Class 6
Teaching Staff
Teachers - Mrs Watkins
Teaching Partners - Mrs Reid and Mrs Smith and Mrs Spring
Please click here for the Meet the teacher presentation with information about our class.
Policy for children walking home and permission form
Learning Lens 10.01.25
Happy New Year!
A snowy start back! Year 6 have started our Art focus term. This week, we have shared some artists we know either famous or family and friends. We then started to learn about our first artist - Frida Kahol. We have learnt about her style of paintings and had a go at using mirrors to create our own self portraits. We then used oil pastels to complete our pictures. We are looking forward to sharing these with the school in our open gallery at the end of term.
This week in maths, we have been looking and recapping units of measurement. We have been using conversions to help us answer a range of questions. e.g.
In English and PSHE we have been thinking about the benefits of exercise! We have created detailed information reports for someone who is sedentary and how our information and guidance could help them to exercise more.
Spelling Words
This week's sound
/ear/ as in clear
Spelling words: Shakespeare, bacteria, coherent, chandelier, souvenir, interfere, sincerely, cereal, serial, weary
Past sounds:
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/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 |
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 of measurement on page 147 . 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.
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!
English Writing
We have changed our approach to teaching spelling, grammar and handwriting slightly.
In Friday spelling lessons, children will be given up to three sentences to practice writing in their best handwriting in this book. These sentences will incorporate the spelling patterns learnt that week as well as the grammatical structure.
We would like children to practice writing those sentences again three times at home in their best handwriting. They should then return the book to school on Monday. We hope that by sharing this book with you, parents can become more aware of the spellings and sentence structures each year group is focusing on and can support this further at home.
Subordinating conjunctions
/ar/ as in car
- “Use a dictionary to find the word!” Demanded John as he pointed to the shelf.
- I would love to be a millionaire so I can help all my friends.
- On the way to school, I have to walk past the cemetery.
Curriculum Information
