Year 6

Class Email

(for home learning communication only)

year6@stmichaels.herts.sch.uk

Welcome to Year 6

We are very excited for the year ahead all and the positive experiences we are going to enjoy.

Year 6 is a very important year, where the children will be taking on extra responsibilities around the school and within our community. We endeavour to ensure that this year will be a fun-filled and memorable year.

Year 6 Team

Mrs Bagley - Class Teacher (Monday to Thursday)

Mrs Crooks - Class Teacher (Thursday to Friday)

Mrs McKay - Teaching Assistant

Mrs Hobbs - Higher Level Teaching Assistant (Friday afternoon)

Newsletter and Curriculum Map

Home Learning

Year 6 Expectations

Reading:	Five times/week
Spelling:	A selection of spellings will be given to practise 3 times/week. Children should use strategies used in class to rehearse the spellings.
English:	One grammar task / week One comprehension task / week
Maths:	One maths task/week Multiplication tables practice three times/week using suggested activities
RE:	One activity each half term on the current ‘value’
Science:	One activity per term
Topic:	Two activities per term

Children will be provided with a homework folder containing their homework books (reading, grammar and maths) and a timetable stating the days their homework needs to be handed in. Please ensure the folder is kept in your child’s bag and homework is returned on the designated day (see timetable). Before handing it in, children will be expected to mark their homework, using a different colour pen.

RE, Science and Topic home learning will be set on Google Classroom (link below) and can be submitted through the platform, can be emailed to the class email address or handed into the class teacher.

Gallery

During Heritage week, we followed the footsteps of Romans and walked the perimeter of the Verulamium wall.

We used aerial photographs of the area and then on tracing we drew our impressions of what it would have looked like during Roman times using and including information from our research.

We had a great day at Whipsnade Zoo, we learnt all about adaptation and habitats. We were able to handle a snake and we saw lots of animals.

This half term our BAME influencer is Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. His artwork was used to illustrate the Maya Angelou poem 'Life doesn't frighten me'. We created our own version of the poem and illustration.