Concept descriptions for assessment of the Foundation Subjects - Year 6
Religious Education:
Key Concept |
Salvation: Christian’s belief that Jesus’ death and resurrection affect the rescue or salvation of humans. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
The learner understands that the Gospels give accounts of Jesus’ death and resurrection and that Jesus’ death was somehow ‘for us’. |
Secure |
The learner knows that Christians interpret Jesus’ death in variety of ways: · a sacrifice for sin · victory over sin, death and the devil · paying the punishment as a substitute for everyone’s sins · rescuing the lost – leading them to God · leading from darkness to light, slavery to freedom …and celebrate His sacrifice through Holy Communion, (also called The Last Supper, the Eucharist or Mass). The learner will know of how the death of other key figures from World Religions, such as Muhammad, Moses or Krishna have been recorded. |
Mastery |
The learner knows that belief in Jesus’ resurrection confirms to Christians that Jesus is the incarnate Son of God and that death is not the end; giving hope for new life with God, now and in the after-life. The learner will be able to analyse how the death of another religious figure has been interpreted. |
Key Concept |
Kingdom of God: the idea of the ‘Kingdom of God’ reflects God’s ideal for human life in the world. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
The learner knows that the parables suggest that there will be a future Kingdom, where God’s reign will be complete. |
Secure |
The learner knows that the Kingdom of God is compared to a feast where all are invited to join in. Not everyone chooses to do so. The learner will be able to relate with what other World Religions compare God’s Kingdom to. |
Mastery |
The learner knows that many Christians try to extend the Kingdom of God by challenging unjust social structures in their locality and in the world. The learner will be able to evaluate from text the shared social concerns of the different world religions. |
Key Concept |
Gospel: the Christian belief that Jesus is ‘good news’ for humans. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
The learner will know that Christians believe that the Good News Is not just about setting an example for good behaviour and challenging bad behaviour; it is that Jesus offers a way to heal the damage done. |
Secure |
The learner will know that Christians see Jesus’ teachings and example cut across expectations – the Sermon on the Mount is an example of this, where Jesus’ values favour serving the weak and vulnerable, not making people comfortable. The learner will be able to use the text from another world religion to represent similar values to those of the Sermon on the Mount. |
Mastery |
The learner will know that Christians believe that they should bring Jesus’ Good News into the world; but that it is not only for now but that it also points toward a restored, transformed life in the future. The learner will be able to use text from another World Religion to show how they perceive the future beyond this world. |
History:
Key Concept |
Cause and Consequence – reasons for and effects of a specific event: |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can identify the most important causes and consequences of an historical event. |
Secure |
A leaner can devise a set of questions to ascertain whether an outcome was a direct effect of a suggested cause. |
Mastery |
A learner can explain and justify their decision about the priority of different causes and consequences affecting a broad group of people or nation. |
Key Concept |
Interpretation – how someone might explain or understand a specific event: |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can identify different viewpoints. |
Secure |
A learner can explain historical situations, events, developments and individuals from more than one viewpoint. |
Mastery |
A learner can evaluate a number of viewpoints and decide which is most credible. |
Key Concept |
Historical Enquiry – the manner of historical investigation and use of differing sources |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can identify the features of an historical enquiry and understand what a historian does. |
Secure |
A learner can devise independently a significant historical enquiry and produce substantiated responses. |
Mastery |
A learner can comment upon the varying usefulness and reliability of a range of sources for particular enquiries. |
Geography:
Key Concept |
Geographical Enquiry – the manner in which people try to understand and interpret different places: |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
Using an atlas and map the learner can name and locate familiar places and countries. |
Secure |
The learner can use four and six figure grid references in order to locate places within a map. |
Mastery |
The learner can identify the different types of information that can be retrieved from different types of maps and atlases. |
Key Concept |
Interconnections – understanding the links, networks and effect that places and people have with one another: |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can describe how physical landscapes can be affected by human. |
Secure |
A learner can identify how a biome has been affected by human activity. |
Mastery |
A learner can evaluate how land is being ill-used and create a programme of conservation in response. |
Key Concept |
Human Processes – how humans use and develop land: |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
The learner can describe the different types of industry in the local area. |
Secure |
The learner can explain how and why the different industries have changed over time. |
Mastery |
The learner can offer reasoned analysis and explanation as to how different industries affect local habitants. |
Design and Technology:
Key Concept |
Nutrition: the provision of nourishment through the food that we eat. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
The learner understands energy balance and the implications of dietary excess or deficiency, e.g. malnutrition, maintenance of a healthy weight. |
Secure |
The learner can modify a recipe and can cook a savoury dish based on current healthy eating messages. |
Mastery |
The learner can evaluate the influence of food marketing, advertising and promotion on their own diet and purchasing behaviour. |
