Year 6 Blog - Friday 24th January 2025

Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 8:46am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

If you have any large plastic bottles at home, that you would be recycling, please could the children bring them into class for Wednesday next week? This is to help with a Science investigation in class! 

The slides from the SATs meeting can be found at the bottom of the blog. 

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have continued reading and learning about Macbeth. We have explored the scene in the play where Macbeth returns to the witches and they tell him more prophecies. We wrote some amazing diary entries in role as Macbeth recounting this scene. 

Maths 

This week, we have learned all about negative numbers. We have practised how to add and subtract negative numbers and learned how to find the difference between negative and positive numbers. 

RE

In RE, we have continued learning about the miracles that Jesus performed. We have shared the story of how Jesus walked on water and how he healed a blind man. We created some wonderful artwork of Jesus walking on water! 

Topic 

In French, we continued working on our physical description. We completed a listening exercise to figure out a character's physical description and used sentence stems to explain a character's physical description to a partner.  

In Science, we learned all about how exercise can affect our heart rate. You can see our investigation on the galleries!

For History, we explored what crime and punishment was like in Roman times and learned about their rules, which were called the twelve tables. 

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 3: Multiplication  

English - Topic 6: Nouns and Pronouns  

Have a great weekend Year 6!

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