Year 6 learning this week
Below you will find our weekly teaching and learning summary to find out how we develop and enrich your child's learning whilst they are with us.
| Week ending | What we have been learning about |
|---|---|
| 22/11/24 | Year 6 are back in the classroom following their Bristol residential. After great weather last week, unfortunately, the weather decided that Year 6 had been out the classroom enough and rained on the scheduled Bedfont Lakes trip! Instead, Year 6 have been writing instructions on how to build a bug hotel in literacy linked with the text “Brilliant book of bugs” and doing algebra in maths. In foundation, Year 6 have been doing Geography and preparing for the Bedfont Lakes trip by learning how to read map scales and comparing maps of Bedfont lakes over the years. |
| 15/11/24 | This week, the Year 6 children who remained at Echelford, have been researching the various symbols used in OS maps in preparation for their trip to Bedfont Lakes next week. They have also been very busy creating eye-catching posters in order to promote Ashford town to potential tourists. In addition to this, the children had the opportunity to enjoy an afternoon of Forest School, where they learnt to light a fire using a flint and steel and even toasted their own marshmallows! The children have had a great week together and we all look forward to welcoming back the rest of the Year 6 children from Bristol and sharing our different stories about the week. |
| 08/11/24 | This week, Year 6 have been learning about linear sequences and the nth term in maths. In Literacy, we have started looking at our new text for the half term, ‘The Brilliant Book of Bugs’ and have been writing descriptions of bugs and focusing on literary devices to improve our writing. Year 6 have also started our Science topic on Living Things and their Habitats and are learning about classifying different living things and how to create classification keys. |
| 25/10/24 | This week has been foundation week in Year 6 so Year 6 have been finishing their History, Science, Religion and World Views, Music, DT and Computing topics. Mr Green came in on Wednesday and shared with Year 6 his World War 1 & 2 artefact collection including stories behind each one. The children asked wonderful questions and were highly enthused with what he shared with them. |
| 18/10/2024 | This week, Year 6 have been doing practice SATs assessments in spelling, punctuation and grammar, reading, maths arithmetic and maths reasoning. The children have worked really hard and have been fantastic throughout! |
| 11/10/2024 | In Year 6 we have been continuing to learn the long division method of division, utilising prior knowledge of multiples and sharing. We have been using it in different contexts, representing remainders as fractions and decimals and answering problems in different contexts that require interpreting the remainder. In English, Year 6 have been writing a debate based on the class text “Letters from the Lighthouse.” The context of the debate was whether the lighthouse should be destroyed to prevent the Luftwaffe from using it as a waypoint. |
| 04/10/2024 | This week Year 6 have been building up their cohesion of their writing by using adverbial phrases at the start of sentences, colons, semicolons and ellipsis. They have been writing descriptions of a lighthouse and using great vocabulary to do so. They have also written non-chronological reports about lighthouses building towards their DT project. |
| 27/09/2024 | This week Year 6 have been writing letters in English linked to their text “Letters from the Lighthouse”. We have written letters to the main character Olive about the positives of being an evacuee in World War 2 and we have written letters back to Olive in response to her letter. We have also gone into detail on how to edit and redraft writing in order to improve it even more. In maths, Year 6 have been developing their learning on multiplication by looking closer at what multiples and factors are and how they link to multiplication and division. |
| 20/09/2024 | This week Year 6 have been writing acrostic poems inspired by people’s emotions and feelings in the book Rose Blanche. The book is written from the point of view of a German child so the children have been learning to think of things from another point of view. Year 6 have also been learning about literary devices such as similes and personification to improve their writing. This week, Year 6 have been reading their class text “Letters from the Lighthouse” which links with their World War 2 topic as well as Science and Design Technology as they will be creating lighthouses and they will have to wire it up so it is functioning too! Year 6 have continued to work hard in maths building on their knowledge of addition and subtraction strategies with decimal numbers. Year 6 have also enjoyed their first Buddy Reading session with Year 1 |
| 13/09/2024 | This week in Year 6, the children have been excited to start their History topic on World War 2 by reading and studying different historical sources. They have been able to expand on this in Literacy through the class text Rosa Blanche which is about a German child’s experience of the war in Germany. We have studied how different people might be feeling and why, and written descriptive pieces about these feelings from the point of view of the characters. Year 6 also went on a trip to the University of Surrey where they learnt about a small sample of all the different jobs in the NHS such as paramedics, dietitians, nurses, podiatrists, physiotherapists and radiologists. The children’s behaviour was wonderful and they were all so engaged with the workshops and asked and answered great questions. |
