This week’s home learning, due in Friday 2nd October.

Essential home learning for this week:

This week’s home learning, due in Friday 25th September:

Spelling

Handwriting

Timestables

MyMaths – online

R.E. – Creative Creation! – we have been looking at Moses, his life and how he was special to God. We have also been looking more closely at the 10 commandments. Please choose an aspect of creation, Moses or the ten commandments that you would like to write about, write a poem, story board, write a prayer, newspaper report etc. At least 1 side of A4 please and the most beautiful presentation. Best pieces will be going on display in year 6 and the entrance hall.

This week’s learning for self guided home learning:

Maths – Rounding: To the nearest 10,  100,  1,000,  10,000 up to 1,000,000

Literacy – The Jungle Book: Script writing and speech in narrative

R.E. – Moses: Ten commandments

Topic – Child vs Wild: What do we know about Bear Grylls and Ray Mears? What about explorers who lived many years ago?

Hello!

Thank you to a parent this afternoon for letting us know that the MyMaths log in does not seem to be working.

We have changed the children’s groups and new passwords will be issued tomorrow when home learning is checked so fingers crossed it will be up and running over the weekend. Please let us know if there are any more issues. Have a lovely weekend!

Year 6

This week’s home learning, due in Friday 19th September:

Spelling

Handwriting

Timestables

MyMaths – online

This week’s learning for self guided home learning:

Maths – Place value: Adding large numbers to a starting number up to millions.

Literacy – The Jungle Book: Character description, comprehension work.

R.E. – Moses: What events were important in his life? Why was he special to God?

Topic – Child vs Wild: How could you survive on a desert island? What would you take with you? Can you find a biography/diary of someone who has survived in the wild?

Just a reminder, for home learning this week;

Spelling

Times Tables

Front cover sheet

Handwriting

We look forward to seeing your fantastic learning on Friday 11th September!

Rehearsals are going well!

Today we practised ‘We go together’, we are nearly there with the tricky parts!  Here are the words so you can practise…

We Go Together

We go together like
Rama-lama-lama, ka-kinga da ding-dong
Remembered forever, as
Shoo-bop sha wadda wadda
Yippity boom-de-boom
Chang chang changitty-chang shoop bop
That’s the way it should be (whaa-oohh! Yeah!)

We’re one of a kind, like dip-da-dip-da-dip
Doo wop da dooby doo
Our names are signed
Boogedy, boogedy, boogedy, boogedy, shooby-do wop-she-bop
Chang chang-a changitty chang shoop bop
We’ll always be like one (whaa-wha-wha-whaaaaaah)

When we go out at night
And stars are shining bright
Up in the skies above
Or at the high school dance
Where you can find romance
Maybe it might be la-a-a-ah-ove

(Riff Chorus)

We’re for each other, like
A wop baba lu mop ahh wop bam boom!
Just like my brother, is
Shan na na na na na yippity dip de doom
Chang chang-a changity chang shoo bop
We’ll always be together!

On Tuesday, year 6 went to the D-day about D-day and the people who fought Museum. We had lots of fun and learnt a lot in the war. We were split into 3 groups which visited different parts of the museum. My group visited the D-day story first and at the end, there was a boat that we could adventure and witness what it was like in World War II. Next we went to the embroidery and we followed the D -Day timeline around until we got to a 15 minute movie which included interviews with people who experienced the war. After lunch, we went outside for a bit of fresh air but we were blown by the unseasonably strong wind. So we proceeded to the statues to do a quiz. Unfortunately it rained so we left early but we still had fun!
Photos to follow…

This week we have been learning all about the book called Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. We have drawn mind maps about some of the characters thinking about their point of view and how they might be feeling. We looked at the nouns and the verbs predicting what the story line is. We then went in groups and got into character and have a discussion about what we think should happen about the pancake house. We don’t want to spoil the book in case you would like to read it.
This week in maths have been practising SATS style questions by filling in booklets. Some of us have been doing levels 4-5 and level 6 booklets, preparing for May. Other than that we are learning about angles and using a protractor.
In R.E. we have been making guides on how to be a good Christian. We read the Beatitudes and used that to back up what we thought. Our Success Criteria was to refer to the Scriptures and Beatitudes and to understand that they provide a model for a Christian living. In our work we were mostly thinking about the Ten Commandments, the main one that our class agreed on is to treat others the way you want to be treated. On Tuesday 17th March year 4 joined us in a Mass at the Sacred Heart all about Self-Giving. Father Kevin showed us and talked to us about the Church and what Christians do there. We really enjoyed ourselves and hope that year 4 did to. Thank you to all the parents that helped us to walk there we could not do it without you.
This week we have been collecting Pringles Tubes so that we can view the solar eclipse on the 20th of March. Although it was cloudy, we really enjoyed using our Pinhole Cameras and we noticed a difference in the temperature. We thank Mr Mortimer, Alfie and Mrs Hudson for helping us make them, it was really worth it! We will be updating you soon with all our new topics and we are really enjoying it. Hope you all saw the Solar Eclipse, even if you didn’t we hope you enjoyed reading all about it.
By Olivia W and Charlotte K
SEALS

Year 6 have had a very exiting week with red nose day, a mental math test, super cool playtimes, with lessons about the Good Samaritan and a poor widow lady in R.E

The whole school had the lovely pleasure of watching the exciting dolphin’s assembly.

The penguins class enjoyed doing a shared writing lesson with year 4, while The Seals went to the Oaklands chapel for a reflective worship.

This week, in literacy we have been finishing our endangered animals report and we are doing a new topic! Drum roll please…HOOT! We have had nouns and verbs on the board and trying to predict what will happen and then writing a story opener of our predictions

All in all it was a good week.

By Heather Layton and Stevie Clark.