Weekly Blog

Week Beginning 27.11.23

Maths: This week we will be looking at multiplying and dividing fractions.

Writing: This week the children will be looking at the features of non-chronological reports.

Reading: This week we will be continuing our book 'Holes', focussing on making inferences and justifying them with evidence from the text.

Topic: This week we are learning about the main biomes and comparing and contrasting marine and freshwater biomes.

PSHE:  This week we are thinking about how to problem solve bullying situations.

Week Beginning 20.11.23

Maths: This week we will be looking at multiplying and dividing fractions.

Writing: This week the children will be writing their own journey tales, including dialogue, show not tell, hyphenated adjectives and similes.

Reading: This week we will be continuing our book 'Holes', focussing on explaining how information is related and contributes to a meaning as a whole.

Topic: This week we are continuing to learn about the human geography of North and South America, including population.

PSHE:  This week we are thinking about a range of strategies for managing my feelings in bullying situations and if we are part of one.

Week Beginning 13.11.23

Maths: This week we will be looking at adding and subtracting fractions.

Writing: This week the children will be writing their own journey tales, including dialogue, show not tell, hyphenated adjectives and similes.

Reading: This week we will be continuing our book 'Holes', focussing on making comparisons within the text.

Topic: This week is we are learning about the human geography of North and South America, including population.

PSHE:  This week we is Anti Bullying week, this years theme is 'Make a Noise About Bullying'.

Week Beginning 6.11.23

Maths: This week we will be looking at comparing and ordering fractions.

Writing: This week the children will be looking at the features of a journey tale, including dialogue, show not tell, hyphenated adjectives and similes.

Reading: This week we will be continuing our book 'Holes', focussing on retrieving and recording key information from the text.

Topic: This week is we are learning about Early Islamic Civilisation, including why Baghdad was known as the centre for learning and how the Silk Road was used for trading.

PSHE:  This week we are thinking about how everyone has a right to be who they are and being aware of our attitudes towards people who are different to us.

Week Beginning 30.10.23

We hope you have a lovely half term!

Here is what we will be getting up to on the first week back:

Maths: This week we will be looking at equivalent fractions and converting between improper and mixed fractions.

Writing: This week the children will be learning a journey tale and looking at the use of dialogue.

Reading: This week we will be starting our new book 'Holes', focussing on making predictions.

Topic: This week is sculpture week and the children will be looking at the work of Alexander Calder and using his ideas to create their own pieces.

PSHE:  This week we are thinking about the different perceptions of normal and about empathising with people who are different.

Week Beginning 16.10.23

Maths: This week we will be looking at square and cubed numbers and the order of operations (BIDMAS).

Writing: This week the children will be writing their own non-chronological reports, including formal language, balanced arguments and parenthesis.

Reading: This week we will be continuing our book 'Darwin's Dragons', focussing on summarising main ideas from the text.

Topic: This week the children will be looking at the work of Marianne North and using her ideas to create their own pieces.

PSHE:  This week we are thinking about how we can contribute to a group and how having a voice can effect the school community.

Week Beginning 9.10.23

Maths: This week we will be looking division, including the long and short written methods and factors and multiples of numbers.

Writing: This week the children will be learning about the features of a non-chronological report including formal language, balanced arguments and parenthesis.

Reading: This week we will be continuing our book 'Darwin's Dragons', focussing explaining how meaning in enhanced through choice of words and phrases.

Topic: This week the children will be looking at adaptation in both plants and animals, including the work of Gregor Mendel.

PSHE:  This week we are thinking about Feel Good Week!

Week Beginning 2.10.23

Maths: This week we will be looking at multiplication and division, including the long and short written methods.

Writing: This week the children will be learning a non-chronological report about Whales and looking at grammar features including formal language, balanced arguments and parenthesis.

Reading: This week we will be continuing our book 'Darwin's Dragons', focussing on making and explaining inferences from the text.

Topic: This week the children will be looking at adaptation in both plants and animals, including the work of Gregor Mendel.

PSHE:  This week we are thinking about understanding how rewards and consequences feel and how they relate to rights and responsibilities.

Week Beginning 25.9.23

Maths: This week we will be looking at addition and subtraction, including using the inverse and working our multi-step problems.

Writing: This week the children will be planning and writing a finding tale, using adverbials, the five senses and relative clauses to write descriptively.

Reading: This week we will be continuing our book 'Darwin's Dragons', focussing on identify and explain how information is related and contributes to the meaning as a whole.

Topic: This week the children will be looking at adaptation in both plants and animals.

PSHE:  This week we are thinking about understanding our own wants and needs and comparing these with children in different communities

Week Beginning 18.9.23

Maths: This week we will be looking at negative numbers and addition and subtraction.

Writing: This week the children will be planning and writing a finding tale, using adverbials and relative clauses.

Reading: This week we will be continuing our book 'Darwin's Dragons', focussing on explaining the meaning of words in context and making comparisons within the text.

Topic: This week the children will be looking at classification and the work of biologist Carl Linnaeus.

PSHE:  This week we are thinking about understand our own wants and needs and comparing these with children in different communities

Week Beginning 11.9.23

Maths: This week we will be looking at place value in numbers up to 10 million and rounding.

Writing: This week the children will be learning about the features of a finding tale, including adverbials and relative clauses.

Reading: This week we will be starting our book 'Darwin's Dragons', focussing on retrieving and recording information from the text.

Topic: This week the children will be learning about Charles Darwin's discoveries during his voyage on the HMS Beagle.

PSHE:  This week we are thinking about the Zones of Regulation, problems we might face and appropriate reactions to these.

Week Beginning 5.9.23

The Y6 team are looking forward to welcoming the children back to school! We will spend this week getting to know the children and starting to introduce our learning for this half term.