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
Girl’s Science Club News!
KS2 girls have had the opportunity to sign up to an exciting new club at St Mary’s. It is aiming to stimulate enquiring minds and give girls the opportunity to participate in experiments and gain knowledge to aid the learning in class. Today the girls carried out some chemical reaction experiments and made a lovely […]
Year 6 science – the circulatory system
Is there a better day than Valentine’s day to play with hearts? The hearts in question, however, came from Dales Butchers, were still attached to the lungs and trachea and were helping our understanding of how these organs keep humans and other animals alive. We have looked at and created diagrams of hearts and lungs, […]
Follow us on Twitter
Here is another opportunity to follow the exciting world that is St Mary’s CE School. We are launching our twitter account this week. https://twitter.com/StMarysKL Why not follow everything we are doing!
Inter house Cross Country
Follow this link for a selection of photos of the event. Here Here are a small selection of photos of the event. Well done to everyone of the junior children who took part in the event.
Poetry Book – Nature Poems
A selection of poems has been put together reflecting our outdoor experiences in the school grounds. These poems have been selected from Year 5 and 6. We hope you enjoy them. If you wish to purchase the book, follow the link here
KS2 SATs meeting
Thank you to all who managed to make it to our meeting last week, and if you didn’t manage to make it, please don’t worry as all information is still available below! Year-6-SATs-meeting-for-parents Key Stage 2 SATs key facts The KS2 SATs week in May will be an exciting time for us all and, if […]
Inter-house Cross Country
Well done to everyone who made such a great effort in our inter house cross country. Ingleborough won overall on this cloudy but dry day. The ground was soft resulting in muddy conditions. Well done to all of the children who made such a significant effort to run for their house. Below are the winners […]
Remembering our London Visit
What a time we had in London. Visiting and exploring the Houses of Parliament, meeting with Tim Farron, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and our MP and Chris Mason correspondent for the BBC, what a great experience! We also explored London including the London Eye, National Science Museum, and we took in various sights eg […]
School Council Spend £2000
School Council have been debating this week about improvements to our school. We have agreed to spend £2000 on improving the infant play area. We will be buying two new houses for the playground. School council will also be launching a competition to design a logo for the school council and take part in the South […]
Climate control
Three members of our class have constructed and started to use a small weather station (disguised beautifully against the grey sky…) to record several different aspects of our climate. Ellie, Lola and Charlotte constructed the equipment using rather poor instructions and have started to record the temperature (including the maximum and the minimum), wind speed, […]
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