Newsletter 22/11/13

Friday Celebration Assemblies:

As many of you may be aware the format for our Friday assemblies has now changed. We will now hold Phase Assemblies on a rota basis. These will continue to be celebratory and will help give parents who cannot attend every Friday, the chance to come along when it is their child’s turn to be involved. The forthcoming upper key stage 2 celebration assemblieshave been scheduled for: Friday 10^th January, 2.30- 3.00pm followed byFriday 8^th February.

Core Subjects:

Numeracy:

In Numeracy this week the children have learnt how to increase and decrease amounts by various percentages. They then applied these skills by increasing and decreasing the cost of food at Shrek’s birthday party!

Next week, we will be applying all four operations to some multi-step problems involving money and area, with an I’m a Celebrity Get me out of Here theme!

Literacy:

In Literacy this week pupils have generated key vocabulary relating to a transport invention. They have then written their own advert promoting this transport invention using persuasive language and other advertising features.

Next week pupils will turn their hand to letter writing. We will be discussing the key features used in a letter of complaint and pupils will apply this into their own letter which discusses a bad experience with a transport invention they have experienced.

SPELLINGS: This week, the spellings are: average, jury, danger, injure, journey, legend, hygiene, hedge, prodigy, jealous.Your child has received a copy of these spellings which have been glued into their planner. They will be tested on these words on Friday November 29^th.

Other areas of the curriculum:

PE: This week pupils have been learning different balance techniques. Pupils then applied a variety of different balances into a small routine that involved partner balances, canon and levels.

Once again, please ensure that your child comes to school with the appropriate PE kit each week.

5/6M and 5/6MO PE sessions are on Mondays and 5/6G PE sessions are on now on Wednesdays. As the PE unit this half term is Gymnastics, the children only need their plain white PE t-shirt and black shorts.

Spanish:

This week in Spanish the children have been learning to spell the months of the year (enero, febrero, marzo, abril, mayo, junio, julio, agosto, septiembre, octubre, noviembre, diciembre).  If you are unsure of the pronunciation, please ask your child….they are all fantastic!   The children have also been introduced to the sentence starter ‘Tengo…’ (I have) and ‘No Tengo…’ (I don’t have).  They have been using the words learnt last week about objects in the classroom to write sentences.

Science:

This week, the children have continuedlearning about forces in action. We have learnt about air resistance and how this force impacts positively and negatively in our daily lives! The children are now using excellent scientific vocabulary when explaining their findings!

ICT:

During our ICT sessions, the children have been programming their robots to detect sound, touch and light using the Lego Mindstorms software. Very technical stuff!

Invention Home Learning!!

Newsletter 15/11

News Roundup:

Achiever of the Week:

Achiever of the week goes to Billy B for his amazing singing skills.  Your rendition of our ‘Days of the week’ song is fantastic and is available on our blog for the whole world to enjoy! 

Children in Need

The children looked absolutely fabulous dressed up in their pyjamas and onesies on Friday! A huge thanks to parents and carers once again for your continued support!

Core Subjects:

Numeracy:

In Numeracy this week, we have been learning how to count on and back in decimal tenths and hundredths and we have been calculating what needs to be added to a decimal number make a given whole number by using inverse.

Next week, the children will be learning how to increase and decrease amounts by various percentages, to find out the price increase and decrease of food at Shrek’s birthday party! An exciting week of fun Numeracy ahead of us!

Literacy:

In Literacy this week, we have beenlooking at the key features of different advertisements; including radio, magazine and television. Pupils applied several key advertising features into their own advert for a personal jet pack invention. Next week year 6’s will team up with year 5’s to generate key vocabulary to help them write an advert all about their own transport invention.

SPELLINGS: This week, the spellings are: difficult, million, parallel, committee, opposite, passenger, slippery, transferred, indifferent, appreciate.Your child has received a copy of these spellings which have been glued into their planner. They will be tested on these words on Friday November 22^nd.

Other areas of the curriculum:

PE: This week pupils have been learning the correct techniques when performing several different gymnastics rolls. Pupils worked hard to assess each other’s performance and offer advice on technical aspects of each roll.

Once again, please ensure that your child comes to school with the appropriate PE kit each week.

5/6M and 5/6MO PE sessions are on Mondays and 5/6G PE sessions are on now on Wednesdays. As the PE unit this half term is Gymnastics, the children only need their plain white PE t-shirt and black shorts.

