Sir John Lillie
Primary School
Succeeding on the Journey through Lifelong Learning
Year 6
WELCOME TO YEAR 6
We've continued our Mesopotamian Maths by exploring and designing our own ancient civilisations and have been finding perimeters, areas and making nets
Year 6 are getting stuck into our new topic of Ancient Mesopotamia! We've been exploring how this ancient civilisation impacted life today. We've especially focussed on all the inventions and discoveries they made.
This week in geography we have been looking at settlement patterns using Google Earth.
Let's give a huge 'Well Done!' to the children who competed in the Readers' Cup Competition where they came runner up.
Science Week - Fun with friction and exploring how electrons are positively and negatively charged
Science Week
World Book Day - Today Year 6 dressed up as their favourite characters for World Book Day and shared stories with Year 3
Reading Bingo Challenge
Maths
What we are up to in maths this term
This term we are learning about fractions, percentages, decimals, algebra and angles. We are striving towards deeper understanding through a maths mastery approach.
Revision Links
English
What we are up to in English this term:
This term we are working on editing and proof reading to improve our writing skills. We are continuing our study on WW2 and writing:
- A balanced argument on evacuation
- A narrative including flashback
- War poetry
In SPaG we are focusing on getting more confident with the use of colons, semi-colons and dashes as well as learning new grammar terms.
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Homework
Spellings: Continue to learn the Y5&6 Spelling words in your reading record
SATs Buster Books: Each week we will set pages from the SATs revision books. These books are your responsibility to take home, look after and return each week.
Speed Tables Grid
This week 6T created a multimedia piece of artwork inspired my our class book The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas
Trip to HMS Belfast - Year 6 have been studying WW2 so getting a chance to see a real war ship was very exciting (if a little cold)!
As a part of art and design we made gas masks and built air raid shelters. Did you know there were two different types? Can you remember what they're called?
INTO UNIVERSITY - Year 6 took part in a cross-curricular focus week exploring WW2 through history, literacy, art and design
