Year 6 Blog - 18th October 2024

Date: 18th Oct 2024 @ 9:17am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

Year 6 have enjoyed participating in Bikeability on Monday and Wednesday this week. The children worked hard to hone their road safety skills and all children who participated earned their Level 2 certificates. Well done for all your hard work Year 6, and for showing perserverence in the rain on Wednesday! 

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have been learning all about Dame Sarah Storey, so that we can write a biography about her life. Did you know she is the most decorated female Paralympian in Britain? We have worked hard to research facts about her and started writing our biographies in class today. 

Maths 

This week, we continued with our multiplication topic. We learnt how to choose the most appropriate multiplication strategy to solve a question. Today, we started our new topic about division and learnt how to use partitioning to divide. 

RE

In RE, we created a piece of artwork to help us think about how Jesus restored our relationship with God. We called our artwork 'Jesus the reconciler’ and really enjoyed being creative! 

Topic 

In Art, we continued to scale up our dogs and worked on adding etchings to our images. We can't wait to make them into 3D pieces of artwork! 

In Computing, we learnt all about the different ways we can communicate online. We had to think carefully about what methods of communictation fit different contexts best. 

For PE this week, we have been honing our netball skills by playing matches to apply our learning! 

Home practice

Please complete the following tasks by next Wednesday: 

Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Spelling -  

Please practise these spellings this week, which are from the Y5 and Y6 spelling list. 

All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test next Wednesday.  

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: 

This week I would like you to practise counting in decimal steps of 0.01 and 0.02, like we have practised in class. 

Draw a line with some marks on it. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.

Start with different numbers and count up 10 numbers then back again in 0.01 and 0.02. 

Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!

Maths Task: This week's learning is to practise questions about multiplication and division which will help Year 6 to apply their learning from class this week. For further Maths work, please visit the 'Maths Training' section, where your child will be able to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them.

Have a great weekend Year 6!