It is hard to believe that we are already in the Summer term - our Year 6's last one at Springbank! It hardly feels like a week since we started back in September but here we are in the throws of SATs prep, transition visits and planning for Flamingo Land, water fights, leavers discos and memories! We are definitely going to savour these last few Primary School weeks.
The children are working their socks of in preparation for our SATs in a couple of weeks time and we are very proud of the effort, determination and resilience they are showing. This week, we have been tackling new learning in maths - pie charts! We looked at how to interpret pie charts using fractions and percentages and children found that it wasn't quite as daunting as they thought it was originally. We have also been working hard on our arithmetic and are seeing some absolutely fantastic progress from when we first started all those months ago in September.
In English, our reading is focussed on mixed practice - retrieval, inference and vocabulary all rolled into one! We are using lots of different texts to prepare for the unseen texts we will get in a few weeks time; we've read about everything from bumblebees, to the London Underground, to children's toys through the ages! Our writing has been linked to the very exciting Artemis II expedition to the dark side of the moon..! We are discussing the question 'Should humans continue to explore deep space?' using the language of balanced arguments to show both sides. The children have come up with some really fantastic ideas and we can't wait to build these into our final pieces next week!
Alongside this, we have had our usual PE lessons, continued our keyboard journey in music, explored adaptations to habitats in science and began our new RE topic based on Christianity. There really is never a dull moment in Year 6!
Miss Ferguson and Miss Brayshay held a SATs information meeting on Wednesday of this week - for anyone who was unable to attend, the powerpoint is below. If you have any further questions, please do let us know.