Term 6 Week 4 26.6.26

What a hot week it was! The children did amazingly despite the heat.

PLEASE SEE THE SCHOOL NEWSLETTER FOR DATES AND TIMES OF EVENTS THIS TERM. ALSO CHECK FOR SOME COMPETITIONS AND CHECK THE CLASS WINDOW FOR THE JAM JAR ACTIVITY FOR THE FESTIVAL OF FUN!

In English, we have almost finished the book City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. This week has been hot write week (no pun intended!). We have planned, written and edited our hot writes. We have finished the story and watched the film. We have compared the film to the book as they are different in places. Next week we start reading The 100-mile-an-hour Dog by Jeremy Strong.

This week in Maths, Year 5 have been learning to convert measures and how to retain this knowledge. They have been converting g/kg, cm/mm/m and ml/l.

Year 6 have been using this time to rehearse for their Year 6 production of The Pirates of the Currybean: they are really enjoying it and buzzing when they are talking about it. The crew have been making props and getting the resources together and there will more involvement in the rehearsals from next week. When they are not rehearsing they are problem solving and consolidating their maths knowledge.

In Science, we learnt about air resistance by making parachutes of different sizes to explore how to make them go slower. We concluded that the larger the surface area, the slower it fell. We also recorded the experiment and discussed how we changed the variables.

In PE this week due the heat we made use of the shade on the field and made games using natural resources.

Information

  • Jewellery - Earrings should not be worn for PE. Only stud earrings should be worn to school. Watches can be worn, but smart watches must be handed in with mobile phones every morning where they will be given back at the end of the school day. No other jewellery should be worn, including necklaces and rings.
  • PE Kits – please follow the school uniform policy for the correct PE kit.
  • PE this term is on Thursday and Friday. We will be doing Handball and Athletics.
  • Children should not be chewing gum in school. Please remind them of this.
  • The weather is very changeable at the moment, please ensure your child has a coat/raincoat in school.

Upcoming Events

Secondary School Transition day – Year 6 should be attending their secondary school and should have received the relevant information.

Festival of Fun – 10th July PM more details to follow.

Year 6 Performance (this is for year 6 families only) – Tuesday 14th July. There will be 2 performances: one at 9.15am and the other at 2.00pm. Your child should have come home with a slip for you to request which show and how many seats you would like.

Year 6 Leavers’ Evening – Thursday 16th July 6-8pm. More information to follow.

Year 6 Leavers’ Assembly – Friday 17th July at 2.30pm. Parents are invited.

Last day of term – Friday 17th July

Home Learning

Home learning is to learn their times tables on TTRockstars. This is monitored weekly. EdShed, where they will learn to improve their spelling. The weekly spellings on EdShed are also learnt in school. Year 6 have maths home learning set on MyMaths. All children have been given their passwords. The children should also be reading daily and writing in their Reading Records.

Thank you for your continued support. Have a great weekend.

Mrs Rackley, Mrs Morris and Miss Rackley