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’s 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 White will continue to teach Year 6 on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesday afternoons 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. The children will have the opportunity to take part in a mock trial with Sean Bostock, a local magistrate. They will be using role-play to bring to life a full trial involving magistrates, clerks, witnesses and solicitors and even a court artist.  

Alongside these interesting and engaging units of work, we’ll also be continuing to challenge our musical abilities during our weekly music sessions on Mondays and perfecting our Spanish on Tuesdays.

The children will be participating in weekly Forest School sessions led by Mrs Distin-Webster this term too. The sessions will take place on Friday afternoons and the children will need the following clothing to change into:

• Outdoor shoes – walking boots or wellingtons
• A long sleeved t-shirt
• Trousers
• A jacket – preferably waterproof
• Waterproof over-trousers if possible

During Forest School sessions, the children are encouraged to work with others to carry out activities such as den/shelter building, fire lighting, camp fire cooking, role play, exploration, practical, creative skills and tasks.

Some key information:

Music – Monday mornings

Spanish – Tuesday mornings

P.E. – Tuesday afternoons

Forest School – Friday afternoons

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 checked each morning to see if they have read.

Thank you for your continued support,

Miss Jarman, Mrs White and Mrs Radley