Year 6 Newsletter
Curriculum
This term is always a busy one for Year 6, as we prepare for final Key Stage Two teacher assessments and the transition to secondary school!
Throughout the term, we’ll be immersing ourselves in ancient Middle Eastern history where we will be going back in time to visit Baghdad 800AD, as well as exploring Ancient Mayan civilisation. Science will see us exploring the great outdoors and investigating habitats around school. Our topic work will involve historical inquiry, geographical skills, scientific investigations as well as religious education and philosophy. Our physical missions led by the character leads will test out resilience, teamwork and communication skills.
Home learning
To help support your child at home, we encourage parents to read with their child daily. Frequent reading will enable your child to increase their language fluency, comprehension skills and reading stamina and will help with all areas of the curriculum. Children should bring their reading books into school daily.
Support with homework where possible would help enable your child to progress further throughout the year. For homework, we ask for you to listen to your child read at least 3 times a week for 10 minutes, record that you have listened to them in their reading record, and help your child practise their spellings.
We will be continuing to focus on learning new vocabulary, and these words will be sent home every other week in the form of ‘fridge words’- designed to be stuck on the fridge or somewhere else in the house! We’d appreciate it if you can talk about these words with your child and see where you can fit them into your daily conversations to help us make them stick in your child’s long term memory!
General information
PE will take place on the following days in the summer term:
· 6NB Mondays
· 6LS Tuesdays
· 6SS Wednesdays
· 6AH Thursdays
For safety reasons, please ensure that your child brings trainers/pumps for these lessons. Earrings should not be worn for PE. If studs cannot be removed, they should be covered by a plaster. If you do have any concerns or need more information, do get in touch! Thank you for your ongoing support for this academic year.
The Year 6 team
Assistant Principal of Year 5 and 6 – Mrs Hetherington
6SS – Miss Shaw
6AH – Miss Hall
6NB – Miss Bostan
6LS – Miss Stuart
Year 6 Teaching Assistants – Mrs Gillespie, Mrs Panayiotou, Mrs McGuire