Living and Learning: I respect others.
In our Living and Learning lesson this week, Year 6 learnt about discrimination and the protected characteristics.
Discrimination is defined as ‘the unfair treatment of people because of who they are or because they have a certain characteristic(s)’. We discussed examples and the impact of discrimination.
The Equality Act 2010 protects people from discrimination based on protected characteristics.
We remember the protected characteristics by using the mnemonic:
DR S GRAMPS
Disability
Race
Sex
Gender reassignment
Religion or beliefs
Age
Marriage or civil partnership
Pregnancy and/or maternity leave
Sexual orientation
Help at home: Who makes sure these characteristics are protected?
Writing: Grammar Games 2026
This week, Year 6 took part in our ‘Grammar Games’. The children were in teams playing head to head against other members of the class to be named champions of ‘Grammar Games 2026’. We recapped our previous learning about adjectives, verbs, modal verbs and tenses.
Help at home: Discuss with your child what the difference is between a verb and a modal verb? Can they identify the word class of each word in the following sentence: The brave girl can run quickly.
History: Civilisations around the world
In History, we have moved on from our learning about British History (the New Stone Age to Iron Age), to different civilisations around the world. The children used Chromebooks to research using AI. They were tasked to see if it could be reliable. To check this, the children visited different websites to read the information and see if it matched with what AI said.
After they had verified the information, they used trusted websites to create notes about the ancient civilisations.
Help at home: Discuss the ancient civilisation your child researched – what can they remember? Where was the civilisation located?
Forest School
Year 6 have got stuck back into Forest School and really enjoyed it.
Autumn term after school clubs
Maths: read and write numbers to 1 million
In Year 6 maths, we have been learning about how numbers up to 1 million are composed. We have been partitioning, reading and writing numbers. We have used a Gattengo chart, number sentences and place value counters to help represent the numbers.
Help at home: Can you label each representation? What are the numbers that are displayed?
Reading: Class Novel
This term, our class novel is ‘Secrets of a Sun King’ by Emma Carroll.
Here is the blurb from the book:
London, 1922.
A discovery from ancient Egypt . . .
A cursed package . . .
The untold story of a young pharaoh . . .
When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her grandad’s doorstep, she is shocked to see who sent it: a famous Egyptologist, found dead that very morning, according to every newspaper in England!
The mysterious package holds the key to a story . . . about a king whose tomb archaeologists are desperately hunting for.
Lil and her friends must embark on an incredible journey – to return the package to its resting place, to protect those they love, and to break the deadly pharaoh’s curse . . .
Help at home: Discuss the story so far. Who are the main characters? What events have taken place? What are you liking/disliking?
PE: OAA
This half term’s PE units are OAA (outdoor adventurous activities) and Hockey. This week, in OAA, the children have used their amazing teamwork skills to communicate with peers.
For part of this lesson, each group needed to create their own game based off of tig. They used additional well-known games as the basis of their own, for example, What’s the time Mr wolf? and Hide and Seek.
Help at home: When else can we use our teamwork skills?
Living and Learning: 8Rs for learning
This week our L&L statement was ‘I use the eight Rs to help me learn.’ We started off by recapping the 8Rs and then looked at each one in detail and discussed different statements that match the 8Rs.
The children then reflected on which of the 8Rs they felt most confident and least confident with.
‘I feel most confident with remembering because I can remember a lot from previous year groups. I would like to get better at reflecting’
‘I feel I am getting better at risk taking by putting hand up even if I don’t know the answer and if the answer is wrong, no one will laugh – it is not the end of the world!’
‘I would like to improve at being resilient. I want to keep trying my best and can ask for help, if I need it.’
‘I am the least confident at remembering as I forget to bring things into school like my reading record. However, I can start to write notes to remind myself.’
Help at home: Name all the 8Rs and discuss how they relate to learning at school.
Leeds Rhinos ticket offer
Here’s an offer for tickets for the final Leeds Rhinos home match of the season against Hull FC on Friday 11th September.
Junior tickets can be purchased for just £5 in all standing areas of the stadium. Up to two £5 junior tickets can be purchased per adult.
