Hi everyone and welcome to the last week of 2008!!
I'm sure by now the children are getting really excited for the arrival of Christmas day, we still have a whole week to get through before though and it's a busy one!
On Tuesday afternoon the children will be having their Christmas party. They have put themselves into friendship groups and decided what food each of them is bringing in. Your child should have brought you a letter home informing you of what they will need. If they have not done this please ask them what they have agreed to bring. The children are allowed to wear their own clothes on Tuesday.
On Wednesday morning we will be walking to Church to practice for the carol service. We will be back for lunch but please be aware that the children will not be able to buy toast and therefore will need a snack to take to Church.
On Friday morning the whole school will be heading to Church for the Carol Service. The service will begin at 10am. You are welcome to join us for this event but please remember that space is limited
On Friday afternoon we will be attending one of our favourite events, the parents panto, we look forward to finding out what treat are in store for us this year.
Our curriculum for the rest of the week will involve practicing for the Carol Service and going through the remainder of the tests we did last week.
Due to problems with insurance the mini laptops will not be able to go home until the first week back in January. We will be holding a parents meeting about them in the first week so look out for the letter.
That's all for this very short blog.
Have a happy and holy Christmas and a great new year.
See you in 2009!
Year 5/6 Team.
Saturday 13 December 2008
Sunday 7 December 2008
Week Beginning 8th December 2008
Hi everyone and welcome to this week's blogspot.
We have a busy week ahead this week so let start with a few dates for your diaries.
On Monday the children will have their Christmas Lunch. They should have pre-ordered their lunch through the letter that went out a few weeks ago. If they did not do this then they can order a lunch on Monday. Please remember that their will be no toast on sale at break time and therefore they will need to bring one with them.
On Tuesday afternoon our Year 6 and our Foundation Stage children will be attending the annual Carol Service at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool. The children will leave school after lunch and will return at approximately 4pm. Please ensure that all outstanding permission slips are sent into school by Monday. Thank you.
The Year 5's will remain in school on Tuesday afternoon and will continue with their playground leader games taught by Mr Wilby from St. Gregory's.
The after-school football club will also start this Tuesday, the Year 6's will miss the first week as they will not return from the Cathedral in time.
Our assessment week last week went well and we only have a few assessments to finish off this week.
Literacy
The children completed an assessed piece of writing last week, this week we will be looking at the writing they did and giving them targets to improve their writing. They will also be able to look through their assessed writing with the marking criteria and see where they could have picked up more marks and the things they could have improved on.
They will then re-draft their writing and re-assess it to see of they can improve on their level.
Numeracy
The Year 5's still have one of their tests to complete, which they will do on Monday.
Our Year 6 groups will be going through the tests that they completed last week and addressing any subjects that they found difficult.
ICT
You may remember a few weeks ago we informed the Year 6 children that they would have their own mini laptop to use in school and they would be able to take them home as well. We have now bought the laptops into school for all the Year 5 and 6 children.
We are hoping that the laptops will be set up and ready for the children to take home before Christmas but please bear in mind that it will take a long time to set up 90 of them and it will depend on how quick we can get this done.
Here I Am
This week in Here I Am we will be focusing on the Christmas Story. We will have had lots of input on this from watching the Key Stage 1 and Year 3/4 production and also attending the carol service at the Cathedral and of course preparing for our own carol service.
The children will be using the information they found out about improving their writing to write their own Christmas Story.
When we do have time this week we will be practising the readings and songs for our carol service. The service will take place at St. Joseph's Church on Friday 19th December at 10am.
Please feel free to join us in this celebration but be aware space will be limited as the whole school will be attending.
Year 5 and 6 will also be walking to Church on Wednesday of next week to practice for the service, please ensure your child has a permission slip so we can walk up to Church.
That's all for this week.
See you next week.
Year 5/6 Team.
We have a busy week ahead this week so let start with a few dates for your diaries.
On Monday the children will have their Christmas Lunch. They should have pre-ordered their lunch through the letter that went out a few weeks ago. If they did not do this then they can order a lunch on Monday. Please remember that their will be no toast on sale at break time and therefore they will need to bring one with them.
On Tuesday afternoon our Year 6 and our Foundation Stage children will be attending the annual Carol Service at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool. The children will leave school after lunch and will return at approximately 4pm. Please ensure that all outstanding permission slips are sent into school by Monday. Thank you.
The Year 5's will remain in school on Tuesday afternoon and will continue with their playground leader games taught by Mr Wilby from St. Gregory's.
The after-school football club will also start this Tuesday, the Year 6's will miss the first week as they will not return from the Cathedral in time.
Our assessment week last week went well and we only have a few assessments to finish off this week.
Literacy
The children completed an assessed piece of writing last week, this week we will be looking at the writing they did and giving them targets to improve their writing. They will also be able to look through their assessed writing with the marking criteria and see where they could have picked up more marks and the things they could have improved on.
They will then re-draft their writing and re-assess it to see of they can improve on their level.
Numeracy
The Year 5's still have one of their tests to complete, which they will do on Monday.
Our Year 6 groups will be going through the tests that they completed last week and addressing any subjects that they found difficult.
ICT
You may remember a few weeks ago we informed the Year 6 children that they would have their own mini laptop to use in school and they would be able to take them home as well. We have now bought the laptops into school for all the Year 5 and 6 children.
We are hoping that the laptops will be set up and ready for the children to take home before Christmas but please bear in mind that it will take a long time to set up 90 of them and it will depend on how quick we can get this done.
Here I Am
This week in Here I Am we will be focusing on the Christmas Story. We will have had lots of input on this from watching the Key Stage 1 and Year 3/4 production and also attending the carol service at the Cathedral and of course preparing for our own carol service.
The children will be using the information they found out about improving their writing to write their own Christmas Story.
When we do have time this week we will be practising the readings and songs for our carol service. The service will take place at St. Joseph's Church on Friday 19th December at 10am.
Please feel free to join us in this celebration but be aware space will be limited as the whole school will be attending.
Year 5 and 6 will also be walking to Church on Wednesday of next week to practice for the service, please ensure your child has a permission slip so we can walk up to Church.
That's all for this week.
See you next week.
Year 5/6 Team.
Saturday 29 November 2008
Week Beginning 1st December 2008
Hi everyone, well it's finally here DECEMBER, and it's brought with it the Christmas weather!!
The friends of St. Vincent's annual Christmas Fayre took place this Saturday. It was a very festive occasion and was lovely to see so many of you there. The school council's bring and buy stall was a huge success as usual and we will let you know next week how much was raised. Thank you to everyone who helped out and to everyone for attending and making it such a successful event.
This week will be our assessment and review week.
Usually we would carry out our assessments in the last week of term but as Christmas is such an exciting time for the children, we felt it would only be fair to do this earlier, it will also help us to get the best out of the children.
The children will be assessed on Maths, English and Science which they have studied in this term. Please see this whole terms blogspots for the topics we have covered and for websites to help review your learning.
The children will also be reviewing the huge amount of ICT they have done this term by teaching Year 3 and 4 to use the new school laptops and teaching Year 1 to use the mini laptops.
Our Year 5 and 6 have become really skilled in this area and they will now be able to pass on their knowledge. They have planned their own lessons and will carry them out and then evaluate how their lessons went.
When we are not carrying out assessments the children will be writing their own biographies. They started this last week after hearing Roald Dahl's Boy for inspiration, they have produced some interesting work so far and we can't wait to see the finished result.
We did not have time to complete our bread experiment last week and therefore will be making our bread this week.
In Here I Am, the topic of birthdays now moves on to look at the season of advent. We will be looking at the advent wreath and it's meanings and discussing ways in which we prepare to celebrate Jesus' birth.
We also be deciding on reader and singers for our carol service this week and practising the songs and readings.
Finally, Mrs Narraway starts her maternity leave on Friday, we wish her well and hope to hear news of her new baby soon.
Thanks for visiting this weeks very short blogspot, see you next week.
Year 5/6 Team.
The friends of St. Vincent's annual Christmas Fayre took place this Saturday. It was a very festive occasion and was lovely to see so many of you there. The school council's bring and buy stall was a huge success as usual and we will let you know next week how much was raised. Thank you to everyone who helped out and to everyone for attending and making it such a successful event.
This week will be our assessment and review week.
Usually we would carry out our assessments in the last week of term but as Christmas is such an exciting time for the children, we felt it would only be fair to do this earlier, it will also help us to get the best out of the children.
The children will be assessed on Maths, English and Science which they have studied in this term. Please see this whole terms blogspots for the topics we have covered and for websites to help review your learning.
The children will also be reviewing the huge amount of ICT they have done this term by teaching Year 3 and 4 to use the new school laptops and teaching Year 1 to use the mini laptops.
Our Year 5 and 6 have become really skilled in this area and they will now be able to pass on their knowledge. They have planned their own lessons and will carry them out and then evaluate how their lessons went.
When we are not carrying out assessments the children will be writing their own biographies. They started this last week after hearing Roald Dahl's Boy for inspiration, they have produced some interesting work so far and we can't wait to see the finished result.
We did not have time to complete our bread experiment last week and therefore will be making our bread this week.
In Here I Am, the topic of birthdays now moves on to look at the season of advent. We will be looking at the advent wreath and it's meanings and discussing ways in which we prepare to celebrate Jesus' birth.
We also be deciding on reader and singers for our carol service this week and practising the songs and readings.
Finally, Mrs Narraway starts her maternity leave on Friday, we wish her well and hope to hear news of her new baby soon.
Thanks for visiting this weeks very short blogspot, see you next week.
Year 5/6 Team.
Sunday 23 November 2008
Week Beginning 24th November 2008
Hi everyone and welcome to the last blog of November!!
We have a busy week this week. Here are some dates for your diary to begin with.
Non uniform day
This Friday is a non uniform day. We would be grateful if children could bring something for the Tombola stall for the Christmas Fayre.
Christmas Fayre
Saturday sees the Friends of St Vincent’s hold their annual Christmas Fayre, between 11am and 1pm. Please do come along to visit Santa’s grotto and lots of other fun activities and stalls.
The school council would also appreciate any toys and books that are in a good condition for their bring and buy stall.
Operation Christmas Child
If you would like to send a shoebox into school, filled with Christmas gifts, then please do so by WEDNESDAY of this week. You will have received a leaflet explaining the types of things which are suitable to include for each age range. The boxes need to be able to be opened by customs, so securing the lid on with an elastic band is the best way to do this. Please also ensure that you remember to include the correct amount for postage costs.
Christmas Lunch
The children will be having their Christmas lunch on 8th December, so if you would like your child to take part in this, and haven’t already done so, please send in the payment by Monday. Obviously, children will not need a packed lunch for that day, but please bear in mind, that there will be no toast available at morning break on that day.
This weeks curriculum...
Literacy
This week we will be working on arguments.
We have lots of objectives to cover by the end of the week.
We need to be able to read and talk about discussion texts and arguments.
Write discussion text or argument.
Summarise texts and make notes. Identify passive verbs and change them to active.
Build up a bank of words and phrases for discussion and argument.
Take part in discussions, debates or planning inquiries.
By the end of this week the children:-
Must be able to construct a verbal argument.
Should be able to construct a written argument.
Could be able to construct a written argument that can be presented.
Try this website to help:-
http://www.globalfootprints.org/pdf/deserveswater_waterlit56.pdf
Numeracy
This week Mrs Morgan's and Mr Barker's groups will be moving on to multiplying Th H T U x T U and using a fraction as an 'operator' to find fractions of amounts.
The children were very good at multiplying last week and now need to extend this knowledge it's really important to work on your times tables.
