24 June 2016
I can complete a diary about my lifestyle.
The homework this week involves completing a health diary, for the next seven days, to use when completing the online My Health My School survey. This will take place in school over the next few weeks.
Questions include what snacks they eat, how much exercise they do and how long they spend doing different activities. The data is used by local government to understand what children’s lives are like and how healthy they are.
The diaries and the survey itself remain confidential and personal information will not be discussed in school if children don’t want to.
Please support your child to complete the diary as accurately as possible and return the completed survey by Monday 04 July.
Homework Review 22.06.16
As always, our responses to our creative homework (I can show what I know about the EU referendum) were brilliant this week. Who knew they had such an interest in politics? We had quizzes, PowerPoint presentations, persuasive letters, information leaflets and even a home-made ballot box with voting slips. It was great to see how proud the children were to show off their homework and it was obvious that efforts had been made to impress each other – keep it up – I love homework!
Here are some of our favourites:
PS Some children might notice the variety of the punctuation in this post; it is one of our new writing targets. I’ve managed to use a colon, a semi colon, a dash, a comma, a question mark and even a few full stops! (And an exclamation mark.)
Leeds United Football Training
This afternoon, the Y6 children have enjoyed an amazing lesson by Leeds United. Starting with the amusing warm up and then followed by an immensely enjoyable lesson.
Clearly having fun!
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Researching Ancient Egypt
Today, using key word searches and our scanning and skimming skills, we have been researching some different areas of Ancient Egyptian life.
World History topic
This week marks the beginning of our latest topic: World History. In this topic, children will be learning about one of three civilisations: Benin, Ancient Islamic and Maya.
Today, we had a ‘taster’ session of each civilisation and found out lots of things we never knew:
- Did you know that the Mayans may have invented basketball?
- Or, did you know that the Ancient Islamic Civilisation were inventing machines that may have helped humans to fly thousands of years before the Wright brothers?
Children will now complete an independent research task to create a fact-filled project board about a civilisation of their choice whilst focusing on skills related to the foundation subject age-related expectations for Year 5 and Year 6.
It might look something like this:
You could help at home by:
- asking your child to think about the pros and cons for researching each civilisation
- spending time researching their chosen civilisation with them (using a range of reliable sources – not just Google!)
- encouraging them to carry out independent research
- discussing the importance of using reliable (and appropriate) sources when researching
School Saving Accounts
Our next paying in session for children with School Saving Accounts is this week.
- Wednesday 22 June 3.15pm
You’re welcome to accompany your child to pay in their money. If you can’t come, or maybe your child is at an after-school club, you can bring money to the office in a sealed envelope marked ‘School Saving Account’ with your child’s paying in card and this will be deposited into their account.
Also, it’s not too late to open an account. Please ask at the office for an application form.
The next paying in session this term is Wednesday 20 July 3.15pm.
17 June 2016
The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 22 June.
I can create a chart to present data.
You’ve been given some information in a tally chart – though you can use your own data if you’d prefer.
Your job is to create a bar chart (or another type of chart) using this data. Remember all that we’ve learnt this week!
Once you’ve created the chart, write some questions about the data for other people to answer.
17 June 2016
The spellings this week are again for all Year 2 children.
Money Matters Homework
We tried to choose a few pieces of homework to show off on our class news but we ended up choosing all of these.
17 June 2016
Red and yellow group:
are
come
here
said
some
there
were
where
These are more words where phonics doesn’t help a whole lot to spell them. Please help your child to hear and understand the difference between where and were.
Green group:
I will ask you any ten spellings of the days of the week and the months of the year.