Rode Heath Primary SchoolYear 6 2024 - 2025
Mr Scott
I am really pleased to be working at Rode Heath Primary School teaching Year 6 and being part of the wider community. I have been teaching in Cheshire for fourteen years and enjoy creating new and exciting learning opportunities.
I love watching and taking part in a variety of sporting activities. In my spare time I enjoy playing football, tennis and golf. One of my favourite places to play golf is in Dumfries and Galloway, near to Kirkudbright, even though I lose a lot of golf balls!
Mrs Yates
I am excited to be working with your children. It is important to me that every child feels included and supported (and has some fun along the way!).
I have three children and a large Labrador! There isn't a lot of spare time but when I can I enjoy reading, going for walks and I love to visit the Seaside!
Welcome to Year 6
Welcome back! We hope you have had a lovely holiday and enjoyed spending time with your loved ones.
We have an exciting half term ahead. During this next half term, our focus is about adventure. Lessons will consist of exciting and engaging content from the entire curriculum. To help explore this theme, the topic book for the second half term is: Sky Chasers by the brilliant author: Emma Carroll. An encounter with a boy dangling from the sky changes pickpocket Magpie's life forever. Like her, the boy dreams of flying over the rooftops of Paris. His family, the Montgolfiers, are desperate to be first to discover the secret of flight. Together with Pierre, Magpie is soon caught up in a world of inflatable bloomers, spies and a trio of unruly animals in a race to be the first to fly a hot air balloon - in front of the King and Queen of France. You will need to read on to find out more...
We will also be following our Maths - No Problem! scheme of work, which incorporates lessons linking to real-life problems. Furthermore, it ensures that topics are covered from previous years so that children have a great understanding of maths and how it can be applied.
Alongside all of this, we are very much aware of the importance of children being happy, safe and secure in school and to help us do this, we follow our Hearts and Minds curriculum. More information about our Hearts and Minds curriculum can be found using this link: Hearts and Minds.
Thank you for your continued support. It is going to be a great year!
Continuing the Learning Journey...
Week Beginning: Monday 24th of February 2025
Maths: We will be looking at how to solve algebraic problems.
English: We will create and perform poetry. We will write descriptive paragraphs about the topic we are learning.
PE: Monday: indoor - gymnastics. Tuesday: outdoor - invasion games.
Hearts and Minds: My Happy Mind.
Science: Living things and their habitats.
Religion and Worldviews: We will be understanding the significance of places for some Jewish and non-Jewish people.
Music: We will combine knowledge of staff notation and aural awareness to play a fugue.
Computing: To assess and evaluate knowledge and understanding of the unit of work.
Art: We will be evaluating our completed sculptures.
Spanish: En la cafetería (At the café)
Geography: We will locate and describe the significance of the Great Barrier Reef.
Key Dates:
- SATs Parent Meeting: 27/2/25 6:30pm via Zoom.
- London trip: 14/3/25.
- Bikeability: 25/2/25 and 26/2/25. Own clothes - comfortable, warm and practical.
Weekly Reminders:
- Homework is set on a Tuesday and due in on a Tuesday for Atom Learning: Maths, Reading and PAG. Spellings are separate and due in on Wednesdays.
- Please ensure your child is filling in their reading diary on a daily basis.
- Practise timestables on a daily basis using Times Table Rockstars.
- Children to come in PE kits for the whole day on Mondays and Tuesdays for their PE lessons. PE will be indoors for Monday, so please wear appropriate kit. PE (where possible) will be outdoors on Tuesday, so please wear appropriate kit.
- If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to write in your child's reading diary and it will be responded to ASAP.
Here is a link to the book that I recommend you purchasing to help your child with the Year 6 grammar, punctuation and spelling expectations:
Renaissance Link for reading click here.
In order to find year group expectations for maths, please click here, scroll down and click on the overview.
For year group expectations for English, please click here, scroll down and click on the overview.
The expectations for science and the foundation subjects can be found by selecting the relevant heading from here.
To access the Atom Learning homework platform, please click here.
Don't forget to visit our Think Like an Engineer website regularly, to see what we're all busy doing:
https://thinklikeanengineerproject.com