Have a look at these websites:-
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/fractions/index.htm
Miss Wright's and Mr Slavin's groups will be working on length and weight.
The children will be suggesting suitable units and equipment to estimate and measure length and weight, measure and draw lines to the nearest millimetre and record estimates and recordings from weighing scales.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm#Measure
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm#Weight
Science
In science we will be looking at the micro-organism Yeast. The children will be investigating the difference in making bread with, and without yeast.
The will also observe the conditions needed in order to help yeast become active.
Why not try making some bread of your own at home.
Try the recipe on this website:-
http://www.foodiesite.com/recipes/2000-07:f4funbread
PE
In PE this week we will be carrying on with orienteering and Mr Wilby from St Greg's will be coming back into school on Tuesday to work with the children on their playground leadership games which they are really enjoying.
That's all for this week.
Year 5/6 Team
We have a busy week this week. Here are some dates for your diary to begin with.
Non uniform day
This Friday is a non uniform day. We would be grateful if children could bring something for the Tombola stall for the Christmas Fayre.
Christmas Fayre
Saturday sees the Friends of St Vincent’s hold their annual Christmas Fayre, between 11am and 1pm. Please do come along to visit Santa’s grotto and lots of other fun activities and stalls.
The school council would also appreciate any toys and books that are in a good condition for their bring and buy stall.
Operation Christmas Child
If you would like to send a shoebox into school, filled with Christmas gifts, then please do so by WEDNESDAY of this week. You will have received a leaflet explaining the types of things which are suitable to include for each age range. The boxes need to be able to be opened by customs, so securing the lid on with an elastic band is the best way to do this. Please also ensure that you remember to include the correct amount for postage costs.
Christmas Lunch
The children will be having their Christmas lunch on 8th December, so if you would like your child to take part in this, and haven’t already done so, please send in the payment by Monday. Obviously, children will not need a packed lunch for that day, but please bear in mind, that there will be no toast available at morning break on that day.
This weeks curriculum...
Literacy
This week we will be working on arguments.
We have lots of objectives to cover by the end of the week.
We need to be able to read and talk about discussion texts and arguments.
Write discussion text or argument.
Summarise texts and make notes. Identify passive verbs and change them to active.
Build up a bank of words and phrases for discussion and argument.
Take part in discussions, debates or planning inquiries.
By the end of this week the children:-
Must be able to construct a verbal argument.
Should be able to construct a written argument.
Could be able to construct a written argument that can be presented.
Try this website to help:-
http://www.globalfootprints.org/pdf/deserveswater_waterlit56.pdf
Numeracy
This week Mrs Morgan's and Mr Barker's groups will be moving on to multiplying Th H T U x T U and using a fraction as an 'operator' to find fractions of amounts.
The children were very good at multiplying last week and now need to extend this knowledge it's really important to work on your times tables.
Have a look at these websites:-
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/fractions/index.htm
Miss Wright's and Mr Slavin's groups will be working on length and weight.
The children will be suggesting suitable units and equipment to estimate and measure length and weight, measure and draw lines to the nearest millimetre and record estimates and recordings from weighing scales.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm#Measure
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm#Weight
Science
In science we will be looking at the micro-organism Yeast. The children will be investigating the difference in making bread with, and without yeast.
The will also observe the conditions needed in order to help yeast become active.
Why not try making some bread of your own at home.
Try the recipe on this website:-
http://www.foodiesite.com/recipes/2000-07:f4funbread
PE
In PE this week we will be carrying on with orienteering and Mr Wilby from St Greg's will be coming back into school on Tuesday to work with the children on their playground leadership games which they are really enjoying.
That's all for this week.
Year 5/6 Team
Sunday 16 November 2008
Week Beginning 17th November 2008
Hi everyone, hope you are having a good weekend.
On Thursday this week it is the Key Stage 2 disco, so get ready to boogie!!
The school council would like to make a plea for toys and books for their bring and buy stall at the Christmas Fair. Please make sure if you do send stuff into school that it is in good working order. Thank you.
This week's curriculum:-
Literacy
This week is our last week on quests. The children have really enjoyed this topic and some of their ideas are fantastic.
We will be working on drama this week. We will be doing some hot seating using the characters from the Lord of the Rings and the children will also be doing some drama on their own quests as well.
We will also finish writing our quests and recording them in different ways using the laptops.
Numeracy
The children did some fantastic work last week on averages using the mean, median, mode and range. They really got to grips with this topic and understood it really well.
This week Mrs Morgan's and Mr Barker's groups will be working on multiplying HTU by TU using standard written methods and multiplying U.th by U.
Try these websites:-
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=Toolkit%20index2ahttp://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/multiplication/written/flash2.shtml multiply by larger numbers by partitioning. http://www.multiplication.com/interactive/quickflash/flash/index.html
Miss Wright's and Mr Slavin's group will be working on symmetry. They will be learning to understand the terms 'reflective symmetry' and 'axis of symmetry' , recognise reflective symmetry in regular polygons, recognise where a shape will after reflection in a mirror line parallel to one side.
Try these websites:-
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/revision_bites/shapes6.shtml
http://www.educationict.org.uk/bpt/symmetry.htm
Science
This week we will be looking at how micro-organisms effect food. We will also be having a look a what micro-organisms look like and them making our 3-d models of them.
If you have any scrap materials at home, for example egg boxes etc please send them into school to help with our model making.
Please see previous blogspots for websites on micro-organisms.
Here I Am.
This week we will be starting our new topic of birthdays. This week we will be recognising reasons for celebrating birthdays.
PE
The children enjoyed doing orienteering last week but got very muddy due to the weather. Please make sure that they have an outdoor PE kit in school at all times.
Music
This week we will be starting to learn some Carols for the Christmas Carol Concert which we are leading this year. It may feel a bit early to be singing Carols but we really haven't got that long left till Christmas so need to make a start.
Thanks for visiting the blogspot.
Year 5/6 Team
On Thursday this week it is the Key Stage 2 disco, so get ready to boogie!!
The school council would like to make a plea for toys and books for their bring and buy stall at the Christmas Fair. Please make sure if you do send stuff into school that it is in good working order. Thank you.
This week's curriculum:-
Literacy
This week is our last week on quests. The children have really enjoyed this topic and some of their ideas are fantastic.
We will be working on drama this week. We will be doing some hot seating using the characters from the Lord of the Rings and the children will also be doing some drama on their own quests as well.
We will also finish writing our quests and recording them in different ways using the laptops.
Numeracy
The children did some fantastic work last week on averages using the mean, median, mode and range. They really got to grips with this topic and understood it really well.
This week Mrs Morgan's and Mr Barker's groups will be working on multiplying HTU by TU using standard written methods and multiplying U.th by U.
Try these websites:-
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=Toolkit%20index2ahttp://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/multiplication/written/flash2.shtml multiply by larger numbers by partitioning. http://www.multiplication.com/interactive/quickflash/flash/index.html
Miss Wright's and Mr Slavin's group will be working on symmetry. They will be learning to understand the terms 'reflective symmetry' and 'axis of symmetry' , recognise reflective symmetry in regular polygons, recognise where a shape will after reflection in a mirror line parallel to one side.
Try these websites:-
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/revision_bites/shapes6.shtml
http://www.educationict.org.uk/bpt/symmetry.htm
Science
This week we will be looking at how micro-organisms effect food. We will also be having a look a what micro-organisms look like and them making our 3-d models of them.
If you have any scrap materials at home, for example egg boxes etc please send them into school to help with our model making.
Please see previous blogspots for websites on micro-organisms.
Here I Am.
This week we will be starting our new topic of birthdays. This week we will be recognising reasons for celebrating birthdays.
PE
The children enjoyed doing orienteering last week but got very muddy due to the weather. Please make sure that they have an outdoor PE kit in school at all times.
Music
This week we will be starting to learn some Carols for the Christmas Carol Concert which we are leading this year. It may feel a bit early to be singing Carols but we really haven't got that long left till Christmas so need to make a start.
Thanks for visiting the blogspot.
Year 5/6 Team
Sunday 9 November 2008
Week Beginning 10th November 2008
Hi everyone, we are all settled back in now and ready for some hard work this half term.
Let get straight to it.
Literacy
We will continue our work on Quests this week. Most of the learning objectives will be the same as last week but we will also be moving on to planning and writing our own quest stories.
Your child should have a sticker in their diary this week about extracts of movies that we will be watching in school this week.
All of the extracts are from children's movies e.g. The Golden Compass, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Lord of the Rings etc but some of these movies are rated PG. If you do not wish your child to watch these then please put a note in their diaries to make us aware of this, we will check all the diaries before we watch any of the movies. Thank you.
The children will have to make notes when watching the movies to help them when they come to plan their own.
Numeracy
This week Mrs Morgan's and Mr Barker's groups will be working on averages and looking at mean, median, mode and range. We will find the mode and range of a set of data, begin to find the mean and median of a set of data and calculate different types of averages of a set of data.
Try these websites:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/activities/modemedianmean.shtml
http://revisionworld.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/mean-median-mode-and-range-rhyme/
Miss Wright's and Mr Slavin's groups will be working on frequency tables and pictograms.
They will be collecting their own data and constructing their own pictograms. They will also study other pictograms and interpret the data.
Try this website to help:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/activities/interpretingdata.shtml
You could also try making your own pictograms at home.
Science
We will continue our work on micro-organisms. We will be looking at food hygiene this week and what it needs to survive. We will be going on a visit to the kitchen and having a look round at the hygiene and also looking at posters and rules that have to be followed when cooking.
You could help at home by discussing with your child how you ensure that your kitchen and food preparation is hygienic.
Topic
We will get back to our Greek topic this week. We will look at the Spartan Army and be designing our own shields and swords for a battle. If you have any cardboard boxes at home that you do not need could you please send them into school so we can use them to make our props.
Please send them in flat so that we can store them in classroom.
Have a look at these websites for information on the Spartan Army:-
http://www.sikyon.com/sparta/history_eg.html
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/government/spartans2.htm
PE
The children have designed their orienteering courses this week and will be using them in the next few weeks in their PE lessons. They will need an outdoor PE kit for these activities. They need old clothes and old trainers as they will be going on the field and will get muddy. Thank you.
That's all for this week, until next time.
Year 5/6 Team.
Let get straight to it.
Literacy
We will continue our work on Quests this week. Most of the learning objectives will be the same as last week but we will also be moving on to planning and writing our own quest stories.
Your child should have a sticker in their diary this week about extracts of movies that we will be watching in school this week.
All of the extracts are from children's movies e.g. The Golden Compass, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Lord of the Rings etc but some of these movies are rated PG. If you do not wish your child to watch these then please put a note in their diaries to make us aware of this, we will check all the diaries before we watch any of the movies. Thank you.
The children will have to make notes when watching the movies to help them when they come to plan their own.
Numeracy
This week Mrs Morgan's and Mr Barker's groups will be working on averages and looking at mean, median, mode and range. We will find the mode and range of a set of data, begin to find the mean and median of a set of data and calculate different types of averages of a set of data.
Try these websites:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/activities/modemedianmean.shtml
http://revisionworld.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/mean-median-mode-and-range-rhyme/
Miss Wright's and Mr Slavin's groups will be working on frequency tables and pictograms.
They will be collecting their own data and constructing their own pictograms. They will also study other pictograms and interpret the data.
Try this website to help:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/activities/interpretingdata.shtml
You could also try making your own pictograms at home.
Science
We will continue our work on micro-organisms. We will be looking at food hygiene this week and what it needs to survive. We will be going on a visit to the kitchen and having a look round at the hygiene and also looking at posters and rules that have to be followed when cooking.
