Welcome to Year 6

The teachers in Year 6 are Mrs Kelly, Mr McBride, Mr Muldoon and Mr Rea. 
 

We have made a fantastic start to the school year and are adapting extremely well to the new routine of Year 6. We are all working extremely hard in every area of school life, making our teachers and parents very proud. This new term has already seen us grow into more independent learners, accepting new challenges with positivity and determination. 

Parents, remember to keep working hard at home with your child. Please practice tables, spellings and reading nightly. We are extremely lucky to have Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Maths in our school so remember to keep quizzing on both. 

We have a busy and exciting year ahead so keep an eye on our page to keep updated with our learning journey. Remember to sign up to Seesaw to receive regular updates.  You can also keep up to date with school events on our Twitter site; @stoppsbelfast

Autumn Term

Maths

In maths we are covering a whole host of topics including:

The 4 operations of maths - adding, subtraction, multiplication and division. 

Place value

Area and perimeter

Multiples and factors 

Bar graphs

Problem solving

Literacy

Our literacy topics this term include:

Proof Reading

Plurals

Verbs

Adverbs

Parts of speech

Pronouns

Prefixes/suffixes

A big push is on Accelerated Reading, so get reading and get quizzing. Let's see how many word millionaires we can get by the end of year?

We will be reading the novel "Mr Stink by David Walliams"

Our creative writing genres this term are Non-Chronological Reports and Myths and Legends. 

World Around Us

Our topic is Natural Disasters.

The children will research many aspects of Natural Disasters, including:-

Volcanoes

Earthquakes

Floods

Tsunamis

Droughts

We will have a major foucs on developing STEM in WAU.

Religion

We are following our Grow in Love programme for Religion. We are learning about the Bible, Evangelists and parables of Jesus and Liturgical events.

PE

We will be swimming on Monday's until Halloween. We also take part in CORE NI and The Daily Mile as a PE focus which helps us improve our mental health. PE kit is as follows; white/navy polo shirt, navy/black tracksuit bottoms and trainers. Please remember to bring a coat to school on PE days. 

Seesaw

Zap the QR code in your child's homework book to keep up to date on things going on on Year 6.

Homework 

Homework should be completed nightly and returned to school daily. Homework consists of; reading, spelling, times tables revision, numeracy and literacy revision.