Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 21st May 2021

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 3:55pm

This week Year 6 had their ‘bike checks’ before our ‘Bike Proficiency’ and ‘Bikeability’ training which is happening throughout next week. We worked through the Safer Cycling booklet and discussed different scenarios to keep ourselves safe when riding on the road. 

Reminders:

• Do not forget to bring in your bike and helmet every day next week (Monday 24^th May – Friday 28^th May)

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In PSHE, we worked on strategies to deal with worry and anxiety, especially when dealing with tests.
• In Maths, we have worked through a few reasoning questions and improved our test technique of how to solve them.
• In English, we have continued the story of The Lost Magician, with the four main characters heading off in separate ways to conquer their own quests. We then analysed the evil robot character, Jana, and wrote an excellent speech to the Army of the Unreads.
• In PE, we learnt more about the rules of Quick Cricket and Tag Rugby for future intra-competitions.
• In RE, we have begun our new topic, Healing, where we discussed the important work that carers do in children’s hospices and qualities needed to work in a hospice.
• In Music, we have learnt more songs for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory production, ‘Oompa Loompa’.
• In French, we learnt what various countries in Europe are famous for and wrote sentences in French to describe them. We looked at the national symbols of France and compared them with the UK eg Britannia v Marianne, our lion v the French cockerel.
• For Science, having learnt about medicines last week, we moved on to learn about the effects and risks involved in taking legal (eg caffeine) and illegal drugs. We stressed the importance of talking to a trusted adult about any questions or worries the children have.
• Finally in History, each group presented their posters or powerpoints about the evacuees of World War II.

Well done to everyone who is changing their book every week. Reading is the single most important thing we should do every day.

These are the 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:

• Times tables x8, x9, x11 (100 correct answers needed):
  • Keep learning these to know your times tables fluently.

• Adding, subtracting and finding common fractions (150 correct answers needed for this week):
  • Work through these carefully as some will be represented as various pictures. The adding and subtracting should be with the same denominator but it is very good practice for next week.

• Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
  • Spellings with –er, -or, -ar ending

(computer, superior, customer, soldier, shoulder, sailor, calendar, popular, particular, radiator, jeweller, professor, prisoner, inspector, accelerator)