You could help at home by discussing with your child how you ensure that your kitchen and food preparation is hygienic.
Topic
We will get back to our Greek topic this week. We will look at the Spartan Army and be designing our own shields and swords for a battle. If you have any cardboard boxes at home that you do not need could you please send them into school so we can use them to make our props.
Please send them in flat so that we can store them in classroom.
Have a look at these websites for information on the Spartan Army:-
http://www.sikyon.com/sparta/history_eg.html
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/government/spartans2.htm
PE
The children have designed their orienteering courses this week and will be using them in the next few weeks in their PE lessons. They will need an outdoor PE kit for these activities. They need old clothes and old trainers as they will be going on the field and will get muddy. Thank you.
That's all for this week, until next time.
Year 5/6 Team.
Sunday 2 November 2008
Week Beginning 3rd October 2008
Welcome back to a very hectic but fun half term. The half term leading up to Christmas is always an enjoyable one as we can all get into the Christmas spirit.
Thank you to all the parents who attended parents evening during the last week of half term.
We hope you all had a good rest over the holidays and are ready to work your socks off in the run up to Christmas (we have to do something to keep ourselves warm!!).
Literacy
This week we will be looking at a unit of work based on the novels 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' by JR Tolkin , many of the children will have read this book but we will also be reading some of it in school too.
The children will begin to understand what a Quest adventure is.
Understand underlying themes, causes and points of view. /Appraise a text quickly.
Read extensively and discuss personal reading with others including in reading groups.
Use a range of oral techniques to present persuasive arguments.
Explore the setting of a famous quest.
Make notes when listening for a sustained period.
Appraise a text quickly deciding on its value, quality or usefulness.
Summarise a passage, chapter or texts.
Understand how writers use different structures to create coherence and impact.
If you have these books at home why not try sharing them with your child this week?
Numeracy
This week Mrs Morgan's and Mr Barker's groups will be learning to read and plot coordinates in all four quadrants and we will also be looking at the properties of 3d shapes.
Bonfire night is a great time for looking at 3d shapes, if you have fireworks at home you will seen that they come in all manner of 3d shapes, get your child to describe the properties of these shapes, before they are set off of course!!
Miss Wright's and Mr Slavin's groups will be looking at parallel and perpendicular lines, they will learn to recognise parallel and perpendicular lines and to classify triangles using criteria such as equal sides, equal angles and lines of symmetry.
Science
We will continue our topic of micro-organisms this week. We will combine science with history this week and will investigate Edward Jenner, who was a pioneer in discovering vaccinations.
Try these websites to find out information about him:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/jenner_edward.shtml
http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/edwardjenner.html
Topic
We will use our topic time this week to discover what bonfire night is all about. We will research Guy Fawkes and investigate the 'Gun Powder Plot'.
There are many websites about this subject but the children will be using the laptops to research their own information and therefore will find their own websites.
Each group will then give a presentation at the end of the week using the information they have found out on this subject.
Here I Am
We will be focusing on Confirmation this week in our invitation topic. We will discuss how this cements our path into the Church community.
Have a sparkling week and be safe on Wednesday!!
Year 5/6 Team.
Thank you to all the parents who attended parents evening during the last week of half term.
We hope you all had a good rest over the holidays and are ready to work your socks off in the run up to Christmas (we have to do something to keep ourselves warm!!).
Literacy
This week we will be looking at a unit of work based on the novels 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' by JR Tolkin , many of the children will have read this book but we will also be reading some of it in school too.
The children will begin to understand what a Quest adventure is.
Understand underlying themes, causes and points of view. /Appraise a text quickly.
Read extensively and discuss personal reading with others including in reading groups.
Use a range of oral techniques to present persuasive arguments.
Explore the setting of a famous quest.
Make notes when listening for a sustained period.
Appraise a text quickly deciding on its value, quality or usefulness.
Summarise a passage, chapter or texts.
Understand how writers use different structures to create coherence and impact.
If you have these books at home why not try sharing them with your child this week?
Numeracy
This week Mrs Morgan's and Mr Barker's groups will be learning to read and plot coordinates in all four quadrants and we will also be looking at the properties of 3d shapes.
Bonfire night is a great time for looking at 3d shapes, if you have fireworks at home you will seen that they come in all manner of 3d shapes, get your child to describe the properties of these shapes, before they are set off of course!!
Miss Wright's and Mr Slavin's groups will be looking at parallel and perpendicular lines, they will learn to recognise parallel and perpendicular lines and to classify triangles using criteria such as equal sides, equal angles and lines of symmetry.
Science
We will continue our topic of micro-organisms this week. We will combine science with history this week and will investigate Edward Jenner, who was a pioneer in discovering vaccinations.
Try these websites to find out information about him:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/jenner_edward.shtml
http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/edwardjenner.html
Topic
We will use our topic time this week to discover what bonfire night is all about. We will research Guy Fawkes and investigate the 'Gun Powder Plot'.
There are many websites about this subject but the children will be using the laptops to research their own information and therefore will find their own websites.
Each group will then give a presentation at the end of the week using the information they have found out on this subject.
Here I Am
We will be focusing on Confirmation this week in our invitation topic. We will discuss how this cements our path into the Church community.
Have a sparkling week and be safe on Wednesday!!
Year 5/6 Team.
Sunday 19 October 2008
Week Beginning 20th October 2008
Hi everyone, welcome to the last week of this half, where has the time gone?!
This week we will be holding our first parent's evenings of the year, this year they will take place on:-
Monday - 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Tuesday - 3.30pm - 5pm
Thursday - 3.30pm - 5pm
You should have received your appointment time on Friday. Appointments are 10 minutes long and we do try to stick to this time limit.
As this is the last week of the half term we will be assessing and reviewing a lot of the work we have done so far.
Literacy
This week in literacy we will be joining together what we have learned during our topic on journalistic writing and we have learned in our history topic of the Greeks.
We will be reading some Greek myths and we will then turn the story into a news paper report.
After spending Monday reading the myths, the children will then be allowed to choose their favourite one and write a newspaper article on the main event in the myth.
This writing will then be entered into the Primary Art Network book which travels around all the schools in the network so that all the other children and teachers can have a look at the work we have done.
The children are already quite familiar with a lot of the Greek Myths so Monday will be spent reading and reviewing the ones they know in order for the children to make their choice.
Have a look at these websites to refresh your memories on the Greek Myths:-
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/carolrb/greek/greek1.html
http://www.mythweb.com/
http://www.museumnetworkuk.org/myths/
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishC2.htm
Numeracy
In numeracy this week all the groups will be assessed on what they have learned so far. The assessment will be done in the first part of the week so that we can revisit anything that we feel we need to in the rest of the week.
Please see previous blogspots for what we have done so far and websites to help.
Science
We reviewed our topic on reversible and irreversible change last week, this week we will be starting a new topic of micro organisms. The children have already had an insight into this topic from their homework last week.
This week the children should learn that there are very small organisms called micro-organisms which can be harmful and that scientific ideas about diseases are based on evidence.
Try these websites:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/micro_organisms.shtml
http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/curriculum/Science.htm
http://www.mikecurtis.org.uk/ks2_micro_organisms.htm
Here I Am
This week in Here I Am we are on the relate section of the topic and we will be learning what is
required of a candidate for Confirmation.
Topic
This week in our Greek topic we will be using it to work on our newspaper reports and to do some artwork on Greek Myths to include in the Primary Art Network book.
There will be no homework this week as it is parent's evening and it is also the last week of the half term.
Thanks for visiting the blogspot.
Year 5/6 Team.
This week we will be holding our first parent's evenings of the year, this year they will take place on:-
Monday - 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Tuesday - 3.30pm - 5pm
Thursday - 3.30pm - 5pm
You should have received your appointment time on Friday. Appointments are 10 minutes long and we do try to stick to this time limit.
As this is the last week of the half term we will be assessing and reviewing a lot of the work we have done so far.
Literacy
This week in literacy we will be joining together what we have learned during our topic on journalistic writing and we have learned in our history topic of the Greeks.
We will be reading some Greek myths and we will then turn the story into a news paper report.
After spending Monday reading the myths, the children will then be allowed to choose their favourite one and write a newspaper article on the main event in the myth.
This writing will then be entered into the Primary Art Network book which travels around all the schools in the network so that all the other children and teachers can have a look at the work we have done.
The children are already quite familiar with a lot of the Greek Myths so Monday will be spent reading and reviewing the ones they know in order for the children to make their choice.
Have a look at these websites to refresh your memories on the Greek Myths:-
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/carolrb/greek/greek1.html
http://www.mythweb.com/
http://www.museumnetworkuk.org/myths/
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishC2.htm
Numeracy
In numeracy this week all the groups will be assessed on what they have learned so far. The assessment will be done in the first part of the week so that we can revisit anything that we feel we need to in the rest of the week.
Please see previous blogspots for what we have done so far and websites to help.
Science
We reviewed our topic on reversible and irreversible change last week, this week we will be starting a new topic of micro organisms. The children have already had an insight into this topic from their homework last week.
This week the children should learn that there are very small organisms called micro-organisms which can be harmful and that scientific ideas about diseases are based on evidence.
Try these websites:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/micro_organisms.shtml
http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/curriculum/Science.htm
http://www.mikecurtis.org.uk/ks2_micro_organisms.htm
Here I Am
This week in Here I Am we are on the relate section of the topic and we will be learning what is
required of a candidate for Confirmation.
Topic
This week in our Greek topic we will be using it to work on our newspaper reports and to do some artwork on Greek Myths to include in the Primary Art Network book.
There will be no homework this week as it is parent's evening and it is also the last week of the half term.
Thanks for visiting the blogspot.
Year 5/6 Team.
Sunday 12 October 2008
Week Beginning 13th October 2008
Hola amigos!
Welcome to Spanish week.
This week we will be learning a lot about the Spanish language and culture.
On Monday this week it is our annual open day. The school will be open to visitors between 9.30am and 2.30pm, feel free to come in and have a look around.
This week in literacy we will become language detectives. We will use our knowledge of language and familiar stories to learn more about the Spanish language. We will read some well know fairy tales in Spanish and then try and translate them into Spanish.
If you want a preview of the stories have a look at this website:-
http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/languages/default.htm
In numeracy this week Mrs Morgan’s and Mr Barker’s group will be looking at handling date.
We will learn to group discrete data in equal intervals, construct a grouped frequency table, and draw and interpret bar graphs.
Miss Wright’s and Mr Slavin’s groups will be looking at fractions and then also learning about handling data.
They will order fractions on a numbers line and learn to interpret bar graphs.
In our topic time this week we will be studying Spain. We will study Spanish language, art, culture, food and dance.
We will be learning how to talk about the weather in Spanish and also review talking about our families.
We will use the laptops to research Spain and it’s culture and find out about Spanish dancing.
We will discover what food is popular in Spain and do some food tasting towards the end of the week.
We will also look at some Spanish artists, Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali.
Take a look at these websites:-
http://www.paintingiant.com/
http://www.paintingiant.com/artists/francisco-goya.html
http://www.villaspeople.com/spain/stories/villas-in-spain---pablo-picasso--salvador-dali.html
http://www.top-tour-of-spain.com/francisco-goya-biography.html
Hasta luego
Year 5/6 Team
Welcome to Spanish week.
This week we will be learning a lot about the Spanish language and culture.
On Monday this week it is our annual open day. The school will be open to visitors between 9.30am and 2.30pm, feel free to come in and have a look around.
