Author: Mr Roundtree

18 June 2018

This week’s spelling homework is a little creative and is due on Thursday 24 June.

Using these Greek and Latin roots and their meanings, create your own animals where their name gives you an idea of their appearance and/or behaviour.

Eg punctata quadrocornisbiped (dotted four-horned two footed animal). Create at least five different names and then choose one to draw and write a paragraph informing us about it.

 

geo – means “the earth” photo – “means light”
path – means “feeling or

suffering”

 gress – means “to walk”
phon – means “sound” dict – which means “to say”
therm – means “heat” tract – means “to pull”
mem – means “keep in mind” scribe – means “to write”
tele – means “far away” mit – means “to send”
fract – means “to break” graph – means “to write”
bi – means “two” ped – means “foot”
corni – means “horn” punct – means “point, pricked, pierced”

 

 

18 June 2018

This week’s homework is linked to the My Health My School survey the children will be completing soon.

They have a number of aspects of their daily routine to keep track of: having breakfast; snacks and drinks consumed; and exercise taken. The children are going to start their diaries on Saturday 19 June and finish them on Friday 25 June (so homework is not due in until Monday 28 June).

We’ve gone through how to complete the diary and children should ask if they’re not sure through the week.

15 June 2018

The homework this week is talk time.

I can reflect on my learning.

The photographs in this post show some of the learning that has happened in class this week. Talk to your child about the photos and what they’ve learnt this week.

Remember to make some notes about it in the homework books.

Y6 Residential

Having finally sieved through the many photos we took while on residential, it is finally time to share them with you!

Every single child was a credit to our school both when responding to RobinWood staff and when working with children from our federation schools, Scholes and St James. We had a great time and here are a few snippets and thoughts from the children.

Pippa: Climbing was really fun and the challenge at the end was exciting.

Elias: It was very funny when we were blindfolded because you didn’t know where to grab and you looked cringy.

Phoenix: Archery was really fun and we got to learn how to use a real bow and arrow.

Neive: The evening activities were very fun and helped us build our teamwork.

Harry: It was fun canoeing and taught us what to do if we went canoeing again.

Nishaan: The trapeze was really fun because it was like being in a circus and you could jump to the wire.

Zack: You had to put a lot of effort into completing the quests and some of the puzzles were extremely hard.

Edward: Night line was really cool because you had to use your senses to navigate around.

Aleena: It hilarious because the squirrels weed on you and tickled you.

Oliver: The canoeing football was really fun because it was funny when Elias dropped his oar in the water.

Stan: It was really funny raft building because when they put the raft on the water, ours was sinking slowly. When everyone got on, they all fell off!

Owen: The dancing challenge was fun and it was a good experience.

Brandon: It was extremely fun because it felt like you were jumping off a really high cliff.

Hibba: Caving was really fun because all the challenges we had to complete were confusing but exciting.

Pippa: The cup challenge was really fun because we got to 12 cups high and we banked it – it was frustrating when they knocked it over though.

Neive: I think piranha pool was fun because I like solving riddles and getting wet.

Aleena: It was very nerve wracking but exciting on the giant swing because when you chopped the banana, it was sudden but then it was fun.

Zack: I think crate challenge was good because it was cool to build a crate tower and not hurt yourself when it fell down.

08 June 2018

This week’s spellings link to our class novel and the sailing we’ve done at Yeadon Tarn. I’ll be asking the children to spell ten of the sailing terminology on the diagram below and there’ll be extra points available for being able to identify where it is on the diagram and even more for if they can say what job it has. These spellings will be tested on Friday 15 June 2018.

08 June 2018

This week’s homework is Talk Time and will be discussed on Thursday 14 June.

I can talk about my learning.

Below are some images taken of the learning we have been part of this week. Look at the photos together and ask your child to tell you about their learning. There are lots of things they could tell you or that you could ask:

  • Did you enjoy that learning?
  • Do you thinking you improved on any skills in that lesson?
  • If you could do that lesson again, what would you do differently/the same?
  • What was the purpose of that learning?
  • What was your favourite learning from this week?

For Talk Time homework, the children should make a few brief notes on the the conversations they’ve had to help them in our class discussion.

Reading

Writing

Yeadon Tarn

Yeadon Tarn

On Wedensday, Year 6 went to Yeadon Tarn as part of the learning we’re doing on Kensuke’s Kingdom, a novel by Michael Morpurgo.

Michael, the main character, has set off on a voyage around the world with his mum and dad so we went our own voyage around the tarn (not quite the world).

There were four or five of us in a boat.
We were all really excited and all of us loved it!
We had to control the sails and the tiller, making sure the boom didn’t hit us in the head.
The boats were actually pretty big!
We sailed right across the tarn.
We even got to lie on the bow of the boat – and it was sometimes hard to hold on when the boat was turning around.
You could lean right out like a true yachtsman/woman.
And there was time for some playground time after lunch too.

When we weren’t sailing, we wrote shape poems about the water and created iMovies, imagining that we were Michael having been stranded on an island on his travels.

It was a really good day which resulted in a class of sailing fans by the end of it and a better understanding of lots of the vocabulary used in our class novel.