St William of York Catholic Primary School
WELCOME TO YEAR 6
Mrs Nevin - Class Teacher
Miss Brownbill - Class Teacher
Mrs Hunter - one-to-one
Miss Chambers - one-to-one
Remote Learning
We hope you're all managing to access Google Classroom, it has been lovely to see so many of you in our Google Meets and completing the set work.
Your home-school days for next week will begin at 9:15 am with our daily Google Meet. During this meeting, we will explain the day's work and answer any questions you may have.
You should work throughout the day, at your own pace, until no later than 3:15 pm. Make sure that you have had a full lunchtime and regular breaks.
We will be here to answer any questions during school hours.
Spring Term 2021
We hope you all had a safe and peaceful Christmas and wish you all the very best for 2021.
Although it's not quite the start of term that we were hoping for, remote learning will begin on Thursday 7th January, using Google Classroom as our platform. Just to remind you, all login details are in the home-learning exercise books which were sent home last term.
We would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy and peaceful 2021. The children have been absolutely fantastic this term and their love of learning has continuously shone through.
Thank you for all your support - have a lovely break.
The Year 6 Team
Week 1
It has been so lovely to have our fabulous Year 6 children in school this week and has been great fun getting to know them. They have really impressed us with their resilience and hard work - a big 'well done' to all.
Please see below regarding homework, which has been issued this week, and we'd also like to remind you that the children should have a bottle of water in school to keep on their desks during the day. We ask that although they might have juice for with their lunch, water is provided for class - that way any spillages don't cause too much damage.
We'd also like to remind you that we encourage the children to bring in a healthy snack for break time.
Thank you for for your support, we hope to see you all soon.
A huge welcome back to all of our children and families, we have missed you all!
It is lovely to introduce you all to Year 6 and we are all very much looking forward to the year ahead. Below are the topics for the autumn term, however there will be some flexibility as we catch up with the time lost during the last academic year.
Autumn Term 2020
RE
Domestic Church – Family - Loving
Baptism/Confirmation – Belonging - Vocation and Commitment
Advent/Christmas – Loving - Expectations.
Literacy
Our class novel is Private Peaceful by Michael Murpurgo. We will also be reading Rose Blanche and through these texts, studying war poetry and persuasive texts. Written work derived from this will include:
Throughout the units taught, the children will revise previous concepts learned and will also be taught the following basic skills:
Active and passive voice, cohesion, formal and informal speech, question tags, synonyms and antonyms, clauses, proofreading, semi-colons and colons.
Numeracy
Science
Light, Animals including humans.
Computing
Young Authors – creating storyboards and eBooks.
Stocks and Shares – analysing data and developing ‘office’ skills.
Online safety – ongoing.
Geography
Developing mapping skills.
History
What was the impact of WW1 on the people of Liverpool?
Art
WW1 artist Paul Nash, with particular focus on his style, drawing and painting skills.
DT
Using electrical and mechanical components to design and make a working torch.
Spanish
Sentence building – read and write sentences with connectives.
Music
Rhythm and pulse, notation and vocabulary.
PE
Netball (defending and attacking). Please send kits in as soon as possible.
Homework
As you know, homework is an important part of consolidating the children’s knowledge of what they learn in school. The children will receive worksheets consisting of spellings and punctuation or grammar-based homework on Mondays. Additionally, they will receive numeracy worksheets on Fridays. When possible, these will be added to the homework folder below. Each child will be given a book to complete their homework in. For now, this should be kept at home but we will go through the homework in class.
The children will all be given a home reading book. This should stay at home until completed but will be referenced in class. Please support your child with reading by encouraging them to read, for at least 15 minutes per day.
Many thanks for your support, we will see you soon.
Mrs Nevin, Miss Brownbill, Mrs Hunter and Miss Chambers