Year 6 Blog Friday 23rd June 2023

Date: 23rd Jun 2023 @ 4:36pm

Welcome to our Year 6 blog.

This week we have continued with rehearsals, memorising lines and adapting the drama scenes, even during some very hot days.

On Wednesday, the Year 6 Sports Captains led the Year 4 sports day brilliantly, their fifth one so far – only 2 to go.

On Thursday, as part of our history topic, World War II, year 6 had a zoom workshop with Mark Mckenzie (from WW2homefront.org) to learn about the blackout, blitz, wardens, gas masks and even bomb handling.

On Friday, the Year 6s organised and led the infamous ‘Tough Kidder’ event which went down a treat with everyone having a super time.

Also, Year 6’s learning this week:

• In Maths, we reminded ourselves about the various addition strategies that we have learnt throughout the year to answer tricky problem-solving questions.
• In English, we continued with our novel, ‘1000-year-old boy’, learning about Alfie’s 1000-year-old past.

• In PE, the class were divided into four sections to test their teamwork skills of communicating and evaluating with the following sports: netball, handball, hockey and cricket.
• In History, we used a library loan of historical artefacts from the World War II era to learn about what life was like then. We had a great discussion about air raid wardens, gas masks and what life was like for children during this time.

• In Music, we have been rehearsing the songs for ‘Oliver’ and preparing for the Leaver’s Assembly.

• In French, we continued to learn the words for our leavers' song. Then we practised some phonic sounds from the cafe menu and translated a cafe dialogue. We're ready to write our own dialogue next week. The children have earned the exciting bit - some food tasting! 
• In Science, we continued to learn about Charles Darwin and his theories of Natural Selection and Evolution. We learnt about Darwin's Finches and how they evolved different beak shapes according to the food available on their specific Galapagos Island. We modelled 'eating' different foods with different 'beaks' to see which beak was best adapted to each food. We looked at the results and predicted what would happen with different food, then tested that to check our predictions. 

Home Practice

For the rest of this half term, All Hallows’ have kindly given you a ‘Numeracy Skills booklet’, which is very similar to the ones they use. This is a great transition homework for you to get used to. I have explained how to complete this in class but to remind you:

• Work through all 20 questions as best as you can.
• Any you do not understand, we will go through them on WEDNESDAY
• This week have a go at completing the sheet 53.4