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. 

Spring Term Class Information

Dear Parents / Carers,

Welcome back to the Spring Term. The Criw Ceffyl topic for this term is ’Our Wonderful Welsh Landscape’, which is a humanities-based topic. 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: language, literacy and communication, mathematics and numeracy, science and technology, humanities, expressive arts and health and well-being.

In our science and technology lessons, we will be learning about light and sound. In our literacy lessons, we will continue to look at a variety of written text types including narrative writing, persuasion and poetry. We will be working on multiplication and division, fractions, decimals, percentages and measures in our mathematics and numeracy lessons. 

For the first half term, PE lessons will take place on a Wednesday and the children will be going swimming on a Friday afternoon. After half term, PE will take place on a Wednesday and Friday. We have organised cycling proficiency training for the children for the week of 16^th - 20^th March. More details about this will be sent to you shortly.

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.

Homework will continue to 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 a 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 on the files section of Teams as well as on the website. We will also continue to use MyMaths for some of the maths homework activities. Each week a reminder of the homework activities will be posted on the chat function of Teams.

Our class residential to Llanmadoc will take place after the Easter holidays, from the 29th April to 1st May. More details about this will be forwarded soon. 

More information with regards to Spring events and forthcoming clubs will be added on 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

Kind Regards,

A.Baker

Year 6 Homework Activities

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

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

We went to see 'Theatr Na Nog's' performance 'The Boxer'.

We created environmental art in the school grounds in the style of Andy Goldsworthy.

Useful Website Links