Year 6 Blog - Friday 31st January 2025

Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 8:11am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have continued reading and learning about Macbeth. We shared the scene together where Lady Macbeth begins to sleepwalk and wrote a dialogue of this scene. We had to work hard to choose appropriate vocabulary and punctuation!

Maths 

This week, we have learned all about co-ordinates. We have learned how to find a missing co-ordinate to complete a shape and also how to find the co-ordinates of a shape where the axis are blank. Today, we have learned how to translate shapes across quadrants on a graph. 

RE

In RE, we have continued learning about the miracles that Jesus performed. We have shared the story of how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead and performed some drama of this miracle. 

Topic 

In PE, we continued with our dance unit, all about heroes and villains. We thought about heroic traits and showed these as a still frame.   

In Science, we learned about what is in our blood. We made 'blood' to help us understand what the jobs of different parts of our blood are - you can see our work on the galleries! 

For Art, we learned about moodboards and made our own on Seesaw, inspired by Rachel Parker.

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.

We will have our test on the 14/02/25, after Robin Wood. 

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 4 Subtraction 

English - Topic 7 Adjectives

Have a great weekend Year 6!