• The Promise by Nicola Davies
• ‍Suffragette: The Battle  for Equality by David Roberts

Reading:

• The Arrival by Shaun Tan
• Children of the Benin Kingdom by Dinah Orji

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Grammar and Spelling: Spelling Shed - Y5/6statutory word lists

Composition: Parenthesis to enhancemeaning, adverbial phrases, hyphens, modal verbs, relative pronouns, usingpassive verbs, personification, emotive language

Genres: Diaryentry, extended first person narrative, non-chronological report

Songwriter

Unit Aim - To develop children's ability to compose a song, and to learn to accompany themselves on the ukulele.

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Year 6 production - Peter Pan
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Music Technology

Learn new songs from staff notation
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Compose sections for and perform in class songs made up of riffs (ostinato)
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Listen to music from different traditions with riffs

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Screen Printing and typography: creating protest posters - using colour for purpose and to express feeling, building up drawings and images of whole parts of items Natural pigments: exploring the use of texture in colour with sustainable dyes and pigments.

Artists: Corita Kent and Zoe Burt

Perspective: Shaun Tan inspired cityscapes, 1 point perspective, 2 point perspective, architectural drawings.

Mechanical systems: motorised vehicles, British car exports, British trade, building gears and pulleys

Being me in my world: feeling valued and welcome, identifying goals for the year, understanding group dynamics and role-modelling.

Celebrating difference: understanding disability, perceptions of normality, understanding bullying, difference as celebration and empathy.​

Relationships: mental health, love and loss, power and control, being online (safe vs unsafe), using technology responsibly

Changing Me: myself-image, puberty, babies: conception to birth, boyfriends and girlfriends, adolescent friendships, real self and ideal self, the future

Christianity: Church of England, Protestantism, Pentecostalism and Liberation Theology.Religious leaders around the world: The differences between Catholicism and Protestantism, How Protestantism and The Church of England came about.

Place Study - Jerusalem: where Jerusalem is, why it is important to Jewish, Christian and Muslim people, why people travelled for four years to fight over Jerusalem, documenting Jerusalem

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Electricity: Circuits, explore voltage and its effect on a circuit, identify and correct problems in a circuit, and apply our knowledge to help us build a set of traffic lights. Our environment / living sustainably: What is climate change, how is it caused, reducing energy consumption, reducing waste.

Living things and their habitats: classifying and describing living organisms, understanding the kingdoms of life, using the Linnaean system to classify, characteristics of different microorganisms, asexual reproduction

Light: how light travels, reflection, explaining how reflection helps us to see, how shadows change, why shadows have the same shape as the object that casts them, investigating how we see objects

History

‘Fighting for our Rights’ the struggles for power over time and how power is gained with a focus on power shifts in Afghanistan and Apartheid.

Geography

Sustainability - the use and impact of plastic in particular single use plastic, dealing with waste (landfill) how can we reduce our waste. Respecting natural resources and comparing London to the city of Curitiba in our case study.

Geography: British Trade and Economics – exploring what the UK trades (imports and exports), fair trade, global economy, Brexit and its impact on trade, Hometown – Clone town

History: Power and Influence - Call for a return of the Benin Bronzes? – the history of civilisation, how artefacts came to Britain, the King of Benin and his call forthe bronzes to be returned, the response of Western museums

Coding: designing and writing code for our own games, what are variables, and how to use them to create games.

Websites: What makes a good website, designing and creating our own including preview pages, navigation pathways, linking to other content, copyright of images.

3D modelling: use Tinkercad to make changes to 3D models, rotate and adapt 3D models, make holes, plan 3D models, make a 3D model

Football: Aim to restrict space attacker have to play in, apply speed and accuracy to a penalty shot, play the role of covering defender, use foot placement to send and receive the ball at speed.

Hockey: Perform a long corner routine as part of a team, identify players that need to be marked, use the self-pass to restart after a foul or the ball has gone out of play.

Netball: Introduce the double bounce rule, play in a game utilising the marking the ball skill, play in an attacking game supporting GS and GA, attempt rebounds as both attacker and defender in practices and competitive games.

Gymnastics: Take weight on both hands to land on high apparatus from flight, dismounting from various heights, organise equipment in small groups to create a flight sequence, refine individual aspects of sequence including jumps, starting and finishing position.

Rounders: Bowling the faster ball, identify when to work as pairs to field long balls, applying tactics to  ensure batters make it around bases

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Spanish

Say, read, write and understand: Telling the time, Daily routines, Naming and describing nouns from around the house, Using prepositiions to describe where things are.

Tapas/café culture: facts about the tapasculture in Spain, say and write what tapas I like/dislike, ask for some tapasand drinks politely, name traditional Spanish breakfast food and drinks, createand describe a hotel breakfast menu, café role play and conversation

Performance time:read and understand a humorous sketch, adapt and model café sketches, takingpart in a performance of a café sketch, remember fruit and vegetable nouns,nouns to do with nature