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 Autumn 2.
Wednesday 13th November PHSE visit from local police officer

Monday 11th November Remembrance Day 

Friday 15th November Children in Need

Monday and Tuesday 18th and 19th November Group 1 Bikeability

Wednesday and Thursday 20th and 21st November Group 2 Bikeability

Monday and Tuesday 25th and 26th November Group 3 Bikeability 

Thursday 28th November Mufti Day-bring a bottle and chocolate

Friday 29th November St Andrew's Day

Thursday 5th December Mufti Day-bring stuffed teddies and unwanted gifts

Friday 6th December Mufti Day- bring cakes and mince pies CHRISTMAS FAYRE

Wednesday 11th December Christmas Dinner Day

Thursday 12th December Christmas Jumper Day

Tuesday 17th December Christmas Church Service 5:30pm

We will also have Bikeability in Autumn 2. Look out for the dates.  

In Autumn 2, we will be reading 'Rooftoppers' by Katherine Rundell. We will take this opportunity to look at the friendships, hardships, different relationships, equality and 'never ignoring a possible'. 

In Science, we will be studying Light: sources, investigating shadows, types of shadows, reflections, how we see, famous scientists and investigating colour.

In art, we will be looking at  printing. We will then be using the prints in DT to sew and create a pencil case. 

PE 

PE

Our PE days will be Tuesday and Friday normally. However, we will continue to have Forest School this half term so stand by for days/dates to come out for each class. If you are phasing in our new school uniform, please come to school wearing your correct PE kit. 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 gymnastics.

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. .