This week in literacy we will become language detectives. We will use our knowledge of language and familiar stories to learn more about the Spanish language. We will read some well know fairy tales in Spanish and then try and translate them into Spanish.
If you want a preview of the stories have a look at this website:-
http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/languages/default.htm
In numeracy this week Mrs Morgan’s and Mr Barker’s group will be looking at handling date.
We will learn to group discrete data in equal intervals, construct a grouped frequency table, and draw and interpret bar graphs.
Miss Wright’s and Mr Slavin’s groups will be looking at fractions and then also learning about handling data.
They will order fractions on a numbers line and learn to interpret bar graphs.
In our topic time this week we will be studying Spain. We will study Spanish language, art, culture, food and dance.
We will be learning how to talk about the weather in Spanish and also review talking about our families.
We will use the laptops to research Spain and it’s culture and find out about Spanish dancing.
We will discover what food is popular in Spain and do some food tasting towards the end of the week.
We will also look at some Spanish artists, Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali.
Take a look at these websites:-
http://www.paintingiant.com/
http://www.paintingiant.com/artists/francisco-goya.html
http://www.villaspeople.com/spain/stories/villas-in-spain---pablo-picasso--salvador-dali.html
http://www.top-tour-of-spain.com/francisco-goya-biography.html
Hasta luego
Year 5/6 Team
Saturday 4 October 2008
Week Beginning 6th October 2008
Hello and welcome to this week's blogspot.
We have been hearing all week about the fantastic time the Year 6's had a Conway and we are glad that they were not too tired to work hard last week!
Homework
Just to clear up a few issues with homework. At the Year 5 induction meeting some parents thought that the children writing sentences to go with their spellings was too much to do as well as their literacy homework. It was decided that if parents felt their children learned their spellings easier by putting them in context then to do the sentences if they didn't feel the need to do that then to leave the sentences and learn the spellings.
We do feel that it helps the children understand the words they are learning better by putting them in a sentence but realise that the children have lots of homework throughout the week.
Curriculum.
Literacy
We have now finished our unit on poetry and the children ended the unit by writing some fantastic poems of their own, we were amazed at the quality of some of their writing.
This week we will be starting a unit of work on journalist writing. If you have any suitable newspapers at home from the weekend then please do send them into school.
We will start the week by looking at fact and faction, the children will be recognising techniques used to argue, persuade, mislead and sway the reader. Use techniques of dialogue to explore issues. Explore fact and fiction and the fact that things written in some newspapers are not always face.
Try these websites:-
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishD9.htm have a look at the features of newspapers.
http://www.headliners.org/?gclid=CNums_C0jZYCFRg1Zwodqw68Fg children's news site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/revision_bites/non_fiction1.shtml
Numeracy
This week Mrs Morgan's and Mr Barker's group will be looking at 2-shapes. We will be using the terms 'parallelogram', 'rhombus' and 'trapezium' and begin to know their properties. We will be classifying quadrilaterals, using criteria such as parallel sides, equal sides and equal angles.
By the end of the week the children:-
MUST be able to recognise parallelograms, rhombus and trapeziums.
SHOULD be able to discuss the properties of these shapes.
COULD be able to draw these shapes by listen to their descriptions.
Miss Wright's and Mr Slavin's groups will be using fraction notation, including mixed numbers, and the vocabulary 'numerator' and 'denominator', changing improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa, recognising when two simple fractions are equivalent.
Science
This week we come to the end of our topic on reversible and irreversible changes. We will be completing an end of unit assessment and review all the work we have done in this topic.
Here I Am
We are also coming to the end of the topic Myself. We will be completing assessments on what we have learned during this topic and linking all our learning together.
PE
The children did PE outside this Thursday even though the weather was so bad. It would be a good idea if the children could bring outdoor PE kits into school in case we have to do PE outside in future. Thank you.
Topic
This week we will be looking at Spartans. We will be looking at the life of a young Spartan solider and how that compares to our life today. See previous blogspots for Greek websites.
On Wednesday Mrs Morgan will be taking 11 of our year 6 children to Evelyn Street Primary School to work with some of their children. Evelyn Street have had the mini laptops in their school for a while now so they are going to train our children to use them and then the children will pass that knowledge on to the rest of year 6.
We also have someone coming in from MGL this week to work with some of the children making podcasts and radio shows.
We would also like to say congratulations to Mrs Millington and her husband Mark on the birth of their new baby boy Oliver. We send them all our love and best wishes.
Thanks for visiting the blogspot.
Year 5/6 Team.
We have been hearing all week about the fantastic time the Year 6's had a Conway and we are glad that they were not too tired to work hard last week!
Homework
Just to clear up a few issues with homework. At the Year 5 induction meeting some parents thought that the children writing sentences to go with their spellings was too much to do as well as their literacy homework. It was decided that if parents felt their children learned their spellings easier by putting them in context then to do the sentences if they didn't feel the need to do that then to leave the sentences and learn the spellings.
We do feel that it helps the children understand the words they are learning better by putting them in a sentence but realise that the children have lots of homework throughout the week.
Curriculum.
Literacy
We have now finished our unit on poetry and the children ended the unit by writing some fantastic poems of their own, we were amazed at the quality of some of their writing.
This week we will be starting a unit of work on journalist writing. If you have any suitable newspapers at home from the weekend then please do send them into school.
We will start the week by looking at fact and faction, the children will be recognising techniques used to argue, persuade, mislead and sway the reader. Use techniques of dialogue to explore issues. Explore fact and fiction and the fact that things written in some newspapers are not always face.
Try these websites:-
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishD9.htm have a look at the features of newspapers.
http://www.headliners.org/?gclid=CNums_C0jZYCFRg1Zwodqw68Fg children's news site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/revision_bites/non_fiction1.shtml
Numeracy
This week Mrs Morgan's and Mr Barker's group will be looking at 2-shapes. We will be using the terms 'parallelogram', 'rhombus' and 'trapezium' and begin to know their properties. We will be classifying quadrilaterals, using criteria such as parallel sides, equal sides and equal angles.
By the end of the week the children:-
MUST be able to recognise parallelograms, rhombus and trapeziums.
SHOULD be able to discuss the properties of these shapes.
COULD be able to draw these shapes by listen to their descriptions.
Miss Wright's and Mr Slavin's groups will be using fraction notation, including mixed numbers, and the vocabulary 'numerator' and 'denominator', changing improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa, recognising when two simple fractions are equivalent.
Science
This week we come to the end of our topic on reversible and irreversible changes. We will be completing an end of unit assessment and review all the work we have done in this topic.
Here I Am
We are also coming to the end of the topic Myself. We will be completing assessments on what we have learned during this topic and linking all our learning together.
PE
The children did PE outside this Thursday even though the weather was so bad. It would be a good idea if the children could bring outdoor PE kits into school in case we have to do PE outside in future. Thank you.
Topic
This week we will be looking at Spartans. We will be looking at the life of a young Spartan solider and how that compares to our life today. See previous blogspots for Greek websites.
On Wednesday Mrs Morgan will be taking 11 of our year 6 children to Evelyn Street Primary School to work with some of their children. Evelyn Street have had the mini laptops in their school for a while now so they are going to train our children to use them and then the children will pass that knowledge on to the rest of year 6.
We also have someone coming in from MGL this week to work with some of the children making podcasts and radio shows.
We would also like to say congratulations to Mrs Millington and her husband Mark on the birth of their new baby boy Oliver. We send them all our love and best wishes.
Thanks for visiting the blogspot.
Year 5/6 Team.
Sunday 28 September 2008
Week Beginning 29th September 2008
Hi everyone and welcome to this week's blogspot.
We welcomed our Year 6's back from the Conway Centre on Friday, very tired and suntanned! They had a fantastic time and I'm sure they have been very tired this weekend. Their behaviour was fantastic and the staff at the Conway Centre always comment on how well the children from St. Vincent's behave, this year was no exception and again the staff were really impressed. Well done children you were a credit to yourselves, our school and your parents.
Our 5's had a great time in school learning about space and all that it entails, they were really interested in this topic and directed their own learning around what they wanted to know. Thank you to the children for completed their homework presentations in such a professional way. We really enjoyed them and learned a lot, we were very impressed with the effort that had gone into to them. Thank you.
We would also like to thank you for all the generous donations for our Harvest Festival. We will be holding Harvest Festival Mass in school on Tuesday morning at 9.10am. Feel free to join us but please remember as always space is limited.
This week we all get back together and continue with our curriculum for this half term.
Literacy
We are continuing with our poetry theme this week. The children have read and responded to lots of different poems by Pie Corbett and Valerie Bloom.
This week they will be learning to:-
Understand different ways to take the lead and support others in groups.
Make notes on and use evidence from across a text to explain ideas. Compare different types of poems and identify how they are structured.
Compare different types of poems and identify how they are structured.
Experiment with different poetry forms and styles to write their own poems. Adapt non-narrative forms and styles to write poetry.
Adapt sentence construction to achieve different effects.
Use ICT programs to present texts.
Perform a poem making use of dramatic conventions.
There is a lot to get through this week but basically the children will be using what they have learned in the previous week to write, improve and inform their own poetry.
Numeracy
This week in numeracy Mr Barker and Mrs Morgan's group will be consolidating knowing by heart the division facts up to 10 x 10., using the relationship between multiplication and division to multiply and divide mentally.
Express a number as a fraction or a decimal rounded to one decimal place and consolidate rounding up and down after division.
Miss Wright's and Mr Slavin's group will be concentrating on similar objectives but will be looking at at having a remainder after dividing instead of expressing it as a fraction or decimal.
The children will also have some numeracy word lists stuck into their diaries this week. The lists look similar to the High Frequency Words lists. The words are to be used to help the children understand the language of mathematics. The children will be focusing on 3 words a week and will have to be able to read and understand them.
A good website to help with this is:-
http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/
Science
We will be continuing our topic of reversible and irreversible change. This week we shall be baking some bread to help us understand how a new material is formed after an irreversible change.
Why not try baking some cakes or pancakes at home to help demonstrate this?
Topic
Our Ancient Greek topic this week will focus on looking at understanding how the physical geography of Greece affected how the Ancient Greeks settled.
Find out about the past from a range of sources of info. Ask &d answer questions about the past, selecting relevant info.
We will be looking at the physical geography of Ancient Greece and modern Greece.
Try these websites to help:-
http://www.ancientgreece.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/main_menu.shtml
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/greece/athens.htm
PE
Last week the Warrington Wolves coaches had to cancel the Year 5's first sessions of Tag Rugby training.
We are assured that they will be in school this week to start the children's training on Wednesday afternoon.
On Thursday the children will be continuing with their Ancient Olympics theme.
That's it for another busy week in Year 5/6.
Until next week.
Year 5/6 Team.
We welcomed our Year 6's back from the Conway Centre on Friday, very tired and suntanned! They had a fantastic time and I'm sure they have been very tired this weekend. Their behaviour was fantastic and the staff at the Conway Centre always comment on how well the children from St. Vincent's behave, this year was no exception and again the staff were really impressed. Well done children you were a credit to yourselves, our school and your parents.
Our 5's had a great time in school learning about space and all that it entails, they were really interested in this topic and directed their own learning around what they wanted to know. Thank you to the children for completed their homework presentations in such a professional way. We really enjoyed them and learned a lot, we were very impressed with the effort that had gone into to them. Thank you.
We would also like to thank you for all the generous donations for our Harvest Festival. We will be holding Harvest Festival Mass in school on Tuesday morning at 9.10am. Feel free to join us but please remember as always space is limited.
This week we all get back together and continue with our curriculum for this half term.
Literacy
We are continuing with our poetry theme this week. The children have read and responded to lots of different poems by Pie Corbett and Valerie Bloom.
