Year 6

Planning for Summer 2

Summer 2

It is really hard to believe that the final half term at Bridgetown is here for the year 6s.  We have a really exciting half term with so much planned including Bikeability, Transition visits to our new secondary schools, Sports Day, a visit to London - A River Thames cruise to take in some the landmarks of London and a visit inside the Houses of Parliament, our end of year production, 'What Crime is it, Mr Wolf', hoodies, yearbooks and our final Y6 assembly to reflect on our time at Bridgetown.  We welcome Mrs Lloyd, last half term and this, as she is doing her final teaching practice before becoming a 'real' teacher!  Come on Year 6, make this half term a great one - we know that you will!

Mrs Milward, Mrs Swanwick and Mrs Lloyd

Summer 1

Welcome everyone to our final term in Year 6 - it's hard to believe but there it is and so much happening before our Year 6s head off to secondary school and Year 7.  We hope that it will be an enjoyable term and one that they enjoy, collate their final memories of Bridgetown and treasure their time with us too.  This first half term is really short and dominated by SATs before we can relax a little.  In addition to SATs we will have our class assembly to prepare for which will focus on our adventures at Arete.  To whet your appetite we have a few pictures to share now of our amazing time.

Year 6 Residential to Arete Outdoor Education Centre - Llanrug - North Wales

The Mayans are our topic focus for this half term and we will look at their society, hierarchy, food and farming, communication and religion.

Knowledge organiser for The Mayans

Spring 2

Welcome back everyone after half term and we hope that you had a good break.  We continue to have a busy term and we are looking forward to our residential which is just 2 weeks away.  Fingers crossed that we have some blue skies and sunshine but we may still need some thermals!

Thank you to everyone who was able to pop into school so that our hard work in Year 6 could be shared.  If you weren't able to make it, we are sure that there will be other opportunities before the end of term.  Thank you also to those who were able to make the KS2 SATs information evening - we had a good turnout and again it was lovely to see parents in school for a face-to-face meeting.  For those of you who weren't able to attend, please find below the PPT presentation of the evening.  There is no additional Knowledge Organiser for this half term as it continues from last term with the focus being on Evolution, Adaptation and Inheritance.  Additional work and activities, we are doing, will be updated each week between now and the end of term.

Many thanks, 

Mrs Swanwick and Mrs Milward

Spring 1

Welcome everyone to 2022 - what an exciting year this is going to be!  We all make January a time to reflect on the previous year and then make plans and decisions about the year ahead.  We hope that 2022 is going to be a special one for you, a time to enjoy being with family and friends, making the most of your last few months at Bridgetown and then the excitement that starting a new secondary school will bring in September.

We have a busy term ahead planned with our topic 'Our Planet Our Future' and our 5 day residential visit to Arete Outdoor Centre, a residential activity centre in Llanrug, North Wales.  Our Planet Our Future is mainly a science-based topic where you will learn about the evolution, classification and adaptation of living things, how livings things inherit different characteristics but also how we have a responsibility to look after our planet now and in the future, looking at renewable energy and the impact of using plastics.

Outline timetable for Spring 1

Autumn 2

Welcome back after half term.  It was a great week to rest and recharge the batteries before another busy half term in Year 6.  Our topic this half term focuses on World War 1 using the well-known modern classic, 'War Horse' written by Michael Morpurgo as a stimulus for our activities and learning.  All of our English and topic work is related to this including some art and DT work too, this will also a day  in the Forest School trenches where we will be building dugouts and shelters and writing our diaries as a soldier on the Front Line.  In addition to this topic we will also be investigating and developing our understanding of Electricity in Science as well as exploring the question: What matters most to Christians and to Humanists? in RE.  Plus of course there will be preparations for Christmas in school - very busy half term.

Bell boating and water day - September 

It seems a while since we had a wonderful sunny day down by the river.  We enjoyed a fantastic day of understanding the importance of water and protecting the water form pollution as well as a new skill - bell-boating.  It was so lovely to be just out on a trip and something we hadn't done for a while!

Welcome to Year 6

The Year 6 team - Mrs Swanwick, Mrs Milward, Mrs Cockburn and Mrs Langford have enjoyed a great start to this new academic year with your children.  

We are sure that you can hardly believe that Year 6 has arrived and that it i the final year at Bridgetown for your child.  It will be a busy year: lots of learning, new topics, some assessment preparation, transition preparation for secondary school and a Year 6 residential!  So much to condense into 3 terms.  Our Year 6s have started so well and we really feel that they are ready for the year ahead.  We will be putting weekly updates onto our webpage; sharing with you activities, work, thoughts from our pupils and photographs of what they have been doing.  We are already looking forward to our Water Day with bell-boating next Wednesday so look out for the photographs next week.

Curriculum

The full plan of learning for Autumn 1 is coming soon but in preparation for the detail of this please see below our Knowledge Organisers.  The idea behind these is that some key facts, concepts, definitions, events and people related to these topics can be shared and discussed at home and support your child in talking about their learning at home.