Year 6 - Spring 2 - Week 6
Date: 31st Mar 2022 @ 9:38am
The Easter break has arrived!
Several Easter events and activities took place throughout the week, including the Easter Service on Thursday morning at Holy Trinity Church; a visit from the Easter Bunny and an Easter-themed, active Maths lesson on Friday morning, where – once again – the teachers’ chicken costumes returned. It is hard to believe that it has already been a year since our last Easter Maths challenge!
Also in Maths this week, all the children revised their understanding of various calculations involving decimals (particularly multiplication calculations such as 4.32 x 5 and 0.2 x 0.03) and recalled which methods and strategies they would use to solve each problem. We then moved onto measurement and focused on converting between mm, cm, m and km before trying some tricky reasoning problems involving distance. The Year 6 Maths Knowledge sheet can be found in the virtual classroom on Google Classroom and has been attached to this blog. It would be really helpful for your child if they can recall all the mathematical facts on that sheet to support them in their reasoning challenges.
We have continued to read our class book, ‘The Lion Above the Door’ by Onjali Rauf. The children have enjoyed hearing the latest part of the novel, which has centred around Leo and his friends coming up with a scheme to obtain records about former RAF soldiers from a museum. A particular highlight this week has been the children adding their own ‘layers’ to each character by requesting particular voices for each one. Despite not being set in Liverpool, we now have a very scouse character named Olivia and have laughed hysterically at Bo’s girlfriend, Jules, who we are told is going through ‘hormones’ and so now has an incredibly deep voice!
Last week, we were lucky enough to receive a delivery of tree stumps, which have been placed in the small garden area behind the bike shed. The children enjoyed taking some time this week to use the space to read independently and a group of children also chose to use this area to practise mindfulness, while others took part in the ‘Mindful Mile’ on the field and others opted to do some mindfulness colouring.
Our final day of term brought plenty of laughter as it was April Fool's Day! Despite the children's best efforts - including spicy cupcakes and rearranging the classroom at break time - they were no match for the teachers! Firstly, the children were given false information about Google updating Maps and allowed to come up with their own 'Easter Egg' formation on the playground...to only wait for a considerable period of time! They were then given some rather underwhelming 'brownies' at break time and an unsolvable wordsearch. There were plenty of humorous groans of frustration heard throughout the morning!
The children are aware of their homework tasks. Extra tasks have been set on SATs Companion for over the Easter break, in addition to the assessments already set. Spelling lists have been attached to this blog once more, but can also be found in the ‘virtual classroom’ section on Google Classroom. We encourage the children to do as much as they are comfortable with, but please remember that mental health is the priority and SATs Week is not something to be worrying about – especially given the last couple of the years.
We hope you all have a lovely Easter break!