CHILDREN’S INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, LAGOSACADEMIC YEAR 2017-2018.

TERM 2 CURRICULUM OVERVIEW FOR PRIMARYYEAR 6

TERM NUMBER & WEEK NUMBER

LEARNING OUTCOMES LEARNING OBJECTIVES TO BE DELIVERED

T2. W1 Numeracy: Children shoud be able to say what each digit represents in a 7-digit number and use negative numbers in context of temperature.

Numeracy: To place value in 7-digit numbers and to use negative numbers in context of temperature and calculate intervals across zero.

Literacy: Children will be able to read and identify the genre of a range of short stories, identify and use adverbials to link sentences or paragraphs together.

Literacy: To read and discuss a wide range of fiction; predict what will happen next in the stories and identify the genre.

Topic: Children will be able to: research the location and environment where the Maya lived and find out when the Maya were first recognised by archaeologists using evidence.

Topic: To know when the Maya were first recognised by archaeologists.Understand the different type of evidence that tells us about the Maya.

Science: Children will be able to identify variations and investigate variation and adaptation of specific animals and plants in their environments.

Science: To identify inherited characteristics in living things and know that variation occurs within offspring as well as across a species.

African Studies: : Children will be able to locate Zulu people’s hometown on ancient and modern maps.

African Studies: To investigate the location of the Zulu people on ancient and modern maps.

Music : Children will be able to Identify and explore loops in different genres of music.

Music: To learn what is meant by loops

ICT: Children will be able to use collaboration tools to work together to produce a joint piece of work with children both inside and outside Children's International School.

ICT: To continue to collaborate on a project using a range of web 2.0 tools to support their work- including, google documents and sites- both with children in their class, other classes and children from other schools.

PE: Children will be able to know that there are a variety of running styles and understand which styles are more suited to which events. (100m)To know that there are a variety of running styles and understand which styles are more suited to which events. (100m) know that there are a variety of running styles and understand which styles are more suited to which events. (100m).

PE: To be able to sprint over short distances demonstrating this technique (high hips, relaxed neck and shoulders, still head etc.)

Swimming: . Children will be able to improve their freestyle stroke by practicing:I. Leg kicks with arms extended and lockedII. Leg kicks with one arm on the thigh and the other extended forward with

Swimming : To will understand and be able to apply proper legs and arm actions as well as good body position and bilateral breathing in the freestyle strokes.

shoulder touching the earIII. Alternating arms action after six leg kicksIV. Single arm action ‘catch and pull drill’ and bilateral breathing every three arm pulls.

French: Children will be able to find out the history behind la fête des rois festival in French.

French: To learn the history behind la fête des rois festival in French.

Art: Children will be able to understand deep etching. They would prepare the surface of the board they will use for the deep etching.

Art: To understand deep etching and the technique involved.

T2, W2 Numeracy: Children will be able to read and covert measurement on different scales

Numeracy: To construct, interpret and use standard units of measures.

Literacy: Children will be able to identify adverbials in a text and investigate the various ways of writing dialogue.

Literacy: To link paragraphs and write narratives describing settings, characters and atmosphere.

Topic: Children will be able to Find out how the Maya writing and discover their fascinating maths and calendar

Topic: To appreciate the beauty and power of the Maya mathematics.

Science: Children will be able to suggest how animals and plants are adapted to

Science: To suggest how some animals and plants are adapted to extreme environments.

extreme environments.

African Study: The children will be able to identify and outline key features of the Zulu culture.

African Studies: To explore the Zulu culture.

Music: The children will be able to sequence their own sounds.

Music: To learn how to sequence sound.

ICT: The children will be able to use appropriate forms of communication to, share information or ideas.

ICT: To talk about the different forms of electronic communication and web 2.0 tools.

French: Children will be able to talk about the French festival of la fête des rois.

French: To learn the history behind la fête des rois festival in French.

PE: Children will be able to perform staggered start and crouched start.

PE: To understand the Techniques used..

On your Marks: - The foot is placed up to the starting line but not on it.

- The feet are about shoulder width apart to obtain a good balanced position

- The weight is distributed so that about 2/3rds of the weight is on the front foot.

Set: - Bend the knees and lean forwards.

- Arms synchronised with the legs - in this

case right foot forward and left arm forward.

- Back, neck and head in line.

- Remain motionless.

Swimming: Children will learn how to improve their freestyle stroke by practicing:I. Leg kicks with arms extended and lockedII. Continuous single arm action ‘catch and pull drill’ and bilateral breathing every three arm pullsIII. Continuous and alternating arms actions ‘catch and pull drill’ and bilateral breathing every three arm pulls.

