Year 5

The year group has enjoyed a packed, fun second week back. It has been very positive to catch up with families at the family-teacher meetings this week and to identify next steps for your children. We opened the week holding  Monday’s indoor PE outside. The bigger canvas proved a fantastic backdrop to our team-building exercises. Science saw another experiment with the changing state of materials: we compared the time taken for sugar to dissolve in water of different temperatures. In line with our experience of dissolving sugar into tea and coffee, we saw the same happen in our experiment and carried out a very fair test. Everyone enjoyed the fun mixing up of ‘Yes day’ on 29th February. Classes swapped seats for the day and enjoyed a creative spin on regular lessons, such as the maths ‘whodunnit’ investigations that we completed in pairs. The children have been steadily building up their ‘fairytail with a twist’ during our English lessons, focusing on metaphor, simile and direct speech, including plenty of interesting ‘said’ synonyms, plus complementary adverbs which add drama to our stories. Kirfs resumed this week, with many children able to demonstrate comfortably the equivalence between fractions, decimals and percentages.

  

                     

                     

                                              

Key Messages

• Key vocab: simile, metaphor, equivalence, changing state, reversible, city state, millennium. 

• KIRFS: equivalence across decimals, fractions and percentages 

• Spellings: words with the ‘or’ sound spelt ‘au’

Here are the slides for the Hooke Court meeting last half term

 

Year 6

This week has been another really positive week for Year 6. Over the last three school weeks, all classes have partaken in a first-aid course. Throughout the course, the children have shown great maturity, resilience and amazed us all with their prior knowledge - well done Year 6! On Monday, Year 6 were treated by two fantastic guest speakers. Our guest speakers enlightened the children on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Some of the children (and one lucky teacher) attempted blowing the Shofar, a horn of a ram or similar animal, unfortunately none could get any noise to come out. Thank you again to our guest speakers! This week saw Year 6 complete their discursive pieces of writing. All the children have engaged us with their KS2 punctuation, rhetorical questions and their opinions. During maths, children have been finding percentages of an amount. The children have used their previous learning to support with this topic and all Year 6 teachers have been thoroughly impressed. On Thursday, the whole school enjoyed ‘Yes Day’! Even though it was strange for us teachers to watch, it was very enjoyable seeing the children break the rules and have huge smiles whilst doing so. Finally, Year 6 have been planning and designing their nutritious, delicious burgers. The children learnt about different sauces and where they originated from. At the end of the lesson all children created an exploded diagram of what they want their burger to look like! There is an extra research homework this week to help the children with their non-chronological reports next week.

          

                   

Key Messages

• Key vocab: Area, perimeter, volume, voltage, self-care, Royal Court and guilds. 

• KIRFs: Consolidation of previous KIRFs topics. 

• Spelling rule: Words with hyphens.

• Please make sure the children are bringing healthy snacks for breaktime. 

• World book dress up - Friday 8th March

• Year 6 mock SATs - 11th - 14th March.