Year 6

Class Information

  • Children are expected to read at home for pleasure. Reading comment tasks are done in school at 8.45-9.00am daily.
  • PE: The children will need their PE kits on a Tuesday (Modules 1, 3 and 5) and a Friday, and their swimming kits on a Tuesday (Modules 2, 4 and 6).

Please ensure all belongings are clearly labelled.

Unit of Inquiry

Transdisciplinary Theme: Sharing the Planet

Central Idea: Tourism can bring benefits to an economy; however, it can cause problems in a local environment.

Lines of Inquiry

  • The environmental regions found in North America.
  • Similarities and differences between our location and a place in North America.
  • How areas of natural beauty are changing due to tourism.

Previous Units

Unit of Inquiry

Transdisciplinary Theme: Who We Are

Central Idea: The work that charities do can change a person’s life.

Lines of Inquiry

  • What we are taught about charity through different communities.
  • How charitable organisations are organised.
  • Causes that charitable organisations support.
  • Where charities have promoted change to legislation.

Unit of Inquiry

Transdisciplinary Theme: How The World Works

Central Idea: Scientific and technological advances can change quality of life.

Lines of Inquiry

  • Scientific and technological advances.
  • The impact of these on our daily lives.
  • The choices people make.

Unit of Inquiry

Transdisciplinary Theme: Where We Are in Place and Time

Central Idea: Human migration is a response to
challenges, risks and opportunities.

Lines of Inquiry

  • Reasons for exploration
  • The effects of Tudor exploration
  • Migration in the modern world
  • Our families and migration

Unit of Inquiry

Transdisciplinary Theme: How We Express Ourselves

Central Idea: People express their culture and beliefs
through Art.

Lines of Inquiry

  • How personality, culture, and image can be portrayed in a portrait. (Form)
  • Different types and styles of Art: How they are similar and how they differ. (Connection)
  • Art that reflects me. (Perspective)

Unit of Inquiry

Transdisciplinary Theme: An inquiry into the rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and other living things.

Central Idea: Tourism can bring benefits to people, but also cause problems in a local environment.

Lines of Inquiry

  • The environmental regions found in North America (Form)
  • How the areas of natural beauty are changing due to tourism (Change)
  • How people can create sustainable tourism (Responsibility)

Unit of Inquiry

Theme: Where we are in place and time

Central Idea: The effects of migration can have an impact upon society.

We will inquire into:

  • Main causes of the Industrial Revolution
  • Migration as a result of the Industrial Revolution and its impact on the wider society
  • Migration in the modern world
  • Our families and migration
A diagram of the world map showing annual net migration rate 2015-2020.

Unit of Inquiry

Theme: Who we are

Central Idea: The work that charities do can change a person’s life.

We will inquire into:

  • What we are taught about charity through different communities
  • How charitable organisations are organised
  • Causes that charitable organisations support
  • Where charities have promoted change to legislation
A collage of logos of different charities throughout the country.