Toucans week beg. 19.10.20

Date: 14th Oct 2020 @ 5:07pm

This week the children have been finding out about their roles for the coming academic year – head students and team captains. They will also find out shortly who will be the Eco-officers, health ambassadors, pupil parliament members, librarians etc.

Assessments – the children are beginning to do some baseline assessments for year 6. We have not made a big deal of these in class and don’t want the children to worry about them at all. For this reason, we have just been doing them alongside our normal lessons.

In Maths we are continuing our work on long division and revising our basic number operations through mental arithmetic activities.

In English we are continuing to work on our book ‘Of Thee I Sing’. Over the next week we will be using it to inspire some persuasive writing.

In RE our topic is Diversity and we have been working in pairs to research a different religion and to present information about places of worship, scared texts, festivals etc. Next week we will be presenting our facts to the class so we can all learn more about these different religions.

In Science, our Topic is Light and we are exploring our own questions around this subject.  

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.

Kind regards

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing and Mr Beswick