Happy New Year!

Friday, 21st November 

It’s been another busy and exciting week in Year 6!

In Maths, we’ve been tackling long division and growing in confidence with this tricky skill! In English, we have begun drafting our own stories, carefully building atmosphere and developing characters through action and dialogue.

In Science, we explored the fascinating world of fungi by investigating how spores are dispersed. Using  mushrooms, we created beautiful spore prints to observe the tiny structures that help fungi reproduce.

Over in Geography, we’ve started to analyse the data collected from our local fieldwork. We have been writing up summative statements and preparing a group presentation to share findings — excellent teamwork on display!

🔔 Reminder: Our Change Maker Project continues — next week is the final week for anyone who would like to complete additional tasks or add finishing touches before we share our work.

Home Learning 

You have the following new Doodle assignments:

Maths - The order of operations (BODMAS)

English - Identifying apostrophes

Spelling - Adding suffixes beginning with a vowel to words ending in -fer

referring, referred, referral, preferring, preferred, transferring, transferred, transferral

Reading records and Doodle home learning are checked on Fridays. 

Next week: 

On Thursday, we have a short visit from the police to talk to us about their anti-violence campaign.

In Maths, we will be using known facts (times tables knowledge) to solve more complex problems.

In English, we will continue drafting and editing our own portal stories based on our book Skellig. We are considering carefully how to 'show' emotions and features (e.g. scared or old) rather than tell. 

Next week, we will also be completing our first set of practise SATs papers. This is to help familiarise children with the format, structure of the week and begin to manage time.

Wishing you a lovely weekend, 

Mrs Rayburn