Year 6 Blog Friday 15th October 2021

Date: 15th Oct 2021 @ 3:38pm

Welcome to the last blog before the October half term holiday, as next Friday will be our INSET day. Year 6 have been brilliant these past 6 – 7 weeks: working hard, respecting the rules and routines we have in place, and completing the Home Practice in time.

This week we chose a tag rugby team to take part in the South Ribble Tag Rugby competition for next Tuesday 19th October. Congratulations to those who were chosen. Our aim this year is for every Year 6 to represent the school in a sporting competition, something we have not been able to do since 2019.

We have had another week of excellent effort with 97% changing their books and completing their Home Practice on time. Every Year 6 is showing themselves to be great role models for the other children, especially during lunch time where they have worked extremely hard as ‘Buddies’.

 

This week in Year 6:

  • In Maths, we have practised the 7 times tables, rounding numbers to 1, added decimals mentally and used the written method effectively.
  • In English, we completed the novel, ‘Clockwork’, discussed what we thought about the story and the ending, and then created some of our own.
  • In our topic of Mountains, in Geography, we worked as teams to learn about the main 10 features (slope, face, foot, valley, outcrop, slope, ridge, summit, tree line, snow line )
  • For RE, we continued our topic of ‘Vocation and Commitment’, and retold the story of the Baptism of the Lord, as John the Baptist.
  • In PE, many of us have learnt a new skill/sport as Year 6 have all become super tag rugby players. Positioning, speed and defence were the main objectives this week.
  • In PSHE, our topic has been about mental health and as this week is Mental Health week, we put all our learning together to create a ‘self-care plan’ for others to follow.
  • In Music, boomwhackers have been our focus to create our own unique beats and we continued perfecting ‘Hot Cross Buns’ on the recorders.
  • In French, we used a weather map of France to describe the weather in different places. Some of us made the sentences more complex by adding conjunctions and adjectives.
  • In Science, we researched and presented our findings on a specific invertebrate group, e.g. arachnids, molluscs, etc.

 

Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:

  • Reading – Use your Home Reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be used for the title of the book and any reading challenge chosen.
    • The days when you can change your book:
      • Monday – Roller Coasters
      • Tuesday – Big Dippers
      • Wednesday – The Waltzers

 

 

  • Spellings (-sion / -ssion / -cian words)
    • Sumdog (-cian, -sion, -ssion wk 7)
    • We will be learning the -sion, -ssion spellings again, along with -cian words, which will be looked in detail from Monday:
      • politician, magician, electrician, optician, musician, technician, Egyptian, vision, session, decision, permission, compassion, expression, progression, impression

 

  • Maths challenges:
    • Counting
      • This week we have counting in fraction steps of ½, ¼ and 1½ . Try to do the same out loud or with paper.
      • Draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.
      • g. Start with different numbers and count up 10 numbers then back again in halves:

2½, 3, 3½, 4, etc               

Start at 27 and count up 10 numbers and down again:

27, 27½, 28, 28½, etc          

 

Now try in ¼ with these numbers:

6, 6¼, 6 2/4, 6¾, 7, 7¼, etc

 

Finally keep trying to count forward and back in 1½ steps:

8, 9½, 11, 12½, 14, 15½, 17, etc   

 

  • Sumdog (Times Tables x12)

 

  • Sumdog (Rounding decimals and comparing to fractions)

 

 

Do not forget that next week, our last day is Thursday 21st October.

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

 

 

Contact Us

St Oswald's Catholic Primary School

Chapel Lane, Longton, Preston, PR4 5EB

T: 01772 613402

E: bursar@longton-st-oswalds.lancs.sch.uk

STAFF LOGIN
SCHOOL BLOGS