We have been looking at the differences between autobiographies and biographies. As a class we decided to write our own autobiography and have produced a super display. This is outside the classroom and pictures will be posted on the first week back.
Year 6 have also made super progress in their writing this half term, this is encouraging as they are now becoming more independent and creative
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Yesterday we started our jigsaw lesson with the Calm Me exercise to prepare ourselves to learn.
In small groups the children were given a blank learning charter template and asked to teach a consensus on what should be on it. They filed in the rights, responsibilities, rewards, and consequences that would be most meaningful to them.
The children then returned to the circle and shared their ideas. The teacher then enabled the class to come up with one learning charter and they competed a template for this. This template will then be passed onto the school council as our class contribution towards the new learning charter.
Year 6 are busy using skills in reading to help them on their way to achieving success in the forthcoming SATs. The children are becoming more competent in recognising and referring to domains in their reading.
In maths too they are working hard and have found new confidence when measuring, calculating, and recognising angles.
Why don’t you ask your child to discuss their learning from this week? Can they discuss angles around a point?
A big thank-you to all the parents who attended parents night ,it was nice you could see and appreciate the improvements in your child’s work.
As part of Child Safety Week, the children learnt all about ‘Pantosaurus’ and the NSPCC campaign. Classes from Reception to Year 6 enjoyed singing along and learning how to stay safe. Links for more information regarding the campaign, ‘Lets Talk PANTS’ can be found on the school newsletter or on the NSPCC website.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/
During last week, Year 6 were looking at using measures in their maths. They were converting different measures and solving problems involving measures. It was key to read the problem, convert to same measures, and use known strategies to solve the calculations. Remembering to revert to the original measure.
In our topic of World War 11 we wrote news reports based on the bombings in Birmingham. We used our research notes to help put together a report.
In yesterdays session we started off by sharing the ‘jigsaw charter’ with the children to reinforce how we work together.
We then played a ‘Blast Off’ game with the whole class. The game encouraged the class to work as a group and listen to each other. The better they worked as a team the more enjoyable the game became.
After the game was completed we worked through a ‘Calm Me’ activity. This helped the children to calm down so that they were ready to learn.
Next the children spent time looking at a PowerPoint that had pictures of British scenes. They then had to tell each other what thoughts came into their minds after looking at the picture.
Term 2.1 – Week 2 (15th-18th Jan)
