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 10th November:

What a fabulous week we have had in Year 6! In English, we continued reading our termly text: ‘Running on Empty’. The children were tasked with using their research from last week about learning disabilities, and create an information text about this topic. What information did you learn? How are learning disabilities different to learning difficulties? Why did we write an information text on this topic? How is it relevant to our termly text? As we continued reading, we learned a little more about our main character (AJ) and how he became so interested in running. Using this as our stimulus, the children wrote some wonderful nostalgic narratives explaining this journey. Can you remember why AJ loved running so much? How did you portray this in your narrative?

In Science, we continued our topic: ‘Circulatory System’. This week, learned how environmental factors can have an impact on our health – in particular, what we eat. We learned to unpick nutritional labels on food using the traffic light system and delved deeper into why some food groups are not as healthy for us as others. Why should we try to limit our intake of sugar, fat and salt? How does this impact our cardiovascular health? Do these food groups have any wider reaching consequences for our bodies if we overindulge?

In Geography this week, we built upon our understanding of natural resource depletion and revisited some different ways in which this occurs: deforestation, soil erosion, fossil fuel harvesting, mining and water poisoning. The children were tasked with writing a letter to a CEO of a major corporation guilty of contributing to one of these depletion methods, urging them to stop and suggesting alternative ways they could run instead. Which method of natural resource depletion did you choose? What is the impact of this? How and why does this happen? What could we do instead?

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, thanks.

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.