Spanish:

In Spanish, the children have continued to learn the spellings for the days of the week (Sunday/domingo, Monday/Lunes, Tuesday/Martes, Wednesday /Miercoles, Thursday/Jueves, Friday/Viernes, Saturday/Sabado).  Why not ask your child to sing the ’Days of the week’ song, or log onto the 5/6 blog to hear Billy singing it.  The children have continued to learn about ‘Los Objetos de la clase’ (Classroom objects) this week, focusing on the following objects: picture frame (cuadro), whiteboard (pizarra), wall (pared), clock (reloj) and printer (impresora).

Science:

This week, the children have been learning about forces in action. We have learnt about air resistance and how this force impacts positively and negatively in our daily lives! The children are now using excellent scientific vocabulary when explaining their findings!

ICT:

During our ICT sessions, the children have been using the Lego Mindstorms software to program a robot to perform various manoeuvres such as: acceleration, curve turn, point turn, reverse and even moving in the shape of a square! 

Inventions Topic

This half term we are doing about inventions and the home work turn out has been amazing.Year 5 have been making their own inventions and then presenting them to the class. Even though there where only 45 outcomes the teachers were blown away by the high level work. On this subject the entire class got to design their very own invention and present it.

By
Caison & Dan Jackson

Newsletter Week 8 - Aut 1

We would like to congratulate all pupils for their hard work and efforts during the first half term back. We have been particularly impressed with the attitude and application of all pupils in year 5/6 and look forward to another fantastic term after the Autumn break.

Leeds Children’s Mayor

Voting for this year’s Leeds Children’s Mayor is now open! This year 28 primary schools entered candidates and Georgia from year 6 is one of the 10 finalists! All ten finalists have now had their manifestos uploaded to the Breeze websites for children, young people and families to vote for their favourites. Please show your support for Georgia by reading her manifesto and placing your all important vote at www.breezeleeds.org/pg/228/Leeds_Children's_Mayor.

SATS packs (year 6).

Year 6 pupils have been given a SATs pack as an added resource over the half term. This pack is another added layer of support for children in their understanding heading into the summer. Please can pupils complete each paper as thoroughly as possible ready for the Splat the SATs session in our next half term.

Year 5 home learning.

For the half term break year 5 pupils will be given a piece of home learning linked to our next topic of inventions.  Pupils will be asked to create their own genius inventions with a transport related theme. Pupils may want to design and make their own mode of transport, (including how it is powered, design, special features). Other ideas include creating an item which could be used on a specific mode of transport to help you whilst travelling. We are looking forward to seeing these fabulous creations on Thursday November 7^th. This piece of home learning is compulsory for year 5 pupils, however year 6 pupils are also welcome to engage with this learning!

Times tables challenge.

Last week we held our termly times tables challenge. Here pupils from across years 5 and 6 battled hard to show off their times tables skills! We are pleased to report that this year’s competition was as fierce as ever, with finalists pushing each other hard! However there had to be only one winner from each key stage. Shiksha from year 6 was cool, calm and collected to win the year 6 trophy. In year 5 Chitua was faultless and his composed style deservedly earned him the year 5 title! Well done to all children who competed, your times tables knowledge is breath-taking!

Core Subjects:

Numeracy:

This week we have been learning how to use the grid method to multiply decimals when finding the area of compound shapes. We have also been learning how to divide by using the Bus Stop method and then Chunking method. After half term pupils will be learning multiplication and division facts including; multiples, common multiples, factors, common factors, prime numbers and the use of brackets.

Literacy:

This week, pupils have been learning about the key features of narrative stories and applying these skills into their own section of a mystery story all about the Titanic. After the half term break pupils will be learning how to write an effective review based on modern day inventions.

SPELLINGS: This week, the spellings are: encircle, enforce, endanger, engage, encourage, export, exclude, extend, exhibit, express.

Your child has received a copy of these spellings which have been glued into their planner. They will be tested on these words on Friday November 8^th.

Other areas of the curriculum:

Topic:

This week in Topic, the children have been creating their very own American skyline pieces using silhouettes and washed water colours. They have also produced some Titanic based outcomes using different chalks and pastels.

Music:

The Year 5/6 children have had another great week of Music lessons. The Year 6 children have continued to develop their skills in playing the notes D, G, A and E to some simple songs on the violin. Year 5 children have continued to develop playing sections of Firework by Katy Perry on the guitar.

