Year 6 Blog - 20th September 2024

Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 11:03am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!

We have had individual and sibling pictures taken today, with everyone looking very smart in their autumn uniforms. They should take a couple of weeks to come back to us, if you would like to order any. Letters for bikeability and a taster day at All Hallows have also been handed out this afternoon. 

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have continued with our work on  'The Nowhere Emporium' by Ross Mackenzie. We read the story 'The Wonder' in class to inspire us to think of our own wonders that we could incorporate into our Nowhere Emporium stories. We were able to gather and use some amazing higher level vocabulary to apply to our fantasy story writing! 

Maths 

This week we have completed our Place Value topic and begun to learn about the four operations, starting with addition and subtraction. We have been learning about the mental and written strategies that we can use to help us add and subtract numbers, such as partitioning using a number line. 

RE

We have continued with our 'Creation and Covenant' topic in RE this week and have been learning about the meaning of the second story of creation. We shared the next part of the story together, where Adam and Eve are tempted to eat from the tree of knowledge, and used watercolours to paint our favourite part of the story! 

Topic 

For Science this week, we have learned how to classify leaves. Together, we gathered leaves from our forest school area and investigated how to classify them like Scientists. We enjoyed gathering our samples and sketching them in our Science books!  You can see us working hard on our galleries.  

This week in PSHE, we discussed what makes a positive and healthy friendship. We imagined that we had to give advice and provide a solution to some friendship problems in our lesson.  

In Geography, we researched how mountains are formed. Did you know that there are five different ways that a mountain can be formed? We presented our research as some amazing posters! 

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 the following spellings this week, which are homophones and other words that are often confused: 

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

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: This week we have had to count powers of ten for our place value work. Try to count in powers of 10 (1000, 10,000, 100,000 etc). You could do this out loud or write it on a piece of paper.

You could draw a numberline, like we have done in class this week. Can you count up and down in powers of ten? How far can you go?  Challenge yourself by choosing different starting numbers and practising your exchanging. 

Times Tables: This week I would like the children to practise their 7, 8, 9 and 12 times tables. There are 100 questions to answer on Sumdog! 

Place Value: This week's learning is to practise questions on addition and subtraction. 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 wonderful weekend Year 6!