Toucans W.B. 07.11.22

Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 3:35pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ?

Toucans have had a great first week back in school. They all really enjoyed our trip to Safety Central on Tuesday, where they managed to score an impressive 97% on the ‘end of the day’ quiz. Fantastic work, everyone! 

Praise: Isabel

Top Table: Jake and Zach

Next Week (W.B. 07.11.22)

Reminders:

• PE will continue to 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.
• Christmas production rehearsals have begun, so please ensure your child is regularly reading their scripts and learning their lines. 

Curriculum:

In English, we will continue to explore our new model text, ‘Can We Save The Tiger?’, and focus upon adding parenthesis using dashes, studying hybrid text type features, and writing a short report on kakapos. In our shared reading lesson, we will be comparing and contrasting two poems on blackouts during times of conflict. 

In maths, we will continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning to further practice our four operations. We will continue to focus on fractions with a particular emphasis on adding and subtracting fractions. 

In science, we will continue with our new unit of electricity. We shall be looking at the effect of voltage on the components of a circuit through building a range of circuits and increasing the voltage within each. 

In our history/geography lesson, we will complete a lesson focusing on remembrance day. We shall use ‘A Street Near You’ to research a local WW1 soldier to create a fact file and explore the significance of remembering those who fought for our country. 

In RE, the children will begin to research a local, national and global Christian community and examine the similarities and differences between these communities. 

The children will continue to have a weekly German lesson with Mrs Judge on a Tuesday afternoon. 

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 pages 18 and 19 of their maths homework book this week and return it to school by Thursday 10th November. The homework this week focuses on simplifying and ordering fractions to consolidate the classwork we have completed this week. 

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. This really will help them with their reading speed and stamina. 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 11th November will focus on words containing the ‘sh’ sound spelt si or ssi and will be: admission, comprehension, discussion, explosion, impression, permission, profession, revision, tension, vision. 

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

Mr Corkill ?