This week in Year 6

This week has been a busy week. We have used the new ICT suite to code using Scratch, we continue to look at Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers as our key for English and in maths we have been looking as translations and reflection of shapes on coordinate grids and are now moving onto place value up to 10,000,000 ! We are using equipment to support our learning.

Look out for our overview of this term's learning which is going home Friday 18th September.

A few reminders

Homework is Mathletics, TTRS and reading
PE is on a Monday- Please come dressed in your PE kit
Bring a water bottle to and from school daily
Reading books are changed on a Wednesday

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Term 6 - Language Skills

Year 6 have been practising their -ant, -ance, -ancy and -ent, -ence and -ency spellings recently. One fun way we found to practise was by playing a matching game. Children had to turn over a word card and a definition card and see if they matched. If they did, the children had to try to spell the word without looking at the card. If they were correct, they kept the pair of cards. The winner was the player with the most pairs!

Term 6 - Writing

In literacy lessons, we have been learning about part of S. F. Said's book, 'Phoenix'. We read an edited version of the first chapter, and over the next few weeks, created our own action stories based on that.

Term 5 - More Maths

We used the double-sided counters to explore the game of Nim-7 . We enjoyed working out if there was a way of always winning, whether you were Player 1 or Player 2. Once we'd explored that, we started asking ourselves other questions: "What would happen if we had an even number of counters?" "What if you could take more counters at a time?" "What if you used the same rules, but played with more people?" Each group picked a question to investigate further, and started to think about how to record what they had found out. Year 6 worked well in partnership with each other and really thought deeply about the maths behind the investigation.

Year 6 2021-22

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