Dore Primary School

Welcome to Year 6

Welcome to Year 6 

PE Days

Tuesday (am) and Friday (pm).

Please ensure that your child comes to school in appropriate clothing and suitable footwear on these days.

Change of reading books/ library visit

Your child will have a coloured ‘banded book’ and library book to read both in school and at home. All pupils have a reading record in school to keep a note of every book they read during Year 6.  On a Thursday they will change both their library book and coloured reading book if required.  We expect all children to read at home at least three times per week. 

Homework

Spelling sheets are handed out every Monday and the children complete a spelling test every Friday.  From January, in the run-up to the end-of-key stage SATS and to help with the transition to secondary school, we will set weekly homework through the SATS bootcamp website. 

Enrichment

Children in Year 6 are given additional opportunities to contribute to the wider school community.  All Year 6 pupils receive young-leader training in September, and on a voluntary basis, can then choose to support the infant children at lunchtimes.  

There are many sporting and cultural opportunities for the Year 6 children, including - but not limited to - athletics, football, dragonball, bouldering, poetry workshop and the Young Voices choir.  All Year 6 children also take part in the amazing end-of-year production!  Auditions for the main roles take place in the spring term, with rehearsals starting in earnest around Easter time.

Each half-termly learning journey in Year 6 has an engaging and project-based element.  Over the year, children will develop their communication, planning and teamwork skills through a variety of projects and opportunities such as Jamaican cooking, electronic game design, mountain-shelter building, tree-planting, Scratch computer coding and much more. 

During the spring term, we visit the Lifewise centre in Rotherham to take part in ‘Crucial Crew’.  Lifewise is a scenario-based learning facility with a film-set environment.  A number of partner organisations assist in delivering this programme, which include Magistrates in the Community, South Yorkshire Safer Roads Partnership and South Yorkshire Police and South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue.

In June, the Year 6 cohort decamp to the Stratford-upon-Avon Youth Hostel for our three-day, two-night residential.  The residential links to our Shakespearian learning journey with visits to his birthplace and school rooms; we also visit Warwick Castle and Cadbury’s World on the way to and from Stratford.

Parent Hub

On a weekly basis you will receive a Parent Hub notification which provides you with a snap shot of learning from our week in Year 6.