Upcoming Reading Engage Session

You are warmly invited to join your child in class to read on Thursday 30^th January at 2:40pm.  

English

In English, this week we delved deeper into our class novel, Skellig. Year 6 have been working on their skills in inference and summarising, learning how to read between the lines and distil essential information from the text. The children have also crafted suspenseful and imaginative dream sequences.

 Next week, we will write diary entries from various perspectives within the book.

Maths

This week have wrapped up our lessons on percentages, focusing specifically on the practical application of finding a percentage of an amount. We then started a new unit with a decimal focus.

Next week, we’ll continue to work on decimals, applying our knowledge to a range of measure focused questions.   

Thematic Curriculum

This week has been full of exciting, hands-on experiences. Year 6 were able to experience heart dissections before expressing their learning creatively by designing their own circulatory system t-shirts.

 

Next week we will embark on a study of the importance of a balanced diet and exercise.

Homework

- Please read with your child at least 3 times a week.

- Children should be playing TTRS at least 3 times a week to build their confidence and fluency with times table knowledge.

- Most children have now taken their Term 3 AR Star Reader assessment and their ZPD can be found on their AR account. They will also receive a sticker next week to help them identify the correct books for their reading level. Once your child has read their book, they will need to complete a quiz on it before getting a new one. These quizzes can be done either in school or at home on Accelerated Reader using the log-in codes found in their reading records.

Welcome (renaissance-go.com) 

- Mathletics homework has also been set for the children to complete by next Friday.

-New for this year: Sir Linkalot

Access details:

To access it on a laptop, PC, Mac or Chromebook:

1. Type in the browser itself where you normally type www (not a search engine)...app.sirlinkalot.org (with no Ws before it)
2. Click on 'More' (top right)
3. Click on 'Sign in'
4. The access code is UJS2024

Have a great weekend!

The Year 6 team