Year 6
Teaching Team
Mrs Abby Featonby
(Class Teacher)
Miss Tanya Jaryczewski
(Class Teacher)
Learning and the Curriculum in Year 6
Autumn Term (I)
Crime and Punishment
During this engaging topic, children will embark on a journey through time as they re-visit key periods of British history to explore the historical theme of 'Crime and Punishment' and investigate how justice systems have evolved over time. By engaging with a variety of primary and secondary sources from British history including Roman Britain, the Anglo-Saxon era, Tudor England and Victorian times, children will examine how crime was viewed and managed in each period. Children will learn about the different punishments practiced throughout history, from punitive and brutal physical punishments that were endured to the development of more forgiving and rehabilitative approaches and subsequently reflect on how past practices have influenced modern approaches to crime and punishment. Children will enhance their skills in critical thinking and historical enquiry and interrogate justice and the rule of law in Britain today throughout this cross-curricular and immersive topic.
Autumn Term (II)
Stars and Stripes
Join us as we travel across the Atlantic Ocean to discover the breadth of diversity that North America, specifically the United States of America, has to offer. Initially, the children will build on their prior historical knowledge of explorers and explorations to this continent throughout history before focussing on the geography of the USA. Taking a ‘road trip’ across the USA, children will develop and refine their mapping skills to explore the States, describe key physical features found and experienced within some of them and investigate the human geographical features of others. Throughout this topic, children will also have the opportunity to carry out independent research and discover the unique qualities that each of the States values and celebrates, including art, architecture, language, religion, culture, food and cookery.
Spring Term (I)
The World Then, Now and in the Future
Spring Term (II)
Iceberg Ahead!
Summer Term (I)
The World at War
Summer Term (II)