Swimming: Children will further understand and be able to apply proper legs and arm actions as well as good body position and bilateral breathing in the freestyle strokes.

French : The children will be able to read in French.

French: Students will be able to read in French.

Art: The children will be able to produce water colour painting in landscape by applying the principle of perspectives drawing. 

Art: To identify what is landscape painting. The different materials entailed and techniques involved in producing a water colour painting would be looked at. 

T2, W3 Numeracy: Children will be able to use rounding to make an estimate and round answers to a given level of accuracy.

Numeracy: To understand place value addition and subtraction; multiplying, dividing and rounding of whole numbers and decimals to 3 decimal place.

Literacy: The children will be able to identify features of arguments texts and discuss between facts and opinions.

Literacy: To discuss ideas for debate and hold a debate.

Topic: The children will be able to study thedifferent kind of building by discovering the palaces of the Maya kings and the houses of common people.

Topic: To discuss about the organisation of Maya cities and how the Maya used technology to make their day to day activity easier and faster.

Science: The children will be able to use given evidence to attempt to backup evolutionary ideas and present logical findings.

Science: To recognise the role fossils have in the development of evolutionary theory and to learn more about the work of Anning, Darwin and Wallace:

PE: The children will be able to know and understand the different aspects and its uniqueness of the 400m sprint compared to the 100 and 200 races

PE: To be able to begin a sprint race using the semi-crouched start.To know and understand the different aspects and its uniqueness of the 400m sprint compared to the 100 and 200 races.

Swimming: Children will be able to swim complete freestyle stroke for 50m by practicing:I. Leg kicks with arms extended and lockedII. Leg kicks with one arm on the thigh and the other extended in frontIII. Alternating arm actions after six leg kicks IV. Continuous and alternating arms actions ‘catch and pull drill’ and bilateral

Swimming: Children will know and be able to swim the freestyle stroke with correct form for 50metres.

breathing every three arm pulls.V. Complete 50 metres freestyle swim with bilateral breathing.

Music: Children will be able to identify how lyrics can be used to convey mood , attitude or tell a story.

Music: To learn what is meant by the term lyrics.

French: Children will be able to read in French.

African Studies : Children will be able to describe the life and exploits of Shaka Zulu.

French: To learn how to read in French using the French vowel sounds.

African Studies: To evaluate the person of Shaka Zulu.

PE: Children will be able to know and understand the different aspects and its uniqueness of the 400m sprint compared to the 100 and 200 races

PE: To be able to begin a sprint race using the semi-crouched start.

To know and understand the different aspects and its uniqueness of the 400m sprint compared to the 100 and 200 race.

Art: The children will be able to produce an artwork that they have used tooth picks to make. This would be done in a gradual procedure.

Art: To scratch the surface of the board they have prepared by using tooth picks. This would be done through the bit by bit process

ICT: The children will be able to use tools to help them design and create a web based application for smart phones/tablets, giving consideration to the market/audience for their

ICT: To continue to create websites based on topics, area of interest or events, increasing the complexity of these sites.

application. T2, W4 Numeracy: The children will be able to

understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial units such as inches, pounds and pints.

Numeracy: To work out new co-ordinates after a translation or reflection; Interpret, compare, construct and draw a conversion graph of imperial to metric units and use it to read off equivalent measures.

Literacy: The children will be able to identify features expanded noun phrases and plan, , draft, edit and redraft a persuasive story

Topic: The children will be able to understand how the Maya trade and transport goods and find out about the legends of the Maya people.

Literacy : To discuss ideas for a short persuasive story plan, , draft, edit and redraft a persuasive story

Topic: To learn about the Maya trade and their trading activities. Find out about their religion.

Science: The children will be able to explore online the evolution of flight in birds through the fossil record.

Science: To recognise the role fossils have in the development of evolutionary theory.

African Studies: The children will be able to present a debate about Shaka’s leadership style; determining he was a tyrant or a hero.

African Studies: To examine Shaka’s style of leadership; his achievements and shortcomings.

Music: The children will be able to recognize how lyrics often have cultural historical and social meaning.

Music: To learn that lyrics have social and cultural meaning.

ICT: Pupils will be able to create websites for a specific purpose and improve these sites.

ICT: To continue to create websites based on topics, area of interest or events by increasing the complexity of these sites.

PE: Children will be able to perform staggered start and crouched start.

PE: To understand the Techniques used..

On your Marks: - The foot is placed up to the starting line but not on it.

- The feet are about shoulder width apart to obtain a good balanced position

- The weight is distributed so that about 2/3rds of the weight is on the front foot.

Set: - Bend the knees and lean forwards.

