Year 6 - Spring 2 - Week 2
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 3:35pm
A week of successes and fancy dress costumes!
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 Maths codebreaker problems to quizzes and even a ‘clue hunt’ around school to investigate which book character had escaped into Trinity St. Peter’s! As The Big Bad Wolf was one of the potential suspects, the children’s 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 to present to the rest of the class. There were some very creative ideas from the class - including Red’s grandma having underlying health problems and a nurse in class validating this with her witness statement!
As mathematicians, the children in Mr King’s group have been learning about pie charts and solving a range of problems linked to these. Next week, we will be continuing with data handling before moving onto shapes and angles. Mrs Martin’s group have been working on perimeter and next week will be continuing with this and revising their understanding of area.
In PE, we have continued with our swimming sessions - this week, we practised backstroke - and also resumed our tag rugby lessons. Following our first two sessions, 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. 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.
A special ‘well done’ once to those children who competed in the athletics tournament at Greenbank High School on Monday morning. After a long morning of track and field competition, the results were announced and…we won! Amazing! Back in school, the children were praised for their efforts, but also their sportsmanship and manners as they conducted themselves brilliantly. Well done, team!
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.
Have a great weekend, everyone!