All week, we’ve been going through the Year 5/6 spelling list identifying which words we think we already know.
For this week’s spelling activity, the children should practise those spellings they already know by writing them into sentences as well as identifying ten words which they feel they’ll struggle to remember.
There won’t be a test on Friday; instead we’ll discuss the words we’ve identified as trickier and create a spelling list for us to learn the following week.
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework focuses on our SPaG (spelling, punctuation and grammar) skills.
Have a go at the mini test at home before we go through it together in class on Thursday 19 January.
Check your own understanding by seeing if you can explain your answer to somebody else in your family, letting them know the tricks you’ve got for remembering what’s what. To make sure this impacts on your learning, notice what you’re confident with and what you might need to practise so that we can discuss this in class and you know yourself what to work on.
This week’s homework is Talk Time and will be discussed on Thursday 19 January.
I recognise my own and other people’s talents.
Around the dinner table, in the car, walking to the shops, discuss what talents you and your family have. Don’t forget to write some notes so that you can share your talents with us in class.
The Save Scholes Pool team has won a £10,000 Aviva grant.
Way back in October (21.10.16), we invited you support the efforts of parents and carers at Scholes (Elmet) Primary, one of our Sphere Federation partner schools.
The school is very unusual in that it has its own swimming pool. It’s a small, shallow one, but is great for introducing younger children to swimming. The pool has been closed for essential maintenance and a massive fundraising campaign has taken place. We encouraged you to vote for the school to benefit from a grant.
I’m delighted to tell you that the Save Scholes Pool team has won an Aviva Community Fund grant out of the thousands of entries that were submitted. The application made it to the final stage and eventually won £10,000!
This takes the total amount raised to £45,ooo which is the core amount that the Save Scholes Pool team set out to achieve 16 months ago. They’ve now got their fingers crossed for more good news that could take the funds to the £50k total.
Thank you for supporting our Sphere partner school.
We love working scientifically in Year 6 and loved experiencing reversible and irreversible changes first hand. It really helped us to understand these words as we could see it happening in front of us.
In preparation for our upcoming Big Topic, we put our heads together to think about what we’d like to learn and do. The next Big Topic will be Time Travel and Year 5 and 6 will be exploring entertainment through the ages.
There were hundreds of great ideas which Mr Catherall and I now need to seive through but here are a few to give you a taster:
We look forward to starting this topic in the week beginning 16 January and will keep you updated on what we’re doing.
This week’s spellings focus on the letter string, ‘ough’.
Ten of these spellings (or words in their word families, eg thorough and thoroughly) will be tested on Friday 13 January.
Our Creative homework was to convince someone that they should love reading and we had some very persuasive pieces of homework:
Here are some for you to enjoy.
We’ve been learning all about forces for our mini topic and, once we understood pushes, pulls, levers and pulleys, we created our own Rube Goldberg machines. The children worked in groups and planned and made their creations all from their own ideas once we’d explored and researched examples of them through the internet.
Here are a couple of our machines. Our first one had a little hiccup but we really liked their pulley at the end to raise the flag. The second was our most successful; they even managed to sound the buzzer! You’ll see just how excited we were that it worked.
https://youtu.be/S0KjxWH24_Y
https://youtu.be/HUijnyElfWI