Key Concept |
Technology: is the collection of techniques, skills, methods and processes used in the production of goods, services or in the accomplishment of objectives. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
The learner understands some of the health, safety and environmental issues in relation to using some resources. |
Secure |
Working within a team the learner can ‘see’ a project through from the design to evaluation stage, whilst working with real an abstract constraints, e.g. such as time, economies, global influences, health warnings. |
Mastery |
The learner can analyse a project and communicate how computer technology could improve the efficiency. |
Key Concept |
Cultural Understanding: the recognition that peoples’ differing needs, beliefs and customs affect the manner in which products are designed and made. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
The learner can recognise those products within familiar settings which have taken into account cultural and societal differences. |
Secure |
Drawing upon familiar products the learner applies their understanding of the characteristics of culture and society when developing and communicating their own ideas. |
Mastery |
The learner responds creatively to design briefs and tests their ideas and plans against a range of cultural considerations. |
Computing:
Key Concept |
E-safety – the safe and respectful use of technology. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can demonstrate that they can act responsibly when using the internet. A learner can discuss the consequences of particular behaviours when using digital technology relating how to report concerns and inappropriate behaviour in a range of contexts e.g. adults at home or in school or external agencies such as child line, CEOP or the police |
Secure |
A learner can show that they can think through the consequences of their actions when using digital technology identifying rules underpinning acceptable use of digital technology. A learner knows a range of ways to report concerns and inappropriate behaviour in a variety of contexts. |
Mastery |
A learner can consider critically some of the wider implications of the use of digital technology. A learner can consider questions of ethics and morality in relation to digital technology. A learner can consider how they would determine the best way to address particular concerns or inappropriate behaviour. |
Key Concept |
Programming – the automation of a process. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can write a program that accepts keyboard and mouse or touch screen input and produces output on screen and through speakers. |
Secure |
The learner can write a program that accepts inputs other than keyboard and mouse and produces outputs other than screen or speakers. |
Mastery |
The learner can use principles of good user-interface design, including accessibility, when developing programs. The learner should take account of the needs of the users and be able to explain how these have influenced design and development decisions, testing their program with intended users, making changes on the basis of the feedback they receive. |
Key Concept |
Communication – the retrieval and sending of digital information. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can use online tools to create a collaborative project (e.g. creating an app). |
Secure |
A learner can apply the use of online tools and carry out a collaborative project. |
Mastery |
A learner can use online tools to create, plan, carry out and evaluate a collaborative project. |
Music:
Key Concept |
Rhythm - the pattern of longer and shorter sounds often linked to the pattern of the words in a song. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can read rhythm sol-fa notation and has a growing understanding of how to write a melody. |
Secure |
A learner can read and write rhythm sol-fa notation and notate rhythms with note heads. |
Mastery |
A learner can compose their own melody using their knowledge and understanding of rhythm sol-fa notation. |
Key Concept |
Composing - creating a melody or rhythm or a combination of these with voice or instruments either individually or in a group. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can improvise and compose a simple phrase with rhythm and pitch. |
Secure |
A learner can improvise and compose four 4-beat phrases with rhythm and pitch to a chosen structure. |
Mastery |
A learner can analyse compositional ideas from a variety of music and use these ideas in their own compositions. |
Key Concept |
Performance - being able to perform a melody, rhythm or harmony individually or as part of a group in front of an audience. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can, with encouragement and support, participate in group singing and instrumental work. |
Secure |
A learner can confidently perform two-part singing and two-part pitch percussion in a group. |
Mastery |
A learner can perform songs (vocally and instrumentally) with attention to technique and expression. |
Physical Education:
Key Concept |
Teamwork – the ability to work appropriately, skilfully and in attitude, with others to achieve a common goal. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can perform in such a way that supports an overall team tactic. |
Secure |
A learner can offer different team tactics in response to changing game challenges and situations. |
Mastery |
A learner can offer detailed evaluation of a team’s performance. |
Key Concept |
Competition – to work actively, through teams or individually, in order to overcome opponents, whilst working within a set of guidelines and rules. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner is able to set an individual target related to their teams’ overall competitive goal. |
Secure |
A learner shows appropriate determination and perseverance to improve when competing. |
Mastery |
A learner can offer reasoned advice, using appropriate encouragement in order to improve a team’s performance. |
Key Concept |
Health – to recognise how exercise and nutrition can contribute to a healthy lifestyle: |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can describe the ways in which their body reacts in different games and how different foods could possibly affect performance. |
Secure |
A learner can measure overtime the effects that exercise and diet is having on their body. |
