Welcome to Year 6!

We hope your child enjoys the wonderful world of Year 6 

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to speak to a member of the Year 6 team. 

You can contact class teachers directly through ClassDojo. Alternatively, you can phone the school office or leave a message with Mrs Dunstan, Mrs Layton or Mrs Nevell, who will be out by the school gates each morning.

We would like to thank you for your continued support.

Our curriculum web contains all of the subjects that we will be covering this half term. There is also a vocabulary page, which has topic-specific words that will be used during these lessons.

Home Learning

Please read with your child as often as possible.

There can be few things as powerful as regularly reading to a young child. It has astonishing benefits for children: comfort and reassurance, confidence and security, relaxation, happiness and fun. Giving a child time and full attention when reading them a story tells them they matter. It builds self-esteem, vocabulary, feeds imagination and even improves their sleeping patterns. (Literacy Trust)

Evidence suggests that children who read for enjoyment every day not only perform better in reading tests than those who don’t, but also develop a broader vocabulary, increased general knowledge and a better understanding of other cultures. In fact, reading for pleasure is more likely to determine whether a child does well at school than their social or economic background. (Pearson) 

The children all have accounts on TTRockStars, where they can practise their times tables.

If your child is isolating and is well enough to complete school work, they can continue to access the work that we are completing in class through Showbie.

School Uniform

Children should wear school uniform on non-PE days, unless otherwise informed.

• Dark grey/black shorts (above the knee), trousers (full length), skirt, culottes or pinafore
• White polo shirt (with or without school logo) or plain white shirt/blouse
• Yellow sweatshirt or cardigan with school logo
• White/grey socks or grey/black tights
• Summer Term - yellow gingham dress may be worn
• Plain black school shoes or trainers

Additional information:

• Hair that is shoulder length or longer should be tied back and long fringes should be pinned away from the face (boys and girls)
• Hair that is graded should not be less than a grade 2
• Children should not have dyed, gelled or extremely cut or styled hair
• Hair accessories should be plain-coloured (yellow, green, brown or black) and they should not wear JoJo Bows, cats' ears unicorn horns etc.
• Nail varnish or false nails are not permitted

PE Days

Please can children come to school in their PE kit on their PE days (Tuesday and Friday).

They will need to wear:

• plain black sports shorts, joggers, leggings or skort (shorts should be a minimum of mid-thigh length) 
• yellow t-shirts with school logo
• yellow school sweatshirts / cardigans with school logo
• trainers (not football trainers)