Year 6 - Spring 2 - Week 4

Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 2:25pm

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We are certainly in the full swing of SATs preparations at the moment and the children have been working very hard!

In Maths, Mr King’s group have been working hard on perimeter, area and volume. They have tackled a range of questions with some proving to be particularly tricky; it would be useful if the children use SATs Companion to practise these topics further. Next week, we will be moving onto coordinates. Mrs Martin’s group have been working on angles and next week will be focusing on data handling.

This week has been British Science Week and to celebrate this, the children had made slime – linked to an extract from the Roald Dahl story, ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’. They had to follow the recipe carefully and think about their ratios to be able to create slime that was soft and could stretch. At times, the children had to consider the purpose of each ingredient in order to create the most effective slime. Which ingredient should they alter the amount of if they wanted their slime to be fluffier? Which ingredient affects the smoothness? Needless to say, the children enjoyed this task!

Wednesday’s swimming session was ‘a bit different’ to the usual session as it centred around survival techniques! The children were rather giddy as they walked onto poolside in their pyjamas / additional clothing but thoroughly enjoyed challenging themselves by treading water and swimming 50m in their clothing. They will continue to practise these skills next week as well, so should bring their extra clothing in again next Wednesday if possible.

The children are aware of their homework for this week and their weekly spellings have been set on Google Classroom as usual. This week, the children have also been introduced to the website, Maths4Everyone, which has revision sets of questions on every topic on the KS2 Maths curriculum; they can access these from home if they are looking for further challenges.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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