- Arms synchronised with the legs - in this case right foot forward and left arm forward.

- Back, neck and head in line.

- Remain motionless.

French: The children will be able to read in French.

French: To read in French.

Art: The children will be able to produce water colour painting in landscape by applying the principle of perspectives drawing. 

Art: To identify what is landscape painting look at the different materials used and techniques involved in producing a water colour painting.

T2, W5 Numeracy: The children will be able to solve problems involving rate using rounding to approximate.

Numeracy: To solve problems involving rate using mental strategies to scale up and scale down.

Literacy: The children will be able to list features of poetry and understand that a range of conjunctions can be used to join clauses.

Literacy: To use dialogue, direct speech and punctuation. And as well understand grammatical terminology.

Topic: The children will be able to write about the family society of the Maya community and discuss in-depthly the general way of life of the Mayans, which include; the food they eat, their clothing, headdresses, hairstyles and their struggles. .

Topic: To find out how the Maya family system operated and understand their culture and tradition.

Science: The children will be able to understand the evolution of plant and animal.

Science: To research and present evolutionary information on a specific animal.

African Studies: The children will be able African Studies: To review our learning on

to write an argumentative piece for or against the notion that Shaka was a tyrant.

Shaka Zulu.

Music: The children will be able identify song.

Music: To learn how musical structures.

ICT: The children will be able to understand the importance of evaluation and adaptation of individual features to enhance the overall product

ICT:· To use word processing and desktop publishing to present their work, combing formatted text with other media and making choices about programs and features to use and justifying these choices to others.

PE: The children will be able to understand the basic techniques in Long Jump.

PE: To understand the Techniques used;On your Marks: - The foot is placed up to the starting line but not on it.- The feet are about shoulder width apart to obtain a good balanced position- The weight is distributed so that about 2/3rds of the weight is on the front foot.Set: - Bend the knees and lean forwards.- Arms synchronised with the legs - in this case right foot forward and left arm forward.- Back, neck and head in line.- Remain motionless.

Swimming: The children will be able to begin the backstroke by practicing leg kicks with:I. Float on chestII. Float on abdomen or thighsIII. Float on the knees

Swimming: To further understand and be able to apply proper legs and arm actions as well as good body position and bilateral breathing in the freestyle strokes.

IV. Sculling action of the armsV. Hands on thighs with leg kicksVI. Hands behind the head with leg kicksVII. Hands extended behind the head with leg kicks.

Art: The children will be able produce a landscape painting by applying one type of the principles of perspectives. They will apply the principle of tonal gradation

Art: To produce sketches they have researched on by using one of the principles of perspectives in drawing.

T2, W6 HALF-TERMT2, W7 Numeracy: Children will be able to

recognise, compare and order fractions with unrelated denominators and use knowledge of factor and divisibility rules to find out which fractions of amounts will give whole number answers.

Numeracy: To recognise and compare fractions with unrelated denominators using equivalence and to use mental division strategies to find equivalent fractions, decimals, percentages and non-unit fractions of amounts.

Literacy: The children will be able to identify the various ways of writing play script.

Literacy: To use dialogue and understand the differences between spoken and written speech.

Topic: The children will be able to find out about the fascinating early civilization in the Indus Valley.

Topic: To understanding the early civilisation in the Indus valley, rise and end of the civilisation.

Science: : The children will be able to create classification routes for a range of living things, identifying relatedness.

Science: To explore classification systems, understanding that they group according to similarities & differences

African Studies: The children will be able to outline some causes and extent of

African Studies: To evaluate the causes and extent of poverty in large African cities.

poverty in large African cities.

Music: The children will be able to write their own lyrics based on headlines and common phrases.

Music:To learn about song writing.

ICT:The children will be able to use technology to electronically compose music or sounds including creating melodies and save these as audio files.

ICT: To independently choose and use an appropriate device to record sounds in order to create a sound file and use software manipulate sounds using computer software – e.g. remove unwanted silences/trimming start and end.

French: The children will be able to recognise words for food and drink and name the items accurately.

French: To learn how to ask for food and drinks.

PE: ATHLETICS (SPORTS DAY) PE: ATHLETICS (SPORTS DAY)

Swimming: The children will be able to combine legs and arm action as well good body rotation to make a complete backstroke for 2 x 12 metres.

Swimming: Children will combine legs and arm action as well good body rotation to make a complete backstroke for 2 x 12 metres.

Art: The children will be able to use the images they have researched on to produce a collage artwork from Ife. They will be able to use pieces of coloured papers to produce a collage work.

Art: To identify Ife Art and the various artworks in Ife land.

T2, W8 Numeracy: The children will be able to understand and use simple formulae.

