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
Soggy cycling
We really do have a phenomenal bunch of Year 6 children! Even though they have had torrential rain, howling wind, closed roads and copious amounts of mud, they have all shown amazing perseverance and determination to succeed with their cycling. They are now able to cycle confidently on the roads, showing a great awareness of […]
Attack of the Drones…
After an extensive pre-flight training programme, we had our first squadron outing of our programmable Parrot drones. This week we focused on getting some hands on flying experience, seeing what the limitations of the drones are and thinking about what we might be able to use them for in the future. The hall proved to […]
Year 6 tour of St Mary’s
During our first week back we worked hard to create a voice over for a rather unusual tour of our school. We worked in groups to come up with suitable language then plan, write and record the clips to be used with the video. We are now thinking of what else we can try our […]
We have started school HOORAY!
We have welcomed our children to their new classes today and have got off to a superb start. Welcome everyone!
Goodbye to our Year 6 Pupils
We are exceptionally proud of our Year 6 children who are moving on to secondary education very soon. Our children have moved to Queen Elizabeth School and Lancaster Grammar this year. We wish them best wishes and happiness for the future.
Dick Viney Inter School Athletics
Very well done to all of our children who represented school at the Dick Viney Inter School Athletics Tournament. The children achieved 4th and 9th and won many personal medals ranging from gold to bronze. Very well done.
Year 6 Hawse End 2017
What an amazing trip! Our Year 6 children were absolutely fantastic on the recent residential to Hawse End Outdoor Centre on the banks of Derwent Water. We took part in a whole range of activities and experienced lovely, warm, welcoming weather, and non-stop rain, soaking us to our cores. However, some of us spent so […]
Fair Trade Coffee Afternoon
We have held another successful Fair Trade Afternoon, hosted by Mrs Neale in the Year 3 Class for all of our parents. During the afternoon children and volunteers served teas and coffee and also sold fairly traded goods from Tradecraft. During the time we sold £91 of produce for Tradecraft and had a a great […]
Governor Day – Monitoring our School Improvement Plan
Governors have spent the day with children and staff monitoring the school improvement plan. Included in this, the governors also explored behaviour for learning, school values and breadth and balance in the curriculum. They also had an opportunity to meet with parents on the school yards in the morning. Five of our Governors spent the […]
Understanding / destroying computers
Alfie and Ethan have given us an excellent explanation of how computers are put together and what each part does. There were a lot of questions (and dust), including trying to find out why the motherboard and other PCBs are all green. The boys were able to answer the vast majority with great expertise. Only […]
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