Toucans W.B. 13.03.23

Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 10:38am

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ? 

Toucans have had another good week of learning and particularly enjoyed their forest school session on Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Evans, along with the inspiring science assembly on Thursday morning. 

Praise: Abi

Top Table: Ellie and Zach

Next Week (W.B. 13.03.23)

Reminders:

• We will be celebrating British Science Week with lots of fun and engaging activities throughout the week, with a focus on the theme of ‘connections’!
• Ten pupils from Y6 will be involved with a cross country competition on Thursday 16th March. If your child is involved, Mrs Whittingham will have sent a letter home with the full details. Please ensure your child has a packed lunch that they can eat on this day after returning from the competition. 
• We will have an exciting guest visitor on Thursday 16th March in our worship to inspire the children. 
• Year 5 and Year 6 will attend a special online safety workshop at Wincham Community Primary school in the morning of Friday 17th March. This will be delivered by 2Engage - an educational theatre company. 
• Friday 17th March will be a non-uniform day to celebrate Red Nose Day 2023. Please ensure your child’s outfit is appropriate to complete our PE lesson in. Also, can you send your child into school with their school hoodie / jumper as this will be needed when they visit the 2Engage workshop on Friday morning. 
• 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.

Curriculum:

In English, we will begin to write a letter as our final piece based upon the text, ‘The Day War Came’. We will be aiming to write a letter to raise awareness of the plight of refugees to a fellow Y6 pupil using: present perfect tense, a range of cohesive devices, colons to explain/emphasise, and layout devices (e.g. bullet points). 

In maths, we shall be completing our unit on measure. This week we will be learning about: calculating the area of a triangle, finding the area of a parallelogram, and working out the volume of a cuboid. We will also continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning to further practice our four operations.

In science, we will continue with our unit on evolution and look at how evolution works through analysing different fossils to show changes over time. 

In our history/geography lesson, we shall understand the difference between the terms: refugee, asylum seeker, migrant, and immigrant through looking at different case studies. 

In PE, the children will continue with practising their tennis and basketball skills with Mr Ault. 

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 48 and 49 of their maths homework book this week and return it to school by Thursday 16th March. The homework consolidates our learning on two missing number algebra problems from this week’s lessons. Children should also complete pages 22-24 (Set B: Test 1) of their reading homework book. 

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 17th March will begin to concentrate of the next set of Y5/6 statutory spelling words and will be: existence, explanation, familiar, foreign, frequently, government, guarantee, harass, hindrance. 

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

Mr Corkill ?