Mastery |
A learner can create a weekly programme of nutrition and exercise to support a healthy lifestyle. |
Art and design:
Key Concept |
Tone and Value: Tone is the intensity, or saturation, of a colour; Value is the degree of light and dark of each colour in a composition. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can independently develop a range of ideas which show curiosity, imagination and originality linked to all concepts of tone and value. A learner can systematically investigate research and test ideas and plans using sketchbooks and other appropriate approaches. For instance Sketchbooks will show in advance how work will be produced and how the qualities of materials will be used to represent the concepts of tone and value. |
Secure |
A learner can independently take action to refine their technical and craft skills in order to improve their use of the concepts of tone and value. A learner can independently select and effectively use relevant processes in order to create successful and finished work using the full range of concepts from tone and value. |
Mastery |
A learner can provide a reasoned evaluation of both their own and professionals’ work which takes account of the starting points, intentions and context behind the work in relation to the concepts of tone and value. A learner can describe, interpret and explain the work, ideas and working practices of some significant artists, craftspeople, designers and architects taking account of the influence of the different historical, cultural and social contexts in which they worked in relation to the concepts of tone and value. A learner can describe the processes that they are using and how they hope to achieve higher quality outcomes using the concepts of tone and value. |
Key Concept |
Space: The area inside, around or between flat objects on the same plane or between foreground and background objects. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can independently develop a range of ideas which show curiosity, imagination and originality linked to all concepts of space. A learner can systematically investigate research and test ideas and plans using sketchbooks and other appropriate approaches. For instance Sketchbooks will show in advance how work will be produced and how the qualities of materials will be used to represent the concepts of space. |
Secure |
A learner can independently take action to refine their technical and craft skills in order to improve their use of the concepts of space. A learner can independently select and effectively use relevant processes in order to create successful and finished work using the full range of concepts of space. |
Mastery |
A learner can provide a reasoned evaluation of both their own and professionals’ work which takes account of the starting points, intentions and context behind the work in relation to the concepts of space. A learner can describe, interpret and explain the work, ideas and working practices of some significant artists, craftspeople, designers and architects taking account of the influence of the different historical, cultural and social contexts in which they worked in relation to the concepts of space. A learner can describe the processes that they are using and how they hope to achieve higher quality outcomes using the concepts of space. |
Key Concept |
Texture: How an object feels when touched. |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
A learner can independently develop a range of ideas which show curiosity, imagination and originality linked to all concepts of texture. A learner can systematically investigate research and test ideas and plans using sketchbooks and other appropriate approaches. For instance Sketchbooks will show in advance how work will be produced and how the qualities of materials will be used to represent the concepts of texture. |
Secure |
A learner can independently take action to refine their technical and craft skills in order to improve their use of the concepts of texture. A learner can independently select and effectively use relevant processes in order to create successful and finished work using the full range of concepts of texture. |
Mastery |
A learner can provide a reasoned evaluation of both their own and professionals’ work which takes account of the starting points, intentions and context behind the work in relation to the concepts of texture. A learner can describe, interpret and explain the work, ideas and working practices of some significant artists, craftspeople, designers and architects taking account of the influence of the different historical, cultural and social contexts in which they worked in relation to the concepts of space. A learner can describe the processes that they are using and how they hope to achieve higher quality outcomes using the concepts of texture. |
Modern Foreign Language:
Key Concept |
Understanding |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
The learner can act out the meaning of short sentences, respond and ask questions about their immediate surroundings. |
Secure |
The learner can act out the meaning of written sentences, create a short conversation with a peer about themselves and their surroundings using brief descriptions (orange hair, stern teacher, sad because it is raining). |
Mastery |
The learner can recognise how speech or written work needs to be altered so it is grammatically correct. |
Key Concept |
Fluency |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
The learner can act out a familiar sketch giving mostly accurate pronunciation |
Secure |
The learner can act out a short sketch involving language studied giving accurate pronunciation. |
Mastery |
The learner can create and act out a short sketch involving language studied giving accurate pronunciation. And analysing own and others performances on improvements in pronunciation. |
Key Concept |
Intercultural Understanding |
Emergent |
The learner is able to access the year groups’ curriculum. |
Developing |
The learner will know some French traditional stories. Make contact with countries where French is spoken. |
Secure |
The learner will know some French traditional stories. Make contact with countries where French is spoken; ask questions about family. |
Mastery |
The learner can compare traditional stories. Make contact with countries where French is spoken; have a conversation about everyday life. |