Year 6 Blog - 27th September 2024

Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 1:31pm

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!

Thank you for all the Harvest donations that have been brought in this week! We are still collecting donations for the food bank next week. 

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have completed our work on the Nowhere Emporium this week. The children all worked hard earlier in the week to describe a wonder for their stories. All of the children have used their knowledge and skills from the topic to create their own independent stories about a new wonder.

Maths 

This week, we have learned about lots of strategies that we can use to solve addition and subtraction questions. We have worked hard on a range of number line strategies, such as compensation and bridging. Year 6 have also used a formal method to add and subtract whole numbers and decimals.

RE

In RE, we have shared Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ and thought carefully about what message he taught us in this letter. We have recognised that we are stewards of creation and that we need to look after our beautiful word. Year 6 worked hard to create some amazing posters to show how we should look after creation, making links to Laudato Si’ and the second story of creation.

Topic 

For Geography this week, we explored what the climate of a mountain is like. We discovered that mountains often have their own climate and learned about how the weather on a mountain can be very unpredictable!

In French we celebrated the European day of languages and learned all about why it is important to speak different languages. Did you know only 25% of the world population speaks English?

In Computing, we learned how computers communicate with each other. We had to research the different IP addresses of websites and learned how a DNS server acts like an address book for computers.

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 from the Y5 and Y6 spelling list: 

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

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?

Which is quicker, counting up to 40 in ones or counting up to 4,000 in hundreds?

Which is quicker, counting up to 10 in ones or counting up to 1,000,000 in hundred-thousands?

Which is quicker, counting up to 20 in ones or counting up to 140 in sevens?

Which is quicker, counting up to 25 in French or in English?

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

Maths Practise: This week's learning is to continue 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!