Year 6 - Looking Back and Forth - Friday 31st January 2025

Y6 – Friday 31^st January 2025 – Looking Back & Forth in Year 6

Looking back:

Our last January day at primary school has gone by and it finished off a great week in Year 6 – please check out this week’s photos for a sneaky peek at our classroom antics!  We have begun to look at the next section of our story, Hansel and Gretel, and we are looking at integrating dialogue into narratives; algebra has been an enjoyable new topic and we are beginning to really get to grips with this algebraic topic; Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace have been a focus of our topic in Science; we introduced the Mesolithic era into our historic timeline; we enjoyed looking around the book fair and then showing the books to our buddies; coding and fish tanks are something we worked on for ICT; and adaptation also popped into our learning.  Thursday saw us looking at hats with Mrs Riddell and on Friday, Mrs Murdock helped us hone our own Goostrey “Hakkas” – just picture this: Year 6, stomping across the hall floor; rather loud chants emitting from them; facing being pulled – it was fantastic!

 Year 6 – Pupils’ Highlights:

• IG – PE
• CT – Working on dialogue in English
• LW – Buddies
• RN – Learning about adaptation
• ZL – Algebra
• MM – Looking at the book fair
• HD – Working on our hat research
• AC – Arithmetic
• EH – Working on the Hansel and Gretel strips

Family discussion questions:

• In algebra, what term do we use for “2x + 3”?
• Show me how to substitute and calculate – using ‘e’ ‘s’ ‘c’ for 3g – 6t when g has the value of 10 and t has the value 4
• What can you tell me about Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace?
• Explain the term “Mesolithic” and when this fits into our history.
• Why were you creating fish tanks??

Looking forward:

• We are holding our SAT Information Evening on Wednesday at 3:40pm in the Year 6 classroom – we look forward to seeing you there.
• As we enter our fourth week of this half term, all of our lessons will continue as planned – check our our weekly updates and photos to see what Year 6 have been enjoying.

Homework in Year 6

Mrs Timmins

1. Spelling Shed – worksheet for ‘shul’ sound spelled ‘-tial’
2. Spelling Shed – online task for ‘shul’ and GAPS for hyphens
3. CGP Books – English: Sentences & Commas; Maths: Decimals & Order of Operations

Miss Atkins

Arithmetic Sheet set 4^th February and due 6^th February