Spelling Practice
We’ve discussed what the expectations are for spelling practice today as this is a crucial part of our ability to improve with something that we all find difficult.
Here are some good examples of spelling practice to help the children know what to do for their homework.
Practising creatively will make it more enjoyable and encourages you to notice which parts of a word are tricky. There are lots of ideas in the back of your homework book for this.
Make sure you follow the instruction if you’re given a spelling activity. The activity was to come up with –ible and –able words and then create word families for them. Rohan has followed that instruction.
After-school clubs
Places are filling up for our after-school clubs starting next week.
We do have some places available on the following physical activity clubs. These clubs are subsidised using our PE Premium funding costing just £1 per week.
Monday
Volleyball
Have a try at a new sport. Led by Elaine Brown, Leeds Volleyball Club coach, come along to learn skills, develop team work and play competitive games on our volleyball court in the MUGA. This club finishes at 4.15pm. There is no session on Monday 22 October 2018. Open to Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6 Cost £7
Tuesday
Multi skills
Come and take part in a range of fun sporting games, challenges, matches and activities which include key motor skills such as throwing, catching, kicking, running, jumping, striking, Organised by Five Star Sports. This club finishes at 4.15pm. There is no session on Tuesday 23 October 2018 or Tuesday 27 November 2018. Open to Y1, Y2, Y3 Cost £6
Wednesday
Gymnastics
A fun way to keep fit while learning new skills. Organised by Leeds Gymnastics Club. This club finishes at 4.15pm. Open to Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5 Cost £8
Thursday
Wake Up Shake Up
Be ready to Wake it and Shake it at Mrs Charlesworth’s club. You’ll be swinging, shaking, moving and grooving your way to pop, rock, R’n’B and dance. This club finishes at 4.15pm. Open to Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6 Cost £8
How can I book a club?
Booking for after-school clubs is via School Gateway. Please contact the office if you need any assistance making a booking. Payment is due at the time of booking.
National Fitness Day
Some of our Key Stage 2 children enjoyed an active morning taking part in a range of activities for National Fitness Day:
- ‘I loved the dodgeball.’
- ‘I enjoyed all the activities.’
- ‘It was fun to do the different games.’
Living and Learning
This week’s 8Rs we’re focusing on are resourcefulness and resilience.
To be resourceful at school, we can make sure we’re bringing anything we need from home (PE kits, reading books, homework); we can make sure everything we need is always in our trays; and we can use the displays and equipment around the classroom to help our learning. Discuss with your child whether there are ways they can be resourceful at home.
All of Year 6 know what it means to be resilient. We discussed when we might need to be resilient and how we might feel at the time. See whether your child can share any of our discussion with you.
We had a bit of fun while thinking about resilience too. Each group was challenged to build the tallest tower they could but, every now and again, someone (definitely not Miss Rushbrooke) came and knocked some of it down. This helped us to experience those feelings we might have at a time we need to be resilient.
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:
