Year 6 Blog Friday 9th June 2023

Date: 9th Jun 2023 @ 8:36am

Welcome to our first blog of Year 6’s final half term. 

On Thursday, our Tag Rugby team took on their first 3 matches against Ashbridge, Little Hoole and New Longton and managed to win all three. They did an amazing job working as a team, supporting and encouraging each other. We are looking forward to our last game next week, Thursday 15th June. 

We have been busy practising the dance for the ‘Dance from the Heart Roadshow’ – you will be able to see this live on Thursday 15^th June where it will be performed with the South Ribble sports team at 10.30am, with our gates opening at 10.25am.

Also, Year 6’s learning this week:

• In Maths, we have been learning how to reflect shapes in various mirror lines and across all four quadrants of a coordinate grid.

• In English, we introduced our new novel, ‘The 1000-Year-Old Boy’, and analysed a chapter to learn more about the character, Aidan, then wrote a diary entry as him.

• In PE, we learnt how to overarm bowl in cricket, focusing on arm technique and accuracy. We then rotated to hitting a straight drive by stepping forward and swinging your arms, with your bat, in a straight line.

• In Geography, we learnt about the importance of the Amazon rainforest. We explored the four main layers of the rainforest (forest floor, under storey, canopy layer and emergent layer) and how this habitat is home to an estimated 50% of the entire world’s species of animals and plants.

• In Art, we used our Geography topic of Brazil to inspire our new project, the artist Romero Britto. He uses amazing colours, pop art and cubism to create stunning artwork.

• In Music, along with our auditions, we have practised all the songs for Oliver, with quite a few trying out for solos. We have some amazing singers in our class.

• In French, we continued to learn the song we are preparing for the leavers' celebrations and we began to learn how to ask for items in a cafe and how to ask for the bill. 
• In Science, we learnt about plant and animal adaptations and how adaptation can be a step towards evolution. We looked at the life and work of Charles Darwin and his idea of Survival of the Fittest, meaning the best adapted rather than the one that can run fastest. We read, and drew in response to, the evolution story of the Peppered Moth, an example of Natural Selection. There are a lot of difficult concepts to grasp in this topic - well done Y6. 

Home Practice

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

• Work through all 20 questions as best as you can.
• Any you do not understand, we will go through them on WEDNESDAY, which is the deadline. 
• This week have a go at completing the sheet 56.1