Key weekly events:

Monday: Spelling test

Spelling Shed logins can be found in home-school diaries.

Thursday: Woods (please ensure pupils have a coat, and appropriate outdoor footwear incase of bad weather, wellies may be left in school if needed during wetter seasons)

Friday: PE - please ensure children have a full PE kit in school - white t-shirt, plain black shorts, plain black hoodie & trainers

Every week, pupils nominate their class 'sports stars' - 2 pupils (1 girl chosen by the boys, 1 boy chosen by the girls) who they believe have shown excellent sportsmanship during that week's PE session.

We are very lucky this year to have a completely new and renovated classroom - an exciting environment for children to develop their love of learning and reading!

Our new classroom library has become such hit, with hundreds of books for all readers!

In Year 6, we understand that learning and progression is paramount, throughout the course of the year we learn and over learn many concepts within Maths, English writing/SPaG and Reading all in preparation for SATs in May. To ensure concepts are embedded, homework is given at the end of each Maths unit, to help consolidate learning. Weekly expectations for homework include; spellings & 4x home reads.

Our learning environment mirrors with importance of learning and progression with bright working walls that are used regularly as a visual prompt, enhancing pupil independence and use 3 before me strategies; driving confidence and ensuring success.

Crucial Crew

Every year, Year6s are provided with the opportunity to go to Crucial Crew, a multi-agency, interactive safety education program for 10 to 11-year-old schoolchildren in the UK. The program teaches crucial life skills and helps students prepare for greater independence as they transition from primary to secondary school. 

Computing

Pupils have developed their understanding the importance and uses of the world wide web.
Searching for information "the old fashioned way" using reference books to locate what we need. Children soon recognised how difficult this can be and that information available is not always useful.

DT DAY - make
Children enjoying using saws & hot glue guns to create framed structures, these will develop into air-raids shelters

Art - printing.
Inspired by then french artist "Alex Artiste Peintre" who uses everyday objects to create prints on paper. 

We then developed our printing techniques further using rollers & stencils.

Art - Clay
Techniques like crosshatching & slip to attach separate pieces of clay together. Recognising the importance of water to help keep the clay maluable - too much created a sloppy mess, too little caused the clay to crack and become brittle. We discovered that we needed to work quickly with clay as the longer exposed to air, the more it dries out. Using tools to create detail and how to ensure our models were self supporting.
Excellent lesson Y6!