Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 19th March 2021

Date: 19th Mar 2021 @ 3:38pm

Welcome back to our first Home Practice blog since the full return back to school. It has been great for everyone to see their friends and get back into a routine. On Friday we celebrated Red Nose Day wearing red, which you can see the pictures of on our Year 6 gallery page.

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• Since our return, we have been learning about mental health through PSHE on how to keep ourselves in a more positive mind-set. Along with PSHE, we have an Online Safety blog on each class page which explains how we have teamed up with the National Online Safety which provides many resources for children, staff and parents. You can follow this link, Online Safety to explore.
• In Maths, we have been learning how to plot and translate coordinates outside and working on some of our subtraction strategies to help us solve questions quickly.
• In English, we have begun our new novel, Skellig, by investigating the main characters (Michael, Mina and the Creature). We have also analysed David Almond’s writing style and mixed it with our own in creating the next part of the story.
• In RE, we created our own Lenten prayer which explains the meaning behind the ashes and how Lent can be a time to start trying new things.
• In Art we have looked closely at Mayan patterns, and created our own with pencil, charcoal and pastels.
• In PE, we have been preparing for the Year 5/6 Athletics Intra competition that will be held in school, during school time. We have also been working together on creating paired gymnastic routines.
• In Music, we have been continuing our practise of Boomwhackers and how to play the recorder.
• In French, we have explored compass directions and a map of France, spoken and written about the location of towns, rivers and mountains.
• Finally, for Science, we have investigated a lamb’s heart and physically modelled how the circulatory system works.

Well done to 80% 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:
  • x3, x4, x8 Times tables(100 correct answers needed):
    • There will be times and divide questions of the 3, 4 and 8 times tables.
  • Coordinates (100 correct answers needed):
    • Some of these questions have coordinates in all four quadrants, which is something we will look at in more detail on Monday.

• • Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
    • This week is a recap of prefix learning of dis-, un- and im- words

(disadvantage, disappear, disappoint, discovered, dishonest, unacceptable, unachievable, unbelievable, uncomfortable, unforgivable, immature, impatient, impolite, impartial, impossible)