Year 6
Croeso i 'Tramways'
Welcome to Year 6
Bienvenido!
"To be the best that we can be" article 29
Our Class Charter:
We are a Rights Respecting school and follow the UNCRC through our class charter which we have created together. We believe these articles are a high priority for us to focus on in order to achieve our rights and follow our responsibilities.
Our right of the half term: Article 31- The right to relax and play
A link to our Rights ambassadors page sharing ideas for the right of the half term
https://www.burryportprimary.org.uk/rights-ambassadors/
The value of the half term: Friendship and cooperation
Everyone in our class is a member of our
Our messages are shared in the 'stream' and any home learning activities and ways to help with your learning are shared in classwork.
Please visit Google Classroom to keep up to date with homework and some of our learning.
Our Current theme is
Revolution
Inquiry question:
Who were the Victorians?
How have their ideas influenced and shaped society today?
What is Queen Victoria's legacy?
What evidence of the Victorian period lies in Burry Port today?
Overview of learning this term:
You can practice your Maths, spellings and grammar online by using sumdog
Use your HWB login and password to access links and complete any home learning:
Online safety
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/5_7/
Keeping safe online - Hwb (gov.wales)
AUTUMN TERM
This Autumn term our class theme is Darwin's Delights.
We will be investigating through an inquiry based approach and posing the question -
Was the world created or evolved?
Join us as we board the HMS Beagle to find out about evolution, natural selection and adaptations.
Let's explore our natural environment and find out what creatures live in our locality of Burry Port.
We will learn about coastal eco systems and find out who eats who in a food chain and web.
We will be continuing to link patterns in words by adopting our trilingual approach to learning English, Welsh and Spanish.
We will also learn about the creation stories from various world religions.
NADOLIG LLAWEN
Our Christmas topic will involve finding out about Christmas celebrations around the world.
Join us as we travel around the world to find out more.
How is Christmas celebrated around the world?
SPRING TERM
This term our class theme is:
Hola Patagonia and proud to be Welsh!
We will be learning about and inquiring into details from the past. We will become history detectives to find out about our Welsh ancestors and their fight for the survival of the Welsh language. We will travel with the passengers on board the Mimosa to set sail from Liverpool Docks to imagine the journey to Patagonia where the Welsh settled and developed a new colony - Y Wladfa. We will be celebrating our Welsh heritage and culture as part of Santes Dwynwen, Saint Dvaid's Day and Urdd celebrations. We will be exploring our 'cynefin' and finding out about belonging to a community.
What makes us Welsh and what connects us?
HEALTH and WELLBEING
Having a positive health and wellbeing is very important to us.
We use the outdoor space as much as possible, to engage with nature, have fresh air and be as physically active as possible.
We also explore lots of strategies on how to maintain a positive mental health in our Circle time check ins and wellbeing lessons and discuss many concepts in P4C sessions. We also enjoy our sessions to develop Mindfulness strategies to enable us to feel calm and focus on the present.
Our official PE sessions are timetabled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this term.
On these days, we expect pupils to bring appropriate PE clothing to school. This should consist of...
- trainers
- T-shirt
- tracksuit trousers or shorts
- tracksuit top or hoodie
Pupils will then be expected to change back into their school uniform for the remainder of the school day.
For safety reasons, any jewellery must be removed, and long hair should be tied back.
As we wish to get pupils out and active every day, we recommend our pupils bring trainers to school every day as we want to make the most of learning outdoors and keeping ourselves active and healthy.
Don't forget to keep up to date through our Twitter page and our Google classroom where we will share our learning journey with you.
Building Learning Power:
We will be very busy this term to continue building our learning habits in order to become better learners and unlock our own potential. We have developed a growth mindset to learning and love to be challenged and pushed out of our comfort zone as that is when real learning takes place.
The focus for this term is Me Learning
- How can I become a better learner? What makes me a successful learner?
Perseverance: 
We use Percy perseverance and our stuck strategies when we find things difficult. Percy has helped us to develop grit and determination to succeed in all that we do.
Collaboration: 
Working with each other has taught us to develop an atmosphere of cooperation where we have developed our problem solving skills. We understand that everyone has a vital part to play in achieving a shared goal. We share out job tasks during group work, treat each other fairly and value everyone's ideas and opinions as we are all as important as each other. We love nothing more than working as a team in 4/5DB.
Questioning: 
We are very curious in 4/5DB and love to question everything. We enjoy using the thinking dice and Bloom's taxonomy to promote thinking, formulate higher order questions and challenge the thinking of others.
Listening: 
We are so excited to be part of a very special project on Spain. We are learning a trilingual approach to developing our vocabulary in English, Welsh and Spanish through listening to the beautiful tunes played on orchestral instruments by musicians from the BBC Orchestra.
Imagining: 
We develop our imagining muscles by writing descriptive story settings, working as detectives to analyse clues and draw character profiles as well as working on our mind's eye through stilling technique. Creativity is key!
Reasoning: 
Developing problem solving, lateral thinking and reasoning have been a key focus of our lessons this term. We have enjoyed tackling puzzles and investigations and are learning to clarify our thinking, justify our opinions and counter argue.
School Committee members 22-23
Head boy and Head girl
Harry and Gia
Deputy Head boy and Deputy Head girl
Class Councillors
Sport Ambassadors
Eco Councillors
Playground Peacemakers
Criw Cymraeg
Digital Leaders
Rights Ambassadors
Healthy Schools
Site Managers
Class librarians