Year 6: Mrs Andrews 2024 - 2025
Mrs Andrews
Spring Term
As we move further through our final year at primary school, we continue to focus on getting ourselves 'high school ready' by learning to be increasingly independent and organised. This includes remembering our homework and organising our own belongings and resources.
Our teachers, Mrs Andrews and Mrs Gargan will continue to help us with our learning, alongside our learning assistant, Miss Johnson
In Spring term, we will continue to work hard in all of our lessons. In english, we will complete pieces of writing around the books ‘Windrush’ and ‘The Selfish Giant’. In guided reading, we will finish work on 'Animal Farm' and study ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ (the abridged version for younger children) and poems by Ted Hughes. In maths we will complete units on fractions, decimals and percentages. In history, with Mrs Gargan, we will learn about the Shang Dynasty before moving onto World War I. In geography, also with Mrs Gargan, we will continue to learn about Biomes / vegetation belts / map work and then move onto rivers and the water cycle. In PE we will complete units on games and gymnastics. PSHE will focus on ‘safe relationships’ and 'media literacy'. In science, with Mrs Gargen we will complete units on ‘electricity’ and then animals including humans’. In computing we will complete units on ‘programming’ and then ‘data and information’.
We also have our usual art and DT weeks.
Homework will look a little different now as we start to think about becoming more responsible for what we learn at home. Children will have a folder to keep all of their homework in and a timetable to follow so they get used to how homework might change when they get to high school.
Year 6 routines:
- PE Days: Wednesday and Friday (please leave kits in school)
- Please put names inside all clothing and shoes
- Children will take 2 reading books home- one is linked to their level of development and the other is a reading for pleasure book. Books can only be changed when they have been read and a parent has signed the planner. Please bring books in every day so that children can read in school and to an adult when appropriate.
- Please sign your child’s planner at the end of every week. This will be checked each Monday morning.
- Homework will be set on different days each week and brought back in according to a set timetable which children will have in their planner/ homework folder.
- Spellings are on the school website and a hard copy in children's planners. They will be assessed each Friday.
- Water bottles must be brought to school each day and be spill proof and of an appropriate size. Children are free to refill their bottle throughout the day.
- Fruit or toast for break time (toast paid for via parent pay)
- Children do not need to bring their own pencil cases, pens, pencils etc as all resources are provided.
- School gates open at 8:40 and playground door at 8:45. Registration is at 8:50am. From 8:50-8:55, children complete start of day activities (SODA) linked to their learning and to settle them into the day.