Primary and Middle Schools

Suggested Year 6 units

Below you will find units of work that we suggest for Year 6.

Please note:

  • It is not a rigid scheme of work, so feel free to move things around if it works better in your school. 
  • This layout does not contain all the units available for primary and middle schools.
  • All KS2 units available can be found HERE

Year 6

Autumn 1

Digital literacy and online safety - Year 6

Six lessons taken from Common Sense Education’s excellent digital citizenship curriculum, covering a wide range of topics including well-being, privacy and security, online identity, relationships, communication and the media.

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Autumn 2

Spreadsheet Masters

Hone your spreadsheet skills to become a spreadsheet master! Learn about the basics of spreadsheets with a range of fun tasks. Investigate sorting, using formulas and conditional formatting as you build towards making self-marking quiz games for your classmates.

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Spring 1

Creating Instructional Videos

Plan, design and create instructional teaching videos. Perfect for reinforcing other areas of the curriculum. Students can create videos to support each other with revision and then share them online  to give access to everyone in the class.

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Spring 2

Getting started with the BBC micro:bit

Introduce students to physical computing with a BBC micro:bit. Control the LED matrix and find out how screens work, learn about inputs and outputs, turn your micro:bit into a scoring or game device while learning about variables, conditionals and iteration.

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Summer 1

Manipulating images

Investigate a range of different artistic styles and how they can be recreated using digital art tools. Digital sculpture is also looked at and combined with photo editing.

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Summer 2

Inside the internet

Get under the skin of the Internet to investigate how the web works, how it’s built and written with HTML code. Then learn how to create your own web pages written in HTML and CSS.

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Need more?!  Take a look at the whole KS2 collection here

All KS2 units