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This half term our focus is on gymnastics. This week our learning intention was how can you track in different ways. We started off with a game called Astronauts to warm us up. Here we focused on different ways to travel. Once we were all warmed up we moved onto recapping the different jumps we’d…

This week in our History lesson we learnt all about what Staffordshire was like during the Medieval times. Y6 engaged really well in this lesson and were shocked to discover that 20 skeletons were unearthed from the Medieval times in our local area! It has been great to get an in sight into the…

In our reading lessons, we learnt about different types of figurative language and how to spot them in reading texts. Some of these can be tricky to spot however with greater practice I’m sure Y6 will soon be able to spot them with ease! 

This week in Maths, we have been learning how to compare and order numbers up to 10,000,000. To help us order numbers, we used this diagram of a mountain to understand the difference between ascending and descending order. Comparing and ordering numbers can be a tricky skill however Y6 showed…

Take a look at some of the amazing artwork produced by Year 6 Whales this week! We learnt about the importance of typography in packaging design and then experimented with typography using our first names! 

We have been learning about matching and sorting objects in Maths this week. In our adult-led activity, we sorted objects into groups. We began by sorting the objects based on the type of object we had e.g. 'bears' and 'not bears'. We then sorted them by colour - 'blue' and 'not blue'. The…

Today we had our first Latin lesson using our textbooks. We learned how to ask somebody who they were and how to reply. We then labelled a Latin family with their names, learning that for males ‘us’ is added at the end of his name and for a female ‘a’ is added at the end of her name. 

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We moved onto exploring 3 digit numbers today by partitioning them into their separate parts. We looked at numbers using dienes to understand what 3 digit numbers look like before writing addition number sentences using what we found out.

For this picture it would be: 200 + 40 + 5 = 245

We developed our fine motor skills by using tweezers to move objects onto different lines and shapes. We showed brilliant concentration and determination to keep going and complete our shapes. We will continue to practise using different one-handed tools over the coming weeks to develop our finger…

This week we have learnt the rhyme '5 Little Ducks' as we are learning all about our class.

. The children have loved learning the rhyme and actions, and are able to apply this in their independent learning. They have used the props on the maths table to sing with friends, count the ducks and…

In maths we used the base ten to help us flexibly partition numbers to 100. We created two groups and wrote the number sentences. This helped us see that numbers can be made up in different ways.

We used base 10 to help us to flexibly partitioning numbers to 100 in lots of different ways. The practical apparatus  helped us in securing our knowledge and understanding.