Thank you to all parents and carers who attended our Online Parents Evening – it was very well represented and we hope that you left feeling like your child is working hard and is settling in to year 6 life – we believe EVERY child is.
We will be in contact over the next week with what we advise your child would benefit from when purchasing the CGP books. On top of this, hopefully you have been shown by your child the SATSBOOTCAMP website that year 6 have subscribed to, and they have their username and password somewhere safe for some top-up learning at home during the school term and the holidays! The teachers of year 6 cannot stress enough what a beneficial tool the SATSBOOTCAMP website is as a learning and revision platform – the PITCH of question and the RANGE and VARIATION of question and question style is very similar to that of SATs, so your child will grow in their composure, confidence and resilience all of the time as they navigate the website and its questions. Mr Pratley and Mr Land used the website on their year 6 cohort of children three years ago and they absolutely bounced off the challenge of the questions and their knowledge and ‘test-fitness’ grew comprehensively. What’s not to love?!!!
Maths sees us deepening our strategies for solving division problems, and the possible ways we can go about this. The children have enjoyed the challenge of long division and have built their resilience to this method! It is hoped that they will end the week with a range of different ways to go about solving division arithmetic questions, including the partitioning method and using factor pairs as the number you are dividing by…It has been some number-crunching work so far, but they are seeing the fruits of their labour.
Our English and Reading unit sees the children over the next couple of weeks exploring a poem by Siegfried Sassoon – ‘The Hero’ – which delves in to World War 1 life in the trenches and at home, and the mother’s reaction to this. Marrying up with this text driver is a video extract which complements the poem uncannily, and so the children have a unique platform to write a poignant story from, when the mother receives the news of her son passing. The children have explored the feelings and thoughts of the mother so that they can compose a story that captures the emotional scene and the differing and hidden views of the Brother Officer delivering the news.
Finally, we would like to extend a big thank you to Rachel Mason from the Havant branch of the Two Saints Charity for giving her time to share her experiences of working with homeless people for over fifteen years. The children are now well informed and ready to take action to help this charity in the valuable work they do.