This week in Year 6

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It has been another focused and productive week in Year 6, with the children showing great determination as we continue building the skills needed for the year ahead.

In reading, we have started our new class text, Rooftoppers. The children have thoroughly enjoyed being introduced to the story and its characters. Alongside this, we have been practising key reading skills that will support the children in their SATs, including retrieving information, making inferences and explaining answers using evidence from the text.

In writing, we have begun exploring the thought-provoking book The Island. The children have engaged in mature and reflective discussions about their thoughts and feelings towards the events in the story. We have also been developing our sentence skills, learning how to expand a basic sentence into a more detailed and carefully crafted one. The children have explored different grammatical tools and discussed how to select them for specific effects to improve their writing.

In maths, we have been learning about measurements and converting between different units. We have also started exploring angles, identifying, measuring and reasoning about them with increasing confidence. The children have shown resilience when tackling problem-solving questions and are continuing to build strong mathematical foundations.

As always, please continue to encourage regular reading at home and sign your child’s reading log. Daily reading practice makes a significant difference to fluency, confidence and comprehension.