Year 6: every topic

Every topic a child covers in Year 6 under the EYFS and the National Curriculum for England, as the app teaches it. 89 topics across 20 subjects: Exam technique, Mathematics, English, French, Spanish, Spelling, Science, Explore, Writing, Quantitative reasoning, Verbal reasoning, Brain teasers, Reading, Art, Physical education, Health, Computing, Social studies, Music, Drama.

This is the real list, not a summary. Each line is one topic in Light Learning, in the words of the England programme rather than reworded.

Reading

41 topics in Reading this year.

Comprehension and Response

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Art

9 topics in Art this year.

Drawing

• Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Year 6: tone and shading, perspective, observational study.

Colour

• How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Year 6: warm and cool, tints and shades, colour and feeling.

Painting

• Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Year 6: backgrounds and layers, brush marks, working from a study.

Printmaking and pattern

• Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Year 6: relief printing, pattern in other cultures.

Sculpture and making

• Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Year 6: carving and casting, working to a brief.

Textiles and craft

• Cloth, thread and the making traditions that most of the world learned art through. Working at Year 6: dyeing and resist.

Digital art and photography

• The tools most children will actually use, treated as art materials rather than as a treat. Working at Year 6: taking a photograph on purpose, framing and composition, editing honestly, drawing on a screen.

Looking at art

• Being able to say something true about somebody else’s work, which is half of every art curriculum and the half usually skipped. Working at Year 6: artists from many places, what the artist did, why it was made, disagreeing about art.

Sketchbook and process

• The record of the work rather than the finished piece, which is what an art course is actually assessed on. Working at Year 6: keeping a sketchbook, trying it three ways, annotating your work, finishing a piece.

Physical education

4 topics in Physical education this year.

Movement skills

• The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Year 6: striking and dribbling, agility and reaction, gymnastic shapes and rolls.

Fitness and the body

• What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Year 6: warming up and cooling down, heart rate, stamina and strength, muscles and joints, rest, water and recovery.

Games and fair play

• How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Year 6: playing by the rules, team positions, attacking and defending, winning and losing well, officiating a game yourself.

Safety and equipment

• The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Year 6: kit and footwear, common injuries, head injuries, heat, cold and water.

Health

4 topics in Health this year.

Keeping the body well

• Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Year 6: sleep, illness and immunity, growing and changing.

Food and nutrition

• What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Year 6: vitamins and minerals, water and drinks, reading a label, food safety, allergies.

Feelings and wellbeing

• Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Year 6: naming feelings, calming down, worry, friendship and falling out, screens and comparison, asking for help.

Safety and first aid

• What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Year 6: road and water safety, first aid: bleeding and burns, fire and emergencies, medicines.

Computing

4 topics in Computing this year.

Algorithms and programming

• Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At Year 6: loops, conditions, variables, debugging.

How computers work

• What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At Year 6: binary, files and storage, networks and the internet.

Online safety and citizenship

• Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At Year 6: passwords, scams and phishing, judging what you read, being decent online.

Creating with technology

• Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At Year 6: documents, spreadsheets, making a program, images and sound.

Social studies

4 topics in Social studies this year.

History

• What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At Year 6: sources, cause and consequence, local history.

Geography

• Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At Year 6: latitude, longitude and time zones, climate and weather, rivers, coasts and landforms.

Citizenship and government

• How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At Year 6: rights and responsibilities, how a country is run.

People, work and money

• How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At Year 6: jobs and industries, buying, selling and trade, saving and budgeting.

Mathematics

3 topics in Mathematics this year.

Number

• Determine percentages of quantities and solve problems involving percent.

Algebra

• Apply the order of operations to evaluate expressions, including brackets.

Patterns and Relations

• Represent patterns and unknowns with letters, and solve one-step equations.

Music

3 topics in Music this year.

Beat, rhythm and pitch

• The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Year 6: loud, quiet, fast, slow, scales and octaves.

Reading and writing music

• How sound is written down so somebody who has never heard it can play it. At Year 6: note values, the stave and clefs, time signatures, writing your own.

Listening and traditions

• Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Year 6: music from many places, verse, chorus and structure, music with pictures.

Drama

3 topics in Drama this year.

Voice and performing

• Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At Year 6: being heard, pace and pause, movement and stillness, staying in character, when it goes wrong.

Character and script

• Building somebody who is not you, and reading the page they came from. At Year 6: reading a script, building a character, improvising.

Stagecraft

• Everything around the actor, and the people who run it. At Year 6: the stage, light and sound, set, props and costume.

Explore

2 topics in Explore this year.

Artificial intelligence

• Understand what an AI actually does, and why it can be confidently wrong.

Quantum physics

• Meet the idea that the very small behaves by different rules.

Quantitative reasoning

2 topics in Quantitative reasoning this year.

Reasoning · quantitative

• Find and apply the rule behind a numerical or figural pattern (CCAT-style reasoning; not a National Curriculum for England outcome).
• Find and apply the rule behind a numerical or figural pattern (CCAT-style reasoning; not a National Curriculum for England outcome).

Verbal reasoning

2 topics in Verbal reasoning this year.

Reasoning · verbal

• Reason about word meaning and relationships under time pressure (CCAT-style reasoning; not a National Curriculum for England outcome).
• Reason about word meaning and relationships under time pressure (CCAT-style reasoning; not a National Curriculum for England outcome).

Exam technique

1 topic in Exam technique this year.

Assessment readiness

• Read a question accurately and answer what was actually asked.

English

1 topic in English this year.

Comprehension

• Summarise a text in your own words, keeping the meaning and cutting the detail.

French

1 topic in French this year.

Language Structures

• Use the present tense of être and avoir to describe yourself and others.

Spanish

1 topic in Spanish this year.

Language Structures

• Use ser and tener in the present tense to describe yourself and others.

Spelling

1 topic in Spelling this year.

Phonics and Word Knowledge

• Apply spelling patterns and conventions to spell words accurately.

Science

1 topic in Science this year.

Matter

• Describe states of matter and distinguish physical from chemical change.

Writing

1 topic in Writing this year.

Writing

• Write to persuade, supporting a position with reasons and evidence.

Brain teasers

1 topic in Brain teasers this year.

Puzzles and reasoning

• Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.

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