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Classroom News - Year 6

Mr Garraud & Mrs Walters

English - Informing on Geographical Diversity

We are learning about: Informative texts, Non-Fiction text features, Non-Fiction Text Structures 

The students continue their journey of using their reading and writing skills to explore the big idea of 'Geographical Diversity'. We have had some dress up moments to assist us with our Descriptive writing and Compare and Contrast writing. We have unpacked lots of different texts that require us to apply a variety of comprehension skills such as Predicting, Connecting, Comparing, Visualising. Our week will wrap up with the concluding task of the Speech for the St Joseph's School Cup.

We had to Compare and Contrast the teachers
We had to Describe Addy
We had to Describe Harry
We had to Compare and Contrast the teachers
We had to Describe Addy
We had to Describe Harry

 

Geography - Cultural Diversity

We are learning about: Cultural Diversity of Food

Next week we will be completing a project on exploring the cultural diversity of food across Asia. We are asking that you do a small home learning task.

In Literacy, the students will learn the text structure of 'Sequence' and the difference between this and 'Chronology'. 

We are asking that between now and next Tuesday you as a family

  1. Research a Traditional Asian dish that you are able to cook
  2. Cook the dish and take photos of each step
  3. Email the photos to your child's email so that can be used in writing next week
  4. Email the recipe that they used with the photos
  5. Enjoy a cooked meal by your child!

Maths

We are learning about: Decimals

Over the past three weeks we have covered: place value in decimal numbers, addition and subtraction with decimals and multiplication and division with decimals. This week we are working to understand the relationships between fractions, decimals and percentages.  An example of this is 0.5 = 1/2 = 50% and students will then go on to apply this learning to discounts and the use of money.

PD/ H/ PE

We are learning about: Gymnastics & Healthy Eating

Gymnastics continues to be a highlight of the week with students making use of the new trampolines to complete a circuit that focused on the aerial abilities.