Meet the Team 

2025-2026

WELCOME TO YEAR 6 - CLASSES 13 AND 14

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! Let's make this year the BEST one yet!

Key Information 

PE Uniform Days:

Indoor PE - THURSDAY

Outdoor PE -  FRIDAY

Diary & online homework check day:

FRIDAY

Important dates: 

Thursday 11th September 2.45pm: Meet the teacher in the school hall

Wednesday 24th September 9-10am: OPAL play morning

Tuesday 30th September & Thursday 2nd October: Pupil Review Meetings

Thursday 9th October 9am: Parent workshop 

Friday 17th October: Show racism the red card

Later in the year...

SATS Week: Monday 11th - Thursday 14th May

Residential to PGL Dearne Valley - Wednesday 24th June - Friday 26th 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 will be sent home to you electronically.

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. 

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 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. 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! It is the expectation that all children complete a piece of topic homework for the half term.

FIRST WEEK BACK - WEEK BEGINNING 1st 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!

WEEK 2 - WEEK BEGINNING 8th SEPTEMBER

We kicked off the first full week back with a WOW day to introduce our exciting topic for this half term - CASTAWAY! Our shared text for this half term is KENSUKE'S KINGDOM by Michael Morpurgo which is a story about a boy who gets stranded on a remote tropical island. For our WOW day, the children had to put themselves in the shoes of this boy and imagine they were stranded on a remote island. The first activity they had to do was get themselves some clean drinking water. The children worked in pairs to create a filtration system using only natural resources they could find on the field to filter some very dirty water!  The children were incredibly creative and came up with all sorts of interesting ways to get the water clean. There were prizes for the clearest water! The second activity involved the children working in teams to build a shelter to protect them from the elements. Using the 'loose parts' from Opal Play, the children got really stuck in to building their shelters. Come and have a look at some of the photos below!