Sorry - the photocopier doesn’t make shading clear at all. Question 4 on the Reasoning paper - it is the top two rows which are shaded!
Year 6 work for Tuesday 24 March
Here it is! This is what you have been eagerly awaiting! The Year 6 work. Whoop whoop!
Do not start until Tuesday!
We will start using tests from the orange folder (the tests are Set B). Everyone SHOULD have this as it was given out early on. Most of you also now have a yellow folder (contains SET A tests - sorry for doing B before A - I had intended on doing A in school but that was before everything suddenly altered!! I am not usually so illogical!). The third folder that almost everyone now has (AC and BC - yours is waiting for you outside school) which is pink and has 2017 tests. Yellow and pink folders will be used in future weeks.
Maths
Orange folder – First 20 arithmetic questions from paper 1
Orange folder - First 5 reasoning questions from paper 2
15 mins on TT Rock Stars
Answers will be put up in a few days’ time.
English:
First 25 Spag test questions from orange folder
First text from Reading Comp red folder (All about Mice). Remember everything we have learnt about how to CAREFULLY and THOROUGHLY answer questions!
Topic:
Choose one topic challenge to commence today.
Other: Please try to get out in your garden, whatever the weather. If you don’t have a garden, open your windows wide and enjoy the fresh air.
Enjoy, y’all! I’ll catch up with you tomorrow. Mrs P xx PS - I have attached a copy of the most beautiful visitor to school this morning. This is Ronnie Hannan. He is only 3 months old and looks like a dark haired womble. In fact, his curly brown locks reminded my of my lovely boy, Ted, who is stuck in Spain right now. Guess what? Yup - those curls nearly made me cry!!
Monday 23 March ... information and work for TOMORROW
Well, staff have been in all morning and I am staying at school for the rest of the day. Hattie, my daughter, is helping out today too, which is rather nice for me! She seems to be outside in goal for much of the time - having two brothers has obviously been of at least some help to her!
I have put any left-behind pencil cases outside the main entrance - please come to collect them if you need them. I have only put out the ones I can find - if yours is hidden somewhere, well, it’s not going to be found by me!
I have also left compasses and protractors there for collection IF (but please, only IF) you do not have one at home. The rest will be used by school. In addition, I have left a few more copies of the play script if you were not in last week to collect one yourself. Please only take one if you didn’t receive one in school.
I have also left plastic folders for AC and BC, as well as a pink folder of tests for AC. I think everyone else has received theirs either in school or by delivery by a friend/neighbour.
As Mr King stated in one of his letters last week, no work was being set by class teachers for today, Monday. I have had quite a lot of questions about this. I will shortly be setting work (in a separate blog post) for Tuesday’s work. Where relevant, I will add photos of answers to work set later on in the week.
Thanks, Year 6 - keep well and be happy. Enjoy the sun (it looks lovely from where I am sitting, in the classroom) and I’m looking forward to heading home to my garden later to have a cup of tea outside in the fresh air! Check for another blog post shortly, with details of tomorrow’s work.
Au revoir... hopefully only for a little while
What a strange week it has been. I am so proud of my lovely class for keeping on working, keeping on being chirpy and positive, and for keeping on coming into school and brightening my days. Today, we bid au revoir to you all whilst the country works hard to overcome the virus.
Although I may not see some of the children for quite a while, I have given them all means by which to get hold of me in the meantime and I will try to ring around to everyone over the next couple of weeks. Remember to keep a close eye on the class blog for ideas of things to do each school day.
Everyone (including Mrs Cave and myself) now have a letter or two to open from our friends in class. These shouldn’t be opened yet - save them for when you’re missing people.
I’ll miss you all very much so do please keep in touch. Mrs P xx
Peace... amidst the chaos!
So, in a week where the world is dealing with tricky decision, Year 6 have made some beautiful Peace posters. These will be entered into the Lions’ Club competition later this month.
Thank you to all the parents who turned up for parent consultations yesterday - I hope you found them as useful as I did. I also hope you came away from the meetings knowing how very proud I am of all the children in Year 6. They are working really well and are starting to see that hard work reaps rewards!.
