Year 6 News
Autumn 1 Term
Year 6 have settled into the new academic year and are beginning to demonstrate greater independence in completing their work.
In English we have been focusing on our knowledge of sentence structures. The children have improved the accuracy of their writing skills and have produced diary entries using a convincing character voice. We have also been assessing our handwriting against the S factors: shape, size, sitting, space and stringing. It is great to see the children recognise how they can improve their handwriting.
In maths, pupils have consolidated key year 5 skills, including place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers and decimals. The children have found the use of place value sliders and place value charts extremely helpful with this. We have also introduced our online learning platform of LbQ to the children. They really enjoy being able to complete maths lessons on the tablets.
Art lessons have provided opportunities for creativity as the children produced street-art-inspired murals addressing climate change.
In PE, the focus has been on developing rugby skills, with particular attention to teamwork and communication. It has been great to see the children improve their skills of group work in a range of contexts.
This half-term also included our first set of mock SATs papers. Most pupils demonstrated resilience whilst completing these. We have clear next steps of how to support the children further. We are looking forward to our next adventures with our residential in Autumn 2 and another half-term full of learning.