Year 6 - Key subjects

English

Reading

• • Read a broad range of genres

  • Recommend books to others 

  • Make comparisons within/across books 

  • Support inferences with evidence 

  • Summarising key points from texts 

  • Identify how language, structure, etc. contribute to meaning 

  • Discuss use of language, including figurative 

  • Discuss and explain reading, providing reasoned justifications for views

Writing 

• • Use knowledge of morphology & etymology in spelling 

  • Develop legible personal handwriting style 

  • Plan writing to suit audience and purpose, use models of writing 

  • Develop character and setting in narrative 

  • Select grammar and vocabulary for effect 

  • Use a wide range of cohesive devices 

  • Ensure grammatical consistency 

Speaking & Listening 

• • Use questions to build knowledge 

  • Articulate arguments & opinions 

  • Use spoken language to speculate, hypothesise & explore 

Grammar 

• • Use appropriate register/ style 

  • Use the passive voice for purpose 

  • Use features to convey and clarify meaning 

  • Use full punctuation 

  • Use language of subject/object 

Mathematics

Number/Calculation 

• Secure place value and

• rounding to 10,000,000, including negatives 

• All written methods, including long division 

• Use order of operations (not indices) 

• Identify factors, multiples and primes 

• Solve multi-step number problems 

Algebra 

• Introduce simple use of unknowns

Geometry & Measures 

• Confidently use a range of measures and conversions 

• Calculate area of triangles and other polygons 

• Use area and volume formulae 

• Classify shapes by properties 

• Know and use angle rules 

• Translate and reflect shapes, using all four quadrants 

Data 

• Use pie charts 

• Calculate mean averages

Fractions, decimals & percentages

• Compare and simplify fractions

• Use equivalents to add fractions Multiply simple fractions 

• Divide fractions by whole numbers Solve problems using decimals & percentages 

• Use written division up to 2dp

• Introduce ratio and proportion 

Science

Animals, including humans

• • The circulatory system, blood vessels and blood

  • Importance of diet and exercise

  • Planning and recording an experiment with a fair test and a control

Electricity

• • Drawing circuits using the scientific symbols

  • Creating circuits

  • Renewable sources of energy

Living things & their habitats

• • Classifying animals

  • Linnaean system

  • Microorganisms

Light

• • Light sources and how it travels

  • Reflection

  • Refraction

  • Prisms

Evolution & Inheritance

• • Inheritance & adaptation

  • Charles Darwin & the theory of evolution

  • Genes

Scientists & inventors

• • Stephen Hawking & black holes

  • Libby Hyman & classification

  • Alexander Fleming & penicillin

  • Edward Jenner & vaccination