Year 5/6 2018 - 2019

Miss Boland

Mrs Deakin

Welcome to the class page for Year 5/6

Here you can find out all about what we are learning and achieving in our lessons and around the school. Please keep popping back as we will keep the page updated with all the exciting things that we are involved in throughout the year!

Teaching the class are: Miss Boland, Mrs Deakin and Miss Hall.

Week beginning 12.11.18

This week we have taken part in musical workshops with Rocksteady music! Year 5/6 enjoyed the experience.

Pupil of the Week: Ryan

Writer of the Week: Lilly-Ella

Homework:

This year, homework will be completed online.

The children have been given passwords in the blue Communication books and on a laminated sheet for the following online programmes:

Spelling Shed
Mathletics
SPAG.com
Times Table Rockstars
IDL

Homework tasks will be set on these programmes on a Friday and are to be completed by the following Wednesday. The online programmes can be accessed on a PC, laptop, tablet/iPad or a smartphone.

Please click on the Homework tab at the top of the class page to find out what weekly homework has been set. You can also find a list of web links for each website.

We now have children signed up to the IDL programme too. This supports children in their English and reading. This can also be accessed outside of school. The children have been given their passwords for IDL.

Reading:

Children should be reading at home daily. Children will move up our class reading chart when they have completed books and there will be a prize for the most books read!

P.E.:

P.E. is on Wednesday and Friday afternoons.

Children require a full P.E. kit. If children are unable to participate in P.E. lessons, please write a note in their blue Communication Books.

What is Year 5/6 Achieving This Term?

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WC Tuesday 4th September 2018:

Welcome back! We hope you have had a lovely summer and we can't wait to hear about all the exciting things you got up to!

We have had a wonderful first week back and have produced some beautiful art pieces. These will be displayed around the school to showcase the fantastic effort all the children have put in.

Pupil of the Week - Finlay

WC Monday 10.9.18

This week we have started work on Place Value in Mathematics.

In English we are looking at the book FArTHER. Next week we will be writing our own narratives based on this story.

We have started our new topic in our Creative Curriculum which is World War I.

In Science we are looking at the topic of Classification.

Our Come and See topic is Loving - we have been sharing ideas on what love means to us and how we show love.

Pupil of the Week - Aidan

Writer of the Week - Maggie

Well done! Keep up the hard work!

WC Monday 17.9.18

This week our Upper Key Stage 2 corridor has undergone a fantastic transformation!

These amazingly artistic displays celebrate our Eucharistic work in Come and See and our World War One topic in our Creative Curriculum. Thanks to all the children for their beautiful artwork and to all the children and staff involved in constructing our displays. I think you'll agree they look wonderful!

Pupil of the Week - Keisha

Writer of the Week - Emily

Well done! Keep up the hard work!

WC Mon 24.9.18

This week Year 5/6 took part in a workshop run by United Utilities. The staff from United Utilities told us all about water safety, the importance of water in our everday lives and what we can do to save water. The workshop was interactive and very interesting!

Pupil of the Week - Elizabeth

Writer of the Week - Ryan

SCORE Certificates -

Self-esteem - Aidan

Commitment - Oliwier

Organisation - Sophia

Resilience - Emmi

Excellence - Jacob O

Well done to all of our certificate winners for your hard work this week! Keep it up!

WC Mon 1.10.18

This week has been assessment week and the children have worked really hard.

Pupil of the Week - Enas

Writer of the Week - Sophia

WC Mon 8.10.18

This week we have had our Big Democracy discussion. Years 2-6 gathered in the hall to discuss what our curriculum means to us. We talked about what we enjoy learning and where we like to learn and also about what the key ingredients of a good lesson are.

We had a hands-on Science lesson on Tuesday where we drew diagrams to classifty dolly mixture sweets. The children worked in groups and thought of some very interesting questions.

WC Mon 29.10.18

We've had a busy first week back after half term!

We have started work on newspaper reports in our English lessons. We have been learning lots of facts about what happened in August 1914 when Britain faced the outbreak of World War One. Below are some examples of the fantastic sentences we have been working on for our own reports.

Dojo Champion - Jacob C

Pupil of the Week - Jacob C

Writer of the Week - Maggie

Well done and keep up the hard work!

WC Mon 5.11.18:

This Thursday morning Years 5 and 6 held a Collective Worship in the hall. Parents and carers were invited to come in and join. We commemorated all those who have given their lives in war, with an emphasis on WWI as it is coming up to 100 years since the end of WWI. It was a thought provoking Collective Worship and we all paid our respects during a 2 minute silence. Children read passages from the Bible, verses from poems, prayers that they had written themselves and a couple of children performed a poem. Well done to all involved and thank you to those parents and carers who took part.

In our English lessons we have been writing newspaper reports about the end of World War One in 1918. The children have been using lots of interesting facts from 1918 to inform the reader and have been using punctuation such as brackets for extra information and inverted commas for quotes.