Welcome to Year Six!

The home of Hawk and Red Kite Class.

 

        

 

Year Group Staff

Hawk: Miss Armstrong (Teacher) Mrs Yeroshenko & Mrs Welham(TA)

Red Kite: Miss Wall (Teacher) & Mrs Goodall (TA)

Additional Staff: Mrs Douglas (Maths), Miss Dingley (Cover) & Mr Wiliams (Cover & PE)

 

Email:     year6@htsj.school          hawk@htsj.school         redkite@htsj.school

If you need to speak with Miss Armstrong (Hawk) or Ms Wall (Red Kite) you can email us on the above emails.  Alternatively, speak to any member of the year six team or make an appointment via the school office for a telephone call or face-to-face meeting with the class teachers.  You can catch us on the playground most days at the end of the school day

 

Reading

Reading in year six is at the epicentre of all our curriculum learning, therefore reading at home every day is extremely important.  All pupils in year six have been provided with a home reading record and the expectation is to read a minimum of 4 times a week for a period of approximately 15–20 minutes.  Please sign your child's reading record every time they read as this will also earn them house points.

Pupils all have access to our online reading platform myON, and can also use this for their reading.  Every time they read online, they MUST take the quiz at the end to explore their understanding.

Pupils reading physical books are encouraged to read books of interest.  Every pupil has a recommended zone level of reading which is allocated based on their word reading and comprehension ability.

Physical books can be quizzed on using their Accelerated Reader unique login.  All quizzes earn points and prizes and pupils are encouraged to reach one million words (or more) over the course of the year!

             

• myON - online reading Access to online book to read, listen to and quiz on

• Accelerated Reader Take the quizzes by logging in here with your unique login

TTRS (Times Table Rockstars)

Pupils can enhance their multiplication tables knowledge through accessing TTRS.  We recommend a minimum of 10 minutes every day for children to complete their heatmaps of fluency and speed.  These are vital to all our mathematical learning across the curriculum.

Pupils will rise up the rankings with their speed and there are in-house competitions set every week to earn house points, class and individual prizes.  The best part is, it's fun too!

• Time Table Rockstars (TTRS) Increase your knowledge and speed to become the ultimate Rock Legend!

General Information

Uniform (all jumpers and coats clearly named): Pupils are encouraged to come into school wearing the correct uniform and where this is not possible please provide a note to the class teacher.  Please see the school uniform expectations on the website - wearing the correct uniform is part of being Ready, Respectful and Safe which is our daily expectation for all pupils at HTSJ.

PE: This is on a Thursday afternoon in Term 1, for Red Kite please ensure all pupils come to school wearing the correct PE kit and their house coloured t-shirt.

Term 1 - Hawk class will be swimming on a Tuesday afternoon - a kit list will be provided.

In Term 2, Red Kite class will be swimming and can come into school in their PE kits on a Tuesday.

Term 2 - Hawk will have PE on a Thursday, please ensure all pupils come to school wearing the correct PE kit and their house coloured t-shirt.

Further terms will be updated nearer the time.

Homework:  The expectation is for all pupils to complete online learning by use of TTRS every day, Reading every day and also Spelling Shed a minimum of 3 times a week to complete the set assignments which align with the lessons being taught in class that week.  Where pupils are unable to access online learning, please speak to the class teacher to arrange paper-based activities to be sent home.

https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/login

Water bottles and Snacks: It is important for pupils to stay hydrated and are not hungry during the school day.  Whilst we have access to water in class; we would prefer pupils to bring in a water bottle of their own which is clearly labelled with their name so they may refill them as required.  Please no squash or fizzy drinks - water only!

Pupils can also have a healthy snack at morning break - fruit, raisins vegetable sticks etc. No sweets or chocolate!

We are a nut free school and have pupils in the year group with nut allergies so please be vigilant with this when providing snacks and packed lunches.

Equipment: General stationery required for the children's learning will be provided, however some children prefer to bring their own.  We encourage this, however it is the pupil's responsibility to keep their items safe.  Pupils write in BLUE ink -  handwriting pens only.  Rulers must not be gel bendy rulers.

Maths Curriculum for the year (some aspects may be taught in a different order during the Spring term).

Spellings to learn and to ensure meanings are understood - these will be part of reaching the expected standard for year 6 writing.

Term 1 Learning

Community - Our value of the term.  We looked at maps of our local area and identified people in the community that help us and their location.

Finger Painting Portraits - As part of identity and belonging, our curriculum driver this term, we made self portraits using our unique finger prints.

Our Topic was WW2 and we had a fun afternoon to begin our project, by,  looking at artefacts, cracking codes, dressing-up, creating timelines and looking at how WW2 began.  Our teachers even dressed-up!

We took a visit to the Ramsgate Tunnels to find out about how these were created and adapted during WW2 to keep the communities of Ramsgate and Margate safe during the Blitz.

We had the local community hub come in and complete a Ladder of Risk with us.  We spoke about the risks around various social and anti-social behaviours within the community.

We had a clay workshop with Mercedes, who helped us to create our masterpieces which are currently being fired in her studio kiln.

We also used our sewing skills to make mini bags in DT.