Year 6 Curriculum Guide

Throughout the year, students will be guided through six Units of Inquiry of global significance, providing opportunities to broaden their learning by developing their conceptual understandings, strengthening their knowledge and skills across, between and beyond subject areas.

The following six Units of Inquiry will be explored throughout the year. Each unit is developed around a concept, a Central Idea and Lines of Inquiry.

An inquiry into:

• Myself: My health and wellbeing
• Interactions: My relationships with others and my sense of belonging
• Growth: The impact on my learning and development

Unit timing: Weekly

An inquiry into:

• Origin stories 起源故事
• The evolution of life on Earth 地球生命的進化
• Why humans inquire into the past 為什麼人類要探究過去

Unit timing: Term One

An inquiry into:

• Sustainable Development Goals 可持續發展目標
• Case Study (NGOS in HK) 個案研究（香港的非政府組織）
  
• The United Nations 聯合國
  

Unit timing: Term Two

An inquiry into:

• Understanding the movements of the Earth in relation to the solar system.
• Knowledge of observable patterns has led to human innovation
• Case study - Navigation

Unit timing: Term One

An inquiry into:

• inspiration, imagination and creativity -
• personal, social and cultural modes and practices of communication
• intentions, perceptions, interpretations and responses

Unit timing: Term Three

The development of language is fundamental to all areas of our learning programs. Language helps us communicate our thinking and understanding.

Language is socially constructed - it is dependent on social interactions and relationships. It permeates all subject areas. As such, we view all of our teachers and assistants to be language teachers.

English is our main language of instruction, with Chinese (Mandarin) taught as an additional language.

In Year 6, our reading program focuses on developing strategies needed to be an independent reader. Students are taught different comprehension strategies to understand what is written beyond the literal text. These are developed through a mixture of guiding reading, shared reading, read aloud and independent reading sessions.

Students will explore a range of text types: to entertain, to inform and to persuade. Specific writing skills will be developed around how to create a range of informative and persuasive texts.

Chinese Foundation focuses on speaking, listening and social Chinese. Students read texts and environmental print and learn to write the most commonly occurring characters.

Chinese Language focuses on Chinese speaking, listening and the reading of longer texts. Students write their own longer pieces of writing.

Chinese Language and Literature focuses on extended reading and writing tasks, using more complex language.

Mathematics is a global language of concepts and symbols through which we make sense of the world around us.

Mathematics is taught through three main stages:

1. Constructing meaning and ideas about a mathematical concept through interactions with objects, discussions, experimentation and play;
2. Transferring these ideas and understandings into symbols;
3. Applying these ideas and understanding in real-life and hands-on problem solving activities.

Mathematics is taught through the strands of number, data, shape and space, measure and problem solving.

In Year 6 students will explore numbers to 10,000,000 and decimals to thousandths. They will explore the relationships between fractions, decimals and percentages. They will apply the column method for adding and subtraction decimals, as well as, multiplying whole numbers. They will learn short division and divisibility rules.

Students will explore the concept of space by using the Cartesian coordinate system. They will measure and classify angles, as well as, the properties of a circle. They will investigate the use of timetables.

In Year 6, students will explore a range of land-based, freshwater and coastal environments. They will learn how to identify organisms in a local habitat. Students will also design and create original structures that encourage native fauna to visit the school.

Wellbeing is a central pillar of our school and is taught on a weekly basis. Students learn through Relationships and Sexuality Education, Social and Emotional Learning, PE & Health and Digital Wellbeing. There is a focus on self-management, relationship skills and fundamental movement skills.

In Music, Year 6 students will learn how to play the ukulele.

In Year 6, students will use a visual programming language to experiment with different ways of instructing a program or device to make choices and repeat instructions. They will learn about agreed ethical, social and technical protocols when online and how to use referencing conventions when using web-based information sources. Students will conduct tests to understand the properties of materials. They will explore the importance of form and function in design. They will test a range of materials, components, tools and equipment to determine the appropriate technologies needed to make products.

• Display self awareness and take responsibility for own actions.
• Use strategies to manage emotions, support concentration and overcome distraction.

• Plan for short and long term tasks, setting challenging and realistic goals.
• Persevere through challenges.
• Engage with feedback and take action from it.

• Show respect, care and empathy for others.
• Take on a variety of roles during group learning.
• Encourage others.
• Know how and where to get support if needed

• Comprehend information, which is presented to them by teachers, peers, younger students and guest speakers.
• Express ideas, views and questions and appreciate the opinions of others.
• Use an increasing vocabulary and more complex grammatical structures when speaking.

• Read and comprehend narrative and information texts with a reading age that corresponds to chronological age or higher.
• Answer various types of comprehension questions, including literal, reorganisation, inferential, evaluative and reaction questions.
• Read a wide range of texts independently and use a range of resources to find information and support inquiry; evaluating sources and synthesising information.

• Adapt writing to inform, entertain or persuade.
• Use academic language when writing to inform or persuade.
• Use figurative language when writing to entertain.
• Use planners and graphic organisers.
• Edit writing, making improvements when necessary.
• Display an awareness of the reader and use a wide variety of sentence structures and punctuation, varying sentences for effect.
• Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.

• Accurately and fluently apply mental and written strategies when working with whole numbers, negative numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages and ratios.
• Begin to use algebraic expressions to record the rules for patterns.
• Find, interpret and compare information from tables, charts and graphs.

• Identify and use scale to transform, reduce and enlarge 2D and 3D shapes.
• Compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals and regular polygons.
• Draw, plan, front, side and perspective views of objects.
• Convert between units of measure, using decimals to at least two places.
• Calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units.

• Work systematically, using visualising strategies and trial and improvement, when investigating authentic Maths scenarios.

To see the Subject Guidance for all subjects from Nursery to Year 6 please click on this link

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