Year 6 Blog - 24th October 2024

Date: 24th Oct 2024 @ 8:37am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog! 

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have written our biographies all about Dame Sarah Storey. We have also applied our learning by writing an independent biography. We chose to research either David Wier or Ellie Simmonds, and worked hard to write all about their lives.  

Maths 

This week, we have been learning how to complete a division by chunking. We began by dividing a four digit number by a one digit number and then divided a three digit number by a two digit number. 

RE

In RE, we reflected on our learning from our 'Creation and Covenant' topic. We discussed all of the scripture that we had shared and chose our favourite, giving reasons for our thoughts. 

Topic 

In Science, we learned how to use a classification key to classify animals. We challenged ourselves to be creative with our questions! We also researched and presented to the class information about different invertebrates. We were very proud of our work!

In PSHE, we learned about why people might choose to get married. We learned that you have to be 18 to get married in England and Wales. 

In Computing, we thought carefully about how we could be safe communicating online. We discussed if communication platforms were private or public and learned about age restrictions on some communication platforms. 

Home practice

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 6/11/24 : 

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. The rule to practise is looking at -able and -ible endings.  

All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test the first Friday back.  

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: 

This week I would like you to practise counting in powers of 10 - 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000, like we have done in class. 

Choose a starting number and a power to count in. Can you challenge yourself to change your power of 10 as you are counting?

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

Maths Task: This week's learning is to revise Place Value facts, such as multiplying and dividing numbers by powers of 10.

Have a wonderful half term break Year 6!