Year 6
Welcome to Year 6!
This week's spelling rule: -tial and -cial
Please ensure your children are practising the variety of spelling rules and patterns that will be provided on the revision sheet.
Eisteddfod
Our value for this term:
Our value for this term is thankfulness.
Our learning last week:
Last week, we began the curriculum for the academic year. In literacy, we introduced a vehicle text closely linked to our driver topic to help us begin thinking about writing a newspaper report. We recapped the key structural and language features required for a newspaper report and have began to work towards building a bank of writing ideas. In mathematics, we began the year by recapping and consolidating our knowledge of place value - we practised how to read, write and order numbers up to 10,000,000. We built from this by embedding our knowledge of the rules of rounding, comparing and ordering and working with negative numbers. In topic, we began learning about the history of the Tudor family, learning in detail about its origins, its monarchs and its impact on British History. In science, we began our first unit of the year: animals and humans. We started by building our understanding of the circulatory system, the role of the heart and the functions of arteries, veins and capillaries.
Our learning this week:
This week, in literacy, we will continue to work towards writing a newspaper report based on the events within our vehicle text: The Queen's Token. We will analyse an example text, drawing out the key language and structural features required for an effective piece of writing. In mathematics, we will continue to embed our knowledge of place value - we will round numbers to 10, 100 and 1000 and reaffirm our understanding of using negative numbers. In history, we will continue to learn about the impact of the Tudor dynasty on British history. In science, we will aim to dissect an animal heart, allowing the children to see the inner workings of the heart, its chambers and blood vessels.