Welcome all Year 6 parents and pupils.

Children’s Mental Health Week 2021 – Express Yourself

From 1-7 February 2021 schools, youth groups, organisations and individuals across the UK will take part in Children’s Mental Health Week. This year’s theme is Express Yourself.

Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through creativity. This could be through art, music, writing and poetry, dance and drama, photography and film, and doing activities that make you feel good.

It’s important to remember that being able to express yourself is not about being the best at something or putting on a performance for others. It is about finding a way to show who you are, and how you see the world, that can help you feel good about yourself.

For Children’s Mental Health Week 2021 we will be encouraging children (and adults) to explore the different ways we can express ourselves, and the creative ways that we can share our feelings, our thoughts and our ideas.

We will be posting a range of activities to support Children’s Mental Health Week this week on to our Google Classroom. 

 

This week’s remote learning timetable:

Y6 Timetable – 1st February

Every Friday, Year 6 hold a ‘Year Group Catch Up’, which often celebrates the fantastic work completed at home and at school.

Here are the slides for the previous weeks’ assemblies:

Year 6 Celebration assembly – 29th January

Year 6 Celebration assembly – 22nd January 2021

Year 6 Celebration assembly – 15th January

Year 6 Celebration assembly – 8th January

Here is this week’s online learning timetable. Click the PDF to find out this week’s learning objectives.

Any further updates will be on Google Classroom.

Y6 Timetable – 25th January

 

Please find below our Year 6 timetable for remote learning tasks for this week. All further updates will be given on Google Classroom. This week’s learning objectives can be found on the timetable.

Year 6 Remote Learning Timetable – Week beginning 18th January 2021

 

Our live lessons shall be held each day this week at 1.45pm. We shall also be holding our Year Group Catch up on Friday at 3pm.

First of all, we would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year.

Unfortunately, due to recent announcements we will have to continue our remote learning a little longer. Please make sure that you are logging in to Google Classroom regularly to complete the set tasks. Do not worry if you cannot complete them all. Remember, we are always here to help.

Each week, there will be one class teacher and teaching assistant working in school with the key worker children, whilst the other class teacher will be setting and marking work that has been set on Google Classroom for those children working at home.

Y6 Timetable – 4th January

The Year 6 team

 

What are we learning this week?

English –

We shall be planning and beginning to write an informal letter to Rose Blanche offering her advice about what to do next.

 

Maths –

We shall be looking at BODMAS.

 

Science –

We shall be exploring how light travels in straight lines.

 

History –

This week, we shall be looking at how the role of women changed during WW2.

 

PE –

Our PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday. Please remember that children need to wear their full PE kit and their Howard Primary jumper. We shall have an additional PE session on Monday run by the Croydon School’s Partnership.

 

Spelling –

This week’s spelling focus is:

Words containing the letter-string ough

Examples: borough, bough, bought, brought, dough, enough, fought, nought, ought, plough, rough, thorough, though, thought, through, tough

 

RE/Art –

We shall be making origami angels as part of our learning of the Christmas story.

What are we learning this week?

English –

We shall be planning and writing a diary entry as Rose Blanche after she has witnessed a scene in our book. We shall then be looking at drawing and annotating a setting and using hotseating and conscience alley to help develop our understanding of our character.

 

Maths –

We shall be looking at co-ordinates.

 

Science –

We shall be starting our new topic of Light. In our first session, we shall be exploring key vocabulary and what a light source is.

 

History –

We have been very fortunate to have organised two interactive virtual workshops for our Year 6s this week. In our first session, we shall be learning all about Anne Frank and the key words: stereotypes, discrimination and prejudice. In our second session, we shall be learning all about the UK Parliament.

 

PE –

Our PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday. Please remember that children need to wear their full PE kit and their Howard Primary jumper.

 

Spelling –

This week’s spelling focus is:

Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c

For example – ceiling, conceit, conceive, deceit, deceive, perceive, receipt, receive

What are we learning this week?

 

Maths –

Identify parts of a circle

Identify quadrilaterals and their properties

English –

We shall be using freeze-frames and thought tracking to help us write in role, as a character from our core text – Rose Blanche.

Spelling –

This week’s spelling rule is:
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in –fer

 

RE –

We shall be looking at the 8 fold path.

History –

We shall be looking at how and why rationing was introduced to the UK during WW2.

Computing –

We shall be starting our new unit – We are project managers. This week, we shall assign roles and establish what challenges we may face with our projects and discuss how we can overcome them.

 

 

Key reminders –

Please book your Parents’ Evening appointment on School Cloud.