Maths In maths this week we have taken on the role of the teacher! This involves marking work. If it is correct, we tick it. If it is incorrect we need to explain what they have done wrong and they should do to avoid this mistake in the future. It is really tricky and its … Read more
Maths Challenges and speed competitions using rolling dice are being used to beat our partner with our times tables knowledge. We are also using teens multiplications. We are using martial arts (with sound effects) to work out rounding numbers: What could it be? What is half way? Is it more than or equal to? Or … Read more
Maths Our times tables exploration continues with more games and now we are expanding our knowledge by competing against each other and against Mr Silvester! We are looking at the questions to justify rounding numbers: Why is it? Why is it not? We have been investigating place value and writing out large numbers in words … Read more
MATHS We have been going over and practicing our times tables up to 12 and have learnt a new method called dotting. Here is an example of the eight times tables. 88 11x 1x 2x 24 64 16 8 4x 9x 80 3x 32 6x 40 12x 7x 5x 48 72 56 8x 10x 96 … Read more
As the Easter holiday comes around, Year 6 has been doing some really high quality work. In English, we have stopped looking at Macbeth and metaphorical style work and have gone on to more formal writing styles, starting with writing a discussive letter about whether Year 6 pupils should read Macbeth. Our new parenthetical leaders … Read more
English In English we have been concentrating on Macbeth ( a story/ play by William Shakespeare.) We started off by reading act 1: The witches’ arrival. We thought, is this a strong start to a play? Then we moved onto the next part: Macbeth’s decision. We wrote a piece on how he would be acting … Read more
English: Throughout the week we have been studying Macbeth, which we all find to be a very interesting topic. Each new part we read always sets a prediction in our heads, which is a very important skill. At the moment we are at a really ‘juicy’ part which has made our minds explode with predictions! … Read more
Thank you so much to those of you who were able to find time to come along to the family consultations last week. I hope you found it both interesting and useful to hear how well your child is doing and how you can help at home. Just to recap, my main message was in … Read more
This week I have been impressed! As tasks go this is a tall order but really this week I have been quite stunned by the change in the class. Talking to the children it is wonderful to see how much responsibility they are beginning to take for their own work. The days of ‘near enough … Read more
The police were in this week talking to the class about firework safety. Important stuff. It’s Easy to forget that messages we take for granted as adults had to be learnt anew as children. We also visited the Victorian school Room which was excellent as always. Some things just can’t be taught in a classroom … Read more
