Westonzoyland Primary School ‘Embrace Opportunities, Choose Kindness, Value Everyone’
Hobby - Mrs Bell (Year 6)
Welcome to Hobby class page!
Please find below: information about Hobby Class, examples of our incredible learning and ways to contact us!
Hobby Teaching Team
Mrs Bell Mrs Hurley
Our weekly routine.
In Hobby class, Mrs Bell teaches Monday-Wednesday and Mrs Baker teacher on Thursday and Friday.
PE
We are very lucky in Hobby class to be able to access a variety of sports and activities. These vary throughout the year, so please check with your children/emails to see which day the children need to be in their PE kits!
Golden Rules
At Westonzoyland, we all follow the Golden Rules in order to ensure that everyone has a good experience of school. As the oldest in the school, Hobby class are responsible for being good role models for behaviour for the younger children.
SATS
In May, all Year 6 children across the country take Standardised Assessments. More information will be available closer to the time. However, in the meantime please reinforce to your children that there is no pressure. Your child's enjoyment of school, thirst for learning and acquisition of new skills and knowledge continue to be our main priority.
Home Learning
Each week, the children will be expected to complete home learning alongside daily reading at home. This is to prepare children for the increased expectation of secondary school. All home learning will be made up of consolidation tasks to reinforce the learning that is done in school, so all concepts should be familiar to the children.
English
For the first 4 weeks of the Autumn Term, we learn about comic writing techniques and writing funny stories using the book 'The Day the Screens Went Blank' by Danny Wallace as inspiration.
We learn how to use modal verbs and adverbs of possibility to describe characters emotions, discuss 'old technology' and practice using commas, colons and semi-colons correctly.
The children will also work hard to improve their handwriting, showing clear ascenders and descenders and consistently joining their writing.
In this unit, we share exciting some exciting real-life survival stories from the book Survivors by David Long and find out about the Tham Luang cave rescue. We investigate relative clauses and cohesion between and within paragraphs. We also write different types of reports, including a podcast episode!
This unit is our longest of the year, where across the whole of the Spring term children will revise all necessary grammar, punctuation and spelling for the Y6 SPAG tests, as well as reading, comprehension and writing objectives within an inspirational term's work that follows the sequence of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
The first few blocks of work follow the sequence of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, allowing the class to read the book alongside the teaching. The final units select some of the best bits from the rest of the series, whilst avoiding any spoilers!
Maths
In Year 6, many of our maths units are revision and consolidation from previous year groups. We work hard to increase the speed and consistency of our arithmetic skills before applying this knowledge to increasingly complex problems.
Children have lots of experience in applying their skills and practicing them in timed conditions in order to prepare them for SATs. However, the focus is always on ensuring the children have a good mathematical understanding of the work covered.
Times Table Rockstars
Times Table Rock Stars is a fun and challenging programme designed to help students master the times tables! To be a Times Table Rock Star you need to answer any multiplication fact up to 12×12 in less than 3 seconds! The goal is for all participating rockers to be Times Table Rock Stars after 20 weeks.
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