Year 6's Weekly Round Up!

This Week in Our Classroom

Literacy

This week in Literacy, the children have had the opportunity to plan and develop their own balanced arguments. They have been researching different viewpoints, finding reasons and evidence both for and against a particular issue, and considering which arguments are the most convincing. The children have then used their research to form their own conclusions, thinking carefully about the different perspectives before reaching a reasoned decision.

Maths

In Maths, the children have been developing their understanding of common factors and common multiples. They have been learning how to identify and use these mathematical relationships and, importantly, apply their knowledge to solve a range of problems. The children have been encouraged to explain their thinking and choose appropriate strategies when tackling increasingly challenging questions.

How to find common multiples 

How to find common factors 

Science

This week in Science, the children have been developing their understanding of the human circulatory system. They have been learning how blood is transported around the body through a network of blood vessels and discovering the important roles that different blood vessels play.

The children have learned that arteries carry blood away from the heart, while veins carry blood back towards the heart. They have also explored how blood travels around the body, delivering important substances that our cells need and carrying away waste products.

The children have enjoyed finding out more about how the heart and blood vessels work together to keep our bodies functioning and have developed a greater understanding of just how important the circulatory system is. We look forward to continuing our learning about the human body in our next Science lessons.

Art

This week in Art, the children have been exploring how positive and negative space can be used effectively within artwork. They have been learning about the difference between positive space, which is occupied by the main subject, and negative space, which surrounds it.

The children have applied their understanding by creating artwork using their own silhouettes, exploring how the same shape could be used as both positive and negative space. They have enjoyed experimenting with the arrangement of their silhouettes and seeing how changing the positive and negative spaces can create different effects within their artwork.

Life Skills

This week, the children have also completed the first unit of our Life Skills programme. Throughout the unit, they have developed a range of useful skills that they can apply in everyday life. The children can now tie a tie, read and understand a bus timetable, and have explored how to use a mobile phone sensibly and responsibly.

It has been fantastic to see the children developing their independence and confidence as they learn practical skills that will be valuable both now and in the future.

What's coming up?

Maths continues with more work on using written methods to solve complex multiplication and division problems and BIDMAS (BODMAS). 

Please use the following video to learn the written methods we use to solve calculations using the four operations. 

Four operations

In Literacy, we will be writing an explanation text and looking at how this differs from an instructional piece of wiritng.  

Over the next two weeks all classes will also be attending their workshop at The Ben Kinsella Trust. Please see the website for further information 

https://benkinsella.org.uk/bens-story/

    

Year 5 Spelling WB 5.10.26

 Please find below Year 5's spellings for this week. Please encourage your child to practise their spellings every evening, so they are prepared for their spelling test on Friday.

A	B	C
division	with	with
multiplication	there	there
addition	their	their
subtraction	they’re	they’re
difference	went	went
equipment	equipment	round
equipped	equipped	rounding
environment	environment	adding
embarrassed	embarrassed	subtract
embarrass	embarrass	group
dictionary
chronological
subheading
researching
rhetorical

Year 6 Food Drive: Helping Our Local Community!

Year 6 Food Drive: Helping Our Local Community!

As part of our exciting range of experiences and community initiatives this year, Year 6 is proud to be organising a food drive to support our local food bank.

We are calling on our school community to help us make a real difference to families who need it most. We are kindly asking for donations of non-perishable food items, including:

• Canned vegetables and fruits

• Dried pasta and rice

• Long-life milk and long-life fruit juices

• Canned soups, beans, and sauces

• Cereal and oat packets

Please send any food donations into school with your child on Monday 5th October and Tuesday 6th October. All collected items will then be hand-delivered directly to the local food bank by a group of Year 6 pupils on Friday 9th October.

This project is a wonderful opportunity for our Year 6 pupils to learn about community responsibility, empathy, and active citizenship while working together for a great cause.

Thank you in advance for your generosity and continued support!

Essential Life Skills, Smart Debates & Addition Power in Year 5!

 

Life Skills: Broadford DIY

We are thrilled to wrap up Part 1 of our Broadford DIY Life Skills module. Over the last three weeks, Year 5 pupils have gained hands-on knowledge to help them become more independent:

• Healthy Eating & Food Labels: We investigated how to read nutritional traffic light systems on packaging to make informed choices about balanced diets.

  

• Personal Care & Hygiene: The children learned the science behind sweating, exploring the differences between deodorants and anti-perspirants.

  
  
  

• Laundry Essentials: We covered the basics of washing clothes, including sorting by colours, understanding fabric care, measuring dirt levels, and choosing the right laundry products.

