Year 6

2024-2025

Welcome to the year 6 class page. This page will share the different learning experiences that take place in year 6 throughout the year. Please visit this page regularly to see updates of our learning.

Teacher: Miss Hartill

PPA Teacher: Mrs Vontzalidis (Thursday morning)

Teaching Assistants: Mr Gee, Mrs Kihara and Miss Exelby

Summer 1 Update

Welcome back to your final term at St John Fisher Catholic Primary School. This term will be a busy one!

This half term, we will be continuing getting the children ready for their SATS in May. In maths, we will continue looking at algebra, area and perimeter, volume and geometry. In English, we will be looking at using inverted commas in our writing to entertain the reader. Then we will be looking at creating balance arguments. Alongside this we will be revising SPaG concepts ready for the SATS in May. The SATs dates are as follows;

Monday May 12th: Spelling, punctuation, and grammar (Grammar/Punctuation Test) – 45 minutes

Spelling, punctuation, and grammar (Spelling Test) – 20 minutes

Tuesday May 13th: Reading Paper (English) – 60 minutes

Wednesday May 14th: Maths Paper 1 (Arithmetic) – 30 minutes

Maths Paper 2 (Reasoning) – 40 minutes

Thursday May 15th: Maths Paper 3 (Reasoning) – 40 minutes

Dates for your diary

Date	Event
Tuesday 22nd April 2025	Children Return to school
Monday 5th May 2025	May Day Bank Holiday
Monday 12th May 2025	Spelling, punctuation, and grammar (Grammar/Punctuation Test) – 45 minutes Spelling, punctuation, and grammar (Spelling Test) – 20 minutes
Tuesday 13th May 2025	Reading Paper (English) – 60 minutes
Wednesday 14th May 2025	Maths Paper 1 (Arithmetic) – 30 minutes Maths Paper 2 (Reasoning) – 40 minutes
Thursday 15th May 2025	Maths Paper 3 (Reasoning) – 40 minutes
Friday 16th May 2025	Year 6 Sporting Competition
Friday 23rd May 2025	End of Summer 1
Monday 2nd June 2025	INSET day
Tuesday 3rd June 2025	Children return for Summer 2
Wednesday 2nd July 2025- Friday 4th July 226	PGL Trip
Monday 7th July 2025	Bike Ability Week
Tuesday 22nd July 2025	Last Day of Term school closes at 1:30pm

Things to Remember

- PE is on a Monday and Thursday. Remember to wear your PE kits on this day.

- Homework goes out on a Friday and is due back the following Wednesday.

- Spellings are tested on a Friday morning.

Our Learning Experiences

Art- We have started our painting unit. We explored the artist Patrick Heron and have created our own versions of his work.

RE- We have revisited the schools core values, to remind us what we as a school expect from all children. We created posters to help the younger children understand what each statement means.

PE- We have been learning how to be a good sportsman/ sportswoman. We have completed bench ball in a friendly manner.

Crucial Crew- Year six, went on their first school trip of the year to the London Road fire station. We spent the afternoon looking at different scenarios and learning how to deal with them in an appropriate way.

Priest Visit - We welcomed Father Michael to our class. He discussed what God has done to help us and how he doesn't expect anything in return.

Mini Police- We had a visit from PCOS Chris. We are embarking on the Mini Police programme.

Mental Health Week- During the week, we have had many pause points to focus on our mental wellbeing. We have enjoyed doing a range of different activities such as doodling, colouring and word searches.

Number Day- We have enjoyed taking part in the NSPCC number day. We enjoyed adding all the numbers we wore to school together. In Year 6 we added up to 15587.14. We also took part in maths mystery where we had to use our maths skills to find out who had done the crime. Then to top the day of we took part in the TTRS battle against Year 3,4 and 5.

Science- In our topic of Electricity we have tested different fruits and vegetables to see if they are able to conduct electricity in a complete circuit. We were surprised my the results!