Happy New Year

Welcome back to Year 6! We hope that you have had a lovely break and feel refreshed and ready for the new term.

English

This week we have started our new text ‘The Arrival’ by Shaun Tan. This is a picture book and the children have had to use lots of inference and imagination to come up with storylines to accompany the images given. This week we have been focusing on writing dialogue and accompanying this with action and narrative. The children have worked hard and have showcased their ability to use speech in their writing. We will be building on this in the coming weeks when we focus on a larger piece of narrative writing.

History

We are continuing with our unit about WW1 and this week have focused on the role of women in the war. The children spent time looking at women’s roles before, during, and after the war and how these differed. This information sparked some in-depth conversations about equal rights and how different modern-day life is compared to 1914. Below is a folder with some examples of the work produced.

Women in WW1

Homework

• Maths – Units of conversion pages 55 and 56 and negative numbers page 4
• English – Clauses and phrases page 32 and 33 and inverted commas page 45
• Spelling Shed – suffix ‘ibly’ – 10 games
• Read 5 times per week
• Earn 1000 Mathletics points throughout the week (in school and at home)