Specialist Teachers 

A typical week in Suffolk:

This week in Suffolk 6

Week beginning Monday 22^nd April.

Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely Easter break.

Thank you so much for your support with your child’s Easter revision. We are so proud of how many children engaged with their learning and what they have achieved during this time.  

If your child has topics to complete from Easter, please could this be done gradually over the next few weeks as it will support our teaching and revision of the topics in school before SATs.

Please see the set tasks under the home learning section for Year 6 this week.

We have had a busy week in Year 6 so far. In English, we have been continuing our book from last term: ‘When the Sky Falls’. We have been writing a diary entry based on our introduction to a new character in the book called Syd. Syd is a girl who befriends our main character Joseph but who unfortunately has experienced a tragic event; her parents dying due to a bomb strike. How would Syd be feeling? What was Joseph’s reaction to finding out the news? We then discover Joseph has a secret of his own, he is illiterate. The children have towards the end of the week, been planning an instruction leaflet advising Joseph how to learn to read.

In History, we have moved onto Britain’s preparations for World War 2. The children created a poster explaining how the air raid shelters were used; what barrage balloons were; how men were conscripted, blackouts; the use of gas masks, rationing and the women’s role in the war. Can you remember what roles women were allowed to have in the war?

In Science, the children have been experimenting and trying to answer the question: How does light travel? To study this, they witnessed three demonstrations that showed light travelling in a straight line using various practical resources. The children were then given a mirror and torches and asked to create their own demonstration and record their observations, focusing on proving how light travels in a straight line.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Latty, Miss Wright and Ms Glanfield. 

Home Learning

Home learning and spellings will be set each week on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday. 

SATs Bootcamp:

Please see Arbor mail from 5.3.25 for advice on Year 6 Home Learning from Term 4 onwards. There is a step-by-step guide below. Reading will continue to come home in the children's plastic folders. 

Times Tables Rockstars! 

To keep practising the multiplication skills taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account.

You should be practising for at least 30 minutes a week.

We have a TT Rock Star of the week. Look out to see who the first one is!

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Rapid recall of multiplication is essential for success in maths and Times Tables Rockstars gives you self-confidence, recognition and motivation to improve.

We will have a times tables check each Wednesday. 

Challenge yourself to beat your score, build your knowledge and watch your confidence sore, as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

Spelling

The link below will take you to the spelling scheme we are working from in school.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/english/primary-spelling/

This document contains spelling strategies that are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words:

Southborough's Spelling Strategies

Spellings will be tested on Thursdays. (Including using them within a sentence.)
 

Weekly Spellings Term 5 Week 1

Reading

We recommend children in Year 6 children read for at least 15 minutes a day. 

Please ensure you hear your child read regularly and record on Boom Reader using the parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week:

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Some helpful questions to ask the children and check their understanding as they read have been pasted below. 

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading their current book, children are asked to complete a quiz before choosing the next one:

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

Please note: pupil login details have changed slightly due to an upgrade that has taken place on the Accelerated Reader platform. Pupil login details (user name and password) should now be enter in all lower case (no capital letters at all). These login details are used each time your child quizzes a school reading book which carries an accelerated reading quiz code.

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Music Knowledge Organiser

Below is the music knowledge organiser for this term's music topic. To help with their in-class learning, please can the children read over this each week.