Parent Meeting Information Slides

Thank you to all those who were able to attend the parent meeting on Thursday 30th. Below are the slides from the meeting for anyone who wasn't able to attend.

Online Advent Calendar

As Advent begins this Sunday with Advent Sunday celebrated in Churches, we would like to share this online Advent Calendar with you, produced by the Diocese of Guildford. It explores the Christmas story through Christian artwork, investigating a different artist and aspect of the story throughout the term time days of Advent. Please enjoy sharing this with your family as we prepare for Christmas in school and at home.

This week in Gloucestershire 6

Week beginning Monday 24th November:

What a brilliant week we have had in Year 6! In English, we continued reading our termly text: ‘Running on Empty’. This week, the children continued to focus their attention to AJ’s dilemma of whether to sign the letter from school or not. We spent the first part of the week completing our suspense narratives, before moving on to a letter of advice addressed to AJ giving him our ideas about what he should do. To support our learning this week, we carried out a conscience alley where the children had to suggest their ideas about what the repercussions could be if AJ was to sign or not sign the letter. We compared our suggestions to AJ’s less rational thoughts about the situation and discussed how emotions can play a large part in how we deal with a problem. Can you remember what advice you gave to AJ? What could happen to him if he did sign the letter? What might happen to him if he does not?

In Science, we continued our topic: ‘Circulatory System’. This week, the children carried out their experiments, focussing on taking accurate measurements. What was your hypothesis? Did you provide a prediction at the start of your experiment? What did you predict would happen? Whilst carrying out the experiments, the children were required to provide repeats of their chosen activity. Why do we repeat the activity multiple times? Why is it important to do this in scientific experiments?

In History this week, we continued our learning about ‘Maafa’, in particular looking at the impacts of colonisation in Africa. The children learned about the ‘Scramble for Africa’ and the ‘Berlin West Africa Conference’ and the long-lasting impact these had on the African people. What were the impacts of colonisation? Do you think this was fair? Why?

Next week, Tuesday 2^nd December, is our final swimming session for the year. Please make sure your child has their swimming kit for this session.

We hope you have a fantastic weekend!

Miss Aldis

A typical week in Gloucestershire:

Home Learning

Home learning and spellings will be set each week on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday. 

Investigative Topic Tasks

All of the children will have an investigative topic-linked learning task to complete, which is rotated over a three-week cycle. The children will focus on one of their three current foundation subjects each week.
To support this, the children are split into 3 groups, which you can see below.
This will be set on a Thursday and due by the following Tuesday.
In class on a Tuesday or Wednesday, the children will then share the outcomes of their research, and the knowledge they have retrieved, within their own group.

Spelling

The link below will take you to the spelling scheme we are working from in school.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/english/primary-spelling/

This document contains spelling strategies that are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words: Southborough's Spelling Strategies

Times Tables Rockstars! 

To keep practising the multiplication skills taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account.

You should be practising for at least 30 minutes a week.

We have a TT Rock Star of the week. Look out to see who the first one is!

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Rapid recall of multiplication is essential for success in maths and Times Tables Rockstars gives you self-confidence, recognition and motivation to improve.

Challenge yourself to beat your score, build your knowledge and watch your confidence sore, as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

Reading

Please ensure you hear your child read regularly and record on Boom Reader using the parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week:

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Some helpful questions to ask the children and check their understanding as they read have been pasted below. 

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading their current book, children are asked to complete a quiz before choosing the next one:

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

Please note: pupil login details have changed slightly due to an upgrade that has taken place on the Accelerated Reader platform. Pupil login details (user name and password) should now be enter in all lower case (no capital letters at all). These login details are used each time your child quizzes a school reading book which carries an accelerated reading quiz code.