6SF
Richard Slatford and Teresa Fox
6sf@grovelands.e-sussex.sch.uk
6sf@grovelands.e-sussex.sch.uk
6RA
Rebecca Anderson
6JL
Jenny Lewis
6jl@grovelands.e-sussex.sch.uk
6jl@grovelands.e-sussex.sch.uk
Welcome to Year 6
Other Adults in Year 6
Kelly Brookes and Emma Philips.
Year 6 Curriculum
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Term 1: A ‘Hiccup’ in Hastings.
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Term 2: Storms and Shipwrecks.
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Term 3: Carnival!
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Term 4: Revel in the Rainforest.
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Term 5 & 6: The (British) Empire Strikes Back!
Homework
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The children will bring home the list of words for Year 3 and 4 and Year 5 and 6 from the National Curriculum at the beginning of the year. Please continue to revise spelling these words. A selection of these words will be tested each term.
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The children will be given 10 weekly spellings per week. These will be given out once a term, clearly dated and will relate to our spelling work in class. We will be testing these words during our spelling session on a Wednesday.
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Children are expected to read EVERY night for approximately 20-30 minutes. Please encourage your child to log into Bug Club so that they can read the online books and carry out the activities.
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Maths homework is to use the resources on 'Purple Mash' to practise times tables and the associated divisions. We are no longer doing ‘MyMaths’.
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Each term it is expected that the children create a piece of homework linked to their topic. This will be to develop skills other than English and maths and should be completed by the end of the topic.
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MATHS HOMEWORK - For full details please refer to the Maths Homework page on our website.
Behaviour
We expect our children to behave in a polite and thoughtful manner to all members of the school community.
PE kit:
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Please could we have PE kit in school at all times.
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All PE items should be clearly named.
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The day PE is on will change for different terms for different classes.
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Children are allowed to wear tracksuits for winter PE outdoors.
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Some sessions during the year will be taken by Grovelands Active with the support of the class teacher.
