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Year 6 Newsletter (September 2023)

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Year 6 Newsletter | September 2022


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Welcome back!

We hope you enjoyed the summer break. We are extremely excited about working with all of your children and we have lots of wonderful things planned for them.

Year 6 is a really important year. In their final year of Sprowston Junior School they have a fantastic chance to be great role models and to set the standard for behaviour and attitude for the rest of the school. It also gives them the opportunity to develop the skills needed for high school. 

In this newsletter we will be telling all about the term ahead; our curriculum, expectations and any day-to-day information we feel you need to know. 

Our Team...

Mr Reeds - 6R class teacher 

Miss Watts - 6W class teacher

Miss Read - Teaching assistant 

Mrs Brooks - Teaching assistant 

Mrs Lewis - Teaching assistant 

Mrs Collier - Teaching assistant

Mr Arthur - Maths and PPA teacher

Mrs Blazer - PPA teacher

Mr Walton  - PPA teacher 

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PE 

Tuesday and Friday 

Kit

A reminder that our uniform policy for PE kit is a plain white or navy t-shirt and navy or black shorts/jogging bottoms. School jumpers can be worn. We are also suggesting that children who wear earrings do not wear them on PE days. 

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Home/School Journal: Home school journals are an important means of communication between home and school. All children are asked to have their diaries in class with them every day and the teachers we will check the journals fortnightly on a Friday. However, if you wish to contact us at another time, please feel free and just ask your child to show us the journal when they come into school.   

Homework: Every week, your child will be expected to complete one piece of Maths and one piece of Literacy homework which will be linked to the learning in classroom that week and will help to consolidate their understanding. We also expect a minimum of 2 hours of home time reading per week to be recorded in their home school journals.

Homework will be given on a Thursday and will be expected back the following Tuesday. 

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Our Autumn Curriculum

Literacy - we begin with Marcus Sedgwick's 'Floodland' which is set in Norwich and the surrounding area. We will then move on to Darren Shan's 'Cirque du Freak'. 

Maths - we will begin by revisiting the four main operations (addition, subtraction, division and multiplication) before moving on to place value, fractions and measure. 

Science - we will be looking at how living things have adapted over time and thinking about inheritance. As well as this will be investigating how light travels in a straight line, how it helps to form shadows and is reflected. 

Geography - we will learn all about how rivers are formed and how they impact the lives of people around them. During this topic will be focusing on Brazil and the River Amazon. 

History - we will be learning about Medieval Norwich and how it began the city we know and love today. We will also find out how Norwich City Football Club got its emblem of a canary.

R.W.E - in Religious and Worldviews Eductation we cover three topics in year 6; alternating between Judaism, Humanism and Christianity for the entirety of the year. 

Art - we will focus on the sculptures of Giacometti and we will also explore the world John Constable. 

Computing - we will begin by looking at E-Safety as this is a crucial aspect of the computing curriculum in today's technological society. We discuss how to stay safe online and look at how the Internet is used. Later on in the term we will begin to look at programming and coding. 

Music - this term, we are going to be looking at how to use body percussion to create a piece of Music based upon the Amazon rainforest. 

French - Mrs Blazer will teach the children how to deliver greetings in French and discuss school life.

More info on our curriculum can be found of the school website. 


Naming items...

Please can all personal items be named wherever possible. Coats, schools jumpers and stationary all go missing throughout the year and it is so much easier to find if it is named. Thank you. 

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We are looking forward to working with you and your children this year. We will do our best to keep you informed at all times and please feel free to contact us whenever needed. We are always available in our classrooms before and after school if you would like to chat to us. Alternatively, you can write in your child's journal or send an email to the school office. We look forward to meeting you all in person in the coming weeks. 

The Year 6 Team