Croeso i Dosbarth Lleuad
Blwyddyn 6
Our Classroom Team: Miss. Byrne, Miss. Daley and Mr. Jones
Medi/September 2024- Gorffennaf/July 2025
Summer Term:
Hello and welcome back to Dosbarth Lleuad, we hope you all had an enjoyable and relaxing Easter break. We have been very busy getting everything ready for Dosbarth Lleuad’s final term at Trallwn Primary. Summer term is always a busy one for Year 6 pupils with lots of trips and experiences to look forward to; so please keep an eye on Dojo for any changes to trips and events. i
Our curriculum and skills:
This term, we will be continuing with our Pole to Pole topic, deepening our understanding of classification and building on our knowledge of animal adaptations; which has an AoLE (Area of Learning and Experience) Science and technology focus. We will also be demonstrating our ‘enterprising and creative’ contributor purpose while taking part in the Swansea Enterprise project along with rehearsing for our Year 6 leavers assembly.
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Writing Genre: We will be exploring explanation writing, where pupils will learn to write blogs and articles about the North and South Pole. Pupils will also deepen their persuasive knowledge and create some persuasive texts that will support their Enterprise project. Finally, pupils will work collaboratively to write their leavers assembly script, exploring speech and stage direction.
Maths and numeracy
Maths Skills: Our focus will be on algebra, using the outdoor areas to support their understanding of expressions. We will also deepen understanding of decimals as well as area, perimeter and volume. Pupils will also get the opportunity to use their maths skills across the curriculum as part of our enterprise project, dealing with money, profit, loss and costing.
You can help your child at home with:
- Encouraging them to read scripts or books containing scripts along with musical/theatre performances.
- Practicing measuring objects and discussing units of measurement.
- Listening to them read and rehearse their lines and joining in with them to perform the class songs.
We look forward to an exciting term ahead!
Homework:
Homework will be given out every Friday in pupil’s folders. In preparation for year 7, pupils will receive literacy, spelling, maths and times table homework weekly. Alongside this, pupils will receive a ‘menu’ of homework to complete across the half term. The menu will consist of an activity or task from each of the AOLE areas. Pupils can choose to bring in a piece of homework each week from the menu or all 6 before the half term holiday.
Some homework may be set online via Mathletics or HWB, please contact me via Dojo if you need log in information for your child.
For those who do not have access to a laptop or computer to complete the Mathletics tasks, additional time at lunchtimes (Monday – Wednesday and Friday 12:00 – 12:30pm) can be provided to support this.
Spelling and times tables tests will be completed on Fridays.
Pupils will read with staff in either English or Welsh weekly, pupils are required to bring their reading book into school daily to facilitate this.
Useful links:
Hwb – www.hwb.gov.wales
Mathletics – www.mathletics.login
Topmarks – www.topmarks.co.uk
IMPORTANT DATES FOR SUMMER TERM:
INSET – Friday 2nd May
Bank Holiday – 5th May
Swimming – 30th April, 7th May, 9th May, 14th May, 16th May, 21st May, 23rd May.
Cricket tournament – 2nd June
Crucial Crew @ Waterfront museum – 3rd June
Residential – 9th – 13th June
Sports day – 23rd June
Cefn Hengoed Sports day – 1st July
Leavers disco – 16th July
Leavers assembly/ last day of term – 18th July
Spring Term:
We hope you had a wonderful Christmas break and wish to welcome you all back to Dosbarth Lleuad. We have been busy getting everything ready for the start of the new term in January.
Our curriculum and skills:
This term, we are starting a new topic about the North and South poles, which has an AoLE (Area of Learning and Experience) focus on humanities and science. During this topic we will explore the climatic conditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions and the concept of global warming and learn about historical and contemporary explorers of the poles.
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Writing Genre: We will be exploring report writing, where pupils will learn to write reports and articles about the Arctic and Antarctic and their features. We will also continue our narrative writing topic, where pupils will write their own fictional story.
Maths and numeracy
Maths Skills: Our focus will be on data handling and co-ordinates, using real-life data about animal species and locations in both poles to enhance learning.
You can help your child at home with:
- Encouraging them to read books or watch documentaries about famous explorers.
- Reading with them, asking questions about what you are reading.
- Engaging with their home learning tasks.
We look forward to an exciting term ahead!
