Year 6 Blog Friday 7th October 2022

Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 3:45pm

Welcome to Year 6 weekly blog.

This week, Year 6 attended church to celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Thank you to Father Michael for inviting us.

Also, the football league began with pupils from Year 5 and 6 competing against schools from the local area. Both teams represented the school brilliantly, with superb hat-tricks from Finley (Year 6) and Morgan (Year 5). Everyone worked really well as a team – we are looking forward to seeing what we can achieve in the next two weeks.

Results for A team:

St Oswald’s A 3 – 0 Whitefield A

St Oswald’s A 4 – 0 New Longton A

Results for B Team:

St Oswald’s B 4 – 1 Ashbridge

St Oswald’s B 1 – 2 Howick B

This week’s learning in Year 6:

• In Maths, we have learnt how to use the partitioning and bridging strategies for both addition and subtraction. Next week, we will learn a few more before deciding which strategies are most appropriate for different questions.
• In English, we began our new novel, ‘Clockwork’ and have improved the reading skills of retrieval and inference to help find evidence that explains the impressions we have on the two main characters.
• In Art, we used Lola Dupre’s artwork to inspire us further with the mediums of sketch pencils and charcoal. We focused on the skill of shading.
• In RE, the school ambassadors led a lovely collective worship to complete our topic on ‘Unconditional Love’, before learning how people choose jobs that become a vocation and are extremely committed to.
• Our ‘Mountains’ topic in geography continued with a closer look on what features are in a mountain range. We worked as groups to gather the information before making a presentation to the class.
• In PE, the children learnt how to improve their running skills by evaluating their arm and leg movements. They also developed their swing pass, dodging and tackling through the sport of rugby.
• In PSHE, we learnt that any situation can have hopes and challenges. We discussed a scenario of moving to high school and the hopes and challenges we might face. We then wrote to ourselves to give advice for how we might overcome some of these challenges.
• In French, we recapped the months of the year and question words - Qui? Quand? Ou? Comment? Qu'est-ce que...? etc We translated some sentences from French to English, understanding that we had to translate the sense, not the exact words. We also chose the first pair of Language Leaders who will be helping everyone to answer questions in French about themselves. 
• In Science, we learnt about the work of Carl Linnaeus, known as the father of Classification. We discussed how science is constantly evolving as we develop new technology and understanding so some of his ideas are no longer valid.  Then we researched some animals to find their classification and scientific names. Finally, we looked for evidence to answer the question: Are humans primates? 

Home Practice

Please try to complete the following tasks by next Wednesday:

Reading – Use your Home Reading to read every night for up to 30 minutes. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be used for the title of the book and any reading challenge chosen.

• You may change your book any day between Monday and Wednesday

Spellings (-fer words)

• Sumdog (-ious wk 5)
• Cautious, various, precious, vicious, conscious, conscientious, gracious, suspicious, perilous, hazardous, marvellous, adventurous, dangerous, glamorous, famous

Maths challenges:

• Counting:
  • This week we have been counting in decimal steps of 0.1, 0.2 and 0.25 Try to do the same out loud or with paper.
  • Draw a line with 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 0.1:

5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, etc

and in 0.2:

6.5, 6.7, 6.9, 7.1, 7.3, 7.5, 7.7, etc          

Start at a number with two decimal places like 8.12 and count up 10 numbers and down again:

8.12, 8.32, 8.52, 8.72, 8.92, 9.12, etc        

Now try to count in 0.25 from 7 and 23 and 54:

7, 7.25, 7.50, 7.75, 8, 8.25, etc

• Sumdog (Times Tables wk 5)
  • Each child has their own tables target which they should know. The Sumdog challenge may relate to their target but this week we have focused on 4s, 6s and 8s.
  • (Every Tuesday there is a tables test).

• Sumdog (Add / Subtract numbers mentally)
  • This week, these questions vary from two to three-digit numbers with both adding and subtracting. This will be great practice for the future as I hope you will continue to answer questions like these without the use of a formal written method.

Maths Training

For further maths work, please visit the ‘Maths Training’ section which you can find in the tasks box on the left of the main screen. This will enable your child to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them, following the diagnostic test, which they completed in the first week of school.