Week Beginning 23rd March 2009

Hello and welcome to this week's blogspot.

Wow, what a busy week last week was. The children did us proud on their first and second reconciliations and they are getting better at handing in their reply slips which saves a lot of hastle when we are taking them out of school, thank you very much for this.

We would like to express our sympathy to Mrs Cain and her family on the sad loss of her husband John. We hope that you will keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers.
We also ask that under the circumstances you only contact the office if it is something of extreme importance, thank you.

Thank you to parents and children who have been involved in before and after school booster sessions. We have never run the booster session before school and were not sure if they would work but we felt that it was unfair that the children should be asked to stop going their clubs after school to attend booster sessions while they have the opportunity of so many sports clubs. (Thank you Mr Slavin!) These sessions have worked really well and we thank you for getting up that extra bit early so that the children can attend.
The booster sessions will run right up until the week before SATs, they will also take place on the week before and the week after the Easter holidays.

On Thursday this week their is a cross country race at Cinnamon Brow Primary School. We were allowed to enter a team of 4 boys and 4 girls. If your child has been chosen to represent the school then you will have received a letter asking for permission. We would really appreciated help in transporting the children to the event, thank you.

This week's curriculum..........

Literacy
This week the Year 6 children will be working on improving their vocabulary, they will do this through description. They will be describing settings and characters using wow language.

The Year 5 children will be continuing their work on non-chronological reports. We were really impressed with the quality of the children's homework last week, they wrote some excellent reports using all the features that they need to include. Well done.
On the down side of this there were 13 children who did not complete the homework that was set. We would ask you to please encourage your child to complete their homework.

Numeracy

After doing a past paper last week Mrs Morgan's and Mr Barker's groups will be working through the paper and seeing how we can improve our scores.
We were really shocked to see how many of the children struggled with telling the time. This could be a focus at home for the coming week.

Science

After the fabulous science show last week we will be doing some work on materials and in particular separating materials. The children will be working on how to separate different kinds on solids and also how to separate a solid that has dissolved into a liquid.

Fundraising

The children are doing some fantastic fund raising at play times. On the last week of this term will be holding our annual fundraising afternoon. We will use some of our time this week to plan the events we will be running on that afternoon.

That's all for this short blogspot, Happy Mother's Day.

Year 5/6 Team