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Welcome to
Park Spring Primary School

‘Achieving Together ● Inspired To Be Successful’

Year 6

Welcome to Year 6!

To get in touch with the Year 6 team, email : year6@parkspringprimary.co.uk

6A

Teacher– Miss Wood

Teaching assistant – Miss Sanches

6B

Teacher– Mrs Jackson and Miss Benson

Teaching assistant– Mr Serrano and Mrs Newnes

Important dates

Reading records go out every Monday and need to be returned to school the following Monday. Your child must read 5x a week and an adult must date and sign their record for every occasion read.

PE: Monday and Friday (come to school in PE kits)

Spelling test: Friday

Multiplication tables: All times tables but especially the trickier ones – 6,7,8,9,11 and 12 multiplication tables. They will do a pre test on the Monday and a post test on the Friday.

Home Learning

This will be set on a Monday and returned on a Thursday. A further will be set on a Thursday and returned on a Monday.

The expectation for Year 6 is as follows:

  • Maths revision booklet out on a Monday, due in Thursday. GPS and Reading revision booklets out on a Thursday, due in Monday.
  • Lexia (if provided) 2 x 20 minutes per week
  • Reading book (‘school scheme’ or library book) to read and have recorded 5 x per week- signed by an adult each week

Useful links

Lexia

TT Rockstars

What are we learning about this year?

Year Group 6 Curriculum Maps (LTP and topic themes)1

2024/2025

Autumn 1

Our two main focuses of learning this term are WW2 and the Circulatory System.

For our history topic, we will be learning about the WW2. Here is the lozenge for this topic which shows what the children are learning

Y6-History-Lozenge-WW2-Leeds

 

In Science we are learning about the Circulatory System. Here is the lozenge for this topic which shows what the children are learning Y6 Aut 1 Science

Y6 Aut 1 Science

 

Our class reader this half term is Letters From the Lighthouse.

Our author for this half term is Malorie Blackman.

Letters from the Lighthouse: Emma Carroll: 1 : Carroll, Emma: Amazon.co.uk: BooksNoughts & Crosses By Malorie Blackman | Used | 9780552555708 | World of BooksNought Forever by Malorie Blackman | Waterstones

 

Week 1

The children have had a great start to the week with the residential. Dobroyd castle was great and the children all had a go, even when they were frightened and they supported their classmates during lots of the activities. They soared through the air in the trapeze, completed puzzles to join the knights in their quest, built rafts and canoed and had a huge amount of fun!

Week 2

Today we had a visitor (Judith Rhodes) who came to share the story of her mother, Ursula Michel, with us. Ursula was the daughter of a Jewish father and Protestant mother and when the Nuremburg laws were passed, the whole family, including Ursula’s sister Lilli were in danger. Her parents made the decision to send Ursula on a Kindertransport train to England, knowing they would likely never see their daughter again. Judith shared with us her mother’s journey and brought her mother’s tiny suitcase which accompanied her from Germany to Britain. Ursula wrote to her sister and parents as often as she could, but very sadly they are believed to have perished in a concentration camp in 1942. The children had chance to ask lots and lots of questions which helped to further their knowledge. Thank you as always to Judith for coming to share such a personal story.

Week 3

For the 60th birthday celebrations we made some 1960’s snacks with celery, tuna, mayo, cream cheese and raisins. The children enjoyed this and it was messy business. They especially enjoyed eating them!

For Park Spring’s 60th birthday we dressed up as characters from Mary Poppins. Here are some of our outfits.

Week 4

This week the children in Year 6 have done some AMAZING art work looking at some WW2 artists. They research Eric Kennington, Lillian Yonally, John Piper and Victor Lundy. Here are some examples of our learning.

Week 5

Today we made diagrams of the heart out of plasticine. The children loved moulding the red and blue in to the chambers of the heart and showed the ventricles and veins. Here are some of our models.

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