Our year 6 team consists of Miss Barrows, Mrs. Bond, Mrs. McVeigh, Mrs Sylvester, Mrs Josephs, Mrs Hicks and Mrs Hart. 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. 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 this half term.
Thursday 6th June: 6 Field cooking at Redhill
Friday 7th June: class photos
Wednesday 12th June: musical concert 5.30pm (musicians and choir)
Thursday 13th June: WW2 evacuation trip
Monday 17th June: Sports Day
Thursday 20th June: 6 Craufurd cooking at Redhill
1st-4th July: Secondary School Transition visits
Tuesday 9th July: Watching Matilda at Redhill am
Wednesday 10th and 17th July: Forest School 6 Field
Thursday 11th and 18th July: Forest School 6 Craufurd
Thursday 11th July: Year 6 Play (afternoon and evening performance)
Tuesday 16th July: Leavers’ Service at St. Mary’s church (evening)
Wednesday 17th July: reports and SATs results sent home
Thursday 18th July: Year 6 chip shop picnic/ fun and games day and Leavers' party run by parents
Friday 19th July: End of term and goodbye 😢

In Summer 2, we will be reading 'Goodnight Mister Tom' by Michelle Magorian. We will take this opportunity to look at the relationships, events of the war and evacuation. 

In Science, we will be studying evolution and inheritance. What traits have you inherited from your parents?

In art, we will be looking at bodies in motion: sketching and making 3D models. We would like the children to bring in a long tube that can be cut.

PE 

PE

Our PE days will be Tuesday and Friday. Summer two will have a focus on athletics and football. Please come to school wearing your correct PE kit. This must be a red t-shirt, plain black shorts, leggings or joggers and a plain black hoodie or red school fleece. No logos please. Trainers can be worn to school on PE days. 

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

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 year, year 6 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.

Each half term we will set a 'creative' homework. .