Year 6 Friday 19th November 2021

Date: 19th Nov 2021 @ 4:03pm

For our third week back after half term, Year 6 had taken part in an exciting football friendly match against Penwortham County Primary and performed brilliantly at Hutton for the indoor athletics finals. Congratulations to everyone who took part. We do not know the results for the athletics yet but hopefully we will find out by Monday.  This Friday, we celebrated Children in Need day with some amazing outfits, looking very spotty! Also, we have been using kind words this week to celebrate anti-bullying week, through kind messages to each other and acting out different scenarios when someone is upset. 

This week in Year 6:

• In Maths, we have been learning how to solve many problems using the bar model, how use the written subtraction method effectively and how to use different strategies to divide various numbers.
• In our novel, ‘Private Peaceful’, we have focussed on using exciting vocabulary to write as one of the characters to recount the missing scene of Big Joe, and we wrote a persuasive speech as a sergeant major to convince more people to join the war.
• In Geography, we researched information about tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes to find out what they are, how they happen and any historical events that affected the world greatly.
• For RE, we completed our topic of ‘Vocation and Commitment’ with a lovely collective worship and began our topic of ‘Expectations’, looking at different expectations that people have on us.
• In PE, we continued our learning of athletic skills through track and field events such as sprints, team sprints, speed bounce, javelin, basketball throw, vertical jump, long jump and triple jump. This week we completed the indoor athletics competition at Hutton.
• In Art, we learnt how to use tone and texture with the medium of charcoal to create our own Lola Dupre letter. See the gallery in Year 6 to see some of the super artwork.
• In Music, we have been learning how to play ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ on the glocks, as well as ‘Winter Wonderland’ with the boomwhackers.
• In French, we revised the weather phrases and looked at some grammar points by finding the odd one out of some words/phrases. We also finished our French pop song and gave out opinion on it.
• In Science, we continued our light topic by modelling how we see objects using string to represent the light rays. We then planned an investigation into shadows.

Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:

• Reading – Use your Home Reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be used for the title of the book and any reading challenge chosen.
  • The days when you can change your book:
    • Monday – Roller Coasters
    • Tuesday – Big Dippers
    • Wednesday – The Waltzers

• Spellings (-ant, -ance words)
  • Sumdog (-ant, -ance A2 wk 4)
    • assistant, assistance, arrogant, relevant, important, importance, appearance, extravagant, hesitant, reluctant, nuisance, hindrance, ignorance, resistance, restaurant

• Maths challenges:
  • Counting:
    • This week we have been counting in decimal steps of 8, 80 and 800 Try to do the same out loud or with paper.
    • Draw a line with some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.
    • g. Start with different numbers and count up 10 times then back again in 8s:

5, 13, 21, 29, 37, 45, 53, 61, etc

and in 80s:

13, 93, 173, 253, 333, 413, etc               

Start at a different number and count up 10 numbers and down again but this time in 800s:

456, 1256, 2056, 2856, 3656, 4456 etc    

• Sumdog (Multiplication and Division of 3, 4, 5)

• Sumdog (Related facts quick division)

• In this challenge, there are questions with missing numbers, all relating to the multiplication facts we discuss in class often. If you practice with these, you will find next week’s division week easier to understand.