Year 6 Homework Blog

• Friday 26th November 2021
  This week we have started our new book in Literacy: The Night of the Gargoyles. We found out that a gargoyle is: “a grotesque carved face or figure projecting from the gutter of a building, typically acting as a spout to carry water clear of a wall”. We began by reading the book through and discussing our reactions to it. We then moved on to exploring how this story creates a dark and tense atmosphere. We also found the book uses many interesting word choices, such as: “pockmarked, mottled and bloodless”. For writing practice, we then had a go at writing ...
• Friday 12th November 2021
  We have been intrepid explorers of the Solar System this week in Literacy, and have written postcards from Mars; tried to persuade people to visit Venus; and wrote a descriptive paragraph of a visit to Mercury! Whilst travelling in space, we have also been practising extending our sentences with subordinating conjunctions. Next week, we will be writing a report about an alien planet. In Maths, we have been using the order of operations (BIDMAS), and mental methods to solve problems. Next week, we will be focusing on fractions. We have started our new Science unit, which is an exciting project to use ...
• Friday 5th November 2021
  It has been good to see everyone back and well again! This week we have begun a new unit of work based on the stunning book “Planetarium”, by Chris Wormell and Raman Prinja, which has inspired us to write about space and draw on our learning from Year 5’s science. We used the information we read to make a fact file about planet Earth (here are two lovely examples from Bobby and Melissa). We have also been word collecting this week not only in Literacy but also in guided reading, where we have been reading the Greek myth of the ...
• Friday 15th October 2021
  We have had an energetic week in Year 6 this week! As part of our Science unit we have been learning about how the circulatory system works. This week, we investigated what happened to our heart rate when we exercised and made a graph. We also designed a work out that exercised different muscle groups. Well done to the children who took part in the cross-country run this week – you were very brave and determined to run your best, with some very good results! For the end of our History learning this half term about the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for ...
• Friday 8th October 2021
  In Computing this week we talked about how much screen time we should be having. We discussed the importance of having a healthy balance between online and offline activities in our lives. We made a list of activities we like to do offline, such as: playing football, bike riding, drawing and reading. We decided on some rules for screen time to be shared at home: What’s the advice? Don’t use phones and mobile devices at the dinner table – they say talking as a family is very important for development Keep screens out of the bedroom at bedtime Talking as a family about keeping ...
• Friday 1st October 2021
  We have had a busy week this week in Year 6! Today, we celebrated our Reception buddies in a special asssembly. The Year 6 children all wrote lovely speeches about their buddies. We hope they enjoy reading them with their parents and carers again at home. All the Year 6 children have been so kind and caring to our youngest children at Two Waters and have made a great contribution to the Reception children’s start to their journey through school. In Science, we carried out a dissection of a pig’s heart this week in order to find out how the heart ...
• Friday 24th September 2021
  In Literacy, we have had a busy week writing a diary entry from the zookeeper’s point of view from our book “And Tango Makes Three”. We also researched penguins and wrote a report about them. Now we are planning our own story, inspired by the book. We are continuing our work in Science learning about healthy bodies, and have been finding out about how the circulatory system transports nutrients, water and oxygen around the body. We have started drawing life-sized circulatory systems in groups (see photo). We are nearing the end of our music unit based on “Happy” by Pharrel Williams. This ...
• Friday 17th September 2021
  Year 6 have had a fantastic week looking after their Reception buddies at lunchtimes. They have all been kind, caring role models, playing with their buddies and helping them with their lunches. Congratulations to Melissa, Mia, Ruby and Lola for being voted House Captains; and congratulations to Jessica, Sam, Maxwell and Joey for being voted Vice Captains. Well done to all those children who were brave enough to stand up and give speeches. There will be plenty more opportunities in Year 6 for other responsibilities. Here are some photos of the class developing their balance as part of our PE ...
• 10th September 2021 Welcome to Year 6!
  We have had a great start to the year in Year 6. We began by reminding ourselves about the Zones of Regulation and the importance of having a Growth Mindset to help motivate ourselves to be the best we can be and to make good progress in our learning. To support this “can do” message, we have been learning the song “Happy”, by Pharrell Williams in music and have practised moving to the beat (see photos). We have really enjoyed reading our first book in Literacy, which is part of a whole-school project based on “And Tango Makes Three”, which invites ...
• Happy Half-Term
  What a jam-packed, fast-paced Summer Term 1 we’ve had in Year 6! The children have worked incredibly hard in all curriculum lessons and are now more than ready for their well-earned break. Despite the weather and the mud, we have been able to do PE outside and the children have been really enthusiastic to play rounders and to coach each other with batting techniques and practice. The headmaster of the Hemel Hempstead School came to visit us for a morning of Literacy, as part of our Year 6 to Year 7 transition, and was really impressed with ...