Toucans W.B. 10.10.22

Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 6:30pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ?

Toucans have worked so hard this week in creating an extended piece of writing based upon our story Star of Fear, Star of Hope. All the children have really impressed me with their writing skills! We have begun working on our harvest service performance - performing the hymn ‘we plough the fields and scatter’ as a poem. 

Praise: Anthony

Top Table: Isabel and Nuo Yu

Next Week (W.B. 10.10.22)

Reminders:

• PE will 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.

Curriculum:

In English, we will finish writing our extended pieces of writing based upon our flashback story, Star of Fear, Star of Hope. We will look at editing and improving our writing to include our mastery writing features for this unit of work: passive voice, cohesive devices, expanded noun phrases, and use of dialogue to convey character and advance the action. 

In maths, we will continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning, and explore different methods of division. Our focus will be dividing a 4-digit number by a 2-digit number. 

In science, we research a famous scientist, Hasan al-Haytham, and create a fact file about him and his work on light. 

In our history/geography lesson, we will continue to look at World War One and what life was like in the trenches for soldiers. We will write a letter to the BBC analysing a Horrible Histories sketch.

In art, we will evaluate our conflict-themed pieces of artwork.

In music, the children will continue with their weekly ukulele lesson on Thursday afternoon. 

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 page 10 of their maths homework book this week and return it to school by Thursday 13th October.

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. 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 14th October will again focus on suffixes and will be: applied, beautifully, busily, business, copier, happiness, heavier, reliable, replied, trying. 

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

Mr Corkill ?