Year 6 - Spring 2 - Week 2
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 10:26am
Another fun week of learning has passed!
In Maths, we have continued to learn new topics while also revising concepts we have been taught earlier in the year. Mr King’s group have focused on angles this week, identifying missing angles in various shapes and also reminding themselves how to use a protractor. Next week, they will be moving onto area, perimeter and volume. Mrs Martin’s group have mastered BIDMAS this week before moving onto finding the perimeter of shapes next week.
In PE, we have continued with our swimming sessions and also resumed our tag rugby lessons. After a half-term break, the children have shown an excellent recall of how to handle and pass a rugby ball, particularly when moving in a line down the field. Some of our children have even been able to apply these skills to a tag rugby match! Once again, there has also been a high demand for the return of the game, ‘Wolves’ as the children have enjoyed practising their dodging skills to escape the ‘wolves’ in the middle of the field.
The children were very excited for World Book Day on Thursday and this was certainly reflected in their book costumes! Well done to all the pupils and their parents for a fantastic effort. Throughout the day, our Year 6 pupils took part in a range of activities: from word searches to Kahoot quizzes and even a book ‘scavenger hunt’ around school! As always, the children enjoyed the opportunity to visit their Reception buddies as well and were able to read their buddy’s favourite book with them in the afternoon. As the Year 6 staff had dressed as characters from the fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood, their English lesson involved them reading, ‘The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs’ by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith and learning how The Big Bad Wolf felt that he was the real victim in this tale. The children were then asked to become lawyers in Fairytale Court and to write up a defence statement for The Big Bad Wolf against Little Red Riding Hood and then present it to the rest of the class. There were some very creative ideas from the class…as well as some rather theatrical performances from a few lawyers in particular!
A special ‘well done’ once again to those children who competed in the athletics tournament at Greenbank High School on Tuesday evening. Having won the tournament for small schools on Friday, our pupils competed against the larger schools in Formby and Southport…and they finished 3rd place overall! What an achievement!
The children are aware of their homework for this week and their weekly spellings have been set on Google Classroom as usual. Please do also encourage your child to also work through the practice assessments set on SATs Companion, as well as their new CGP books.
Please recall that next week there has been a change to the PE timetable and that children should come into school in their PE clothes on Wednedsay (swimming) and Thursday next week.
Have a great weekend, everyone!