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 to the Autumn Term in Year 6. The Criw Ceffyl topic for this term is ’Victorians and their Incredible Inventions’, which is a humanities-based topic, focussing on the Victorian era. 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 electricity and magnetism. In our literacy lessons, we will continue to look at a variety of written text types including narrative writing, reports, plays and discussion texts. We will be working on place value to millions and decimals, data handling, the four rules of number, area, perimeter, ratio and negative number in our mathematics and numeracy lessons.

For the first half term, PE lessons will take place on a Thursday and Friday. Please could the children bring appropriate kits.

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 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.

More information with regards to Autumn 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

Year 6 Homework Activities

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