Year 6 Blog Friday 15th October 2021

Date: 15th Oct 2021 @ 3:38pm

Welcome to the last blog before the October half term holiday, as next Friday will be our INSET day. Year 6 have been brilliant these past 6 – 7 weeks: working hard, respecting the rules and routines we have in place, and completing the Home Practice in time.

This week we chose a tag rugby team to take part in the South Ribble Tag Rugby competition for next Tuesday 19^th October. Congratulations to those who were chosen. Our aim this year is for every Year 6 to represent the school in a sporting competition, something we have not been able to do since 2019.

We have had another week of excellent effort with 97% changing their books and completing their Home Practice on time. Every Year 6 is showing themselves to be great role models for the other children, especially during lunch time where they have worked extremely hard as ‘Buddies’.

This week in Year 6:

• In Maths, we have practised the 7 times tables, rounding numbers to 1, added decimals mentally and used the written method effectively.
• In English, we completed the novel, ‘Clockwork’, discussed what we thought about the story and the ending, and then created some of our own.
• In our topic of Mountains, in Geography, we worked as teams to learn about the main 10 features (slope, face, foot, valley, outcrop, slope, ridge, summit, tree line, snow line )
• For RE, we continued our topic of ‘Vocation and Commitment’, and retold the story of the Baptism of the Lord, as John the Baptist.
• In PE, many of us have learnt a new skill/sport as Year 6 have all become super tag rugby players. Positioning, speed and defence were the main objectives this week.
• In PSHE, our topic has been about mental health and as this week is Mental Health week, we put all our learning together to create a ‘self-care plan’ for others to follow.
• In Music, boomwhackers have been our focus to create our own unique beats and we continued perfecting ‘Hot Cross Buns’ on the recorders.
• In French, we used a weather map of France to describe the weather in different places. Some of us made the sentences more complex by adding conjunctions and adjectives.
• In Science, we researched and presented our findings on a specific invertebrate group, e.g. arachnids, molluscs, etc.

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.
  • The days when you can change your book:
    • Monday – Roller Coasters
    • Tuesday – Big Dippers
    • Wednesday – The Waltzers

• Spellings (-sion / -ssion / -cian words)
  • Sumdog (-cian, -sion, -ssion wk 7)
  • We will be learning the -sion, -ssion spellings again, along with -cian words, which will be looked in detail from Monday:
    • politician, magician, electrician, optician, musician, technician, Egyptian, vision, session, decision, permission, compassion, expression, progression, impression

• Maths challenges:
  • Counting
    • This week we have counting in fraction steps of ½, ¼ and 1½ . Try to do the same out loud or with paper.
    • Draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.
    • g. Start with different numbers and count up 10 numbers then back again in halves:

2½, 3, 3½, 4, etc               

Start at 27 and count up 10 numbers and down again:

27, 27½, 28, 28½, etc          

Now try in ¼ with these numbers:

6, 6¼, 6 2/4, 6¾, 7, 7¼, etc

Finally keep trying to count forward and back in 1½ steps:

8, 9½, 11, 12½, 14, 15½, 17, etc   

• Sumdog (Times Tables x12)

• Sumdog (Rounding decimals and comparing to fractions)

Do not forget that next week, our last day is Thursday 21^st October.

Have a great weekend everyone!