Year 6 Update WK 17
- Friday 20th January – KGV Taster Day…KGV children only
- Thursday 26th January – China Day at BHS and last day before Chinese New Year
- Friday 27th Jan – Mon 6th Feb – Chinese New Year Break
- Thursday 16th Feb – Sports Day (Years 3-6)
- Friday 3rd March – Student Led Conferences
- 7th -10th March – Year 6 Mandarin Benchmark Tests
- Monday 13th March – Book Week
- Friday 24th March – International Food Fair
- Thursday 30th March – Spring Concert
- Friday 31st March – end of Term 2, 12pm finish
Please can you make sure your child returns their permission slips the upcoming KGV visit.
Weather and Clothing
With a change in weather looming and temperatures dropping late next week can we make sure that children are dressed appropriately for school. Layers are a good way of allowing the children to be comfortable, giving them the option to adjust their clothing when necessary. But please, not too many layers!
Layering your child with too much outerwear can actually make them colder. That’s because excess layers can cause your child to sweat, which makes their clothes wet, which allows the cold and wind to bring their temperature down.
- characteristics of past civilisations and societies (form)
- the ways in which our society has been influenced by past societies (function)
- connections between past discoveries and modern day advances (connection)
Concepts : form, function, connection
Learner Profile : knowledgeable, thinker, reflective
Attitudes : enthusiasm, appreciation
Please take the time to talk to your children about our new unit. If you, any family members or friends have lived through any significant events in history then please share them with the children, it will really help bring this unit to life.
Strand Maths
Central Idea – Consolidating what we know of geometric concepts allow us to make sense of and interact with our world.
The children have been inquiring into how they can change the size of a shape or drawing. They have concluded that it is necessary to use a scale. The amount that an original image has been enlarged or reduced is called a scale factor, or an enlargement/reduction factor.
Number Maths
Central Idea – Fractions, decimal fractions and percentages are ways of representing whole-part relationships
An inquiry into…
– decimal fractions and the number system
– how ratio is used to make comparisons
– sequences involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals
- Music on the Bamboo Radio – Martin Booth
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
- Kensuke’s Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo
- The Wreck of Zanzibar – Michael Morpurgo
- Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Margoiran
- Break of Dark – Robert Westall
- Chinese Cinderella – Adeline Yen Mah
Some children are getting through these texts and are up to reading their third book! And…some need a little more encouragement – could you please ask your child about their Historical Fiction text and how they are going with it?
We will be looking at the Historical Fiction Success Criteria in the coming weeks and deconstructing good examples. We will also be focusing on poignant scenes from ‘Empire of the Sun’ and trying to write our own moments. This is a particularly tricky writing genre but it gives the children a chance to shine and really showcase their writing skills.
The children are starting to make decisions on their second I-TIme inquiry. They should be getting their thinking caps on and deciding what they would like to inquire in to. Once they have chosen an area of passion, curiosity, interest or wondering, they need to do some background reading, research and note taking.
Children should be continuing with their weekly spelling and reading commitments at home.
