Year 6 26.1.24

Women! Learn to make munitions

This week in History we have continued our work on the Barnbow Lasses. Year 6 enjoyed researching some local history and finding out about the brave women who worked in the first National Filing and Munitions factory of WW1 located near Crossgates in Leeds.

In groups the children made slides or google sites. Have a look at some of their work below – we were really impressed by the amount they were able to find out.

This site – made by Seb and Kieran in 6D

This site Made by Esme in 6J

This site Made by Seth, Theo and Shailen in 6D

English

This week we have continued to write our stories about Min. We tried hard to build the mood of the setting through vocabulary choices and make her daily life sound awful. We then introduced a new setting: a workhouse. Again through language choices and sentence structure we tried to evoke a feeling of boredom and physical effort for our main character. Something amazing happens to her next week – check out future blogs to discover exactly what…

Homework

English – Conjunctions (page 34) and Tenses (page 36)

Maths – Adding and subtracting (page 10) Scaling (page 44)

• Spelling Shed – 10 games
• Read 5 times per week
• Earn 1000 Mathletics points throughout the week (in school and at home)