For the next two weeks Year 6 are studying poetry. Looking the language features and the structure of different styles of poems.
The children have been looking at poems which reflect their culture and heritage . Some children even asked their parents to write poems in their native transcript. We have Polish, Dutch, German, Italian and Arabic poems. The children were confident reading these aloud in class too.
This term in Year 6 we are looking at SALVATION. We begun by using the statement ‘for Christians should Easter be more important than Christmas? We put post-its on whether we agreed or disagreed with the statement on our RE display.
We looked at the stations of the cross, spent time discussing each station and then placed them in order. Independently we each selected a station and wrote a descriptive paragraph explaining it.
We have been looking at the differences between autobiographies and biographies. As a class we decided to write our own autobiography and have produced a super display. This is outside the classroom and pictures will be posted on the first week back.
Year 6 have also made super progress in their writing this half term, this is encouraging as they are now becoming more independent and creative
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Year 6 are busy using skills in reading to help them on their way to achieving success in the forthcoming SATs. The children are becoming more competent in recognising and referring to domains in their reading.
In maths too they are working hard and have found new confidence when measuring, calculating, and recognising angles.
Why don’t you ask your child to discuss their learning from this week? Can they discuss angles around a point?
A big thank-you to all the parents who attended parents night ,it was nice you could see and appreciate the improvements in your child’s work.
During last week, Year 6 were looking at using measures in their maths. They were converting different measures and solving problems involving measures. It was key to read the problem, convert to same measures, and use known strategies to solve the calculations. Remembering to revert to the original measure.
In our topic of World War 11 we wrote news reports based on the bombings in Birmingham. We used our research notes to help put together a report.
This week in RE we have started to look at what characteristics show that people have led good lives.
Mohammed thought that Martin Luther King had led a good life because of these qualities in his character:-
he fought for the rights of everyone, fought for equality, believed that you could be anything you want. He was dedicated, strong-minded and an inspiration to others.
Hamza thought Allah had led a good life because of these qualities in his character:-
he is a kind and loving God, who cared about people and forgave people when they had made the wrong choices.
In science this half term Year 6 have been studying light and shadow. They have looked at ways in which shadows are formed and how light from a light source is blocked by opaque objects and therefore shadows are created.
The children linked this with Christmas and made shadow puppets of reindeers and other Christmas ideas. The children will perform their shadow puppet plays next week.
During last week Year 6 have been looking at Victorian Workhouses in topic work. They had to imagine they were a child from the workhouse keeping a diary. They used the features of diary writing and even managed a shift in formality.
