Toucans W.B. 24.04.23

Date: 20th Apr 2023 @ 5:22pm

Welcome Back to Toucans’ Weekly Blog ? 

I hope everyone had a lovely Easter break! 

Toucans have had a good and busy week back with lots of new learning alongside our ongoing revision for the upcoming SATs.

Praise: Toby

Top Table: Fin and Lola

Next Week (W.B. 24.04.23)

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 and should only be worn on PE days. 

Curriculum:

In English, we will be planning and writing a diary entry in role as Charles Darwin on the first day he arrived in the Galapagos Islands. In shared reading, we will continue to read Great Adventures by Alastair Humphreys with a focus on distinguishing between fact and opinion and looking at how structure contributes to meaning. 

In maths, we will continue to revise a range of the topics studies so far this year. We will continue with our 4-a-day arithmetic questions each morning to further practice our four operations.

In science, we will begin our unit on living things and their habitats. This week’s lesson will look at classification and its importance to taxonomists. We shall create an informative poster on the 5 key vertebrate animal classes.  

In our history/geography lesson, we will create a comparison table of the human and physical geographical features comparing England with Brazil. 

In PE, the children will continue their lessons with Mr Ault looking at all things athletics this half term. 

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 74 and 75 of their maths homework book this week and return it to school by Thursday 27th April. The homework consolidates our learning on coordinates from our lessons this week. Children should also complete pages 31-33 (Set B: Test 4) 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. Try to talk to your child about what they have read in their book (the character, the plot, their opinion). Try to vary choices to include classic texts, non-fiction texts, and poems.

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 28th April will concentrate on the next set of Y5/6 statutory spelling words and will be: prejudice, privilege, profession, programme, pronunciation, queue, recognise, recommend, relevant, restaurant. 

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

Mr Corkill ?