Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
A typical week in Norfolk 5
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
AM: 8.15-12.00
Break: 10.45-11.00 | Morning Activity and Registration | ||||
Maths
English | PE English Maths | Maths reading skills | English handwriting | Maths handwriting | |
10.00am Collective Worship | |||||
Class worship | Spelling groups | reciprocal reading | Spelling groups | ||
Break | Break | ||||
Spelling groups | Art | PE - Gymnastics Handwriting | Maths | English | |
Singing Worship | |||||
12.00-1.00 | Lunch, Break and TA Reading | ||||
PM: 1.00-3.00 | Reading Comprehension History | Geography
Discovery Centre | English PSHE | Computing Music French | RE Science |
We started the week with an exciting science afternoon as it is National science week. We watched a live stream from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and learned about clocks and the invention of time. On Monday afternoon we watched how a water clock works and learned about pendulums. Mrs Townshend brought in an antique metronome and we discussed how the metronome can be made to go faster by moving the weight up and down.
We then made our own pendulums and tested to see how long they took to stop with weights at different levels. On Friday we will be resuming our experimenting to use the pendulums to time us in some activities. We will write up our experiments like scientists!
Our book, Floodland, is very exciting. We have written speeches this week, trying to persuade our tribe to follow us as leaders. We are looking at some of William Blake's poetry and writing our own free poetry before writing a dystopia story next week.
We are coming to the end of our decimals unit in maths by understanding how percentages fit in with decimals and fractions. We will be moving on to area and perimeter next week.
Home learning and spellings will be set each week on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday. We will be testing the 7 x table on 13th March.
Times Tables Rockstars!
To keep practising the multiplication 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.
Rapid recall of multiplication is essential for success in maths and Times Tables Rockstars gives children 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.
The link below will take you to the spelling scheme we are working from in school.
Spellings will be tested tomorrow morning (Thursday 14th) and new spellings issued tomorrow afternoon
Spellings for Mrs Townshend's Group | Spellings for Miss Hollands' Group | Mrs Shrimpton's Blue Group | Mrs Shrimpton's Purple Group |
1. special 2. specially 3. partial 4. partially 5. artificial 6. artificially 7. president 8. presidentially 9. presidential 10. potential | 1. special 2. specially 3. partial 4. partially 5. artificial 6. artificially 7. president 8. presidentially 9. presidential 10. potential | chef chute machine charade parachute picture nature future adventure mixture | confusion decision explosion erosion television invasion revision rain rein reign |
Spellings will be tested on Wednesdays.
Please note that Mrs Shrimpton's group has a blue and purple group. This relates to the colour of the book they are working on in class.
Reading
All children have been given a new AR bookmark and know their AR bands. They have selected a book to read at home and school. Please ensure you hear your child read regularly and record on Boom Reader. I have log in reminders for the children to bring home.
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.
Music Knowledge Organiser
Below is the music knowledge organiser for this term's music topic. To help with their in-class learning, please can the children read over this each week.