Welcome to Our Year 6 Class Page!
Teacher: Mrs Wynne
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Reid, Mrs Clarke and Mrs Davies
Our wonderful class are settling into new routines well and are ready for the new challenges, learning and fun that lay ahead. We would like to wish all our Year 6 pupils a wonderful year and we look forward to spending time with you lovely bunch over the coming year.
General Information
- Children will enter the school via Y5/6 door. It opens at 8.45am and closes at 8.55 am, after this time your child will receive a late mark. Children can be collected at this door at 3.10. Children who have a signed letter to walk home, will also leave at 3.10pm. Letters are available in class.
- Our PE day is a Children are asked to come into school wearing their kit on their PE day, wearing their school PE kit.
- Spellings will be sent home on a Monday to be tested on the following Monday.
- Homework will be set on a Friday to be completed by the Wednesday of the following week. Homework may be set on SATs Companion and Times Table Rock Stars, Children have been given their personal logins for these websites (see links below).
- We encourage water bottles, filled with water only, to be brought into class. Children can replenish their water when they need to. We ask that children do not bring in glass water bottles as we’ve had a few breakages in the past.
- Children are allowed to bring in a healthy snack for breaktimes.
- Home readers have been sent out and we would like them to be returned at least once per week so that we can read with the children and exchange them as often as we can. If your child is reading a longer novel, we ask that they note how many pages they have read in their reading record.
- We have an excellent free online reading library that the children or parents can use on electronic devices https://sjtwcps.eplatform.co/
Over autumn term we will be learning:
RE
Our class will explore Christian teachings and values within the varied topics of:
Loving, vocation and Commitment and Expectations.
In other faiths, we will be learning about Judaism and the significance of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
English
Through our English work we will be learning about the skills needed to become an excellent reader and writer. We will do this through a core text that we will study.
Our first core text is ‘Leila and the Blue Fox’. The story follows twelve-year-old Leila, a Syrian refugee who travels to the Arctic to reunite with her mother, a scientist she hasn’t seen in six years. Alongside Leila’s emotional journey of reconnection runs the story of Miso, an Arctic fox making a perilous migration across ice and snow. Their intertwined paths explore themes of migration, belonging, family, and the impact of climate change on both people and animals.
Our next text ‘The Arrival’ is a wordless graphic novel about a man who leaves his family to build a new life in a strange, fantastical country. Through surreal imagery, it captures the challenges of migration—language barriers, loneliness, and cultural differences—while also showing hope, resilience, and the search for belonging.
Alongside our core texts, we will be reading an array of books that the children will most definitely enjoy!
Maths
There are many maths skills to master in Year 6. This term we will be learning about: place value; addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; fractions ending with measurement (converting units).
Arithmetic is an important area that we will cover daily. We will also complete a weekly arithmetic test that the children will track, focusing on beating their own score.
Times tables is a huge part of mathematics. It is important for the children to know all of their times table facts. We will regularly practise all times table facts and their links with division. To help the children succeed, our school have invested in Times Table Rock Stars (https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/30129). TTRS gives children essential practise of times tables skills through enjoyable game play. We often set competitions which can be within class, against classes or even against other schools! Each of our children have their own login that have been sent home. Please feel free to contact us if there are any issues.
Science
Our science lessons will focus on two areas, knowledge and understanding and working scientifically. Each unit will incorporate both aspects to give children a deeper understanding of the topic being learned. The topics we will learn in autumn term are:
- Electricity
- Evolution and Inheritance
History
Our history topics help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It aims to inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Children will develop vital skills such as: the ability to think critically; analyse evidence; ask perceptive questions and developing perspective and judgement. It will help our children to identify and understand the challenges of our time through the process of change.
Our topic this term is ‘What was the impact WW2 on the people of Britain?’. During the topic we will be delving into the causes and consequences of war on life in Britain.
Geography
Through geography we aim to equip pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. We aim to equip children with geographical skills.
Our topic this term is ‘Why do oceans matter?’ Exploring the importance of our oceans and how they have changed over time with a focus on the Great Barrier Reef, specifically addressing climate change and pollution.
MUSIC
Through our chosen topics the children will learn a range of skills such as recognising and writing musical notation, playing instruments, singing and understanding and using technical vocabulary. Our topics follow the Maestro Music Programme:
Everywhere Around Me – Folk Songs
Christmas Songs
Art
We will be exploring the work of Frida Kahlo. Through this topic the children will be sharpening their skills using a range of media to create pieces of art of their own with a focus on self portraits.
PE
This term children will be using and refining a range of skills through different areas of Physical Education. Our topics this term are:
- Athletics
- Rugby
Computing
Our Computing topics are arranged by 4 areas of learning: Digital Literacy; Computer Science; Information Technology and Byte size and fun. Throughout the year we will cover each of these at least once. Our topics for this term are:
- My online Life
- Online Safety dilemmas
Design Technology (DT)
Our DT topics give children the skills to study, design, develop, apply, implement and evaluate, enabling them to create a final product. Our topic this term is ‘Textiles’ where we will be working on the theme- ‘make do and mend’ linked to WWII.
PSHE
In PSHE we look at topics that deal with variety of issues in daily life, such as: health and wellbeing; relationships; living in the wider world and RSE (Relationships and Sex Education).
This term our topics will be:
- Anti-bulling
- Online safety
- Created and Loved by God
- Journey in Love
Modern Foreign Languages
At St Joseph the Worker we are learning Spanish! Our topics for autumn term are:
- Sports in Spanish
- Describing Family and Friends in Spanish
Attendance
We love being in school! We have wonderful learning opportunities coming up and it would be a shame for our children to miss out on any of it. Our school target is to have classes with 100% attendance, when this happens, the children are rewarded as a class such as having a non-uniform day. If it happens more frequently, a bigger reward is needed! In class, we monitor attendance and punctuality daily and use a display to keep track of our success. Please see below for our school attendance colour codes:
96% Green
93% yellow
90% Amber
89.9% or below Red
Behaviour
Children collect Dojos for following our three school rules; to be ready, respectful and resilient. These are recorded on the dojo app. This is a great tool for parents to stay up to date with what is happening within class and to see your child’s Dojo progress. Sign up today!
Useful Links
- Times Table Rock Stars- https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/30129 (you will need our school postcode L329PF)
- SATs Companion- https://app.satscompanion.com/login
- Google Drive Help https://stjosephtheworkercps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/GDrive-Childrens-Instructions.pdf
- BBC Bitesize KS2- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn
- Oak National Academy- https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/key-stage-2
- Our School Twitter Page- https://twitter.com/josephworkersch