St Mary's Church of England School
Nurturing Creative Thinkers
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Kendal Road,Kirkby Lonsdale,
Cumbria LA6 2DN
Year 6
Year 6
Welcome to Year 6 – a very special class! As the oldest children in the school, we undertake a wide variety of important roles and with this comes a strong sense of responsibility. We are proud to take on the positions of Head and Deputy Head Girl and Boy and Key Stage/ Early Years buddies. We also help with the running of the school by preparing for assemblies, break times, lunch times, organising fruit and milk, and our most challenging task, keeping certain staff members organised, tidy and on time…
In addition to our extra responsibilities, we have a very high workload as we strive to ensure we have a sound understanding of everything we have been taught over KS2 and prepare for the curriculum expectations in Secondary School. Although this can be very challenging, the sense of achievement as we move through the year is amazing and very rewarding.
We will be working hard to prepare for the our Key Stage 2 assessments and can’t overestimate the value of support at home. Although we are now very familiar with the assessment framework, we are, as ever, expecting some changes and ‘improvements’ to the tests this year. We will have a meeting nearer the time to discuss this, but as a guide to what we can expect, Michael Tidd, a deputy headteacher from Nottingham, has made a video to clarify what is likely to be happening in the summer term and you can find it here: KS2 assessments – what will they be like and how can I help?
We also have many exciting activities to look forward to with things that keep us focused right up until our last days in Primary School. This year we will have three residential opportunities and trips to help support our learning, and make the last year in Primary School the best yet! These include an overnight stay at school at the start of the year, developing our outdoor learning activities, leadership and teamwork, as well as a one night stop in Liverpool to find out more about our topics on the Titanic, Victorian Britain and Britain since the 1950s. We will also be continuing our popular and successful outdoor adventurous residential to Hawse End.
However, above all these activities and expectations, we are proud role models for the rest of the school and want to help everyone have as good a time here as we have.
Chromebooks are used in all of our subjects, where suitable, which uses an individual user email. We will be developing our use of connecting and collaborative technologies to support our learning and will keep you updated with them as we go. We are also planning on updating our video on the school (see below) to allow for the many developments the school has seen – watch this space!
Year 6 Staff
Mr O Fitzsimons - Year 6
Mr Fitzsimons is a qualified Sports Coach and leads our Football Club and also works as a teaching assistant in different classes in school. Mr Fitzsimons trained at Lancaster and Morecambe College, has played football at Morecambe Academy and plays and coaches with Endmoor Football Club.
Mr D Yates BSc. (Hons) PGCE - Year 6
Mr Yates Profile Prior to working at St Mary’s I was riding my bike around South America immersing my self in the different cultures and environments. I have previously worked in Vietnam as a year 4 class teacher in the international circuit which was a fantastic experience. Out side of the classroom I can usually […]
Mrs G Gladwinfield, BA (Hons) - Year 6
I’ve worked at St Mary’s for the past ten years and have had the privilege of working in all key stages. I have a real love of reading, especially children’s books, and enjoy helping children of all ranges to enjoy and appreciate books themselves. Both my children attended St Mary’s and loved the experience. One […]
Latest News
Year 6 SATs meeting
Thank you to everyone who managed to attend our meeting last night. If you were unable to attend, I have attached the PowerPoint presentation a copy of the handout from the meeting for you to download. PowerPoint Handout SPAG mat – (SATs Companion) Spelling sheets – (Parents in touch) Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if […]
Outdoor Learning Days 4th-5th Jan
Happy New Year On Thursday 4th and Friday 5th we are having two days of outdoor learning for the whole school. These are non uniform days and we hope our children will arrive in school equipped for any weather conditions.
Michaelmas Concert
Well done to all of our children who took part in the school concert at the end of term. We had a wonderful array of instruments played by a large amount of children from Year 2 to Year 6. Our choir also sang two songs with superb harmonies. Congratulations to all involved.
Our collection, and ability, grows!
Just as we had hoped, the girls have managed to get their robot (Roxy…) up and running this week. They have built the basic chassis and programmed the ‘brain’ to receive the correct inputs from the controller, ready for their first challenge next week. The competitive nature of the two teams can now be put […]
Remembrance
Jack and Daisy, our head boy and girl took part in the Remembrance service held at St Mary’s Church. Many thanks for their contribution to this very important service of remembrance.
We have movement!
There has been much excitement in the computing club this afternoon: the first of part of our first robot has completed its maiden journey. The boys team (competition name to be confirmed!) have edged narrowly in to the lead by building the base unit, programming the ‘brain’ and the controller. The girls team (competition name to […]
Light investigations
I can’t say we’ve all enjoyed it in Year 6, but some valuable lessons have been learned. After an initial investigation to try and prove light travels in a straight line, we then worked on finding ways to change the path of light so that we could see around corners and over defensive barriers. This […]
Year 6 Book List
We’ve had a lot of people asking about the best books for children to read in Year 5 and 6. To try and find out, we have spent a bit of time scouring other schools, the wonders of the internet and our own thoughts to come up with a list. I’ve attached 5 files that […]
Kings Food Bank – Harvest Delivery
Our children have helped fill a Volvo estate full of food kindly donated by our children as part of our Harvest giving. We are really trying to express our value of responsibility in as many practical ways as possible. This year we wanted to provide a bumper delivery of food although we support throughout the food bank […]
Speaker at the Pupil Pariament
Our Head Girl, Boy and Deputy Head Girl and Boy join their fellow school councillors from other schools at the Netherwood Hotel for this term’s Pupil Parliament. Joining them was a very special visitor the Rt Hon John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons. He answered the children’s questions and led a debate linked […]
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Year 6 Curriculum
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