Year 6 English
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We’ve been busy spring cleaning our poetry blocks.
Our revised summer poetry blocks should be on the site in May, the autumn ones in July, and the spring ones in September.
Autumn Blocks
Choose from Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest, Macbeth for an in-depth study. Relative clauses & prefixes/suffixes in context of Shakespeare’s new words. Write and perform playscripts. Also in Y5 Spring.
Classic Plays: Shakespeare
Looking at website texts, revisit features of informal/formal writing including subjunctive mood, active/passive and question tags. Compose 'About Me' profiles and blog posts.
Blogs and Reports: Reading and Writing Blogs
Read, discuss and perform, The Highwayman poem by Alfred Noyes. Write a new ending. Revise adverbials, relative clauses and study the perfect form to mark time and cause.
Narrative Poetry: The Highwayman
Discuss emotive issues in Eric (Shaun Tan) & The Island (Armin Greder) & write an outsider story. Revise cohesive devices: pronouns, adverbials, determiners, conjunctions, paragraphing.
Stories that Raise Issues: Outsiders
Read and write instructions and explanations, exploring register, punctuating bullet points and adding parentheses. Write explanations based on the children's own interests.
Instructions and Explanations: Reading and writing instructions and explanations
This engaging poetry block blends reading, performance, and creative writing, building students’ skills in poetic techniques, modal verbs, and punctuation. Emphasizing diversity and self-expression, it encourages students to write authentically, share their voices, and engage in meaningful discussions.
Poems on a Theme: Diverse Voices
Read powerful WWI fiction: War Horse and War Game. Revise clauses and use formal and informal register, including subjunctive form. Write stories inspired by reading.
Historical Fiction: War Horse and War Game
Using the inspirational Town is by the Sea and The Day of Ahmed’s Secret, study verbs (perfect form) and adverbials. Consider the issues raised and write impersonal and personal recounts.
Recounts: The Day of Ahmed's Secret
Immerse the class in Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. Revise clauses and explore subjunctive form. Write an untold tale inspired by this significant author.
Significant Authors: Northern Lights
Using Maya Angelou, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me and Amanda Gorman’s poem The Hill We Climb, children explore how we face our fears. They create art in Basquiat’s style and write poems and letters expressing opinions.
Wellbeing: Positive Me!
Spring Blocks
Make your Y6 Spring Revision Term children's best term ever!
Revise all necessary grammar, punctuation and spelling for the Y6 SPAG tests, as well as reading, comprehension and writing objectives within an inspirational term's work that follows the sequence of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
This block covers the whole of Spring Term. You can teach it all, or pick and mix. The 5-minute grammar revision sessions, for example, work brilliantly as stand-alone teaching elements.
Complete Revision for SATs: Harry Potter-themed Revision
Plunge into your Spring Revision Term with our Greek Myth-Themed Y6 Revision Block.
Revise all necessary grammar, punctuation and spelling for the Y6 SPaG tests, as well as reading, comprehension and writing activities within an inspirational term's work that follows the sequence of selected Greek Myths & Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.
This block covers the whole of Spring Term. You can teach it all or pick and mix: the units are devised for maximum flexibility to suit your children’s needs and revision timeframe.
Complete Revision for SATs: Percy Jackson and Greek Myths
Summer Blocks
Take a trip down memory lane, reading and writing stories inspired by memories. Work towards creating an inspiring performance or presentation which will not leave a dry eye in the house!
Fiction for Transition: My Past, Present and Future
Inspire dreams, set goals and trigger change with this sophisticated block. Explore dreams and goals with You are Awesome, give presentations on climate change, and engage in politics, debating and writing to your MP with Usborne’s Politics for Beginners.
Non-fiction for Transition: Goals, Dreams and Change
In an art-infused block, read and write evocative poetry. Create still-life art and write observational poetry. Explore identity, creating self-portraits through images and words.
Poetry for Transition: You are Awesome
This unit uses songs, old and new, that children may have listened to during lockdown. Through music and lyrics, art and drama, children explore feelings and safely express more negative emotions, ending on a note of hope and positivity.
