Year 6 long term plan
English
Term 1
Vile Victorians!
Term 2
The Balkans
Vile Victorians!
Term 3
The Blitzed Brits!
Term 4
Life in the Indus Valley
Biographies
Charles Dickens –
how did he show
Victorian life?
Diaries – Anne Frank’s
Diary
Description /
Travel Writing (Bear Grylls
Survival
The History Detective
Investigates: The Indus Valley
by Claudia Martin
Explanations of
animals found in the
Galapagos
Street Child by Berlie
Dohety (life of a
Victorian child)
Victorian Workhouse
(My Story) by Pamela
Oldfield
Informal/formal
letters – letters from
evacuees / letters
from British Govt
(National Archives)
Term 5
Term 6
All aboard……UK road trip!
Bill Bryson – Notes From a Small
Island
Persuasive Writing
Historical Fiction – Ian
McEwan ‘Rose
Blanche’,John Boyne
‘Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas’, The Piano
(Music).
Goodnight Mister
Tom
Carrie’s War
Machine Gunners
Let the Celebrations
Begin
Maths
Science
(from Kent
scheme)
History
Geography
Evolution and
Inheritance
Darwin
RE – Ideas about
God / Creation
Electricity
What the
Victorians did for
us. Geog – trade
routes
Place knowledge
Forces
Animals including humans
(air resistance,
water resistance,
friction) from yr 5
prog of study
Ongoing revision where necessary
Blitz babies
The Indus Civilisation
(childhood in
wartime)
WWII countries –
Where did they come from?
Living things and their
habitats
Animals including
humans
Carl Linnaeus
How have the areas changed?
Why? Which sources tell us
what?
Locational knowledge
How have the areas
changed? Why?
Which sources tell
us what?
Comparison of 2 UK
of a European
region
(including Eastern
Europe/Russia)
Map locations using
compass points, 6
fig grid refs
Knowledge of Asia (Trade
routes and interdependence
(Indus and Modern)
(Counties and cities)
OS Maps for Horton Kirby
Visit
Comparison of 2 UK locations
– Darent and Thames Estuary
compared with urban areas –
London, Manchester,
Newcastle, Liverpool).
locations
Comparison of 2 UK
locations – Darent
and Thames Estuary
compared with
urban areas –
London,
Manchester,
Newcastle,
Liverpool).
Computing
Music
PE
Old Time Music
Hall
(Marie Lloyd)
Gym – Balance and
flight (wall bars,
vaulting)
Rugby
Art & Design
Design Technology
Impressionism
Food technology
MFL
Numbers, days of
week, months of
year, birthdays.
RE
Unit 1 Ideas about
God
New Beginnings
PSHE & SEAL
WOW factor
Victorian Day –
visiting workshop
Folk music?
Balkan Beats!
War time tunes
Dance –
comparing English
folk dance and
Balkan folk dance.
Basketball
Dance – Lindy Hop
and Swing
Football
Obstacle/assault
courses – Army
training!
Propaganda art
Anderson shelters
(structures)
Pairs landmarks,
directions, metro
and maps.
Bridges
Classroom
subjects, telling
the time, French
schools.
Unit 2a Church/
Unit 2b Christmas
Getting On and
Falling Out
Musical notation – tuned
Musical notation – tuned
instruments
instruments
(technology/keyboards/ipads (technology/keyboards/ipads)
Dance – Traditional Pakistani
Gym – Circuits and types of
Dance and Bollywood
fitness
Sitting volleyball (Paralympic
Badminton/tennis
sports)
Singing (using voices
with control &
expression)
Cricket/rounders
Athletics
Swimming (for
those not achieving
25m +)
Indus Valley amulets
Sculpture
Textiles
Family members and
physical descriptions.
Rooms in the house and
objects in my bedroom.
Hobbies, sports,
likes and dislikes.
Unit 3 Sikhism
Unit 4 Easter
Unit 5 Sikhism
Unit 6 Church
Going for Goals
Good to be me
Drugs and Alcohol Changes
Relationships
Living and growing
WW2 day
Science Fair
Visit to Gurdwara
Horton Kirby
Leavers Service
Gilwell
Production