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 Northamptonshire 6

Week beginning Monday 8th December:

What a great week we have had in Year 6! In English, we spent some time editing our writing from this half term to ensure we are showcasing all of our wonderful writing skills. From this editing, we worked together to create new targets for the children to work towards next half term. What was your target? What are you aiming to include more of in your writing?

In PE, the children were given an opportunity to allow their creativity to flow and come up with a Christmas themed game or exercise that they shared with others in the year group. We were not disappointed, with the children coming up with some fabulous activities including: the Great Elf Obstacle Course, Santa’s Workshop, Snowball Frenzy and many many more. What activity did you come up with? How did it work? How did it link to Christmas?

As our swimming session has been cancelled over the last two weeks due to lack of water in Tunbridge Wells, we have been lucky enough to reschedule our final session to Tuesday 16^th December. Please remember to pack your swimming kits next Tuesday!

I am sure those of you who were lucky enough to enjoy the Year 5 and 6 Nativity will agree, the children were absolutely fantastic! Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support!

We hope you have a fantastic weekend!

Mrs Midgley. 

A typical week in Northamptonshire:

Home Learning

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.