Year 6 2024 - 2025
Welcome to our Year 6 page - 2024-25
Class Teachers - Mrs Stonier (Mon-Thu) & Mrs Keenan (Thu-Fri)
Support Staff - Mrs Katterloher, Mrs Herbert-Jackson & Miss Davidson
Key Information:
Wow! Wasn't London absolutely brilliant? We were so incredibly proud of all the children. Together, we had the most amazing adventures around our capital city. Thank you, children, for setting such a brilliant example for London visitors in future years.
What an important final half term ahead! We now have so much to reflect upon and celebrate as well as so much to look forward to.
Home Learning:
In readiness for high school, we will continue with the homework grids that have been introduced this year, requiring all children to participate in a range of home-based activities. Last term, the children really seemed to enjoy bringing in completed tasks and sharing their talents. There were some outstanding pieces. Each week, we will look at a different spelling rule and have lots of fun practising in class. There is a long list of words that are deemed to be important for Year Sixes to spell correctly before heading up to high school. This half term children will be tested one final time on these words. Please see the attached file for a complete list. Why not practise these and test yourselves at home from time to time?
We will have reading lessons each Friday in which we will focus on reading comprehension. Additionally, it is absolutely imperative for daily reading to be continued outside of school and for a parent or guardian to sign each child's planner once a week. Feel free to bring your own books from home or browse the school or class library - there are some excellent titles.
Developing mental arithmetic will be another key focus over these final few weeks. There is an expectation that children in Year 6 should know their times tables and be increasingly confident with the quick recall of related facts. Why not have fun with Times Table Rock Stars (TTRS) or 'Hit the Button' at least two or three nights a week to keep on top of those recall skills.
As always, we thank parents and carers for your continued support with home-based learning.
FYI:
PE lessons - Monday and Tuesday afternoons. Children to come to school in their full school PE kits.
Mrs Stonier teaches from Monday to Thursday lunchtimes. Thursday afternoon and Friday lessons are taught by Mrs Keenan.
Dates:
Friday 6th June - Orienteering lesson (PE kits)
Monday 9th June - First Aid (PSHE)
Thursday 12th June - Sports Day
W/C 23rd June - Brine Leas Transition Days
Tuesday 1st July RSE session
Tuesday 8th July - Visit to Primary College
Thursday 10th July - Summer Spectacular
Friday 11th July - Reports sent home
Monday 21st July - Leavers' Lunch; Leavers' Service (parents invited) and Leavers' Water Fight!
Tuesday 22nd July - Last day of Primary and shirt signing.
There are several dates in the diary for visitors from each of our high schools to come and meet the child/children who will be joining them.
Summer Learning - Journeys
It won't be long before we set off on our own brand new journey - to our high schools. We will be preparing for this important transition in many ways.
During the summer term, we look at journeys. What is a journey? Why do people go on journeys? What journeys have we been on? Why do people decide to come to the UK? Why do some people decide to leave the UK? We learn all about immigration and emigration this term. Why do people migrate? Can we think of any times in history where people have decided to migrate?
English - After the War - from Auschwitz to Ambleside by Tom Palmer
Maths - Themed projects, consolidation and problem solving
Science - Animals including humans
Geography - UK rivers, locations, towns, cities and coasts
RE - Pilgrimage journeys
PSHE - Economic Awareness and RSE
DT - Celebrating culture and seasonality through food
Computing - Sensing movement
PE - Rounders and Circuit training
Music - Music from the Stage and screen
MFL - Spanish shapes and fruits