Welcome to Year 6 2023-24

WELCOME TO YEAR 6 THE TEAM Teachers: 6B Mr Will Beadle 6M Mr George McWilliams Teaching Assistants: Mrs Sam Carr Miss Abby Lamboll

THE SCHOOL DAY The school day remains the same in Year 6.

7.30–8.00 am

Breakfast club (charge)

8.00–8.25am

Morning care – pupils supervised in the playground or dining hall (if wet)

8.25am

Bell is rung to line up outside for registration

4.00pm

End of school

4.00–6.00 pm*

Co-curricular clubs (charges may be applicable) and Upper School aftercare (charge)

* Aftercare ends at 5.00pm on a Friday

THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO In Year 6, the children are role models for the school. They often help the younger children and take on extra responsibilities. There are also some exciting trips and visits to help prepare them for their transition to senior school. One such trip is to the Reigate and Banstead Junior Citizenship information day, which helps to prepare them for leading more independent lives as they move to secondary school.

Other fun things to look forward to in Year 6: • • • • •

Residential trip to France for five days Hugely anticipated Year 6 production Treat day organised by the CPA Barbecue and overnight camping at school Business enterprise scheme

UNIFORM, BELONGINGS & SNACKS UNIFORM The uniform remains the same in Year 6.

GAMES KIT Children should come into school in their games and PE kits on days they have these lessons (see the table below). Boot bags should be dropped into the changing rooms before they line up for morning registration. Please do not go into the changing rooms with your child.

6B

6M

Monday

PE kit

Uniform

Tuesday

Uniform

Uniform

Wednesday

Games kit

Games kit

Thursday

Uniform

PE kit

Friday

Games kit

Games kit

STATIONERY Children in Upper School need to bring in a pencil case, which should contain an appropriate writing pen, HB pencils, coloured pencils, a pencil sharpener, an eraser, a glue stick and a 15-cm ruler.

SNACKS Children may have fruit and vegetables, a small sandwich or fruit loaf, cereal bars, flapjacks (these must not contain chocolate), plain bread sticks, rice cakes or crackers, plain popcorn, smoothies. Please remember we are a nut-free school, so no nuts or sesame. They also need to bring in a named water bottle each day.

REPORTING There are Parents’ Evenings and formal written feedback in the autumn and spring terms. A full report is prepared at the end of the summer term.

Please remember to name everything!

HOMEWORK SEESAW Homework will be recorded in the Homework Diary and made available on Seesaw. To record and communicate with us about reading, please use the Homework Diary. There is an option on Seesaw to comment directly for specific pieces of work, or you can use the Homework Diary. We check both Seesaw and the Homework Diary regularly.

The following homework is set each week: • Reading (20 minutes) daily – please record this in the Homework Diary • Spelling (5 minutes) daily • Times tables (5 minutes) daily • Maths – one activity a week (20 minutes) • English – one activity a week (20 minutes) • BOFA (autumn and first half of spring term) – one activity a week (30 minutes) • Science (second half of spring term and summer term) – one activity a week (20 minutes)

HOME /SCHOOL COMMUNICATION IN PERSON / BY EMAIL Please do email the Year 6 team if you have any concerns about your child.

We are very happy to have a brief chat at drop off, but if you would like to talk for longer, we can arrange a convenient time to meet.

Our email addresses are below: wbeadle@chinthurstschool.co.uk gmcwilliams@chinthurstschool.co.uk office@chinthurstschool.co.uk

YEAR 6 TOPICS We have exciting cross-curricular topics each term:

AUTUMN: The Iron Age Celts (history); Human and Physical Features of the UK and Vietnam

(geography); Study of Islam and Christmas According to the Gospels (RS); Animals Including Humans and Electricity (science)

SPRING:

The Egyptians (history); Study of the United Kingdom (geography); Study of Christianity (RS); Light and Shadow, Living Things and Habitats and SRE (science)

SUMMER:

Local History Studies (history); Orienteering, Mountains and World Trade (geography); Study of Buddhism (RS); Evolution and Inheritance and Science of Sport (science)

WHERE TO FIND INFORMATION PARENT HANDBOOK – Contains detailed

SPORTS WEBSITE

SPORTS HANDBOOK – Further information

SCHOOLSBUDDY APP

information on all aspects of school life.

about PE, games and swimming at Chinthurst.

WEEK AHEAD – Contains information about the children’s learning for the following week. These are issued by class teachers via Seesaw on a Friday.

THE CHRONICLE – Includes a message from

the Head, a roundup of school news from the previous week and school notices. This is issued each week during term time.

SOCIAL MEDIA – Follow the school’s Instagram and Facebook accounts to see lots of the fun activities that take place on a day-to-day basis.

PRINTED CALENDAR – Issued at the start of each term.

CLASSLIST – We encourage parents to register with www.classlist.com to connect with other parents in their own class, year group or the whole school.

Contains details of sports fixtures.

Has details and takes bookings for: • Wraparound care • Co-curricular clubs • Trips New parents receive a log-in before the beginning of term.

EVENTS We hope to see you at our family events throughout the year.

These include: • Christmas Show • Grandparents’ Morning • Sports Day • Swimming Gala • Church Assemblies • Year 6 Production • Harvest, Easter and Christmas Services Please keep an eye on the Chronicle and Classlist for more information about CPA events.