PE:

This week all classes have completed their final performances in a range of different dance genres. All the final performances have now been filmed and the children should be extremely proud of what they have achieved this half term!

ICT:

This week pupils have been finalising their American montages using smart notebook. Pupils have added an appropriate backing track to complement their movie outcome using I-movie.

Spanish:

This week pupils have continued to write sentences using adjectives about places and objects around the school.

Andy Warhol Artwork

In the classrooms, year 5/6 have been busy with their artwork related to Andy Warhol and we have been copying american icons on to 4 pieces of tracing paper and colour-washig them. After, we stuck our art work on to individual coloured card and then stuck the 4 coloured pieces of card on to black card in a funky style. It looked really effective! Check out these pictures below!

 

 

 

 

The 5/6 Achiever Week 6

This week's achiever in year 5/6 was Katie  for her amazing attitude in class and for being a great role model to the rest of the school.

Well done to Katie! Look- she always has her nose in a book!

The BIG Draw

Last week we participated in a big event called The Big Draw. In this event every class spent an entire school day doing nothing but ART. In year 5/6, we have been doing graffiti in the classrooms! When we got to go into the hall in the afternoon we then did graffiti on a skate park and on the brick wall! It was great! We each did a letter each for a large quote which was about the outside environment. We used different techniques such as blowing through straws and flicking toothbrushes. It looked AMAZING! Check out these pictures!

Numeracy games!

Click here for a game to practice your grid method for multiplication!

Click here to practice your bus-stop method for division!

Division by chunking need more practice? Click here!

Newsletter 18 October 2013

UKS2 Newsletter Week 7 Autumn 1 2013

News Roundup: 

A really big well done and congratulations to all the Year 5/6 children this week for completing their half termly assessments with maturity and dedication. All the children gave their assessments 110%; they should be very proud of themselves!

Big Draw 2013.

The children had a fabulous day on Monday! Year 5/6 looked at graffiti as their theme for the Big Draw this year. We used neon paints to blow, print, paint and flick to create different techniques onto black paper, we then cut out giant letters which spelt the quote, “Large streams from little fountains flow, tall oaks from little acorns grow”. This looked so impressive in the hall! The children also created their own graffiti ‘tag’ of an environmentally friendly word which was arranged in the branches of the Robin Hood tree, which was painted on the wall in the hall. The children and teachers had a great time and produced some impressive outcomes!

Year 5/6 PE clothing:-

The children in Year 5/6 are welcome to bring in some clothing for their  final dancing session next week.

·       Mr Malley’s class - Line Dancing clothing on Monday.

·       Miss Gascoigne’s class - Street Dance clothing on Tuesday.

·       Mrs Moore’s class - Rock and Roll on Monday.

Core Subjects: 

Numeracy:

Next week we will be learning how to use the grid method to multiply decimals when finding the area of compound shapes which make up the rides in the theme park, Flamingo Land. We will also be learning how to divide by using the Bus Stop method and then Chunking method. For some support ahead of these sessions with these methods, visit our blog year 5/6 blog, which you can access via our school website, for some interactive games.

Literacy:

Next week, we will be learning about the key features of narrative stories and applying these skills into their own section of a mystery story all about the Titanic.

SPELLINGS: This week, the spellings are: literature, lecturer, fracture, gesture, futuristic, manufacture, preacher, stretcher, century, judgement.

Your child has received a copy of these spellings which have been glued into their planner. They will be tested on these words on Friday October 25^th.

Other areas of the curriculum:

Topic:

This week in Topic, the children have been learning about the Titanic disaster. We have looked at some footage, eye witness accounts and timelines of the tragedy and have written our very own newspaper articles based on the disaster.

Music:

The Year 5/6 children have had another great week of Music lessons. The Year 6 children can now hold the bow and play the notes D, G, A and E to some simple songs on the violin and the Year 5 children can now play Firework by Katy Perry on the guitar.

 

 

Numeracy 14th-18th OCT 2013

This week year 5/6 have been busy solving their numeracy papers and have been completing their times table challenge.  The winner from year 5 is Chitua and the winner from year 6 is Shiksha.  Please put your hands together for our winners and the other finalists who weren't fortunate enough to win but tried their hardest.  Well done to Seb, Oliver, Alex and Georgia.

