Arty Ideas
We’ve been developing our skills in drawing faces and, today, we focused on our eyes.
By following some really simple steps, we managed to create some great eye drawings, Why don’y you try it at home too?
Smashing Science!
When looking at England’s coastline, we talked about how it needed protecting against erosion from the sea. We planned an investigation to test what concrete mixture was the strongest and, today, we tested them.
We placed our samples into bags and labelled them with the ratio of cement:stones:sand used to make it.
We donned our coats and braved the bad weather. We agreed to drop each sample at 10cm intervals and see which broke last and, therefore, was the strongest.
Lots were so strong that they didn’t break even when we were dropping them from 2m! So, we found the highest point we could get to in our school and dropped them from there…
Some still didn’t break. We decided this was a good thing as it means our coastlines are protected by a very strong material.
Homework Review
We tested our Where in the World knowledge during our homework review.
We’d learnt all sorts of facts:
- capitals of countries
- countries of Europe
- countries of Africa
- continents
- oceans
We were particularly impressed with how quickly Albert could name the capitals of the countries he’d chosen and with how many countries of Africa Isaac could name.
Cycle Leeds Learn to ride a bike sessions
These popular sessions are running locally in the half term holiday. Booking is essential for all sessions and can be done by clicking on the appropriate link below.
Children’s Beginners Learn to Ride Sessions
Tuesday 30th October and Thursday 1st November
At Carr Manor Community School (Secondary Phase)
Times: 9am, 10:30am and 12:30
For more information and to book:
https://childrencarrmanor.eventbrite.co.uk
Children’s Improvers – Skills, Circuits & Games!
Thursday 1st November – Carr Manor Community School (Secondary Phase)
Time: 14:00
For more information and to book:
https://childrenimproverscarrmanor.eventbrite.co.uk
How would you solve it?
In Maths, we’re discussing when we need to use written methods to solve a calculation, when we can solve it mentally and when we might make some jottings to help us.
We sorted some calculations according to how we’d solve them. Discuss them at home and see how different people in the family would solve these calculations in different ways. Are any ways you discuss better than another?
Homework Review
Year 6’s first piece of Creative homework was great. We enjoyed sharing what we’d created with our table before taking a look around the whole class at everybody’s.
Here are a few of our favourites:
Living and Learning: ready and respond
This week, we’re focusing on being ready to learn and responding to feedback. Year 6 show they’re ready to learn by having empty hands, writing their date and learning objective quickly (but neatly), asking questions, and by ensuring they have everything they need in their trays.
We’ve talked a lot this week about responding to feedback and knowing what feedback is:
- marking in books
- requests made at home
- tips during football training
- verbal praise during a piano lesson
As the children had their books marked all week, we looked at how well we were responding to the feedback in them. Where we’d not responded to feedback, we recognised that this was going to mean that we were missing out on opportunities to learn from our mistakes or on receiving positive comments so that we know what to continue doing well.
As a class, we decided we were probably better as responding to feedback at home or at a club than at school. Discuss feedback with your child at home:
- What feedback do you give them?
- Which is positive?
- Which is negative?
- How do they respond to it?
- Is this the best response?
Computing and Geography
We continued our work with OS maps this week by learning all about grid references. Once we were confident with four figure grid references, we tested our knowledge by seeing whether we could follow an algorithm and give the four figure grid reference of the square we had landed on.
Taking these skills even further, we placed our counters onto the grids of the OS maps and challenged our partner to follow a journey we made for them, giving the four figure grid reference for where we ended up and seeing whether we were right.
A really fun lesson which helped us understand our Geography and Computing skills much better!
Best of British themed menu
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Thursday 04 October.
Please contact the office, by Wednesday 26 September, if your child would like a school dinner on this day.
KS2 fruit tuck shop returns on Tuesday 25 September
Our popular Key Stage 2 fruit tuck shop runs every Tuesday playtime and regularly sells about one hundred portions of fruit.
The dates for the tuck shop for this year are:
- Autumn term: Tuesday 25 September 2018 to Tuesday 18 December 2018 inclusive
- Spring term: Tuesday 08 January 2019 to Tuesday 26 March 2019 inclusive
- Summer term: Tuesday 16 April 2019 to Tuesday 16 July 2019 inclusive
This year, we’ll continue with the pre-payment option so that you pay in advance for the whole year for your child to have fruit from the tuck shop. We know that some children like to buy more than one portion of fruit, either for variety or to top up their packed lunch and we can also offer the option of paying for two items.
As an incentive for selecting the pre-pay option, we’re able to offer you one week per term free. Therefore for this year, you would pay for 32 weeks and receive fruit for 35 weeks. The cost for one portion of fruit for this year is £6.40 and the cost for two portions is £12.80.
Please note that payments are non-refundable and should be made via School Gateway. If you prefer your child to pay in cash on a weekly basis, that’s fine – we’ll continue to operate this system. Each portion of fruit costs 20p.
If you would like to pay in advance for your child to visit the tuck shop, please do this via School Gateway, under the payment option, by Friday 21 September 2018.
Thank you for your support for the fruit tuck shop.