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22 March 2013

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect. Your child will have a literacy worksheet to complete. It’s due in on Wednesday 27 March 2013.

Remarkable recounts

To bring our recount writing to a close, I thought I would upload some amusing recounts performed by the children. The children have demonstrated some really fantastic ICT skills.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOjUIVUkVbA&feature=youtu.be

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac6X5P_9IhI&feature=youtu.be

Can you tell which words would be in brackets in this recount?

22 March 2013

The homework this week is Talk Time and is due in Wednesday 27 March.

I can talk about ways to make amends if I have upset someone.

Unfortunately, there are times when we may have hurt someone’s feelings. We may have said or done something unkind. Next week, we’ll be looking at ways to make those situations better. For your homework, talk with an adult about ways to make amends if you’ve done something cruel or unkind.

Really good discussions will involve some reason and result connectives:

• As a result,
• This results in…
• Consequently,
• As a consequence,
• Because of this,

22 March 2013

This week, we’re revisiting a familiar spelling rule. The spelling rule to chant is:

double-up for short vowel sounds

All the spellings here are high-frequency words. That means they are all words that are used often. Like last week, continue to sound out the vowel sounds with your child so that they associate the short vowel sound with the doubled-up consonant.

Science day warm-up

Getting the balance right – What should we eat to stay healthy? and Cough, sneeze, sniff and wheeze – How do we breathe? were two interactive sessions led by Leeds University students to Key Stage 2 classes this afternoon.

As part of the science in school initiative, two students delivered a variety of interactive activities and informative learning.

Year 3 and 4 focussed on What should we eat to stay healthy?

This session covered the important components of our diets – the major components which provide us with energy, and the building blocks that we need for growth and to maintain a healthy body, and the minor components – the vitamins and minerals.

Year 5 and 6 investigated How do we breathe?

• What causes us to breathe?
• How the lungs function under normal circumstances and after exercise
• The danger to the lungs of smoking or passive smoking

All in preparation for a packed science themed-day tomorrow!

22 March 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Thursday 28 March 2013.

Lions

The spellings are plurals ending in ‘ies’. When we change singular words that end in ‘y’ to make plurals, we need to drop the ‘y’ and add ‘ies’.

• tries
• cherries
• stories
• flies
• berries
• babies
• lorries
• ladies
• families
• cities

Tigers

This week’s spellings are words that make the ‘f’ sound using ‘ph’.

• graph
• phonics
• dolphin
• elephant
• sphere
• nephew
• alphabet
• telephone
• photo
• phase

Zebras

• bony
• greasy
• lazy
• scary
• shiny
• tasty
• slimy
• wavy
• nosy
• spiky

22 March 2013

Super Science  Day is postponed due to snow.  The homework below relates to this themed day.  We will have Super Science Day next Tuesday, 26 March.  The homework below will happen after the Easter holidays – it would be a good idea to have some talk time at home about Super Science after Tuesday’s themed day.

This week’s homework is both talk time and creative. It is due in on Wednesday 27 March 2013.

Today, everyone took part in a Super Science themed day in which they completed nine science activities. The learning objectives were:

• I know that dyes are made up of other colours
• I know why objects float
• I can create a gas with a solid and a liquid
• I know that static electricity creates a charge
• I know about irreversible changes
• I know the effects of a chemical reaction
• I know what exercise does to my body
• I am aware of acids and alkalis
• I know what happens when you mix water with oil

In talk-time, we’d like the children to talk about what they have learnt and then, in creative homework, sum up their learning.  (Creative homework can be completed on the next page in the homework book so that a full page can be used.)

Science afternoon

Miss Drake from Leeds University came into school today to speak to us about how we can be healthier. We learnt about how much energy we need, what types of food we should eat and what types of exercise we should do.

Great team effort

Well done to the members of Year 6 who took part in the netball competition tonight at Allerton Grange.

With matches against local primary schools, the team put in 100% effort and enthusiasm.  As the competition progressed the children showed some excellent attacking and defending skills with lots of encouragement as a team.  Well done!

There are some local weekly netball sessions at Scott Hall Leisure Centre, Wednesday 5pm-6pm, for those who would like to play netball more regularly.  Please ring 0113 378 1285 to book.

15 March 2013

This week’s spellings are a mixture of the previous week’s two rules. For the tenth spelling, children should think of their own word which fits one of the rules. The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words.