This week they will be learning to:-
Understand different ways to take the lead and support others in groups.
Make notes on and use evidence from across a text to explain ideas. Compare different types of poems and identify how they are structured.
Compare different types of poems and identify how they are structured.
Experiment with different poetry forms and styles to write their own poems. Adapt non-narrative forms and styles to write poetry.
Adapt sentence construction to achieve different effects.
Use ICT programs to present texts.
Perform a poem making use of dramatic conventions.
There is a lot to get through this week but basically the children will be using what they have learned in the previous week to write, improve and inform their own poetry.
Numeracy
This week in numeracy Mr Barker and Mrs Morgan's group will be consolidating knowing by heart the division facts up to 10 x 10., using the relationship between multiplication and division to multiply and divide mentally.
Express a number as a fraction or a decimal rounded to one decimal place and consolidate rounding up and down after division.
Miss Wright's and Mr Slavin's group will be concentrating on similar objectives but will be looking at at having a remainder after dividing instead of expressing it as a fraction or decimal.
The children will also have some numeracy word lists stuck into their diaries this week. The lists look similar to the High Frequency Words lists. The words are to be used to help the children understand the language of mathematics. The children will be focusing on 3 words a week and will have to be able to read and understand them.
A good website to help with this is:-
http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/
Science
We will be continuing our topic of reversible and irreversible change. This week we shall be baking some bread to help us understand how a new material is formed after an irreversible change.
Why not try baking some cakes or pancakes at home to help demonstrate this?
Topic
Our Ancient Greek topic this week will focus on looking at understanding how the physical geography of Greece affected how the Ancient Greeks settled.
Find out about the past from a range of sources of info. Ask &d answer questions about the past, selecting relevant info.
We will be looking at the physical geography of Ancient Greece and modern Greece.
Try these websites to help:-
http://www.ancientgreece.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/main_menu.shtml
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/greece/athens.htm
PE
Last week the Warrington Wolves coaches had to cancel the Year 5's first sessions of Tag Rugby training.
We are assured that they will be in school this week to start the children's training on Wednesday afternoon.
On Thursday the children will be continuing with their Ancient Olympics theme.
That's it for another busy week in Year 5/6.
Until next week.
Year 5/6 Team.
Saturday 20 September 2008
Week Beginning 22nd September 2008
Hi everyone,
Well this week is the week our Year 6s head off for a fantastic week at the Conway Centre! If you are reading this children please do not drive your parents up the wall this weekend with your excitement, I'm sure they are already very jealous of all the fun you are going to have at the centre and there is no need to rub it in, I know I am really envious of all the fantastic activities you will do while there. Please make sure you get loads of sleep over the weekend you will definitely need it.
Mr Barker, Miss Wright, Mr Slavin and Mrs Walker will be accompanying the children to the centre and we thank them for giving up their own time and families to make the trip possible.
Mrs Morgan will be staying at school this week with the Year 5's, just because we are not going to the Conway centre this week doesn't mean that we can't have just as much fun back at school, we are going to have an out of this world time!!
This week we are going to take on theme of SPACE. There are lots of activities planned for the children around this theme and we will have a great time while also learning at lot.
We will be making are very own 3d planets, designing our own imaginary planets, making leaflets for aliens and writing our very own planet poetry.
Homework this week will take the form of a presentation to be completed by Friday. They can choose any of the planets in the solar system to complete their presentation on. They should look at the size of the planet, it's landscape, distance from the sun, climate, moons etc.
They can choose how to display their work, whether it be a powerpoint presentation, some art work or a model, it's up to them to decide.
Try these websites:-
http://www.icteachers.co.uk/children/cyberhunts/solar_system/sosystem.htm Key Stage 2 –5E – Earth, Sun and Moon – A cyberhunt for children.
www.scienceyear.com/parents/school_pack/ks2.html
www.engineeringinteract.org/teachers5.htm
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/teacher/science.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/earth_sun_moon.shtml
http://www.engineeringinteract.org/teachers5.htm
This week in maths we will be focusing on Area and Perimeter. We will be learning to understand area measured in square centimetres. Understand and use the formula in words 'length x breadth' for the area of a rectangle. Understand, measure and calculate perimeters of rectangles.
Try these websites to get you started:-
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/perimeter_and_area/index.html
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/mathsE4.htm
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/mathsE4.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaU1eX_DPkY&feature=related Perimeter and area songs on teacher tube, please supervise your child if they are going to use this link at not all the videos on youtube should be accessed by children.
In PE this week the children will be doing some dance work on the planets.
Warrington Wolves will be coming into school to work with the children playing tag rugby. They will start this week on Wednesday and will come in for the rest of the half term every Wednesday afternoon. Please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school at all times.
On Friday this week it will be non-uniform day for the Harvest Festival. The children can come into school wearing non-uniform clothes and we ask that they bring an item for the Harvest Festival. Thank you.
That's the end of this weeks short blogspot, we hope are Year 6 have a great time at Conway.
Year 5/6 Team.
Well this week is the week our Year 6s head off for a fantastic week at the Conway Centre! If you are reading this children please do not drive your parents up the wall this weekend with your excitement, I'm sure they are already very jealous of all the fun you are going to have at the centre and there is no need to rub it in, I know I am really envious of all the fantastic activities you will do while there. Please make sure you get loads of sleep over the weekend you will definitely need it.
Mr Barker, Miss Wright, Mr Slavin and Mrs Walker will be accompanying the children to the centre and we thank them for giving up their own time and families to make the trip possible.
Mrs Morgan will be staying at school this week with the Year 5's, just because we are not going to the Conway centre this week doesn't mean that we can't have just as much fun back at school, we are going to have an out of this world time!!
This week we are going to take on theme of SPACE. There are lots of activities planned for the children around this theme and we will have a great time while also learning at lot.
We will be making are very own 3d planets, designing our own imaginary planets, making leaflets for aliens and writing our very own planet poetry.
Homework this week will take the form of a presentation to be completed by Friday. They can choose any of the planets in the solar system to complete their presentation on. They should look at the size of the planet, it's landscape, distance from the sun, climate, moons etc.
They can choose how to display their work, whether it be a powerpoint presentation, some art work or a model, it's up to them to decide.
Try these websites:-
http://www.icteachers.co.uk/children/cyberhunts/solar_system/sosystem.htm Key Stage 2 –5E – Earth, Sun and Moon – A cyberhunt for children.
www.scienceyear.com/parents/school_pack/ks2.html
www.engineeringinteract.org/teachers5.htm
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/teacher/science.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/earth_sun_moon.shtml
http://www.engineeringinteract.org/teachers5.htm
This week in maths we will be focusing on Area and Perimeter. We will be learning to understand area measured in square centimetres. Understand and use the formula in words 'length x breadth' for the area of a rectangle. Understand, measure and calculate perimeters of rectangles.
Try these websites to get you started:-
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/perimeter_and_area/index.html
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/mathsE4.htm
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/mathsE4.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaU1eX_DPkY&feature=related Perimeter and area songs on teacher tube, please supervise your child if they are going to use this link at not all the videos on youtube should be accessed by children.
In PE this week the children will be doing some dance work on the planets.
Warrington Wolves will be coming into school to work with the children playing tag rugby. They will start this week on Wednesday and will come in for the rest of the half term every Wednesday afternoon. Please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school at all times.
On Friday this week it will be non-uniform day for the Harvest Festival. The children can come into school wearing non-uniform clothes and we ask that they bring an item for the Harvest Festival. Thank you.
That's the end of this weeks short blogspot, we hope are Year 6 have a great time at Conway.
Year 5/6 Team.
Sunday 14 September 2008
Week Beginning 15th September 2008
Hi and welcome to this week's blog.
We have now finished our induction and assessment period in school and this week will embark on the Year 5/6 curriculum.
Dates
This week we will be holding our annual induction meetings. This year we have decided to do two different meetings for Year 5 and 6 as the issues in each year group is different.
Our Year 5 induction meeting will take place on Tuesday 16th September at 3.15pm and our Year 6 induction meeting will take place on Wednesday 17th September at 3.15pm, we look forward to seeing you there.
On Thursday 18th September at 3.30pm somebody from the Conway Centre will be coming into school to give a presentation on to the parents of our Year 6 children about their visit to the centre. Staff will also be at the meeting and there will be the chance for you to ask any questions you may have.
Curriculum
Literacy
In Literacy this week we will be looking at Poetry and in particular to the power of imagery in poetry.
We will learn to understand what personification means.
Compare how writers from different times and places present experiences and use language. Understand how writers use different structures to create coherence and impact.
Select words and language drawing on their knowledge of literary features.
Try these websites to remind you of the different features of poems.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/activities/poetry.shtml revision on poetry features.
http://www.poetryteachers.com/ a selection of poems.
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/ a collection on humorous poems.
Numeracy
The children will be put into their numeracy groups this week. There will be four groups taught by Mr Barker, Mr Slavin, Miss Wright and Mrs Morgan.
This week as it's the first week all the children will be starting the week with a times tables test.
They will then go onto looking at place value.
Mr Barker and Mrs Morgan's groups will be multiplying and dividing whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100, 1000
By the end of the week they..
MUST be able to multiply and divide whole numbers by 10, 100, and 1000.
SHOULD be able to multiply and divide decimal numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.
COULD multiply and divide whole numbers and decimal numbers by 10000 and 100000.
Miss Wright and Mr Slavin's groups will be learning to read and write whole numbers in figures and words and know what each digit represents. They will use the vocabulary of ordering numbers including the symbols < > and =.
Try these websites for some practice.
http://edhelper.com/place_value.htm
http://www.active-maths.co.uk/worksheets/2place/ ordering whole numbers.
Here I Am
Our Here I Am topic is Myself. At the beginning of this topic we will be looking at the qualities the children have or would like to have and what God is like.
Topic
Our topic this term will be the Ancient Greeks, we thought this would be a fitting topic having watched the Olympic games over the summer.
The children have already completed some research at home to get them started with the topic and this week we will be correctly sequencing periods in history including Ancient Greece.
Placing events people and changes into periods of time. Using dates and vocabulary relating to the passing of time, including ancient, modern, BC AD century and decade.
Here are some Ancient Greek websites to arose your interest.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/timeline/index.shtml
http://www.ancientgreece.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/main_menu.shtml
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/greece/athens.htm
PE
The children started their PE lessons last week. They are completing work on Ancient Greek Olympics and a unit of work on Greek dance.
Could you please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school at all times, there were 8 children in one class without PE kits this week! If children do not have their PE kits this week they will miss golden time. PE is a required part if the curriculum and it's also crucial to children's physical development.
That's all for this week.
Year 5/6 Team.
We have now finished our induction and assessment period in school and this week will embark on the Year 5/6 curriculum.
Dates
This week we will be holding our annual induction meetings. This year we have decided to do two different meetings for Year 5 and 6 as the issues in each year group is different.
Our Year 5 induction meeting will take place on Tuesday 16th September at 3.15pm and our Year 6 induction meeting will take place on Wednesday 17th September at 3.15pm, we look forward to seeing you there.
On Thursday 18th September at 3.30pm somebody from the Conway Centre will be coming into school to give a presentation on to the parents of our Year 6 children about their visit to the centre. Staff will also be at the meeting and there will be the chance for you to ask any questions you may have.
Curriculum
Literacy
In Literacy this week we will be looking at Poetry and in particular to the power of imagery in poetry.
We will learn to understand what personification means.
Compare how writers from different times and places present experiences and use language. Understand how writers use different structures to create coherence and impact.
