Year 6 - Spring 2 - Week 5
Date: 25th Mar 2022 @ 12:18pm
It is hard to believe that we only have one more week of another half-term in Year 6!
On Monday, we celebrated World Poetry Day! The children loved watching the legendary poet, Michael Rosen, give tips on how to perform poetry. After reading through an anthology of poems (ranging from Christina Rosetti to Ken Nesbitt), the children then chose a poem to perform to the class. It was a great celebration of our love of language and an afternoon which was enjoyed by all!
In Maths, Mr King’s group has focused on coordinates, in particular identifying coordinates across quadrants and finding missing coordinates of different shapes. In Mrs Martin’s group, the focus has been on algebra; the children then also revised coordinates towards the end of the week. Next week, both groups will be revising measurement. It would be helpful if the children could refer back to the KS2 Maths Knowledge Organiser (attached to the ‘virtual classroom’ on Google Classroom) over the weekend so that they already some knowledge of measurement facts before the lesson, e.g. number of millilitres in a litre; how many kilometres are equivalent to a mile.
In SPaG, we have continued to revise all the different terminology through a variety of activities. Games on Blooket and Gimkit have continued to both engage and excite the children…particularly those that involve sabotaging each other! ‘Trust No One’ also appears to be a firm favourite as it very similar to the popular game, ‘Among Us’. We have also worked through past papers, but in a more informal way where we have answered questions in small chunks and had opportunities to discuss and explain our answers to our peers.
The children’s stamina in swimming has continued to improve. The number of laps of the pool we are completing is continuing to increase and it has been great to see some children really challenging themselves with individual targets (e.g. completing a length of the pool without touching the side). The same can be said for our running warm-ups in PE; the children are continuing to push themselves each week and either improve their finishing time for two laps of the field, or ensuring that they do not stop for a break until a further point than the week before. Hopefully, through these activities, we are learning that sometimes the real competition is with ourselves more so than each other!
Having said that - while on the subject of competition - a special ‘well done’ to those children who competed in the tag rugby festival on Thursday afternoon and girls’ football tournament on Friday afternoon. Both teams put in a tremendous effort and – as always – continued to make us extremely proud.
Homework and spellings for this week can be found in the usual places. We hope you all have a lovely weekend - particularly Mother’s Day on Sunday – and enjoy the cards which the children made for you in class this week. A special ‘thank you’ to Team TSP too for setting up the present room once again and giving the children the opportunity to purchase presents for loved ones while in school.
See you all on Monday!