By Lucy and Bran 5/6G

Newsletter 11 October 2013

UKS2 Newsletter Week 6 Autumn 1 2013

News Roundup:

 Leeds Children’s Mayor

We would like to wish everyone who submitted an entry for Leeds Children’s Mayor a big well done! We were blown away with the quality of the entries and choosing a winner to submit for the competition (as we could only select one) was a very difficult task indeed! Congratulations to Georgia in Mrs Moore’s class, whose entry was chosen! We wish you the best of luck for the competition!

Leeds Junior Maths Challenge

Izzy, John, Evan and Bethan from year 6 were fortunate enough to go to Leeds Grammar School with Miss Gascoigne on Monday to take part the Leeds Junior Maths Challenge. They participated in four rounds: logic, mental arithmetic, puzzles and a maths challenge round. They had lots of fun competing against other schools in Leeds and, as a result of their super maths skills; they are now through to the finals, which will take place in November! Watch this space!

Big Draw and Harvest Festival

This Monday (14^th October) we will be partaking in our annual ‘Big Draw’ event. We have some creative and fun activities planned for year 5/6 and suggest that all children come into school with an art shirt for this day. There will be lots of paint and other art materials being used and we don’t want any stained uniforms! Also next week, we will be partaking in our Harvest Festival at Lofthouse church. This will be happening on Friday (18^th) October and will commence at the church at 10am if you can join us.

5/6M Line Dancing attire

Please can all of Mr Malley’s class please bring in clothing for their final line dancing performance on Monday. Any clothing which is of a country style would be fantastic! Some ideas include; denim, cheque shirts, cowboy hats, boots or shoes. Parents do not need to buy anything especially, we just ask that children can try their best be complement our American theme for our final recorded performance.

Achiever of the Week:

Achiever of the week goes to Katie in Mrs Moore’s class. Katie has displayed an incredible attitude towards her learning since coming in to year five. If she hasn’t got her nose in a reading book, she can be found practicing her sums or writing diary entries and stories! To add to this, she always comes into school with a smile on her face and is a friend to everyone! Well done, Katie! Keep it up!

Core Subjects:

Numeracy: In Numeracy this week, we have been learning about multiplication. The children have been using the grid method to multiply numbers, including those with 3 and 4 digits as well as decimals. We have been very impressed with their attitude towards this learning; some of the numbers we were dealing with were huge! Why not ask your child to show you how they can use the grid method to solve a sum? Next week is assessment week so the children will be undertaking some numeracy papers. On Thursday, we will be holding the first times table challenge of the year!

 Literacy: This week in Literacy, we have been continuing with our diary writing. The children have really enjoyed learning about the Titanic and we have been thoroughly impressed with the figurative language they have been using. The diary entry focussed on their thoughts and feelings as a passenger/worker on the ship after it had first set sail. It was great to see a difference between the language being used depending on whether their character was an upper class or lower class passenger. Next week, the children will undertake reading and writing assessments as part of assessment week.

SPELLINGS: This week, the spellings are: literature, lecturer, fracture, gesture, futuristic, manufacture, preacher, stretcher, century, judgement.

Your child has received a copy of these spellings which have been glued into their planner. They will be tested on these words on Friday October 18^th.

Other areas of the curriculum:

PE:

This week, 5/6G have been continuing to develop their street dance performances. 5/6MO have been choreographing their own small rock and roll performances and competing against other performances in the class. 5/6M have practiced their achy breaky heart routine. Pupils are now ready to perform their fantastic routine in line dancing attire on Monday.

Once again, please ensure that your child comes to school with the appropriate PE kit each week. PE this half term is indoors; therefore the children will need to wear black shorts and a white t-shirt, indoor pumps or bare feet too. Miss Gascoigne’s class may wear long tracksuit bottoms or leggings for our street dance sessions as we may need to use our knees at times.

5/6M and 5/6MO PE sessions are on Mondays and 5/6G PE sessions are on Tuesdays.

Spanish:

In Spanish, the children have been enjoying continuing to learn about different objects and places in the school. This week, they practiced their conversational Spanish to describe where objects were using the sentence starter‘ Alli esta’. Why not see if your child can remember what that means?

 

Titanic diarys

In year 5/6 this week we have been writing diary entries from anyone's perspective.
We have been writing about been on the dock waiting to approach the boat to actually been on the ship.

Jessica and Seb

Science!

