Welcome to Coral Class!
A very warm welcome to our class of Year 6 children taught by Mr McCarthy. We are fortunate enough this year to be joined by a wonderful team of supporting adults. The fantastic Mrs Read and Mrs Mulnier will support us as teaching assistants and we are lucky to have the lovely Miss Woods as our Midday Supervisor. Our class is simply wonderful!
Meet The Teacher Powerpoint
Important Dates
- Monday 1st June - Back to school
- Tuesday 9th June - The Book Bus (hopefully)
- Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th June - TLES and Wilsthorpe transition days
- Wednesday 24th June - Expert group afternoon & TLES transition day.
- Thursday 25th June - Class swap morning
- Friday 26th June - Inset Day
- Monday 29th June - 1st July - Residential
- Friday 3rd July - Sport's Day
- Monday 13th July - Dress rehearsal of 'Porridge' to the school
- Wednesday 15th July - Afternoon and evening performances of 'Porridge'
- Thursday 16th July - Evening performance of 'Porridge'
- Tuesday 21st July - Disco and BBQ evening
- Wednesday 22nd July - Year 6 Leaver's concert 9am
- Thursday 23rd July - Inset Day
Summer 2 - Our learning.
English - This half term we will be using some incredibly engaging texts to develop the children's writing skills. We will be writing letters of complaint linked to our maths theme park project, along with writing part of a story based on the book Out of the Shadow by Margaret Nash.
Maths - We will continue to develop our mental arithmetic skills on a daily basis and develop our problem solving skills through the Theme Park Project which addresses budgeting, profit and all oft he four calcualtions we have been mastering sof ar this year.
History - We will continue to explore the Industrial Revolution and its impact on the world including Long Eaton. We will learn about Richard Arkwright and technological inventions around the time.
Computing - This half term we will be continuing to learn about spreadsheets.
RE - This half term we will be investigating whether it is best to express your religion in arts and architecture or through charity and generosity.
Science - We will complete our work on Evolution and Inheritance.
PSHCE - Our work this half term will centre around 'Money Matters'.
Spanish - Our focus this half term is 'El fin de semana' - 'The weekend'.
ART- Linking nicely with our history knowledge block, we will be focussing on the work of L.S. Lowry
PE - Wednesdays and Fridays are our PE sessions for this half term. Indoor PE (Tai Chi) on Wednesday and outdoor PE (football/athletics) on Friday.
Knowledge Organisers
Homework.
Homework will be set weekly on a Friday. It will then need to be completed and in school the following Friday or before.
A piece or English or maths will be set each week. It maybe a paper based task or an online activity. Paper based activities will be stuck into homework books. Children will be given login details for online tasks.
Reading - Children are expected to read 3 times a week either to an adult or to themselves. This needs to be recorded in the children's planners. Planners and reading books need to be in school every day. Children will be rewarded for reading three times each week with merits and entry into the reading raffle.
Times tables - These are vital to progress in maths. Children are expected to practice tables using TT Rockstars at home regularly.
Spellings - These are set each Friday and then tested the following Friday. Again, these are vital to children's progress in English and in improving their vocabulary and quality of their writing.
Spellings.
All children will be given a copy of this overview in the first full week of term. It will be stuck into their planners.
Some children will be given personalised spellings in the first full week back.