The Form VI year

ICT-
Multimedia presentation (this year we did this on Recycling); using spreadsheet models for a variety of purposes; using the Internet to search large databases and interpret the information; using desktop publishing skills to create a keepsake School Yearbook.

This Term

ICT

School Yearbook, followed by searching the Internet and interpreting information

Mathematics

Using and applying number

• Solve multi-step problems, and problems involving fractions, decimals and percentages; choose and use appropriate calculation strategies at each stage, including calculator use

• Tabulate systematically the information in a problem or puzzle; identify and record the steps or calculations needed to solve it, using symbols where appropriate; interpret solutions in the original context and check their accuracy

• Suggest, plan and develop lines of enquiry; collect, organise and represent information, interpret results and review methods; identify and answer related questions

• Represent and interpret sequences, patterns and relationships involving numbers and shapes; suggest and test hypotheses; construct and use simple expressions and formulae in words then symbols, e.g. the cost of c pens at 15 pence each is 15c pence

• Explain reasoning and conclusions, using words, symbols or diagrams as appropriate

Counting and understanding numbers

• Find the difference between a positive and a negative integer, or two negative integers, in context

• Use decimal notation for tenths, hundredths and thousandths, partition, round and order decimals with up to three places, and position them on the number line

• Express a larger whole number as a fraction of a smaller one e. g. recognise that 8 slices of a 5-slice pizza represents ⁸¤₅ or 1 ³¤₅ pizzas; simplify fractions by cancelling common factors; order a set of fractions by converting them to fractions with a common denominator

• Express one quantity as a percentage of another, e.g. express £400 as a percentage of £1000; find equivalent percentages, decimals and fractions

• Solve simple problems involving direct proportion by scaling quantities up or down

To know and use number facts.

• Use knowledge of place value and multiplication facts to 10 × 10 to derive related multiplication and division facts involving decimal numbers, e.g. 0.8 × 7, 4.8 ÷ 6

• Use knowledge of multiplication facts to derive quickly squares of numbers to 12 × 12 and the corresponding squares of multiples of 10

• Recognise that prime numbers have only two factors and identify prime numbers less than 100; find the prime factors of two-digit numbers

• Use approximations, inverse operations and tests of divisibility to estimate and check results

Caculating.

• Calculate mentally with integers and decimals: U.t ± U.t, TU × U, TU ÷ U, U.t × U, U.t ÷ U

• Use efficient written methods to add and subtract integers and decimals, to multiply and divide integers and decimals by a one-digit integer, and to multiply two- and three-digit integers by a two-digit integer

• Relate fractions to multiplication and division, e.g. 6 ÷ 2 = ¹¤₂ of 6 = 6 × ¹¤₂; express a quotient as a fraction or decimal, e.g. 67 ÷ 5 = 13.4 or 13²¤₅; find fractions and percentages of whole-number quantities, e.g. ⁵¤₈ of 96, 65% of £260

• Use a calculator to solve problems involving multi-step calculations

Shape.

• Describe, identify and visualise parallel and perpendicular edges or faces and use these properties to classify 2-D shapes and 3-D solids

• Make and draw shapes with increasing accuracy and apply knowledge of their properties

• Visualise and draw on grids of different types where a shape will be after reflection, after translations or after rotation through 90° or 180° about its centre or one of its vertices

• Use coordinates in the first quadrant to draw and locate shapes

• Estimate angles, and use a protractor to measure and draw them, on their own and in shapes; calculate angles in a triangle or around a point

Measuring.

• Select and use standard metric units of measure and convert between units using decimals to two places, e.g. change 2.75 litres to 2750 ml, or vice versa

• Read and interpret scales on a range of measuring instruments, recognising that the measurement made is approximate and recording results to a required degree of accuracy; compare readings on different scales, e.g. when using different instruments

• Calculate the perimeter and area of rectilinear shapes; estimate the area of an irregular shape by counting squares

Handling data.

• Describe and predict outcomes from data using the language of chance or likelihood

• Solve problems by collecting, selecting, processing, presenting and interpreting data, using ICT where appropriate; draw conclusions and identify further questions to ask

• Construct and interpret frequency tables, bar charts with grouped discrete data, and line graphs; interpret pie charts

• Describe and interpret results and solutions to problems using the mode, range, median and mean

Geography:-
We will be looking in more depth at world rivers and the Polar Regions. Pupils will deliver their presentations on chosen topics, to the class.

French:-
Daily routine, school subjects, songs and revision of year's topics.

History:-
The American mid west. Battle of the Alamo, Indian culture, slave trade and the civil war. Touch on fashion, customs and Abraham Lincoln's life and death. Revision of year's work.