Year 6 Home Learning - Friday 26th March 2021

Date: 26th Mar 2021 @ 12:32pm

Welcome to another Year 6 weekly blog. This week, thanks to Mrs Cookson, we organised an Athletics Intra Competition between Year 5 and 6 which included relay races, javelin, speed bounce and long jump. Everyone did extremely well and should be very pleased with themselves for giving it their all. Year 6 also worked hard being officiators for the boys and girls track and field events.  

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In PSHE, we discussed ways to help a fictional person on how to deal with change by using strategies to improve their mental health. (Do not forget to see our new Online Safety Update 24th March blog where we have teamed up with the National Online Safety which provides many resources for children, staff and parents.)
• In Maths, we have been learning how to work out the area of squares, rectangles and compound shapes.
• In English, we have continued reading our novel, Skellig, and dived deep into understanding the characters more, learnt about the English poet and painter William Blake, and written a balanced argument for and against home vs school education.
• In RE, we discussed and acted out freeze frames of ways we can be selfless and spread to joy to others through our actions.
• In Art we created super mosaic Mayan masks.
• In PE, we have completed the Year 5/6 Athletics Intra competition, which you can see the pictures of in the Year 6 gallery.
• In Music, we have been practising B, A and G chords on the recorder.
• In French, we wrote prepositions of where the Easter Bunny was hiding.
• Finally in History, we started our own ‘Who Wants to be a Mayaniare’ quiz based on all the learning from our topic, The Mayans.

Well done to 90% of you for changing your book this week. Remember that reading should be your number one priority every day.

These are the new days when you can change your reading book:

Monday – Dodgems

Tuesday – Roller Coasters

Wednesday – Big Dippers / The Waltzers

These are the tasks to be completed:

• Reading – Please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day.

Please complete the ‘Reading Challenges’ you have been given by answering them in your Reading Journals.

• Sumdog challenges (which will end next Thursday):
  • x11 and x12 Times tables (100 correct answers needed):
    • There will be times and divide questions of the 11 and 12 times tables.

• • Area of rectangles (100 correct answers needed):
    • These questions have a mixture of finding area of rectangles and the length of rectangles from areas given.

• • Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
    • This week’s words have unstressed vowels that can be tricky to remember:

(category, separate, definite, difference, desperate, reference, temperature, jewellery, company, interest, secretary, stationery, voluntary, miserable, factory)