Year 6 Homework Blog

• Friday 14th January 2022
  This week we have been peforming and writing poetry in Year 6. We have written acrostic poems and kennings inspired by our focus book: The Lost Spells, by Robert Macfarlane. There are some examples of our work below. In Maths, we have completed our unit on fractions. We have been on quite a journey, and now can add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions, as well as find fractions of amounts. We have found how useful our times tables are when calculating with fractions. For History, we found out about historical black figures in Britain going back to Roman times, and linked this ...
• Friday 7th January 2022
  Welcome back! We started the term with our new book for Literacy: The Lost Spells, by Robert Macfarlane. We performed the poem “Jackdaw” in the style of a rap! We also discussed some of the other beautiful poems in the book and started to think about the wildlife around us. We are looking forward to lots more poetry writing and performance over the next two weeks! Our History unit this term is focusing on the story of the Windrush generation, building on what we learnt from Floella Benjamin in Year 5. We have found the Caribbean in an atlas and attempted to ...
• Friday 10th December 2021
  This week we have finished our writing based on the book “Night of the Gargoyles”. If you are brave enough, here is an example of writing to create a menacing atmosphere from Charlie: It was late in the museum. Chad the security guard had lately been having the sense that he was being watched. Every night, time went slowly and noises would surround him. He would constantly say “Hello, w…w..who’s there?”. Then he got uneasy. The security cameras would flicker, but why? he thought. He’d just got new cameras. Then, bloodless eyes would pop on the screen and would suddenly disappear ...
• Friday 3rd December 2021
  We finished reading a mind-bending short story by Paul Jennings this week called “The Copy” and had extended debates about the strange events in the story in Reading Practice lessons. This “Book Talk” is helping us develop our reading comprehension by justifying our interpretations as part of a group discussion, by using evidence in the text. In Science, we made burglar alarms using our understanding of how electrical circuits are made. Several members of staff were caught trying to steal biscuits! Geography involved finding out about the Human Geography of Scandinavia. Our Maths work continues to be about calculating with fractions, which has ...
• 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 ...