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A typical week in Norfolk 

This week in Norfolk 6

Week commencing 16^th June

This week has been a little different in Year 6, as quite a few of the children are in France.

In Science at the start of the week, all the children were investigating fossils and looking at how a fossil is formed. After being given pictures, they then had to place and justify which classification class that the fossil belonged in, either vertebrate, invertebrate or arthropod based on its characteristics and features.

Once the children left for France, the other children in their Computing lesson designed and edited their own world on the 3D program Kodu. The worlds they created were exciting and came with a variety of geographical features and some of their worlds were even floating in the air. What did your world look like?

In Geography, the children really enjoyed researching and writing a presentation on the events that led to the tragic sinking of the Titanic. They were astounded to look at pictures of what the Titanic looks like now and how grand it looked before it sank. The children researched a variety of key dates and facts as well as what lessons could be learned from the event. What did you include in your Titanic presentation?

The children also got to test their cooking skills this week, on the menu was bread and Vegetable pasta sauce. In bread making, they had to follow preparation instructions including measuring out their ingredients and also kneading their bread. When making their pasta sauces, the children were required to again follow preparation instructions by preparing their vegetables and mixing their sauce together. Both the bread and the pasta sauce proved very popular with successful results being achieved.

We hope you have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunny weather.

Mrs Georgiades, Miss Brewin and Miss Garner.

Home Learning

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

SATS Bootcamp:

Please see Arbor mail from 5.3.25 for advice on Year 6 Home Learning from Term 4 onwards. There is a step-by-step guide below. Reading will continue to come home in the children's plastic folders. 

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.

We will have a times tables check each Wednesday. 

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.

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

Spellings will be tested on Thursdays.  (Including using them within a sentence.)

Weekly Spellings - continuing in Term 6

Please see blurb for more information.

Reading:

We recommend children in Year 6 children read for at least 15 minutes a day. 

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.

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.