Year 6 Information Page

Our Enrichment & Learning Experiences

Year 6 Food Waste Assembly

English

This term, the children in Year 6 have been reading 'Shackleton's Journey', a book about a man called Ernest Shackleton who was a polar explorer. We wrote job applications from the perspective of an potential crew member. As well as this, we wrote narratives to the tales of a stowaway's adventures. In all our writing, we worked on including a wide range of punctuation. We considered the level of formality required in different texts and continued to develop our editing and proof-reading skills.

Maths

This term, we have been working on fractions - equivalent fractions, comparing and ordering fractions and adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions. We continued to develop our fluency, problem solving and reasoning skills.

We developed sewing skills, refining stitches they had previously learned and making appropriate choices when planning and making mittens. We evaluated our final product based on the design criteria we had devised.

Computing

Firstly, we were introduced to data, the different types and how it can be organised within a spreadsheet. Following this, we learnt to create formulas to use in our spreadsheet using cell references; we identified that changing inputs would change the output of the calculation which was quite impressive. For the final task, we were given a budget to spend on an end of term party. We had to plan and calculate the cost of the event using a spreadsheet and choosing what we would like to include in our event. We really enjoyed using the spreadsheet to calculate and produced something we could relate to.