Toucans week beg. 12.10.20

Date: 8th Oct 2020 @ 3:41pm

Another busy week in Toucans as we have had our presentations for Head Student. The children have shared their letters/speeches/presentations with their classmates and Toucans have voted for their candidates. We also videoed these presentations to share on our school system. Next step is for all the other members of our school community to view and cast their votes.

In Maths we have been looking at long multiplication and division. Next week, we will continue to explore long division. Remember to keep revising your times tables and play Times Tables Rock stars.

In English we are have been busy learning to write cohesive paragraphs on characters from our book ‘Of Thee I Sing’. We have also been linking this with our RE/No Outsiders topic of Racism.

In RE our topic is Diversity and we continuing to find out how we celebrate special times in our families. Next week we will begin to look at some other Religions and how they celebrate festivals.

In Science, we will continue our work on Light by thinking about sources and how light travels.

Home Reading

Thank you to everyone who has been reading at home. We have had lots of diaries signed and consequently the children have been receiving their first raffle tickets for our reading draw.

We have been enjoying quiet reading time in class this week so the children have the opportunity to immerse themselves in their new books.

Our PE day is Friday so please send your child to school wearing their PE kit on that day. Mr Ault will also be running an after school club for Year 6s after school on a Friday.

Mental Health Week

Saturday 10^th October is World Mental Health Day. In school this week we have been discussing how to keep our minds healthy and the benefits of mindfulness.

Harvest

Over the past 2 weeks we have been thinking about the importance of Harvest and have been collaborating as a school to produce our own unique Harvest Festival which we can share with our friends and families.

Kind regards

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing and Mr Beswick