Year 6 2023 - 2024

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 Deakin

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

 

 

Welcome back Year 6!

I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas break, celebrating with family and friends - I look forward to hearing about everything you have gotten up to! This is our last full term before we have the SATs tests to tackle, so I hope you are ready for a term full of new topics, such as Healthy Bodies and Sikhism, and also recapping and continuing previous learning too, for example Climate Zones and Website Design. Our theme for this term is 'Evolution and Inheritance', thinking about the question 'Have we always looked like this?', which we will cover in lots of detail during our P4C lessons, our Science in Spring 2 - which is on Evolution and our English in Spring 2 - which is the Island by Jason Chin. We will be practising and recalling key skills for Maths and Reading, and developing our re-reading and editing in writing too!

 

Adults

Mrs Deakin will be covering in class on Thursday afternoon, to take you swimming with Mrs West, and also to teach RE on Friday afternoon for an hour. We also lucky to have Mrs West supporting in class all week, morning and afternoon, to assist me and provide extra help to those children who may require it.

 

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). For PE, 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. Please ensure all uniform and water bottles are named, and that water bottles are taken home and cleaned daily.

 

PE

For PE, we are lucky enough to be going swimming on a Thursday afternoon this term. You must ensure you bring your swimming kit in with you for this or you will be unable to take part. As instructed on the letter sent home, boys should have swimming trunks and a towel and girls should have a one-pice swimming costume and a towel.

 

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.

 

English

Our English books for this term, taught through Pathways to Write, are:

Spring 1 = The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde 

Spring 2 = Island by Jason Chin

 

Reading

Our reading books for this term, taught through Pathways to Read, are:

Spring 1 = The Happy Prince and Ohter Tales by Oscar Wilde

Spring 2 = The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

 

Shared Novel

Our class novels for this term are:

Spring 1 = Jonathan Swift's Gulliver retold by Martin Jenkins 

Spring 2 = The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

 

If you wish to contact me, please use the year6@elton.cheshire.sch.uk email or see me at the end of the day.

Mr Grierson

Year 6: News items

Bingo Night, by Mrs Davies

Year 6: Blog items

There are no blog items to display

Year 6: Gallery items

There are no Gallery items to display

Year 6: Calendar items

There are no Calendar items to display

Files to Download

Elton Primary School
School Lane, Elton,
Chester,
Cheshire CH2 4LT
Headteacher: Mr Kevin Manning
Main Contact: Miss E Jackson, Mrs C Davies or Mrs K Henderson
SENCO - Mrs Samantha Higginson