April 2024

Dear Parents and Children,

I hope that you have had an enjoyable holiday and are now refreshed and ready to start a new term at school in Year 6. We are looking forward to starting our new topics and hope that you are as excited as we are about our new learning. Mrs Wood will be teaching on Monday, Tuesday morning, Wednesday and Thursday and Mrs Minty will be teaching on Tuesday afternoon and Friday. Our class TAs are Mrs Lynch (Mon, Tues, Wed and Thurs) 

Reading

Your child will continue to bring home a reading book every day to share with you. 'Free Reading’ books may be chosen from the class library or from home. Please encourage your child to choose books that are a little challenging for them to read. Comics and easy books are also great to read as they can improve comprehension skills and give ideas for story writing, but they will not stretch their vocabulary and reading ability. Please encourage your child to read with expression, and to express opinions about the characters in the story, the plot, and what might happen next. Reading books and reading record should be brought to school each day.

Spellings

Your child will be tested in class on Thursday with the words listed and new spellings will be set on Friday. We encourage children to learn spellings using the Look, Cover, Write, Check method, following the sequence:

LOOK at the word

COVER the word

WRITE the word

CHECK their spelling against the word.

 Spellings will be set on Google Classroom. If your child is unable to access Google Classroom, please let us know so that we can provide them with a paper copy.

Maths

In class, we will be using the NCETM teaching for Mastery Programme.

More information about teaching for Mastery can be found at National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (ncetm.org.uk)

PE

This term, our class PE lessons will be on Monday with Mrs Wood and with Mrs Minty on Fridays. Please remember to send your child to school in their PE kit on these days.

Home Learning

Home learning will continue to be set on Google classroom each week. Children will be given assignments in maths, spellings and reading comprehension with additional enrichment activities. Home learning will be set on Fridays on Google classroom and should be handed in the following Thursday on Google Classroom. If your child is unable to access Google Classroom, please let us know so that we can provide them with a paper copy.

Water Bottles

Please ensure your child brings a named bottle to school every day, filled with water. The children are allowed to fill their water bottles up during the day if they run out. Please ensure water bottles are taken home regularly and washed.

Timetable of things to remember!

Please help your child to take responsibility themselves for the things that they need to remember.  Perhaps your child could cut out the timetable and place it somewhere at home or in their school bag to remind them each day.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact the school office to arrange to speak with Mrs Wood or Mrs Minty.

Kind regards, 

Mrs Wood and Mrs Minty

Please click the link below to find the page dedicated to for Whole School Annual Plans.