Year 6 - Mrs Brennan

Welcome to Falcon Class

Mrs Blakeborough and I would like to offer you a very warm welcome to Year 6 and to our class page.

Throughout the course of the year, there will be lots of different and exciting challenges which we are going to tackle together as a team, working together and supporting each other. There will also be lots of exciting roles and responsibilities for your child to become involved in, allowing them to grow in confidence, independence, and resilience and more importantly, allow for them to be immersed in fun and develop their love for learning. These include roles in our School Council, Playground Leaders and Story Time Leaders.

Homework

Each week, your child will be set homework which links in with the learning taking place within the classroom that week. We encourage you to support your child with the tasks which have been set, alongside listening to your child read at least twice a week – our homework timetable is included on the class timetable below.

Monday: Spellings and Grammar

Tuesday: Reading Comprehension and Reading Records

Thursday: Maths

Reading

Reading records will be checked on Tuesdays, children need at LEAST 3 signatures please. Also throughout the year, different reading challenges will be set and reading will be celebrated throughout the school. We also have a class reading challenge, where the children can receive raffle tickets for the number of times they read to an adult each week. These tickets will then be entered into a raffle, where half-termly children can win a prize.

We also have some fantastic Year 6 texts to read this year including: Holes, Skellig and Wonder.

If you do have any concerns or queries, then please do not hesitate to contact us (preferably by phone or email) before or after the school day.

sara.brennan@hawthorn-tree.lincs.sch.uk

If your child is struggling with homework, then please encourage them to come and speak to myself or Mrs Blakeborough BEFORE their homework is due in, this means we can go over the homework together in enough time. Children who struggle to complete homework at home, will be asked to complete this during assembly or playtimes.

Please keep browsing our class page for important updates, homework timetables, knowledge organisers and more importantly, the children's learning – these can all be found at the bottom of our class page.

We hope you enjoy browsing our page and we look forward to working with you closely this academic year.

Many Thanks,

Mrs Brennan