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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Autumn Term 2024

It's lovely to be back in school with all of our fabulous Year 6s. 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.

  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.

We will start with units on Place Value and Shape whilst weekly boost sessions will focus on speed and accuracy of arithmetic - our mantra is 'not practising until we get it right but practising until we can't get it wrong'.

As well as the Maths apps below, we also recommend

https://mathsbot.com/primaryMenu

English 

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

This term, we are starting our blocked learning with a writing unit linked to Lewis Carroll's Jabberwock. Children will consolidate their knowledge of sentence types and conjunctions as they write an exciting sequel where their lead character faces either the deadly Jubjub Bird or the frumious Bandersnatch!

Other writing this term will be linked to our Science Units of learning where we will write up experiments and Geography where we will produce informative double page spreads. We return to narrative writing as part of Remembrance using Martin Impey's WW1 series of books.

In Book Study, we are studying Holes and our class novel is Crater Lake?

Spelling lists this term will concentrate on revising and consolidating the rules they have been taught so far as well as looking at statutory words which can add precision and impact to our writing. Regular practice on www.spellingframe.co.uk is important.

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) 

When they finish a book (whether school's or one of their own), they should quiz at https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/2236104 

(Please make sure you use this link rather than googling 'accelerated reader'.)

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 how computing networks and systems communicate before working collaboratively.

Latin continues to focus on word classes, word endings and we've been impressed with how the children are spotting Latin links in everyday words and phrases.

Perhaps ask your child to sing you our Latin Rap - we think you'll recognise the tune!

  Young Voices

Our Young Voices concert is always a fabulous experience and we look forward to learning our new repertoire of songs.

The concert is early next year - very soon after the Christmas break - and we'll send further information shortly for those of you who want to buy tee-shirts, tickets etc.through school.

Please make sure you use this link from our website rather than googling Accelerated Reader. Our link takes you directly to our part of the company's massive shared server!