Year 6 Blog - 6th December 2024

Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 7:57am

St Peter's Catholic Primary School - Year 6 - Week beginning 13th July

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!

 

This week in Year 6

English

 

A Christmas Carol (Puffin Classics)

 

In English we have started a new novel, 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens. We have explored the characters in the story this week and we have worked hard to create a character description of Scrooge and of Marley's ghost!  

 

Maths 

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This week, we have continued with our learning on Algebra. We have learned how to find the rule for a linear sequence and to solve an expression by finding the value of an unknown. 

 

RE

Women in the Bible—Learn From Great Women and Bad Examples, for Bible Study

In RE, we have learned about the important women from the old Testament. We have worked hard to create a book all about these women by researching them.  

 

Topic 

In DT, we have been practising different types of stitching. We have used a running stitch, overstitch and blanket stitch! 

In Computing, we continued our work on Tinkercad and created a pen pot. We had to be resilient to make sure that the measurements would fit a pencil in! 

We have also been working hard in our Literacy Kicks to learn how to write as a Sports Journalist. 

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Please complete the following tasks by 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. 

 

This week, the children need to practise the Y5 and Y6 spelling list. A copy of this spelling list can be found at the end of the blog. 

 

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

 

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: 

This week I would like you to practise counting up and down in different powers of 10. Start counting in one power of 10. After 5 counts, change your power of 10. How high can you go?

Choose a starting number and see how high or how low you can go! 

 

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

 

Maths Task: This week's practise is all about algebra. 

 

Have a great weekend Year 6!

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