Welcome to Year 6!
This is our last year in Primary and we will be aiming to fill it with fun, exciting learning opportunities which will prepare us for our secondary adventures.
Here you will find all the key information you will need for this term. Please keep an eye on our website to see what we have been doing.
Our Year 6 Staff Team
Miss Coid – Class teacher
Mrs Rourke – Teaching Assistant
Reading
Reading is the key to unlock learning! Everyday is a reading day at St Gregory’s.
In the classroom, we do whole class reading sessions daily to develop our reading fluency, learn new vocabulary and comprehend the text. During this time, we dive deeply into a wide range of fantastic texts from a variety of genres and authors, many of which can be found in our school library if the children wish to read more!
Fluent reading is essential for our children to access what is both an exciting and ambitious curriculum. Therefore, please encourage your child to read at home daily, this includes reading their banded reading book, their reading for pleasure library book or even have a book read to them!
In the Class Documents section at the bottom of the page, you can find a PDF of the VIPERS question stems that can be used to support your child’s understanding of the text they’re reading.
Spelling
Year 6 children are tested on the KS2 statutory spellings in their end of Key Stage SATs tests in May.
We teach the children how to spell these words by teaching common spelling rules. More information about these rules can be found in the Primary National Curriculum, which is linked below.
In the Class Documents section at the bottom of this page, you can find the KS2 statutory spelling lists. Please encourage your child to practise these spellings little and often.
Homework
Homework in year 6 is used to retrieve prior knowledge and consolidate learning from that week in school. At the moment, homework is made up of three main parts:
- reading
- arithmetic
- times tables
As well as daily reading, your child should access Times Tables Rockstars daily. The age related expectation is to know the 1-12 times tables, up to 12×12, by the end of Year 4. The children have been set the tables they need to work on, on TTRS.
Children have one week to complete homework.
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