Meet the Team

2024-25

As a team we are so excited to teach your children this academic year!

We are passionate about watching them grow, flourish and achieve!

As a teaching team we will give our utmost to nurture them to become resilient leaders of our school, helping us to set the example, to be role models in their conduct, attitude, learning and to access the vast array of extra curricular opportunities available to them this year!

Key Information 

PE Uniform Days:

Outdoor PE - WEDNESDAY

Indoor PE - THURSDAYS

Diary & homework check day:

FRIDAY

Trips/Residentials:

Kingswood - Dearne Valley - Wednesday 25th June - Friday 27th June 2025

Supporting your child at home

Reading

Y6 children will all have a colour banded reading book which is appropriate for their level as well as a reading for pleasure book.  Please support us by reading and discussing their books at home.  There is an additional sheet stuck in diaries explaining the goals and how to help your child. The whole school expectation is that children read at home either independently or to an adult at least THREE TIMES A WEEK and it is recorded in their diary (Book title, pages read, adult signature) Diaries are checked on Fridays.

Spellings

Each week the children will be given ten spellings, engaging in daily practice using a range of fun and helpful activities. You can support them to practice their weekly spellings as well as the common exception words that you will find stuck in their diaries.

Practising their spellings little and often, making it fun is key to helping your children to become confident and successful spellers.

As a team, we can help the children to become super spellers. 

Maths

Each child has a  Times Table Rock Star account and login details are stuck in diaries.  This can be accessed from home so please encourage your child to have fun and practise their times tables. The whole school expectation is that children use TTRS at home at least THREE TIMES A WEEK. Inside diaries there is a copy of the times tables up to 12x and a 'key instant recall facts' (KIRFs) which children need to know by the end of the year. Each half term, a KIRF will be focussed on. 

Maths.com & SPAG.co.uk

In Year 6, we use these websites to set weekly homework. Your child will have a personal log in for each website stuck in the front of their diaries. These websites are excellent for giving children practise at answering SATS style questions. Homework will be set on a Friday and the children will have a week to complete it. Teachers will check that it has been completed the following Friday. To begin with, we will alternate the homework set (one week Maths, the next week SPAG) and we will build up to setting Maths and SPAG every week)

Optional topic homework

Each half term, to support our topic learning in school, we will be issuing an optional topic homework which is of a creative nature. We will be sending home a sheet at the start of the topic with ideas for creative projects that the children can complete if they wish. We will give the children the whole half term to complete it and will have a showcase of projects in class where the children can show off their work!

AUTUMN TERM 1: BEATS & BREATHS

FIRST WEEK BACK - WEEK BEGINNING 2ND SEPTEMBER

We have had an EXCELLENT first week back and we have started the year on a high. All of our Year 6 students have shown us that they are ready to be the oldest children in our school, be role models to the younger pupils and lead by example. Many students have signed up to roles and responsibilities around school which is extremely POLITE & HELPFUL. We have completed many baseline assessments this week and the children tackled them with drive and resilience. Well done Year 6 - we can't wait to see what you all achieve this year!