Welcome to Year 6!

From left to right: Mr Wilson, Mr Burtonshaw, Mr Todd and Miss Jones

We hope you had a lovely summer break and are ready for Year 6! Our enquiry is titled 'What happened after the Bristol Blitz?' This history-based enquiry focuses on the events leading up to WWII, how Bristol changed after the Blitz as well as people across the United Kingdom helped the country win the war.

Below you will find the Medium Term Plan for Term 1. We aim to stick to this as closely as possible throughout the term but there may be a few changes as we go along.

Year 6 will still have PE lessons with both Mr Evans and Mr Boon and they will focus on swimming skills

PE Days: 

6W - Thursday AM - Mr Evans

6B - Thursday AM - Mr Boon/Mr Burtonshaw

6J - Thursday AM - Mr Boon

Mid-Term Plan:

Swimming

Personal skills

Co-ordination – ball skills

Agility – reaction/response

PE Kit Reminders:

Swimming costume (NO bikinis)

Swimming trunks/shorts (no longer than knee length)

Long hair tied back

Studded earrings only

Goggles (not essential)

White T-Shirts

Black/Navy Shorts/Tracksuit Bottoms/ Leggings/ Skorts

Trainers/Daps 

Dates for your diary:

2 & 3rd September 2024: Staff INSET days

4th September 2024: First day of school

Week beginning 16th September 2024: Back to School Night

16th - 20th September 2024: Mock SATs week

20th September 2024: Friends of School fun day

23rd September 2024: Play Pod stay and play

25th September 2024: Life Skills trip

24th October 2024: End of Term 1

25th October 2024: Staff INSET day

Your class teachers are:

Miss Jones (6J)

Mr Burtonshaw (6B)

Mr Wilson (6W)

Mr Todd

Mr Evans (PE)

Mr Boon (PE)

Our support staff include:

Mrs Hibbitt

Reading:

It is important that the children in Year 6 are reading as much as possible. This will help improve their stamina and comprehension in preparation for secondary school. It is expected that a child reads with an adult at home at least 3 times a week. This might be only reading a page and then discussing some of the following areas: characters, setting, plot line, language used, inference skills, author intent etc. These discussions can sometimes be more beneficial than reading a whole chapter. If you have any questions regarding reading activities you can be doing with your child, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher.

Mornings:

Please try to ensure your child arrives at 8:55 am ready for doors opening. Can you ensure your child has brought a full water bottle (at least 500ml). If you have a message for the class teacher, please email it to the office and they will pass it on. We are not able to stand at the door to discuss issues at registration time.

End of day:

We will release children to their respective adults from the classroom door at 3.25pm. If you wish your child to walk home alone, or even just to meet you at the edge of the school grounds somewhere, you will need to complete the online permission form. We recommend doing this even if you don’t want your child to walk home alone; it just means that you do not have to be physically present right at the classroom door.

TTRockstars:

A reminder to all parents and carers: please encourage your children to use the TTRockstar App as much as possible; just 10 minutes a day can have an impact on their times table knowledge. If there are any problems with the app or you have misplaced a log-in, please let your class teacher know! Maybe this term your child’s class will win the cup! 

Homework:

Homework is in and out every THURSDAY. This will be linked to the weekly learning and taken from the CGP books the children will be given at the beginning of the year. This is to be marked with an adult at home prior to handing in. 

The children will also be given five questions from the wider curriculum to answer and will be set ten spellings from the Year 5/6 spelling list. These will be tested on Thursday.

We will also expect your child to have practised at least two types of question from the previous week’s arithmetic test.