Numeracy: To enumerate possibilities of combinations of two variables; Generate and describe linear number sequences.

Literacy: The children should be able to Literacy. To plan, draft and write narratives

investigate various ways of writing dialogue including play script layout.

describing settings, characters and atmosphere.

Topic: The children will be able to find out what it like to be an ordinary person living in the Indus Valley in 2,000 BC and find out the process of Trade and the goods involved.

Topic: The children will understand the lifestyle of the people in the Valley, their creativity,trade, process of trade and the goods involved in the Valley.

Science: Children will be able to identify similarities and differences between animal, micro-organism and plant classifications according to observable features.

Science: To identify similarities and differences between animal, micro-organism and plant classifications according to observable features.

African Studies: The children will be able to outline the features of a slum; identifying the largest slums in Africa. African Studies: To analyse the features of a

slum and identify the largest slums in Africa.

Music: The children will be able to Identify cyclic patterns

Music: To learn about gamelan music.

ICT: The children will be able to begin to recognise the different layers of sound in a professional broadcast and use technology to record and

ICT: To independently choose and use an appropriate device to record sounds in order to create a sound file and use software manipulate sounds using computer software –

manipulate music/sound refining for a given audience or project

e.g. remove unwanted silences/trimming start and end -combine to make a podcast or similar broadcast.

Art: The Children will be able to produce different artworks from Ife land by apply the different bits of coloured papers and glue for their collage artwork.

Art: To identify more artworks from Ile Ife. To produce sketches of the Ife artworks they have researched.

French: The children will be able to ask how much something costs.

French: To understand and know how to use French money and Euros.

PE: Children will be able to grip the racket using the handshake grip.

To be able to check and correct if necessary a partners grip.

To be comfortable with the feel and weight of the racket and to be able to hold the racket using the correct grip.

understand the game, Tennis

PE: To understand the techniques of the game, Tennis.

Swimming: Children will be able to swim the breaststroke by:

I. Demonstrating the arms action on the land

II. Sculling practice with the arms

III. Practicing the arm movement with the pull buoy in between the legs

IV. Combining the legs and arms actions as well as good body position to make a complete breaststroke without breathing for a short distance.

Swimming: To understand and be able to demonstrate correct arm actions in the breaststroke as well as swim complete stroke with face in water for short distance.

T2, W9 Numeracy: The children will be able to multiply and divide fractions by whole numbers using long division to divide 3-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers; Divide any remainders to give fractions and write decimal equivalents where known.

Numeracy: To multiply and divide fractions place, multiply facts and divide decimals mentally.

Literacy: The children will be able to understand the different ways of writing speech, play script, speech bubbles, direct and reported speech.

Literacy: To understand dialogue, direct/indirect speech and reported speech.

Topic: The children will be able to Topic: To understand that the Maya people

discover the daily tasks of the Indus farmers, the crops that were grown and the animals that were raised

were good farmers.

Science: The children will be able to observe and record features and names of leaves found in their local environment.

Science: To observe, research and record features of a range of leaves found in their local environment.

African Studies: The children will be able to recount a day in the life of a slum dweller.

African Studies: To examine a day in the life of a slum dweller.

Music: Children will be able to Identify features of gamelan music.

Music: To learn about gamelan music.

Art: The children will be able to apply the shading technique in tonal gradation from light to darker tones.

Art: To identify another form of shading technique in art and how to begin with cross hatch in and blurring shading.

ICT: The children will be able to use a computer to add complex effects to photographs and to pre-form common photograph edits (e.g. red eye removal) .

ICT:Apply more complex effects to photographs using a computer.

PE:TENNIS- The children will be able to develop their knowledge, understanding, and techniques within a singles game and doubles.

PE: To be able to perform the majority of tennis shots to enable them to perform rallies and clearly understand the game, and be able to win a point in game situation.

Swimming: Children will be able to swim complete breaststroke by combining legs and arms actions as

Swimming: To be able to swim complete breaststroke and breathing every stroke for a longer distance for 25metres.

well as horizontal body position and breathing for 25 metres.

French: The children will be able to ask how much something cost in French.

French: To understand and know how to use French money and Euros.

T2, W10 Numeracy: The children will be able to compare fractions by converting them to fractions with the same denominator and recognizing the equivalent decimal form.

Numeracy: To compare fractions such as 2/3, ¾ and 5/6 by converting them to fractions with the same denominator

Literacy: The children will be able to identify and discuss features used in newspaper reports

Literacy: To learn and use reported speech and direct speech (as a quote) in newspaper report.

Topic:. The children will be able to learn about some similarities between modern religion in the Indus Valley region and the evidence of religious practices during the Indus civilisation.

