Year 6

Welcome to Year 6!

A huge welcome to the class of 2023! Welcome back to normality, whole class lessons and seeing all of your classmates. We still need to be Covid-aware and follow certain hygiene rules and procedures; myself and Mrs Presant (AKA The Dream Team!) are looking forward to a fabulous year: exploring the globe from the frozen North to the deserts of Africa; from the Ancient Benins to the most up to date techniques in forensic science and crime fighting. Fitting in Rhos Y Gwaliau, performances and those little things called SATs along the way.

Our Topic Web for this year looks like this:

	Topic	Focus	Science	Book we will be Studying ( It would be really helpful if your child had their own copy)	Trips/ enhancement	British/ Christian Values
Autumn 1	Maafa	History Focus	Light	Freedom by Catherine Johnson Journey to Jo'burg		Britishness, Rule of law Forgiveness Community Endurance Joy
Autumn 2	Maafa (2)	Music/ History Focus	Living Things & their Habitats	No Ballet shoes in Syria	British museum? 18^th Nov	Community Joy Democracy – Mayan Voting Rule of law Mayan
Spring 1	Frozen Kingdom	Geography	Classifying living thing	Shackleton's Journey By William Grill		Endurance Resilience
Spring 2	Frozen Kingdom (2)	Science & Computing focus	Evolution & Inheritance		Natural History Museum	Rule of law Democracy Individualism
Summer1	War	Biology	Humans and other animals	Goodnight Mr Tom Michelle Magorian	RYG
Summer 2	War	History- Britain at War	Electricity	When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit	IWM Classroom Legoland

HOW EXCITING... The Countdown has begun... Rhos Y Gwaliau 2023

Rhos y Gwaliau Outdoor Education Centre

Cookham Dean has a valued and long-standing relationship with the Rhos y Gwaliau Outdoor Education Centre: it is situated in stunning open countryside on the eastern side of the Snowdonia National Park. They have easy access to scenic mountains, tranquil lakes, awe-inspiring coastlines and breath-taking rivers and pride themselves on their outstanding ability to deliver a wide range of high quality outdoor education programmes with a variety of activities to suit all ages and abilities, including those of our Year 6 children.

Their inspirational, highly qualified team are passionate about the benefits of outdoor education for young people and adults; the skills, knowledge and memories that can be gained on one of their residential courses will stay with your child for life.

Groups at Rhos y Gwaliau have sole use of the accommodation and facilities. Combined with their small and dedicated staff team this means we get maximum flexibility in their programme and instruction delivered by staff who can really get to know the Year 6 pupils they work with.

Here you will find all the information needed for the residential trip for our Year 6 pupils in May.

Included on this page:

Recording of the parent briefing (on Classdojo)
Medical consent form
Medication form
Statement of risk
Kit list

RYG FORMS & PPT

In this 12 week project the children will learn about the characteristics and features of polar regions, including the North and South Poles, and includes a detailed exploration of the environmental factors that shape and influence them.

The people who discovered them and the current occupants as well as ice based adventures.

SATS 2023

PARENT'S BRIEFING 2023

SATs_Parents_Presentation_2023.pptx

We are getting ready for SATS this year. The tests start on 9th May, after the Bank holiday.

in Year 6, the tests become slightly stricter: they are timed and teachers are unable to give most pupils breaks once they have begun.

Pupils with specific needs may have access arrangements made to assist them in the tests.

Tuesday 9 May 2023

English grammar, punctuation and spelling, papers 1 and 2

Pupils will sit one grammar and punctuation paper, and one spelling paper.

The grammar and punctuation paper is a mixture of multiple-choice and short-answer questions.

The spelling paper requires the pupil to listen to their teacher as a transcript is read and spell out the missing words in their answer booklet.

Wednesday 10 May 2023

Reading

The reading paper requires pupils to read a booklet that contains three extracts. They must then answer questions that test them on their comprehension.

Thursday 11 May 2023

Mathematics papers 1 and 2

Paper one is on arithmetic and pupils are not permitted to use a calculator.

Paper two is on reasoning and pupils are not permitted to use a calculator.

Friday 12 May 2023

Mathematics paper 3

Paper three is also on reasoning and pupils are not permitted to use a calculator.

THEN THATS IT!

HELP WITH REVISION

Year 6 Welcome Handouts for Parents/ Carers

Please find below a useful list of resources for Year 6 including spelling lists and websites.

Homework

We will give Maths and Literacy homework every Thursday for return on Tuesday.

It is vital your child reads nightly and reads aloud at least three times a week. ( Even Free Readers.) They must be able to discuss the text and more importantly their opinion of the text and author.

Here is a guide you could use

Thank you to all those who made the Meet & Greet today. Here are the slides I showed:

Meet & Greet 2023

Some useful documents

YEARLY OBJECTIVE OVERVIEWS.pdf

Our first topic of the term is A Child's War. We will be researching life both on the home front and that of the Germans through the eyes of a child. We shall read Anne Frank's Diary, Letters from the lighthouse and Goodnight Mister Tom. Here is the PICK AND MIX HOMEWORK: