Tennis opportunities
If your child enjoys tennis or wants to try it out, tennis camps are taking place locally at these clubs over the summer holidays.
Thanks to Roundhegians
We are very grateful to Roundhegians Rugby Club for hosting our sports days once again this year and allowing us to use their excellent facilities.
Roundhegians have a variety of rugby training sessions, from under 6 through to under 17, and these sessions will resume on Sunday 5th September.
For more information, please contact their chair of junior rugby, Chris Fongwah (fongers.cfw@gmail.com).
Multi-sport summer camps
Home learning heroes
Just because Y6 are distanced, it doesn’t mean we haven’t been producing the same excellent quality writing as we would in school.
This week, we’ve been writing persuasive letters. Challenge your child to explain the audience and purpose for this text type.
First, we planned out our letter and even had to do some research on our chosen topic (which was whatever we were passionate about) and then we wrote, using existing examples as templates, before editing.
Check out these awesome examples. I’m persuaded by all of them!
TTRS tournament winners (wb 07 June)
Hello again to all of the Times Tables Rock Stars out there,
Well done for all the engagement with TTRS you’re doing so far – keep it up!
BREAKING NEWS:
The results are in. We have our ROCK STARS OF THE WEEK.
With an outstanding 987 points, this week’s winners are Y3!
Y3 have been able to retain the top spot in TTRS in our final tournament!
The TTRS tournaments are having a little break so for now, keep up the good work and don’t forget to challenge your friends and teachers!
Remember to give your teacher a nudge as the week goes on if you’ve not yet had a chance to play on TTRS. If you’d like to play at home and would like a reminder of your login details, let your teacher know.
All the best TTRS!
Living and Learning: Body Image
This week’s Living and Learning theme surrounded body image.
First, we thought about what the term body image meant to us.
Next, we discussed school’s definition and compared the different definitions that we’d talked about.
We thought about what in our lives might be influencing us to think a certain way. This might be a pressure to look or act like others.
Something we kept returning to was the fact that you should love who you are and it doesn’t matter what height or weight you are or what colour hair or skin you’ve got. It matters what’s on the inside and respecting yourself.
Nobody on earth is youer than you! Celebrate what makes you unique.
Lastly, we discussed the power of words.
Imagine everyone carries around an imaginary bucket and it gets filled with the words people say to them.
Would you rather have your bucket filled with positivity or negativity? The former, of course!
To match our L&L statement for the week (I can pay and receive compliments in a sensible way), we filled each other’s buckets with positivity!
It was important to focus our compliments on the inside rather than outside – things people can actually change.
Design & Technology: Eggy needs help!
To kick off their last ever half term (!), Y6 are beginning a design and technology journey!
We had an urgent message from someone asking for our help…
We took a look at our new vocabulary and decided how confident we felt as a class.
- red = I’ve never heard this term before and have no clue what it means!
- amber = I’ve heard of it but wouldn’t be able to fully explain.
- green = I’m super confident about this word in a DT context!
Here are the definitions! Get practising!
Finally, we explored the materials for our project which includes tools, such as a hacksaw and hand drill, and materials, such as wood and cork.
Here’s what we thought:
- “I’m excited for the making stage,” said Leo.
- “I’m excited to work in a group and cooperate with people,” Safiya-Mishal beamed.
- “I’m excited to see what other people make!” Musa said.
- “I’m excited to plan it because it’s going to be fun to draw what it will look like,” explained Alishbah.
- “I look forward to designing Eggy’s car because it’ll give me a lot of ideas and I’m creative,” said Pollyanna.
- “I’m excited to use the tools because they look so interesting. I’ve not done it before!” enthused Joude.
- “I can’t wait to test it to see if the egg will fall out or if my car will stay intact!” said Moh.
- “I’m looking forward to everything!” exclaimed Daisy.
TTRS tournament winners (wb 24 May)
Hello again to all of the Times Tables Rock Stars out there,
Well done for all the engagement with TTRS you’re doing so far – keep it up!
BREAKING NEWS:
The results are in. We have our ROCK STARS OF THE WEEK.
With an outstanding 1470 points, this week’s winners are Y3!
Y3 have been able to reclaim the top spot in TTRS for this week. A well deserved victory.
A special mention for the efforts of Hafsa in Y3. She was able to accumulate the most correct answers out of anybody in the school. Congratulations, Hafsa!
Which class will claim the coveted guitar next time? Will it be your class? There’s only one way to make that happen – go on TTRS!
Remember to give your teacher a nudge as the week goes on if you’ve not yet had a chance to play on TTRS. If you’d like to play at home and would like a reminder of your login details, let your teacher know.
All the best TTRS!
Living and Learning: I know some drugs can be harmful.
This week, Y6 have been learning about helpful and harmful drugs.
We thought about what young people might be saying to each other about taking drugs.
There are many reasons why people take drugs: some are helpful and legal like paracetamol. Some are unhelpful and illegal like cannabis.
We discussed and ranked certain influences on us in the form of a diamond nine.
Lots of us said that friends might be an influence – we called this peer pressure.
“Peer pressure is when your friends are all doing something and they try and force you to do it too, even if you don’t want to,” explained Jess.
We discussed certain scenarios, like the one below.
There are different ways of dealing with pressure and one is the best way. Can you work out which from these definitions?
We practised our assertive responses in each situation. It’s important to remember that you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do and you can be polite but firm about it.
You could say:
- No, thank you.
- I’m not interested.
- My religion doesn’t allow it.
- I don’t want to. Thanks!
- No thanks. I’m going to go home now.
Finally, we evaluated the most important thing that we’d learnt in this session.
Well done to all Y6 for a mature and thoughtful conversation.
Stamp Competition
This year, Royal Mail are hosting a stamp competition in order to honour the people who have done great things since the coronavirus pandemic began.
Eight designs will be picked by a special panel including none other than Her Majesty the Queen! These winners will be seen by millions of people and there are other cool prizes up for grabs for runners up.
Thank you to everyone who got involved and submitted their creative efforts in appreciation of our COVID heroes. You should be very proud.
Check out some of the many entries below.
