Welcome to Year 6 - Oak Class
Effort
Year 6 marks the end of the your time at St Maria Goretti Catholic School and it is always an extremely busy time. Over the year, you will grow from children to young adults; ready to make the move to Secondary School.
As the oldest members of the school, there are lots of opportunities for you to develop skills and attitudes! You are now the role models for the younger children and as part of this you hold positions of responsibility. For example: Prefects, School Council representatives, Play Buddies for our EYFS children, FBA Leaders and Digital Leaders.
In Year 6, you are expected to work hard, developing the skills and independence you will need at Secondary School. Standard Assessment Tasks (SATs) are in May and lots of preparation work is undertaken before this.
In English work, we study all kinds of fiction and non-fiction genres, fine tuning our reading and writing skills. Grammar is important and you will start to see how authors use this to make their writing more interesting and use it to improve your own work.
Our maths becomes more sophisticated and you will become confident calculating with larger numbers and decimals. Amongst other things, we work with: simplifying and converting fractions, percentages and decimals; perimeter and area of compound shapes; presenting and interpreting data in different forms, and solving multi step word problems.
Please follow the links for the latest Oak Class news and events.
If you need to get in touch please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Mrs Bailey.
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Bitesize SATs Revision - Practise for your SATs with these activities in English, Maths and Science.
Class Photos
Activities In Class During Autumn
Cooking Week 2
Cooking - Week 1
Our first week of cooking on our 'Cool Kids Can Cook' course provided by Kind Communities.
This week we all made poached and scrambled eggs. We talked about caged, barn and free range eggs, best before dates and how to check if and egg is still fresh. Then everyone got to poach, scramble and eat their food.
Next week we will make chicken fajita with salsa, hopefully some of it will make it home.
George Visits
Appraising Our Art
Reception Buddies Visit
We had a lovely afternoon visiting our Reception Buddies.
Colin Parsons Author Visit
On Tuesday 30th September these amazing writers headed to Queen's Drive Primary School to spend a day with children from other schools and Colin R Parsons - an author from Wales. Whilst we were there we got to ask Colin lots of questions and he talked to us about becoming an author. He then talked us through how to structure a short story and everyone got time to write their own. After the workshop, we bought a few of his books and he signed them for us.
Class Activities During Spring
Palm Sunday Mass
Young Voices
Triathlon Training
George Helps With Computing
Sculpting Our Hearts
Our Heart Sketches
And Then We Embellished Them!
Our Finished Hearts
Phil Earle - Virtual Author Visit
Composing - Hanz Zimmer
Monday Maths
The Start Of Our Art - Embellishing Our Work.
Class Activities During Summer
Sports Day 2025
SATs
Useful websites and documents to help your child, in the build up to SATs. I'll continue to add to these sites - feel free to use them and let me know if you find any that your child likes. If you would like any further information on how to support your child then please contact the school office to book an appointment with myself.
Thanks, Mrs. Bailey.
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Practice SATs Papers - A free website to see the level expected at the end of Year 6.
Maths Help PDF
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Year 6 Cooking DT
Over the past few weeks we have been working with an external company to deliver four two-hour sessions with our Year 6 children. During these weeks they have learned how to make: poached eggs, scrambled eggs, chicken fajitas, beef burgers and wedges, and scones.