Literacy: Tackling Big Questions

In Literacy, we have been busy planning our independent balanced arguments exploring the debate: "Should Social Media Have an Age Restriction?" The pupils have looked at both sides of the argument, gathering compelling points for and against to ensure their writing is fair and well-structured. Over the coming week, they will be bringing these plans to life in their final drafts.

MATHS:  MOVING BEYOND PLACE VALUE

In Maths, we officially finished our unit on Place Value! Having built a strong foundation in understanding number values, we are now moving on to Addition and Subtraction, where pupils will apply column methods to increasingly complex problems.

Well done to all of Year 5 for their fantastic focus and hard work across every subject this week!

Year 5 Spelling WB 28.9.26

Please find below Year 5's spellings for this week. Please encourage your child to practise their spellings every evening, so they are prepared for their spelling test on Friday.

A	B	C
cheekily	cheekily	easily
proudly	proudly	sadly
speedily	speedily	clearly
comfortably	comfortably	lovely
hungrily	hungrily	quietly
absolutely	rudely	rudely
successfully	happily	happily
recently	nicely	nicely
temporarily	slowly	slowly
positively	bravely	bravely
automatically
magically
dramatically
comically
theoretically

Year 6 Weekly Round Up 25.9.26

A Week of Big Ideas, Busy Brains and Brilliant Learning!

What a week it has been in Year 6! Our pupils have been busy thinking, discussing, reasoning, creating and challenging themselves across the curriculum. There has been lots of fantastic learning taking place, and we are delighted with the enthusiasm and maturity the children continue to show.

Literacy – Building a Balanced Argument

In Literacy this week, we began share writing our balanced arguments. Before we started writing, we prepared facts and opinions for both sides of our chosen topics and discussed these together as a class. This helped us to consider different viewpoints and understand how an argument can be presented fairly.

Maths – Thinking Like Mathematicians

In Maths, we have been consolidating our arithmetic skills. We looked back through examples of calculations and discussed the different methods we have learned, explaining not only what we were doing but why the methods worked.

We also completed our first Year 6 reasoning paper. This gave us the opportunity to apply our mathematical knowledge to a range of different problems and demonstrate how well we can explain our mathematical thinking. We will be sharing the results with you at Parents Evening. 

We have also begun our work on the four operations, building on our existing knowledge and developing our confidence when working with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Science – Inside Our Blood

In Science, we continued our learning about the human circulatory system. This week, we looked more closely at the copmposition of blood and explored the different functions of its components within the human body.

The children have been developing their scientific vocabulary and understanding as they discover how the different parts of our circulatory system work together to keep our bodies healthy and functioning.

PSHE – Learning Through Drama

Our drama workshops with The Habit Factory, linked to our PSHE learning, have continued this week and are proving to be a real highlight for the children.

Through drama, discussion and teamwork, the pupils have been exploring important ideas and developing their confidence. It has been fantastic to see them getting involved, sharing their thoughts and supporting one another during the sessions.

ART - Exploring Artists

In Art we explored the artist Lubaina Hamid and discussed the purpose of her art plus we tried some of her techniques ourselves. 

Another busy week comes to an end, and there is certainly lots for Year 6 to be proud of. Whether they have been constructing a thoughtful argument, tackling a challenging maths problem, exploring the science of blood or developing their confidence through drama, our pupils have continued to show curiosity, resilience and a real commitment to their learning.

Well done, Year 6 — keep up the fantastic work!

What's coming up?

Over the next few weeks in Maths, we will be revisiting the children's methods within the four operations, within this we will look at common factors, common multiples, prime, cube and square numbers, short division and BIDMAS (BODMAS). 

Please use the following video to learn the written methods we use to solve calculations using the four operations. 

Four operations

In Literacy, we will be writing a balanced argument around the question

Should young people be punished for breaking the law?

Another Action-Packed Week in Year 5!

It has been another busy and productive week for Year 5!

What We’ve Been Up To:

• Science: We have been exploring properties, changes, and separating materials. The highlight was exploring reversible states of matter by making our own ice cream—observing the transition from liquid to solid and back to liquid! We also investigated soluble and insoluble materials, which sets us up perfectly for next week’s topic: separating and recovering insoluble solids.

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  Literacy: Preparations are well underway for writing balanced arguments. The children kicked things off with an energetic 'boxing debate,' going head-to-head in teams with paired 'For' and 'Against' arguments. This oral preparation will feed directly into their independent writing next week.
  
  

• Maths: We are wrapping up our core unit on Place Value, consolidating everything we've built on over the past few weeks.

It’s incredible to see how quickly the children have settled into their daily routines and how much progress they’ve already made. Keep up the fantastic work, Year 5!