In English, we started the week practising the skill of ‘Show, don’t tell’ to describe the feelings of a character. We continued on with a focus on the variety of punctuation needed when writing speech and ended the week by writing an extract of a story with a balance of both dialogue and description. This …
Category: year6
Year 6 – Amethyst and Magenta
Nov 22 2024
Fun with Fractions and Festivals
Firstly we would like to start by congratulating the children in both Year 6 classes for their fantastic sharing assemblies. Lovely loud voices, lots of lines learnt off by heart and some top notch acting. Well done! In English this week, we read the book The Dead Family Diaz – a beautifully illustrated story based …
Nov 15 2024
Poems, PSHE and Performing
This week in English we have been working hard on our Macavity inspired poems. The children have really enjoyed it this week and we have been overwhelmed with the number of children wanting to perform in the class. We have focused on using poetic devices such as: alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition imagery, metaphors and similes and …
Nov 08 2024
Macavity, Maths & Mayans
It was lovely to see everyone back after the well-deserved break at half term. This week in English, we have thoroughly enjoyed reading the classic T.S Elliot poem: Macavity. This cunning feline, a notorious criminal, manages to evade the authorities whilst carrying out acts of treachery. Next week, we will be using Macavity to inspire …
Oct 25 2024
Cycling, SPAG & Scary Sums!
The children have had a lovely time out on the roads of St Albans as part of Bikeability week. Badges and certificates will be awarded after half term. Everyone else has taken part in a variety of maths and literacy tasks – carousel style. Lots of child-led learning! The Halloween disco was a big success …
Oct 18 2024
Potential Hazards & Prime Numbers
It’s been yet another busy week here in Year 6. We have completed our information leaflets about harmful substances – be prepared to be lectured about the potential hazards of those (well-deserved) glasses of wine! The leaflets are really creative in terms of layout and the children have included a variety of sentence structures and …
Oct 11 2024
Hearts and Harmful Substances
Well we could write about all the work we have done in English this week. Writing sentences using modal verbs, a variety of subordinating conjunctions and some excellent synonyms, however what most people want to see is the science lesson! In Science, following on from our work on the circulatory system, linking with our core …
Oct 04 2024
All About Blood
As you’ve probably heard, we dipped our toe in the SATs pool this week, completing a set of past papers. We have started early in order to identify particular areas of focus for the coming months. We find that it is also a way to prepare the children for May so they have a good …
Sep 27 2024
Crucial Crew and Coding – with some Lego added in
What a busy week we’ve had in year 6! We started the week in English by writing from Cameron’s parents’ perspectives and recapping some of the key parts of the book Pig Heart Boy. Lots of the children really got the hang of seeing something from another point of view and enjoyed writing in character. …
Sep 20 2024
Arguments (balanced!) and Arithmetic
We finished writing our balanced arguments about pig heart transplants this week and all came to the conclusion that it is an incredibly controversial topic, recognising that there are both advantages and disadvantages to consider. Towards the end of the week, we have continued to read Pig Heart Boy and are preparing to write from …
