Today, Year 6 visited Allerton Grange School to do some PE. Basketball, football and shot put were the sports we played. We developed lots of skills: dribbling and shooting for basketball; passing, control and communication for football; and accuracy for shot put.
Written by Pippa.
Last week’s homework was to show that we know what community is. We really enjoyed looking at this work as there were all sorts of different pieces to enjoy.
Just some examples of some really great spelling practice when children are given a list of words to learn.
Check your child’s spelling work before they bring it to school on Thursday and see whether their presentation is the best they’re capable of and that they feel they’ve put enough effort in to their practice.
By the end of Year 4, children are expected to know their times tables and corresponding division facts up to 12 x 12, as stated in the National Curriculum. They should be able to recall a multiplication or division fact within about five seconds.
A couple of weeks ago, we checked this for children in Key Stage 2 – and got some really encouraging results.
Out of a total score of 25, children in Year 4 got an average of 21.2 out of 25 – and, of course, there are still two more terms to keep on improving.
We’ve seen similarly encouraging results in Years 5 and 6. 100% of the Year 6 children scored over 20 out of 25, and their average score is 24.6.
In school, we explore times tables so children have a secure understanding of the concept of multiplication and division, and the various patterns and sequences related to each times table. There’s also regular practice in each class. We’ve also introduced regular tables to practise at home, followed by times table tests each Friday. Thank you for supporting your child with this.
If you’re confident your child knows their tables, don’t forget to help them know related facts. So, 3 x 8 = 24, which means…
Top tip! 7 x 8 = 56 is probably the hardest fact to know. Here’s a way that might help… Reverse the statement: 56 = 7 x 8. Can you see the sequence of the digits? 5, 6, 7, 8… 5 6 is 7 8s…
The article below is taken directly from the Yorkshire Evening Post website. We’d like to thank the parent who has reported this shocking incident to the police.
Leeds driver spotted with huge carpets obscuring his windscreen
A father walking his child to school had a shock when he spotted this car with its windscreen obscured by CARPETS. The man saw the overloaded vehicle in Moortown while dropping his son off at nearby Moortown Primary School. When he challenged the man driving the Ford estate, he was told he could still see where he was going despite the two large carpets strapped to the roof rack.
“I was just about to cross the road when I saw the car with its windscreen almost entirely covered by the carpets. The driver had the window open and I saw him adjust the position of the carpet as it had moved while he was driving. I asked the driver why he was driving dangerously, and he said ‘I always do it like this’ and that it was ‘OK, because I can still see where I’m going.’ ”
He took the photo at around 9am on Thursday morning.
“Complacent attitudes towards driving are becoming a real concern for me and my family. I’ve also recently witnessed people using mobile phones while driving, driving along the footpaths, parking on pavements, speeding and even a van driver eating a bowl of cereal while passing the school gates at drop-off time.”
The driver has been reported to police.
This week’s spelling activity is all about homophones and is due on Thursday 07 December.
Using the list of homophone groups, create sentence which us all of the homophones correctly.
there/their/they’re: They’re going over there to find their shoes.
This week’s homework is Creative and is due on 07 December.
I can show when I might need to convert measures.
We’ve been recapping converting measures (m to cm, kg to g, hours to minutes) and there are a lot of children who are not confident enough with this life skill.
There are so many situations where we need to be able to convert measures in real life and this homework is all about exploring what these situations are and, ideally, practising some converting at the same time.
You could:
Once again, the other half of Year 6 came back to the kitchen to cook the curry. We used the same skills as last time as you would expect: chopping, mixing, frying, blending, washing up and – most importantly – eating!
Written by Pippa.
As part of our mini topic, Forces: Electricity, we investigated which materials conduct electricity and which don’t today.
We recapped what a circuit was first by creating a human-sized version:
Then, we worked in groups to test different materials by inserting objects made out of them into the circuit. If the bulb lit, the material was conductive.
This week’s spelling list all end in …tial or …cial.
We noticed that there is usually a vowel before the cial and a consonant (mostly ‘n’) before the tial. There are a couple of words that don’t follow this rule – these are the ones that we’ll need to practise most. Children are expected to practise these spellings in their books (there are lots of strategies at the back of homework books) and there will be a test on Friday 1 December.