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 Spring.

Wednesday 29th January Height and Weight

Friday 7th February Numbers Day

Tuesday 11th February Internet Safety Day

Wednesday 12th February Celebration Worship 

Friday 15th February HALF TERM

Friday 28th February Young Voices Choir Only

Wednesday 5th- Friday 7th March Pioneer Residential

Monday 17th and Wednesday 19th March Parents' Evening

Friday 21st March Red Nose Day

Wednesday 9th March Celebration Worship

Thursday 10th March Wolverhampton Grand 'Pig Heart Boy'

In Spring 1, we will be reading 'Pig Heart Boy' by Malorie Blackman. We will take this opportunity to look at the friendships, hardships, different relationships, fairness and difficult decisions. We will also be going to watch the theatre production of the book in April.

In Science, we will be studying The Human Body: organs, functions of the heart and blood, circulatory system, heart rate, exercise and how we can look after our body.

In art, we will be looking at landscapes. We will be using different types of media to create different landscapes, mixing colours and looking at famous artists such as Jenny Leonard, Van Gogh and David Hockney. 

In History we will be learning all about the Saxons and Vikings. We will learn why they invaded and where they decided to settle. 

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 dance on Monday and dodgeball on Friday.

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 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. Because we will be learning about MacBeth in English, the children can create any piece on the theme on the story.