Welcome to Year 6
Everyone has worked very hard this week, completing many assessments. Due to this we feel that it is a good week to have NO home learning.
Enjoy your weekend and we look forward to spending the last few school days together before the Christmas holidays!
Mrs Clarke-Benson & Miss Moloney
In English, we started the draft of our big write. An evacuees story based off of Carrie’s war.
In Maths, we have continued with fractions, focusing this week on division of fractions, multiplication of fractions and fraction of amounts.
In Science, this week we looked at heart rate and its relationship. Conducting our own experiment and recording the results.
Home learning
Have a lovely weekend
Mrs Clarke-Benson & Miss Moloney
In English, we have started planning components of our big write. Focusing on our characters and their qualities, which will reflect characters within Carrie’s war.
In Maths, we have completed our 1st part of fractions this year. Looking at addition and subtraction of mixed numbers including when we need to break the whole.
In Science this week, we compared the heart rate of animals and their mass. We then placed the findings on a scatter graph to see the correlation.
Home learning
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Clarke-Benson & Miss Moloney
In English, we looked at contrast in setting descriptions, creating our own. Then we moved on to developing our own character for a wartime story we will create.
In Maths, we have focused on the the addition and subtractions of fractions. Understanding how to adjust denominators and deal with mixed numbers.
In Science, we created blood! we looked at all the components involved in blood and its role then created our own (fake) version.
Home learning
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Clarke-Benson & Miss Moloney
We have had an extremely busy week!
It was anti-bullying week. In class, the children spoke about what we mean by respect and how we can show it in different scenarios. We then created acrostic poems and took part in Odd Socks Day.
In Maths, we continued our learning on fractions, focusing on ordering and comparing them based on the denominator.
In English, we focused on contrast in our novel ‘Carrie’s War’ and what impact this has on us the reader.
In Science, we continued our learning on the circulatory system and the heart and had a go at a heart dissection! All the children were extremely brave.
Finally, we went on our trip to the Imperial War Museum. All the children had an amazing time and learnt so many new facts about WW2 and also showed off their own knowledge.
Please find the homelearning attached:
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs. Clarke-Benson and Miss. Moloney
In English this week we looked at character perspectives, writing descriptions with a specific characters voice in mind. we also looked at common themes in Carrie’s war.
In Maths, we completed our learning on the 4 operations and started looking at fractions. Our focus has been on equivalent and simplifying.
In Science, we looked at the circulatory system creating a model outside. this helps prepare us for next weeks lesson, were we will be dissecting a heart.
Home learning
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Clarke-Benson & Miss Moloney
Year 6 have had an exciting start to Autumn 2.
We have started our new text, Carrie’s War and our learning on World War II.
In English, we have written emotive and descriptive letters in character, as well as creating our own ending for our text ‘Carrie’s war’.
In Maths, we have looked at long division, order of operations and focused our attention on mental maths, trying to solve sums in our heads as quickly as possible.
In Science, we started our new unit of Circulation and Health. The children really enjoyed our lesson on healthy habits, generating great discussion.
Please see the homelearning attached below:
Comprehension questions:
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Clarke-Benson & Miss Moloney
Over Autumn 1 in English we have covered a Hidden figures, The Highway man and already started Carrie’s war (our text for Autumn 2). Using these texts to create diary entries, recounts, poetry and adapted stories.
In Maths we have worked at securing our understanding of place value, division and multiplication. We have also practised our arithmetic skills trying to increase our pace at answering questions accurately.
In Science, we have covered classification of living things. looking at how we breakdown and categories the animal and plant kingdoms, as well as the importance of Micro-organisms and what differentiates them.
We have much to look forward to for Autumn 2!
We did a mock SATs week this week to see where the gaps are going forward. We know some of the children were disappointed with their scores but we want to stress that we did not expect everyone to do amazingly, we have much still to cover. This was for us teachers to understand what historical gaps there might be.
You will have received a letter today about an offer on CGP book sets that we have a discount for. This would help the children to consilidate knwoeldge and prepare them for their SATs as much as possible. Please see parentpay on how to purchase.
Half-term homelearning:
Review SATS papers that have been sent home and identify any individual areas of development you would like to practice further in the next half-term.
Have a lovely break!
Mrs Clarke-Benson & Miss Moloney
This week we continued looking at the Highway man poem, using it to help us create a police report. Using our skills of recounts to help us.
In maths, we focused on division looking at both short and long division. Although challenging through practice it is becoming clearer.
In Science, we looked at classifying the plant kingdom, creating our own examples of mosses, conifers, ferns and flowering plants.
Please find homelearning attached:
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Clarke-Benson & Miss Moloney
It has been a productive week.
In Maths, the children have continued their learning with the four operations, looking deeper at long multiplication. We also have started mini arithmetic tests to check knowledge taught so far.
In English, we have begun to delve deeper into our narrative poem, The Highwayman, and the children wrote their own alternative ending, including rhymes, similes and metaphors.
In Science, we continued our learning on Living Things and looked into 4 groups within the invertebrate family, all children really enjoyed this!
Please see homelearning attached:
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs. Clarke-Benson and Miss. Moloney