Year 6

This week Year 6 took part in a Maya Workshop which gave the children a firsthand exploration of what life was like during the Maya Civilisation. Sally Spade, our Mayan enthusiast, helped the children to re-create the story of ‘The Hero Twins’ and they enjoyed taking part in a game of ‘Pok to Pok,’ a ball game where you have […]

Dear parents/carers, We have had a brilliant first few weeks in Year 6 and the children have really shown an excellent attitude to their learning so far. The children really enjoyed the Mayan workshop and learnt lots of new information about the Maya people. Please can you ensure that you have paid £5.35 via parentpay […]

Dear parents/carers, We have had another fantastic week of learning and the children have all enjoyed our learning about our topic ‘Blood Heart’. Next week we will be having our unofficial ‘official’ SATs week! The children will be completing an arithmetic paper, 2 maths reasoning papers, a reading paper, a grammar paper and a spelling […]

Dear parents/carers, We have had another fantastic week of learning in Year 6, the learning for next week is: English/Science: Learning about Dr William Harvey and writing a biography Maths: To calculate the area of a triangle, area of parallelograms, finding volume RE: To make links between beliefs and life and to know and reflect […]

Dear parents/carers, We hope that you had a restful half term, the children have had an enjoyable first week back in their final term at St Catherine’s. The Year 6’s have enjoyed our inter-faith week where we have been learning about Judaism, Islam and Hinduism. They have all listened respectfully, asked insightful questions and studied […]

Dear parents/carers, The learning for next week is: English: To write in role as a refugee from WW2. Geography: To design a poster related to ‘Earth Day’ and climate change. Guided Reading: To infer how climate change is affecting different people around the globe. War poetry. PSHE: How are payments changing? How can I pay […]

Dear parents/carers, We have had another week of good learning in Year 6, the learning for next week is: English: Writing a setting description and learning about how to write effective dialogue. Maths: Algebra- find a rule in one step, find a rule in two steps, forming expressions. RE: To know about and reflect on […]

Dear parents/carers, We have had another good week of learning. Please ensure that your child is in the correct school uniform, girls are expected to wear summer dresses and boys are expected to wear shorts or trousers. On our Tuesday Dance lesson, please ensure that your child wears shorts, they may wish to wear their […]

Dear parents/carers, We hope that you all had a restful Easter break, we have enjoyed having the children back for the first week of the Summer term. The learning for next week is: English: Debating the positives and negatives of children being evacuated during the war and considering how evacuees would have felt. Beginning our […]