Toucans W.B. 01.05.23

Date: 27th Apr 2023 @ 8:01pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ?

Toucans have had a really busy week with their final practice assessments prior to the upcoming SATs and they have all really impressed me with their hard work. They have all demonstrated incredible progress and made individual achievements - well done everyone!

Praise: Izzy

Top Table: Ryan and Mason J

Next Week (W.B. 01.05.23)

Reminders:

• School will be closed on Monday 1st May due to the Bank Holiday. 
• We will be celebrating the coronation of King Charles III on Friday 5th May with a special service led by Vicar Andrew in church. 
• PE will continue to take place on both a Monday and a Friday each week, so please send your child into school wearing their PE kit on these days. PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/navy and should only be worn on PE days. 

Curriculum:

In English, we will be editing and improving our diary entries / field logs from the Galápagos Islands. In shared reading, we will continue to read Great Adventures by Alastair Humphreys with a focus on distinguishing between fact and opinion and looking at how structure contributes to meaning. 

In maths, we will continue to revise a range of the topics studies so far this year including: fractions, statistics, money, and decimals. We will continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning to further practice our four operations.

In science, we will continue with our unit on living things and their habitats. We shall finish creating a poster on the 5 vertebrate animal classes.  

In our history/geography lesson, we will create a double page informative poster on the different layers of the rainforest.

In PE, the children will continue their lessons with Mr Ault looking at all things athletics this half term. 

Homework:

Children in Year 6 will be set a weekly maths homework that they should complete and mark at home using the answers provided in the back of their homework book. If your child is finding the homework challenging, I will ensure that supervision is provided one lunchtime each week where your child can ask any questions or receive the support they need to complete the homework.

Children should complete pages 88 - 91 of their maths homework book this week and return it to school by Thursday 4th May. The homework revises lots of the Year 6 mathematics learning objectives from across the year. Children should also complete pages 34-36 (Set B: Test 5) of their reading homework book. 

Please also encourage your child to read for 15-20 minutes each evening and practice their spellings and times tables. Children need to record their reading in their homework diaries/planners. This really will help them with their reading speed and stamina. Try to talk to your child about what they have read in their book (the character, the plot, their opinion). Try to vary choices to include classic texts, non-fiction texts, and poems.

The following website is great for times tables practice: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 5th May will concentrate on the next set of Y5/6 statutory spelling words and will be: rhyme, rhythm, sacrifice, secretary, shoulder, signature, sincerely, soldier, stomach, sufficient. 

Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact!

Mr Corkill ?