Monday 17th September

Now that we have finished our induction and assessment time we can really begin to get stuck into this years curriculum and start to have some fun (as well as learn an awful lot!).

Thank you to all those parents who attended the Conway meeting on Thursday, hopefully it will have answered any questions you had and put to bed any fears and worries.
We are really pleased this year that every single child in year 6 is attending the Conway Centre and we would like to thank you for your support in letting your child have this fantastic experience. I promise you will have sore ears after they have been home an hour as they will have so much to tell you. It really is an unmissable experience and we are thrilled that nobody is going to miss out this year.
If you could not attend the meeting please get your child to ask for the information that was given out on Thurday if it has not already been sent home.

I also know that the year 5's will be having a fantastic time while they are in school that week and have heard a rumour that pirates might be involved!

Your child may have come home last week and mentioned that they had a new teacher for ICT, this is Mrs Jackson and she will be carring out the ICT curriculum for year 5/6 this year.
She is stepping in to cover when Mrs Millington is out of school on a Wednesday completing her duties as Advanced Skills Teacher for the Local Authority.
Mrs Jackson will teach Mrs Millington's maths group in the first session of the morning and will then take each class in turn for ICT. Miss Wright and Mrs Morgan will teaching Mrs Millington's class when their classes are doing ICT. Very confunsing I know but we will get used to it!

If your child participated in the cycle training last week you should have received a consent form. This needs to be filled in and sent into school as the cycle teachers are taking the children out of school on Monday. If they do not have a consent form then they will not be able to go.

Now for the curriculum!

In literacy this week we will be concentrating all our work on the novel 'Goodnight Mr Tom'. We have been listening to the audio book and will start off the week by watching the DVD.
We will be covering lots of genres through the book such as news paper reports, diary writing, comparing books and films, narrative, non-chronlogical reports, film review and many many more.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/revision_bites/deduction1.shtml
http://www.kirklees-ednet.org.uk/subjects/english/resources/texttypes/nonchronreport.pdf


Maths

Your children have now been put into their maths groups, there are 4 groups taken by the 5/6 teachers and Mr Barker.
This year we have grouped the children according to the levels they achieved in the summer rather than in year groups.
All the groups will be starting the first topic of place value.

http://edhelper.com/place_value.htm
http://www.active-maths.co.uk/worksheets/2place/
http://tlfe.org.uk/numeracy/units/placevalue.htm

Science

Our science topic is 'How We See Things', we have put stickers in your child's diary asking for colourful sweet wrappers and tourches, please send in any you might have at home on Monday, thank you.

http://www.scienceyear.com/sciteach/index.html?page=/sciteach/bstl/ks2sc4/KS2sc4.html
http://www.bootslearningstore.com/ks2/eyesight.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/see_things.shtml

Topic - Lights, Camera, Action

We will starting our topic this week which will include a lot of cross curriculur links and will incorporate lots of areas of the curriculum.
Your child may have told you that we have role play areas in each classroom which will help us include a lot of drama into the classroom.
We will be looking at movies and how they are made and also setting up our own businesses in teams for example production companies, cinemas, casting agencies etc.
The children have already started art work on this topic and we would appreciate any movies posters and adverts to be sent into school.

PE

As was mentioned last week the children will have 2 sessions of PE per week, gymnastics with Mr McGreal on Thursday and dance based on 'Goodnight Mr Tom' on Friday with their class teacher. Please ensure your child's PE is in school for both these sessions.

ICT

The children will be carrying on with the powerpoint presentations they started last week with Mrs Jackson.

Homework

We know you will be busy organising things for Conway this week so homework will only be sent out on Monday. You will get spellings to be tested on Friday and some science which involves you making a pin hole camera so if you have any emply pringles tubes please keep them.

Finally, the year 5/6 induction meeting will take place on Tuesday at 3.15pm, it will probably be in Mrs Millington's or Mrs Morgan's room, we hope to see you there.

Have a good week!

Year 5/6 Team.