We have a fantastic Year 6 Class
Year 6 are working really hard and are committed to proving how capable they are by the time we reach May. This week, they are taking home copies of a Reading Comprehension test and a Maths Reasoning test which they sat earlier this week. They need an adult at home to go through these tests with them to try to improve their answers. The more collaboration we can generate between home and school, the better for these lovely 10 and 11 year olds.
Please could the adults feel free to add written comments and/or suggestions for their children to help them.
Also, please, a reminder for everyone to remember to send their slips back to school asap showing which secondary school their child will be attending. Many thanks.
Yummmmmmmmy .... not!!
Well, my pelvic floor exercises were severely tested this week (and I had an enormous third baby!!) when Year 6 tried to follow one another’s sets of instructions on how to make a ‘deluxe’ sandwich!!! Most of them forgot about the existence of 'knives etc on their first attempt. Despite this, they still chose to tuck in with gusto after they had made their edible delights. I was even offered a nibble. I politely declined!!
Thanks to all you lovely parents for coming along this morning for the SATs talk. For anyone who couldn’t make it, the powerpoint that I used is further down on the Year 6 ‘Our Learning’ page on the website… down near the bottom.
A class of lovely little angels (... I mean angles!)
Years 5 and 6 combined this morning to practice using protractors together. Mrs Powell made a complicated-looking sheet for us to measure but we quickly spotted that we didn’t actually need to measure every single angle. As long as we knew that a straight line had 180 degrees, we could save ourselves lots of time. We then checked our measurements to ensure they made sense. We could do this as we know that the sum of the internal angles for a triangle is 180 degrees, 360 for a quadrilateral, and 540 for a pentagon.
Street Dance
This week Year 6 had a visit from Laura, a street dance teacher. Laura taught us a range of hip hop and break dancing moves so we could put them together into a dance. It was great to try different styles and some were tricky! Street dancers traditionally have grumpy faces when dancing but this was very hard to do as everyone had a great time.
Art Week
In Year 6, we also looked at the picture, The Battle of San Romano by Uccello, as part of our Take One Picture work in school. We focused in on the people in the background, and tried to replicate one of the running men both in drawings (with movable legs, no less!) as well as in a PE lesson. We also used the painting to inspire us in writing, creating a range of lovely written pieces covering a large number of genres. Finally, we looked at the importance of flags and tried to understand why the flag in the painting was so prominent. We have made our own, large and fabulous Year 6 flag which will go up on display in school shortly. We used heraldry symbols to try to create our own mini flags within a flag!
Finally, thank you to everyone for all the lovely Christmas presents I received from everyone - I am so grateful. I am still trying to decide what to spend my voucher on (I I take ages deciding these things - it is the cause of much ‘debate’ in my house at the moment but I find that that is part of the fun of a voucher!!!) xx
Mayan mocktails!
Year 6 enjoyed themselves this week designing and then making (and then consuming!!) Mayan mocktails. They tried to use ingredients that were authentic and would be available to the Mayans such as mango, pineapple and even chocolate. The children worked really well together in their teams, and the variety of drinks produced was astonishing. One team even used a carved out melon as their ‘cup’.
Mayan visitors
We spent Monday morning immersed in a Mayan world when Ian from Mexicolore visited us. We have learnt lots of interesting facts about the Mayans and are looking forward to learning even more as the half term progresses. Some of us played different instruments, dressed up in unusual outfits and a couple of us tried playing a rather different game using a very heavy rubber ball and our hips!
The end of the Victorian era
Year 6 have learnt lots and lots about the Victorian era and managed to finish their Victorian samplers this week (serious speed sewing required - just like being in a Victorian workhouse!!).
Next term, we dive into learning about the Mayan civilisation - should be great fun. Mrs Powell and Mrs Cave hope the class have a fabulous, relaxing half term - see you in November. x
All dressed and ready for the disco!
There always has to be one for the Emergency Room ...
Oh, just a splinter!!
Some more Archery today ...
Another action packed day on the Isle of Wight
Zipline! Woohoo!
Mr King and Miss Dore have joined in the PGL fun today!
Another group taking their turn on the Giant Swing!
