Happy New Year and welcome back to Year 6! Everyone has come back looking refreshed, with boundless energy and enthusiasm for the year ahead. Spring term is a short one which helps to keep the momentum and focus on learning and it’s good to be back in a routine after the long Christmas break. Here … Read more
Christmas Performance Year 6 and Year R have been working extremely hard on perfecting the Christmas performance and can’t wait for parents/whoever looks after them/grandparents to come and see it next week. Just as a reminder we have a Dress rehearsal Monday the 15th and our performance on Tuesday the 16th . ICT This … Read more
Over all it has been a fantastic week, through the dress rehearsals for the Christmas productions to the immense amount of ICT. Due to the constant rehearsals across the school the computers were free for Year 6 to use, so we had 2 long afternoon sessions with the laptops. In ICT we are using a … Read more
In year six we have had a fun filled week with lots of education. We hope you enjoy!!!! 🙂 MATHS In maths this week, in the first part of the lesson, we have been learning about percentages. In the second part of the lesson we do measurement (Miles, KM, M, Yards, Feet, Inches, CM, MM.) … Read more
Welcome to the year 6 blog, we hope you enjoy it! Maths In maths we have been finding the common denominator of fractions: a denominator is the bottom number of a fraction. We have also been doing some tests in class and we have been working on levels 3, 4, 5&6. Literacy Throughout literacy this … Read more
Maths This week we have been learning about fractions, such as ordering them, adding and subtracting them and converting them into top heavy fractions, for example 9/3, 7/5 or 4/2. Top heavy fractions are a different way of saying improper fractions. Improper fractions are fractions that represent a fraction where the numerator is greater than … Read more
This week in maths we have been learning about fractions, comparing them, learning how to add and subtract them, how to find fractions of amounts and finding common denominators. Also in literacy we have started looking at news reports and on Friday we became our own reporters about an alien invasion at the school! On Wednesday we … Read more
Grandparents Week Throughout the week year 6 have been guiding their grandparents around the school. A great deal of planning has gone in to this event. Not just tours but feeding the grandparents tea, coffee, biscuits and cakes. On the whole, it was lovely having them here. This was the first grandparent week and it … Read more
Class 6 have been having a great time studying the Victorians. A bonus for that was that we went to the Victorian School Museum on Tuesday And dressed up as Victorian school children, don’t worry we still had lessons, just in 1854.Our tour guide was extremely strict in the classroom. We had to sit up … Read more
We move towards half term at a quick pace and it seems like the children have been in Year 6 for ever! Here are some of their comments: “When I came to Year 6 I thought the maths would be really hard and now I find it shocking how easy it is!” “I thought algebra … Read more
