Year 6 - Spring 1 - Week 3
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 4:10pm
Another great week in Year 6!
As authors, we completed last week’s piece, which focussed on a ‘haunted setting’ and also found time to explore the realms of poetry. Taking inspiration from Kit Wright’s poem, ‘The Magic Box’, the children wrote their own poems. Filling their magic boxes full of abstract wonders, the children created the most wonderful pieces of poetry which not only explored the five senses but were packed with literary devices such as personification and metaphors.
In Maths, Mrs Martin’s group have been revising various arithmetic topics and will be moving onto fractions next week: specificially multiplying and dividing fractions. Mr King’s group have been working on algebra and will be continuing with this before moving onto ratio.
On Tuesday afternoon, the children took part in Computing lessons, which explored the world of virtual reality! Using the iOs application, CoSpaces, the children were able to follow various algorithms to design their own virtual reality based on one of their interests and create a story sequence using all of the skills they had learned within the lesson. Next week, they will be improving their creations before presenting them to the rest of the class. Many of the children were already excited to share their work so far – we cannot wait to see their final designs!
As scientists, the children concluded their learning about electricity by revising the three types of variables - independent, dependent and control variables – before checking their investigation plans from last week and testing their predictions. They carried out their investigations in groups, noting the outcome of their dependent variable at the end of the experiment.
A special ‘well done’ to those children who represented our school in a dodgeball tournament at Formby High School on Friday. What a great effort!
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 to revise topics through the ‘Practice’ section of the app / website.
Have a great weekend, everyone!