Welcome To Badger Class
Mrs Tattersall and Miss Earnshaw are the staff who support learning in Year 6.
Important Information
PE -
Our PE lesson are on Wednesday. PE kits should be in school at all times. Earrings must be removed or covered with tape for PE lessons.
Water Bottles -
Children should bring a water bottle to school everyday. Bottles should go home and be cleaned each night.
Homework -
In Year 6 children take responsibility for their own homework. Each child has a reading record. These need to be in school every day and signed at least three times per week. This will be checked each week. In addition, homework for Year 6 children during the Spring term is in the form of the CGP books. Set pages will be allocated each week for the children to complete in line with their in class learning. This needs to be completed and returned into school on the following Monday.
During the week, there are opportunities for children to attend homework clubs or independent study groups at lunch time to facilitate with homework completion.
Library -
In addition to homework, children can choose to visit the school library once per week to select a book of their choice. We also have a class library which children can choose books from throughout the week.
We love to see what you have been up to outside of school. If you have received any achievements in your out of school activities, please feel free to bring them in for our celebration assembly on a Friday!
In the morning we have:
Spelling, Guided Reading, Literacy and Maths.
In the afternoon we have:
Wider Curriculum (Science, Art, DT, French, History, Geography, PSHE and Music).
RE and PE is taught every Wednesday afternoon.
You can see when we are teaching each topic in our curriculum map below.
Worship
Worship is integral to our daily lives at Great Marsden St John's. There are three worship monitors in the class and these children lead in-class worship once per fortnight using articles from Picture News. They are all trained in delivering worship, and ensures that everybody gets the chance to share their ideas. The worship monitors change every half term.
Autumn Term 1
It has been a fantastic first few weeks in Year 6. To begin with, we focussed on developing our growth mindset, thinking about British Values and taking part in the House Captain elections. The children delivered persuasive speeches to the rest of the school so the rest of the children could vote for their House and Vice Captains. This was a great example of democracy.
The children have enjoyed getting to know their seedlings in reception. They have helped them at lunchtimes and created some hearts which include everything they love. This supported our current theme of love.
In class, our learning in English has focussed around Ross McKenzie's The Nowhere Emporium where we have analysed and responded to the author's choice of structure and vocabulary through discussion and debate. In Science we are exploring classification and in Geography we have been learning about earthquakes and volcanoes.
Autumn Term 2
In the second half of the Autumn term, we looked at a range of biographies and autobiographies about various famous people who were trailblazers in their respective field; Rosa Parks for her stand against racial segregation; Katherine Johnson for her trailblazing work in mathematics and aerospace engineering and Walt Disney for his groundbreaking work in the animated film industry.
In science we learnt about the circulatory system and in music we learnt about classical music in the young person's orchestra. We have enjoyed all areas of the wider curriculum.
We have also enjoyed spending time building our relationships with our younger seedlings and thank everyone who attended our Gardeners and Seedlings Worship in the Autumn Term.