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Ballykeel Primary School & Nursery Unit

Year 6

Welcome to the P6 class page!

Welcome back!! We know the start of the year can be nerve-wracking, particularly given the current circumstances, but rest assured that we are excited about getting to know you all and we are here to help you in whatever way we can. We hope everyone enjoys their year and learns plenty along the way.

This page will give you an idea of what we’ll be getting up to in P6. Visit the website every half term for information on what we will be learning about.

There are two P6 classes in the 2023/2024 year. The P6 teachers are Mrs Thompson (teaching P6JDT) and Mrs Esler (teaching P6BE).

Our classroom assistants are Mrs Wilson, Miss Parker, Miss Todd and Mrs Blaney.

 

THINGS TO REMEMBER! 

What should your child bring with them on the first day of school? 

  • Pencils
  • Rubber
  • Sharpener
  • 30cm ruler
  • Pritt stick
  • Biro pens for marking (blue, black, red or green) - no gel pens please
  • A 12 pack of colouring pencils
  • Healthy break and a packed lunch
  • PE kit consisting of a tee-shirt, shorts, pair of trainers and jogging bottoms/leggings - this remains in school.

 

Homework

Homework is an important part of your child's development and helps to reinforce the learning that has taken place during the school day.  

On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday nights the children will have:

  • Reading
  • Spellings
  • Tables or mental maths related to the current topic

Written Homeworks will be given on Monday and Wednesday nights.  These will usually be Literacy (Monday) and Maths (Wednesday).

On a Tuesday night we will set Online Learning, either on Education City or using a suggested website activity.

There is no written or online homework on a Thursday night so that pupils can revise their spellings and tables/mental maths for the weekly Friday test.

Help with Homework

Helping your child with their homework will help motivate and encourage them to continue to work at their best.  Here are a number of ways in which you can help your child with their homework:

  • Listen to them read / ask them some questions about their reading book
  • Ask them their spellings
  • Go through their maths facts/tables
  • Ask them some questions about what they learned today
  • Check that their homework is completed and signed.

Please sign your child’s spelling booklet, homework diary and written homework book.

If you feel your child has found their homework a little tricky or requires a little extra help from the class teacher, please put a note in the homework diary for us to check the next day.

Whilst these are simple things, they will make all the difference to your child’s learning.

 

Please remember you can contact the teachers  using the Seesaw app. We will endeavour to get back to you as soon as possible. 

We look forward to getting to know you and your child better over the year. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any worries, questions or concerns. 

Mrs Thompson and Mrs Esler 

 

What will we be learning about in Term 2?

 

Literacy

We will be focusing on recount writing before Easter and the children will have the opportunity to learn about writing a biography about a famous person connected to our World Around Us topic. They will be learning all about the different aspects of a biography and will carry out online research to help them with their writing.

In grammar the children will be learning about connectives, prefixes and suffixes and similes and metaphors. These areas of grammar will be used in their writing.

The children will also continue to develop their comprehension skills.  Between now and Easter they will be learning about making conclusions based on what they have read and this will help them both when carrying out their biography research and completing their individual biographies.

Numeracy

In Numeracy, we have been learning all the about link between fractions, decimals and percentages. This has been a key area of learning throughout this year and the children are able to use the knowledge they have developed this year to understand and use the connections when solving problems. 

We will also be doing some practical maths and measuring all kinds of things in our classroom and around the school. We hope to then use our great measuring skills to work out perimeter and we are going to be learning all about how to calculate the area of different shapes. 

The children will also be continuing to work on their problem solving strategies in fun and practical ways.

World Around Us

Throughout the term, we will continue to meet up with our friends from St Brigid's to complete our work on our World Around Us topic, 'Lighten Up'.  This will include putting on our own shadow puppet theatre, creating fun and interesting shadow sculptures  and discussing all of the new things we have learned throughout the theme. The children will also be learning about the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh whilst focusing on the famous "Starry Night" painting.

 

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