Welcome to Year 6!
My name is Mr. Hawksworth and I teach our Year 6 pupils. I have currently been teaching for three years now and thoroughly enjoy teaching the pupils at Yohden. I teach a wide range of lessons including Mathematics, English and Science.
On Friday mornings, Mrs. Fenwick teaches Computing, Music, Maths and Reading.
Summer Term Head Teachers Award
20th May 2022 – Taylor
PE days
Our PE days are Monday and Wednesday. Our Monday PE lesson is swimming and pupils will require the swimming kit; including swimming hats. Pupils should not wear earings or any form of jewellery for this lesson. On a Wednesday, we wear blue/black shorts or trousers, a white t-shirt and appropriate sports trainers. Earrings need to be removed for safety or covered with tape during this lesson.
Home learning (spellings, TTRS, Lexia, reading etc)
We need to complete 1 hour of both Lexia and Times Table Rockstars each week to help us with our Year 6 multiplication tables and our reading ability. This should be completed independently with minimal support and supervision.
We hand out new spelling words or rules on a Monday, which should be practised using taught strategies from our in school learning, and activities completed by Friday that week for a spelling test. Sometimes we may need adult support to help us practise and to test that we have learned our spellings.
Reading is important and we must read at least 3 times per week at home with an adult. We ask our Year 6 pupils to have two books at any time; one at their level which they can be tested on at school and one book which should be a reading for pleasure book based on their interests. Adults need to write about how we read e.g was there a word we were stuck on, did we read fluently, did we understand the meaning of vocabulary, and could we answer questions about events and characters?
