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
Another great trip!
Once again, we can be very, very proud of our wonderful children! Considering we had very changeable weather – from incredibly hot to monsoon style rain – we achieved all our aims and enjoyed the whole range of activities. The Hawes End staff were very impressed with how everyone worked together, how polite everyone was […]
First sleepy morning!
After a busy day in the rain (except for the climbers, who had a day in the sun!), we had our well earned dinner – pasta bolognaise and garlic bread followed by sticky toffee pudding and ice cream. We were then put to work again as we practised our orienteering skills, whilst dodging midges. And […]
Hawes End – Day 1
What an amazing, and damp, start to the trip! Thank you everyone who helped get the children in on time – we arrived bang on time and were on our way to the first activities by 9:30. And whilst sunshine was the order of play for the morning, we were all amazed by the torrential […]
we’ve arrived!
Thank you to everyone for arriving so early, we’ve arrived dead on time and are already on to our first activity. And so the fun begins!
Hawse End Visit
Our children have arrived at Hawse End and have begun their residential visit including kayaking, rock climbing, ghyll scrambling and canoe rafting. Hopefully they will get some sleep.
Perseverance Home Projects
We have been sharing and celebrating our perseverance home projects with each other to inspire us and learn from each experience. We have learned from an American school who have taken part in a GRIT programme to develop children’s ability to show perseverance if we face challenges. These are some of the projects that have […]
Hawes End preparation!
I know people are already practising packing their bags, and then unpacking them, but I doubt too many are practising the early start required for Wednesday morning! As it has been a couple of months since we sent the kit list and the itinerary, I have attached the letters on here to help anyone who […]
South Lakes Kwik Cricket Tournament
We are incredibly proud of our two cricket teams who went to Netherfield Cricket Club on Tuesday 24th May. Both teams played five games in the glorious sunny weather, with the first team making it through to the semi-finals. Their semi-final game was a real nail-biter as it all came down to the final ball […]
Preparation for Hawes End
As we work towards our impending residential, we have been using our maths and geography skills to begin our fieldwork. We’ve managed to estimate the age of some of our trees (with appropriate disclaimers relating to accuracy!), allowing us to compare our site with that of our residential, and started to take and use bearings […]
A new vision for our school !
This week we are talking and sharing our new vision for our school. We will be distributing this to all of our parents this week. It encompasses our new values which have been agreed through consultaiton with all of the school family. vision statement
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