This week the homework is creative. We’re starting a new topic next week all about life. Within the topic, we’ll be learning about different animals. The children’s task is to make a fact file about their favourite animal.
Please return homework books by next Thursday.
The children made a plan for their writing and loved sharing it with the rest of the class! We’re trying hard to read aloud what we have written down.
Create ways for you to remember how to spell these words and generally practise using the strategies in the back of your homework book. 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 no test from this list but instead there’ll be a word search to complete on Friday which will include these words.
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and links to the learning we’ve being doing in our grammar lessons this week.
The children have got some practice questions to have a go at independently which we’ll then go through together in our homework review next week on Thursday 18 January.
There were lots of great examples of spellings practice from Year 6 this week. Most children had made sure they’d practised across at least three days (just for 5-10 minutes each time) and they’d got a parent to sign that they’d done this.
As part of learning about solutions during our ‘What’s the Matter?’ topic, we explored floating and sinking.
In fresh water, a fresh egg will sink.
However, if you add salt to create a salt solution…
…the egg will float.
At home, see whether your child can explain why this is. They should use our key word: dense.
We then predicted that the same would happen if we used sugar to create the solution.
The fresh egg sunk, like before.
We stirred in the sugar to make sure it created a solution…
…and eventually the egg floated.
We needed to add more sugar to make it float than we did for the salt. See whether your child can say why we thought we needed to use more sugar. They’ll need to use the key word: particles.
This morning in Year One, we worked hard to find one more and one less of a number using a variety of resources. 
Next week, we’re learning about words which have the ‘ou’ diagraph in.
| cloud |
| shout |
| tout |
| out |
| ground |
| found |
The homework this week is Talk Time.
How can you show good manners in school and at home?
Please return your homework books the following Thursday.
Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed their English lesson today as they entered, not their classroom, but a fully fledged courtroom.
We had a judge, a jury, the media, defence and prosecution lawyers, witness and family members of the unfortunate victim and, of course, the accused. The Three Little Pigs were on trial for murder and we were determined to find out exactly what happened.
There were some fantastic characters in the room and, at times, it all got very tense! After a long deliberation, the jury decided that all three of the little pigs were guilty of murder, using the wolf to try and commit insurance fraud and then murdering him so that he couldn’t give the game away.