Year 6
Week beginning: Monday 23rd April 2018

This week, we have been learning to:

  • Calculate fractions and percentages of amounts
  • Solving time problems
  • Solving money problems
  • Using a range of strategies for reading comprehensions
  • Label a flower and research the different parts of the flower
  • Write in the past tense in Welsh

 

Homework: Maths / reading paper questions

Year 6
Week beginning: Monday 16th March 2018

This week, we have been:

  • Converting units of measure e.g. cm into m, g into kg
  • Solving numeracy problems
  • Inferencing a text
  • Discussing ideas and supporting them with reasons
  • Drawing a bar graph to represent data
  • Researching and collecting facts about woodland animals

Practising swimming skills at Pentrehafod

Homework: past paper questions (maths)

Year 6
Week beginning: Monday 29th January 2018

This week, we have been:

  • Learning to write complex sentences
  • Using colons and semi colons within a sentence
  • Writing active and passive sentences
  • Organising an explanation text
  • Calculating ratio
  • Solving ratio and proportion problems
  • Exploring reversible and irreversible changes
  • Interpreting graphs by finding patterns and trends
  • Designing logos with Mrs Sears-Neale
  • Reading a third person profile in Welsh
  • Using our inference skills to deduct feelings and emotions during guided reading sessions

Reminders:
P.E has been changed to a Thursday. Please ensure your child wears suitable outdoor clothing (tshirt, leggings/joggers and trainers).

Homework: Punctuation worksheet

Year 6
Week beginning: Monday 15th January 2018

This week, we have been:

  • Developing inference skills
  • Developing sentence using adventurous vocabulary, sentence starters and similes/metaphors.
  • Solving addition and subtraction problems
  • Using simple formulae
  • Exploring different potions
  • Reading texts about strange medieval medical practices
  • Designing logos with Mrs Sears-Neale
  • Writing a past tense text in Welsh
  • Discussing factual texts during guided reading sessions

Reminders:
P.E has been changed to a Thursday. Please ensure your child wears suitable outdoor clothing (tshirt, leggings/joggers and trainers).

Y5&6 will be visiting Techniquest on Friday 26th January. Please ensure your child has given in their consent form.