Welcome to Year 6C -Gandalf
Enjoy Respect Succeed
Hello and welcome to 6C’s class page! My name is Mrs Carradice and I am class teacher for Gandalf class. I will be teaching the class on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Miss Holt will teach the whole class on Monday and Wednesday afternoons and will also be supporting across year 6 in the mornings. Mr Maclean will teach the class on Thursday. Miss Bamford will also work in our classroom every day, with Miss Hardman also working with us in the mornings.
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 by exploring a range of short texts including poetry. In mathematics this half term, we will be learning about all about number, place value and calculations; alongside apply key skills to strength our 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 to support them in preparation for their end of KS2 Sats tests as well as with their transition to KS3.
We are looking forward to a fun year together of hard work and memories.
I am sure we are going to have a FANTASTIC half term!
Mrs Carradice, Mr Maclean, Miss Holt, Miss Bamford and Miss Hardman.
Author of the term is Roald Dahl . We will be looking at some of his wonderful texts as well as learning about him as an author.
Reading
Children will have a reading book chosen by themselves, which is appropriate to their reading level. This will be sent home with them daily. 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
Mrs Carradice will be on PPA on Monday afternoons. Miss Holt and Mr Cooney will teach PE and RE during this time.
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
This half term, PE 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. Earrings must be removed for all PE activities.
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.
Our Class Novel for this half term is 'The Nowhere Emporium' by Ross Mackenzie .
Here's a window to our learning:
OUR LONG TERM PLAN FOR THE YEAR...
OUR CURRICULUM MAP FOR THIS TERM...
Here are our common exception words for this year...