WELCOME TO YEAR 6

Each week we will be keeping you up to date with a "Wow of the Week". In addition to this, please read our half termly curriculum map to find out what will be happening in Year 6.

Important information

PE - Monday and Wednesday: Please come to school in your PE kit on these days. 

Reading Books -  Each child in year 6 has a book-band book and a book from our class library, with one book staying in school and one going home. In year 6, we encourage the children to be responsible for changing their books when they need to.

Spellings - New spellings given every Thursday. On a Thursday afternoon, we will have our weekly spelling lesson, in which we will focus on learning our new words for the week ahead. At the start of this lesson, we will also have our weekly spelling test focusing on the previous week's words. Please see below our spelling page where you can easily access the spellings every week. 

Weekly Attendance WC 30/09/2024 is...

98.1% 

Autumn 1

27.9.2024

This afternoon in computing, we created presentations about a country of our choice in pairs. The twist was that both pairs had to work on the presentation on separate computers and on opposite sides of the classroom, with the only way they could communicate being through the chat feature on Google Slides. This was part of our communication and collaboration unit and was a task everyone really enjoyed! 

27.9.2024

This week in Year 6, we have been writing narratives based on the first chapter of our class novel- The Explorer. In our stories, we aimed to use a wide range of sentence starters, parenthesis and direct speech. We wanted to paint a picture in our reader's mind when describing the setting and characters as well as engage our reader by creating suspense when the plane is crashing. The example below certainly does that!  

24.9.2024

Today, we planned and carried out an investigation into air resistance as part of our Forces unit in Science. For our investigation we made our own parachutes and explored questions such as 'Does string length affect how fast a parachute falls?' and 'Does the size of a parachute affect how fast a parachute falls?' 

After planning our investigation and ensuring we kept our tests fair, we went into the hall and Mr Fawcett dropped them from a ladder, although if he was a little braver, he probably could have gone a bit higher! 

19.9.2024

Today in Year 6, we have been learning how to find common factors of numbers. Firstly, we used counters and cubes to create arrays and develop our understanding of what a factor actually is, before exploring how we find factors in a systematic order. We then challenged ourselves further to find factors of much larger numbers, using short division and facts about multiples. 

18.9.2024

What a beautiful afternoon for our Hockey lesson! 

16.9.2024

In music this half-term, we are performing some 'Classroom Jazz'. This afternoon, we learned to play the main tune of our song on the Glockenspiels and next week, we will be adding in some of our own improvisation into the song!

13.9.2024

The focus of our writing this week has been to use parenthesis to add extra detail into our writing. We were using parenthesis to help develop descriptions of the characters from our class novel- The Explorer. Have a read of some of our brilliant work below. 

10.9.2024

This afternoon, we planned and carried out an investigation into Gravity. We explored the question, "Does the mass of a ball, effect how fast it falls?" 

We found out that all of the ball fell at the same rate due to the fact there was very little air resistance affecting them inside- a result not many of us had predicted at the beginning!