MrJennings

We have begun a new unit of work all about argument and discussion texts in English. We have annotated a good example of a discussion, highlighting the key organisation and language features and have spent some time thinking about how to plan the writing of a discussion. We did this by generating ideas, organising them and then planning a sequence of paragraphs. We have also drafted and improved a discussion about whether children should be allowed to have mobile phones in school.

In maths we finished some shape work and have begun a new series of lessons about fractions, decimals and percentages. We have worked on equivalent fractions, changed fractions to the same denominator in order to compare and order them, improper fractions and mixed numbers as well as finding some percentages.

We have come to the end of our science topic on materials by thinking more about separating mixtures of materials. We then reviewed the work we had done and checked up on some misunderstandings about evaporation by evaporating and condensing the water from a salt solution - noticing that the condensed water does not taste salty.

We had our Tuesday French, PSHCE and PE sessions, learned about how Muslim people use and treat the Qur'an and, on Friday, most of the Year 6 went away together for the weekend. We went to a PGL centre in Lincolnshire and had a fantastic time.