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Autumn
Maths - Finishing off a busy half-term by adding and subtracting fractions!
RE - To celebrate the Month of the Rosary, Year 6 worked hard this afternoon, exploring what the beads represent, the purpose of the Rosary, and the stories of the 4 mysteries.
History - As October is Black History Month, the Year 6 children researched a notable figure in History, including: Mary Seacole, Walter Tull and Mae Jemison.
English - In preparation for writing our own dialogue scenes next week between Shackleton and the stowaway, we practiced writing direct speech using the Speech Sandwich Model. We based our work today off of the 3 Little Pigs, and we really enjoyed using the model to ensure our conversation remained interesting and impressive!
Maths - Mental calculations, estimations and reasoning from known facts. A lot of hard work was needed to end our Four Operations topic!
Science - We created our own classification charts for begonia leaves! It took a lot of focus and resilience, but we really enjoyed acting like scientists and making detailed observations!
Maths - Exploring the question, if 1/5 of the number is 22, what is number?
A fun PE lesson today - benchball! A sporty reward to the children for a brilliant start to Year 6.
Wearing yellow for World Mental Health Day! We completed some worksheets on ‘My Positive Sense of Self’
Science - We researched and presented findings on invertebrates, using scientific language. They look fantastic!
RE - We researched how to make sustainable decisions when buying clothes, linking to Laudato Si and the teachings of the Bible.
History - We explored the different jobs people had in the Victorian times, matching up character profiles to the most suitable occupation. We then learnt about why working class people and middle class people had different job opportunities in the Victorian times, and how this impacted their lives.
Maths - Working hard, multiplying 4 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers.
PE with Year 5!
Computing - Coding our sprites and backgrounds!
English - Completing research about Ernest Shackleton, ready to write our biography!
Science - We had a lot of fun filling in our Linnaean classification charts today!
Maths - We are smashing our place value topic, exploring numbers up to 10,000,000!
English - We have started our new book, all about Ernest Shackleton. We have looked at his newspaper advert to recruit is crew, improved our note taking skills and looked at good and bad examples of a biography, ready to write our own next week!
