Congratulations to our most recent pins and ribbon recipients! We are very proud to have you in our team.
We have had three more 6a team members earn their second Strong and Powerful ribbon in the last two weeks! Congratulations!
6a are having a fantastic afternoon! For the ‘collect’ stage of our new project ‘The Vikings’, we have generated questions about things we would like to find out or learn more about. Now, we are using our reading corner and the iPads to carry out our own research to find the answers to these questions!
Just look at these learning zones!
The video below is a short one minute video explaining the essential reading skills of skimming and scanning a text to find information and to read at speed. Both skills are vital for you to practise in preparation for your ‘find and retrieve’ reading comprehension questions!
The website also has other pages that go into these explanations in more detail and there are practise tasks provided. A great one to do at home – enjoy!
Congratulations to the winners of the latest Strong and Powerful pins and ribbons!
6a are on a roll!
We have awarded two more Strong and Powerful pins and another red ribbon – well done to these lovely girls.
Our target as a class is for everyone to have achieved their first red ribbon by Easter. Come on 6a, you can do it!
Congratulations to our second Strong and Powerful ribbon achiever! The first boy in the class. We are very proud of you!
Welcome back to school!
Project
Our project this half term is about Microevolution, Adaptability and Inheritance (Science project). We have collected research about these areas this week and have begun to think about characteristics can be inherited within families. For your home learning task, you have a choice as to whether you chose to use your own family or a different family that you know well (it could be a famous family, e.g. the Beckhams).
Create a family tree using images (drawings or photographs) of each member (going to back to grandparents if possible and ending with your generation) and annotate to clearly show the relationships within the family. Then please include writing which explains all of the characteristics that you can see have been inherited in this family. Explain who has received which characteristics; and from whom. These could be physical characteristics, skills/talents or personality traits. This needs to be presented beautifully so that they can be displayed in your classroom in the reading corner.
Maths
Each maths group will be given different tasks to complete:
Miss Snowdon’s group – using your ‘properties of 2D shapes’ revision from this week please create a song, poem or rap which you can teach to others to help them to learn/ remember properties of 2D shapes. It is intended to be used as a revision tool. If you struggle, look back at the ‘Word class song’ we used in SPAG last term (on the school website) to give you ideas. The Bitesize and Mathisfun websites will be useful too.
Miss Bold’s group – you have got a ‘find the shapes’ activity to do. Read the instructions carefully!
Mr Peters’ group – complete the shape revision guide sheet
Spelling
Complete the –cious & -tious and –cial & -tial spelling rules word search
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Snowdon, Mr Peters and Miss Bold.
Congratulations to 6a who have awarded the first Strong and Powerful ribbon of the year. What a fantastic start to 2016! For being the first ribbon recipient, this 6a member has also been awarded a head teacher’s in the Strong and Powerful jar. Year 6 are now in the lead with head teacher’s hearts!
We have had lots of fun learning about Inheritance. We have tried matching photos of our teachers’ families members into family groups by looking at their inherited physical characteristics!
