Our year 6 team consists of Miss Barrows, Mrs. Bond and Miss Cooksey. We are all committed to ensuring that year 6 is a fun and interesting year where children are supported to reach their potential.

Year 6 is a time when children are able to accept more responsibility for themselves and to help others around school as we prepare them for moving on to secondary school. We look forward to taking part in trips and events such as Harvest, Remembrance, Red Nose Day and the highlight of the year: our Pioneer Residential at Cleobury Mortimer which is earlier in the year this year. We also look forward to our Musical concert, Year 6 play and Leavers’ Service. Hopefully, we will have an enjoyable and exciting year.

Dates for Summer 2

Wednesday 4th June- Redhill visiting to talk to children about transition

Friday 6th June - Class photos

Monday 23rd June- Sports Day

Wednesday 25th June- Year 6 Evacuation trip

Friday 27th June- Mary Stevens' Ice Creams

Monday 30th June - OSH transition and reserve Sports Day

Wednesday/Thursday 2nd/3rd July- Redhill transition day (you will be notified of which day from Redhill)

Tuesday 8th July- All going to Redhill to watch production of Oliver

Wednesday 9th July - Celebration worship

Thursday 10th July- Our Leavers' Production 'The Magic Jukebox'

Friday 11th July- Recorder festival (am)

Friday 11th July- Fish and Chip Picnic (12pm)

Monday 14th July - Science Day

Wednesday 16th July- Reports come home and Leavers' Party (hosted by parents)

Thursday 17th July- Leavers' Service at Church on the evening

Friday 18th- LAST DAY!

In Summer 2, we will be reading 'Goodnight Mister Tom' by Michelle Magorian. We will take this opportunity to look at people adapted to life during the war. We will also look at how people can change with the right nurturing.

In Science, we will be studying evolution and inheritance. We will be focusing on understanding how living things have changed over time, how characteristics are passed down through generations and how adaption leads to evolution. 

In Design and Technology, we will be making bread from scratch. We will think about what would be ingredients would compliment each other to include in our bread. In art we will be continue to look at sketching bodies in motion. We will focus on form and sizing.    

In Geography we are looking at natural disasters and the structures of the earth. This will include looking at volcanoes and grid references. 

PE 

PE

Our PE days will be Mondays and Fridays. Please wear PE uniform, either our new uniform or old PE uniform: this must be a red t-shirt, plain black shorts, leggings or joggers and or red school fleece/jumper. No logos please as per school policy. Trainers must be plain black leather trainers. This half term we will look at volleyball on Monday with the sports coach from the Stourbridge Volleyball Club and rounders on Friday. Tom, the sports coach, will also be doing some activities around Sport's Day.

MOBILE PHONES

Children in year 6 who walk to school are allowed to bring a mobile phone. Please make sure you talk to your child about the correct way to manage bringing phones to school, particularly with regards to them being turned off, both within school and inside the grounds. If they need to contact you after school, they need to wait until they have passed through the gate.

SOCIAL MEDIA/MESSAGES

As children in year 6 begin to make more use of social media and chat groups, we hope you will monitor their use to ensure that your child does not become overwhelmed with messages and that the content being shared is appropriate. We sometimes find that children are using devices until late at night and thoughtless messages can cause much distress in and out of school. In ICT, we will address e-safety including sharing of images, keeping personal information secret, scams and what to do if online content worries or upsets them.

Homework

We will be encouraging homework again in preparation for secondary school. Please read daily, even if for a short while. Sharing reading with an adult is still very important at this age to give children the chance to listen to stories and talk about what they have read. Reading to your child, listening to audiobooks, magazines, graphic novels and reference books are all great alternatives.

Children in year 6 are free to choose their own book and can bring one in from home if they prefer. 

Maths and Spelling homework will be set weekly: this will be using mainly DoodleLearning. It is a programme designed to work at your child's level. There are 5 minute daily activities for them to ensure they retain what they have previously learned. We have noticed a significant improvement in the children who use DoodleLearning at least 5 times a week. 

Children will have their own login details. Please keep them safe.