Mr Jason Parekh
Year 6 Teacher - Writing and Computing Lead
Mrs Elaine Eames
HLTA
Welcome to Year 6 (Oak Class) "Strong roots feed a lifetime of learning."
From joining as Little Acorns, Probus children grow along their learning journey - growing into willows to beeches to rowans to birches to maples - until they become mighty oaks in Year 6.
We pride ourselves on being fantastic role models for our school - being experts on our school rules:
Be Ready. Be Respectful. Be Safe.
In Year 6, children become prefects: taking on different tasks during the week to help others: librarians, KS1 playground helpers (friendship squad) and KS2 Huff and Puff play leaders. Not only this, but our delightful Year 6 become buddies to our Acorns in Reception Class. We meet with them and help them with their learning, read to them and play with them - having lots of fun!
Welcome to Oak Class (Year 6) - "Strong roots feed a lifetime of learning!"
We begin our learning at 8.45 each morning and you can enter through the key stage one playground.
You will need your reading book, reading record and water bottle each day.
PE kits should be brought in on Monday and remain in school all week.
Our PE days will be Monday and Friday.
Please, make sure all clothing is labelled.
We have many exciting lessons to share and below is the rolling programme for you to explore. Our homework will be set on Friday and expected to be returned on Thursday.
Alongside this, we would like the children to read five times a week - talking through and looking up words from their spellings can count as 1 read. Also, if they discuss their reading comprehension with you and explore the vocabulary and content, this will also count as a read.
Please make a note of any WOW words that you looked up in the notes section - there may be opportunities in the class where the children can teach their class a new word! And don't forget to include a definition so you don't forget!
On hot days, remember to being in a hat and apply sun lotion before school.
In the winter months, always bring a warm coat because we will often be learning outside.
My favourite book when I was young was all of the Horrible Histories books because I still remember popping in to WHSmith in Truro with my pocket money - buying the next book in the series before racing home to enjoy the facts and humour in which Terry Deary writes with. As well as this, I loved the illustrations by Martin Brown!
My favourite subject was History because I loved learning about the past through the exploration of sources of information (I especially loved learning about the ancient civilisations - the Aztecs and the Romans!)
Things about me:
- I am left handed.
- I wanted to become a teacher after working at Tresillian Infant School during Year 10 work experience.
- I like sports and mainly played football and rugby.
- I love Pokemon! I still have Pokemon Red for the Gameboy - I have many favourites but my top one is Bulbasaur!
- When I was younger, I wanted to be a police officer, a chef, a carpenter and an author.
- The best bit about teaching is when you see how much children have progressed during the year.
- I am passionate about writing - I love getting creative in lessons to make ideas vivid for the reader!
- I love books! I love reading, Treasure Island, The Harry Potter series, The Graveyard Book, books about Greek and Norse mythology (and of course, anything by Benjamin Zephaniah, Michael Rosen or Julia Donaldson!)
- I have been to Ireland, Latvia, Turkey and Italy.
- When In Turkey, I loved walking through the ancient ruins of Ephesus (whilst seeing wild tortoises climbing around). In Italy, I visited Milan and watched AC Milan play in the San Siro!
