Year 6 Home learning 

1. We would like the children to show their understanding of fractions and what they have learnt this week.  They can pick either: adding or subtracting fractions with different denominators or ordering and comparing fractions with different denominators.  We would like the children to show their learning any way they wish. They could even film themselves explaining how to do it!

Here is a link to how to order and compare fractions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH7s9SIjwus 

Here is a link showing how to add or subtract fractions with different denominators - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDQipFjAoT8 

2. There is a Year 6 TTRS competition next week starting on Monday 24th November and finishing on Friday 28th November.  The children can access TTRS here - https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/teacherTheir username and password is the same as their AR one.  

3. We have also set a MyON reading challenge for the Year 6 children.  We would like them to read on or both books set on MyOn that are about Vikings! Click here to access MyOn https://www.myon.co.uk/login/index.html The children’s AR username and Password will let them access MyOn. This home learning can be completed at any point this term.  

Messages 

Year 6 will be visiting the Viking Ship at Pegwell Bay on Friday 28th November. Please can the children bring in a coat and wellies as we will be walking on the fields and around the Viking Ship.  

Important Dates for Term 2 

24th November – Book Fair all week 

10th December – Christmas Fair 3.15pm-4.15pm 

15th December – No PE this week 

17th December – Year 3, 4, 5, and 6 Christmas Party Day – children to wear Party Clothes to school 

17th December – Christmas Dinner Day 

18th December – Christmas Jumper Day 

18th December – Final day at school; school finishes at 2pm and there will be no after-school club 

English 

This week, the children wrote in role as Michael and Mina from their text Skellig.  They focused on using a variety of present tenses (simple, continuous/progressive and prefect).  For our Reading for pleasure this week, the children explored Michael Rosen again and read and performed his poem ‘Chocolate Cake’!  They finished their performances by eating chocolate cake too!  

Maths 

This week, the children continued their fraction learning journey.  They started the week learning about fractions of amounts, ordering and comparing fractions with different denominators and then they finished the week by adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators.  Our times table of the week was 7 x 7 = 49.  Our times table of the week next week will be 7x8=56. 

Thematic this week 

This week, the children returned to their history lessons in the afternoon.  They learnt about three important kings: Alfred the Great, King Canute and Edward the Confessor. Year 6 have also learnt about primary and secondary sources and the differences between the two and if the sources they were given were reliable or not.  They finished the week taking part in an oracy task that focused on the legacy that the Vikings left on our country.