Welcome to Year 6 – 6.9.24

A warm welcome to Y6. I am thrilled to be a part of your new year and feel blessed to welcome you into my class. I bet you cannot believe this is your final year at Wybunbury Delves, and what a great year I know it will be. It is lovely to see you all and I hope you have had a fabulous summer.

We have been introduced to our theme – Journeys and Discoveries and our Y6 focus on WW2. Our new book, Goodnight Mr Tom, will take us on our WW2 journey and we began this week by listening to the first chapter of this fantastic adventure.

In Maths we have begun by investigating place value. We have counted in millions using different representations and considered where numbers appeared on our number lines. We will continue next week with place value by comparing and rounding large numbers. We ended our week on TT Rock Stars.

In English this week we have been introduced to sentence accuracy by looking at different word classes. We have focused on synonyms and antonyms and speech. We have also used some items: a satchel, bread, St Davids cross, a red bow, apples and jam. We used these items to predict what we thought our story could be about and who the main characters could be. We have also created a word bank from an image from our vehicle text and written a short poem. We will continue to work on this piece next week.

We have new reading books and a new diary to bring home. Please can you encourage your children to continue reading at home as this supports the development of rich vocabulary and they are trying hard to earn reading badges? My class page on our website will have the link to support your child when completing a book review. All their logins are stuck in their diaries, they include TT Rock Stars and maths.co.uk.

We have also enjoyed different afternoon lessons. These have included History, Art, Music, Science and RE. PE has taken place this week taught by Mrs Whittingham. I know their focus is football.

In RE, we are considering the thought that everyone's journeys are different. We were introduced to Bishop Phillip and we joined him on his journey making decisions for him along the way.

We have also discussed our Y6 roles and responsibilities and our new badges have been presented to us by Mrs Chester. We will run our first Y6 worship on Monday and introduce ourselves to the rest of school.

I have set maths homework this week to recap our learning. Regular reading and asking questions of the content is extremely helpful and something I would always champion. TT Rock Stars is also useful, and therefore a daily visit to the site would be beneficial too.

We have met our Reception buddies today and what a treat it was. We have been very excited to share some time with them and this will be our aim each week.

I would just like to end my first website post to you by saying how proud I am of you all and how well you have settled into Y6. You should be proud of yourselves. Have a great weekend.

Your teacher,
Mrs B