Year 6 2024 - 2025

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, Sikhism, Climate Zones and Games 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 and RE 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

We will be supported by different adults in class this year. Mrs West will be our TA in class every morning and most afternoons. She will be assisting me, and will be giving help and guidance to those children in class who require additional support. Mrs Deakin will be covering in class on Wednesday afternoons, where she will be taking you swimming.

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. Football strips are not to be worn for PE lessons. All children should have a water bottle in school with them, which should be taken home and cleaned daily. Please ensure all uniform and water bottles are named.

PE

This term, for PE, you will be going swimming. You must have the correct kit for this, including sensible swimwear, a towel and a bag (preferably plastic or waterproof, so everything else doesn't get wet). Girls should bring a one-piece swimming suit and boys should bring above-the-knee swimming shorts or trunks. Goggles can be brought, but aren't essential. I would recommend bringing it in at the start of the week (in case you forget it), then taking it home to be washed on the Wednesday afternoon, after swimming.

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.