Year Six
Welcome to Year 6!
In Year 6, we have a broad and engaging curriculum, where the children are encouraged to be resilient and independent throughout all challenges.
The teaching in Year 6 is designed to allow children to think constructively and critically about the topics we cover in our curriculum and to ask questions to further their learning and understanding. The Year 6 curriculum is designed to broaden children’s knowledge and skills across a range of topics and provides them with every opportunity to know and remember more.
Class Routines
· We start the day with our morning work which is either handwriting practice or a Flashback 4, which encourages children to retrieve knowledge from different subjects across the curriculum.
· Following this, we have our English lessons where we focus on strengthening the understanding of existing and new spellings, teaching letter formation and handwriting and further developing reading comprehension skills through a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts. We finish our English lesson with writing, which enriches your child’s knowledge and skills for writing with tailored grammar and punctuation input.
· After break, we have maths, where children work on basic mathematical skills and previous learning before engaging with new concepts and problem solving.
· Our afternoons consist of science, history, geography, art, DT, PSHE, RWV, Spanish, music and computing.
· Wednesday and Thursday are our PE days. All children are required to come to school in full PE kit.
Going the extra mile for success
All home support is hugely appreciated and makes a positive impact on your child's learning opportunities. Please support your child by ensuring they read at least 5 times a week, for about 15 minutes at a time. Please bring diaries/books into school daily and use diaries/class dojo to communicate with us throughout the week.
Children are also expected to spend 15 minutes per night on Spelling Shed and TT Rockstars. Assignments will be set regularly for children to complete online.
After February half term, as we approach the SATs and begin our revision work, homework to support reading, grammar and maths will be sent home for children to complete.
This year, we are continuing with the 'Travel Tracker' scheme, where children receive badges for taking part and increasing their fitness. If you have to drive your child to school, they can still achieve an active badge by parking at the shops and walking the remaining distance.
During the next couple of weeks, Y6 will be completing some past SAT papers which will act as a baseline and help us to tailor the curriculum to their needs. These are nothing to worry about-the children actually enjoy completing them! Following this, we will set up Booster groups which will run after school, Children are expected to attend these sessions, Further information will be sent home about Boosters in the next week or so.
Thank you for your support.
Here’s to a wonderful year!
Mrs Huddart and Mrs Joice