Summer 1 2024

Friday 17th May
We are so proud of the way year 6 approached their SATs. Calm, confident and just got on with it. Year 5 also had good fun while they were on - making up revolting menus (a lot of eyeballs were involved) as well as designing a hotel.
We also spent a morning making and painting houses as part of our art project. This was a design as you go activity and it was really good to see children persevere or change ideas as they went along to make it work. 
In science we looked at gestation periods in mammals and saw that although not true for all there is a link between the size of the mammal and it's gestation length. it is often the bigger the mammal, the longer the gestation period.
We also had fun practising our races for sports day and have introduced a new hurdles element to the obstacle course for key stage 2.
 
Homework
Reading everyday to be signed by an adult
Do a fair weather dance to bring a dry day for sports day next Friday
Friday 10th May 2024

For English we have been looking at an alternative version of Goldilocks and we role played a police interview. In PE we were doing dodgeball on the field – focussing on accuracy in throwing and catching. For maths we have been looking at coordinates and translation and making sure we move things in the correct direction. In French we did a crossword to help us learn the vocabulary of the Olympic sports.

Reading records to be brought in everyday signed to show you have read

Maths homework - TT Rockstars or book for Thursday

No spelling homework

Friday 26th April

In art we have been learning about learning to keep our pen on the paper while we draw an object. In maths we have been doing angles with protractors and estimating the angles. For PE we were sprinting- we had to make sure our reaction time was quick and that we ran in a straight line looking where we were going. In history we learnt about Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain and their thoughts during World War Two. On Monday we did a live lesson for Earth Day about endangered animals. We had a visit from Ottilie Robinson-Shaw who is a freestyle kayaker. She told us about the tricks and skills she does. 

Homework

Reading to be signed and brought in every day

Spelling due Tuesday

Maths TT Rockstars due Thursday

 

Friday 19th April
Welcome to the summer term. 
We have made use of the dry weather and begun our athletics unit. We started with a running focus and thought about pace and stamina and how to use this in long distance running. In history we learnt about the beginning of the second world war and how Hitler was involved. In music we learnt the origins of a Scottish lullaby and found out about a lullaby from 2000BC which said that if the child didn’t stop crying the devil would eat them! For computing we started looking at how you can make 3D models digitally. We looked at objects from different perspectives and learnt the basics of putting them in to the program. In science we learnt the key stages of the human life cycle and looked at some data about babies and their length and weight.
 
Homework
Reading every day  - reading record to be signed and brought to school each day
Spelling due Tuesday
Maths - TT Rockstars - due Thursday