Year 6

Welcome to Year 6!

Teachers

Mr Aldred, Mrs Scarfe and Mrs Rolph

Teaching Assistants

Mrs Manser and Mrs Aldous

HLTAs

Mrs Alderton and Mrs King

Children may also be invited to work with Mr Cole within a small group.

PE days

In Summer 1, we will be doing PE Thursday and Friday: Athletics and Tennis. Please ensure children are dressed appropriately for the weather conditions when doing outdoor PE! Please ensure sun cream is applied before school and sun hats are provided for PE and breaktimes.

Please ensure long hair is tied back and all jewellery is removed as children will not be able to take part in the lesson if they are wearing jewellery.

Our topic for this term is...

'Moving Earth'

Our topic for this term is ‘The Moving Earth’ with a big focus on the geography learning that can be done through this. We will look at the effects of physical geography, such as earthquakes and volcanoes. We will also be looking at mountains, how they are formed and where they are located around the world. We will also be studying human geography, thinking about how people’s lives are impacted living in these areas. In Science, we will be looking at inheritance and evolution (identifying inherited and environmental characteristics and how these lead to evolution in animals) and the heart and circulatory system (naming the main parts and describing their functions).

Home Learning

The home learning grid has been sent home to pick one activity to do per week. Paper copies of each resource are also available in a resource box found in both year 6 classrooms, along with lined, squared or plain paper. Home learning is due every Friday and will be monitored each week by your child's class teacher. Please make sure your child's home learning has their name on it. Pupils need to stick it in their home learning book when they bring the piece of learning to school.

Home learning club is on a Tuesday lunch time in Mrs Morris' Y3 classroom if children would like to complete it in school or are struggling to complete it at home and need some help. As always, if your child is struggling with completing their home learning or they have any questions, they should not hesitate to speak to their class teacher.

Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural understanding in Year 6

Our topic 'Blue Planet' allows for lots of discussion about our earth and important issues to do with the environment.
We will have weekly Jigsaw PSHE lessons focusing on the themes of 'Relationships' and 'Changing Me' thinking about our relationships with others and changes they will be going through as they grow older.
We will continue to have fortnightly class council meetings for us all to share our ideas and our school council and rights respecting schools representatives will lead this discussion and feedback to the senior leadership team.
In Year 6, some of us will have the extra responsibility of being head boy, head girl, a prefect or a house captain. These require great leadership skills and for us to be role models for the rest of the school.
Our Sports Leaders and Sports Ambassadors will also be busy ensuring physical activity is regularly happening in our class and choosing who will take home the class PE bag based on the sports values they have observed in PE lessons.
Our School Council and Rights Respecting Schools representatives will continue to look out for children displaying and noticing the rights of children around school and in our classrooms and will award them with the UNICEF stickers.
Lots of us will have the opportunity to be great role models by working with the younger children in the school either as a reading buddy (listening to and helping the younger children to read) or as a play leader (running active lunch time clubs for the younger children). These roles allow us to have a high level of responsibility and develop a range of leadership skills.

Spellings

Year 6 have spelling lessons each week to recap previously learned rules, introduce a new spelling rule or pattern from the Year 6 curriculum and then plenty of opportunities to apply this new rule/pattern to games and dictation sentences. Your child will be sent home with the spelling overview for the term and they may wish to practise this at home using any of their strategies to help them such as: rainbow writing, silly sentences, pyramid writing and look, cover, write and check.

Times Tables Rockstars

Times tables are the foundation for a lot of maths topics that we cover in Year 6. The quicker we are at knowing our times tables and the easier we find them, the easier we will find some of our new Year 6 maths learning. Please try and have a go on Times Tables Rockstars at home when you can and look out for some year group and phase competitions!

If you need to know your login or password for Times Tables Rockstars check the front of your yellow log book or ask your class teacher.

Times Tables Rockstars Sharpen your times tables skills
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