Year 6 2024 - 2025

Miss Tyrer 5/6LT

Welcome to 5/6LT: another exciting year in Woodlands Primary School!

Hello everyone! I am Miss Tyrer and I am delighted to be entering my 8th year of teaching at Woodlands. I cannot wait to spend another year as part of such an exciting and creative school, and I am thrilled to be continuing my journey at Woodlands as a Year 5/6 teacher and as the phase leader for UKS2.

I love teaching all subjects and seeing children shine across the curriculum. This year, I am excited to be leading English across the whole school! I am incredibly passionate about developing a love of reading and writing in all children, and I love how writing allows us to express our creativity in so many different ways.
When I am not in school, I am often busy renovating my very first home which I bought in July 2021 (and is still very much work in progress!), and trying to stop my pet cat – Hugo – from destroying the place! I also really enjoy going to concerts, and spending time with family and friends.
I believe that in order to succeed it is vital to work as a team and support one another through all of the exciting challenges a new year can bring. I cannot wait to get to know you all better and learn all about your hopes, dreams and aspirations!

Mrs Megginson 6DM

Welcome to Year 6!

Hello. I am Mrs Megginson and I will be your teacher in September. I am really excited that we will be working together! This will be my seventh year teaching at Woodlands and I am the History lead at our school.

Outside of school I like to spend time with my family and friends. I have 2 children. My son has just finished university and my daughter is in high school, but it doesn’t seem that long ago since they were in Year 6! We are all big music fans in our family - we like to go to music concerts and festivals together, go camping and walking in the woods or on a beach.

I am thrilled to be part of the Y6 team. We have worked together as part of the Upper Key Stage 2 team and we want to make your final year at Woodlands one to remember! We already have lots of exciting ideas and plans in place for you. I know we will have a great year together. I want our classroom to be a busy, happy place and I can’t wait for us to get going.

Miss Woodland 6AW

Hello! I am Miss Woodland and I am extremely excited to be going into my third year at Woodlands. We have lots of wonderful new things to learn about in year 6 but I am especially going to enjoy getting creative in art, design and technology.

Whilst at home, I like to spend as much time as I can with my daughter, Isabelle, my partner Graham and our mischievous cat Hattie. We love to go for ice cream and take long walks on the beach to see If we can find treasure.

I am really looking forward to being in upper key stage 2 and working with you in September. I know our classroom will be busy but it will also be full of fun! I cannot wait for the year ahead.

Welcome to Year 6!

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Summer 2

We are so excited for our last half term of the academic year!

In Geography lessons this half term, we will begin by completing our South America unit of work.

This term, we will:

Locate the countries, capitals important physical features of South America
Identify human features encountered when travelling to South America
Understand why conservation on South America is so important for the whole world community
Find out what the economic needs are of the people of South America
Compare the natural environment, wildlife and land use between the UK and South America
Identify ways to help the cause of local (and global) conservation
Identify organisations, charities and projects that exist to help local and global conservation efforts

After that, we will be completing our Eco Warriors unit and become Wildlife Detectives investigating the illegal wildlife trade— what it is, where it occurs, which animals are traded, why it is illegal and, finally, how we can help stop it!

Throughout this unit, we will:

Learn about what global trade means, and how it works.
Uncover the global illegal wildlife trade and find out why it is illegal.
Identify and locate where the illegal wildlife trade is taking place, using longitude and latitude.

Create a fact file about an illegally traded animal.
Research the ways that people are trying to stop the illegal wildlife trade.
Create a campaign video to inform people about the illegal wildlife trade and persuade them to help stop it.

In English this term, we will be looking at the Twits as well as a range of other short stories and writing stimuli. During this half term, the Year 6 teachers will use independent pieces of writing from this term and last term to assess each child's writing against the teacher assessment framework. The expected Year 6 standard is as follows:

In our final term, Year 6 will be focusing on problem solving and reasoning in Maths! We will be completing exciting investigations across all taught areas of maths in preparation for high school! We will also complete some cross-curricular maths linked to our topic of the Illegal Wildlife Trade, specifically linked to measure and statistics.

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Year 6 will have P.E and COJO's on Mondays and Fridays (Year 5 - 5/6LT also Mondays and Fridays)

Please ensure children have a weather-appropriate kit for these P.E. days, which includes a white top and black/navy joggers/shorts. Both PE sessions may take place outside for this half term, so it may be best for children to wear an outdoor kit for both lessons. As we are in the summer term, you may also wish to send your child in with a sun hat on their PE days. Please ensure suncream is applied before school when needed.