Class News

100 laps for charity

Making a Chat Bot

In this week’s computing, Y6 were tasked with making a ‘Chat Bot’ which was an interactive quiz!

In order to make this program, they had to write a series of algorithms which looked like this…

Challenge your child to define both program and algorithm! Here they are in action!

We had to work as a team, constantly checking our code in case there was a bug. The main aim of today’s session was to practise adding a variable.

Ask your child what their variable was and how it worked.

When we found a bug, we used logical reasoning to debug it – it felt so satisfying to finally fix the problem that has been truly bugging you!

Finally, we showed our Chat Bot quizzes to the rest of the class for them to play along, with some really funny results!

Using selection meant that our Chat Bots responded to us differently depending on which answer we’d given – the program chose which algorithm to carry out.

Clever stuff, Y6!

Remember: if you want to practise at home, you can! Have a go on Scratch online.

Captain Tom’s 100 Challenge

Today, Y6 completed a 100 Goal Challenge!

Captain Tom 100 is a way to spread a message of hope and resilience in memory of him and we also raised some money along the way.

We each took turns taking a penalty (and also had a go in goal, too!).

There were some super saves and celebrations…

… some superb shots…

… and some silky skills on show!

Doing something new to test ourselves whilst raising money felt really good.

(No Y6s were harmed in the making of these celebratory photographs.)

We are Times Tables Rockstar Champions!

Congratulations Y6! We won our first ever battle last week with a spectacular 2006 points!

As you can see, we were really pleased…

… but the rock ‘n’ roll even seemed to get the better of one or two of us!

Just kidding… keep on rocking out Y6!

Litter Picking Legends

Last week, these legends saw something wrong in their community and decided to do something about it.

They grabbed gloves, litter pickers and bin bags and headed to Moortown Park – the rubbish laying all around had really put them off their last visit and they wanted to make a change.

They managed to clear up so much waste and they perfectly demonstrated our right to use the park as long as we have the responsibility to clean up afterwards.

Well done, litter picking legends. Y6 are very proud of you!

TTRS tournament winners (wb 26 April)

Hello again to all of the Times Tables Rock Stars out there,

It’s been great having you all back in class and seeing how much you are all improving with your times tables!

BREAKING NEWS:

The results are in. We have our ROCK STARS OF THE WEEK.

With an outstanding 2006 points, this week’s winners are Y6!

A massive well done to Y6 for finally beating Y3! Great effort.

Y3, 4 and 5 need to get their hands on the coveted guitar. Will next week be their week?

Remember to give your teacher a nudge as the week goes on if you’ve not yet had a chance to play on TTRS. If you’d like to play at home and would like a reminder of your login details, let your teacher know.

All the best TTRS!

This week

We hope you enjoyed the Bank Holiday!

On Friday the Junior Leadership team chose Dogs Trust as our school charity.

Our first fundraising event will be on Tuesday 04 May when all children will be taking part in the Captain Tom 100 challenge. There will be a bucket at the gate for donations of at least £1.

Reception are going to paint 100 handprints!

Phonics

This week we are learning the phonemes air, ure and er.

Maths

We have been investigating bigger numbers and this week will look at 100! We will paint our 100 handprints and use 10 frames to further develop the children’s understanding of 10.

This term, we are taking part in the West Yorkshire Skip into Summer project with Skipping School. We are excited to be part of the 136 schools and almost 33,000 children taking part!

If your child would like to buy a rope, to keep learning their new skills at home, they will be on sale, outside the Year 1 classroom in the middle playground, 3:10-3:30pm on Thursdays and Fridays.

Magical Maths

Do you wish you could wave a magic wand and make calculations easier? Y6 did today!

Well… not really. But they did use some pretty clever maths knowledge to manipulate the numbers in a calculation to be in their favour.

Take a look at this picture. Would you rather answer the ones on the left or right?

By doubling one factor and halving the other, you keep the product the same. And if it’s a choice between multiplying a decimal and a whole number, the integer will probably be easier.

Challenge your child to make a pattern with 248 x 1 = 248. I’ll do the first one for you: 124 x 2 = 248. Keep it going!

“We were compensating with our multiplication by dividing one factor by two and multiplying the other by two. It makes it so much easier. Saying 0.5 x 2 seems hard but that’s only 1 x 1!” explained Aayan.

“It was hard to start with but got easier as the lesson went on. It’s better than just doing a column method all the time and I was proud I got most of them right,” said Joude.

Cricket opportunities

Computing: sequence in algorithms using Scratch Jr

In our computing lesson today, we’ve been learning about how important sequence is when creating algorithms.

The children have been creating an animation of a conversation between two or more characters. They had to sequence the conversation really carefully so that the it happens in the correct order. To get this right, children had to tweak and debug their algorithms.