Year 6 - Autumn 1 - Week 6

Date: 13th Oct 2022 @ 9:25pm

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Another busy week indeed!

On Monday, we celebrated Hello Yellow Day. We discussed the purpose of the day and reminded ourselves that the term, ‘mental health’ isn’t a negative concept; we can have positive mental health and negative mental health. We then recapped some of the insecurities we had anonymously expressed last week and it was reiterated that the subjects on the board should not be used as a joke – even if we think it is in good humour with our closest friends – as we do not know how everyone is really feeling on the inside. To summarise our discussion, we shared strategies we use to help ourselves when we are feeling negative and referred back to our school value of ‘Nurture’, which reminds us to be kind to ourselves as well as others. In the afternoon, we completed a mindful walk with our Reception buddies, where we follow a path of yellow flags, each containing a message of positivity for us to read.

In Maths, we have continued to develop our understanding of place value while also revising some of the mathematical fundamentals, such as number bonds and multiplication facts. Both groups have worked hard and faced fun challenges along the way, from game shows to elimination games. We are definitely enjoying Maths in Year 6 at the moment! Next week, Mr King’s group will be moving onto negative numbers while Mrs Martin’s group will be recapping the work they have done this week on multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000 before moving onto dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.

Our History topic has certainly continued to stir up intrigue and excitement amongst the children. Once we learned about the factors and trigger that started World War 1 – confirming some of our earlier predictions and research last week – we moved into exploring the impact of The Great War in our local community. We must thank Formby Civic Society and Merchant Taylors Boys’ School for providing us with so many incredible resources, including yearbooks from 1916 and 1918 to an online version of Formby’s Roll of Honour, which have allowed us to make our own lines of enquiry about particular soldiers and areas of Formby. On Friday, a small group of pupils were also able to visit Formby Luncheon Club to interview some of the members about their experiences of war, so we look forward to hearing about their findings on Monday. The children have been disappointed every time the end of a lesson has been announced this week!

A special ‘well done’ to those girls who took part in a football tournament on Thursday. We are so proud of how well you represented our school and we look forward to watching you progress as a team over the year.

Homework has been set and the children are aware of what this is. Spellings can be found on Google Classroom.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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