Year 6 - Looking Back and Forth - Friday 17th September 2021
Y6 – Friday 17th September 2021 – Looking Back & Forth in Year 6
Looking back:
Our second week in Year 6 and we have been busy busy once again. This week, we chatted about how and why we are able to remember facts and knowledge. We have four new posters in class to explain how new learning “sticks” in our brains – we’re learning all the time. We have investigated how the five boroughs of New York gained their names and we studied the layout of the New York roadmap. When explaining these, the pupils were really knowledgeable and sounded like they were actually from the city (honestly, it was that good!)
One of our lessons this week involved a number of Liquorice Allsorts – there are photos on the gallery page so you can ask your child what this was all about. Dragonflies and some fine art work was a popular afternoon with Mrs Cowell, as was the beginning of our hat project on Thursday with Mrs Riddell – again, photographic evidence is available!
Homework has been issued – please see notes below. Copies of the homework are available to download on the “Homework” tab on our Year 6 classpage, just in case any pupil has lost it or left it behind. There is an optional homework too from Mrs Timmins – how many songs can be found?
Lovely to see so many pupils bring their diaries into school on Thursday – housepoints have been issued if they remembered to gain an adult’s signature. Even better to see how many had recorded some home reading this week. Please do continue to keep this up – reading is invaluable and benefits all areas of the curriculum.
So, hopefully your child has come home both excited and possibly a little exhausted this week from working so hard. Onwards now to week three.
Lovely to be working with our pupils and their families.
Best wishes
The Year 6 Team
Letters issued Y6:
Astbury Mere Water Sports Activity Day – please return by Friday 24th September – thank you
Year 6 – Pupils’ Highlights:
- AW Tag Rugby
- WG Dragonflies art work
- OK The Day of the Dead research
- AN The five boroughs of New York work
- DM Maths
- LK Football
- MH Manhattan Gridiron System
- OR French
- MP Maths
- LK English
Family discussion questions:
- Where does the word “Lenapehoking” come from and what do we refer to this as in the 20th Century?
- When rounding a number to the nearest hundred thousand, what place value column must be considered? What would 328,298 be when rounded to the nearest hundred, thousand, ten thousand and hundred thousand?
- How is new learning stored in our brains so we can “actively recall” information quickly?
- How hard was it NOT to eat the science lesson this week?
- Tell me what you found out about the Day of the Dead festival.
Looking forward:
- We are looking forward to another busy week next week. We’ll be studying New York and North America in more detail and building on all the learning we have started in class.
- Don’t forget that pupils will require their bicycles and helmets next Thursday and Friday for their Bikeability training
Homework in Year 6
Mrs. Timmins:
Spellings (available to download on the Year 6 class page)
(Set: 17.09.21; Due: 24.09.21)
Also – Songs with North American place names in the titles – full details on the Year 6 homework tab)
(Set: 17.09.21; Due: Any day from now until Friday 15th October 2021)
Mrs. Cowell:
Travel Guides
(Set: 15.09.21; Due: 22.09.21)
Miss Atkins:
Maths Arithmetic Sheet
(Set: 21.09.21; Due: 23.09.21)