WHO WE ARE

This unit supports students in understanding how their bodies, emotions, relationships, and sense of identity change as they grow. Across two stages in Year 6, students first explore human growth and development, including puberty, the role of body systems, physical and emotional changes, and healthy choices that support wellbeing. Later in the year, students revisit the concept of change as they prepare for the transition to secondary school, exploring the social, emotional, and practical changes they may experience and developing strategies to respond positively to uncertainty and new challenges.

LET'S GET PERSONAL

Students will explore personal narratives, journals, and diaries to understand how writers share meaningful experiences. They will learn how structure, voice, and word choice evoke emotion and create vivid imagery. By connecting personal memories to universal themes, students will craft stories that reflect identity, relationships, and change. They will revise with purpose, use figurative language effectively, and express ideas clearly. This unit builds empathy, self-awareness, and the power of personal storytelling.

NUMBER & NUMBER SENSE

Students will explore how the base 10 system extends infinitely in both directions into large numbers and decimals. They will build strong number sense, understand place value deeply, and connect it to real-life contexts. They will compare, estimate, round, and order numbers, including negative integers. Students will model exponents, explore square roots, and identify patterns like prime numbers. This inquiry will grow their reasoning, problem-solving, and mental math skills, encouraging flexible thinking and mathematical confidence.

MEASUREMENT

Students will explore how measurement helps us understand and describe the world. They will use standard units to measure length, area, volume, mass, capacity, and time. Through inquiry, they will compare, convert, and apply units to real-life problems. They will investigate how accuracy depends on tools and context. Students will develop skills in using formulas, estimating, and choosing appropriate strategies. This unit builds confidence in applying measurement in meaningful, everyday situations through hands-on tasks and collaborative thinking.

UNDERSTANDING GROWTH AND CHANGE

In this unit, students will develop critical reading, research, synthesis and communication skills through the exploration of informational texts. They will investigate how main ideas, supporting details, titles, subtitles, paragraphs and visual elements work together to organise and communicate complex knowledge. Students will locate, select, connect and synthesise information, make inferences and begin to critically evaluate what they read. In writing, they will plan, develop and revise structured and coherent informational texts, using subject-specific vocabulary, linking language and visual elements to clarify relationships between ideas. Through reading, writing, oral language and presentation, they will develop increasing independence in transforming information into knowledge that is accessible to different audiences.

Themes related to growth, change, identity and well-being may also provide contexts close to students’ experiences for selecting, organising and synthesising information, creating connections with the Who We Are Unit of Inquiry.

GROWING WITH CONFIDENCE

Students will develop their skills through Athletics and Swimming, with a focus on growth, fitness, confidence, resilience, well-being, and personal responsibility. Integrated with the Year 6 Who We Are Unit of Inquiry, students will explore how physical and emotional changes can influence movement, performance, confidence, and participation. Through Athletics, they will reflect on how growth can affect running, jumping, throwing, and overall fitness, while setting goals and developing healthy habits. In Swimming, students will build endurance, technique, water confidence, and self-awareness while recognising that personal development can influence performance in different ways. As part of their stand-alone PE learning, students will refine advanced throwing, catching, and striking skills, apply sequences of skills in individual and team sports, learn from feedback and others, and take increasing responsibility for their own continued physical development.