Year 6 Newsletter
Term 2 - 15th January, 2016
Unit of Inquiry;
Central Idea: Exploration leads to discoveries, new understandings and has numerous consequences.
Lines of Inquiry:
What are the reasons for exploration? (CAUSATION)
How do explorations help us understand the world around us? (CONNECTION)
Is there a need to continue with exploration? (REFLECTION)
Coming up: Individual presentations of each child's chosen explorer. This will incorporate sharing a diary entry with the class and a question and answer session.
English:
During this unit we will be revisiting the essential elements of diary writing, The children will write several diary entries from the perspectives of different people and explorers.
Maths:
The children will be working on the following objectives linked to fractions, decimals and percentages:
- Understand the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages.
- Find percentages of numbers with and without a calculator
- Simplify fractions in mental and written form
- Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of common fractions with the same or related denominators
- Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa
- Read, write and solve problems involving ratio
Book Week
Year 6 have enjoyed a number of exciting activities during book week. These included a character parade, a book swap, book mark making in the library, and the opportunity to listen to different teachers reading during various play-times. We saw some wonderful costumes today. A big thank you to all who dressed up!
Peak Walk
Bake Sale
Coding in Year 6
General Notices;
- 6R, 6S and 6P have a bake sale this Thursday coming!
Please remember to fill out the Ark Eden form. This has been shared with you. We would love 3 parent volunteers for each class. Please fill in the online form on the letter, if you can help.
Remember to check the VLE homework page every Wednesday please.
Important Dates:
19th January - Maths Workshop for parents.
21st January - Visiting author Sarah Brennan in school.
6R/6S/6P Bake sale - please bring in your cakes.
26th January - 6R Ark Eden
27th January - 6M Ark Eden
28th January - Year 5/6 Sports Day
1st February- 6P Ark Eden
3rd February - 6S Ark Eden
4th February - Chinese New Year Assembly
5th February - Kennedy School CPD Day