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Save water and money!

Yorkshire Water are currently running a Save Water, Energy and Money campaign. As part of this campaign, they’re giving away free water and energy saving packs.

To claim a free pack, follow the link at the bottom of the post and enter this reference code: MGMCR8

If enough people order the packs, school could win an iPod Touch!

Thanks to Mr Russell (Finn and Owen’s dad) for letting school know about the competition and for offering to donate the prize to school.

What are you waiting for? Order a pack. Save some water. Save some energy. Save some money!

http://www.yorkshirewater.com/savewater

21 September 2012

The homework this work is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 26 September.

I know three interesting facts about myself.

We would like to find out more about the children and their interests so children should talk to people at home and decide on three interesting facts about themselves. We’ll then discuss them in class and we’ll find out a bit more about each other!

21 September 2012

This week, the spellings are a mixture of the previous two weeks’ ing rules and some words where you just have to add ing to the root word.

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 28 September.

Soluble or insoluble?

In a recent science lesson, children investigated which materials dissolved in water. We wanted to keep it a fair test so we were very strict about which things we were going to keep the same when we tested each material. We made sure we used the same amount of water each time, used the same amount of each material, stirred the water the same number of times and ensured the temperature of the water was the same for each material.

We used the iPads to take pictures of what happened and to record our predictions and findings.

21 September 2012

This week the spelling chant to practise with your child is ‘double up for short vowel sounds’.

There are lots of types of words where you double up for short vowe sounds.

Here’s a selection of different types of words where the rule applies.

21 September 2012

This week’s homework is talk time. It’s due in on Wednesday 26 September 2012.

I can say what I know about forces (pushes and pulls).

You could encourage your child to talk about:

• gravity
• friction
• speed
• examples of pushes and pulls

21 September 2012

This week’s spellings are words containing ‘ou’. These spellings will be tested on Friday 28 September 2012.

• cloud
• around
• found
• round
• sound
• pound
• count
• house
• mouse
• mouth

Using iPads to extend learning

Year Six have been enjoying using the new IPads to extend their learning in Literacy and Maths.

This is what they said about using IPads:

“Learning is fun!”

“It helped me build some great sentences with adverbs.”

“Using the iPad helped me explain my Maths.”

Mini-topic

For the first few weeks of term we have learnt about ‘Ourselves’. We’ve looked at our bodies, families and the five senses. These photographs are of us learning about faces.

We had great fun making faces on biscuits.

What an interesting class!

I certainly feel that I know the children very well now after looking at their homework; well done to everyone for telling me something about yourself.  I now know not to mess with Dylan, Harry B and Hari R as they are all experts in some kind of martial arts and I know where to go for tea as Brannoc loves making spaghetti bolognese!  The photos show a very detailed Moshi Monster map, an amazing Lego model and Pavanpal’s board game.  Great homework Year Five!