2023-2024

Welcome to Year 6, 

Our Year 6 team is excited to be working with our pupils and families during the coming year.  We will be using our Year 6 page to keep families informed with what’s going on.  Please do take time to check this for regular weekly updates about our learning in class, as well as notes and important dates for the coming week.

Where possible we will share photographs of our activities and may even upload some images of our work so that you can see what we are enjoying!

The academic year is a really important milestone for our pupils who are enjoying lots of exciting events.  This includes tasks and activities with us at Upton, as well as a residential trip away from school to Conway, but is also a key moment when they will be moving on to pastures new at their respective high schools.

We are very much looking forward to working with our families this academic year.

Thank you,

Mrs Marshall, Miss Lamptey and Mr Haynes

 

Items to Remember…

PE will be on a Wednesday and Thursday (PE kits MUST be in school everyday)

Homework will be given out on a Friday and is to be returned the following Wednesday at the latest.

Spellings will be given out at the beginning of the term (if you mislay yours, speak to your teacher ASAP) and will be tested on a Wednesday.  Please remember to use ‘Spellingframe’ to practise the rules.

Reading Records are to be returned to school everyday, but must be available for your class teacher to check on Wednesday .

 

Our Autumn 1 Curriculum

The highlight of this half term will be our residential trip to Conway (6th-8th November 2023) where we will have the most amazing time learning in an out of school setting. When we return, we will write a letter/postcard thanking the staff at the Conway centre. In English, we will be looking at features and structures of a non-chronological report and writing in the style of a diary entry. Our class read this half term will be Holes by Louis Sachar. In maths, we will be studying the four operations, looking at both mental and written methods. In science, our topic will be Living Things. We will also be studying the Ancient Greeks in History.

 

Class Reading Spine

Here is our incredible Class Reading Spine! These books are proudly displayed on our class bookshelf.
We have chosen these as ambitious texts which cover a range of genres, themes and characters. They include narrative, poetry and non-fiction texts, to ensure our children’s reading diet is widely varied.

The class teacher will read these aloud to the children at the end of every school day. If your child particularly enjoys one of these texts, you may wish to purchase other books from the same author (many of which can be found in our school library).

 

Book Recommendations 

Please follow the below link which will take you to a document containing a reading recommendation list for your child’s class.

We would encourage you to share these with your child(ren) and let us know if you have read/enjoyed any of the books on the list.

We would love to hear what you have been reading!

Y6 Book Recommendations


Meet the Team

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Year 6 Electricity

Year 6 have been exploring how the brightness of a bulb can be affected by removing or adding components to the electrical circuit.

Jingle Jog

This afternoon Year 6 had lots of fun running around school doing the 'Jingle Jog' helping to raise money for East Cheshire Hospice!

Year 6 have completed their Greek Topic Homeworks and brought them into school to share.  I'm sure you agree, they look fantastic!