Select words and language drawing on their knowledge of literary features.
Try these websites to remind you of the different features of poems.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/activities/poetry.shtml revision on poetry features.
http://www.poetryteachers.com/ a selection of poems.
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/ a collection on humorous poems.
Numeracy
The children will be put into their numeracy groups this week. There will be four groups taught by Mr Barker, Mr Slavin, Miss Wright and Mrs Morgan.
This week as it's the first week all the children will be starting the week with a times tables test.
They will then go onto looking at place value.
Mr Barker and Mrs Morgan's groups will be multiplying and dividing whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100, 1000
By the end of the week they..
MUST be able to multiply and divide whole numbers by 10, 100, and 1000.
SHOULD be able to multiply and divide decimal numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.
COULD multiply and divide whole numbers and decimal numbers by 10000 and 100000.
Miss Wright and Mr Slavin's groups will be learning to read and write whole numbers in figures and words and know what each digit represents. They will use the vocabulary of ordering numbers including the symbols < > and =.
Try these websites for some practice.
http://edhelper.com/place_value.htm
http://www.active-maths.co.uk/worksheets/2place/ ordering whole numbers.
Here I Am
Our Here I Am topic is Myself. At the beginning of this topic we will be looking at the qualities the children have or would like to have and what God is like.
Topic
Our topic this term will be the Ancient Greeks, we thought this would be a fitting topic having watched the Olympic games over the summer.
The children have already completed some research at home to get them started with the topic and this week we will be correctly sequencing periods in history including Ancient Greece.
Placing events people and changes into periods of time. Using dates and vocabulary relating to the passing of time, including ancient, modern, BC AD century and decade.
Here are some Ancient Greek websites to arose your interest.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/timeline/index.shtml
http://www.ancientgreece.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/main_menu.shtml
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/greece/athens.htm
PE
The children started their PE lessons last week. They are completing work on Ancient Greek Olympics and a unit of work on Greek dance.
Could you please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school at all times, there were 8 children in one class without PE kits this week! If children do not have their PE kits this week they will miss golden time. PE is a required part if the curriculum and it's also crucial to children's physical development.
That's all for this week.
Year 5/6 Team.
Friday 5 September 2008
Week Beginning 8th September 2008
Hi everyone and welcome to a new school year!
We would like to start this week by thanking all the children for coming back to school looking so smart and with with fantastic attitudes and behaviour. We spent Wednesday, Thursday and Friday getting used to school routines and getting to know each other.
This week will be spent assessing the children so that we have a clearer idea of what each child's targets are and how we can plan work so that the children achieve their full potential.
There will also be a lot of other activities going on this week.
Housekeeping!
This blogspot will be updated every weekend in preparation for the week ahead. We will include details of everything your child will be learning, ideas of how you can support your child and websites which can you can access at home to continue what has been learned at school.
If there is anything which we haven't included and you feel would be useful, then please do let us know!
Please ensure your child brings a coat to school, we have had a number of children with no coats last week and with the weather being so bad they really do need one. Thank you.
PE
PE in Year 5/6 this year will take place on a Thursday and Friday, please ensure that your child's PE kit is in school this week as we will be starting. Thursday's PE session will be taken by Mrs Morgan and Friday's PE session will be taken by your child's class teacher.
Conway
There are still some outstanding medical forms for the Conway trip. We really can't stress how important it is for these to be sent in, we need to send them off to the centre as soon as possible so they can prepare themselves for our arrival.
On Thursday 18th September at 3.30pm somebody from the Conway Centre will be holding a meeting in school about your child's trip. This is your opportunity to find out what they will be doing while there and also to ask any questions about the centre.
Teachers will also be at the meeting, so if you need to ask any questions or are worried about anything then please do not hesitate to speak to them.
Homework
Homework will begin next week for Year 5/6, although spellings will be sent out this week. Each week, your child will receive a set of spellings, which they need to learn for a spelling test on Fridays. We would also like them to use these spellings, to create a series of sentences, to develop their vocabulary, punctuation and sentence structure.
They will also bring home a piece of numeracy and literacy to be completed on a weekly basis. Literacy and Numeracy will be given out on MONDAYS to be returned on THURSDAYS.
Science homework will be given out on WEDNESDAYS to be returned on TUESDAYS. We would ask that you sign and date your child's homework before they hand it in.
A research homework sheet did go home this week. We sent this home in preparation for starting our topic of the Greeks. This is not a formal, assessed piece of homework we just though it would be better if the children have a bit of background information before we start the topic. There are suggested websites on the sheet for you to have a look at this week.
Induction meeting
We will be holding our annual induction meetings on Tuesday 16th at 3.15pm for Year 5 parents and Wednesday 17th at 3.15pm for Year 6 parents. We have decided to spilt the induction meetings this year as we need to address different issues in Year 5 and Year 6. We will be discussing all the issues that are important throughout the year, as well as giving you the opportunity to ask us anything that can help to support your child's learning. We look forward to seeing you there.
Finally, your child should bring home their diary EVERY day for you to read and sign. This blogspot is a means of communicating activities and news for all of year 5/6, but the diary is an individual way we can inform you of your child's progress. It can be difficult to get your child to read aloud at this age, but you can still check their understanding of the text by asking them questions about what they have read. We love reading your comments in the diaries and it gives your child a real boost to know that you are helping them in their learning.
Here's to happy week!
Year 5/6 Team.
We would like to start this week by thanking all the children for coming back to school looking so smart and with with fantastic attitudes and behaviour. We spent Wednesday, Thursday and Friday getting used to school routines and getting to know each other.
This week will be spent assessing the children so that we have a clearer idea of what each child's targets are and how we can plan work so that the children achieve their full potential.
There will also be a lot of other activities going on this week.
Housekeeping!
This blogspot will be updated every weekend in preparation for the week ahead. We will include details of everything your child will be learning, ideas of how you can support your child and websites which can you can access at home to continue what has been learned at school.
If there is anything which we haven't included and you feel would be useful, then please do let us know!
Please ensure your child brings a coat to school, we have had a number of children with no coats last week and with the weather being so bad they really do need one. Thank you.
PE
PE in Year 5/6 this year will take place on a Thursday and Friday, please ensure that your child's PE kit is in school this week as we will be starting. Thursday's PE session will be taken by Mrs Morgan and Friday's PE session will be taken by your child's class teacher.
Conway
There are still some outstanding medical forms for the Conway trip. We really can't stress how important it is for these to be sent in, we need to send them off to the centre as soon as possible so they can prepare themselves for our arrival.
On Thursday 18th September at 3.30pm somebody from the Conway Centre will be holding a meeting in school about your child's trip. This is your opportunity to find out what they will be doing while there and also to ask any questions about the centre.
Teachers will also be at the meeting, so if you need to ask any questions or are worried about anything then please do not hesitate to speak to them.
Homework
Homework will begin next week for Year 5/6, although spellings will be sent out this week. Each week, your child will receive a set of spellings, which they need to learn for a spelling test on Fridays. We would also like them to use these spellings, to create a series of sentences, to develop their vocabulary, punctuation and sentence structure.
They will also bring home a piece of numeracy and literacy to be completed on a weekly basis. Literacy and Numeracy will be given out on MONDAYS to be returned on THURSDAYS.
Science homework will be given out on WEDNESDAYS to be returned on TUESDAYS. We would ask that you sign and date your child's homework before they hand it in.
A research homework sheet did go home this week. We sent this home in preparation for starting our topic of the Greeks. This is not a formal, assessed piece of homework we just though it would be better if the children have a bit of background information before we start the topic. There are suggested websites on the sheet for you to have a look at this week.
Induction meeting
We will be holding our annual induction meetings on Tuesday 16th at 3.15pm for Year 5 parents and Wednesday 17th at 3.15pm for Year 6 parents. We have decided to spilt the induction meetings this year as we need to address different issues in Year 5 and Year 6. We will be discussing all the issues that are important throughout the year, as well as giving you the opportunity to ask us anything that can help to support your child's learning. We look forward to seeing you there.
Finally, your child should bring home their diary EVERY day for you to read and sign. This blogspot is a means of communicating activities and news for all of year 5/6, but the diary is an individual way we can inform you of your child's progress. It can be difficult to get your child to read aloud at this age, but you can still check their understanding of the text by asking them questions about what they have read. We love reading your comments in the diaries and it gives your child a real boost to know that you are helping them in their learning.
Here's to happy week!
Year 5/6 Team.
Sunday 13 July 2008
Week Beginning 14th July 2008
Hello and welcome to a very emotional blogspot, our last of this academic year!
As of yet we have still not received our Year 6 SATs results in school. We are hoping they will arrive this week but as you are probably aware there have been a number of problems with new systems introduced this year. We aim to get the results out as soon as we receive them. Thank you for your patience.
There are a number of things happening in school this week so here we go.
Monday
The whole school are on their annual visit to Gulliver's World. We will be leaving school at 9.15am and returning at 3pm.
We hope that the weather will be kind to us but remembering last year's wash out please ensure your child has a waterproof coat.
All children will need a packed lunch with a few drinks as are out for the whole day.
They can bring a couple of pound to spend in the shop but as the children have visited Gulliver's World on a number of occasions we will not be spending a long time in the shop.
When we return to school please collect your child from the playground as usual, it is very difficult to keep track of where the children are if parents collect them from the coaches.
Thank you to all those parents who have offered to help out, we really appreciate it.
Tuesday
On Tuesday evening at 6.30pm we have a real treat in store. The children will be performing some songs in their production 'A Night with the Stars'.
You should have received your tickets for this production and some for Wednesday afternoon's production. If they have not made their way home please see one of the team as soon as possible. We cannot allow admission without a ticket due to health and safety.
We would like to thank parents for their effort with the children's costumes, they are fantastic and we had a real laugh on Friday when they tried them on. Thank you very much it really makes a big difference to the performance.
Wednesday
We will also be performing on Wednesday afternoon at 1.30pm.
Wednesday evening is the time for the leavers disco, very emotional and lots of fun.
Friday
On Friday we have our leavers mass. It will take place in the school hall at 9am, you are very welcome to join us but as usual space is limited.
On Friday we say a final goodbye to out Year 6 children. This is a very said time for us as we have watched them grow into the young people they are today. We hope that they will come back and visit us from time to time and make us feel really old!
We wish them all the luck in the world with lives, in high school and further.
We will see our Year 5 children next year and they now know which teacher they will be having. You should have received their reports on Friday.
We look forward to welcoming our Year 4 children into Year 5/6.
Finally thank you for your support this year, it has been very busy but happy and we have had a great time along the way!!
See you September.
Year 5/6 Team.
As of yet we have still not received our Year 6 SATs results in school. We are hoping they will arrive this week but as you are probably aware there have been a number of problems with new systems introduced this year. We aim to get the results out as soon as we receive them. Thank you for your patience.
There are a number of things happening in school this week so here we go.
Monday
The whole school are on their annual visit to Gulliver's World. We will be leaving school at 9.15am and returning at 3pm.
We hope that the weather will be kind to us but remembering last year's wash out please ensure your child has a waterproof coat.
All children will need a packed lunch with a few drinks as are out for the whole day.
They can bring a couple of pound to spend in the shop but as the children have visited Gulliver's World on a number of occasions we will not be spending a long time in the shop.
When we return to school please collect your child from the playground as usual, it is very difficult to keep track of where the children are if parents collect them from the coaches.
Thank you to all those parents who have offered to help out, we really appreciate it.
Tuesday
On Tuesday evening at 6.30pm we have a real treat in store. The children will be performing some songs in their production 'A Night with the Stars'.
