WELCOME TO Y6
Teaching Staff - Miss Hampton, Miss Hale, Mrs Tomlinson
Learning Support Assistants - Mrs Cox, Miss Moore + Miss Slater
WELCOME TO Y6
• We are very lucky to be able to split 3 ways this
year for Maths and English.
• We will be around if anyone has any questions.
DAYS TO REMEMBER
• Y6 have PE on a Wednesday and a Friday, - please make sure
children have the correct PE kit in school each week. We will
send PE kits home for a freshen up once per half-term.
• Reading books can be changed when the children have
Individual Reading time during Guided Reading sessions.
• Year 6 have a library visit on Thursday afternoons. Children will
choose/change their library book.
• Spelling homework will be sent out on a Monday to be returned
on the Friday.
• Homework is given out on a Friday and is expected back in the
following Monday.
• Celebration assembly for Upper Key Stage 2 will take place on a
Friday afternoon at 2.25pm.
ENGLISH
• In Y6 we teach English everyday. The children will work
through a range of objectives and activities taken from the
old English curriculum.
• The new curriculum does not apply to Year 6 until next year.
• Children are taught discrete sessions of spelling,
punctuation and grammar in preparation for the national
SPaG test at the end of the year.
• There will be Autumn Term Parent Workshops available for
English and Maths…watch this space!
READING
• Your child should be aiming to read for at least 20 minutes each
night, sometimes, but not all the time with an adult.
• Their school reading record book (green one) should be
completed by your child with a reflective comment about the
book and signed by an adult to say they have read and feedback
any difficulties or concerns within the week. They are allowed and
encouraged to read other books (as well as their library book) of
their own at home and these may also be noted in their reading
record.
• The wider the variety of reading material they experience, the
better.
READING
• Some children are now working at a level that means they have read
all of our school reading scheme and are now on home readers.
These can include books they have at home or books from our school
library.
• Guided reading happens everyday, each child will read with an adult
twice per week.
• Other activities during guided reading will include follow up activities
linked to a book/piece of text they have read with an adult in school,
comprehension tasks and individual reading.
SPELLINGS
• Every Monday, your child will bring home a list of spellings to learn.
These are to be practised at home, ready for a spelling test on the
Friday of that week.
• They will probably require some adult help with this, to check they
understand the meaning of the word as well as the spelling. An older
brother or sister could maybe help here.
MATHEMATICS
• We will have one slot of mathematics each day in Y6, this session will teach
objectives taken from the old curriculum.
• Topics will be taught in a practical and fun way and time will be given for
children to apply their knowledge independently through follow up problem
solving activities later in the week.
• Separate sessions will be dedicated to mental maths and the times table
challenge.
• Children continue to have use of Mathletics. This is still accessible at home
with the children using their log-in details from school.
• Certificates are awarded in celebration assembly for using Mathletics.
TIMES TABLES
• We must stress the importance of times table knowledge as this
underpins a lot of the learning that will take place in Y6. We
recommend that children spend 15 minutes each night
practising their mental recall of times tables facts.
• Once your child can confidently recall the multiplication fact of
a chosen times table they should move on to practising another
times table.
• Once your child can confidently recall facts up to 12 x 12, they
should begin to learn the corresponding division facts to each
times table e.g.
If 12 x 12 = 144, 144 ÷ 12 = 12.
LEARNING WALLS
• Learning walls will be used as part of English and
Mathematics to display helpful learning hooks for the
children.
• Learning walls allow children to refer back to what
they need to include in their work.
COMPUTING
• Computing (previously known as ICT!) will be taught
on a Tuesday afternoon as a discrete lesson.
Children will be taught from the new ICT curriculum
that encompasses computing elements such as
programming.
• Children will have the opportunity to use the new ICT
suite and facilities, laptops and iPads as part of their
weekly timetable.
LEARNING CHALLENGE CURRICULUM
• In previous years the children have accessed
foundation subjects such as history, geography and art
as part of PLT (personalised learning time). This will now
be called the ‘learning challenge curriculum’.
• Each topic will be introduced with a ‘WOW moment’
that will inspire and engage the children’s interests to
learn more.
• Here are the topics we will be learning about in Y6:
Y6 LEARNING CHALLENGE TOPICS
I’m a Year 6
pupil, get me
out of here!
Will you ever
see the water
you drink
again?
Were the
Why was the Who were the
Vikings always
Islamic
Mayans and
victorious and
Civilization
what have
vicious?
around AD900
learnt from
known as the
them ?
‘Golden Age’?
(Geography
focus)
(Geography
focus)
(History focus)
(History focus) (History focus)
ART + DESIGN TECHNOLOGY
• The children will be taught art + DT as part of the learning
challenge curriculum and will focus on one art skill across
the whole school each half term.
• We appreciate any old newspapers to help keep our tables
and classrooms clean and tidy!
FINALLY
We appreciate all the help you can give. I hope we can
work together to make Year 6 a successful and enjoyable
experience for your child.
Teachers will be around on their classroom door each
morning for any short messages that you want to pass on. If
you wish to make an appointment after school to speak to
your child’s class teacher please do so via the office, we are
always happy to discuss any of your concerns or queries that
you may have.
Year 6 staff team