Welcome to Year 6B (The Scarecrows)
Enjoy Respect Succeed
“The minimum requirement is maximum effort!”
Hello and welcome to the Year 6B class page! My name is Miss Byers and I am teacher for the Scarecrow class. Mr Maclean also teaches our class every Friday and Miss Holt and Mr Cooney will teach the class on a Monday afternoon whilst I have my planning and preparation time. Mrs Armitage is our Learning Support Assistant that works in our classroom every day, as well as Mrs Mullany who will be working with us in the afternoons. In class, we are learning to enjoy learning, respect each other and succeed together in all the work we do! We are going to be learning about lots of exciting things this half term.
In English, we are studying 'The Nowhere Emporium' as part of our Novel as a Theme unit. During guided reading sessions, we are working to develop our reading skills through reading a range of texts including poetry. In mathematics this half term, we will be learning about Number, Place Value and Calculations; as well as learning key skills to enhance fluency in mathematics.
During their time in Year 6, the children will be given various opportunities that will enhance their learning as well as aiding them to make memories to cherish of Cherry Fold.
In Year 6, we encourage children to be resilient as well as learning to persevere when things get tough. These skills will aid them in their Year 6 SATS later this year in addition to their transition to KS3.
We are looking forward to a fun year together of hard work and memories.
Miss Byers, Mr Maclean, Miss Holt, Mrs Armitage and Mrs Mullany.
Author of the term this half term is Roald Dahl. We will be looking at some of his wonderful texts.
Reading
Children will have a reading book chosen by themselves, which is appropriate to their reading level. Accompanying these books are their reading diaries, where you can write comments on their reading daily. Your child will also be given many opportunities throughout the week to read a variety of texts and will then undertake an online quiz to assess their understanding of the text.
PPA Time
Miss Byers will be teaching in class most days. On Monday afternoon, Miss Holt and Mr Cooney will be teaching the class for PE and RE.
Homework
In Year 6, children are expected to complete two pieces of homework a week.
Your child has been provided a login for the app, SATs Companion (SATs Companion). They must use their login details in order to access the English and mathematics materials that are added each week. Details about homework will be explained to the children on a Friday and the work will need to be completed for the following Friday.
Children will receive weekly spellings as well as times tables set on TT Rock stars.
Times Tables
You can log in to your TT Rock stars account here using your username and password:
Spellings
Spellings will be set on Monday for the children to learn, ready to be tested on the following Monday. This half term, we will be working on the year 6 common exception words, (a copy of these can be found further down this page)
We will also be learning spellings linked to the fast forward spelling intervention programme and assessments for these will take place at the end of each week.
PE
P.E. will take place on Mondays. Please ensure that you have the correct P.E. kit each week, which consists of black shorts, white t-shirt and black pumps or trainers. Your child can bring plain navy or black jogging bottoms and tracksuit top for PE outdoors if necessary.
SNACK
School will be providing a piece of fruit daily for each child. We also encourage your child to bring water to drink in class throughout the day, but they may bring something else to drink with their packed lunch.
Class Novel
Our Class Novel for this half term is 'The Nowhere Emporium' by Ross Mackenzie.
OUR LONG TERM PLAN FOR THE YEAR...
OUR CURRICULUM MAP FOR THIS TERM...
This year, we will be using times table rock stars as part of our homework to improve our fluency in times tables.
Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
Here are our common exception words for this year...