You should have received your tickets for this production and some for Wednesday afternoon's production. If they have not made their way home please see one of the team as soon as possible. We cannot allow admission without a ticket due to health and safety.
We would like to thank parents for their effort with the children's costumes, they are fantastic and we had a real laugh on Friday when they tried them on. Thank you very much it really makes a big difference to the performance.
Wednesday
We will also be performing on Wednesday afternoon at 1.30pm.
Wednesday evening is the time for the leavers disco, very emotional and lots of fun.
Friday
On Friday we have our leavers mass. It will take place in the school hall at 9am, you are very welcome to join us but as usual space is limited.
On Friday we say a final goodbye to out Year 6 children. This is a very said time for us as we have watched them grow into the young people they are today. We hope that they will come back and visit us from time to time and make us feel really old!
We wish them all the luck in the world with lives, in high school and further.
We will see our Year 5 children next year and they now know which teacher they will be having. You should have received their reports on Friday.
We look forward to welcoming our Year 4 children into Year 5/6.
Finally thank you for your support this year, it has been very busy but happy and we have had a great time along the way!!
See you September.
Year 5/6 Team.
Thursday 3 July 2008
Week Beginning 7th July 2008
Hi everyone,
We really can't believe that we are nearly at the end of another very busy and eventful school year! Our Year 6 children are looking forward to moving on to the High School and we are looking forward to our Year 5's becoming Year 6's and our Year 4's moving up to Year 5.
Last week our Year 6 children started a transition unit in RE with Miss Conlon from St Gregory's High School. Miss Conlon will also be coming into school on Monday morning to work with the Year 6's.
We did get outside last week and do some practice for Sports Day, we are really hoping that it will go ahead and if the weather permits it will take place on Tuesday 8th July, if not it will take place on Thursday 10th July. We are keeping everything crossed!
Our end of year production is starting to take shape now. Hopefully your child will have told you if they need a costume, if not you can pop in and see one of the Year 5/6 team and we will be happy to point you in the right direction.
We will be spending a lot of the week practicing for the production.
There will be no homework this week as we feel the time is needed to get costumes ready and learn song lyrics.
We now have the dates for our production 'A Night with the Stars', it will take place on Tuesday 15th July in the evening and Wednesday 16th July in the afternoon. You should receive your tickets soon so keep an eye of for them this week.
As usual we cannot allow entrance without a ticket due to health and safety regulations.
We are hoping that reports will go out at the end of next week but up to now we have still not received our Year 6 SATs results back into school, so hopefully they will arrive this week and we can get the reports out.
This week we will spend our time in class preparing for next year. We will be completing a piece of writing to pass up to the next teacher. We will also be completing some teacher and self assessments in maths and science to pass on to the next teacher.
That brings us to end of this weeks very short blog, although it is short we have lots to fit in, so much to do so little time!
Have a great week.
Year 5/6 Team.
We really can't believe that we are nearly at the end of another very busy and eventful school year! Our Year 6 children are looking forward to moving on to the High School and we are looking forward to our Year 5's becoming Year 6's and our Year 4's moving up to Year 5.
Last week our Year 6 children started a transition unit in RE with Miss Conlon from St Gregory's High School. Miss Conlon will also be coming into school on Monday morning to work with the Year 6's.
We did get outside last week and do some practice for Sports Day, we are really hoping that it will go ahead and if the weather permits it will take place on Tuesday 8th July, if not it will take place on Thursday 10th July. We are keeping everything crossed!
Our end of year production is starting to take shape now. Hopefully your child will have told you if they need a costume, if not you can pop in and see one of the Year 5/6 team and we will be happy to point you in the right direction.
We will be spending a lot of the week practicing for the production.
There will be no homework this week as we feel the time is needed to get costumes ready and learn song lyrics.
We now have the dates for our production 'A Night with the Stars', it will take place on Tuesday 15th July in the evening and Wednesday 16th July in the afternoon. You should receive your tickets soon so keep an eye of for them this week.
As usual we cannot allow entrance without a ticket due to health and safety regulations.
We are hoping that reports will go out at the end of next week but up to now we have still not received our Year 6 SATs results back into school, so hopefully they will arrive this week and we can get the reports out.
This week we will spend our time in class preparing for next year. We will be completing a piece of writing to pass up to the next teacher. We will also be completing some teacher and self assessments in maths and science to pass on to the next teacher.
That brings us to end of this weeks very short blog, although it is short we have lots to fit in, so much to do so little time!
Have a great week.
Year 5/6 Team.
Sunday 29 June 2008
Week Beginning 30th June 2008
Hi everyone,
Hope you are all well rested after our busy week last week.
The children who took part in the dance at the Parr Hall were fantastic and the behaviour was exemplary considering it was such a long day, thank you children.
Mrs Clancy and Mrs Hemmings were extremely impressed with the children they took along to the Steel Pan Workshop last week. They were amazed at how much the children took in such a short amount of time and also congratulated the children on their excellent behaviour. Thank you to Mrs Clancy and Mrs Hemmings for taking the children to the event.
Most of the Year 5 and 6 children took part in 'The Kids of Steel Triathlon' on Friday morning. This was a great event which the children really enjoyed, we were really lucky to be able to take all of the children and we had a great time.
It was also Spanish week last week and the children did lots of work on Spain and the Spanish language. They came in with some fantastic homework on a famous Spanish person. They also enjoyed the Flamenco dancing on Thursday, even the boys, who weren't too keen at first. We even had children Flamenco dancing out of school on Friday afternoon!!
This week is also a busy one, so much for lazy summer days!
We will start our preparations for Sports Day this week. We are really hopeful that the weather will be kind to us as we love Sports Day, but as I am writing this the sky has just gone black and I have had to run outside and bring the washing in!!
Anyway we shall persevere and sort out which races the children are in tomorrow. We may have to go outside at a moments notice this week (whenever the weather allows) so it is important that the children have their PE kit in school at all times. They will need a white t-shirt and blue shorts and suitable footwear. It is also a good idea for them to have suncream, a cap and a water bottle in school each day.
If the weather permits Sports Day will take place in the 8th July, the 10th July is our reserve date in case it has to be cancelled, hopefully it will go ahead.
On Tuesday our Year 6 children have a teacher from St Gregory's RE department coming in to school to start a transition project with them. She will come in this Tuesday and next Monday.
Most of this week will be spent putting together our production. The date has still not been finalised yet and hopefully we should be able to do this tomorrow and let you know. Because we have been so busy over the last few weeks we have hardly had any time to practice, therefore most of this week will be spent on preparations.
What with Sports Day practice and Production practice you will be wondering if we can fit in any curriculum this week but as always the answer is yes!
We will be continuing with our work on Spanish artists and also making clay models with Mrs Fox.
We also have our modern day Shakespeare stories to write after we planned them a few weeks ago and we have myths to write which we also planned a few weeks ago.
In maths we will be reviewing our learning over the past few weeks as we have not had to the time to do the subjects we have looked at in enough detail.
Please see the last few weeks blogspots for information and websites.
Thanks.
Year 5/6 Team.
Hope you are all well rested after our busy week last week.
The children who took part in the dance at the Parr Hall were fantastic and the behaviour was exemplary considering it was such a long day, thank you children.
Mrs Clancy and Mrs Hemmings were extremely impressed with the children they took along to the Steel Pan Workshop last week. They were amazed at how much the children took in such a short amount of time and also congratulated the children on their excellent behaviour. Thank you to Mrs Clancy and Mrs Hemmings for taking the children to the event.
Most of the Year 5 and 6 children took part in 'The Kids of Steel Triathlon' on Friday morning. This was a great event which the children really enjoyed, we were really lucky to be able to take all of the children and we had a great time.
It was also Spanish week last week and the children did lots of work on Spain and the Spanish language. They came in with some fantastic homework on a famous Spanish person. They also enjoyed the Flamenco dancing on Thursday, even the boys, who weren't too keen at first. We even had children Flamenco dancing out of school on Friday afternoon!!
This week is also a busy one, so much for lazy summer days!
We will start our preparations for Sports Day this week. We are really hopeful that the weather will be kind to us as we love Sports Day, but as I am writing this the sky has just gone black and I have had to run outside and bring the washing in!!
Anyway we shall persevere and sort out which races the children are in tomorrow. We may have to go outside at a moments notice this week (whenever the weather allows) so it is important that the children have their PE kit in school at all times. They will need a white t-shirt and blue shorts and suitable footwear. It is also a good idea for them to have suncream, a cap and a water bottle in school each day.
If the weather permits Sports Day will take place in the 8th July, the 10th July is our reserve date in case it has to be cancelled, hopefully it will go ahead.
On Tuesday our Year 6 children have a teacher from St Gregory's RE department coming in to school to start a transition project with them. She will come in this Tuesday and next Monday.
Most of this week will be spent putting together our production. The date has still not been finalised yet and hopefully we should be able to do this tomorrow and let you know. Because we have been so busy over the last few weeks we have hardly had any time to practice, therefore most of this week will be spent on preparations.
What with Sports Day practice and Production practice you will be wondering if we can fit in any curriculum this week but as always the answer is yes!
We will be continuing with our work on Spanish artists and also making clay models with Mrs Fox.
We also have our modern day Shakespeare stories to write after we planned them a few weeks ago and we have myths to write which we also planned a few weeks ago.
In maths we will be reviewing our learning over the past few weeks as we have not had to the time to do the subjects we have looked at in enough detail.
Please see the last few weeks blogspots for information and websites.
Thanks.
Year 5/6 Team.
Sunday 22 June 2008
Week Beginning 23rd June 2008
Hola! (I don't have an upside down exclamation mark on my keyboard but there should be one at the beginning of Hola)
We had a bit of an emotional roller coster last week with the boys football team. They were beaten on penalties in the semi final of the Penketh Cup by Penketh South. The boys should be really proud of themselves as the they were fantastic and showed great sportsmanship throughout the entire tournament. Well done boys. Thank you also to the parents who came along to all the games and to Mr Buckley for preparing them.
Ten of our Year 6 children also went to St Gregory's to play in a rounders tournament, they played really well and came second, fantastic considering they had no practice sessions before hand. Thank you to Mrs Morgan for taking the children and to the parents who helped us with transporting the children to the High School.
We have another really busy week this week. On Monday evening 20 of our Year 5 and 6 children are taking part in the Primary Arts Network Performance Evening at the Parr Hall. The children will perform poems and a dance. Parents are welcome to attend and tickets can be bought at the box office. If your child is involved in this event they will need to be collected from the Parr Hall at 8.30pm.
On Tuesday our Year 6 children are going to St Gregory's for the day. This is a really exciting time for them as they will be put into the classes they will be in next year. The children have to wear their uniform, some of them have asked if school summer uniforms are ok and this will be fine, whatever you would wear if you were coming to school on a normal day.
On Wednesday, 16 of our Year 5 and 6 children will be taking part in a Steel Pan Drum Workshop at Sir Thomas Boalter High School. They will travel from school on a coach. If your child has been chosen for this event you will have received a letter. Some letters did go out to children by mistake as a supply teacher gave out the wrong ones. If your child received a letter with their name on then they have been chosen.
On Friday all of the Year 5 and 6 children and staff will be travelling to Lymm High School to take part in 'The Kids of Steel Triathlon'. You should have received a letter by now with the details on. All the children need to attend the event as there will be no staff in school to look after them.
They will need a swimming kit and towel and a PE kit preferably with trainers. The bike and bike helmet will be provided. The children will not return to school until 12.30pm and therefore will all need to have a packed lunch.
I told you it was another busy week! Running alongside all these activities it is also Spanish week and we will be exploring lots of things about Spain. We will look at Spanish culture, geography, history, art, music and language.
