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Week ending 15th February 2019

The children have worked so hard in their revision groups this week and we have been working on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions. The children finished off this unit by applying their understanding of fractions to solving word problems. In English, we have introduced our new book - Journey to the River Sea - and the children have been finding lots of facts about the Amazon river and the Brazilian rainforest to help them engage with this story and the characters within it. The red spelling words have been sent out for next half term so please look out for these in the children's bags. If you could display these at home and encourage your children to learn them, that would be really useful. We have begun looking at Hinduism in RE, which involved the children re-telling a Hindu story. As scientists, we collected specimens of flora and fauna from the common and made detailed scientific sketches based on Charles Darwin's work.
Well it's all change in Year 6 with our revision groups starting at the beginning of the week. The children are really enjoying these sessions and have adapted quickly to the changes. We are getting some lovely feedback from the, particularly about the maths booster groups. In English, we are in the final week of writing based on our book 'Holes' by Louis Sachar. The children are currently in the middle of composing a balanced argument based on a story line within this book and are producing some lovely pieces of writing. As our topic - Hola Mexico - draws to a close, we have been finishing off the science work about light. The children have been involved in plentyof practical investigations as part of this work and have shown that they have learned a great deal. Next week, we begin our new topic called 'Darwin's Delights' and will be basing our English work around the book 'Journey to the River Sea' by Eva Ibbotson.

Busy Fridays

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Last Friday, The children had a fabulous morning making periscopes. This helped the children to develop their understanding of how light travels. In the afternoon, they got to test them out and went for a spy around school. The children also wrote instructions to help younger children make periscopes too. We have all been delighted with the wonderful compliments we have received over our ceramic work. Lots of people have noticed how amazing our work is! Our Clay masks have been fired and have now become ceramic. On Friday we started to glaze our work. This will take us another session as we need several coats of glaze in order to get a bright finish. Once we have glazed, the masks will be fired a second time and they will go on display for everyone to admire.