Covid-19 Home Learning
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Year 6 Rowan
Welcome to Rowan Class's page. We are a year 6 class, taught by Mr Bestwick and supported by Mrs Costick and Mr Thomas. Also working with us are the rest of the year 6 team: Mrs Barnes, Mrs Stevens and Ms Pywell.
Letters
Homework Clubs starting January
Curriculum Overviews
Click on the links below to find out what we are learning about in each term this year:
Home learning
Study Books
For English and Maths homework, each child has been given a study book and question book for maths and SPAG, as well as a comprehension book for Reading. Homework set in these books consolidates your child's learning across Years 3-6 and builds on current learning in class, tailored to preparing them for their Standardised Assessment Tests (SATs) in May.
Please encourage your child to be organised with their homework; little and often is better than trying to do it all the night before it is due! In the front of the activity books there is a timetable and each week we set the pages that your child needs to complete. Maths is set each week and for English, SPAG and Reading comprehension books run on alternating cycles.
Reading
As part of homework we expect Year 6 children to read at least 5 times a week. When children complete their book, they can complete a short book review; templates for these can be found in class or on the link below.
In addition to this, we are challenging Year 6 to read around the world. We will be choosing books from different cultures to read in class but also encouraging the children to read books set in different countries. If you think you have read a book set in a different country come and share it with us - you might be able to scratch a country off our world map.
Useful links
Recently in Rowan Class
PE - Golden mile and Netball
Rowan Class certainly enjoy getting outside and active. Golden mile completed today followed by Netball Skills: shooting, passing, communication and teamwork.
Maths - angles
Using our outdoor environment today, we explored different angles that we could find within shapes, discussing acute, obtuse, reflex and right angles. We also used compasses to look at angles within directions and some of us wanted to calculate the size of the interior angles in a regular hexagon.
World book day
We enjoyed celebrating world book day by dressing up as our favourite characters form our favourite books. We learnt that some of us even share the same favourite book!
English - verb tenses
Rowan Class enjoyed using our outdoor space to explore and and think of different verbs through acting. By acting them out, they experimented using verbs in different ways to change the tense, leading to a discussion on different verb forms: past, present, future as standard, leading on to past progressive and present progressive.
Top left - skipping Top middle - drumming Top right - walking on air Bottom left - balancing Bottom right - jumping |
Pete the Poet - 09.01.2020
Rowan Class thoroughly enjoyed the adventure that they went on with Pete the Poet.
Art - Mayan Masks - December 2019
Using paper mache, we made our own Mayan masks and decorated them using poster paint. The designs of the masks were traditionally Mayan: death mask, festival mask or warrior mask.
Science - Classifying living things - 04.12.2019
After studying the Linnaean system for classification, we set out to be taxonomists. Collecting living things, bringing them inside and classifying them based on their characteristics.
Westover's Wonderful Word Wednesday - 27.11.2019
Rowan Class had great fun dressing up as a word for the day!
PE - Gymnastics - Autumn HT1
In gym, we explored movement, balance and turning in different ways on the floor and raised apparatus.
Day of the Dead - 07.11.2019
We celebrated our own Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Children and staff came dressed up in costumes, we made traditional sugar skull cookies, designed and constructed Aztec settlements as part of our DT project, used quilling to make skull decorations and made traditional paper marigold decorations and skeletons.
Tacos - 16.10.2019
We designed, made and ate tacos using food traditional to Mexico.
Mexican Dance Workshop 11.10.2019
Charterhouse Residential Trip
We had a fantastic week at Charterhouse. The children took on lots of new challenges including: caving, gorge-walking, orienteering, shelter-building, bog-walking, archery, night orienteering, night walk, fire-lighting, team building activities and an 8 mile walk to Cheddar and back. We are all very proud of the Year 6's attitude, resilience and team work this week - what super-stars!
Weeks 4-5
Over the last couple of weeks, Rowan Class have certainly continued to be very busy! They are doing a fantastic job in English, learning a range of skills to help them with their writing; alongside which they are continuing to write sections of their myths, applying these skills. In maths, they are showing a strong, growing understanding and enthusiasm in number and place value. The weekly swimming sessions are a huge success: I have seen confidence in the children grow as more are progressing to be able to swim their 25m length. Within our Mexico lessons, the class are enjoying looking into the history of the Aztecs in more detail.
Writing out play scripts for the 'problem' section of our myths. Then, we used this example and looked at how we could turn the ideas into direct speech within a piece of writing. | ||
The wind didn't stop Rowan Class in PE this week. We had to pause on using frisbees this week and instead, enjoyed developing our passing and defending skills in football. |
Weeks 2-3
Rowan Class have been very busy again recently with their learning. At the start of the week, they used their prior experience of tasting Mexican food to help them design their own taco or wrap. As the week has progressed, some have surprised themselves in how much they have enjoyed the place value investigations within maths, more than they thought! In science, the children had a go at classifying animals and have began to look at the Linnaean System, which at first looked rather complicated but with a bit of unpicking, the children were spotting patterns within the system. I have been particularly impressed with the effort that the children have put into writing and editing their introduction to their myth.
Rowan Class enjoyed tasting Mexican food. They said it was an excellent experience that really helped them to understand the different foods that are in Mexico. Throughout the lesson, excellent discussions were made within their groups of the appearance, texture and taste of the food. | ||
Acting out the introduction and build up of 'The Legend of the Bat' ready to write these sections. |
Week 1
Rowan Class have had a fantastic start to the year. They have thrown themselves into a variety of activities, demonstrating an excellent attitude to their learning in all areas. I was very pleased with their perseverance this week when completing baseline assessments. If they continue to put in this level of effort, I am sure that they will have a successful and rewarding year.
The children enjoyed exploring different calculations they could do with only four 4s! They had to use these and any mathematical operations they knew to arrive at the numbers 1-20. At first, they certainly found this a challenge; by the end, they were feeling a strong sense of achievement when they found solutions. | |
Another one of our maths investigations involved seeing numbers in different ways. The children enjoyed exploring these 'number visuals' and made new links between the patterns within different numbers. They looked at 'brain crossing' and began to understand how making these links enhance their understanding of number. | |
In English, the children have completed a 'cold write' and then explored features of myths. After that, they created word mats to help them write a character description of a bat. |