Year 6VH Phantom Midge Larva 2024 - 2025

I am looking forward to sharing this journey through your last year in primary school with you. It will be an exciting and emotional one, I am sure.

Our PE day is on Wednesday afternoons.

Swimming starts week beginning 2nd September 2024.

Please ensure your child has their P.E pumps and kit in school. Trainers can be worn if PE sessions are outside. These will be kept in school and sent home for washing at the end of each half term. If your child has earrings, they should be removed for PE days. Staff in school are not permitted to do this.

We expect all children to wear full school uniform every day.

Boys - Black or grey trousers, white polo shirt and a navy blue sweatshirt

Girls – Black or Grey dress or skirt, white polo shirt, blue checked dress,  navy blue sweatshirt or cardigan. Girls can wear leggings or trousers.

Shoes - This includes plain black school shoes/boots with a sensible heel, not trainers and no logos. If children have a problem with their usual school shoes, they wear their black school pumps whilst in school.

Names - Please ensure that all items of clothing are named – then they be returned to your child if the items become lost.

Jewellery - Jewellery is not allowed in school expect for a small pair of stud earrings and a watch. For PE lessons, the earrings must be covered over with plasters (provided by the parent) or removed. For swimming lessons earrings must be removed. The children must be able to remove them themselves. Please keep all other jewellery at home at all times for safety purposes. If it has to be taken from a child, it could get lost in school.

Headscarves – girls can choose to wear a headscarf if they wish to. These should be plain black, blue or white and should have no decorations, and must not be fastened by pins. Ideally they should not be longer than shoulder length. These must be removed for PE.

Homework will be sent home on a Thursday and will be expected back in school by the following Tuesday. Children are not expected to spend more than 10 minutes on each task. We will be sending home Maths homework, English homework and talk homework.

Additional tasks to support learning are available too, should your child want to spend a little longer learning at home. This will be available via Times Table Rockstars, Maths Whizz Spag.com, Purple mash.

All children are expected to read to an adult as often as possible but at least once a week. Please date and sign the reading diary when your child has read at home. This is imperative if we are to help our children build their reading comprehension and reading stamina in general.

Reading books and diaries should be available in school every day so that we can also hear your child read.

Handwriting

In school we use the following handwriting formations. It would be really helpful if you ask your child to help you do some writing at home. Maybe they can write the shopping list or a list of jobs that you need to do in town.

Water Bottles

Children are to bring a reusable water bottle ( no glass bottles ) to use each day, to help keep them hydrated. Please make sure these are only filled with water and are clearly labelled with your child’s name. These can be refilled with water throughout the day if needed. Water bottles can also be purchased from Mrs Iqbal in the school office.

Statutory Assessments (SATs)

Key stage 2 tests

The statutory key stage 2 tests are timetabled from Monday 12 May to Thursday 15 May 2025. We will be holding a meeting about the SATs in school to further inform parents/carers.  

In the meantime, if your child finds a particular area of maths or English tricky, they could complete some extra reading or work around this area as well as their homework.

To keep up to date with what we have been doing in school, why not follow us on our school Twitter page:                                                                                                        @ReedleyPrimary 

CONCERNS

If you have any concerns or questions at any time, I am happy to chat to you. You can catch me on the playground at the end of the day or you can book an appointment or telephone call with me.

Call Mrs Iqbal on 01282 693688 if you require an appointment. 

Finally, we hope all your children will enjoy their time in Year six. I am sure we will have a fantastic year working together.There are some very exciting topics planned and we look forward to seeing and sharing their progress during the year. Thank you for your continued support.