Tollgate Primary School Subject Overview
Core Curriculum Year Six
Autumn Term Two 2014 - 2015
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Unit/Focus
Revision Cycle
Diaries/Letters
Revision Cycle
Narrative
Revision Cycle
Play scripts
Revision Cycle
Narrative
Revision Cycle
Recounts
Comprehension Assessment
Grammar
Punctuation
Nouns and
Pronouns
Verbs
Verbs and voices
Revision Cycle
Narrative
Paragraphs
Prepositions
Connectives
Adjectives and
Adverbs
Assessment of skills
taught.
Spelling
Compound Words
Double letter
Silent letter
i before e words
Comprehension
AF2
Understand,
describe, select or
retrieve information,
events or ideas from
texts and use
quotation and
reference to text.
AF3
Deduce, infer or
interpret
information, events
or ideas from texts.
AF4
Identify and
comment on the
structure and
organisation of texts
including grammatical
and presentational
features at text
level
AF5
Explain and comment
on writer’s use of
language, including
grammatical and
literal features at
word and sentence
level
AF6
Identify and
comment on writers’
purposes and
viewpoints, and the
overall effect of the
text on the reader.
AF6
Identify and
comment on writers’
purposes and
viewpoints, and the
overall effect of the
text on the reader.
Assessment which covers
AF1/AF2/AF3/AF4
/AF5/AF6
Writing
Write for a wide
range of purposes
Audience and
purpose
Amend grammar
and structure of
writing,
Evaluate their
writing.
Fractions,
Decimals and
Percentages
To simplify
fraction using a
knowledge of
factors and
Write for a wide
range of purposes
Amend grammar
and structure of
writing,
Read aloud what
they have written
with appropriate
intonation
Fractions,
Decimals and
Percentages
To convert
decimals of 3 d.p
into fractions.
Write for a wide
range of purposes
Audience and
purpose
Read aloud what
they have written
with appropriate
intonation
Write for a wide
range of purposes
Amend grammar
and structure of
writing,
Read aloud what
they have written
with appropriate
intonation
Geometry, Shape
and Position
To describe the
position of
coordinates in all
four quadrants.
Write for a wide
range of purposes
Summarising and
organising
material
Write narratives
about personal
experiences and
those of others
Statistics
To interpret and
construct pie
charts and line
graphs and use
these to solve
problems.
Write for a wide
range of purposes
Audience and
purpose
Amend grammar
and structure of
writing,
Assessment
Assessment
AT1
Children to apply all taught
basic skills to problem
solving.
Mathematics
Measures
To recognise that
shapes with the
same area can
have different
perimeters.
Spelling Words
Computing
We are app
planners.
Science
Animals including
Humans
multiplication
tables.
To research the
capabilities of a
Smart Phone.
To review the
work on growth
and diet to assess
the knowledge of
the children.
To explain the
meaning of GPS
and work with
location data.
To find a problem
that can be solved
with an app.
To research
further app
developments.
To create a
presentation to
pitch an app idea.
To deliver the
pitch presentation
to the panel.
Assessment.
To know how a
scientific idea can
be tested and the
evidence used to
support the idea.
To know that to
stay healthy we
need an adequate
and varied diet.
That the heart and
lungs are protected
by the ribs.
To know how to
measure their
pulse rate and
relate it to heart
beat
To identify factors
which could affect
pulse rate and
make predictions
about the changes.
To identify fruit and
vegetables eg by including
them in their display or menu
as essential components of a
healthy diet.
To present
information about
diet and health
That the muscle in
the walls of the
heart contracts
regularly, pumping
blood around the
body.
That blood vessels
carry blood around
the body.
To plan what
evidence to collect
including the
number of
measurements of
pulse rate to take
and the number of
children to use.