Year 6 2020 - 2021

Everyone at St George’s would like to say a massive thank you to all of our wonderful children who have been learning from home, and to all of the parents and carers who have done their absolute best to become teachers during this challenging time! The last few months have really highlighted what a wonderful community we have at St George’s, and we can’t wait to be back together in September.

You certainly all deserve a well-earnt break over the Summer holidays. There is no expectation that you will continue to work over the six weeks off, but if you would like to keep up with work over holiday, here are our recommendations:

The year group email addresses will be closed over the Summer holiday, but if you wish to make contact please use the following:

General enquiries – schooloffice@stgeorges.wirral.sch.uk

If you have any concerns about a child – safeguarding@stgeorges.wirral.sch.uk

Thank you for all of your hard work and support,

From all of the staff at St George’s

Welcome to Year 6 in 2019-20.

Hugs from our Home Learning Team

Welcome from our Home Learning Team. We are here to support you from our homes. Currently, we are all planning and preparing educational resources for you all. Like us, you are all working hard from home, showing the St George’s RESPECT values. We are extremely proud of all of your efforts and fantastic work produced so far-keep it up!

To continue with your home learning journey, please keep accessing your year group page to find daily English and maths tasks as well as weekly science and foundation subject activities. Don’t forget you can contact us via your year group email address.

We are also starting some online classes and lessons. If they are aimed at your particular child or Year group, your teachers will let you know via the contacts we have for you.

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Our VE Day Celebrations

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We will use this page to share important information and keep families updated on events in year 6.

Welcome back for the summer term. Teachers will continue to update the year group pages to support you in your learning. If parents or children would like to email in to their teachers any activities or new skills they have learnt during this time, you can now send any pictures or messages to year6@stgeorges.wirral.sch.uk and we can share your activities on your year group page. Please let us know in your email if you give your permission for the photos to appear on our website. You can find your photos on the 'What Have Year 6 Been Up To?' tab.

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Supporting Families With Covid 19 (Coronavirus)

We recognise that many families will need support with self isolation and home schooling. Using this page and the tabs below, we have set up home learning links and advice. Your child's class teacher will also be in touch via your child's class tab. We are aiming to to provide your child with lots of learning links and ideas.

In the 'online links' tab, we have set up links to websites and online learning portals that we use in school. Your child has been sent home with their online logins and passwords for the websites we use in Year 6. We have also set up links to other pages that will help your child learn at home. You will also find downloadable home learning packs at the bottom of the 'online links' page.

They will also be able to read daily and practise their mathematics using their Year 6 home learning mathematics book.

We have also added a poster with 25 ideas to have fun at home without screen time.

We also want to ensure that families and children are looking after their well-being. Link below takes you to our advice and links page for mental health and well-being:

http://www.stgeorges.wirral.sch.uk/page/managing-your-mental-health-and-well-being-throughout-the-covid-19-outbreak/64243

Remember to visit our pages and check regularly for updates and messages.We have set up an advice page for parents and home schooling.

Here are some useful sites to boost learning at home.

BBC Bitesize Daily Lessons

Remember to exercise every day

Joe Wicks is putting together some daily videos to keep you active while you are off school. It is important to try and exercise everyday as this is good for your body and your mind.

https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html

Daily English lessons with Jane Considine.

Jane Considine is putting together some super stacking English lessons for children of all ages to access from home. All you will need is a pen and paper and log onto her live webinar each day from Monday morning at 9:45am for the Film focus of the day and at 10:30am she will give you your writing task.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs3rCIhtQso

Free online books for all children to listen to.

Starting today, children everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being children. All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.

https://stories.audible.com/start-listen?ref=adbl_ent_anon_ds_hm_hb

Every week we will upload the lastest addition on First News. This is a children's newspaper that we subscribe to in school. You can download it by clicking the link above. The great thing about this newspaper is that every week we will also attach some reading activities and puzzles. The PDF files are attached below. Please note that level 1 is the easier activity (aimed at lower KS2) with level 2 being more challenging (aimed at upper KS2) . Complete the actvities each week as part of your English lesson at home. If you can't print the sheets off you can record the answers to the questions in your exercise books.

Click here to go to our First News page to access downloads and activities.