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

Welcome back to a new term at Pen y fro Primary School!

The Summer Term is always a busy and exciting phase of the school year. The Criw Ceffyl topic for this term is ‘Creative Spark’. We will align our studies with the six areas of learning in the Welsh curriculum (Literacy, Languages 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 life and living processes. In our literacy lessons, we will continue to look at a variety of written text types including narrative writing and explanation texts. We will be working on probability, space, shape and measure in our mathematics and numeracy lessons. We will also be concentrating on English and maths, throughout the first half term whilst the children carry out some informal assessments alongside the National Numeracy, Reasoning and Literacy Tests.

PE will take place on Wednesday and Friday. May I take this opportunity to remind you that appropriate PE kit needs to be worn for these activities.

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 Friday. Each week for homework there will be an additional task alternating between a maths task and a topic related task. 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. 

This is an extremely busy term for the Year 6 class, with lots of exciting events, activities and trips to look forward to. We have our Year 6 residential for to look forward to from the 30^th April to the 1^st May. We will be going on a visit to the Waterfront Museum on 12^th June for a ‘Crucial Crew’ event, which involves PSE linked workshop sessions delivered by a range of professionals from many different partner organisations, agencies and charities. We have a number of transition events to look forward to, information regarding these will be issued later in the term. There are also a number of sporting events which take place during this term, consent forms will be e-mailed for these. 

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 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.

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