We have had a wonderful week, in Year 6. Last week, I had the chance to get to know the class personally, learning more about who they are and their interests. This week, I have been getting to know the class academically. They have all been working so incredibly hard, and I am very impressed with their work ethos in the classroom! Every single child in the class has listened so attentively in every lesson and worked so hard, using their Growth Mindset, when necessary-I truly have hit the jackpot with this class! Keep it up, Year 6! They also showed exemplary behaviour as we went over to church to celebrate Our Lady’s birthday. This was a special occasion as it is the first time we have been able to go over to church, with our class, in over 18 months. It was also extra special as it was Fr. Jim’s last Mass with the children…we had a little presentation for Fr. Jim at the end-it was very emotional!
Here is what else we have been up to this week….
In Maths we have been focusing on place value. We have been reading and writing 6-digit numbers, understanding the importance of zero as a place holder as well! There is a big difference between 604, 521 and 64,521!! We have also looked at multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100 and 1000. On Monday, we will begin to look in more depth at decimal place values.
In English we have focused of punctuating writing. They had to edit a piece of writing that had no capital letters, full stops or commas in lists. Overall, the class were very good at this and they had the chance to edit any they had missed in the following lesson. Using full stops in our writing, I had noticed, was a big target for this class. We have also had discussions about what nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs are…we will do more on this in our GPS lesson next week. We also made a start on our first English unit, Biographies. We looked at the what a biography was and watched a mini-biography on Walt Disney, making notes on key dates and events in his life.
In RE we started our first unit ‘The Kingdom of God’. We talked about what we thought the Kingdom of God was. Some said it was in heaven, others said on earth and we discussed it being within us….as we work our way through this unit we will think about whether it is actually all of these! We looked at some important values of the Kingdom of God and the class wrote about which values they believed were the most important, in their opinion, and why.
In History we started our topic on ‘The Battle of Britain’ by using our concept map vocabulary to show what we already know about the BoB and WWII. We then ordered some key events from WWII chronologically. Next week, we will use these to create a timeline in our books….
In PE we had our first Sports4Champion lesson. We spent the first half of the lesson in the classroom discussing the 6-week programme and filling in some information in our S4C booklets. The S4C coaches then told us all about how we earn point to win prizes! We then went down to the hall and played a team game of ‘noughts and crosses’….
In our Art lesson we used our critical thinking skills and had a ‘silent debate’. We had 6 pieces of WW2 art spaced around the classroom and we had to go around silently writing down our thoughts and opinions, We also commented on other people’s opinions if we agreed/disagreed. The class were brilliant at this….
AWARD WINNERS:
This week’s Golden Award went to Mia for her amazing work ethos. She listens so attentively and works so hard in class. She has settled in beautifully in Year 6!
The Maths Award was given to Kayden for his participation in class discussions and superb work multiplying and dividing by 10,100 and 1000.
The Writing Award was given to Isabelle for trying so hard with her written work, this week!
NOTICES:
I have sent a letter home today about the Sports4Champions after school club. Please return this by Tuesday if you would like your child to attend
Head Girl/Boy speeches will take place on Monday morning-do not forget to bring your speeches in on Monday
Homework for this week is up on the Homework page. Your child will have been informed of the group for spellings beforehand
If your child is having to isolate for any reason and needs to access home learning, this will be accessible from the Year 6 Home Learning Page. On the day we are informed of any child needing to isolate, it may mean that it will not be until the end of the day that a full timetable of home learning will be available the on Home Learning tab. In this instance, please complete a Bedrock lesson, practice times tables on TT Rockstars, and practice their group spellings
If you need to contact me for any reason, please email year6@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs Murphy & Mrs Owen
