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. 

Summer Term Class Information

The Summer Term is already upon us and it always proves to be an extremely busy and exciting term for the Year 6 class. Our main topic for this term will be ‘Lights, Camera, Action!’, an Expressive Arts based topic centred around, drama, film and performance. 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: Languages, Literacy and Communication, Mathematics and Numeracy, Science and Technology, Humanities, Expressive Arts and Health and Well-being. We will be learning in maths about measures, shapes, position and movement, alongside number work. In science, our topic is habitats and food chains. We will also be concentrating on English and maths, throughout the first half term and the beginning of the second half term whilst the children carry out some informal assessments alongside the National Numeracy Procedural, Reasoning and Literacy Tests.

During the second half term we will spend time working on transition. Those children going to Gowerton next year will be attending Gowerton Comprehensive for four transition days on the 7^th, 8^th, 9^th and 10th July. Children attending Olchfa Comprehensive School will be going for four transition days on the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^{rd and} 4^th July. Children attending other schools will be contacted directly by their respective schools to inform them of transition events.

We also have our residential, sports day, Crucial Criw and the beach trip to squeeze in and look forward to! More information with regards to these events and forthcoming clubs will be added on to the school website when dates and arrangements have been confirmed.

For your information, PE lessons will take place on a Wednesday and Friday. 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. 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.

Thank you for your continued support.

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 out 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