivers
Christianity/Sikhism
HELPING YOUR CHILD AT HOME
 Encourage reading of a wide range of texts, including
stories, information texts, biography and newspapers.
 Help with weekly spellings.
 Help with learning all multiplication tables.
 Check and sign homework diaries, helping with tasks if
needed.
ROUTINES
 Outdoor games – Wednesday
 Indoor PE –Monday and Thursday
 Spelling Test - Wednesday
 Homework: spelling – Wednesday, science – Tuesday, maths
– Monday, literacy – Thursday
 Clarinet orchestra - Monday