Year 6
Welcome to Year 6!
What Your Year 6 children will need each day
| Item | Day /s | Details |
| PE kit | Needed everyday | Include shorts, t-shirt, sweatshirt pumps or trainers and joggers in a named bag (not a carrier bag) |
| Dinner money | Monday | Payable online via our School Money app |
| Homework | In on Thursday | Pages to be completed written in the front of each book
Reading every day |
| Book bags | Everyday | Only books to be carried in them |
| After schoolclub | Everyday apartfrom the last daybefore a holiday | To be booked in advance, phone school for details |
| Reading | Everyday | Please read to and encourage your child to read a little each day. |
| Drop in sessions | Monday | 9.10-9.25am Please make an appointment with the office to check staff are available. |
| Swimming Kit | Wednesday | Your child will be informed when they need their swim kit. They need a bag for their kit, a towel, long hair tied back, no jewellery. Girls need a one piece costume. Boys need short trunks. |
Ways to support your child and their class
Please ensure they have breakfast each morning, plenty of sleep and are in school on time.
Encourage them to do their homework- there is homework club in school Monday and Tuesday if they need help
Handwriting practice
Recall multiplication and division facts daily
Quick fire calculations
Listen to them read and ask questions about the content read.
Research
Encourage them to play English and Maths games on www.sumdog.com and purple mash
Take them to the library
Take them swimming
Enhance their knowledge and experience by taking them to places of interest like museums, country parks, castles etc. BMAG and Barber gallery at the University
Take them shopping so they can use money.
Telling the time, analogue and digital using time tables
Encourage them to tell the time e.g. we are leaving in 20 minutes what time will it be?
Give them a quiet place to read / do homework where possible
Help them practice spellings
Click on the links below to see what will be covered in each Year 6 Theme