Year 6 Blog Friday 8th September 2023

Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 6:46pm

Welcome to the first of Year 6s weekly blogs.

Well done to all the pupils for completing the first week of Year 6. They have all been exceptional in transitioning into the routines and getting used to the expectations of this new year.

Thank you to everyone who has worked hard to complete their summer holiday autobiographies. They read really well, which has created a super display. Next week, we hope to hear about everyone's life story next week.

This week in Year 6:

• We have improved our place value knowledge in Maths through identifying, comparing and partitioning whole numbers and numbers up to 10 million.

• In English we are reading ‘Aladdin’ by Phillip Pullman. The children have used clues to predict what this edition may be about and have written well as the new version of Aladdin.

• In Geography, our first lesson focused on using atlases to search for various cities around the world, and using coordinates to help others identify them.

• For RE, we have also begun our first topic of ‘Loving’ and what the class believe unconditional love means to them.

• In PE, ‘Invasion Games’ is our theme for the next few weeks, focusing on improving our throwing and catching skills and starting to develop advanced tactics to give an advantage for the attacking team. We have used the sport of netball and handball to explore this through.

• In PSHE, we have started our topic, ‘Online Safety’ by discussing scenarios of the impact on sharing online content.

• In Science, our new topic is called Classification. We recapped our learning to help us group animals into various categories (fish, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds / carnivore, herbivore and omnivore / vertebrates and invertebrates).

Home Practice

This week we will keep Home Practice simple until we meet at ‘Meet The Teacher’ on Tuesday 12^th September at 6:30pm, where I will explain what is expected from the children in more detail.

Reading

Please read the book you have received from school and swap it for a new one on Monday.

Spellings

You have come home with a spelling sheet. Please complete it throughout the week to help with next week’s spelling test – Friday 15^th September.

Suffixes:

hopped, hopping, playing, played, jumping, jumped, reading, readable, discussing, discussed, helpful, helpless, happiness, happier, usually.

Have a great weekend Year 6!