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.

ICT

Using various computer packages to build multimedia presentations; using spreadsheets for mathematical analysis; exploring the wide use of the internet; compiling the school year book.

English -

English in Year 6

Throughout Year 6 I will be focussing my time on consolidating and extending the skills the children have learned throughout the time I have taught them. Wherever possible (and appropriate) I will extend their learning through: philosophical discussions and inquiries; collaborative learning techniques; familiarisation with marking criteria in order that they can make reasonable assessments of their own work and, when relevant, their partner's work.

Reading

During the Autumn Term we will be using short extracts from a variety of challenging texts to revise skills for: working out unfamiliar words in context; visualising scenes and explaining them clearly to others; working with specific time restraints; answering questions within the context of a comprehension paper.

The following term we will be concentrating on looking carefully at the conventions of script writing in preparation for the school play.

At the end of the Spring Term I will make an assessment as to what work I feel should be covered in their final term.

Spelling

This year the children will use a ‘SATs Busters' book as a basis for learning their spellings. Weekly spelling tests will be held on the same day of each week as will their accompanying homework task. The test will consist of a maximum of twenty-five spellings - the children will be responsible for setting their own targets as to how many spellings they realistically feel they can spell correctly within the test.

Writing

Throughout the year we will revisit and revise the checklists used within all of the different styles of writing the children have tackled throughout Key Stage 2. The children will be expected to produce short, accurate examples of many of these styles.

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

Calculating.

• 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

Science;-

Autumn Term

The Human Body - Systems of the body, the skeleton, joints, ligaments and tendons, genetics, healthy lifestyles.

Electricity;-

Simple circuits, series circuits and parallel circuits. Circuit diagrams. Circuit components.

Spring Term

Revision of all science topics in preparation for SATs

Summer Term

Body Care - Chelmsford borough council 5 week course (one hour per week)

Science Project

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.