Giraffes

Giraffes

Giraffes Class Letter - Summer 2025

Class Teacher

Mr Clayton (Monday - Friday)

Teaching Assistants

Ms Jefferies (Monday-Friday)

Miss Jarvey (Mon, Tue, Thurs and Fri)

Welcome back Giraffes. I hope that you had a restful break over Easter. As last term, I will not be teaching on Wednesdays as this is my planning time. Mrs Hutchinson and Miss Priddle will be teaching in my stead.  

As always, there is lots to look forward this term. Some you will be excited about such as: visits from secondary school teachers, visits to secondary schools as well as visits to the Ashmolean Museum and to Oxford Fire station for a the junior citizens trip. Although we have the SATS week coming up in May I want to reassure that you have nothing to worry about. You have had practice weeks and I hope that you feel ready to take on this challenge. All you need to do is focus on achieving to your full potential.  

Our values this term are perseverance and courage. I am sure that you will demonstrate these and model these to the rest of the school with pride as you have done so far this year. Our topic this term is Ancient Greece which as you know is my absolute favourite and I cannot wait to teach you about it. This topic will link back to our trip to Parliament in October as we will be thinking about the democracy and what our life would be like without it. In Art we will be looking at Athenian pottery and creating some of our own images telling the story of society today as their artwork does.

A summary of learning across all curriculum areas is set out on the curriculum web.  Our PE day is a Tuesday and Thursday. On Tuesday we will be preparing for my highlight of the Olympics- athletics and after half term playing Volleyball. Please On Thursday we will be preparing for our Maypole dance celebrations at the end of the half term and after the half term break we will get the cricket equipment out. Please ensure that students have their PE every day, especially after SATS, so that we can make the most of the summer weather- long may it continue!

Homework is set on Friday and due in the following Thursday. Paper copies will be handed out each week. This will consist of a mixture of Reading, Spelling and Maths activities. Although the formal timestable checks are done this does not mean that we no longer need to know them. We will continue to practice them in school and we expect students to continue to practice at home using TTRS. Finally, we ask that you continue to support your child to meet our ‘Ten Minutes a Day’ reading pledge.  Where possible, try to find some time each week to continue to listen to your child read aloud and to talk about what they have read.  Ask them questions and for explanations of what is happening in the book and what they think will happen next.  It will test their retrieval and inference skills and make them better all-round readers.  For inspiration on books that are suitable for Year 6 pupils please see:

https:// https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks2-school-pupils/suggested-reading-list-for-year-6-pupils-ks2-age-10-11/   

I hope that this overview answers any questions that you might have.  However, if there are any aspects relating to teaching and learning in Year 6 that you would like to discuss further or if there are issues that crop up which you would like to talk about, please do get in touch.  Emails can be directed to the school office and the office staff will forward them on to me or talk to me at the end of the school day.  

Mr Clayton

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