Year 6 Home Practice - 27th November 2020

Date: 27th Nov 2020 @ 3:53pm

For our fourth week back after half term, Year 6  have been working very hard in all areas to improve their learning  with quicker maths strategies, new characters in Room 13, new History topic and even a new artist to inspire their own artwork.

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In Maths, we have been learning multiples, factors and new ways to divide large numbers.
• Our new novel in English is Room 13, a suspenseful story about a class heading off on a school trip to Whitby where the dreaded room 13 awaits our main characters. This week we have learnt how to describe our impressions of characters and how to create a suspenseful atmosphere.
• We have also begun History but before we can introduce our new topic, we have been learning how to sequence events in chronological order and trying to order the vast history of Britain.
• In our topic in RE, Expectations, we have been using the hymn ‘Maranatha’ to help us understand what advent means to Christians.
• In PE, we have continued to improve our attacking skills in rugby and completed the orienteering competition created by South Ribble. Congratulations to the following teams:
  • First = Aiden
  • Second = Bede
  • Third = Gregory
• In Art, Year 6 have learnt ‘pointillism’ created by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in 1886, and have designed their own tree art using that technique (head to the Year 6 gallery to see our artwork).
• For science, we researched a group of invertebrates and wrote the characteristics in the form of a poem, song or rap.
• Finally in French, we learnt how to use subject pronouns effectively in sentences.

Well done to 88% of you for changing your book this week. We understand some people can have books with a lot of pages so please keep using your Reading Journals to complete your new ‘reading challenges’.

The days when you can change your reading book are:

Monday – Roller Coasters

Tuesday – Big Dippers

Wednesday – The Waltzers

These are the tasks to be completed:

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

You can still use Oxford Owl ebooks, where there are 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:
  • Divide by 2 or 3 digit number
    • 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 – Sentences
  • Spellings – 27^th Nov – 4^th Nov  (silent letters)
    • answer, favourite, bruise, actually, build, guarantee, certain, guard, definite, library, difference, muscle, exercise, doubt, environment, comb, February, foreign, gnaw, government