This week in science we have been learning how to plan and conduct investigations and the investigation that we conducted is do people that have longer arms also have longer fingers? Next week we will be making conclusions here is a example .

Dan

America Home Learning Update

 

Please take a look at the video of the wonderful home learning created by the children. Apologies  for the delay but  due to a  technical hitch the  video could not be published earlier.  Enjoy!

 

Week 4 Achiever

Take a look at Alex's amazing work!
Well done Alex!!

Our ICT learning!

In ICT we have been making motion collages. Motion collages are moving collages that are made in Smart Notebook. With it's animations such as fading the images in and out it also provides other amazing animations. We are using other techniques such as  transparency options  and cloning. We later printed out pictures then made a real collage.

By
Caison and Dan J

Titanic Diarys

This week in literacy we have been learning how to write diary entries about the Titanic. 5/6 have been doing their diary entries from either a childs, adults or workers point of view.

Newsletter Fri 4 Oct

UKS2 Newsletter Week 5 Autumn 1 2013

News Roundup:

Leeds Children’s Mayor

We would like to congratulate all the children who have worked so hard to complete their manifestos, posters and slogans for the Leeds Children’s Mayor. We have been impressed with the dedication and fantastic ideas that these pupils have shown. The teachers will now be reading all of the manifestos carefully and selecting a pupil to be put forward to represent the school. www.breezeleeds.org.

Achiever of the Week:

Our Achiever of the Week goes to Lewis in 5/6M. Lewis’ desire to succeed and better himself has been a pleasure to see this term! His hard work is without doubt paying off!

Numeracy parent workshop:

A numeracy parent workshop will be taking place on Wednesday 16^th October from 4.30- 5.15pm. The focus of this workshop will address column addition strategies.

Core Subjects:

Numeracy:

This week pupils have been learning how to add and subtract using written methods to support calculations; including increasing and decreasing fractions and percentages of amounts. Next week pupils will be learning how to use the grid method to multiply a variety of numbers, including decimals. A fantastic website resource for pupils to practice these strategies ahead of the sessions is: www.mathszone.co.uk (calculating x ÷, grid method and long multiplication by Mark Weddell).

 Literacy:

This week pupils have been identifying the key features of a good diary entry and applying their skills from the perspective of different individuals on board the Titanic.  Next week pupils will continue their diary writing skills and write an extract based on their thoughts and emotions on the day of departure.

SPELLINGS: Next week, the spellings are words with the same spelling but different pronunciation; heather- heat, please- pleasant, woman- women,

mean- meant, fried- friend, common- money, senior- region, honour- hourly, crow- crowd, fluid- fruit.

Your child has received a copy of these spellings which have been glued into their planner. They will be tested on these words on Friday October 11^th.

Other areas of the curriculum:

PE:

This week, 5/6G have been performing their street dance moves… the children came dressed in a street dance theme and their performance was fantastic. 5/6M worked in small groups to perform achy breaky heart. Pupils are nearing the end of the unit where they will practice the whole dance dressed in character.  5/6MO have revisited the key rock & roll moves from previous learning. Pupils are continuing to choreograph their own whole class rock & roll performance.

Once again, please ensure that your child comes to school with the appropriate PE kit each week. PE this half term is indoors; therefore the children will need to wear black shorts and a white t-shirt, indoor pumps or bare feet too. Miss Gascoigne’s class may wear long tracksuit bottoms or leggings for our street dance sessions as we may need to use our knees at times.

5/6M and 5/6MO PE sessions are on Mondays and 5/6G PE sessions are on Tuesdays.

Spanish: - This week children have enjoyed learning about the days of week and common directions. Muy bien!

Science:

This week in Science, children have re-capped on scientific terms and vocabulary. The use of conclusions in science was discussed and pupils collected their own data on alien creatures from planet Xena. Pupils were then given the opportunity to write their own conclusions based on a specific statement.

ICT:

In ICT this week, the children have been continuing to develop their smart notebook montages based on American themes. Pupils have been experimenting and combining motion techniques to create very effective outcomes!

BLOG

As you know, we have re-launched our blog this year. However, we are currently awaiting the link to replace the old link on the school website. In the meantime, you can find it at the web address below. We plan on building this up over the year so the children can show off their learning in school, as well as it being a place for parents to find the newsletter, spellings and information about the achievers.

Visit our blog: http://year56rhps.blogspot.co.uk