Year 5/6@Robin Hood Primary: March 2014

News Roundup:

We would like to congratulate all of year 5/6 for being a credit to the school. Our trip to Wagamama last week was a great success. Pupils learnt a great deal from the trip and enjoyed tasting Japanese foods, experimenting making smoothies and even tried their hand at using chop sticks! We were particularly impressed with the level of food knowledge that our children already have! Some future master chef stars are inevitable!

Friday Celebration Assemblies:

A date for your diary, our next phase assembly will on Friday 25^th April. We look forward to seeing you there to show off the amazing learning from this half term.

Year 6 Numeracy Book

The children in Year 6 have been given a ‘study guide’ and a ‘question book’ to work through ahead of the SAT’s. Last week in Numeracy the children learnt about angles and coordinates. In order to develop their understanding, children can complete pages: 27- 28 on angles and then page 35 on coordinates.

This week we have been learning about symmetry (p33), reflection (p34) and rotation (p36). If your child would like to complete these pages at home and bring the book back into school they will be rewarded for their hard work.

Although completing the pages is not compulsory, we do want to reward your child’s effort. You can support your child by marking the questions; you will find the answers in the back of the book. Alternatively, your child can mark their own learning and make any amendments to their answers in pen so we can see the changes made. Your child can also bring the ‘study guide’ book into school each day and even use it to support them in their Numeracy session.

Child Line

Year 5/6 will be having a visit from ‘The Child Line Team’ on Wednesday 12^th March and Wednesday 19^th March during the afternoon. Your child will have brought a letter home regarding this, if you have any concerns over this, please contact either Mrs Wathen or Mrs Cookson.

Core Subjects:

Numeracy:

This week in Numeracy the children have been learning how to reflect, translate and rotate shapes, using the co—ordinates to help them with accuracy. Next week, the children will be learning about measures, including length, mass and capacity!

For further support and quizzes on this week’s Numeracy focus, visit the KS2 bite size website which is full of amazing resources and further explanations: www.ks2bitesize.com

Literacy:

This week pupils have learnt the key features of a formal letter of thanks. We have compared informal and formal letter writing styles and generated ideas around our trip to Wagamama. Pupils have then written an opening to their letter.

Next week pupils will continue to write their letters of thanks. Pupils will be grouping their ideas into paragraphs which focus on their favourite activities during the trip. Sessions will provide emphasis on the use of formal language and pupils’ thoughts, feelings and emotions.

SPELLINGS: This week, the spellings are: catch - caught, hear - heard, find - found, fight - fought, choose - chose, bring - brought, see - saw, creep - crept, wear - wore, shake - shook.

Other areas of the curriculum:

PE: This week pupils have learnt a side break fall (Yoko ukemi). In addition pupils have also learnt a second throw (Tiatoshi). All pupils have enjoyed combining these fantastic new moves and have also recapped on the previous weeks learning.

Spanish: This week in Spanish the children have been learning the Spanish vocabulary for objects related to the seaside. So far the children have learnt how to pronounce: en la playa (at the beach), las aletas (flippers), el alga (seaweed), la arena (sand), el traje de bano (swimsuit), la crema bronceadora (sun cream). If your child would like to learn additional Spanish at home, the following website will help with their pronunciation: www.studyspanish.com