Year 6 Home Practice - 23rd October 2020

Date: 23rd Oct 2020 @ 4:23pm

For the final blog of this half term, I would like to say a huge thank you to Year 6. You have been brilliant these past 7 weeks and 2 days: working hard in all lessons, respecting the rules and routines we have in place; and completing the Home Practice in time. We hope you all have a great half term doing lots of things you enjoy!

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In Maths, we have been learning how to use the grid method effectively, which is one of our formal written strategies, for large multiplication calculations and applying that knowledge to reasoning questions.
• In English, we have researched World War I (The Great War) and found some very interesting facts to help us understand what the main character, Tommo, will be going through as he heads off to war.
• In Geography, Year 6 researched expertly again to create a poster about one of the many famous mountains of the world.
• In PE, we have completed our first Intra Competition and the first ever Virtual Inter Competition – Football. It consists of dribbling around cones in the fastest time possible. The results of Year 6 is as follows:
  • For the girls, the fastest was Erin
  • For the boys, the fastest was Daniel
    • Congratulations to everyone for taking part!
• In French, we have been looking at L’Halloween traditions in France and writing Halloween-themed sentences, ‘I am going to dress up as … I am going to wear…’
• In Science, we learnt about the work of Carl Linnaeus and explored the classification system of living things.
• Finally, the children had a super day dressed in their Halloween outfits and everyone created their own scary story on a Halloween night.

After half term, remember that the days when you can change your book are:

Monday – Roller Coasters

Tuesday – Big Dippers

Wednesday – The Waltzers

The Home Practice deadline is still for the Friday we come back after the half term. These are the tasks to be completed:

• Reading – Please keep reading for a minimum of 20 minutes every day.

Please write in your Reading Journals often.

As you may know, we have access to Oxford Owl ebooks where you can read a whole range of books from their library. If you would like to use this great resource, the username is ‘sto56’ with the password ‘1234’.

• Sumdog challenges:
  • x3, x6, x9, x4, x8
    • Each child has their own tables target which they should know. The Sumdog challenge may relate to their target but if not, you can always use Sumdog for extra Tables Practice. Every Tuesday there is a tables test.
  • SPAG – Parts of Speech
  • Spellings (-ent, -ence words)
    • persistent, persistence, violent, violence, intelligent, intelligence, inconvenient, inconvenience, obedient, obedience, conference, difference, conscience, reference, excitement