Toucans W.B. 03.10.22

Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 7:21pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ?

What a brilliant week we have had in Toucans class! We all enjoyed our exciting trip to Petty Pool, where the children really excelled at pushing themselves to try new things and represented our school so wonderfully. 

Praise: Sophie

Top Table: Edward and Mack

Next Week (W.B. 03.10.22)

Reminders:

• PE will take place on both a Monday and a Friday each week, so please send your child into school wearing their PE kit on these days. PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/navy.

Curriculum:

In English, we will focus on planning and writing our own flashback story, based upon our current study text - Star of Fear, Star of Hope. We will try to write a story from the other main character’s point of view. 

In maths, we will continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning, and multiplication and division strategies.

In science, we will be using the results we generated from our shadow experiment last week to try and draw an accurate line graph to represent our results. 

In our history/geography lesson, we will begin to look at World War One. We shall look at the reasons behind WW1 and the countries involved in this conflict.

In art, we will continue to create our Paul Nash inspired conflict paintings and begin to think about evaluating these pieces of work. 

In RE, we will be thinking about making a pledge to promote diversity in our local community. 

Homework

Children in Year 6 will be set a weekly maths homework that they should complete and mark at home using the answers provided in the back of their homework book. If your child is finding the homework challenging, I will ensure that supervision is provided one lunchtime each week where your child can ask any questions or receive the support they need to complete the homework.

Children should complete page 15 of their maths homework book this week and return it to school by Thursday 6th October.

Please also encourage your child to read for 15-20 minutes each evening and practice their spellings and times tables. Children need to record their reading in their homework diaries/planners. The following website is great for times tables practice: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 7th October will again focus on suffixes and will be:

admittance, beginning, committed, forbidden, forgotten, permitting, preferred, regrettable, stoppable, wettest. 

Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact!

Mr Corkill ?