Toucans W.B. 20.03.23

Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 3:47pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ?

Toucans have had another busy week in the classroom, particularly focusing on writing a letter to a fellow Y6 pupil informing them about the plight of refugees, based on our current text, ‘The Day War Came.’ 

Praise: Grace

Top Table: William and Savannah

Next Week (W.B. 20.03.23)

Reminders:

• Parents’ Evening appointments will take place over two days: Tuesday 21st March (13:10-18:00) and Wednesday 22nd March (15:30-18:00). Please note appointments are 10 minutes each, and times will be stuck to as closely as possible. I look forward to discussing your child’s work and progress with you next week. 
• 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.

Curriculum:

In English, we will edit and improve our letters to fellow Y6 pupils raising awareness of the plight of refugees to see whether we can add any further writing features or enhance the content. In shared reading, we will continue with The Explorer by Katherine Rundell with a focus on identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning and evaluating the author’s language choice. 

In maths, we will begin to revise and recap essential areas of learning in preparation for the upcoming SATs assessments in early May. Additionally, we will be completing some assessments to identify individual areas of learning and development. We will continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning to further practice our four operations.

In science, we will conclude our unit on evolution by analysing giraffe photos and writing about how these animals have evolved using the key scientific terms: inherited, genes, adaptation, characteristic, evolved, and offspring. 

In our history/geography lesson, we shall be focusing on researching the current Russia-Ukraine War and trying to understand the impact on the lives of innocent citizens and refugees. 

In PE, the children will continue with practising their tennis and basketball skills with Mr Ault. 

We will also be completing a further round of practice SATs assessments throughout the week to identify specific areas of revision focus for the next 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 58 and 59 of their maths homework book this week and return it to school by Thursday 23rd March. The homework consolidates our learning on calculating the area of a triangle and parallelogram from this week’s lessons. Children should also complete pages 25-27 (Set B: Test 2) 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 24th March will begin to concentrate of the next set of Y5/6 statutory spelling words and will be:identity, immediately, individual, interfere, interrupt, language, leisure, lightning, marvellous, mischievous.

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

Mr Corkill ?