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!