Welcome to Year 6 and Jupiter Class.

Here you’ll find updates, announcements and important information to keep you connected throughout the year. 

Key Information

Adults:

We are very fortunate to have a wide range of adults teaching your child over the course of the year; this allows for the children to experience a range of teaching styles which is excellent preparation for their eventual transition to secondary school.

• Ms Marsh will be teaching the class on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
• Mrs Kirkness will be teaching Maths to the class everyday.
• Mrs Harmer will be teaching the class all day on a Friday.
• Throughout the week, there will be other school adults teaching and/or supporting in the class such as:  Mrs Andrews, Mr Rees, Ms Hopkins and Mrs Blake.

Classroom Information:

• Swimming lessons will continue to take place on a Tuesday  
• PE lessons will take place on a Thursday  
• Children are to bring in a bottle filled with WATER from home daily
• Any pencil cases must be named and should be small enough to fit in a class tray; the children will be expected to use the school handwriting pens for all written work in their class books

Learning:

During this term the children will be learning about the following:

DT – Electrical systems

Art - Painting: Colour - inspired by Katsushika Hokusai

Wellbeing – People around me: Resolving conflict

RSE – Health and wellbeing

PE – Swimming

History – The Tudors – Dissolution of the Monasteries 

Maths - Daily maths lessons

Writing – Narrative with a Flashback (A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)

Term 1 Learning:

• Geography – Japan
• Art – Colour mixing and drawing skills
• Wellbeing
• Computing - Online Safety
• Writing – Persuasive non-chronological text (holiday brochure); poetry (haiku including personification and imagery)
• GPS – Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation
• Maths – Place value
• PE – Swimming
• Class reading text – Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo