Year 6 Class News

After-school clubs return

Our autumn term after-school clubs return next week.

Here is the schedule that has recently been sent out to all children.

We invest part of our government PE and Sport Premium in subsidising these clubs and we hope to get as many children as possible active after-school.

If your child is interested in joining a club, please sign up via School Gateway or contact the school office.

Living and Learning – Mental Health

Latin – new inventions!

In today’s Latin lesson, which we’re loving by the way, our task was to create a new invention using some Latin root words.

They proved to be very fun!

Check out these amazing attempts.

Challenge your child to find the relative clause in Violet’s description of her caniporci (and mine above!).

Have a chat about what we’ve been learning in school – what does etc mean? What about eg? What about any other root words we’ve learnt so far and other words that contain them?

Reading Records – Draw It!

Last week’s activity was Draw It!

Thank you to all the adults who wrote some fantastic comments in their child’s reading records. Remember – useful comments might include what went well, what they need help with or how many pages they read at home.

Here are some amazing examples of how Y6 engaged with their task.

Magnificent Maths

There was a buzz about the Y6 classroom today where children were practising multiplication.

I was so impressed with their resilience, especially when I set them this tricky challenge:

Find a four digit x two digit calculation that gets an answer of 394,800.

Check out these brilliant – and totally different – approaches to finding the closest answer.

I also liked Sam’s answer to the true or false question before. He knew he didn’t need to work out each answer because he recognised that both numbers on the right hand side were greater than the left.

Times Tables Rock Stars!

Hello to all of you times tables rock stars out there!

Starting soon, we will be hosting our weekly TTRS competitions across all four classes in KS2.

The winning class each week will receive the coveted guitar and the three players with the top average score in each competition will get a certificate in assembly to celebrate their achievements and effort!

What you need to do:

Make sure your child has plenty of opportunities to practise their times tables at home. A rapid recall of times tables supports children understanding other mathematical concepts and can also help their understanding of new learning, too!

Practising regularly in short, sharp bursts is most effective!

Good luck!

Bike to School week and Let’s ride

Biking and scooting are one of the ways we encourage children to actively travel to and from school and next week we’ll be taking part in Bike to School Week (with Sustrans and the Bikeability Trust). We are pleased to be part of this UK-wide event, encouraging families to cycle, or scoot, to school. It’s a great opportunity to celebrate active school journeys and the positive impact it has on children’s health and wellbeing – as well as the environment.

Bike and scooter storage facilities are available by the side of the Year 4 classroom.

Also, taking place this weekend is the free Let’s Ride session held locally at the Brownlee Centre.

This free family community event is ideal for the whole family to enjoy cycling in a safe and friendly space. At the Leeds Brownlee Centre, Bodington Playing Fields, you can ride at your own pace as many times as you like with volunteers on hand to chat all things cycling.

Sign up for the event here.

Reading Records

Hi everyone!

Today, Friday 17th September, your child was sent home with a brand new reading record. Now you might be thinking, ‘Hang on! My child hasn’t used one since Y3!’. Although this might be the case, we’re excited for all the ways your child can engage with reading at home in these new Reading Records.

The new Reading Records offer the following benefits:

• it is a place for children to record the books/texts they’ve read and rate them out of five stars
• there are a range of activities your child will accomplish throughout the year based on what they’ve read (each week, details of this task will be on your homework letters)
• it gives children a chance to enhance their love of reading during our weekly Book Club sessions in school
• it gives children ownership and responsibility of their reading
• there are loads of exciting challenges to complete to become a Reading Challenge Champion
• it can be a place for parents to share with teachers the wonderful reading their child has been doing at home.

This week, the activity your child should complete based on their reading is…

Draw It

You can find more details about this in the activities section of the reading record.

Any questions, please ask!

Happy reading!

Where in the world am I?

Challenge your child with some quick-fire questions that we’ve been learning about at school:

• What’s the capital of England?
• What’s the capital of Scotland?
• Name the four countries of the UK.
• What’s the capital of Northern Ireland?
• What’s the capital of Wales?
• What’s the name of our county?
• What’s the name of our continent?

Notice the use of my capital letters – why are they used here?

Our Science and Geography vocabulary

This half term, our Science focus is States of Matter and we are chemists!

Take a look at our list of vocabulary that we’ve been learning about in class. How well would you say you know their definitions?

Some of them are quite tricky. Can you remember the actions we’ve done in class?

We’re also Geographers this half term and we’re learning about urban green spaces and city expansion.

What small activities could you do at home to help you remember this list of vocabulary?