We have been focusing on cyber-bullying this week in assemblies. These are our anti-bullying ambassador for year 6!
Year 6 are very excited after we had a visit from an editor this afternoon! We now know our direction for our movie books an are ready to improve them!
In year 6 this week we have begun to use our new close the gap plans. We are sharing these at parents evening ready for them to come home on Friday.
We are really excited about taking ownership of our learning and preparing ourselves for secondary school by having our own timetables and homework planners. In lessons we will be identifying areas that we want to grow at home.
Any questions then please come and ask the team.
What a week we had in Year 6 awarding ‘Strong and Powerful’ pins. Have a look at some of the photos of our Strong and Powerful children. We are so proud of our class mates who have achieved their pins and cannot wait to earn ours!
Wow! We have had an amazing day watching our chosen film of ‘The Hobbit’ or ‘The Jungle Book’ and cannot wait to continue creating our movie story books. Have a look at some of the sketches of our characters so far…
We were very proud to award a Strong and Powerful pin on Friday. Well done!
We are looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow at the year 5 and 6 performance. We wanted to let you know that all children will be performing on stage for 1 song each however they will be standing and singing along the sides of the stage for the other 5 songs. Please discuss with your child where is best for you to sit to ensure you can see them. We will put labels on each section on the sides of the stage to help you.
The songs we are singing are:
Where is the love (raps)
Imagine (poems)
Feed the world (dance)
Sing (Makaton)
We’re all in this together (Dance)
I love my life – All singing together
Year 5&6 team.
Today we have started to learn some new songs ready for our Tree Week performances. We need to be practising these as much as possible to ensure our performances are amazing!
Here are the links to the songs so that we can practise at home!
Robbie Williams – Love my Life
John Lennon – Imagine
Michel Jackson – Man in the Mirror
Strong and Powerful Homework
In year 6 we are Strong and Powerful learners, who take ownership of our own learning. To increase our levels of responsibility we have decided to lead our own close the gap home learning journeys.
We have identified the current gaps in our learning in our ‘Close the Gap’ plans with our teachers. We have established whether each of these gaps is something that: we need to be taught by a teacher, can research independently or can practise independently. We have chosen our homework from the research or practise independently columns.
Miss Sheridan and Miss Bold have put together a bank of resources for us to use when we are closing these gaps at home – they will be adding new things to the bank every week. Please find the URL below.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14kpQTrhvNsCqEO06sTCKhijnx_pnsgX1HTvFw8hDgmA/edit#slide=id.p
We will see the impact of our personalised close the gap home learning throughout our lessons in school. With our teachers we will be reviewing whether our gaps have been closed. We also have fortnightly spellings and quick maths in our booklets as well. If we come up with any new gaps we need to ask our teachers to put more resources onto the resource bank.
We are looking forward to having ownership over this learning!
Thank you so much to the Year 6’s who did research on Bletchley Park. We have started to use this homework in our Project areas and will be using them to begin our lessons on Monday and Tuesday afternoon!
This week’s home learning:
Strong and Powerful homework due Wednesday 9th November
Maths
To continue to improve fluency in Maths we would like you to continue to practise:
Times tables from 1 – 12
https://www.mathsisfun.com/timestable.html
QR code – Hit the button maths game
Factors and multiples
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/factors-multiples.html
Prime numbers
http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/prime-number.html
Challenge: Can you investigate what a square number and why it is called a square number?
Literacy
In literacy we have been looking at newspaper articles. We have shown you our new imitate text and would like you to understand where the key skills of year 6 are shown within the text. Can you identify each skill from your ladder in the text and highlight using colours or label with a pencil. This will help you to understand how to use the skills within this text type.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Sheridan & Miss Bold
Resources:
Here is the link to the article we would like the children to look at:
Each child was given their own paper copy of their personal ladder.
