Year 6 - Autumn 2 - Week 4
Date: 24th Nov 2022 @ 7:38pm
It has been yet another productive week in Year 6!
The start of the FIFA World Cup has continued to bring us many conversation topics linked to our PSHE curriculum, particularly those objectives on human rights and equality. Prior to the start of the tournament, we were able to discuss why there were protests happening as a result of Qatar being able to host The World Cup; this week, we were able to talk about Alex Scott wearing the ‘One Love’ wristband while covering action from the games, as well as the significance of the Iranian team not singing their national anthem. Monday afternoon was an opportunity for many of the children to focus on just the football aspect of the tournament and create an everlasting, primary school memory by watching the England match together in class. It was lovely to see the children sticking their ‘match ticket’ into their gratitude journal this week. ‘Thank you’ to those parents who also sent in snacks for the whole class to enjoy while watching the match; not expected, but very much appreciated.
Our History topic on WW2 continued this week with the children firstly learning about the reasons for the outbreak of the war in Tuesday’s lesson. We were able to re-visit some of last half-term’s STAR vocabulary – such as trigger, factor and ultimatum – as well as learn some new terms in the lesson, including ‘reparations’ and ‘colonies’. On Wednesday, we were very fortunate that John from Formby Civic Society was willing to visit us to talk about how the wars impacted Formby. He showed us photographs taken at the time in Formby; local newspaper articles describing the war, and also explained what some of the shops and buildings we see today used to be. We may never look at Formby in the same way again! The children were so engaged that John ended up staying until home time…and he still had to cut his presentation short! The children asked brilliant questions throughout the session and it was wonderful to see them thinking like historians, asking questions about his sources and how he found lots of his information. Well done, Year 6!
In PE, we continued with our gymnastics unit. We reviewed our progress from last week and revised how to do various forward rolls; those children who felt like they had mastered these different roles, then set themselves different challenges, such as rolling with no arms and starting in a handstand position. One child even started and finished in a handstand position! We then moved into the backwards roll, which some children actually found slightly easier. It was great to see lots of children raising their hands at the end of the lesson to share how they felt they had made progress within the lesson and demonstrate something they were proud of. Thursday’s PE lesson with Formby High School was led by some of their Sports Leaders in a special one-off session, which connected the children’s learning to the current FIFA World Cup and Rugby World Cup taking place. There were lots of red faces by the end of the session as the children divided into two groups for the two sports and each took part in a skill practice and then mini-match. Our final yoga session also took place this week; we would like to thank Sefton Active for leading on these sessions this half-term and providing the children with this rather relaxing opportunity!
In Maths, the children in both groups have been revising their understanding of fractions -working on problems and calculations that involve fractions with different denominators and mixed numbers. Mrs Martin’s group will be continuing with this next week while Mr King’s group will be revising all Y6 arithmetic objectives, following some assessments in the latter part of this week. The children should be very proud of their efforts in these. Mrs Martin's group will also be doing some assessments next week.
Friday brought the end to an emotional journey as we finished our class novel, 'George' by Alex Gino. The children have been thoroughly engaged with this text over the past two weeks as it has sparked questions and discussions on acceptance, diversity and respecting choices. The entire class raised their hands to say they enjoyed the story...this was a first for the children this term! It has now made it onto the 'Enjoyed By All' section of our Bookflix display.
The children are aware of how to access their homework for next week – either on SATs Companion or in their books. Spellings have also been set. If your child is accessing their homework through SATs Companion and needs additional support, please remind them that there are support videos attached to the tasks. If there are no available videos on SATs Companion then at least one Youtube video will be uploaded on Google Classroom.
We hope everyone has a lovely weekend – see you on Monday!