Year 6 blog and Home Practice Friday 8th October 2021

Date: 8th Oct 2021 @ 4:13pm

Well done to everyone for completing their Home Practice. We have had an amazing 100% changing their Home Reading books this week – let’s keep this up as reading is the key to all knowledge.

Once again, just to remind you, here are the days when you can change your book:

Monday – Roller Coasters

Tuesday – Big Dippers

Wednesday – The Waltzers

This week in Year 6:

• In Maths, we have practised the 9 times tables, rounding numbers to 10 000 and 100 000 and how to use the bridging addition strategy efficiently.
• In English, we continued our novel, ‘Clockwork’, and have worked hard to create a play script, a scene with dialogue (with the correct speech punctuation) and analysed suspense writing and written our own.
• In our topic of Mountains, in Geography, we researched some of the largest mountains in the world and created an informative poster for others to learn from.
• For RE, we have begun our new topic, ‘Vocation and Commitment’, with some excellent debates on what makes a vocation. We also created some questions to interview someone next week who is committed to their role.
• In PE, we continued our learning of the sport of tag rugby, focussing on teamwork through encouragement and feedback.
• In PSHE, we have been learning more about mental health and ways we can manage emotions: things that we can daily and the people we know who can help.
• In Music, we used recorders to learn how to play ‘Hot Cross Buns’ and we learnt a new Harvest song for the Harvest assembly.
• In French, we learnt how to say weather phrases and practiced our phonics.
• In Science, we learnt about the Linnaen system of classification of plants and animals, then attempted to use it to classify many different types. 

Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:

• Reading – Use your Home Reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be used for the title of the book and any reading challenge chosen.

• Spellings (-tion / -sion / -ssion / words)
  • We will be learning the -tion, -sion, -ssion spelling, which will look in detail at from Monday:
    • direction, collection, addition, action, rotation, creation, punctuation, subtraction, division, television, discussion, session, mission, percussion, profession 

• Sumdog challenges:
  • Times Tables x9
  • Adding and subtracting numbers mentally
  • Spellings (-tion / -sion / -ssion, words)
    • I suggest to first write these out on a piece of paper, then play the games. We will look at these spellings in more detail from Monday so the spelling of these words will be easier after we have investigated them.