Year 6 Blog Friday 17th November 2023

Date: 17th Nov 2023 @ 8:13am

Welcome to Year 6 weekly blog.

This week has been our fabulous residential to Robinwood in Todmorden. We all had a super time. Click the link here  to see some of the pictures. Also, watch our Robinwood 2023 video on our YouTube channel, St Oswald’s TV, by clicking on the link.

Our highlights included:

• Accurately firing an arrow in archery
• Crawling through tight spaces in caving
• Using our strength and coordination to combat indoor climbing
• Finding the courage to release the wire on the giant swing
• Working together creatively to solve the dungeon challenge
• Using our senses to navigate through the night line blind folded
• Developing great communication skills to solve the quest challenge
• Building confidence to head down the large zip wire

The children have been a credit to the school this week and we hope to build on the 12 qualities learnt at Robinwood:

Responsibility, cooperation, confidence, resilience,

Patience, respect, support, listening,

Developing skills, problem solving, encouragement, communication

Help the homeless

Foxton Centre Big PNE Sleepout Friday 17^th November 

Miss Smith and Mrs Dexter are sleeping by the football pitch at PNE’s Deepdale Stadium this Friday 17^th November. This is to raise money for a day centre called The Foxton Centre who provide food and warmth to the homeless people of Preston.

Miss Smith and Mrs Dexter will sleep on cardboard and will only have with them what they can carry. This will give them an insight into how difficult it is for people sleeping on the streets, particularly as the nights are getting colder. We are all fortunate that we have food and somewhere warm to go to sleep every night, which is not the case for some people in Preston.

Miss Smith and Mrs Dexter are asking for sponsorship; any donation would go a long way to help Preston’s vulnerable homeless community.  

You can read more and donate here: 

https://www.justgiving.com/team/deepdaledreamers?utm_medium=proxy_team&utm_content=team%2Fdeepdaledreamers&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=pfp-email

Year 6’s learning continued on Thursday and Friday with:

• In Maths, we have continued our learning of chunking with three-digit numbers divided by 2 digit (414 divided by 23).
• In English, we learnt how to write a detailed letter so we could thank Robinwood for our fantastic time there.
• In History, we learnt about crime and punishment during the Roman times. They used the Twelve Tables as laws and gave severe punishments.
• In PSHE, as part of our ‘Antibullying Week’ we investigated different scenarios and discussed ways we can identify and support those who are affected by unkindness.

Home Practice

Please try to complete the following tasks by next Wednesday:

Reading – Please read up to 30 minutes a night and complete your reading task.

• You may change your book any day between Monday and Wednesday

Spellings 

• Sumdog - Spellings A2 wk 3 (-ent, -ence)
  • persistent, persistence, violent, violence, intelligent, intelligence,

inconvenient, inconvenience, obedient, obedience, conference, difference,

conscience, reference, excitement.

Maths challenges:

• Counting:
  • This week we have been counting in decimal steps of:

20 000, 200 000 and x 2. Try to do the same out loud or with paper.

• Draw a line with 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 5 digit numbers and count up 10 times then back again in 20 000s:

43 654, 63 654, 83 654, 103 654, etc

and in 200 000s:

43 654, 243 654, 443 654, 643 654                

Start at a different number and count up 10 numbers and down again but this time in x2:

9, 18, 36, 72, 144, 288, 576, 1 152, etc    

• Sumdog (Times Tables A2 wk 3)
  • This week's focus is on a mixture of x4, x7 and x8. Keep working on becoming quicker and more confident with your times tables. 

• Sumdog (Factor pairs linked to division)
  • Remember that a factor is a number that divides into a number, leaving no remainders. 42 ÷ 7 = 6 and 42 ÷ 6 = 7, so both 7 and 6 are factors of 42. In fact, 7 and 6 are factor pairs – which is what we have looked at today and will help with our learning next week.

Thank you to all those who gave money for Children in Need. Everyone looked amazing in their pyjamas!