Year 6 - Spring 2 - Week 5
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 2:50pm
Another week of hard work in Year 6!
In Maths, Mr King’s group focused on finding the volume of shapes before moving onto coordinates, in particular identifying coordinates across quadrants and finding missing coordinates of different shapes. A special ‘thank you’ to Mrs Bennett from Formby High School, who has also been coming into school every Monday this half-term to take groups of children out for additional support. We will see her again soon at Formby High’s ‘Maths Maze’ competition!
Mrs Martin's group continue to impress also as they embrace each and every maths lesson with such enthusiasm and positivity. This week they have not only aced algebra (including solving some quite challenging algebra problems) they have also focused their learning on cooridnates across four quadrants and completing cooridnate based puzzles; well done!
Our grammar lessons have focused on determiners, nouns and noun phrases this week. The children have continued to add to their revision zines with their new / revised learning and have enjoyed learning some new songs – courtesy of Grammsaurus and MC Grammar on Youtube – to help retain this knowledge. The children have also worked through a SPaG paper in pairs this week to see if they can explain their thinking to a friend and also help them identify any gaps in their understanding.
On Thursday afternoon, the children enjoyed taking part in a range of reading activities. From solving riddles, to playing 'body language charades' in their groups, to then having to break out of an Escape Room using their SPAG knowldge, the children took on every challnege and had great fun along the way.
Our Spanish lessons have continued with Mrs Gibbons from Formby High School every Monday. We have covered a range of topics so far this half-term, including sports and book genres. Mrs Gibbons has been very impressed with the class’ prior knowledge and behaviour! Next week, in our final lesson, we will be focusing on vocabulary associated with Easter.
In PE, we had our second ‘survival / life skills’ swimming lesson, which saw the children practising the ‘help’ position and taking part in challenges that required no goggles! There were some difficult activities but the children tried very hard – well done! Next week, the children will be assessed on the skills they have learned these past two weeks before their final swimming lesson in the first week back after half term.
The children are aware of what their homework for this week is. Spellings have also been set on Google Classroom for next week.
Have a great weekend, everyone!