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Year 6

Year Six

Our Teacher is Mrs Hanson

Our Teaching Partner is Mrs Moss

Welcome to Year Six.

In Year Six we:

Seize the day;

Take out what we put in;

Know that achieving is believing;

Respect ourselves and each other;

Do things that we are proud of;

Be the best that we can be and

Know that our best is good enough.

Weekly News

Termly News

Class Routines

  • Weekly news will be sent out vis Parent mail every Friday
  • Homework will be sent via Parent mail and must be competed by the following Wednesday.
  • PE days are Monday with Mrs Hanson and Thursday with Mr Andrews.

 

Growth Mindset

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Growth mindset is about having a positive attitude and supports being a successful learner.

Showing a growth mindset helps us face challenges, overcome failure and
be resilient. At WCP we celebrate mistakes in all subjects as we know that that can be the first attempt in learning. We discuss how our
learning behaviours contribute to be successful in school and relate this to
future ambitions. Each term we focus on a particular learning behaviour
that is linked to growth mindset and certificates are awarded to children who show these learning behaviours in school.

Autumn 1 - Hardworking

Autumn 2 - Reflective

Spring 1 - Persevering

Spring 2 - Up for a challenge

Summer 1 - Understanding of Others

Summer 2 - Curious

How can I help my child

Check there for ways to support your child

Useful Websites

Check here for useful websites

Reading

READING

We love to READ, RELAX and RECOMMEND in Year Six, enjoying an abundance of high quality texts including empathy, adventure, fantasy and the classics. We are using the app ‘Booksource’ as a ‘check in and check out’ tool for the books. The children are able to leave a review of the book for their peers to read and we are able to see reading trends.

Never Judge a Book by its Cover

We carried out this activity so that we could find that first book to devour as Year Sixes! We explored a range of genres and authors. We also listened to our peers’ recommendations. 


 

Our Book Buddies this year are with Year One. Every week, the Year Sixes love to read and the Year Ones love to listen to a range of stories.

Reading gives you wings

Reading-Challenge-Tree-Years-56.pdf

 

Writing

WRITING

In Year Six we are:

  • BEING INSPIRED TO WRITE

  • ENJOYING WRITING FOR PLEASURE

  • WANTING TO WRITE BETTER

  • STEALING FROM OTHER WRITERS

  • USING LIFE EXPERIENCES

  • SHARING WRITING TECHNIQUES

  • SEEING HOW A WRITER WRITES

In Year Six we focus on the:

  • AUTHOR’S INTENT - why are we writing and who are we writing it for?

  • AUTHOR’S IMPACT - what to write, how to write it and how to organise it

  • HOW SUCCESSFUL WE HAVE BEEN AS AUTHORS

In Year Six we:

  • ALWAYS FOCUS ON HOW THE WRITER’S CHOICES FULFIL THE PURPOSE OF THE TEXT AND IMPACT THE READER.

  • Effectiveness - Why am I writing and who is it for? Purpose and audience.

In Year Six we are

  • CRITICAL THINKERS and assess our own and others’ writing

In Year Six we create:

  • PURPOSE-LED SUCCESS CRITERIA

Author intent and impact

I want my reader to feel…

I want my reader to be…

I want my reader to know…

I want my reader to think…

I want to create…

I can do this by…

Year 6 writing

In Year Six we create:

  • SELF - REFLECTIVE ASSESSMENTS- independently assessing against the purpose-led success criteria.

e.g. I have engaged my reader and made them emphathise with the protagonist by using phrases such as…

  • PEER ASSESSMENTS - independently assessing against the purpose-led success criteria.

e.g. I did feel scared/informed/empathise with… because you used/told me/created a character who…

        I was engaged by your writing because…

        What stood out for me was…

        I like the way you…

        It was effective when you…

Writing 2  W3

 W4 W5

 

 

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