Year 6 Friday Blog-28th February

Date: 23rd Feb 2025 @ 8:20am

Year 6 Highlights of the week:

Classifying ourselves into groups and getting the other half of the class to work out the classification rule;

Watching Nigella Lawson make a delicious pavlova to inspire our writing;

Some questionnable singing of the 'tenses' song!

Spelling Frame and TTRS Champions-collect your team points and keep up the great work!

 

SATS Bootcamp Homework

Please ensure your child logs into SATS Bootcamp and completes the tasks below.  I regularly log-in to check engagement as a little practise at home goes a long way for learning in school!

Maths:  Arithmetic Test 2

Reading:  Reading Test 3

Grammar:  SPAG Short Answers Test 1

Spellings:  Please see below for spellings; practise using Spelling Frame, Spelling Shed and your spelling journal.

Our learning this week in Year 6

New!  We are spotlighting a new European country each half-term.  Our country for this half-term is Slovakia.  We have watched a promotional video about the country and I would like the children to do their research to come and put on our geography board; all facts big or small are welcome!

English

This week we have taken inspiration from the wonderful Nigella Lawson, to write instructions.  Looking at the various grammatical features, we have created our own recipe instructions which show-case lots of Year 6 punctuation.  Take a look at the video below, which we based our writing upon.

Maths

We have played Quiz Quiz Trade in order to embed our vocabulary for shape and area.  We have re-visited the area of triangle and can now find the area of a parallelogram. We have also practised using a protractor to draw angles.  Finally, we have used cubes to investigate how to calculate the volume of a shape.

RE

We have re-visited the bible story of the ascension of Jesus and looked at aspects of this in artwork.  Mrs Yarker is now leading the children in creating their own pieces of beautiful ascension artwork.

Science

We have started our new topic which is 'Living things and their habitats.'  This week we have re-visited our prior learning. going all the way back to Year 1!  We have enjoyed looking at many different plants and animals and identifying their observable characterisitcs.

 

The Year 6 team

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