05 November 2010
What a busy term so far full of great learning! Year Six have read two class novels and finished one topic of our SEAL work. We have moved rapidly on to our fourth unit of learning in Maths and are half way through are very exciting and interesting topic on Vile Victorians.
We have learnt to play cricket, had some rugby coaching and have just started a multi skills games unit with PE specialist students from Leeds Met University.
The Year Six Tuck Shop is up and running and is a roaring success. Health week was fantastic and hugely informative and our Science topic on Materials was completed with great detail and enthusiasm. Now we’re all looking forward to our next half term and all the learning, experiences and fun that will bring.
05 November 2010
This week your spellings are all words with double consonants in. Spellings will be tested on Friday 12 November.
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A |
B |
C |
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admittance |
admitted |
butterfly |
05 November 2010
Your homework this week is creative.
In guided reading this week, you have read five Mystery Mob books. Your homework is to produce a piece of work about the ‘Mob’ showing how you enjoyed the books. It could be:
- Another Mystery Mob play script
- A cartoon strip
- An interview with the characters
- A biography of one of the characters
- A list of titles that fit into the Mystery Mob series
- A board game staring the Mystery Mob
- A mystery story
- A letter to the Mystery Mob Fan club and a reply from The Fan club
- Designs for a range of stationery, pens, pencil cases, key rings etc that could be sold in WH Smiths that are based on the Mystery Mob
- Designs for a range of Mystery Mob clothing
or
- Your own idea!
Have Fun!
Homework is due in on Wednesday November 10.
REMEMBER: STICK TO ONE PAGE IN YOUR HOMEWORK BOOK AND EXTEND THE PAGE IF YOU NEED TO.
Researching our Design Project
The budding designers in Year 1 are wanting to make their own playground. As part of our research, we went into our own playground to see what designers before us have achieved!! While we were there, we had a bit of fun investigating how to use the equipment!! Watch this space to see our own designs. 
Maths: Understanding Data
In Maths we have been collecting data on Class 2’s favourite toys and showing our findings in bar charts. Some of the bar charts the children have created this week have been incredible. They can answer questions about a bar chart, too: What is the most popular toy? What are the two least popular toys? Also, they can draw a pictogram to show their findings. In one of our lessons, we wanted to find out Class 2’s favourite football team. Disappointingly, Manchester Utd was the most popular team so I took that out of our findings. Here, Cubes group represent our data in the form of a 3-D bar chart.
Literacy: Instructions
Follwing on from writing their own instructions, Class 2 have had the opportunity to make something. We decided to make some sandwiches so why not ask your child for your favourite one and they should be able to make it for you! Here are some pictures of the fun learning:
To tie in with our topic this term, Toybox, the children this week will be learning how to make a paper aeroplane – so I apologise in advance if your home turns into a landing strip. At the end of this week, ask your child to instruct you to make a paper aeroplane and see if they can use:
- time connectives (then, after, first, finally etc)
- numbers for a list
- ‘bossy’ verbs (place, fold, put, bend, touch, go)
Are you a pushy parent?
A recent article published on the BBC website suggests being a pushy parent is not such a bad thing.
Recent research suggests that parents who push their children to work hard at school have a big impact on their child’s academic success. The effort a parent puts into ensuring their child buckles down to schoolwork has a greater impact than that put in by the child or the school, according to researchers at Leicester and Leeds universities. Amongst the aspects the researchers considered were how much time parents read to a child and how often they attended school meetings.
Most parents / carers tell me they’d like to support their child more, but don’t know where to start.
Well, a good starting point is our own website – go to the blue section (‘Learn More’) and look at the National Expectations section which outlines standards and in bold, there are practical ideas.
You can also use the BBC website – it has some great activities and advice to support you and your child to learn more. (I like Digger and the Gang to support maths – Nash, Flick and Sprat will help your child get their numerical skills on track!)
And most importantly, get involved in hearing your child read (ideally on a daily basis, even if just for five minutes), and help them to learn their times tables and spellings – check out our homework information including the Parents and Carers Guide which you can download.
Practical Maths
One of our Year 1 pupils estimated that there were 30 Smarties in his box. He then counted them and wasn’t far off. There were 27!
Next, he sorted them into colours and wrote down the correlating number and number name.
The whole class enjoyed learning how to estimate and write number names.
1 November 2010
The learning objective for this list is to spell words with the ’th’ sound.
These will be tested on Friday 5 November.
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this |
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then |
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that |
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the |
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thin |
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thick |
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bath |
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path |
Enjoying Golden Time
