Toucans Week beg. 4th October

Date: 30th Sep 2021 @ 5:12pm

Week beg 4^th October 2021

I can’t believe it is October already! It has been lovely chatting to parents this week to let everyone know how their child has settled into Year 6. Thank you for your continuous support in ensuring your child is settled and doing their best in school. We will continue to focus on handwriting next week so please encourage your child to use their joined handwriting when learning their spellings at home. 

Again it has been a delight to see all Maths homework completed on time and to a high standard. It was also lovely to hear so many parents say that they didn’t need to give their child any help with their tasks. I love to see and hear about this independence! We are also pleased to see the enthusiasm that the class are showing towards their reading at home. So many of them are recording their daily reading – 20mins – in their diaries independently. Thank you for your support with this.

For homework, we will set another 2 pages in their Maths books this week, please see below. We would also like them to log onto Times Tables Rockstars at least 3 times a week for 15 mins. They have got their log in details in the front of their homework diaries and they also all logged on in class today so that we know they will be able to this by themselves at home.

Homework

Spellings for next week will focus will focus on Suffixes

Spellings will be tested on Friday 8^th October – sprinting, shouted, sweetest, jumping, prouder, floated, rusting, hunter, yawning, asked

Maths Homework – Key Stage Two Maths SATs Question Book and Times Tables Rockstars

In school we have been Addition and Subtraction this week so the homework is Written Methods for Addition and Subtraction page 10 and page 11 of the SATs book.

Remember you will be set 2 pages to do weekly which you can mark yourself using the answers at the back of the book.

(Maths homework will be set on a Thursday and if the children could bring their books back into school for the following Wednesday so we can check them that would be great. If they are struggling with anything, please don’t hesitate to send the book back sooner and we will do some extra work with them in school)

Curriculum

Maths – Next week we will continue our work on the Four Operations by focusing on Multiplication and Division.

History – We will be finding out more about the War of the Roses and our War Artist – Paul Nash

RE – We will be focusing on our P4C question – If we are all different why should we be treated equally? We will also research how different religions celebrate the birth of a child.  

Science – Light

Next week we will continue finding out about light through a variety of investigations.

PE day will be on Wednesday (Cricket Coach) and on Friday (Mr Ault). Children can come to school wearing their PE uniform on these days.

Kind regards,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing, Mr Beswick and Mr Corkill