Welcome all Year 6 parents and pupils.

This is just a little bit of information about what's going on in Tower Bridge. I am Mr Mbanga, the Year 6 class teacher and our TAs are Mrs Thambiayah and Miss Umwiza.

Important information:

Monday-Comprehension homework
Tuesday- Writing journal homework
Wednesday
Thursday-Mathletics homework
Friday-Fiction express

Recommended reading books for Year 6:

Best Books for Year 6 | Ages 10-11 Recommended Reads | BooksForTopics

Expertly selected books for 9 and 10 year old children (lovereading4kids.co.uk)

Expertly selected books for 11, 12 and 13 year old children (lovereading4kids.co.uk)

Week beginning 10th January 2022

January 10, 2022

This week, we shall be starting our Geography unit – all about Japan!

What are we learning this week?

Maths –

To understand what percent means
To represent a percentage in different ways
To convert percentages to decimals and fractions (with a denominator of 100)
To convert a percentage to a fraction (without denominator of 100)
To use their knowledge of fraction-decimal-percentage conversions to solve conversion problems in a range of contexts
To use their knowledge of calculating 50%, 10% and 1% of a number to solve problems in a range of contexts

English –

To visualise a text.
To engage in Book Talk.
To create a character profile.
To confident create and use collective nouns.
To explore characterisation.

We shall also be continuing our class read, The Nowhere Emporium, by Ross Mackenzie. We shall be completing comprehension and writing based activities based on the book and the chapters that we rea.

Spelling –

Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word)

Science –

L.O. To plan and carry out an investigation.

Geography –

To locate key countries and capital cities on the continent of Asia.
To locate the key features of Asia’s physical geography.
To know where Japan is in the world.

Computing –

To know how computers, IP addresses, Routers and Packets are used to send data between devices
To know what a variable is and how we can use them in Scratch
To use the broadcast block in Scratch
To use loops (Iteration) in Scratch
To use the ask and answer blocks in Scratch to receive user input in Scratch

PE –

This week, QE2 will have PE on Thursday and Tower will have their lesson on Friday.

Week beginning 3rd January 2022

January 4, 2022

Welcome back! We hope you all had an enjoyable and restful break. This week, it is Computing Week!