Year 6 Blog Friday 20th October 2022

Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 3:44pm

Welcome to Year 6 weekly blog.

On Monday, alongside the Juniors, Year 6 performed ‘Down in the Valley’ with recorders to our first live performance of the year.

On Tuesday, Mr Kimmins, a firefighter, came to be interviewed to help us understand our RE topic ‘Vocation and Commitment’ better. After school, the Athletics team showed excellent determination and teamwork and won the Indoor Athletics competition for our local area. We are looking forward to competing again in the South Ribble finals.

Wednesday saw the South Ribble Coaches deliver ‘Young Leaders’ training to the whole class. We split into groups to devise our own new activities, which will help the infants develop their fundamental skills during future lunch times.

Also, the football league concluded at Hutton this week. The A team and B team gave excellent performances with the best teamwork play we have seen so far this season. After a tough three weeks of games, the results are in.

Results for A team:

St Oswald’s A 3 – 0 Little Hoole A

Play Off game St Oswald’s A 1 – 0 Howick A

A team finished 1^st. Congratulations A team!

Results for B Team:

St Oswald’s B 0 – 1 St Leonards

Play Off game St Oswald’s B 1 – 2 Ashbridge

B team finished 4^th. An excellent effort everyone!

This week’s learning in Year 6:

• In Maths, we learnt how to explain the column addition and column subtraction method and discussed when to use it best.
• In English, we have learnt that three separate timelines are occurring in Clockwork and how the writer has combined them to create an exciting ending.
• In RE, we interviewed Mr Kimmins, a firefighter of over 23 years. The children’s questions gave some super responses and we now have a better understanding of why people commit to such a demanding job. Please see our Year 6 gallery where we pretended to be firefighters ourselves.
• In PE, we continued developing our evaluating skills with various activities in both athletics and rugby. Working in small groups, we discussed how we can give positive feedback to each other.
• In Music, we concluded our unit of recorders with a live performance in the Music Showcase, with the song ‘Down in the Valley’.
• In Science, we researched an invertebrate group and presented the information in the form of a poster, explaining the characteristics of a particular group.

Home Practice

As it is half term this week, I have just three activities for you to practice (if you have time).

Reading – Please read as much as possible over this period. Some of you have taken an extra book. I cannot stress enough how little and often reading can make a difference and, with 10 days off school, that could be 300 potential minutes of reading that would benefit you massively.

Spellings (Spellings of Autumn 1)

• Sumdog (A2 wk 1-tion, -sion, -ssion) Only 45 questions to answer (deadline is 04.11.22)
  • direction, collection, addition, action, rotation, creation, punctuation, subtraction, division, television, discussion, session, mission, percussion, profession

Maths

• Sumdog (Times Tables wk 7) 150 questions to answer (as the deadline is 04.11.22)
  • Each child has their own tables target which they should know. The Sumdog challenge may relate to their target but this week we have focused on a mixture of x4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9s.