Well done to the Year 2 children: they have the highest attendance in school so far this year! Year 6, Year 1 and Year 5 are also doing really well.
Up to the beginning of March, the average attendance for each class is:
The whole school attendance figure is 96.5%.
As there are lots of difficult words on the Year 5/6 spelling list, spelling practice is essential. Here are two good examples from our class this week.
Kai has practised the words, noting down the words he found difficult and exactly which part he was unsure of. This is a good example of really reflective spelling practice.
Amrit was really creative with his practice which will help the spellings move to his long term memory, particularly if there’s a story to go with the cartoon.
We enjoyed our homework review today because there were some fantastically creative pieces to share.
Here are some of our favourites:
This week’s standard of homework was brilliant to see – keep it up, Year 6.
This week, our spellings are Year 1 high frequency words. These are common words and appear very often in written texts.
| once |
| friend |
| school |
| house |
| our |
| love |
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 14 March.
I can order numbers to 50.
This week, Year 1 have been comparing and ordering numbers to 50. They have brought home a sheet that requires them to order numbers within 50 from largest to smallest then from smallest to largest. The children should be able to complete this homework independently. We’ll go through the answers.
Leading toward our modroc sculptures we’ll be making as part of our art learning, we practised creating the main shape using newspaper and masking tape this afternoon.
Sometimes is was frustrating and other times is was surprisingly successful.
These models will help us focus on the main shape of our model when we start using wire to create the base for our modroc.
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 14 March.
I can calculate confidently with fractions.
Year 6 are becoming extremely confident with their arithmetic skills. They have brought some fraction calculations home to solve independently. We’ll go through the answers and any that children may have found difficult in class.
Create ways for you to remember how to spell these words and generally practise using the strategies in the back of your homework book. Don’t forget to try adding prefixes and suffixes to the words. Spelling practice is best done little and often so make sure you come back to the spellings at least three times in the week. Date your practice and ask an adult to sign it to show that you’re practising regularly. There will be not be a test on Friday 15 March but we will find the words in a wordsearch.
Last week, Year 1 and 2 enjoyed an art filled day at Leeds Art Gallery linked to our current big topic, Katie and… Unfortunately, we couldn’t step into the paintings just like Katie.
Before lunch, we explored the gallery and looked at all the fantastic pieces of art. The children decided which was their favourite and sketched their own version.
After lunch, we took part in a workshop session based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawing which were being held at the gallery. After the workshop, the children could talk about his work and what made him such a good artist.
In our living and learning session this week, we discussed what influence means and what we think influences us.
The children came up with lots of ideas of what can be an influence on their lives and choices – both positive and negative: parents, friends, teachers, social media, adverts, games, famous people…
They worked as a group to create a diamond nine to represent which of these they felt influenced them most and which influenced them least which led to lots of interesting discussions.
At home, discuss this together, thinking about how friends, for example, can influence us positively and how they can influence us negatively.
