Welcome to Class 6! 

 Year 6 are taught by Mrs Tyers along with Ms Read and Mrs McInerney

Class Vision 2023-24

In Year 6, we would like to achieve our best, and push ourselves further to improve in all aspects of school life.  We are respectful to all in our school community, even if their opinions do not align with our own. This year, we would like to gain our teachers’ trust and show that we can be relied upon.  We accept responsibilities, and participate in all areas of school life, to accomplish these successfully as a team.  We will develop a good mind-set and enjoy our new learning opportunities - we will try our best and never give up.  Our hard work will be rewarded!  We try to be nice to other people.  We make great choices so that everyone has an amazing time and wants to come to school. We will make the class fun, as long as this doesn’t hurt others and their feelings.

Our curriculum

We have planned a curriculum based on six Global Themes that is creative, fun and focused on knowledge, skills and understanding, which is taught sequentially, building on prior knowledge.

To find out more about the St. George's curriculum, please click here.

The Global Themes are:

Term 1 - Identity and Diversity

Term 2 - Peace and Conflict

Term 3 - Saving Our Environment

Term 4 - Social Justice

Term 5 - Our World and Beyond

Term 6 - Our Heritage

Here is the year 6 overview which contains the knowledge and vocabulary which we will teach each term.

English - Writing

We are currently studying The Whale by Ethan and Vita Murray and will write our own endings, including: using clauses starting with verbs to describe action; using colons and semi-colons in a descriptive list and using dialogue for characterisation.

English - Spelling

Each week in Year 6, we learn or revise a spelling pattern, from years 3 to year 6.  We also have spelling zappers which help us practise our year 5 and 6 statutory spellings.

English - Reading

Our class story...

A story about finding friendship when you're lonely - and hope when all you feel is fear.

Twelve-year-old Matthew is trapped in his bedroom by crippling OCD, spending most of his time staring out of his window as the inhabitants of Chestnut Close go about their business.

Until the day he is the last person to see his next door neighbour's toddler, Teddy, before he goes missing.

Matthew must turn detective and unravel the mystery of Teddy's disappearance - with the help of a brilliant cast of supporting characters.

Maths

We use White Rose maths in year 6 and supplement this with reasoning and problem solving activities from Twinkl.  

The yearly overview can be found here.

Science

In Year 6, we need to consider the "degree of trust" you can have in our results.

Our experiments:

The photographs below show us testing whether the length of a wire affects how brightly a bulb will shine.  We used tissue paper to ensure that our results are accurate.

PGL

Each year, Year 6 enjoy a trip to PGL (Boreatton Park in Shropshire).  This year we will be camping as well as enjoying all of the activities PGL have to offer.

French

If your child would like to practise at home, there are some resources on Purple Mash and some here on the BBC Bitesize page.

Homework

Homework will be set every Wednesday and checked the following Wednesday.  Further details will be added to Seesaw each week and an activity created for the children to respond to.

In year 6, we work hard to prepare ourselves for secondary school.

Seesaw

Log in to Seesaw to upload any work that you do at home, or to share work completed in school with your family and friends.

Purple Mash

We will use Purple Mash for our computing lessons, as well as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.  Each child has an individual log in (there is a copy in their reading record) so that they can log in at home.  They can also be set tasks to complete and can use Purple Mash to play learning games too.

Times Tables Rock Stars

In Year 6 we continue to use Times Tables Rock Stars, as being able to recall these facts quickly and accurately is essential for success in the end of year arithmetic paper.

Bikeability

During the summer term, Year 6 children have the opportunity to complete levels 1 and 2 of their Bikeability.  More information can be found here: https://www.southderbyshire.gov.uk/our-services/education-and-schools/bikeability 

Keeping Safe

PE

Wednesday - outdoor

Thursday - indoor

Keeping in touch

How do we keep in touch?

Class Dojo - I use this to send messages to all year 6 parents and to reward the class.  I also use the "Story" on Class Dojo when I want to send pictures of what we have done, but only with the class.  Dojo enables us to have 1:1 conversations, parent to teacher.  All staff members can update the School Story, when an event applies to more than one class.

School webpage - here you will find links to lots of useful resources.  As this page can be seen beyond the school, I only update the page with general examples of work.

Letters - I try not to send paper copies home, but where I have too, you will usually be able to find a replacement copy on the webpage (see below!).

Knowledge Organisers

A knowledge organiser is a document that lists the important facts – not practical skills – that pupils should know by the end of a unit of work. At home, you can use it as a quizzing tool, to help pupils boost their recall of key knowledge.

We currently use them in maths, science, history and geography.

Letters home