Sixth Class is the eighth year in primary school and typically accommodates students from the ages of 11 to 13. In this final year of school, children are consolidating the skills learned across all subject areas and engaging in group work, debates, problem solving, digital project work, cross curricular assignments and self reflection.
The curriculum in Maths continues to focus on real materials, expanding on the areas of Number, Algebra, Measurements, Shape and Space and Data. The tasks and practical problem solving activities that a child works on in 6th Class are similar to those in previous years but they will become more challenging and complex.
In SESE (Social, Environmental and Scientific Education) children continue to use the classroom, school and local area as a resource for learning. Their learning broadens to explore other places in Ireland and beyond to explore the lives of people in the past. Children use a range of investigative skills as they work as Scientists, Historians and Geographers.
In the Arts, (visual arts, music and drama), children continue to have many opportunities to be creative and to develop his/her imagination through art activities, music and drama. The focus is not so much on the work produced, but on what the child learns by engaging in creative activity.
In SPHE (Social, Personal and Health Education) children are encouraged to recognise the importance of treating his/her body and that of others with dignity and respect and to learn about the changes that take place in his/her body at various stages of development, for example, at puberty.
For more information on the curricular areas and how you can help your child in 6th Class please see some advice from the NCCA
Curriculum Link