Year 6 Friday Blog: 19th September

Date: 14th Sep 2025 @ 4:51pm

Dear parents,

Meet the teacher

Thank you to those who could afford the time to come into school this Wednesday for 'meet the teacher', it was lovely to see you!  Please do not worry if you couldn't make it, I have attached a copy of the powerpoint to this blog.

Homework

1. Spelling Shed and spellings practise

Have a go at logging into Spelling Shed-your details are in the your reading record-and completing the game.  If you have any problems, please let me know on Monday so that we can resolve the issue.

Reading

Please complete Set A Test 2

Grammar lessons

We like to sing our way through most of our grammar lessons.  Take a look at one of our songs below, which is to help us remember and identify determiners!

Maths-crossing the millions boundary and rounding

This week in maths we have made great use of our place value knowledge.  This has allowed us to mentally (using jottings) add and subtract from numbers in the millions.  Following this, we have made a start on rounding numbers to the nearest million, which is a development on our previous years' learning.

English-Mrs Ramsbottom's diary entry

What a dramatic week we have had, creating freeze frames to show aspects of the poem.  As a 'roving reporter', I have then interviewed our various characters.  This inference work has given us great ideas to write our own diary entries from the point of view of Mrs Ramsbottom.

RE-Life as a journey

Last week, we helped Bishop Philip make decisions about his journey, including what to pack and where to go.  Following on from this, we have learnt about how the Christian journey is viewed.  We have considered prayer, the church community and baptism as part of the Christian journey.  The children have then created written reponses.

History-the Blitz

Last week, we learnt about the causes of World War II.  Esme also did a wonderful job of sharing artefacts and stories from her own family, which were fascinating.  Please do feel free to send any artefacts (or copies of) into school, it is so wonderful to hear the different stories.  This week we began to understand the military aspects of the blitz, using a population density map to decide where we think the key targets would have been.

Dates to remember:

Crucial Crew visit: Monday 13th October (letters have been sent; please return reply slips).

Have a great weekend!

Mrs MacDonald and the Year 6 team

 

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