2.5.25

 Year 6,

It has been a rather different week. In class we have very much focused on maths and English. You have revised grammar, worked on newspaper reports and read a large part of our class reader 'The Boy in the Tower'. In maths, you have revised area, volume and angles, and have learnt how to calculate the mean and work with pie charts. This afternoon, for something different, you spent the afternoon testing materials as ways of mark making at part of our art unit.

This week you have also been having swimming sessions in our pool, which have brought much enjoyment, and have had the chance to visit Sky Studios Elstree (photographs below). While there, you enjoyed a tour of the studios, a media careers exercise (which is where your jobs cards came from), interviewed a member of staff and had the chance to create your own move pitches using real media tech, props and job roles. You even had the chance to sit in a vehicle used in filming the original Jurassic Park. I hope you all enjoyed the visit as much as the adults did on Tuesday. Remember that the QR code you were sent home with has a link to your movie pitches and you wrote the Sky ID in your Reading Journals. 

Home learning pages:

Maths - Pages 4, 5, 12 and 13

Grammar - Pages 22, 23, 24, 25

Next week we will continue to focus predominantly on maths and English, but as we have discussed, this is to ensure you are as ready for SATs as possible. After SATs we will have more of a balance and spend more time on the rest of the subjects. In English, you will continue writing your newspaper article. In Maths, you will work with pie charts, angles and will have some arithmetic revision. You will also have another chance to use your spelling games for revision. On Thursday, we will be marking the anniversary of VE Day, which will mean we are completing some different work marking the special occasion - this will tie in brilliantly with our history topic of World War 2. 

Half Term project

This half term, you have a different task. I would like you to use the next couple of weeks to spend time readying yourself for SATs. That can be completing work online, playing SumDog more frequently, and working on comprehension tasks. I have printed a range for you if you don’t have them at home already. I am already setting more home learning pages as part of this project and practise for Secondary School.

After SATs, I would like you to spend the time developing one of your key interests. This could be art, football, writing, studying a scientist or specific person from history, or even developing your roller-skating! Be sure you focus on something you enjoy.

I will not expect you to produce anything specific or present this half term. It is all about you doing what you need for the next few weeks.

Reminders

You should be:

 -        Reading 5 times a week and completing a reading journal activity once a week
 -        Practising spellings each week between the pre-test and test; writing spellings at least 5 times and writing 10 of them into sentences (ensure that these are high quality and make sense) in your Home Learning Journal (set on Monday and completed for Friday)
 -        Completing the English and Maths set each week (set on Wednesday and completed for Monday)
 -        Practising maths on Sumdog

Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Cresswell 😊