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.

This week in Herefordshire 6

Week beginning Monday 3rd November:

We’ve had another great week in Year 6! In English, we have been finishing our newspaper report about Usain Bolt’s 100m sprint record in the 2012 London Olympics as well as continuing reading the next section of our book, ‘Running on Empty’. This has led to the children writing letters pretending to be the main character who has just lost his Grandad and exploring what it means for the family to be without this key member.

In History, we have looked at how the slave trade came to be abolished and what influenced this key moment in history. We learned there were four key groups of people that caused the abolition, can you remember who those groups were?

In Geography, we have been learning about the depletion of natural resources and why this matters, for example looking at the cause and impact of deforestation. We have written letters trying to persuade a CEO of a large business to stop overusing the world’s precious resources. What are the Earth’s other natural resources?

In Science, we are following up on last week’s experiment where we explored the hypothesis: ‘Children with lower resting heart rates can sprint faster than those with higher resting heart rates.’ We have collated the data and have represented this in line graphs to better visualise and understand the pattern in our results, as well as writing a conclusion that reflects on whether we were correct in our predictions.

As ever, the British autumn likes to keep us guessing with the weather. Please ensure your child has a coat with them everyday to keep them dry and warm.

We hope you have a fantastic weekend!

Mrs Latty and Miss Wright

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.