Welcome to Y6L
Snow Leopards
We are a caring, motivated and enthusiastic class who love to learn. We try to challenge and push ourselves during lesson time and always present our work to the highest possible standard. We endeavour to set a good example to the younger children in our school and help around school wherever possible. We always work as a team and we take collective responsibility for our learning and class behaviour, therefore, as well as our whole school merit system we also have a year group weekly class treat which we can earn through good behaviour and good learning.
Literacy
In year 6, we refer to lots of Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar (SpaG) rules in order to make our work the best it can be! Children will be learning all about the specific grammar and punctuation terminology, drawing on their knowledge from years 3, 4 and 5. There are many more skills that we focus on too; keep an eye out for the homework after Christmas.
Maths
We follow the whole school Big Maths programme, with the focus on the instant recall of basic number facts. Knowing these will allow children to understand more complex problems using bigger numbers as they move through school. If they know their 6 times tables they can also count in 60s, 600s and 0.6s!
Learning challenge
Our learning challenges in year 6 are as follows:
Autumn Term:
All Living Things
Vikings
Antoni Gaudi
Light and Electricity
Spring Term:
Circulatory system
Inheritance
Summer Term:
World War 2
Transition
Homework
In year 6, we give out homework every Tuesday to be returned on the following Tuesday where it will be marked in class as a morning lesson. Children who complete and return their homework on time for a whole term become part of the illustrious “always club” and will receive a special treat at the end of each term.
Reading
We expect children to read with an adult at home for 10mins, 5 times a week and alone as much as possible. This will help children maintain and improve their fluency, expression and comprehension. Our e-books mean that Mr Littlewood can monitor who is reading at home and completing the wink bug challenges therefore we can see who is, and isn’t, understanding their levelled books. In school we mainly read in groups with a teacher once a week, and focus more on understanding the text, inference, noticing patterns and commenting on the author’s intentions.
Please see the reading question bookmarks on our class page to give you some ideas of questions to ask your child when reading with them at home.
Children are responsible for changing their own reading book when needed, a teacher or teaching assistant will advise when your child is ready to move a book band and will monitor children’s targets.
PE
Our PE days are Tuesday and Friday. Please ensure that PE kit (t-shirt, shorts, pumps/trainers) is in school and labelled with your child’s name. Please also remove any earrings and ensure children with long hair have a bobble to tie their hair back. PE will always be outside except in exceptionally bad weather, so a tracksuit and change of outside shoes is required.
Transition
During year 6 we endeavour to prepare all our children for their transition to secondary school to ensure this is as smooth as possible. We work very closely with our feeder secondary school – Ecclesfield Secondary – and our children have many opportunities to visit the school to meet staff and become familiar with the building. We encourage all our children to attend open days at our local secondary schools and these will be authorised as educational visits by school.
Our Twitter account is https://twitter.com/Y6Snowleopards
SATs information
SATs week - date to be confirmed.
Please click the link below to access information on the tests that your child will take in May.
http://www.theschoolrun.com/key-stage-2-SATs-2016
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