Year 6

Welcome to the Year 6 Class page.

SPRING TERM 2024

This exciting school year continues with more fun learning to be done and lots of preparation for the coming transition to new secondary schools. How exciting!

We will also be completing the KS2 SATs tests in May (see link to the right for information presented at the SATs Parents Meeting) so we shall do lots of learning to help us do our very best in these.

As always, there are lots of adults who are always here to help us in our learning and experiences! These adults are:

Miss Dunkley (class teacher)

Mr Barrick (teaching assistant on Monday, Thursday and Friday morning)

Miss Dwyer (Tuesday)

Mrs Smith (PE and RE class teacher on Tuesday afternoons) 

For information about our Daily Routine and learning Timetable, please see the links to the right.

During the second half of the Spring Term, our class topic is 'Save Our Planet: Climate Change' where we shall learn about what climate change is; why and how it is happening; how it is affecting our planet; what might happen to our planet in future if we don't make changes and the changes we can collectively make to slow down, prevent or reverse the effects of climate change. We shall also look at biographical details of climate change activists and how they are raising awareness of the effects of climate change. Our written work will demonstrate our understanding of this topic and will write letters to planet earth after studying and analysing the song 'Love Song to the Earth' by Sir Paul McCartney and other artists.

Take a look at the curriculum map via the Year 6 Curriculum link to the write to see other fantastic learning we shall do this half term.

Our whole class novel is 'Saving Celeste' by Timothee de Fombelle. It is a harrowing, yet moving story with a real wake-up-call of how our futures might be affected if climate change is not tackled. In this incredibly moving and powerful story about climate change by one of France’s greatest writers for children, the world is run by !ndustry and the only thing that matters is to buy, buy, buy! People live in crowded cities where cars are stacked vertically and shopping centres run miles into the sky. On the day Celeste starts school on the 110th floor of a tower block, she meets a lonely, young boy. The next day she doesn't return. Her blood has become as polluted as the seas and rivers. On a mission to save her, the boy battles the forces of !ndustry and takes her far, far away. Will the world realise the truth of Celeste’s disease? Will there be time for her, and the planet, to recover?

Miss Dunkley