Class Teachers:

Miss Louise Fry 6F
Mrs Louise Evans (Mrs Loulou) 6L

Teaching Assistants:

Mrs Rosey Cole (Mon - Thursday)

Mrs Louise Fish (Friday) 

Years 3 to 6 pupils are dropped off at the main school gate for entry to school between 8.45 and 8.55am.

Pick-up is also at the main school gate, at 3.30pm.

In Year 6, we have a 'Morning Timetable'. Specific activities are assigned each day from 8.45; these are intended to help develop different skills and promote independence: 

Monday: Music Appreciation

Tuesday: Reading for Pleasure

Wednesday: Corbett Maths 

Thursday: Vocabulary/Spelling

Friday: Time to finish outstanding tasks before Achievers' Assembly 

All primary school pupils' lunches are free - please order your child's choice on Parentpay.  Pupils can bring in a packed lunch if preferred.

Please provide your child with one full bottle of water (to be taken home for washing at the end of each day). PLEASE remember to label the bottle (and all other belongings) with your child's name. Thank you.

If your child would like to bring in their own snack, please can you ensure it is a healthy snack e.g fruit or vegetables (no nuts, crisps, chocolate, biscuits or sweets). Thank you for your support with this. 

Learning Projects

Autumn Term - 'A Child's War' - How did World War 2 affect Wales and beyond? As part of our topic, we also invite parents and carers to our annual Remembrance Assembly, something that is very special to us. 

Spring 1 -'Frozen Kingdom' - Welcome to the planet's coldest lands! 

Spring 2 - 'Land of Legends' (Welsh Myths and Legends) - During this topic, we read some of Wales' most famous legends and factual stories. We also study the history of the Welsh language and talk about the importance of keeping the language alive! 

Summer Term - 'A Star is Born' - This topic is related to our Year 6 Leavers' production. As well as spending time rehearsing as actors and singers, we look at the many aspects of putting on a show. Pupils are involved in prop-making, using IT creatively to produce a trailer for the show and in designing and writing part of the programme. 

 

Curriculum for Wales

PE is on alternate Thursdays for both Year 6 classes. The children also have the opportunity to participate in our Daily Mile activity during the rest of the week.

We have also developed strong links with Cardiff Met to provide enhanced, sports-specific lessons. This Autumn Term, Cardiff Met sessions will begin on Monday 17th November and will run every Monday for five weeks until 15th December. 

In order to allow plenty of time for lunch, please could the children come to school dressed in their Lakeside Primary School PE kit, on their PE days. A navy t-shirt and shorts are required, and trainers or similar footwear. Navy T-shirts may be purchased from YC Sports. If your child does not arrive in the appropriate PE kit, they will be asked to wear spare school kit.  If, for any reason, your child cannot take part, please send in a signed letter from a parent or guardian.

The Year 6 classrooms are both on the middle floor.  

We use the Big Hall for lunches, assemblies & PE lessons.

Children access work in the Year 6 Google Classroom and their appropriate Literacy and Numeracy Classrooms.

Parents are welcome to speak to staff at the end of the day and can also send messages via Lakeside School email. Staff will endeavour to respond to emails and phone calls as soon as possible. 

Homework

Maths homework will be sent home as a paper copy on Friday afternoons, when skills taught in school need to be consolidated. We would be grateful if the children could bring the homework back for marking on Monday morning. In Year 6, we encourage the children to be as independent as possible when organising and prioritising their time for homework. We do this with the aim of preparing them for High School and we are grateful for your ongoing parental support with this.

If we need to send a general message about a particular topic, we will do this via the Year 6 Google Classroom.

Reading

We would be very grateful if you could encourage your children to read for enjoyment as regularly as possible. We do appreciate that many children have evening clubs to attend, but as it is a skill that is used across the curriculum, regular practise is highly beneficial.

 

All Year 6 pupils have an online Reading Log, which they update regularly throughout the year. As part of this log, pupils are asked to write a review of the books they read; reviews are shared with the class as an excellent way of recommending books to friends. 

Parents might like to consider subscribing to a weekly publication called First News. It is an excellent newspaper that has many interesting articles about current world events, written in a child-friendly way. If you are interested in subscribing to the newspaper at home, please click on the following link: https://subscribe.firstnews.co.uk/?utm_source=neutral-homepage&utm_medium=topnav&utm_campaign=neutral-homepage 

Cymraeg

In Wales, the Welsh language is a core subject alongside English, Maths and Science. The children have many opportunities to practise their Welsh language skills throughout the school day, both inside and outside the classroom. In addition to this, we have a 'Daily Welsh' session which focuses on the teaching and learning of sentence patterns from the Welsh Language Continuum. The children also have regular opportunities to develop their reading and writing skills.

Dysgu Cymraeg/Learning Welsh

If parents would like to join their children in practising Welsh at home, please see below for some links which we hope will be helpful:

https://learnwelsh.cymru

https://www.s4c.cymru/en/dysgu-cymraeg/#

 

Apps:

Say Something in Welsh

Duolingo

Criw Cymraeg

Year 6 members of Criw Cymraeg have a very important role in helping to promote the use of the Welsh language throughout the school. Having gained the Cymraeg Campus Bronze Award in February 2020, we were proud to be awarded the Silver Award in July 2023. This year, our aim is to start working towards the Gold Award and Criw Cymraeg will play a pivotal role in this.

Writing

We study a number of creative writing genres in Year 6, including diary writing, poetry, legends and extended narrative pieces. Alongside this, we study non-fiction genres such as report writing, persuasive and balanced argument writing. The aim is for pupils to develop a more 'sophisticated' style of writing in Year 6 and to hone the skill of writing using the appropriate tone and style.

In order to achieve this, pupils are immersed in examples of each genre. Teachers model the required level of writing and the children complete a set of skills tasks before producing an independent piece. 

 

Useful Information:

• Bitesize SATs Revision
  Practise for your SATs with these activities in English, Maths and Science.

• Abacus log-in
  The log-in page for the children to access the Abacus online world. This is where children can complete homework set and play fun maths games related to what they have done in class.

• Astro Antics - games to improve your Welsh!

• Penigamp - games to improve your Welsh!

• Dance Mat Typing
  A fun way to improve your typing skills

• Newsround
  Find out about what's going on in the world.

• Top Marks Maths
  Games to help you improve all areas of your maths. The problem solving section is great for practicing your reasoning questions!

• Top Marks Spelling and Grammar Games

Parents/Carers are invited to a Curriculum Meeting at the beginning of the school year, to our Remembrance Assembly in November and to our 'Parent Share' in the Spring Term to observe the learning that has taken place during our 'Land of Legends' topic. 

Parent Consultations take place twice-yearly, in October and March.