Welcome to the Year 6 (Giraffe Class) class page!

Teaching team

Mr Thomas (class teacher Monday to Friday)

Mrs Horseman (teaching assistant Monday to Friday until 1:30pm each day)

Mrs Dugaan (teaching assistant Monday to Friday mornings only)

PE

Wednesday afternoon (inside for badminton)

Friday afternoon (outside for tag rugby)

Children wear their PE kit to school (black leggings/jogging bottoms, plain white or house colour t-shirt and Barley Close jumper/hoodie/fleece) - no branded sportswear should be worn. Long hair needs to be tied up and earrings should be removed on  PE days. 

Reading

Children will be bringing home a school reading book. Mrs Horseman will facilitate book changing, for those that need to, on Fridays.

Children will also need to bring in their reading records on the same day, as we will be checking that they have read 5 times at home. This expectation is in line with local primary schools and is also good preparation for Year 7 when they will be expected to read regularly. Parents/carers need to sign the reading record 5 times - either to say the child has read to them, or that they have seen the child reading independently. 

All children will be given a TTRS log in, which they can access from either the app or the TTRS website.  The expectation is that children will complete at least 25 minutes a week on TTRS. 

See the milestones overview to check out the key texts for the term along with the skills we aim to master each term.

Maths

See the national curriculum overview for maths along with termly overviews for this subject.

Humanities (History, Geography and RE)

We are focussing on the slave trade as part of our key learning this term. Overview for the whole year included below.

Spellings 

Below are the spellings for Term 1 and the dates on which they will be assessed.

To be tested: 18/9/26

           believe

different

disappear

favourite

heard

interest

minute

probably

quarter

separate

To be tested: 16/10/26

horrible

terrible

possible

sensible

adorable

forgivable

valuable

disposable

committee

           government