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A typical week in Yorkshire:

This week in Yorkshire 6

Week commencing 23rd 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 Inheritance. Firstly, the children looked at examples of inherited and non-inherited features and continuous and discontinuous variation within humans and other living things. They then worked as a class to collect discontinuous data about their eye colours and continuous data about their heights.

Once the children left for France, the other children had a History lesson on ‘Life in the Trenches’. They firstly looked at pictures of the soldiers in the trenches and discussed what life would have been like for them. The classroom was then divided into trenches with ‘No Man’s Land’ positioned at the front of the room and the children were asked to act and portray how the soldiers would have acted when they moved between the trenches behind. What do you remember from looking at the pictures?

In PSHE, the topic title was ‘I look great’. We discussed how when you see a photo of a celebrity, is it certain to be exactly how they really look? We talked about how the photos can be manipulated to enhance the final image. The children then drew each other and wrote positive comments about their friends appearances and personalities on their drawings. What did you write about your friend?

The children also got to test their cooking skills this week, on the menu was Vegetable pasta sauce. When making their pasta sauces, the children were required to follow preparation instructions by preparing their vegetables and mixing their sauce into their pasta. The pasta sauce proved very popular with successful results being achieved.

The costume letters for our school production ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ were given to the children on Monday. Please look at the letter for more information on key dates for the production.

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

Miss Aldis, Mr Gibson and Mr Bollato

Home Learning

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

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.)

SATS Bootcamp:

Please see Arbor mail from 5.3.25 for advice on 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. 

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.

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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.