Year 6 News of the Week – 27.9.24

Year 6, you impress me every day and this week you have worked so hard. You have achieved so many things and I am very proud of you.

This week in Maths we focused on recognising common factors and common multiples along with prime numbers and rules of divisibility. We have thought about identifying prime numbers using divisibility and we know that a prime number only has 2 factors. We have spent time playing on TT Rock Stars to brush up on our times tables.

In English this week we have planned and written the first three paragraphs of our diary. I have modelled my plan and writing using our writer's knowledge. We have also added doodles to support our ideas. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading all the entries and can't wait to read the final two paragraphs. We have also focused on speech accuracy in our SpaG lesson using a short video to drive our ideas.

We have continued in Book club this week with a WW2 focus. We have used a brilliant non-fiction DK book to explore new vocabulary and to think about skimming and scanning text. With have used these skills to answer comprehension questions and in turn to answer our anchor questions. We have also enjoyed more of our class story, Goodnight Mr Tom and enjoyed a snippet from the film too.

In Science this week we have built series circuits and then added more cells to increase the brightness of the bulb. We have worked so hard to support each and ensure that everyone has had success. This was a real challenge, and we had to find our resilience to the very end of our lesson.

In History this week we have used some of our computing time to look through powerful photos of the Blitz using the Imperial War Museum site. We considered what surprised us and discussed this as a team. We will continue with our research next week.

In RE this week, we continued to think about our journeys through life and what we would pack in a suitcase as we travelled on it. We then joined Bishop Phillip as he explained his journey as a Christian. We are now looking at Bible stories to think about the morals of them.

In Music this week we continued to practise playing note E. We also used notes B, A and G and reduced the tempo to help us to focus on moving the correct fingers. Our French continued this week as we investigated countries that sit nord/sud/sur l'equateur. We used atlases to investigate and translators to support our written French.

We have learnt all about packets in computing this week. We now know that messages are sent over the internet using packets. We used our own packets to transmit a message around our table ensuring the correct IP addresses were used.

We have continued with our Art sculptures this week. We have used a grid scale to enlarge our chosen animals and we have also begun to use negative space to use each grid to draw what we could see.

During our PSHE lesson this week, we watched a short Andrex video clip to get us thinking about the phrase soft, strong and very long. We used these words to think about our hearts and how they can reflect this saying. We then went on to design trainers with all the key words. They look brilliant.

Kick continued this week and we have also taken part in the daily mile. Mrs Whittingham taught our second PE lesson and continued with football skills.

We have learnt a little more about the Young Leaders project today in our Courageous Advocacy lesson. We have seen different projects other schools have enjoyed and finished our lesson learning a song in the style of rap.

I have set a new maths.co.uk task and of course reading and TT Rock stars are also top of the homework list. Please could you encourage your child to complete their maths tasks, including any outstanding ones. They are set to consolidate learning and are really useful as a recap..

You have all been so busy this week and you definitely need your weekend break. I hope you have a fabulous weekend.

Your teacher,
Mrs B.