Year 6 – Justice Journeyers – St. Joseph & St. Theresa Catholic Primary School

Don’t forget to check your new Google Classroom page for weekly homework.

Welcome to the Attentive Adventurers

Our class teacher is Mrs Townsend and our teaching assistants are Miss Sneyd and Mrs Cartwright. We also have PE lessons with Mr Taylor and Mr Pickering who teach us PE and RockIt who teach us Music.

In Year 6, we have lots of adventures to look forward to such as Level 2 Bikeability, Standon Bowers residential and preparing to move on to Secondary School.

By the end of our time at St Joseph and St Theresa we will have lots of memories and friendships that will stay with us for forever. By trying our hardest throughout the week we know that we will be rewarded at the end to make ourselves and our families proud.

InformationREEnglishMathsOther Subjects

Remember to log onto Google Classroom for home-school correspondence

You will have PE on Wednesday and Friday

Our active uniform is:

Black bottoms, white polo shirt and your school jumper/cardigan

Homework:

SPAG and Maths CGP books are set on Monday to be handed in on the following Monday.

If there are any problems with homework, please encourage your child to ask for help before the due date.

Accelerated Reader:

Accelerated Reader has been a very successful programme. It has raised the enjoyment of reading and children love taking the test and seeing how well they have understood a book. Please continue to read with your child at home and continue the tests: http://ukhosted110.renlearn.co.uk/1893914/public/rpm/login/Login.aspx?srcID=t

Spelling:

Children are set weekly spellings to practise at home which are based on the Common Exception Words. Please encourage your child to complete these as regular, daily practise will help.

Spelling dictation is on Thursday.

Our topics in RE this year will be:

The Story of the People of God: In this unit children will be given opportunities to develop their knowledge and understanding of the structure of the Bible and the forms of literature that are found in the different books.

Followers of Christ: In this unit of work we consider the call of the disciples by Jesus.

Advent: In this unit the children will be given opportunities to develop their knowledge and understand of the two parts of the Season of Advent.

Christmas: In this unit of work the children will explore the story of the birth of Christ from the Gospel of St. Matthew and the Gospel of St. Luke.

Baptism and Confirmation: In this unit the children will learn about the celebration of the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation.

Lent: In this unit of work children will be given some opportunities to develop their knowledge and understanding of prayer, fasting and almsgiving as important Lenten activities.

Prayers in the Lives of Followers of Christ: In this unit children gain a greater knowledge and understanding of the traditional prayers of the Church and some of the signs and actions associated with prayer.

Holy Week: In this unit the children will learn about the passion of Jesus from the events that took place in the Garden of Gethsemane through to the death of Jesus on the cross.

Easter: In this unit the children study the story of Easter from the perspective of Thomas.

Pentecost: In this unit the children will learn about two stories from the New Testament about the coming of the Holy Spirit.

Belonging to the Church Community: In this unit of work the children will learn about the foundations of the life and teaching of the Catholic Church being rooted in the life and teaching of the Apostles.

Celebrating the life of Mary and the Saints: In this unit we explore some of the Church’s beliefs about the Blessed Virgin Mary and the feasts that are celebrated in her honour.

Our English Topics for each term are:

Pig Heart Boy
Wild Boy
For the Birds
Anne Frank’s Diary
The Piano
Goodnight Mister Tom
The Explorer