The Year 6 Curriculum at Glen Hills!

Welcome to our Year 6 curriculum! This introduction will outline the main topics for the year and our home/school expectations. Our main Year Plan is on this website

We teach a variety of topics to ensure the pupils acquire both knowledge and skills.

Science
Forces

How we see

Adaptation and Evolution

Materials

Geography
Contrasting area of the UK – Llandudno

Extreme Earth

Using World Maps
 

History

The Victorians
 

R.E.
Christianity

Buddhism

The Christmas Story

 
I.C.T.
Creating esafety website

Design own computer based games

Modelling and simulations

Multimedia

D.T.
Making slippers

Designing shelters

Design a wind turbine
 
 

Art
Sketching

Sculptures

Hockney

Topic artwork (space art, river art)

 
Music
Singing in rounds

Developing rhythm

Composers and creating moods

Song writing
 
P.E. 
Gymnastics

Invasion games

Dance

Net and wall games

French

Telling the time

Use of everyday language inc foods

Using connectives to write sentences

Our expectations of parental / school links…

We fully appreciate the vitality of building home/school links at Glen Hills. Homework and tasks will be given out at regular opportunities for your child in year 6. Please ensure that the CPG books provided to your child for free act as a recap for all literacy and numeracy work which is done in class. Please go to our Learning Environment and onto the year 6 page for many super links to sites which will assist both you and your child.

Reading with your child! Probably the most vital aspect of ensuring children get a love of books! Ideally, a little bit of reading together should be done every day with specific questioning of the text they have read to assist with comprehension and secured understanding.

Spellings – these will be given out by your child’s teacher to learn and will follow specific spelling rules for year 6

Maths – times tables (as detailed by your child’s teacher) and number facts will be given out for homework, as well as reinforcement of techniques learnt in school.