Year 6 Blog - Friday 25th April 2025

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 8:50am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog. 

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have been working hard to revise tense, punctuation, word class and formality! We have been learning how to use test techniques to check our answers and practising past paper questions. 

Maths 

This week, we have learned how to find the area of compound shapes made up of triangles, rectangles and parallelograms. We have also learned how to find the volume of a shape. In revision, we have recapped on our formal methods and four operations with fractions. 

RE

In RE, we have started our new topic: 'To the ends of the earth'. We have shared the story of the empty tomb together and created comic strips to retell the story. We have also written a diary entry in role as 'doubting Thomas'. 

Topic 

For Computing, we continued our learning on websites and completed our websites! We learned how to add subpages and links. 

We have also completed our Science topic on electricity by investigating our own question on the variation of components in a circuit. 

In History, we learned all about how the police force were created! 

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 30/04/25. 

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 revising the following rules: 

Statutory word list and adding prefixes and suffixes to these
where appropriate.
• Revision Prefixes dis-, mis-, in-
• Revision Prefixes inter-, super-, anti-, auto-
• Revision More prefixes im-, ir-, re-, sub-
• Endings which sound like /ʃəs/ spelt –cious or – tious
• Endings which sound like /ʃəl/

We will have our test on the 25/04/25

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: 

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 13 Capacity, Mass and Volume 

English - Topic 21 Synonyms and Antonyms

Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week! 

Star of the Week  - Erin

Super Learner -  Max N

Superstar Writer - Maizie

Bookworm -  Eleanor

Marvellous Mathematician - Ava Y

Special Mentions - Issac: for always working hard on drinks duty

Josh: for revising at home to help with his SATs work

Have a lovely weekend everyone!