Welcome to Year 6!

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

Welcome back to Term 5 after the long half-term! In this term, we'll have a science-based enquiry called 'How do animals and plants adapt to suit their environment?' This will involve learning about evolution, geological time, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.

Below you will find the Medium Term Plan for Term 5. 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 have PE lessons with Mr Boon and Mr Evans.

PE Days: 

6W - Monday PM - Mr Evans

6B - Friday PM - Mr Boon

6J - Friday PM - Mr Evans

Mid-Term Plan:

Physical Skills

Dynamic Balance to agility - jumping and landing

Static balance - one leg

PE Kit Reminders:

Long hair tied back

Studded earrings only

White T-Shirts

Black/Navy Shorts/Tracksuit Bottoms/ Full-length Leggings/ Shorts/ Skorts

Trainers/Daps

On the children's designated PE day, children should wear their PE kit to school.

Dates for your diary:

Tuesday 22nd April - Start of Term 5

Monday 5th May - Bank Holiday Monday

Monday 12th May - SATs Week

Tuesday 13th May - Year 5/6 Dynamo's Cricket Central Venue Competition

Tuesday 20th May - Year 5/6 Dynamo's Cricket Central Venue Competition

Thursday 22nd May - Term Ends

Friday 23rd May - 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.