Topic: To understanding that the people in the Indus Valley were very religious and had interesting practises that portrayed their religion.

Science: The children will be able to write scientific descriptions of unusual living things from around the world and classify unusual living things using their descriptions and online research.

Science: To describe the key characteristics of unusual living things from around the world using descriptions of features, and online research, to attempt to classify them.

African Studies: The children will be able to present success stories of selected individuals who have lived in slums.

African Studies: To explore the lives of successful individuals who have lived in slums.

Music: The children will be able to rehearse and perform a gamelan melody.

Music: To listen to examples of gamelan music.

ICT: The children will be able to independently take photographs and record video taking into account the audience and/or purpose for the image/video.

I CT: To choose to independently record video for a range of purposes and to take photographs for a specific reason or project.

French: The children will be able to use numbers 50-100.

French: To count from 50-100 in French.

PE:The children will be able to develop their knowledge, understanding, and principles within a singles game and doubles. , including tactics and strategies used.

PE: To develop their knowledge, understanding in and principles within a singles game and doubles including tactics and strategies used.

Swimming: The children will be able to swim complete breaststroke using the method pull and breathe, kick and glide for 50m.

Swimming: To understand and be able to swim complete breaststroke for 50m with improved form.

Art: The children will break down their tonal gradation from light to dark tones into the still-life objects that will be arranged before them.

Art: To use light, mid-tone and dark tones to produce tonal gradation in light and dark tones. 

T2, W11

Numeracy: The children will be able to solve problems involving similar shapes where the scale factor can be found and known.

Numeracy: To solve problems involving similar shapes related to fraction and linked to proportion.

Literacy: The children will be able to recite and create poetry by heart.

Literacy: To recite poetry by heart with expression and gestures.

Topic: Children will be able to find out about Indus Valley seals, design and make their own seal.

Topic: To discover the seal and creative writing of the people in the Indus Valley.

Science: : The children will be able to design, describe, name and sketch a new creature that sits within a known classification rout.

Science: To design, describe and name a new creature that characteristically sits within the Animalia classification.Sort ‘new’ creatures within the Animalia taxonomy.

African Studies: The children will be able to write a news report about a successful individual who has lived in the slum.

African Studies: To review our learning about Slums in Africa.

Music: The children will be able to develop ideas for adding contrast and variety to cyclic patterns.

Music: To learn about cyclic patterns 1.

ICT: The children will be able to ICT: To use, query and create their own

continue to use technology, including spreadsheets to create graphs and present data in different ways. To be able to design, construct, evaluate and modify.

databases as appropriate, linking into work across the curriculum.Understand what a spreadhseet is and the basic features of a spreadsheet and how these may be used in real life applications.

Art: The children will be able to produce still-life drawings of objects arranged in a compositional format.

Art: To produce a still-life drawing in detail by applying blurring and cross hatching shading techniques.

French: The children will be able to describe their house in French.

French: To learn the parts of a house in Fre

PE: The children will be able to play Tennis games in doubles

PE: To play the game in tennis and how movement and turns are made.

Swimming: Children will be able to swim complete breaststroke using the method ‘pull and breathe, kick and glide’ for 100m.

Swimmg: To understand and be able to swim complete breaststroke for 100m with improved form.

T2, W12 Numeracy: The children will be able to use short multiplication to multiply four-digit numbers (including amounts of money) by single-digit numbers and make approximations and divide any remainders to give fractions.

Numeracy: To revise using knowledge of place value and multiplication facts to multiply and divide decimals mentally.

Literacy: The children will be able to understand the use of adjectives, verbs and adverbs in poetry.

Literacy: To recite poetry by heart with expression and gestures and identify and create imagery in a poem.

Topic: The children will be able to discover the script and writing of the people of the Indus Valley.

Topic: Exploring how the people in the Indus Valley expressed their thought in writing.

Science: The children will be able to use knowledge of simple circuits to help plan a procedure for control technology.

Science: To compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches.

ICT: The children will be able to continue to develop their understanding of how computer and technology works and how computers process instructions and commands, including the use of coding languages.

ICT: To continue to explore different ways in which computer software can be planned.

French: The children will be able should be able to talk about Easter in France. PE: The children will be able to understand the skills in maintaining Possession when playing hockey.

French: To learn how the French celebrate Easter.

PE: To have an understanding of the factors that affects the retention of possession.To be able to perform activities which are focused on the use of support play and width in order to create space.

Swimming: The children will further learn how to perform a good dive using the following starts:i. The grab startii. the track start.

Swimming: To understand and be able to demonstrate correct diving using any of the starts.

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