Year 6 learning this week
Below you will find our weekly teaching and learning summary to find out how we develop and enrich your child's learning whilst they are with us.
| Week ending | What we have been learning about |
|---|---|
| 11/10/2024 | In Year 6 we have been continuing to learn the long division method of division, utilising prior knowledge of multiples and sharing. We have been using it in different contexts, representing remainders as fractions and decimals and answering problems in different contexts that require interpreting the remainder. In English, Year 6 have been writing a debate based on the class text “Letters from the Lighthouse.” The context of the debate was whether the lighthouse should be destroyed to prevent the Luftwaffe from using it as a waypoint. |
| 04/10/2024 | This week Year 6 have been building up their cohesion of their writing by using adverbial phrases at the start of sentences, colons, semicolons and ellipsis. They have been writing descriptions of a lighthouse and using great vocabulary to do so. They have also written non-chronological reports about lighthouses building towards their DT project. |
| 27/09/2024 | This week Year 6 have been writing letters in English linked to their text “Letters from the Lighthouse”. We have written letters to the main character Olive about the positives of being an evacuee in World War 2 and we have written letters back to Olive in response to her letter. We have also gone into detail on how to edit and redraft writing in order to improve it even more. In maths, Year 6 have been developing their learning on multiplication by looking closer at what multiples and factors are and how they link to multiplication and division. |
| 20/09/2024 | This week Year 6 have been writing acrostic poems inspired by people’s emotions and feelings in the book Rose Blanche. The book is written from the point of view of a German child so the children have been learning to think of things from another point of view. Year 6 have also been learning about literary devices such as similes and personification to improve their writing. This week, Year 6 have been reading their class text “Letters from the Lighthouse” which links with their World War 2 topic as well as Science and Design Technology as they will be creating lighthouses and they will have to wire it up so it is functioning too! Year 6 have continued to work hard in maths building on their knowledge of addition and subtraction strategies with decimal numbers. Year 6 have also enjoyed their first Buddy Reading session with Year 1 |
| 13/09/2024 | This week in Year 6, the children have been excited to start their History topic on World War 2 by reading and studying different historical sources. They have been able to expand on this in Literacy through the class text Rosa Blanche which is about a German child’s experience of the war in Germany. We have studied how different people might be feeling and why, and written descriptive pieces about these feelings from the point of view of the characters. Year 6 also went on a trip to the University of Surrey where they learnt about a small sample of all the different jobs in the NHS such as paramedics, dietitians, nurses, podiatrists, physiotherapists and radiologists. The children’s behaviour was wonderful and they were all so engaged with the workshops and asked and answered great questions. |
