Toucans week beg. 17.1.22

Date: 13th Jan 2022 @ 5:03pm

Week beg 17^th January 2022

It was great to have the opportunity this week to speak to parents and to let you know how your child is doing. You should have also received an email about our SATs information meeting with the Zoom link. This will take place on Wednesday 26th January at 3:30pm.

Next week we will hopefully complete our pupil teacher meetings to allow your child to tell us about how they are getting on and a chance to share any targets that they or us want to work on together.

Our visit to the Imperial Museum Salford Quays has been postponed until after February half term due to Public Health advice. We will let you know the new date when it is confirmed and the exact cost of the trip (approx. £10). You will receive an email about this with additional information as soon as possible.  

Remember to encourage your child to read for 15 – 20 mins daily and to record their reading in their diaries. We have stapled a list of recommended books for Year 6 children in the front of their diaries and we would like them to read some of these throughout the year. We have a lot of these texts in our class library so the children can borrow them from school or they might find some at their local library. We have asked them to tick off the books that that they read on the list.

Homework

Spellings for next week will focus will focus on spellings ei and ie

Spellings will be tested on Friday 21^st January – piece, perceive, relief, deceive, achieve, ceiling, believe, receive, niece, shriek

Maths Homework – Key Stage Two Maths SATs Question Book and Times Tables Rockstars

Homework is pages 36 and 37 Dividing Fractions of the SATs book.

Over the next week, we would like the children to catch up on any pages that they have missed in their Maths book. They should have completed Section One – apart from Roman Numerals and Decimals, Section 2 – apart from Multiplying and Dividing Decimals, Section 3 Fractions, Comparing Fractions, Multiplying Fractions and Dividing Fractions.

In preparation for our SATs the children will receive new CGP books for Reading and Spelling Punctuation and Grammar next week. They will be expected to complete a number of pages for homework each week. The children will record these homework pages in their homework diaries and I will also put them on the blog.

Curriculum

Maths – Next week we will be solving problems relating to fractions and Geometry – position and direction.

History – children will be researching and presenting their findings on an aspect of World War 2.

DT – we will be revising structures and electrical circuits

Art – developing drawing skills using different implements

Music - Singing

PE day will be on Wednesday and Friday (Mr Ault)

Kind regards,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing, Mr Beswick