Class Teachers: Catriona Donnellan, Alison Davies, Natasha Morgan and Evie Ley
Welcome
We aim for all Year 6 children to have a fun-filled, exciting and educationally stimulating end to their time at primary school. We provide a broad and balanced curriculum as well as opportunities for children to participate in a range of extra-curricular activities. We also spend a considerable amount of time preparing the children for the transition into secondary school by encouraging them to become independent and organized learners. In addition, we plan an extensive unit of work focusing on all aspects of personal, social and health education in the second half of the summer term to ensure all pupils are well prepared for the next stage of their education.
We will provide broad and balanced teaching opportunities which will promote the spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical development of our pupils and prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life. Children in Year Six have many opportunities to shine, whether through sports, the arts or in academia. Our teaching of British Values alongside the school’s own core values aims to embed pupil empathy, consideration and kindness and develop a common mutual respect for different cultures, societies and religions plus an understanding of the importance of the rule of law and democracy.
Year 6 Teaching Team
| Year Group Leader | Catriona Donnellan |
| Class Teachers | Natasha Morgan and Alison Davies (Baobab Class ) |
| Catriona Donnellan (Banyan Class ) | |
| Evie Ley (Beech Class ) | |
| Specialist Teachers | Rosie Sawyer ( ART) Bren Amooty (PE) Chelsea Orridge-Golding ( PE) |
| Learning support assistants | Lil Mittendorer Amelia Dos Santos Tracey Bush Cansu Ozer Sacha Morris |
Curriculum / Learning
Here are the new school values:
We will act with cooperation because we are a community
We will use creativity to learn and grow.
We will show consideration as everyone is of equal value and importance.
We want our children to:
Know who they are
Respect others for who they are
Never stop learning.
Access to age-appropriate resources from London Grid for Learning
The National Curriculum
Click on the link below for the national curriculum for England
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
English
By the end of Year 6, pupil’s writing and reading is expected to be sufficiently fluent and effortless for them to manage the expected demands of the curriculum in Year 7. Our aim is to prepare our pupils for secondary education by ensuring they can consciously control sentence structure in their writing and understand why sentences are constructed as they are. Also that they understand nuances in vocabulary choice and age-appropriate academic vocabulary through practice and a discussion of language through our ‘Big Read’ and ‘Talk for Writing’ programmes . We will whenever possible, encourage pupil confidence, enjoyment and a mastery of language through public speaking, performance and debating opportunities.
Year 6 English Knowledge and Skills Maps
Mathematics
The principle focus of mathematics in Year 6 is to ensure that pupils extend their understanding of the number system and place value to include larger integers. By the end of Year 6, pupils are expected to be fluent in written methods for all four operations, including long multiplication and division and in working with fractions, decimals and percentages. Furthermore, pupils should be able to solve a wider range of problems, of increasing complexity using efficient written and mental calculations.
Maths Knowledge and Skills Maps Year 6
Science
The principal focus of science teaching in upper key stage 2 is to enable pupils to develop a deeper understanding of a wide range of scientific ideas. Pupils will be encouraged to explore and talk about their ideas, asking their own questions about scientific phenomena. Pupils will be expected to answer science questions using different types of scientific enquiry, including: observing changes over different periods of time, noticing patterns, grouping and classifying things, carrying out comparative and fair tests and finding things out using a wide range of secondary sources of information. Also drawing conclusions based on their data and observations and using evidence to justify their ideas and to use their scientific knowledge and understanding to explain their findings.
Year 6 Science knowledge and skills Maps
Foundation Subjects
The following subjects: Art and Design, Design and Technology (D&T), Geography, History, Computing, French (MFL), Music, Physical Education (PE), Religious Education (RE) and Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Education (SMSC)/Citizenship are taught within exciting topic lessons over the academic year.
Topics are driven by different subjects (e.g. History and Religious Education). All foundation subjects will be taught through this cross-curricular approach providing the different disciplines with a practical learning context. Each new topic commences with a planned ‘launch’. Launches may be a workshop, a school trip, a visitor/guest/parent presenting to the year group, the sampling of international foods/dance and/or opportunities to celebrate cultural/religious festivals. To discover the Foundation Subject Skills and Knowledge we will be teaching within the topics download the skills and knowledge link below.
Year 6 Foundation subjects knowledge and skills maps
Ourselves and others
These lessons will focus equipping the children with important and essential life and citizenship skills. Our school uses the PSHE Association, St John’s Ambulance and Christopher Winter Project (CWP) lessons and resources when delivering RSHE. Further information regarding the teaching of RSHE can be found in our (RSHE) policy which can be accessed from our Policies page on our school website. The schemes of work for each year can be found on the Curriculum page on our school website.
Year 6 will be looking at Wider living, First aid (choking), Preventing early drug use and Puberty, relationships and reproduction
Ourselves and Others – Year 6 knowledge and skills maps
French
French Year 6 Knowledge and skills maps
Routines/Timetable
Physical Education days
6CD & 6EL : PE on Thursday afternoons
6MD : PE on Monday & Wednesday
Please ensure that children bring their PE kit to school in time for their lessons each week. Long hair must be tied back, they should wear the Rhodes Avenue PE T-shirt, appropriate sports trousers or shorts and appropriate footwear for the session.
Routines/Timetable
Music
- Orchestra – TBC
- Junior Choir – TBC
- Boyband -Friday am
Specialist sessions
- Art – Rosie Sawyer
- PE -Chelsea Orridge-Golding and Ben Eagan
- Music -Dan Shafran
- French – Samantha Gape
Secondary School Application Information
Educated out of Chronological Age Group
