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