Hello! It was Gaming Week in Year 6 this week, and what a great week it was! We created and published stories about a character who gets stuck in a video game with Miss O’Grady, and put our Powerpoint and Scratch skills to great use as we became game developers and alpha testers for the …
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Friday 18th June
Hello! The weather may have changed its mind a lot this week, but our endeavours never alter in Year 6! Our morning topic this week was space, and we had a great time learning about the solar system, creating our own planets and writing some non-chronological reports about them this week! We were also busy …
Friday 11th June
Hello! What a fantastic first week back we’ve had! It’s been Olympics Week, and we’ve been up to lots of sporting activities. Firstly on Monday we had some fencing lessons – en guarde! Then on Wednesday we met Margaret Adeoye, a sprinter who represented Great Britain in London 2012 and who has been trained by …
Friday 21st May
Hello! What a busy and productive week we’ve had in Year 6! In literacy we drafted, peer marked and published our short stories inspired by ‘Woof!’, and I was particularly impressed with how supportive the children were in the role of peer marker on Thursday. In maths we continued to revise our fractions skills with …
Friday 14th May
Hello! It’s been another busy week in Year 6! In literacy this week we have been writing sentences with description, sentences with speech punctuation and sentences using apostrophes, all of which will hopefully go into our ‘Woof!’-inspired stories next week! In maths we dived into some revision work on fractions, including simplifying them, ordering them …
Friday 7th May
Hello! Was this really a four-day week? We’ve learned so much that it feels much longer than that! In literacy this week we have started a new story-writing unit inspired by ‘Woof!’, and have begun to plan out our own stories about a character who turns into an animal! In maths we revised some work …
Friday 30th April
Hello! It’s been another busy and productive week in Year 6! In literacy, we drafted, peer marked and published our own paragraphs, incorporating all of the grammar, punctuation and vocabulary elements that we’d learned over the course of this term so far. In maths we jumped into a calculation revision unit with some great work …
Friday 23rd April
Hello! Another week of glorious weather under our belts and it’s been a hive of learning in Year 6! In literacy we revised some of our grammar, punctuation and spelling skills, looking closely at the word classes pronouns, proper nouns, determiners, prepositions and conjunctions. In maths we completed a range of work on number, including …
Friday 16th April
Welcome back! It’s been lovely to be back together again, especially as the new term has brought with it brighter days and sunnier weather! I’ve been really impressed with the positive atmosphere in Year 6 this week and how delighted everyone has been to be back in class. We’ve wasted no time getting back to …
Friday 19th March 2021
Hello! About time we got some nice weather! It’s been a beautiful end to the week, and slowly but surely we are all getting back into the swing of things here in Year 6. This week in literacy we have been using various elements of grammar to write jokes, with some hilarious (and one or …
