Year 6

Welcome to the Year 6 class page. Here you will find useful information and reminders related to our general routines and activities, aswell as links to helpful websites and online resources.

This is also a space where we will share and celebrate some of the interesting and exciting activities we will be carrying out in school.

Autumn Term Class Information

Welcome back to a new and exciting year at Pen y fro Primary School. The year Criw Ceffyl topic for this term will be ‘Horrible History’, focussing on the Tudor and Stuart periods of history. The children will be involved in the planning of our topic work and we will use their ideas to form the basis of our studies. The work will link to the six areas of learning: literacy and communication, mathematics and numeracy, science and technology, humanities, expressive arts and health and well-being. If you have any books or items of interest related to the class topic, please send them in for your child to show to the rest of the class.

In our science and technology lessons, we will be learning about electricity. In our literacy lessons, we will continue to look at a variety of written text types including narrative writing, discussion texts and playscripts. We will be working on place value, handling data, calculations, area and perimeter in our mathematics and numeracy lessons.

PE lessons will take place on Thursday and Friday; please ensure that children bring an appropriate kit for PE days in a small bag.

The children may bring fruit for breaktime either in their lunchbox or in a small tub. They may also bring a bottle of water. Please ensure that these are all labelled.

The children will be given a new ‘reading record’ which can be taken home, but will need to be in school each day. Please listen to your child read as often as possible and feel free to make comments in their reading record. A discussion with your child about what they read can also help to check understanding.

Homework will be issued on a Friday, via Teams, to be handed in the following Wednesday. As part of their homework children will be expected to write spelling sentences or a spelling story each week. The children will all be given a paper copy of their spelling words; the words can also be located in the files section of Teams. Spelling tests will continue to take place on Friday. Each week for homework there will be an additional task alternating between a maths task and a topic related task from the homework grid. The new topic related homework grid will also be available in the files section of Teams. We will also continue to use MyMaths for some of the maths homework activities. Children’s usernames and passwords will remain the same as last year. Each week a reminder of the homework activities will be posted on the chat function of Teams. The first homework will be issued on Friday 12^th September and will be spelling sentences and a maths task.

More information with regards to Autumn events, class trips and forthcoming clubs will be added to the school website when dates and arrangements have been confirmed.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued help and support. If you have any queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us via the school office.

Telephone: 01792 203728

Email penyfroprimaryschool@penyfro.swansea.sch.uk

Year 6 Homework Activities

Homework tasks will be set on Teams. Information will be posted onto the files section of Teams.

We held a Numeracy Week and the Year 6 children participated in the 'Potato Olympics'!!

We have been celebrating Numeracy Week with a fun and creative challenge – the Potato Olympics! Each child brought in their own potato, decorated it as a unique character, and took part in a series of exciting events. From measuring distances in the potato shot put to timing races in the potato sprint, the children used their numeracy skills to record, compare, and analyse results. It’s been fantastic to see the enthusiasm.

We visited 'The Wetlands' to learn about climate change and plastic pollution