Welcome to Year Six

Blue Planet Overview.pdf

Well, what a first week back!  So far, we have completed two quick maths assessments, to help me understand where they are currently.  These will help me in my future planning.  We have also started to think about some conservation issues linked to the ocean and will be creating our own campaigns linked to this. Today we got our new spellings, we also had our first Oracy lesson - the Word of the Week is 'ambivalence'.  Ask us what it means!

Group 1                                                                 Group 2

Aggressive                                                            because

hostile                                                                   people

awkward                                                               beautiful

obstinate                                                              again

desperate                                                            any

frantic                                                                  many

disastrous

calamitous

marvellous

spectacular

Week two completed.  This week in Maths we worked very hard with our place value, looking at each place value column up to 1,000,000, and writing these numbers in both words and numerals.  In English we started looking at a Greta Thunberg speech and all the key features that go into writing a persuasive speech.  We also had our first swimming lesson and science lesson.

Hopefully our reading records should arrive this week and we can start practising them using the look, cover, write check sheets and also recording all our reading we should be doing at home.

Spellings for the week

Group 1                                                      Group 2

advice                                                         parents
advise                                                         Christmas
device                                                         everybody
devise                                                         even
licence                                                        only
license                                                        both
practice
practise
prophecy
prophesy

This week we have all worked very hard, as we have had our very first SATs experience.  This was not to see who would pass, but to give them a taste of what is to come and also to see what they have retained from previous years.

We have also started our art project linked to our topic Blue Planet - some of these will be incredible, with a very real environmental message.  Also, if you would like your child to take part in our Berlin trip next year, please let the office know and sign up ASAP.  It is an amazing experience and such an opportunity to meet the Penpals they will be writing too over the course of this year.

Our word of the week is LUDICROUS - please ask us what it means!

Spellings - homework books have now gone home, so spellings can be practised three times a week and daily reading can be logged.

Group 1                                                                     Group 2

observant                                                                   beautiful

observance                                                                people

expectant                                                                   when

expectancy                                                                 which

hesitant                                                                       what

hesitancy                                                                    there

tolerant

tolerance

relevant

relevance

This week we have been starting to prepare for our class assembly, this is on Monday 12/10 @ 3pm.

We have also been looking at multiplying decimal numbers by 10, 100 & 1,000 - feel free to test us!

In English we have been continuing writing our persuasive speech as well as thinking about some pledges linked to our Blue Planet Topic.

Our word of the week is Contemptuous - please ask us what this means!

Spellings Gp1                                                       Gp2

man-eating                                                          most

little-used                                                            both

rock-bottom                                                        only

wide-eyed                                                          every

pig-headed                                                        everybody

tight-fisted                                                          which

cold-hearted

stone-faced

green-eyed

short-tempered