{"id":302,"date":"2016-10-07T16:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/?p=302"},"modified":"2016-10-07T16:30:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:30:58","slug":"friday-7th-october-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/2016\/10\/07\/friday-7th-october-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 7th October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents,<\/p>\n<p>We have been working hard this week, studying Rudyard Kipling&#8217;s Just So Stories. The children have been using their creativity skills to plan their own Just So &#8216;Giraffe&#8217; story, which we are looking forward to writing next week.<\/p>\n<p>We have spent some time investigating fractions this week. The year 6 teachers are getting very excited about\u00a0continuing\u00a0fraction work\u00a0next week, however we have received a mixed reaction from the children &#8211; some smiles, some groans!! If you feel like doing\u00a0a fraction related investigation of your own this weekend, this could make your child feel more confident for next week.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the week, we had a visit from local PCSOs who delivered a session about Drink Driving and invited children to design a poster for a local community competition to discourage drink driving as we go towards Christmas. Children have brought their poster home this week to complete as part of their homework tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Maths activities are available for your\u00a0child.<\/p>\n<p>As part of our CAFOD fundraising event today, the children enjoyed the challenge of designing, planning and resourcing their team&#8217;s activity. A good time was had by all and were very proud to have contributed to the total raised.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend (especially if\u00a0it includes fractions \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The Year 6 Team<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents, We have been working hard this week, studying Rudyard Kipling&#8217;s Just So Stories. The children have been using their creativity skills to plan their own Just So &#8216;Giraffe&#8217; story, which we are looking forward to writing next week. We have spent some time investigating fractions this week. The year 6 teachers are getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}