This week in Year 6, we’ve been deepening our understanding across a range of subjects and making links between our learning.  The children have been asking thoughtful questions, sharing great ideas, and really showing their love of learning.
In Science, we’ve been investigating how light travels in straight lines and how it reflects off objects before entering our eyes. To help us understand this tricky concept, we used pieces of rope to demonstrate how light moves, creating some brilliant, hands-on models that showed the path light takes when we see things.
Our new topic this term in History is World War One, and we began by exploring why the war started, the countries involved, and how soldiers were recruited and encouraged to enlist. We played an interactive true or false game to find out who was allowed to join the war — there were definitely some surprising facts!
In English this half term, we’re learning to write our own non-chronological reports. To inspire us, we’ve been reading and exploring our model text, Mulgarath the Ogre King. We’ll soon be diving into Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You to help us gather ideas and learn how to write detailed, imaginative reports.
In Maths, we’ve continued our work on fractions, focusing on how to add and subtract mixed number fractions. We have been working hard to use efficient strategies and explain their reasoning — fantastic effort all round!

Home Learning

You have the following Doodle assignments set:

Maths - To add and subtract fractions
English - Using formal and informal language
Spelling - Homophones and near-homophones

Spelling words to learn: 
advice, advise, device, devise, practise, practice, licence, license

Please remember to read at least five times during the week, and have your reading book and reading record in school every day. Reading records are checked and signed on Fridays. 

Next week: 

On Tuesday, we will be participating in the Armistice Day Service at St. Mary's Church. Some children will be reading out the names from the memorial. We will leave school at approximately 10.15am and returning shortly after the two minute silence. Please wear smart uniform on this day. 

On Thursday, we have an exciting visits from Watford Schools Trust to deliver a lesson on 'Jesus in Art'. We look forward to learning about a range of representations. 

In Maths, we will be learning how to multiply fractions by fractions and integers. 
In English, we will be learning to identify and use the active and passive voice, and to use conditional statements. 

Have a brilliant weekend, 

Mrs Rayburn