Welcome to Year 6. Our class teacher is Jillian Brown and she is assisted by Rachel Walker . You can find out more about them on our Meet The Staff page
Below are a selection of documents with information about our Year 6 class.
Year 5 6 National Curriculum word list
This term, our P.E. lessons will be on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. The children will begin the half term with OAA sessions, which focus on aspects of team building and building resilience, before moving on to learning tennis skills. Each child will need their P.E. kit in school for every session and will need a pair of PE shoes as part of their kit. We will be going outside as often as possible for our PE lessons, so, as the weather is unpredictable in Consett, you may wish to add a sweatshirt/tracksuit top to your child’s PE kit for these lessons.
Literacy
In literacy this term, we will be reading Holes by Louis Sachar. We will be developing and improving our writing using the skills that we have learned in previous years. The children will be further practising their grammar skills this year and will have the opportunity to apply each aspect learned to their writing.
Numeracy
In maths, we will be following White Rose maths. The children will be applying the skills they have learned this year to solve real-life maths problems in areas such as cooking/ baking and budgeting to go on holiday.
A quick recall of times tables will really help with our maths topics this term. In class we are working hard on this and recommend that children practise at home using TT Rockstars. Children on the top 5 leaderboard each Friday will earn money for their class bank account.
Science
Our science topic this half term will continue to be Evolution and Inheritance, and the children will focus on understanding how living things change over time and how characteristics are passed down through generations.
Foundation subjects
In our history topic this half term, the class will be looking at pastimes and the way that people have had fun in the UK has changed since Roman times.
In French lessons the children will be researching Bastille Day. The children will be creating a presentation about why Bastille Day celebrations started and how people celebrate now. We have a French lesson once a week and spend an extra five minutes each day revising key concepts.
Every child in Year 6 has a Duolingo account so they can practice at home either on the Duolingo app or on the Duolingo for school’s website. Let me know via Tapestry if your child has forgotten their login details and I can send them again.
In Art, the children will use clay to create a sculpture of an animal.
We will be starting our Growing and Changing topic in PSHE, which will discuss body image and self-confidence before discussing puberty and how the body changes during this time.
How can you help your child?
We believe that any work you do at home with your child should be simple and purposeful. We would ask you to support your child in the following:
Reading- We will send home a reading book assessed at your child’s current reading level but reading any text with your child will help improve their fluency and knowledge. Children will get money to add to their class bank account each time they read to someone at home and get a signature in their planner.
Number skills- Basic number skills are a great way to help improve your child’s confidence in maths. We would ask that you support them to play Numbots/ Times Table Rockstars as this will help to improve the basic skills that will support them in all areas of numeracy.
Spellings- Each week the children will have a new list of spellings based around our sound of the week. The children will write the spellings for the next week in their planners on a Friday. The spellings will also be shared on Tapestry every Monday. Spelling games such as letter scramble (mix all the letters up and then put them in the correct order) or hangman are a good way to practise at home.
All children in Year 6 have a Duolingo account and can complete levels online to help support their French learning in school.
As children are in their final year of primary school and preparing to move to secondary school, we are promoting independence. I am sure with your support this will enable children to be more than ready for the transition to secondary school. If there are any problems, please do not hesitate to contact the school for an appointment.
