Year 6
Welcome to Year 6, an exciting and important year for all pupils, as we spend our final year together in primary school. As the oldest children in the school, we relish the opportunity to be excellent role models for the younger children who look up to us.
In Year 6, we take our faith very seriously. In addition to regular participation at Mass, we are given the opportunity to conduct and lead our own prayer services and Collective Worship for our class. Our altar is the focal point of our classroom, dressed in accordance with the colours of the liturgical calendar.
We also work together to prepare for the Sacrament of Confirmation. This is a very special time for us as it encourages us to reflect on our faith and think about what it means to be an ambassador of Christ.
Our daily prayers, hymn practices and participation at Mass, enable us to learn and grow in our faith. We each choose a saint who inspires us, and whom we can follow, as an example of how to live a life of dedication, as we each work towards our vocation to be saints. Our faith permeates all that we do in school, and we try our best to always live as witnesses to our faith.
Every morning, we have Literacy and Maths lessons together with RE, History, Geography, French or Music on other days. We start off our afternoons engaging with high quality texts During Guided Reading, we engage with high quality texts, and we enjoy studying RE, Science, PE, Computing, Art, DT and RSE, usually in the afternoons.
During Year 6, we can take part in a residential trip where we have the opportunity of acquiring new skills and participating in outdoor learning experiences. We also take part in a trip to St Chad’s Cathedral as part of our Confirmation preparation and regularly visit our local library to engender in us a love of reading for pleasure.
In Year 6, we take preparations for secondary school seriously, this starts with completing our homework on time. We are expected to read daily at home and develop our maths skills by using Times Tables Rock Stars each day. We must also prepare for our weekly spelling test.
This is a vitally important year for us as we grow and become more independent. We have many jobs and responsibilities to help with the smooth running of the school. Our teachers have very high expectations of us and we know that we have to set an outstanding example to the rest of the school. A Head Boy, Head Girl and six prefects are selected each year who are called to embody the essential tenets of servant leadership; finding themselves by losing themselves in the service of others, putting other’s needs before their own.
Our time at St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School is celebrated at the end of the year with a Leavers` Mass and assembly. These provide us with fond memories which we take with us to our new schools. No matter where life`s journey takes us, we always remember the experiences, community and the life we led at our primary school – we will always be children of St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School.
Our Curriculum Overview will provide more detailed information on topics and activities planned throughout the year.
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