We already know a lot about the Spanish language, we will be reviewing our learning and also learning so new words.
We will be looking at 4 different Spanish Artists by using the following website:-
http://www.albany.edu/~jd7111/isp561/artistindex.html
On Thursday all the children will be taking part in a Spanish dance workshop.
The children have been informed that they can come dressed as the colours in the Spanish flag on Friday. As we are attending the triathlon in morning we feel that they should wear something that identifies them as a member of our school. For example they could wear their red and yellow clothes and then wear a school jumper or cardigan over the top while we are out of school. If they have a school cap or coat these would also be acceptable.
That's all for now, make sure you get some much needed sleep for a very busy week.
Year 5/6 Team.
We had a bit of an emotional roller coster last week with the boys football team. They were beaten on penalties in the semi final of the Penketh Cup by Penketh South. The boys should be really proud of themselves as the they were fantastic and showed great sportsmanship throughout the entire tournament. Well done boys. Thank you also to the parents who came along to all the games and to Mr Buckley for preparing them.
Ten of our Year 6 children also went to St Gregory's to play in a rounders tournament, they played really well and came second, fantastic considering they had no practice sessions before hand. Thank you to Mrs Morgan for taking the children and to the parents who helped us with transporting the children to the High School.
We have another really busy week this week. On Monday evening 20 of our Year 5 and 6 children are taking part in the Primary Arts Network Performance Evening at the Parr Hall. The children will perform poems and a dance. Parents are welcome to attend and tickets can be bought at the box office. If your child is involved in this event they will need to be collected from the Parr Hall at 8.30pm.
On Tuesday our Year 6 children are going to St Gregory's for the day. This is a really exciting time for them as they will be put into the classes they will be in next year. The children have to wear their uniform, some of them have asked if school summer uniforms are ok and this will be fine, whatever you would wear if you were coming to school on a normal day.
On Wednesday, 16 of our Year 5 and 6 children will be taking part in a Steel Pan Drum Workshop at Sir Thomas Boalter High School. They will travel from school on a coach. If your child has been chosen for this event you will have received a letter. Some letters did go out to children by mistake as a supply teacher gave out the wrong ones. If your child received a letter with their name on then they have been chosen.
On Friday all of the Year 5 and 6 children and staff will be travelling to Lymm High School to take part in 'The Kids of Steel Triathlon'. You should have received a letter by now with the details on. All the children need to attend the event as there will be no staff in school to look after them.
They will need a swimming kit and towel and a PE kit preferably with trainers. The bike and bike helmet will be provided. The children will not return to school until 12.30pm and therefore will all need to have a packed lunch.
I told you it was another busy week! Running alongside all these activities it is also Spanish week and we will be exploring lots of things about Spain. We will look at Spanish culture, geography, history, art, music and language.
We already know a lot about the Spanish language, we will be reviewing our learning and also learning so new words.
We will be looking at 4 different Spanish Artists by using the following website:-
http://www.albany.edu/~jd7111/isp561/artistindex.html
On Thursday all the children will be taking part in a Spanish dance workshop.
The children have been informed that they can come dressed as the colours in the Spanish flag on Friday. As we are attending the triathlon in morning we feel that they should wear something that identifies them as a member of our school. For example they could wear their red and yellow clothes and then wear a school jumper or cardigan over the top while we are out of school. If they have a school cap or coat these would also be acceptable.
That's all for now, make sure you get some much needed sleep for a very busy week.
Year 5/6 Team.
Saturday 14 June 2008
Week Beginning 16th June 2008
Hi everyone and welcome to this week's blog.
Some of our Year 5 and 6 boys are doing really well in the Penketh Cup Football Tournament. On Monday they played St. Joseph's and won 2-1 and on Wednesday they played Barrow Hall Lane and won 9-0, they also played a friendly against Barrow Hall Lane on Monday and won 3-1.
This is the group stage of the competition and they have another game on Monday at 3.30pm at Stocks Lane. The final will be played on the week beginning 23rd June.
They boys have worked really hard and their behaviour is fantastic, I can't believe they are so skill full at such a young age!!
During the game against St. Joespeh's, William Fazakerly was awarded 'man of the match' and during the Barrow Hall Lane game 'man of the match' went to Edward Shaw, well done boys.
We have lots of other events going on in the next few weeks as well. On Thursday this week St. Gregory's are holding a rounders tournament for all the feeder schools, unfortunately we can only take a team of 10, when the children were asked if they wanted to play they response was overwhelming so unfortunately we will have to pick names out of a hat. If your child is chosen you will get a letter on Monday, we would appreciate any help with transporting the children to the high school. Thanks.
On Monday 23rd June we are involved in The Primary Arts Network Performance Night.
The event is to take place at the Pyramid Arts Centre, we will be performing a poem and a dance to theme of 'Echos in Water'.
Again, if your child is chosen to be part of this event you will receive a letter with the details on Monday.
The performance will start at 7pm and tickets can be purchased from the box office.
Last week we had two Police Constables from Cheshire Police in School to talk about anti-bullying. It was very informative and the children really enjoyed it. They had lots of questions to ask, although so of them did stray from the subject! We are really pleased that our children have such inquisitive minds!
On Saturday 21st our Year 3 children will be receiving their First Holy Communion. We wish them good luck and are sure it will be a very happy and enjoyable time.
This weeks curriculum .....
Literacy
Our 5 children will continue on the theme of myths and legends. We had great fun last week listening to some myths and legends and picking out the features of them.
This week we will be picture cards to help us to plan our own myths and legends, this will eventually lead to us writing our own myth or legends. We are even planning to record the stories and we may publish them on the internet, if we feel they are good enough.
This week we
Must be able to identify features in stories.
Should be able to use the story mountain to plan our own stories.
Could start to think about and use different methods to build tension in our stories e.g. short sentences.
Here is a reminder of the website we are using and where will publish our finished stories.
http://myths.e2bn.org/
The Year 6 children will continue their work on William Shakespeare, this week they will begin to read one of his most famous stories 'Romeo and Juliet.' This is great preparation for high school.
Please see last week's blog for websites.
Numeracy
The Year 6 children will be continuing with their transition project this week.
Miss Wright's and Mrs Morgan's group have raced through the maths curriculum this year, we have spent some time reviewing subjects that the children found difficult when completing their tests and now feel that it is time to start preparing them for next year's curriculum. We will therefore be starting some of the Year 6 topics. This week we will be looking at expressing a quotient as a fraction, or a decimal rounded to one decimal place. This means that we will be doing sums that don't divide into a whole number exactly e.g. 46 divided by 7 and finding out the answer is 6 and 4/7.
It's sounds difficult but if the children have good knowledge of their tables they will find it much easier, so keep working on those tables.
Science
Because of our SATs preparation we have not have had the opportunity to prepare and teach anymore lessons to our Year 1 and 2 children. This week we will use the knowledge we have acquired in our topics of Gases Around Us and Changing State to start to plan a lesson for the younger children.
The children really do love doing this and it is an excellent way of consolidating their learning, we are always amazed with the lessons they come up with and will have to keep and eye on our own jobs as we are sure some children have their sights set on them!
Topic
Our Dragons Den topic is hotting up now and we got a lot of market research done last week. We now feel it is time to start to make prototypes and samples of our products, exciting times!!
Production
We have started to put together a running order for the production and hopefully this week we will be able to get some practice in.
With this much to fit in I think we all need to start sleeping at school just to get through it!!
We will do our best to get through it all but we may have some very tired children, and teachers, by the end of this week!
Have a great weekend, see you on Monday.
Year 5/6 Team
Some of our Year 5 and 6 boys are doing really well in the Penketh Cup Football Tournament. On Monday they played St. Joseph's and won 2-1 and on Wednesday they played Barrow Hall Lane and won 9-0, they also played a friendly against Barrow Hall Lane on Monday and won 3-1.
This is the group stage of the competition and they have another game on Monday at 3.30pm at Stocks Lane. The final will be played on the week beginning 23rd June.
They boys have worked really hard and their behaviour is fantastic, I can't believe they are so skill full at such a young age!!
During the game against St. Joespeh's, William Fazakerly was awarded 'man of the match' and during the Barrow Hall Lane game 'man of the match' went to Edward Shaw, well done boys.
We have lots of other events going on in the next few weeks as well. On Thursday this week St. Gregory's are holding a rounders tournament for all the feeder schools, unfortunately we can only take a team of 10, when the children were asked if they wanted to play they response was overwhelming so unfortunately we will have to pick names out of a hat. If your child is chosen you will get a letter on Monday, we would appreciate any help with transporting the children to the high school. Thanks.
On Monday 23rd June we are involved in The Primary Arts Network Performance Night.
The event is to take place at the Pyramid Arts Centre, we will be performing a poem and a dance to theme of 'Echos in Water'.
Again, if your child is chosen to be part of this event you will receive a letter with the details on Monday.
The performance will start at 7pm and tickets can be purchased from the box office.
Last week we had two Police Constables from Cheshire Police in School to talk about anti-bullying. It was very informative and the children really enjoyed it. They had lots of questions to ask, although so of them did stray from the subject! We are really pleased that our children have such inquisitive minds!
On Saturday 21st our Year 3 children will be receiving their First Holy Communion. We wish them good luck and are sure it will be a very happy and enjoyable time.
This weeks curriculum .....
Literacy
Our 5 children will continue on the theme of myths and legends. We had great fun last week listening to some myths and legends and picking out the features of them.
This week we will be picture cards to help us to plan our own myths and legends, this will eventually lead to us writing our own myth or legends. We are even planning to record the stories and we may publish them on the internet, if we feel they are good enough.
This week we
Must be able to identify features in stories.
Should be able to use the story mountain to plan our own stories.
Could start to think about and use different methods to build tension in our stories e.g. short sentences.
Here is a reminder of the website we are using and where will publish our finished stories.
http://myths.e2bn.org/
The Year 6 children will continue their work on William Shakespeare, this week they will begin to read one of his most famous stories 'Romeo and Juliet.' This is great preparation for high school.
Please see last week's blog for websites.
Numeracy
The Year 6 children will be continuing with their transition project this week.
Miss Wright's and Mrs Morgan's group have raced through the maths curriculum this year, we have spent some time reviewing subjects that the children found difficult when completing their tests and now feel that it is time to start preparing them for next year's curriculum. We will therefore be starting some of the Year 6 topics. This week we will be looking at expressing a quotient as a fraction, or a decimal rounded to one decimal place. This means that we will be doing sums that don't divide into a whole number exactly e.g. 46 divided by 7 and finding out the answer is 6 and 4/7.
It's sounds difficult but if the children have good knowledge of their tables they will find it much easier, so keep working on those tables.
Science
Because of our SATs preparation we have not have had the opportunity to prepare and teach anymore lessons to our Year 1 and 2 children. This week we will use the knowledge we have acquired in our topics of Gases Around Us and Changing State to start to plan a lesson for the younger children.
The children really do love doing this and it is an excellent way of consolidating their learning, we are always amazed with the lessons they come up with and will have to keep and eye on our own jobs as we are sure some children have their sights set on them!
Topic
Our Dragons Den topic is hotting up now and we got a lot of market research done last week. We now feel it is time to start to make prototypes and samples of our products, exciting times!!
Production
We have started to put together a running order for the production and hopefully this week we will be able to get some practice in.
With this much to fit in I think we all need to start sleeping at school just to get through it!!
We will do our best to get through it all but we may have some very tired children, and teachers, by the end of this week!
Have a great weekend, see you on Monday.
Year 5/6 Team
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