Welcome to Year 6 - thank you for visiting our Class Blog.

Mr Gannaway is the class teacher and Mrs Watson is the teaching assistant. On this page, you will find information about Class 6, news, pictures of things we've done, and more.

Reminders for Autumn 2021

Stationery - In order to minimise multiple use of equipment, it would be great if you could provide your child with a pencil case containing the following equipment:

• ruler
• glue stick
• HB pencil and pencil sharpener
• A fibre tipped writing pen
• Colouring pencils
• Highlighter pens
• Green biro

It would be helpful if the pencil case is relatively small as there will be limited space on tables and in trays.

If you are unable to supply this equipment, we will provide this as required.

P.E. - Children in Class 6 will need their PE kits on Monday and Friday. In line with our Covid-19 Risk Assessment, in order to reduce increased congestion when changing, children may come to school on those days in their PE kit. This should consist of jogging bottoms, shorts, house coloured T-shirt, jumper and trainers.

Spellings - Every Monday, your child will be taught a new spelling rule to practise during the week, ready for a spelling test on the Friday. Please spend time at home practising these spellings using "look, say, cover, write, check" in the Spelling Homework Booklet, as well as discussing the spelling rule. Please ensure that Homework Books are kept in school bags. You can also log on to Spelling Shed by visiting https://play.edshed.com 

Arrival and Collection Times

We will continue to use the one way system. Arrival and collection times are as follows:

• Year R, 2 and 4 - Arrive between 8.45am and 8.55am, Collection between 3.15pm and 3.25pm;

• Year 1,3, 5 and 6 - Arrive between 8.50am and 9.00am, Collection between 3.20pm and 3.30pm.

Where families, have siblings with different collection times, arrival is 8.50am and collection at 3.20pm.

Breakfast Club & After School Club -  Children in Year R, 1 to 6 should arrive as normal and be taken to Breakfast Club room. They will be taken to their Classroom ready for lessons. Breakfast Club will be open from 7.45am. After School Club will be open until 5.45pm.

Writing

In Year 6, children continue to learn to write different types of texts and we use model texts to highlight the associated key features before children create their own versions. Listed below are the text types and texts that we are learning this year.

Reading

During the year, we will use a range of texts to develop our reading skills. The texts we will use are detailed below and will be updated throughout the year.

Maths

As a school, we place emphasis on teaching Maths using a Maths Mastery approach. We place emphasis on children learning to develop their fluency, reasoning and problem solving skills. We use Maths No Problem Textbooks and Workbooks in school. to find out more visit https://mathsnoproblem.com/en/parent-videos/ to watch parent videos about how maths is taught at St Luke's. 

The table below highlights the textbook and chapters we are learning in Year 6.

If you wish to purchase a copy of the Textbooks (A and B) or Wokbooks (A and B) for use at home, and also to find out more about how maths in taught in school, these are available to order at http://mathsnoproblem.co.uk/mathematics/primary-key-stage1-and-key-stage-2/maths-no-problem.html

We ask all parents to support children with learning their number bonds and times tables at home; this is key to children being successful as mathematicians. 

Useful websites to log in to are:

Times Tables Rockstars   https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/teacher

ixl    https://uk.ixl.com/signin/stlukesprimary

Our Class Country is Australia

We will be learning about Australia. We will investigate where it is in the world and find out facts about what it is like to live in Australia.

Year 6 Suggested Reading