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.
Sunday 19 October 2008
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.
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