Year 6

Welcome to Year 6

We are delighted to be your new teachers and look forward to working with you and your family this year.

Mrs Dunkin is the class teacher and is in school every day. Mrs Bostock supports the children within the class.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact a member of staff. You can get in touch by using the class DoJo App.

Please order your child’s school dinner using School Grid.
P.E is on Tuesday. Please can the children wear the appropriate PE Kit.
A water bottle should be brought into school daily.
Please notify school in writing if you give permission for your child to walk home alone from school.
As the weather becomes colder, please ensure that your child brings a suitable waterproof coat to school.

Reading

Children should read at home for at least 15 minutes each day. They should bring their red bag and reading book into school every day.

Additional homework tasks will be sent home as appropriate on a weekly basis.

Our whole school value this half term is Thankfulness.

This term we will be:

Reading the graphic novel King Kong by Anthony Browne and writing our own action/ adventure story.
Recapping the foundations of Key Stage 2 grammar, punctuation and spelling. Learning to show character through dialogue.
Improving our reading comprehension skills by examining different question types using VIPERS and Reading Buddies
Calculating using our knowledge of mathematical structures and finding multiples of 1000 in maths. We will also using and applying numbers to 10million.
Understanding how scientists classify living things and creating our own classification keys.
Finding out who the Vikings were in history and what we can learn from them.
In R.E, Creation and science: conflicting or complementary?
Exploring how programs are coded in Computing.
In Art & Design exploring photography.
Playing and listening to various genres of Music with the Bury Music Service.
Invasion games and fitness in P.E with EdStart.