Welcome to Primary 6!

This year, we will concentrate on our independent learning skills and building our academic confidence. There will be lots of new information and lots of hard work throughout the year. We know we must work hard in Primary 6, but we also know having fun along the way is important!

This year, the whole school will continue to focus on Health and Wellbeing, and we will study topics such as settling in, resilience, mindfulness, friendship, managing our feelings, kindness, conflict resolution, and transitioning.  

Below are some key days to remember when packing your school bag and getting prepared for school:

• Monday: Homework will be issued, PE Day
• Tuesday: PE Day
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 
• Friday: Spelling test, number check up and mixed mental maths quiz will take place (make sure you've done lots of practice through the week).

Children should wear FULL school uniform. This includes a yellow polo shirt, blue jumper with school crest, plain BLACK shoes or plain BLACK trainers and grey smart trousers, skirt or pinafore. Jogging bottoms and leggings are not permitted on these days.

On PE days, children may wear PLAIN black or grey leggings or jogging bottoms. No detailing should be visible. Patterned leggings are NOT appropriate school uniform.

As primary 6 is an important year in key stage 2, children will receive 4 pieces of written homework a week, alongside their daily spelling, reading and mental maths. Homework will be sent home every Monday. If possible, written homework should be returned the next day so that it can be marked in school.

Monday - Friday : Children need a HEALTHY snack each day (Bread based snack, fruit, veg or a yoghurt) and hot dinners must be booked before midnight the previous day using the school money system.

Don’t forget your water bottle. Water / Sugar free still flavoured water only in water bottles during class time and fruit juice (not fizzy) can be brought with you for lunch time.

We adhere to a healthy schools policy in Saint Joseph's. Please be mindful of this when packing lunch boxes.

https://www.nhs.uk/healthier-families/recipes/healthier-lunchboxes/

See NHS healthier families website for ideas.

Here is an outline of what we will be covering this year across the curriculum:

The order of these is subject to change and will be revisited and explored throughout the year.

Numeracy:

(The order of these is subject to change)

Literacy:

Writing:

We will cover a variety of writing styles as shown below:

These will tie in with our topics for the year.

Each week we will also learn about grammar, spelling, punctuation and comprehension

World Around us:

Our topics for the year are shown below:

We learn about our topic across all aspects of the curriculum including Literacy, Numeracy, ICT and The Arts.