Class Teachers: Emel Ali, Alison Davies, James Farmer

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 organised 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.

Values 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. 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.

Our School Values for this academic year are: Co-operation (Autumn 1), Empathy (Autumn 2), Forgiveness (Spring 1), Fairness (Spring 2), Kindness (Summer 1) and Loyalty (Summer 2).

Year 6 Teaching Team

Class Teachers	Emel Ali (Phase Leader)
Banyan Class (6EA)	Emel Ali
Beech Class (6JF)	James Farmer
Baobab Class (6AD)	Alison Davies
Teaching Support	Wendy Armah (HLTA)
	Kym Barnard-Lim (HLTA)
	Tom Hoffman-Lagro
Specialist Teaching	Demi Jeffels (Mathematics + English)
	Maria Panayiotou (Mathematics + English)
	Emily Gazzard Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG)
Specialist Teachers	Brendan Amooty (P.E.)
Specialist Teachers	Nadine Chadier (French)
	Rosie Sawyer (Art)

Curriculum / Learning

Children in Year Six have many opportunities to shine, whether through sports, the arts or in academia. Year Six pupils take the lead in the Christmas performance, accompanied by the rest of the school, and perform again at the end of the year in the Year Six Production. Year 6 pupils are also encouraged to take on more responsibility around the school as Peer Mediators or Junior Sports Leaders.

Pupils also have the chance to participate in outdoor, adventurous activities, as well as learn important lessons about team work and perseverance, during our residential trip to Caythorpe in April. The children challenge themselves to jump off tall buildings, scale walls and kayak, all within the watchful eye of trained teachers and PGL staff! Our PGL trip is a real highlight of the year and provides a well-deserved treat

in amongst all the hard work.

English Downloads

Help Your Child to Read: Guidance

Year 5 and Year 6 Spelling Words

Questions to Support Reading Comprehension

English Programme of Study

Mathematics Downloads

Guidance for Year 6 Calculations

Mathematics Programme of Study

Science Downloads

Science Programme of Study

Foundation Subjects

Throughout the year, your children will be able to learn through the various topics which form our Creative Curriculum. Each topic will be driven by different subjects (e.g. History and Religious Education) thus all subjects will be taught in the a cross-curricular fashion, this means that each subject will at some point be taught within a topic which will provide it with a practical learning context.

Every new topic commences with a planned ‘launch’, this may be a workshop, a visitor/guest/parent presenting to Year 5, a national dance or cultural/religious celebration and/or sampling national foods. See the Curriculum Map below to view what we are teaching this academic year.

Foundation Subject Downloads

Year 6 Curriculum Map

The Foundation Subject skills we that will be teaching this year

Topics Overview

This year our topics will be:

Autumn 1	Mysteries of the Mayans (history focus: an ancient non-European society)
Autumn 2	Islam (RE focus: What does it mean to belong to a religion?)
Spring 1 & Spring 2	Born Free (RE focus: How should we live and who can inspire us)
Summer 1	Where the Sun Never Sets – The British Empire (history focus: a study of an aspect in British History beyond 1066)
Summer 2	Lost (Geography focus: Mapping and fieldwork skills)

Music

Orchestra – Mondays at 14.30 pm
Junior Choir – Mondays at 09:00 am
Chamber Choir – Mondays at 12:15 pm
Boy Band – Thursdays at 09:00 am

Physical Activity

P.E. lessons are on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Homework

Homework will take a number of different forms this year. Each week there will be one main piece of homework to be completed. This will be sent home on a Thursday and will be expected in on the following Monday. There will also be a small amount of maths homework set three times a week to reinforce concepts taught in maths groups. Grammar homework and spelling lists will be set on Mondays for the following Monday. Pupils will be encouraged to record homework tasks in their planners and spelling lists will be stuck in each week. We would be grateful if parents/carers could sign pupils’ planners. We also encourage all pupils to read for at least 20 minutes a night.

School Day

Please make sure your child is in the playground ready for the bell at 8.55am. Lessons will start promptly at 9.00am.

Backing Tracks for Song writing competition:

Song 1
Song 2
Song 3
Song 4
Song 5

Year 6 Media

Videos

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