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 End of Key Stage 2 Assessments
As we move rapidly towards our end of Key Stage 2 tests, more advice, support, booster sessions and drop in sessions will be available for your children. A letter will come out over the next week to explain the support we will be providing, but this short video from Michael Tidd helps to explain what […]
The Ben Greenep Cup
In honour of setting the fastest time for the inaugural inter-house cross country competition, the cup awarded to the winning house has been named The Ben Greenep Cup. Ben set a very impressive official time of 2 minutes 59 seconds around our 0.5 mile course, closely followed by Will Owen and Charlie Barry. Congratulations to […]
The inaugural St Mary’s inter-house cross country race
Year 6 were the very first to take part in the first inter-house cross country around the local area. Needless to say it involved a lot of mud and rain (and a lost trainer…), but a great time was had by all! Congratulations to Ben G, Will O and Will N, the first boys through, […]
Learning about our circulatory system
Believe it or not, this is a playground sized model of our body! We have been finding out about how blood moves around the body, delivering nutrients and oxygen to different organs before returning to the heart and lungs. By moving around the body in the same way our blood does, we have learnt what […]
More challenges!
We are always working hard to develop our spelling and writing skills. Our online practise software is proving challenging, but very enjoyable. Thankfully, our wonderful PTA have provided us with earphones to stop us confusing each other!
Art Club – Silver Award
WOW – we have held another arts club – the children have been learning to draw cartoon pigs today! Thank you to everyone running the club, students from QES, we really appreciate your time and energy.
Adventure and Challenge Club
Our children in Year 3 and 4 have been taking part in their first team building challenge. Their task was to create the tallest tower for a toy soldier. This challenge was designed to not only explore their engineering skills but to see how well they worked and communicated in their group. We may have eaten […]
The human heart
Last term we dissected a heart at QES and we are now trying to explain how it works. Trying to remember which veins go where has proved challenging, but we have now created a diagram which helps! Next step is a detailed explanation to go on our display…
Year 6 French – Clothing
In French for year 6 this term, we will be learning vocabulary for clothing and looking at fashion.
Christmas Carol Concert
Thank you to everyone who took part in our Carol Service on Tuesday night. We sang together and each class performed wonderful songs or carols in the beautifully lit, St Mary’s Church. The service was interspersed with readings, read by Year 6 pupils. It was a lovely evening together with school community. Thank you […]
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