IMPORTANT DATES FOR SPRING TERM:
- P.E will remain on Thursday afternoons
- Eisteddfod performance – 7/3/25 @ 10:15am in the lower hall, parents welcome
- Inset days – 31/1/ 25 and 21/3/25
- Dress down days – 30/1/25, 21/2/25 and 28/3/25 £1 per family
- Valentines disco – 13/2/25
- School cycle week – 3rd – 7th March
- Cluster games festival @ Cefn Hengoed– 20/3/25
- Easter service for pupils only – 11/4/25 @ St Samlets Church
- Homework will be sent home on Friday
- Any further dates will be communicated via Dojo
Autumn Term:
A big hello and welcome to Dosbarth Lleuad (moon class)! We hope you have had a lovely summer break and wish to welcome you all to Dosbarth Lleuad. We have been busy getting everything ready for the start of term.
This year, our class names are all about reaching for the sky! We will be starting this term by looking at Lleuad (the moon) and understanding how it effects our planet. Our main topic is the Swansea Blitz this term and we will be looking World War 2 and how the war impacted Swansea in particular.
Our curriculum and skills:
Topic
This term we will firstly look at Lleuad (the moon) and then we will move on to our Autumn topic of the Blitz in Swansea and the impact of WW2 on our area. We would love any family support on this, if you have any information/photos/artifacts from family members or relatives that were alive in the war we would love to share that as part of our learning! Alongside this, we will be developing our understanding of Remembrance Day; which will be the focus of our class assembly. This will see us focusing on the Humanities AOLE for this term.
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In literacy, languages and communication, we will be looking at writing our own limericks this term, along discussion writing and fiction story writing. Our class novel is ‘Goodnight Mr. Tom’ and we will be using this book to support us with our 8 reading behaviours. We will also be learning our class and teacher names in Bristish Sign Language. We will continue to develop Welsh speaking and reading skills through the Mates Maesllan reading series.
Maths and Numeracy
In maths and numeracy this term, we will be focusing on place value along with addition, subtraction, division and multiplication this term. We will be revisiting our times tables starting with the three’s.
Important dates:
Tuesday 2nd September – Return to school
Friday 20th September – Deadline for senior pupil applications
Friday 27th September – Harvest Festival
performance @ St Samlets Church @ 2pm – Full uniform
Friday 11th October – Hello Yellow day
Tuesday 15th of October – Shwmae Day
Wednesday 23rd of October – Halloween Disco
Friday 25th October – Super learning day/ Last day
of term – House colour t-shirt
28th– 1st November – Half term
Week commencing 4th November – Parents evening
Tuesday 5th November – Class trip to Theatr Na’ Nog
Friday 8th November – Year 6 Class assembly @ 9:15
Friday 15th November – Children in need toy sale (lead by Dosbarth Planed)
Friday 22nd November – World Children’s Day (pupils to wear blue)
Friday 29th November – INSET day
Friday 6th December – Pantomime (whole school)
Monday 9th December – Christmas Fete
Friday 13th December – Pupil Christmas dinner day
Week commencing 16th December – Christmas jumpers
Thursday 19th December – Lower phase assembly @ Trallwn Primary school @ 9:15
Upper phase performance @ St Samlets Church @ 2pm – Christmas jumpers
Friday 20th December – Class parties / last day of term
Important information:
Pupils will read to a member of staff at least once a week in either English or Welsh, as most pupils are on larger novels books will be changed when they are completed. Please support your child by reading with them as much as possible.
Our class P.E lessons will be on Thursday afternoons with Mr. Jones, school P.E kits can be purchased from Bergoni and pupils are to come into school on Friday’s wearing their P.E kit.
A range of fresh fruit is available every day as snack during break time, snack is 20p per day.
If your child is ill then please inform the School Office on the first day of absence.
Please only bring essential items into school as our cloakrooms are very small. Your coat, bags and lunch. Please could you label all items clearly to avoid confusion, especially jumpers and cardigans!
Leavers jumpers are now available to order with Bergoni via the link below.
https://www.bergoni.co.uk/collections/trallwn-primary/products/trallwn-primary-leaver-sweatshirt-non-refundable-item-no-exchanges?variant=39569300258902
If you have any questions or queries then please private message us via Class Dojo or ring the School Office on 01792 792478.
Thank you!
