Year 6

Week Beginning 23rd January

Another week passed and what wonderful, icy weather we have had!  In the same way the sun has lit up our playground, the children have lit up our classrooms with the fantastic learning they have been producing!

Please note, we will be inviting parents into the hall for our project outcome on Friday 10th February, from 09:30 – 10:15am.

For week commencing 30^th January, Year 6 will be completing our termly assessment week.  To enable us to provide the children with a variety of activities when not completing assessments, please can the children come to school dressed in PE kit for every day that week (30^th January – 3^rd February), along with the following Monday alone (Monday 6^th February).  Thank you!

Worship theme: Memories/Remembering – Holocaust Memorial Day 27th January

Curriculum:

This week in English, we will be continuing our learning about travel writing, looking at creating our own leaflets.  This will involve a focus on persuasive techniques and understanding the layout features of a piece of writing.

In Maths, we will be finishing of our work on fractions, looking at calculating fractions of amounts.  Once complete, we will be moving onto ratio, a unit that will be new learning for a lot of the children…

In RE, we will be studying the role that science has within religion! Channel your inner Brian Cox!!

In PE, will be continuing our gymnastics work! Get stretching!

This half term, the text we will be analysing in our Destination Reader lessons is ‘Sea Beam’ by Sarah Holding.  Please see below for the book cover and the strategies we use in our Destination Reader lessons.

Other news:

• PPA Days – PPA Days will be every other Friday and children should come in in their PE kits.
• PE every Thursday and Friday – We will be teaching indoor PE on the non-PPA Fridays with another indoor session on Thursday, so children should wear their PE kits every Friday AND THURSDAY. 
• Project overview and Project homework – please find links to the relevant information below.
• MyMaths – we have no set a load of My Maths tasks, based on the learning we will be doing this term.  Most of them relate to place value.  Please let us know if you are finding them too easy or tricky and remember that below there are many resources you can use to extend your learning from home.
• Reading books –we would like to remind everyone to have a reading book in school – this can be a school or home book but we expect them to be read and experienced so that we can share recommendations and reviews of what we have read and really enhance our reading skills. We are displaying books that we’ve read in the classroom to get children talking about the stories they love and to inspire others to try new titles.
• Reading records – All children should now have a blue reading record in which they can record how often they are reading. They will receive one raffle ticket if they read three times a week and two if they read more than five. At the end of each term we will be drawing a raffle and who ever is drawn will go to Costa with their favourite book for a babychino! You’ve got to be in it, to win it!

Best wishes,

Mr Slattery and Miss Martin

Learning as a family in Jesus, through Love, Hope and Forgiveness.

Matthew 19:26 “with God all things are possible.”

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Below are some resources you can use for optional additional activities if you so wish: