Year 6

Welcome to our Year 6 class page!

Well, we can’t quite believe the final half term is upon us and before we know it, we’ll be wishing our Year 6 pupils a fond farewell as they move on to pastures new. But in the meantime, we’re hoping to make their final term at primary school as fun-filled and exciting as we can and we certainly have a number of interesting learning opportunities and extra-curricular events planned. Mrs Olphin will continue to teach Year 6 on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Miss Jarman will teach on Wednesday mornings, Thursdays and Fridays. Mrs Radley will be supporting the learning in Year 6 throughout the week.

Our history unit this term is entitled ‘Black and British’; it is a long-term thematic study, designed to consolidate pupils’ chronological grasp of over 2000 years and culminating in a discussion of the Black Lives Matter movement – we’ll also focus on current media coverage of race-related issues such as the toppling of statues belonging to those with links to slavery.

The unit will consider a wide range of issues concerning race as well as changing attitudes towards Black people in Britain that stretch back millennia from the very first Black Britons to those that arrived on the Windrush in the late 1940s.

We’ll also be turning our attention to programming in our Computing sessions and designing and building our very own electrical Steady Hand games in Design & Technology.

Year 6 are also very excited to be visiting the Crowden Outdoor Education Centre this term for an action-packed residential trip. During their stay, they will take part in a range of adventurous activities including canoeing, orienteering, archery and team-building challenges, helping them to build confidence, resilience and teamwork skills while having lots of fun outdoors.

Alongside these interesting and engaging units of work, we’ll also be continuing to challenge our musical abilities during our weekly music sessions on Fridays, attending swimming lessons on Tuesday afternoons at Copley Sports Centre and perfecting our Spanish on Thursdays.

Some key information:

PE – Tuesday mornings

Swimming Lessons – Tuesday afternoons

Spanish – Thursday mornings

Music – Friday mornings

We’re still expecting our Year 6s to read at least three times a week for 20 minutes or more and they will need their reading diaries signed by a grown up at home. Their diaries will be monitored regularly to check on their progress and they’ll earn raffle tickets for reading five times in a week, they will then be entered into our half termly draw with the chance to win themselves a fiver!

Thank you for your continued support,

Miss Jarman, Mrs Olphin and Mrs Radley