Welcome to Year 6!

Year 6 class teacher: Ms Bates (Fridays Mrs Rawlins))

Year 6 support staff: Mrs Taylor, (Mon - Thurs) Miss Sharman (Mon, Wed, Fri) Miss Smith (Tues, Thurs, Fri)

Our Topics for 2024-2025

Autumn 

World at War

Spring

Eco-Warriors

Homework

All homework is paper-less  at Halton but children have been given green A4 homework books to write in to keep at home.    

Homework will be uploaded onto Seesaw  on a Wednesday.  Children have a full week including a weekend to complete tasks.  Homework should be completed and uploaded into pupils' Seesaw journals by Tuesday.

As all families have different weekly schedules and different opinions about homework,  a choice of three tasks is given, only one of which is compulsory as set out in our home school agreement.  

MUST: All children are required to read  daily at home and have their home school diary signed by an adult.  Children are also required to practise their times tables to 12 x 12 if they are not regularly scoring 100 in the weekly test on Friday.  Children should be  encouraged to practise their times tables on Timestables Rockstars or Hit the Button.  See below for links.

SHOULD:  Most children are expected complete this task which will be based on one of the following aspects:

- learning spellings based on that week’s pattern and the Year 5/6 list of key spellings.

- Maths tasks based on that week’s learning.

- A reading comprehension task or a writing task

COULD: This is an additonal task that children who require challenge (or who are preparing for the rigours of secondary school homework!) might like to do.  It is likely to be a more open-ended  or creative task based on the term's science or topic theme. 

PE

Friday  is PE day for Year 6.  Don't forget to  come into school already dressed in your School PE Kit and school jumper. You will remain in your kit all day and will not need a change of clothes. 

During the colder months a tracksuit is permitted on PE day. In line with our uniform policy, this needs to be plain and navy blue. Please do not come into school wearing football kits or jumpers with large logos on the front.

Autumn Term Antics

Team Building at Go-Ape Wednesday 18th September 2024

Year 6 had a fantastic day out in Wendover Woods to launch the school year.  The morning was spent at the Tree-Tops challenge: facing fears and supporting each other around the high ropes course.  Everyone was encouraging, kind and helpful to each other.  The experienced children supported those who had never done it before, making sure that everyone got the round course:  even the newbies launched themselves down the zip line more than once!  

WW1 Experience at RAF Trenchard Museum- Wednesday 2nd October 

Year 6 spent a fantastic morning at the Trenchard Museum learning about World War 1.  We looked at various weapons that were invented for the war including the Vickers Machine Gun and Lee Enfield rifle.  We learnt about the kit that the soldiers had to carry and even tried some on to see how heavy it was.  We also learnt about the early planes of the time, how post was delivered and what the soldiers could expect to receive in their parcelsIt.   was a great morning, all the volunteers were so knowledgable and friendly and we are now using all our newly acquired knowledge to write a report about trench warfare.  

More Time Travel for Year 6  on 12th February 2025

This time to the start of World War II in 1939.....

Halton Year 6 class and staff travelled back time to 1939 on our latest visit to the Trenchard Museum at RAF Halton.   The learning was brought alive for us, right from the moment we were welcomed in by the ARP Warden, Gordon,  who stamped all the children’s identity cards and checked they had their labels affixed. 

Each activity was so well thought out and the resources and artefacts available were incredible. We really were not expecting an air raid so soon upon arrival but thankfully there was an air raid shelter ready prepared to keep us safe from the flashing bombs and choking smoke. 

We learnt so much about life on the home front: looking at rationing and tasting home made bread and margarine and tapioca pudding. The children loved looking at all the gas masks and trying them on. We had never even seen a picture of the full-body gas mask for babies let alone see a real one- what an incredible contraption! It was so lucky that the children had their gas masks on during that  second air raid and that there was a Morrison (table) shelter so close at hand for them to crawl under and wait for the 'all clear. '

It was fantastic to step into the shoes of the  female Plotters  in the Battle of Britain Operation Room and try to plot all the information about hostile and friendly airborne forces on the enormous grid map with the wooden rakes.  The children loved taking on the individual roles of the plotters and the controllers.    They managed to keep track of all the aircraft movements and control the map so well, right up until that last moment when a hostile force sneaked through the air defences and launched that unfortunate air raid on London.   

The information about WW2 weapons was very interesting; everyone enjoyed handling the artefacts, learning about all the new technologies of the time and of course having a go at hitting a target with 'a rifle'.  It was great to have those reminders about how much the women of Britain's lives changed when they had to step into the roles that the men left behind.  

It was so lucky that the children had been given some first aid training by the museum volunteers ; it meant that they were well prepared to rescue and patch up those two unfortunate children who had been trapped under the rubble of their own houses.  Year 6 could not believe that each child was allowed to take off and land a small aeroplane from our very own RAF Halton air field.   The flight simulation experience is one that the children will remember for a long time.