Year 6 2025 - 2026

Mrs Daniels

Mrs Daniels - Y6 teacher, Key Stage 2 Lead, Mathematics and ICT coordinator and occasional Pippi Longstocking impersonator.

Welcome Parents and Carers,

I hope to make the children’s last year of primary school a positive and memorable one, whilst helping to prepare them for the end of KS2 SATs in May and the transition to secondary school. They will be encouraged to become more independent learners and to take greater responsibility for their homework, resources and timetable. The demands of the curriculum will become more challenging, but I believe with the right attitude and effort this will be a fun and successful year for us all.

PE will now be a Tuesday and Wednesday and the children are to come to school dressed in their PE kits on these days. We will be using ICT across all areas of the curriculum and have access to a wealth of resources including a brand new class set of ipads.

Home learning will be set each Friday to be returned the following Wednesday. There will usually be a piece of Maths and a piece of English- set on SeeSaw, Mathletics and TT Rockstars. The tasks will revise the learning which has taken place in school. I trust that homework is completed to the same high standard as classwork and handed in on time- this is good practise for next year at High School! Arrangements can be made for pupils who are unable to access the internet at home.

Reading As a school, we would love for every child to read for 20 minutes each evening and for this to be recorded in their Reading Diary, signed by an adult. I am really keen for the children to continue ‘reading for pleasure’ and to encourage this they will follow a path on the Year 6 reading journey – designed to explore a variety of genres and authors. In additional to their ‘free choice’ text, they’ll have a book-banded scheme book designed to build reading stamina and build comprehension skills. These books are so important in preparation for the SATs reading comprehension test. When reading to an adult in school or at home, this is the text we would like the children to be using.

As members of Year 6, the children will have various additional roles and responsibilities. They have each been assigned a new Reception pupil as their buddy and we will be spending time helping Mrs Greaves to settle them in to school. The Y6s will also assist me in the running of our weekly Celebration Assembly – announcing Stars of the Week and revealing the House Point totals.

I have booked our end of Year 6 Residential trip, to York, for July. We also have Bikeability (a cycle proficiency scheme) organised for January - lots to look forward to!.

Mrs Daniels sdaniels@weaver.cheshire.sch.uk