Year 6BC

We will continue to work hard across the next few weeks and we know you will continue to support your children at home.

SATs week is Monday, 12 May – Thursday, 15 May. The week will be very stressful, and we will hold an information afternoon closer to the time to give advice on how the week will run, as well as how you can help support your child at home.

This Summer term, our History topic will be Immigration to Manchester. This is such an exciting and interesting topic, which we’re sure the children will love learning about. We’ll learn all about how people have been moving to Britain, and Manchester, since the Stone Age! In Geography, we will be reviewing all the material children have learnt at Unity. This unit will include mountains, rivers, time zones, biomes and map work. We will also be undertaking an investigation and conducting fieldwork, comparing Cheetham Hill to a coastal area.

For PSHE, this term will be focused on Relationships and Sexual Education. These lessons are compulsory apart from sexual reproduction, which children can be withdrawn from. If you wish to withdraw your child, please come and view the lesson materials and discuss any concerns with the class teacher.

In our Writing we will be exploring formal letter writing. Children will be tasked with writing a persuasive letter to the Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham. We will be sending these letters to him directly and hopefully he responds! We will also be continuing to write fiction stories linked to our class novel, The Nowhere Emporium.

In Maths for this term, we’ll continue revising for SATs, looking at everything we have learnt so far this year. We will also continue to focus on being able to reason worded problems around our mathematical knowledge. This is really important as there are two reasoning SATs papers.

Our PE sessions will continue to be on a Tuesday and Wednesday with a focus on team building and strategy. As the children are in Year 6, it is their responsibility to remember their kit each week as this will prepare them for Year 7. Children must remember to come to school on a Wednesday morning in PE kit and bring their uniform to get changed into afterwards.

Our school PE kit is: A white t-shirt and dark coloured shorts or tracksuit bottoms and trainers or pumps. Can we ask for no cropped T-shirts or bright coloured PE kits and no jewellery.

Homework: In Year 6 we will send your child home with a list of either literacy or arithmetic questions each Friday, this is a good opportunity to revise anything we have learnt in our lessons. There will also be a list of spellings which pupils will be tested on weekly.

Reading books: Please can you listen to your child read to you at home as often as possible (ideally for 5 minutes every day). Please can reading books come into school every day so children can regularly read and change their books; this really helps their reading progress quickly!

Jewellery: Please note, only stud earrings and a watch are allowed in school. No rings, dangly earrings, necklaces or bracelets. We appreciate that your child may want to wear them, but it is for health and safety reasons. Thank you for your cooperation.

If you’d like to talk to any of the Year 6 team, please look out for us in the playground before and after school. We are always happy to speak to you about any concerns you may have.

We’re looking forward to a fantastic year with your children.

The Year 6 Team,

Mr Cook, Miss Patrick, Mrs Oliver, Mrs Mendieta, Miss Rourke and Mrs Choudhary