Year 6 2024 - 2025

Mr Grierson

Welcome to Year 6's class page!

READY, RESPECTFUL, SAFE

Love Learning, Love Life, Always Aiming High

Staff

Mr Grierson Mrs West Mrs Hodgson

To contact Mr Grierson, please email year6@elton.cheshire.sch.uk

Welcome back Year 6!

I hope you have all enjoyed the Easter break and had a lovely time with family and friends, but are now ready to work hard this term! We have lots to learn and I am very excited about the topics we will be covering, such as: Electrical Systems in DT, Sculpture in art, Baroque and Composing in music, Cafe Culture in French, 3D Modelling and Programming in computing, and Electricity and 'The Titanic' in science. There will be a huge focus upon number strategies this half term; everybody must have quick recall of their times tables (in and out of order) to help us undertake complex sums more efficiently. We will also be recapping our key grammar and vocabulary knowledge, our reading and comprehension skills, and reviewing and editing in our writing. SATs are just around the corner now, so we must be practising all of our essential skills!

As we approach the SATS, any time that you can give to practising maths, spelling and grammar skills would be very beneficial.I have included some revision resources below, which include videos, games and practice questions. Focus on an area/areas you feel you need more practice on. Remember, little and often will work best: 15-20 minutes each day will be better than 4-6 hours on one day!

BBC Bitesize has lots of different revision activities for the KS2 SATs test:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrybvk7#zs82p9q0

CGP, who provide publish reputable revision and question books we often use in school, have free 10-minute tests in key areas:

https://www.cgpbooks.co.uk/resources/ks2-sats-online-10-minute-tests

Education Quizzes has a variety of quick quizzes for KS2 English and Maths (plus other subjects):

https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/

Top Marks has different games to help with spelling, just ensure you select the appropriate age range:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/search.aspx?q=spelling

TT Rockstars is something we use in school to aid children with their times tables, and is a great resource to aid in learning quick recall of multiplication and division:

https://ttrockstars.com/

Adults

We will be supported by different adults in class this year. Mrs West will be our TA in class every morning and most afternoons. She will be assisting me, and will be giving help and guidance to those children in class who require additional support. Mr Wynne will be teaching PE and Mrs Hodgson will be teaching music on Friday afternoon too.

Uniform and Water Bottles

Correct uniform should be worn at all times please. This is a school jumper/cardigan, or one in a similar colour, a white polo neck top, grey skirt, shorts or trousers and black shoes (not trainers). With the exception of one pair of stud earings, no jewellery, nail polish, nails or make-up should be worn to school by children. All children should have a water bottle in school with them, which should be taken home and cleaned daily. Please ensure all uniform and water bottles are named.

PE

This term we are back to two lessons of PE a week. The correct PE must be worn: this is a white top, white or black shorts and trainers or pumps. Jogging bottoms or leggings can be brought in for colder weather, but please try to make sure they are black, navy or grey. Football strips are not to be worn for PE lessons. I would recommend bringing it in at the start of the week (in case you forget it), then taking it home to be washed on the Friday afternoon - this would also help in case PE needs to move around, or we have additional lessons scheduled in.

Homework, Spellings and Reading

Your Learning Log and maths homework will be given out on a Friday and are to be returned the following Wednesday. It is very important that you complete your homework, as it provides you with an extra opportuinty to practise skills we have covered in class and also identify any areas for development we may have. To help with times table proficiency, you might also be set a small activity to complete on TT Rocks. Occasionally, we may give out a piece of homework that lasts for a longer period of time, such as a mini-project, but you will be told about this at the time.

We are continuing to try and develop a love of reading this year. Reading books should be changed frequently and your reading record and reading book should be brought in everyday so that we can keep track of the books you are reading; a wide selection of books of all genres is available in the KS2 library. Reading records will be checked on a Monday and a Thursday and I expect to see that you have read at least three times a week- it is very important that you read as much as possible. Finally, spellings for the entire half-term will be glued into Learning Logs during the first week of term and I expect you to be practising these independently, week by week.