Year 6 Blog - Friday 10th January 2025

Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 9:32am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog and Happy New Year! 

It has been lovely to have all of the children back in school this week after the Christmas break. Year 6 have settled back in well and worked hard this week! 

This week in Year 6

English

In English we started reading 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare. We explored the key characters in the play and thought about whether we think Macbeth will be a good or an evil character. We worked hard to retell the scene where Macbeth meets the witches for the first time from the perspectives of different characters. 

Maths 

This week, we continued with our angles topic. We learnt that the interior angles of a triangle total 180° and used this fact to reason with. We also learnt that vertically opposite angles are equal and that alternate angles are also equal. 

RE

In RE, we started our new topic 'From Galilee to Jerusalem'. We learnt about the first two miracles that Jesus performed: turning water into wine and healing an official's son. 

Topic 

In History, we started our new topic all about crime and punishment. We focused on chronology and learned that the type of crimes committed, and the punishments for them, have changed over time. 

In Science, we started our new topic all about our bodies. We learnt about the circulatory system and created some fantastic comics to explain how this system works in our bodies. 

We had a visit from the music bus this week! We really enjoyed learning about different instruments and we are looking forward to learning how to play brass instruments this half term. 

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. 

Spelling - 

Spellings this week are from the Y5/Y6 and the Y3/Y4 statutory spellings. 

It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.

SATS Revision: 

Today, the children have been given a login for SATs bootcamp. This is a fantastic website, which will really help with the children's SATs revision: https://www.yearsix.co.uk/sats-boot-camp/. 

Please complete the following topics for next Thursday: 

Maths - Topic 1: Addition 

English - Topic 1: Basic Punctuation 

Have a fantastic weekend Year 6!