Teaching team

Wildcats class:

Teachers: Miss Ali & Mrs Smith

Pangolins class:

Teacher: Mr Kennerson

Year 6 support staff (across both classes):

Miss McLagan, Miss T May, Mrs Young, Miss Holmes, Mr Darcy

This term's topic

Please see the curriculum newsletter for full details.

Notices

Website links:

TTRockstars:

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

SPaG.com:

https://www.spag.com/

Spelling Shed:

https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/login

Home learning overview

Please see the curriculum newsletter for full details.

Year 6

Welcome to our Year 6

This is a busy, yet rewarding year for the children, where we hope to see them achieve their very best. We also endeavour to prepare all children for a very smooth transition towards the next phase of their lives: secondary school.

Homework

Homework is an important part of the learning process and we appreciate the time that you spend prompting and assisting your child with their homework.

Reading - children should read for 30 minutes every day and record this in their Home-School diaries. Their reading diaries will be checked every week by their teacher. At this stage in their education, they may choose to write in their reading records themselves as evidence of this. We do ask that you listen and discuss the texts with your child, and that you sign the reading record at least once a week.

Comprehension booklets - Children are to work through the reading comprehension tasks in the booklet at their own pace, in an order of their choosing. Our expectation is that one task is completed each fortnight. We will ask the children to bring the booklets in on occasions to monitor.

Spellings - the children are expected to practice their weekly spellings and complete two of the tasks and recorded in spelling homework books due in on Fridays. They may also practise on spelling shed. Spellings will be tested each week on a Friday.

Times Tables - children need to continue to practise their times tables every evening for 10 minutes they can use Times Tables Rockstars to facilitate this if they wish. It is vital that the children know ALL their times tables and related division facts. These are very important in Year 6 as they speed up calculations across a range of topics in mathematics

Each half term, we will set a creative homework. Please see our termly newsletter for details of this.

P.E.

PE days are Mondays and Tuesdays for Pangolins class and Tuesdays and Fridays for Wildcats class. Please send your child into school wearing their PE kit on their PE days. When the weather is cold, the children should come in tracksuit bottoms and sweatshirts.

Earrings should be removed for PE wherever possible. However, Mr Gilbert has confirmed that if the pupil has only recently had their ears pierced and cannot remove them, then it is allowed for them to put plasters over the earrings for PE rather than sit out.

At the end of the day

Parents wait and collect their children outside the classrooms. If your child is being collected by a different adult or going home with another child, please inform the office in writing as we will not let your child go unless we or the office have been notified.

All children need to be collected by an adult unless you have returned the Request to Walk Home form and had it approved.

If you have any concerns, please come in and see us at the end of the day or contact the office to arrange a time to speak with us.

Cranmere Primary and Nursery School

CranmerePrimary and Nursery School