Author: Mr Roundtree

Living and Learning: Calming down

I can describe and use ways to calm down.

Throughout the week, Year 6 have been discussing how they’re feeling and what they do when they’re not feeling calm. We all get worked up from time to time and we all calm ourselves down in different ways.

At home, discuss how you calm down and what strategies your child uses at home and at school. They might talk about some of the mindfulness techniques children have been taught or counting to ten, going for a walk or getting a glass of water.

This is a particularly important discussion for our Year 6s and it will be useful for them to recognise that they’ll be more and less calm depending on what’s happening in their lives at a given moment in time.

10 May 2019

For this week’s spellings, we’ve all chosen some spelling patterns we know we find more difficult and have recorded them in our homework books. This is where we need to focus our spelling practice over the weekend. (The spelling test will be on Monday 13 May).

10 May 2019

 

This week’s homework is a little different. As Year 6 will be taking their SATs next week, we’ve discussed areas we need to remind ourselves of over the course of the week as well as the importance of making time for relaxation and sleep

Choose five areas of maths and grammar to remind yourself of over the week. Only spend 15 minutes at a time practising that skill.

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Make sure that you get plenty of sleep, spend time with your family, play outside, watch a good film, eat your favourite food and relax. You’ve worked hard this year and are all well prepared.

03 May 2019

This week the homework is Talk Time:

We get many objects from plants and trees such as paper, medicine and sponges.

Is it right to destroy forests to make things that benefit humans?

Children should be prepared to discuss what they’ve talked about at home during our homework review next week. This homework should be completed by Thursday 9 May.

 

 

Green Fingers

Last week, as a part of our ‘Green Fingers’ topic, we planted some cress seeds and will be monitoring their growth throughout the topic.

As a class, we read the story ‘The Tin Forest’ and were inspired to recycle rubbish and put it to good use. The children brought in old tin cans and used them as plant pots! To plant the seeds, the children worked together to read and follow a series of instructions.

26 April 2019

This week’s spellings are words ending in the suffix ‘ed’ where no change is needed to the root word.

Children often make mistakes with these spellings, adding ‘t’, ‘d’ or ‘id’ to the root word instead of ‘ed’.

played
jumped
needed
shouted
watched
enjoyed

18 April 2019

This week, our spellings are from the Year 1 common exception word list. These are that do not follow the common phonetic spelling rules of the language, or where the usual rules act in an unusual way.

one

ask

push

pull

full

put

Discovery Zone at Leeds University

Year 6 had a great morning at Leeds University in our final week of the Spring Term. Each and every one of them got stuck in to a whole host of scientific investigations, finding out loads along the way.

We extracted DNA from kiwi fruit.
We learnt about what affects coral reefs both positively and negatively.
Using purple cabbage, we found out the pH of a range of liquids.
Honey bees, bumble bees and wasps can be easily distinguished – if you know how.
We even held and studied real hearts – although some of us enjoyed that more than others!

Living and Learning: What talents do we have?

Our homework review was great fun this week as we were treated to many wonderful talents from the whole class.

We had some fantastic artwork which had been used to create these brilliant information cards.

We enjoyed some writing, demonstrating some brilliant literary skills.

Some lovely paint work – I’d have the blue one on the right up on my wall at home!

Some comedy that made us chuckle. We were also treated to some impressive gymnastics from Grace; really great singing from Martha, Manpreet and Noorpreet; a video on particle physics from Ripley; and some football skills from Kai.

It was really great to find out what children are interested in  both in and out of school and lovely to give them the opportunity to show the rest of their class what they are proud they can do.