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Year 6

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)

 

 

Our Topics for 2024-2025

 

Autumn 

World at War

 

World At War - Autumn - Curriculum Leaflet

World At War - History Topic Organiser

Spring

Eco-Warriors

 

Summer

The Victorians

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. 

 

 

Typical Weekly Timetable - afternoon lessons may be switched

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.  

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