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14 June 2013

This week’s homework is talk time.  It’s due in on Wednesday 19 June 2013.

Why do some farmers prefer to make their farms organic?

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

We had a great day at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

Fun in the sun

Well done to the all the Year 1 children who took part in the Roundhay Primary Schools’ Fun Run.  Here are a few who I saw cross the finish line.

Tennis competition

Well done to the Year 3/4 tennis team who fought off all the local opposition and got through to the Leeds City Finals.

The finals took place last Wednesday, at John Charles Sports Centre, where the Moortown team did us proud and took fourth place overall.

Well done to the whole team – you played some fabulous tennis!

07 June 2013

This week’s spellings are a revisit of words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word. I’ve noticed that children are still struggling to read these words and / or write them correctly.

07 June 2013

Homework this week is creative. It’s the third of three homework tasks this school year when we invite children to respond to something from a cultural or spiritual perspective (we’ve timed these so they fall close to religious festivals, from Eid to Easter).

I can respond to a piece of art.

This week, we’d like children to present their responses about a piece of art. Your child might think about the colours used in the artwork or the line or shapes. They may discuss the mood of the piece and decide if they like or dislike it.

However, your child might prefer to do the following:

I can show how I celebrate an occasion.

We invite children to respond to the sentence above – they might include a recount (like a diary entry), a report, draw pictures or use photographs to show how they celebrate an occasion.

07 June 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 14 June 2013.

Lions: Drop the e for ing

This is one of our three main spelling rules.

• explore
• exploring
• decide
• deciding
• hope
• hoping
• write
• writing
• dive
• diving

Tigers / Zebras: For short vowel sounds double up for ing

This is one of our three main spelling rules.

• tap
• tapping
• hop
• hopping
• skip
• skipping
• pop
• popping
• get
• getting

07 June 2013

This week, we’re revisiting words which have a split digraph.

Remember a split digraph is when the ‘e’ at the end of words works with another letter to make a longer sound. Think about the difference between hop and hope – both have three sounds (phonemes), but the split digraph in hope creates a ‘long o’ sound. Other examples in the list below is the difference between Tim and time and made and made.

These words will be tested on Friday 14 June.

07 June 2013

Our spellings this week are all homophones. That’s when two words that sound the same are spelt differently.

In these next two sentences there are five homophones. See if you can spot them!

Whilst most of the spellings are pretty straightforward, the challenge is whether you can tell which one is necessary for the sentence.

For example:

I have been/bean to the shops.

Can you write the correct homophone in this sentence?

Goodbye, Year 6 (from Miss Hewson)

Just a little message to say goodbye to another wonderful class that I was lucky enough to teach. I hope you all keep up the good learning. My favourite thing about your class is how, over the years, you have gelled more and more together as a team. Like I said in assembly, I don’t think I’ve ever laughed more with (or at!) a class! You provided Mrs Bald, Mrs Freeman, Mrs Edwards and I with many giggles.

I have two favours to ask my Wake Up Shake Up-ers:

• Please teach Mr Redfearn to dance properly when he takes over!
• Please still do my beloved One Direction dance every so often even if it’s just to annoy Mrs Hazell!

Finally, good luck with your SATs results. I know you’ll do brilliantly.