Specialist Teachers 

A typical week in Suffolk:

This week in Suffolk 6

Week beginning 9th June 2025

We have been busy in Year 6 this week.

On Monday, PC Brooker came into the school and discussed with the children about transitioning into Secondary school. The presentation started with a moving up video which talked about some of the main concerns that the children might have moving up to Year 7 and ways in which they could resolve them. PC Brooker also covered a wide-range of topics including how the children could help themselves, the personal possessions allowed and lastly social media usage including how to be safe. The children found the talk extremely useful and had many questions to ask PC Brooker at the end.

In English, we have almost finished our book ‘When the Sky Falls’. At the moment, we are writing an atmospheric narrative where we are retelling the ending of the book. The children have now discovered that heartbreakingly Adonis (the silverback gorilla) meets his demise at the hands of the air-raid wardens. In addition, Joseph and Mrs F finally became comfortable with each other and bonded over the death of Adonis. How did you create suspense in your narrative?

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Latty, Miss Wright and Ms Glanfield. 

Home Learning

Home learning and spellings will be set each week on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday. 

SATs Bootcamp:

Please see Arbor mail from 5.3.25 for advice on Year 6 Home Learning from Term 4 onwards. There is a step-by-step guide below. Reading will continue to come home in the children's plastic folders. 

Times Tables Rockstars! 

To keep practising the multiplication skills taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account.

You should be practising for at least 30 minutes a week.

We have a TT Rock Star of the week. Look out to see who the first one is!

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Rapid recall of multiplication is essential for success in maths and Times Tables Rockstars gives you self-confidence, recognition and motivation to improve.

We will have a times tables check each Wednesday. 

Challenge yourself to beat your score, build your knowledge and watch your confidence sore, as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

Spelling

The link below will take you to the spelling scheme we are working from in school.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/english/primary-spelling/

This document contains spelling strategies that are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words:

Southborough's Spelling Strategies

Spellings will be tested on Thursdays. (Including using them within a sentence.)
 

Weekly Spellings - continuing in Term 6

Please see blurb for more information.

Reading

We recommend children in Year 6 children read for at least 15 minutes a day. 

Please ensure you hear your child read regularly and record on Boom Reader using the parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week:

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Some helpful questions to ask the children and check their understanding as they read have been pasted below. 

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading their current book, children are asked to complete a quiz before choosing the next one:

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

Please note: pupil login details have changed slightly due to an upgrade that has taken place on the Accelerated Reader platform. Pupil login details (user name and password) should now be enter in all lower case (no capital letters at all). These login details are used each time your child quizzes a school reading book which carries an accelerated reading quiz code.

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Music Knowledge Organiser

Below is the music knowledge organiser for this term's music topic. To help with their in-class learning, please can the children read over this each week.