English

Using five sentence types

Key terminology, including determiners, fronted adverbials and parenthesis

Three tense forms, modality, active voice and passive voice

Punctuation

Review, including word class, sentence types, tense, commas and colons

Homophones and tense

Letter strings, etymology and curriculum words

Review and revision of all taught spelling

Building fluency with note taking, choice, quotations and emphasis

Emotions words

Setting words

Developing reading preferences in Year 6

Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet': diary and narrative writing

'The Final Year': reading

'Sherlock Holmes': descriptive and letter writing

'Coming To England': reading

Debating important topics

Charles Darwin: biographical writing

'Blackberry Blue': reading

'Girl of Ink and Stars': book club

Climate emergency: journalistic report writing

Poetry about migration

The Empire Windrush: diary writing

The Empire Windrush: essay writing

'Beowulf': reading

'Beowulf': narrative writing

'When Stars are Scattered': book club

'A Kind of Spark': reading

'A Kind of Spark': narrative writing

'When the Sky Falls': reading

'When the Sky Falls': narrative and journalistic report writing

Polar regions: essay writing

Poetry of place

Early Islamic civilisation: essay writing

'No Country' and 'Frizzy': graphic novels exploring identity and belonging

'Cloud Busting': book club

Talking transitions