Year 6 learning this week

What a fantastic and packed end to Autumn Term 1 it was in Year 6! In Literacy, the children put their research skills into practice by writing brilliant non-chronological reports all about lighthouses. In Maths, they tackled our multiplication and division topic, exploring a variety of strategies including partitioning, rounding, and both short and long multiplication and division. The children also brought fantastic enthusiasm and sportsmanship to their PE lessons during the House netball and tag rugby tournament. Well done to 6R for their captivating and thoughtful assembly on Mental Health. We hope you all have a wonderful, well-deserved, and restful break! 

Spellings: CEW words: amateur, category, correspond, environment, frequently, language, occur, queue, signature, twelfth

Year 6 has had a fantastic, action-packed week! On Tuesday, we enjoyed a brilliant trip to the Watts Gallery in Guildford. The children became art critics as they explored the stunning paintings, intricate ceramic tiles, and impressive sculptures created by George and Mary Watts. Back in the classroom, Year 6 tackled their very first assessment week. We are so proud of how hard the children worked, their positive attitudes, and the determination they showed throughout every single test. On top of that, we have been busy researching lighthouses in preparation for writing non-chronological reports in Literacy next week. We also enjoyed picking out new stories during our visits to the book fair! 

Spellings: amateur, category, correspond, environment, frequently, language, occur, queue, signature, twelfth

This week, Year 6 has been continuing to explore a rich variety of figurative language. They experimented with different poetic structures by writing acrostic and ballad poems, focusing on the poetic features—with several children successfully incorporating rhyme schemes. In Maths, the children have been working on multiplying and dividing numbers up to 10,000,000 by 10, 100 and 1000. They have also been finding factors of numbers and identifying common factors amongst multiples. In History, the children finished their WW2 art pieces on the Blitz and were learning about evacuation and rationing within the war. In PE, the children have been exploring various netball skills and tag rugby skills which they are then putting into a game.

Spellings: aggressive, bruise, convenience, embarrass, forty, interrupt, occupy, pronunciation, shoulder, thorough 

It has been a productive and inspiring week in Year 6! In Literacy, the children have been exploring a range of rich figurative language to immerse themselves in World War II imagery, ready for writing their own poetry next week. In Maths, the children built fluency in addition and subtraction by evaluating and selecting efficient mental and written strategies, including derived facts and formal column methods. In DT, the children were producing detailed exploded and annotated diagrams for their lighthouse projects. They focused on breaking down structural components, identifying materials, and explicitly labeling how both mechanical and electrical elements will function within their designs.On Friday, the children thoroughly enjoyed our immersive WW2 Day. This included tackling a military style boot camp using various pieces of equipment in the hall, creating Blitz silhouettes in Art, and learning Morse Code and how to operate telegraphs. Also, a surprise air raid siren sounded throughout the day, prompting everyone to quickly (and safely) take cover!

Spellings: CEW words -  according, awkward, conscious, dictionary, familiar, individual, neighbour, profession, sacrifice, system 

What a brilliant week it has been for Year 6! In Literacy, the children have been busy writing recounts based on our book ‘Rose Blanche’ from the perspective of Rose and using their inference skills from last week to guide them with this. In Maths, we have been continuing to look at rounding numbers up to 10 million to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. We have also moved on to working out various ways to add numbers up to 10 million such as using partitioning and the column method .The children have also been busy preparing and performing their speeches for House Captain, School Council and Diversity Hero! Finally, in History, we dived deeper into our World War II topic. The children acted as real historians, applying their inference skills to analyze a range of historical sources and artefacts. 

Spellings: according, awkward, conscious, dictionary, familiar, individual, neighbour, profession, sacrifice, system 

This week, Year 6 have settled back into school life brilliantly and have made a fantastic start to the new school year! In Literacy, we have begun exploring one of our class texts, Rose Blanche. We have been using the illustrations to infer the characters’ thoughts and feelings and have been developing our Point, Evidence, Explain (PEE) paragraphs to support our ideas with evidence from the text. In Maths, we have been working with numbers up to ten million, practising how to read and write them accurately. We have also been developing our understanding of rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000. It has also been an exciting week for some of our Year 6 pupils, who bravely stood up and delivered their Senior Prefect speeches. We are incredibly proud of everyone who took part and showed such confidence! 

Spellings: accommodate, available, competition, determined, existence, identify, muscle, prejudice, rhyme, suggest