Class 6
Teaching Staff
Teachers - Mrs Watkins
Teaching Partners - Mrs Reid and Mrs Smith and Mrs Zerrad
Please click here for the Meet the teacher presentation with information about our class.
Policy for children walking home and permission form
Learning Lens 25.04.25
Happy Friday! I hope you all had a lovely Easter break.
In Geography, we have started a research project about Alaska and we have looked at the different human and physical features. We are going to be comparing these features to the human and physical features of The Isle Of Wight.
This week in maths, we are covering different topics in the lead up to SATS. We have looked at cube and square numbers and BODMAS/BIDMAS to help us with our calculations. We will be looking at percentages of numbers, adding and subtracting fractions and adding and subtracting decimals.
We have started reading our new class text 'The Girl Who Speaks Bear' and our writing this term will be focused on the video and story of Alma. We will be planning and writing a narrative based on the setting and main character.
The Spelling, grammar and punctuation that we are focusing on this term are:
semi colons
colons
parenthesis
relative clauses
hyphens
and more!
In Science this term, we are starting a new topic 'Living Things and Their Habitats'. We will be building on our previous knowledge from other year groups and using classification keys to sort different groups and characteristics of animals.
In PE, we have started Athletics (Tuesday) with Mrs Watkins.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Watkins
Spelling Words
This week's sound
suffixes
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Happiness (-ness)
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Careful (-ful)
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Quickly (-ly)
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Friendship (-ship)
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Runner (-er)
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Darkness (-ness)
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Helpful (-ful)
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Movement (-ment)
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Creative (-ive)
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Celebration (-tion)
Our sentences this week
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You need to be careful when using scissors so you don’t hurt yourself or anyone else.
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He quickly packed his bag and dashed out of the house so he wouldn’t miss the school bus.
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Their friendship had grown stronger over the years because they always supported and trusted each other.
Past sounds:
/i/ as in kid individual signature symbol physical rhythm system biscuit equipped equipment privilege average language bargain |
//o/ as in top
restaurant cough trough yacht accommodate opportunity occupy conscious competition conscience conscious correspond foreign |
/e/ sound as in bed : Ea, ai, ie, e, ei, u measure treasure friend especially explanation leisure existence relevant definite desperate develop led lead affect effect temperature |
homophones their they're there witch which one won desert dessert |
/ear/ as in clearSpelling words: Shakespeare, bacteria, coherent, chandelier, souvenir, interfere, sincerely, cereal, serial, weary |
In spelling we have been working our way through the statutory Year 5 & 6 spelling words. These are very tricky but we like to use Sir Linkalot to help us remember them. You may want to use this at home to help you. The complete list of Year 5 and 6 words can be found here.
Maths this term
We are now looking at the unit ratio. Here is our unit plan for this topic. This document has got what we are doing, similar questions to what we are working on and the mathematical vocabulary we are using.
Please see our weekly info above which tells you which part of the topic we are on this week.
Year 6 SATS revision for home
This school website has practice questions for maths, reasoning, reading and other websites which you may find useful for home revision!
Nova Primary Academy - Year 6 SATs revision
Home learning
*NEW MATHS *
Our maths home learning will now be through PurpleMash and not mathletics. You will find your mathletics username and password will not work anymore and this is okay. All maths home learning will be set on Purple Mash through your '2do' where you usually find your computing tasks set.
Your 'Reading Spring Menu' is now stuck in your green planners!
Curriculum Information