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 Year 6,

Phew! Where has that week gone? I don’t know about you but this week in particular has flown by. In maths you have been learning about scale drawing, scale factors and solving ratio and proportion problems. In English, you began reading ‘Paradise Sands’ and wrote your own descriptive paragraphs and openers. In science, you investigated how light travels in straight lines and how it can be reflected – creating periscopes to demonstrate this (photographs below). In Spanish, you began your new topic of shopping and in PSHE you considered how to achieve your own goals, and how the plight of others makes you feel, alongside what you can do to help.

This week you also received back your SATs papers from before Christmas (remember I kept a handful back). I did this so that you can go through them with your adults if they wish to. You can see what you are doing well, and what you may want to work on some more.

 

Next week, in English, we will continue to study Paradise Sands, also recapping relative clauses in the process. In maths, we will begin to understand algebra (it’s not as scary as it sounds!) In science, you will investigate refraction and  we will hopefully complete our geography unit by conducting the local fieldwork we discussed this week, and then creating reports on this using the Chromebooks.

 

Home Learning Pages

Maths (blue book) pg20+21

Grammar pg46+47

 

Today I also set your half term project – please see below.

 

Half term project – Masters of Maths

This half term, your project is to create a game for your classmates to play which covers areas of maths that we have learnt about in class. This game could be a quiz (paper based), or could be a board game (or a more creative idea if you have one).

You can focus on one topic or a range of maths which we have covered, such as: place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, shape, fractions, area, perimeter, coordinates, ratio, proportion, or decimals and percentages as you covered them in Year 5.  

Please ensure that you bring your game to school by Monday 9^th February as we will be playing them sometime that week.

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 piece of English and piece of Maths set each week (set on Wednesday and completed for Monday)

 -        Practising maths on Sumdog

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Cresswell 😊