Spelling:
As we’ve been recapping homophones learning this week, use and underline the correct homophones in a sentence correctly.
This is a common mistake in children’s writing.
where, wear, were, we’re,
there, their, they’re,
to, too, two
Challenge: What top tips would you give for remembering the difference between where, wear, were, we’re?
This week’s homework is Creative and due on Thursday 16th May 2019.
As part of our new topic, Disasters and the Environment, we would like your child to find out about a global or local disaster. This can be natural or man-made. It may also be a personal disaster that may have affected them .
Children can present findings in the most creative way they can. They may decide to choose one of the following or come up with something completely different. Be creative!
Times tables:
Complete the table division wheels. Division is the inverse of multiplication so use your times table facts to help you.
Here’s an update on the attendance of each class in school so far this school year. The overall school attendance is 96.2% – highlighted in green are all the classes with attendance above this average.
Well done to Mr Gathercole’s class – they have the highest attendance of all the classes! It’s also great to see all classes in our Y5,6 phase with above average attendance.
Our Ofsted inspection ended yesterday. Thank you to all parents/carers who passed on their views through Ofsted’s Parent View and/or in the playground when inspectors went outside at the start and end of the school day.
The inspection report will be published in about three weeks. Until that time, we’re not allowed to talk about the inspection findings.
Thanks again to parents/carers for their support during the inspection, and in the two years since our last inspection.
Spelling Activity
This week’s spelling activity is to discuss and complete a range of practice questions involving prefixes (a part of a word that attaches to the beginning of a word to change the meaning e.g. un, dis, mis, re, auto, inter). Some of the questions require a suffix ( a part of a word that attaches to the end of a word to change the meaning, or add to its meaning e.g. ly, ing, ed, est).
Please see the attached sheet in your children’s homework books.
This week’s homework is Talk Time and due on Thursday 9th May 2019.
We have been discussing the importance of online safety and creating safe, secure passwords and usernames. We have also talked about different online scenarios, how the children could respond to them and how to get help if they are worried about an issue.
For homework this week, could your child discuss the following questions that link to a moral issue:
Why do we need to keep our passwords secret?
Is it right to keep a secret?
Times tables – Use maths frame MTC website for more practise.
Look at the times tables you have been learning in your year group. Write your own personalised list of the tables you still need to practise.
Do you know the divisions?
Year 3 times tables – 3, 4 and 8 times tables (up to x 12).
Year 4 times tables – 6, 7 and 9 times tables (up to x 12).
On Friday 03 May, we close at 2.00pm.
Once again, Scholes has been chosen as the location for part of the route of the Tour de Yorkshire. The men’s race will pass through Scholes at around 3.45pm. The roads will be closed around an hour before and after the race so we’re closing school at 2.00pm on Friday 03 May.
On this day, please allow yourself time to collect your child safely. If you drive, please be aware you can’t park on the main road – give yourself time to park further afield (eg the church car park) and walk the rest of the way.
We apologise for any inconvenience but once the roads are closed they may remain closed for around an hour, making movement in and out of the village impossible.
We want to show our support and show off our school and village (who have entered the ‘Best Dressed’ village competition) as best we can. We therefore invite children to come wearing yellow and blue for the day. We’re also planning a piece of ‘land art’ on the school field or playground. Hopefully, we might be featured on the TV coverage, local news or in the newspapers!
We’ll be keeping ourselves busy and active by working through our Wake Up Shake Up dances while we wait for the women’s race to pass through at around 10.30am. Year 5 and 6 children will be able to watch the race from the pavement outside school.
This week’s Living and Learning statement is …
I recognise emotions in myself and others.
In class, we discussed emotions and where they come from (our brain!)
Children came up with lots of different feelings and emotions and decided if they were of high / medium / low intensity.
We filled in a table to describe how we felt.
Charlie and Ellie, “High intensity happiness is feeling ecstatic and thrilled.”
We are just loving our Science mini-topic, Seeing, which has been very successful. This week, we have investigated how reflective materials are under a torch light.
First of all, we made predictions about which materials would be the most and least reflective. Most of us thought that tinfoil would be the most reflective. We then tested the materials and made conclusions from our results.
Actually, our results showed that the spoon was most reflective.
On one sunny day this week, we looked at how our pupils change size in light and dark.
Paige said, “My pupils are like pin holes in the sunlight.”
Super, Seeing, Science!