We are Times Tables Rockstar Champions!
Congratulations Y6! We won our first ever battle last week with a spectacular 2006 points!
As you can see, we were really pleased…
… but the rock ‘n’ roll even seemed to get the better of one or two of us!
Just kidding… keep on rocking out Y6!
Litter Picking Legends
Last week, these legends saw something wrong in their community and decided to do something about it.
They grabbed gloves, litter pickers and bin bags and headed to Moortown Park – the rubbish laying all around had really put them off their last visit and they wanted to make a change.
They managed to clear up so much waste and they perfectly demonstrated our right to use the park as long as we have the responsibility to clean up afterwards.
Well done, litter picking legends. Y6 are very proud of you!
TTRS tournament winners (wb 26 April)
Hello again to all of the Times Tables Rock Stars out there,
It’s been great having you all back in class and seeing how much you are all improving with your times tables!
BREAKING NEWS:
The results are in. We have our ROCK STARS OF THE WEEK.
With an outstanding 2006 points, this week’s winners are Y6!
A massive well done to Y6 for finally beating Y3! Great effort.
Y3, 4 and 5 need to get their hands on the coveted guitar. Will next week be their week?
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!
Magical Maths
Do you wish you could wave a magic wand and make calculations easier? Y6 did today!
Well… not really. But they did use some pretty clever maths knowledge to manipulate the numbers in a calculation to be in their favour.
Take a look at this picture. Would you rather answer the ones on the left or right?
By doubling one factor and halving the other, you keep the product the same. And if it’s a choice between multiplying a decimal and a whole number, the integer will probably be easier.
Challenge your child to make a pattern with 248 x 1 = 248. I’ll do the first one for you: 124 x 2 = 248. Keep it going!
“We were compensating with our multiplication by dividing one factor by two and multiplying the other by two. It makes it so much easier. Saying 0.5 x 2 seems hard but that’s only 1 x 1!” explained Aayan.
“It was hard to start with but got easier as the lesson went on. It’s better than just doing a column method all the time and I was proud I got most of them right,” said Joude.
Cricket opportunities
Here’s some information about Dynamos cricket that has started at local cricket clubs.
Dynamos for KS2
What is it all about? Click the link for a short video: https://www.ecb.co.uk/video/1627073/introducing-dynamos-cricket-this-is-our-game-
Find your local centre and book here: https://ecb.clubspark.uk/Dynamos/SearchResults?&gclid=Cj0KCQjw38-DBhDpARIsADJ3kjm2dd01lHGEYp5ZR7QdfKTCG1qQiyMOUJOY6v8B1eK8tkaUi-hOMQgaArIKEALw_wcB
TTRS tournament winners (wb 19 April)
Hello again to all of the Times Tables Rock Stars out there,
It’s been great having you all back in class and seeing how much you are all improving with your times tables!
BREAKING NEWS:
The results are in. We have our ROCK STARS OF THE WEEK.
With 384 points, this week’s winners are Y3!
That’s now seven times in a row (yes, seven!) AMAZING!
Y4, 5 and 6 need to get their hands on the coveted guitar. Will next week be their week?
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!
Skip into summer
This term, all classes will be taking part in the West Yorkshire Skip into Summer project with Skipping School. We are excited to be part of the 136 schools and almost 33,000 children taking part!
As part of this project, we have skipping ropes available to buy at a subsidised price of £3.
If your child would like to buy a rope, to keep learning their new skills at home, they will be on sale, outside the Year 1 classroom in the middle playground, 3:10-3:30pm on Thursdays and Fridays. Exact change would be helpful.
Y6’s last term ever…
… will be an amazing one!
This half term, we’ve got some exciting learning planned.
PE
With the exciting arrival of our amazing new playground, PE has never looked so good!
This half term, we will be practising our football skills, alongside playing games to deploy them in, in our trusty old MUGA.
Science
We’ve kicked things off with learning about animals including humans. So far, we’ve self assessed our knowledge and learnt some new words!
Challenge your child to tell you some changes that a human experiences as they go from a baby, to a toddler, adolescent and adult.
Computing
This half term is all about Scratch! We will be honing our programming skills to complete a different activity each week.
Take a look at some of the digital art we’ve created so far:
This one is by Daisy and Jess.
Test your child to see if they know what these words mean already:
- repetition
- sequence
- selection
- variable
- logical reasoning
- simulation
- program
- search engine
Writing
This half term will be a mixture of recapping old skills and learning new ones like how to use a semi colon within a list.
We’re starting off with some robot descriptions. Take a look at these incredible ones from Jemima, Emily and Felix respectively.
Reading
To enhance our computing topic, we will be reading about significant individuals, such as Ada Lovelace, learning about digital literacy and how to stay safe online.
To help at home, make sure you’re reading every day (whether that’s your library book, subtitles on the TV or even the back of the cereal box).
Maths
We’re always making sure that everyone is confident with our maths learning, so this half term will be a mixture of recapping prior topics, such as the four operations, and learning new things like ratio and proportion.
As always, we will have a strong thread of arithmetic and reasoning throughout our lessons.
The Captain Tom 100 Challenge
Tennis opportunities
