Year 6 Home Practice - 4th December 2020

Date: 4th Dec 2020 @ 3:52pm

For our fifth week back after half term, Year 6 have had a busy week. They created peaceful messages for St Oswald’s Peace Tree in the hall, thought of good deeds to do each day during Advent (which we have added to our class Advent calendar) and celebrated a Tree Dressing day where our Year 6 tree was a ‘Tree of Hope’ decorated with rings of hopeful messages linked together (take a look at the pictures on our school website). They also had a zoom call from All Hallows with Mrs Washington (Assistant Head) and Mrs Hall (Head of Year 7) where the children asked great questions about what life would be like there.

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In Maths, we have been improving our division knowledge through quick strategies and how the chunking method can be used efficiently.
• In English, the children created, edited and published superb stories as the door using excellent writing techniques inspired from Robert Swindells.
• In our topic in RE, Expectations, we have learnt about the Annunciation, when Mary first heard the news from Angel Gabriel about becoming the Mother of God. The children became the character of Mary and wrote lovely poems to explain her excitement and her possible burden.
• In PE, we have continued our learning of Orienteering through larger maps – this week’s task linked to quick mental addition strategies.
• In Art, Year 6 have used the artwork of ‘pointillism’ to design the front of our Christmas cards.
• In Music, we have continued our Ukelele practising with most of us now knowing the songs off by heart.
• In French, we played Cluedo to find out ‘Who killed Father Christmas?’
• Finally, for Science, we have researched the characteristics of some invertebrate groups and perfected raps, poems, news reports or songs about them.

(Mrs Quilliam has requested for any recycling in the form of: yogurt pots, egg boxes, cardboard, plastic pots, plastic bottles, etc to be brought into school next week so that the children could use to make their own ‘junk animal’ for next week’s Science lesson. Please bring what you can on Thursday 10^th December).

Well done to 93% 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:
  • Add and subtract related fractions
    • (1/2 + 1/4, 1/5 + 2/10, 2/4 + 3/8, etc)
  • Factors and Multiples to 100
    • Remember that factors link with division and multiples link with multiplications)
  • Spellings – 7^th Dec – 11^th Dec  (silent letters)
    • guide, history, knee, know, lamb, often, parliament, recognise, rhyme, sign, separate, surprise, vegetable, weight, wrong, knight, write, ghost, wreck, whole, honest