Specialist Teachers 

A typical week in Suffolk:

This week in Suffolk 6

Week beginning Monday 17th March  

This week in English, we have continued to read our book ‘When the Sky Falls’. We have written from Joseph’s perspective, describing in detail his first experience of an air-raid siren and having to spend the night in an air-raid shelter. Initially, we listened to the siren and acted out quickly getting to a designated safe area. After this, we analysed images of air-raid shelters and discussed what it would be like to stay inside one. Through our experiences, we were able to embed detailed description throughout our narratives, helping our reader to imagine they were in Joseph's situation.

In history, we continued to learn about our topic of World War 1 by researching about life in the trenches. We watched a video describing the different trenches: the fire trench, the reserve trench, the support trench and the communication trenches. We identified how each trench played a key role and how they were specifically designed to protect the soldiers within. After this, we analysed a series of images and heard some accounts describing life in the trenches before writing about what life was like.

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 4 Week 4

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.