WELCOME TO YEAR 6
Mr Harrington and Miss Epps would like to welcome you all to Year 6 at Christ Church Junior School.
We would like to explain how Year 6 is organised and also highlight important aspects of our year group.
STAFF
Mr Harrington – Warhol Class Teacher
Miss Epps – Britto Class Teacher
Mrs Viney – Warhol Class Teaching assistant
Mrs Haycock – Britto Class Teaching assistant
Mr Walker – Year 6 Teaching assistant and Sports Coach
CURRICULUM SUBJECTS
English will incorporate Creative Writing, Spelling, Grammar, Reading and Comprehension, Speaking-Listening, Drama, Handwriting, Non-fiction work and Research Skills. We expect the children to read for a minimum of 15 minutes every evening. Please ensure your child records this in their reading diary.
Maths will include Mental Arithmetic, Using and Applying Maths, Number Facts, Calculations, Understanding Number, Shape, Measures and Data Handling. We expect children to know all times-tables up to 12 x 12. Please work with your child to learn these vital number facts.
Year 6 topics this year will include: Crime and Punishment, Economic Activity, WWII The Home Front, WWII The Battle of Britain and Sustainability.
We also teach Computing, French, PE, Games, Art, Design and Technology, PHSE, Music and RE.
EQUIPMENT
Your child will bring home a reading diary daily with their AR book.
PE kits should be left in school as PE takes place regularly during the week. No jewellery should be worn, so if your child wears earrings please show them how to remove them or supply your child with Micro-pore tape to cover them. It is also asked that long hair is tied back for PE. A dark coloured track suit is needed for outdoor PE along with a plain white T-Shirt and trainers. For indoor dance and gymnastics a plain white T-Shirt and close fitting blue or black plain shorts along with plimsolls are required.
It is also important that water bottles are brought in daily.
PLEASE LABEL ALL UNIFORM CLEARLY
HOMEWORK
Although homework is not explicitly set in year 6, there are a few expectations. We would like TT Rockstars to be completed at home regularly (3x week) for about 15 minutes. Additionally, completing the assignments on Spelling Shed each week. Finally, reading should be happening every evening for 15 minutes.
SCHOOL TRIPS
During the year we will plan a number of trips both locally and further afield, such as visiting Ramsgate’s Wartime Tunnels to support our History learning and Discovery Park at Sandwich to support Science learning. There is also the opportunity for children to come away on a residential trip to PGL near Ashford which will be packed full of exciting outdoor activities! A consent form is signed at the beginning of the year, which covers all local trips by foot.
EXPECTATION:
We hope that all children in Year 6 will have by now developed a responsible and mature attitude towards each other and in their approach to their work. There will be a strong emphasis on each child ‘doing his/her best’ in order to achieve their potential. Our aim is to encourage independence in working yet also promote co-operation in group situations. Good effort and behaviour will be positively reinforced.
In Year 6 we aim to both manage any unacceptable behaviour as well as praising and rewarding excellent work and attitude from pupils.
We look forward to being able to reward children for hard work, effort and behaviour at school. Each week class teachers will choose a pupil to receive the ‘Head Teacher’s Award’ during Celebration Assembly. The school also awards a few children, whose behaviour is always exemplary with a ‘Care, Courtesy and Consideration’ trip three times a year – two children from each class. We will be looking for Year 6 children who demonstrate these qualities to be put forward for these days out. On a daily basis, children will be working towards ‘dojo points’ as recognition for an excellent piece of work or superb attitude in school.
We are very much looking forward to working with you and your children in the coming year. If, at anytime, you have a query or concern, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher.
Thank you for your support.
Mr Harrington and Miss Epps
The Year 6 Teaching Team