Week Beginning 19th May 2008

Well, we made it and in a very professional and hard working manner!! We would like to firstly thank the children in both year groups for working so hard and being so sensible during test week. We also thank parents and everyone at home who have helped in the children's preparation for the tests and also all the staff at school who have been so supportive and flexible in helping us prepare for the tests.



Now that they are behind us we embark on our final week of this half term and head towards the last half term of the school year and for our Year 6's, their last half term at St Vincent's!!



This week will be just as busy as any other in Year 5/6 so let's get down to what we will be learning.



Literacy

In literacy this week we will be looking at poetry. In the first part of the week we will be reading and responding to poetry and at the end of the week writing our own poetry and entering it into a national competition.

The competition is called The Big Green Poetry Machine.

Prizes include sponsoring a teacher in Kenya for a year . Sponsoring an acre of rainforest . Adopting an endangered animal . Sponsoring a child in the Third World . Free bookmark from sustainable paper source for everyone who takes part.

The themes for this year's poems are:-

What you can do to help the world and how you can make a difference.



Here is the website for the competition:-

http://www.youngwriters.co.uk/



Numeracy

This week Miss Wright's and Mrs Morgan's groups will be looking at different types of triangles. We will be naming and classifying different triangles and recognising properties of different triangles and recognising acute and obtuse angles in shapes.



By the end of the week the children:-

MUST be able to identify different types of triangles.

SHOULD be able to recognise properties of different triangles.

COULD recognise acute and obtuse angles in shapes.



Try these websites to help:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/revision_bites/shapes1.shtml

http://www.sparklebox2.co.uk/thumbs21-25/s2b25.html



Mrs Millington's group will be having some fun in Maths this week having worked so hard last week! We will be focusing on putting to good use all of the learning we have revised and reviewed over the year! Here is the Plan....
We are going to design and produce resources for children lower down the school to use for their learning. For example, if a year 3 was having trouble learning some of their times tables, a group could devise a board game/snap cards/lesson pack to support this topic, and make learning tables fun!
This activity will enable you to be the teacher, and consolidate your learning at the same time. By the end of the week we will hopefully have lots of good resources that the lower key stage 2 Teachers will be happy to use with their classes!




Science

This week in science we will be looking at condensation. We will be learning:-

That condensation is the changing of gas or vapour into a liquid;
That condensation can occur when vapour comes into contact with a cooler surface or material;
That condensation occurs in enclosed air spaces which contain a lot of vapour;

That explaining occurrences can help scientists to make predictions of future occurrences, and that this in turn can have practical uses.



Topic



You may have already heard that we will be spending a lot of topic time on our project 'Dragons Den.'

We have invited the children, in groups, to come up with a new concept that they will make and market, if the 'Dragons' agree to give them the funding!

They are still at the planning and design stage of their products but we have already seen some budding entrepreneurs in our midst!

This week they will complete marking research on their product by completing questionnaires and surveys on the potential customers.

The children are really engaged in this project so don't be surprised if you get roped into doing some free labour at home!!



Year 5/6 boys who are involved in Mr Buckley's Friday football club had a match on Friday after school. At the time of writing this we do not know the outcome of the game but I am sure the boys all had a great time. Thank you to Mr Buckly for organising the game and running the club each week and thank you to the parents who accompanied the children to the match.



On Friday afternoon 7 of Year 5 children will be going to a football tournement at Penketh Primary School. The tournement is aimed at children who are not involved in football outside school. If your child had been chosen you will recieve a letter on Monday.



That's all for this week, have a happy and safe half term, we return to school on Monday 9th June at 8.45am.



Year 5/6 Team.