Oak Class - Term 1

In our english lessons, we have been focusing on recount writing, particularly newspaper reports.  We have spent time looking at examples of newspaper reports and have learnt about and identified their features.  We are going to be using this knowledge next term to write reports about the outbreak of WW2. 

Week beginning 5th October

In maths, we have been focusing on common factors and multiples; square and cube numbers; and finding the prime numbers to 100.  In our lesson this week, we were asked to find the prime numbers from 1-50 by using arrays.  We noticed that the prime numbers could only make one type of array (either a single row or column).  We realised this was because they had only two factors, the number 1 and the number itself.

This week we celebrated World Languages Day.  We were fortunate to have two visitors in Year 6 who came to teach the class Afrikans and Ukrainian.  The class thoroughly enjoyed learning phrases in the languages - a special thank you to our visitors.  In computing we our studying coding.  We created wrote algorithms using coding and looked at how to debug in the event of errors.

Week beginning 21st September

This term in science we are studying the topic of Light.  So far, we have learnt that light travels in straight lines and that we see objects due to light rays reflecting into our eyes.  In science this week, we investigated how mirrors can change the direction of light through reflection.

Week beginning 14th September

This week in Year 6, we have been learning about the features of diary writing in our English lessons.  We have looked at a variety of examples and spent the week finding and identifying examples.  In our history lessons, we have started our topic by learning about what life was like for soldiers in the trenches in WW1.  In the next few weeks we will be writing diaries of soldiers and describing what it was like for them.