‘Be The Best You Can Be’

September 2019

Dear Parent/Carer,

I hope that you have all had a lovely summer.

Here is some updated information about life in Year Six.

PE: Our PE days are Wednesdays and Fridays.

Trips and important dates (so far):
Curriculum Evening: Wednesday 25^th September at 4:30pm in the Y6 classroom.

Crucial Crew: Tuesday 22^nd October

Our Class Assembly: Wednesday 23^rd October 2:50pm

Grimm & Co : Tuesday 5^th November

(more information to follow via email)

Parents Evening: 13^th November 2:30pm onwards.

Home Learning Expectations:

In response to feedback and in order to prepare the children for the future, pupils will be issued homework every Friday and will need to bring it back to school on the following Friday. This will give them a full week to complete their homework giving them plenty of time for out of school sporting and enrichment activities (which as a school we are passionate about encouraging). During the week if the children have any issues or questions they also have plenty of time to come and ask for any support that they may need.

Children will be given weekly spellings via Spelling Shed (if you do require a paper copy, please do let me know) Spelling Records will be issued, children can use these to practise their spellings. I will also record the childs spelling score in them.

Children will also receive  a CGP Maths book and a CGP reading bundle (fiction, non-fiction and poetry). I will explain to the children which pages to do at home (children will only be expected to do a couple of pages from the Maths book and a couple of pages from one of the three reading books). These books must be returned to school every Friday, I have explained to the class that it is their responsibility to remember to bring in their homework.   This should promote the childrens independence and improve their organisation skills (ready for secondary but were not wanting to think about that just yet). School have purchased the books, however if the children misplace their books, there will be a charge of 2 for the Maths book and 1.85 for each of the Reading books.

We expect children to read at least three times per week, children need to bring their reading records to school every day. I have plenty of books that the children can borrow.

Home learning projects: Just like previous years, we would love to see your childs home learning projects. Our topic this term is Time Machine (Through the Decades), we will be looking at social history from 1950s- 1990s. Children can present their work in any way that they like, last year we had some amazing projects and we cannot wait to see what the children create this year.

Secondary School Applications

Please look out for the secondary school application pack which will be sent home with your child today. The deadline for the application is 31^st October 2019.

Consent forms

Consent forms for walking home unaccompanied will also be sent home today.

SATS: 

SATS week will be 11^th 15^th May.  After school boosters will begin after Christmas.

IKIC:

Y6 will be part of the I Know I Can enterprise challenge this year, more information to follow.

Im really looking forward to another year with a fantastic class, we will make this year one to remember.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in contact.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss A Saunders

Class Teacher/English Lead

The Ellis C of E Primary School

01226 753383