Author: Mrs Hogarth

Year 5/6 have been studying how we change and develop over our lifetime – physical or emotional changes. They have also been learning about events that happen at different points in our lives, such as starting school and learning to drive. We have been busy learning our vocabulary for this unit, which includes:

adolescence

adolescent

arthritis

gestation period

life expectancy

puberty

teenager

Ask your child if they can remember what these words mean. Can you play some games at home to help your child remember them. I highly recommend a game of Pictionary – can anyone guess what you’re drawing?!

I recognise the importance of personal hygiene including handwashing.

This is our living and learning statement for this week and year 5/6 S have been exploring the importance of handwashing. They investigated different bacteria and how they affect our bodies, in negative and positive ways. They discussed how important hygiene is, particularly at the moment with Covid affecting our lives. They identified ‘hotspots’ in the classroom – these are high touch areas that need to be cleaned regularly to avoid the transmission of germs.

Following our manic day on Friday completing the Captain Tom 100 challenge, the Junior Leadership Team have selected our new school charity. All the classes selected a charity of their choice and the JLT members brought the ideas to the meeting. The children all voted and our new charity is….

The National Autistic Society.

If you would like to know more about the charity, please follow this link.

Thank you to everyone that donated to school for the 100 challenge. We had some incredibly generous donations. We managed to raise £185.09 and this will be donated straight away to the charity. Well done and thank you everyone for your hard work!

We’re still alive!

5/6 S successfully completed our 100 challenge today! We managed to run for 100 minutes. Well done to everyone who took part and it definitely wasn’t easy. Everyone helped us to reach our target and a small team of very dedicated runners helped us make it! Even a broken foot didn’t stop one person from joining in!

Parents can look forward to a peaceful evening as all the children should be exhausted. I’m not sure I’m going to be able to walk tomorrow! A massive thank you to everyone that donated money – it’s greatly appreciated.

Here are some action shots of the day…

This weeks certificate winners are…

For great learning…

Poppy – your attitude to your learning has improved massively and you are asking for help when you need it. Well done and keep it up.

For sport and physical activity…

William – you demonstrated great teamwork in basketball this week. You also showed good control of the ball and good shooting skills. Well done!

For living and learning…

Charlie G – you contributed well to class discussions this week and you responded well to other people’s ideas. Thank you.

Well done everyone!

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been building up our writing skills and we have now written a descriptive piece of writing about a robot. We began by discussing different types of vocabulary – which ones would be the most effective in descriptive work. We thought about using this vocabulary to create expanded noun phrases. This is where we use a determiner, such as the, an adjective and a noun. The children created some brilliant ENPs. We discussed different ways of starting sentences. Could we use fronted adverbials? Could we include any relative clauses?

The children have brought all their skills together to produce some amazing pieces of writing. There were some robots with jobs, such as looking after your pets when you go away. There were other robots that were evil and rather scary. Ask your child about their writing. What features did they include?

This weeks certificate winners are…

For great learning…

William W – for great learning in computing. You worked hard to create your algorithm and even manged to debug your program when it didn’t work. Well done!

For sport and physical activity…

Dasha – you participated in rounders really well this week and your throwing has really improved and is more accurate now. Well done!

For living and learning…

Connor – you always remember to use your manners whatever you are doing. Well done and thank you.

Well done everyone!

Year 5/6 S are very excited to announce what challenge we will be completing on Friday 30th April to raise money for our school charity. Over the course of the day, we will be running for a total time of 100 minutes! We are going to be exhausted, but it will be worth it! We are hoping that parents will donate £1.00 in order to support us in this challenge. Thank you in advance of your generosity.

Year 5 and 6 have been computing hero’s this week in topic. They have been using Scratch on the laptops to create their own programs. They used algorithms to program the sprite to draw different shapes. They started off by drawing a circle and an equilateral triangle. They then moved onto creating a spirograph design. All of these processes involved the children using logical reasoning to debug their algorithms when it didn’t create the shape they wanted. They also used the skill of repetition to allow them to be more efficient. Ask your child at home about their computing learning. Can they remember any of the vocabulary we’ve been learning? There were some great designs – well done!