Year 6 - Looking Back and Forth - Friday 7th February 2020
Y6 - Friday 7th February 2020 – Looking Back & Forth in Year 6
Looking back:
What a musical week once more – lots of singing in class and practising for our excellent concert on Thursday. Thank you to all who were able to attend – or who have bought CDs. It was a great culmination of days of singing practice and something which the pupils will remember. Thank you to Mrs. Benson for organising this great concert – her last event with us at Goostrey.
Back in class, we have spent the week learning all about one of the New York buildings which features in “The Good Thieves” – Carnegie Hall. Our pupils now have a wealth of knowledge about this building and we have enjoyed listening to music and watching silent films from the 1920s – please do ask your children about this – they have worked really hard on this piece of work. Imperial and metric measures have featured in our data lessons and we are looking to remember some key equivalents between the two systems. The pupils continue to deepen their knowledge of ancient Britain and have enjoyed some very athletic PE sessions.
Letters issued Y6:
No specific letters this week
Revision Posters:
Grammar: Active and Passive Voice
Maths: Metric and Imperial equivalents (the downloadable version has extra measures for the pupils
to remember.)
Year 6 – Pupils’ Highlights:
- PE – Netball
- Playing with CA
- Working on Charles Darwin research
- Playing with EP
- English
- Running the Book Fair
- Maths with Mrs. Cuttle
- Running in PE
- The Pop UK Concert
Family discussion questions:
- Grammar Focus: What do the words “subject”, “object” and “agent” refer to?
- Tell me about the following people: Walter Damrosch; Andrew Carnegie; Charles Darwin; Charlie Chaplin; Gustav Holst.
- What was “The Kid”?
Looking forward:
- Next week, we are looking to publish our English writing, so presentational features will be a focus.
- The pupils will be visiting Radbrooke Hall on Tuesday morning for some expert computer sessions (not that Mrs. Cooper isn’t our school expert) – please ensure that your permission slip has been returned as we cannot take any pupils without this. Thank you.
- We shall be saying “goodbye” to Mrs. Benson on Thursday as she will be leaving us after sixteen years at Goostrey.
Homework in Year 6
Mrs. Timmins:
CGP – Maths Study Books – pupils issued with labels and set pages.
Spellings – Pupils to select their chosen “stickiest” 20 spellings to practise. The test will be random spellings from the Years 3/4 and 5/6 spelling list. These are the words taken from the National Curriculum that Year 6 pupils are expected to be able to spell accurately – and use – in their independent writing. Ask your son/daughter to explain “vocab bingo”!
(Set: 07.02.20; Due: 14.02.20)
Mrs. Cooper:
Science
(Set: 04.02.20; Due: 11.02.20)
Miss Atkins:
There will be no arithmetic lesson this week as the class is visiting Radbrooke Hall.