Welcome to Year 6! 

Townsend Class - Miss E Saville/Mrs N Godfrey

Eaton Class - Mrs L Saint/Mrs N Godfrey

PPA cover - Mrs S Lewis

Teaching Assistants - Mrs Pursglove, Mrs Cooke, Mrs Jackson, Miss Vardy

Whole School Well Being Mentors - Mrs Patrick, Miss Smith and Mrs Fox

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Summer Term 25

Welcome to a very busy final term in Y6

PRIDE remains central to everything we do and Y6s should model the behaviours and attitudes we expect of our children. They take the lead in organising the wide-range of activities outside as Sports Leaders, organise the school library and hall seating and are our first port of call to discuss school and learning with the many visitors we have.

This is the term where they show the young people they are becoming!

  Maths   

Maths continues to build on earlier learning in school and sets the foundation for secondary school education. Fluency and accuracy (being quick and right) as well as being able to reason, problem solve and explain are aspects of every lesson.

This term, we revise and consolidate our learning so far ahead of the SATs tests in May before continuing with new learning and tackling problems in more depth.

As well as the Maths apps below which school purchases for all children, the following free sites may be useful:

https://mathsbot.com/primaryMenu

https://www.primarygames.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://mathszone.co.uk/

English 

The majority of English is taught through our Units of Learning and Book Study with some stand alone units.

This term, we are revising and consolidating our learning so far in Reading, Writing and SPaG ahead of the SATs in May.

We will be looking at developing our use of dialogue to reveal character and move the action along using a short video called La Lune et La Autre. Although this is very sweet, we are sure some children will take it down a darker path!

The children will write a diary in the character of Leo, a German Jewish boy living in Berlin in 1939, as part of our Prejudice and Persecution Unit of Learning. This will follow our fully-funded visit to The Beth Shalom National Holocaust Centre.

We will be writing a short story based on the adventures of Bloddon, a young and determined dwarf. This compares well with our first piece of writing - The Jabberwock - and allows the children to celebrate their progress and development as writers.

Other writing this term will be linked to London.

We will finish our current class novel, Who Let The Gods Out? , class novel is Crater Lake?  before reading The Last Year. This and our book study text Holes both support our work on transition.

We will not be sending spelling lists home this term although we will continue to set focus spellings on Spelling Frame and check these within class. 

Children should read regularly from the school library or books of their own. By this stage of Y6, they should be reading for longer periods of time independently but it is still helpful for them to read aloud as this supports fluency and prosody (the rhythm of speech/reading) 

PE

This term our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday.  Year 6 children should come to school in their PE kits ready with uniform in their bag in case we get wet/muddy.

Wider Curriculum

Science Units of Learning are Light Up Your Life (Light) and Could you be the next quiz master? (Electricity)

PRIDE and British Values are key parts of our Remembrance Unit of Learning and PSHE where we look at Being Responsible. Anti-Bullying week's theme of Choose Respect could have been chosen just for us!

Weekly learning in PE will focus on Basketball skills and Games Sense-Invasion.

In Computing, we will look at 3d modelling using Tinkercad, the purpose and point of spreadsheets and exploring what makes effective web design.

Latin continues to focus on sentence construction using our ever expanding vocabulary and range of sentence types.

We continue to be amazed at how enthusiastic the children are spotting when spotting Latin links in everyday words and phrases. We are sure this will support their learning in a range of subjects at secondary, not just in languages.

  Year 6 Show

The play has been picked, the scripts have been printed and we are almost ready to reveal our end of year show! Whether you love to sing, act, dance or help behind the scenes, there's something for everyone to get involved in. Alongside the play, we will also be completing a unit of writing where you get to be the author of your own show. We're expecting strong characters, a cohesive plot line and puns that would put Mr Cates' dad jokes to shame. Stay tuned; the big announcement is coming soon!