Hello!

We’re at the end of the week again!

In Literacy, we have finally finished our persuasive letters. The writing is absolutely fantastic! We’ve managed to get in plenty of rhetorical questions and lots of emotive langauge. Next week, we’ll be starting our unit on advertisements.

In Maths, we have started our unit on length and measure. We’re off to a strong start so far!

In Science this week, we have built circuits. This is going to help us a lot when we are building our electric cars. We also had a visit from a Jaguar Land Rover representative, who answered lots of questions we had about how electric cars work and the benefits of them. She even bought an electric land rover in for us to see!

In R.E. we discussed the Muslim place of worship, which is a mosque. We talked about what they look like and the different features of a mosque. We also compared this to the places of worship that we’ve been to.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Allison and Mrs Davies

Hello!

What a lovely week we have had.

This week we have finally finished our unit on multiplication and division. Fantastic!

In Literacy, we have planned our persuasive letters to a Stone Age man. We’re ready to write next week. I’m sure they’re going to be fantastic!

We have started to design our electric cars for our project in Design and Technology, there are some fabulous ideas! We have also been looking at electricity as part of our Science. This week we focused on where electricity comes from. Now we know where it comes from, we’ll be able to use that knowledge to help us when we build our cars. Exciting!

In PSHE, we talked about  what compassion means, and how important it is to show compassion to everyone that we meet.

We’ve had some fantastic homework submissions over the past few weeks, I am very much looking forward to seeing some more. If you need a sheet or want anything extra, please do ask us!

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Allison and Mrs Davies

Hello!

What a great week we’ve had.

This week, we have continued with our literacy unit on persuasive letter writing. We have had a big focus on paragraphs and rhetorical questions. Next week we will begin to plan our letter.

In maths, we have continued with our unit on multiplication and division. It’s beginning to get harder so it’s a good job our children like a challenge! There has been lots of tasks set on Mathletics for the children to complete, these are all related to our current unit.

In science this week, we have looked at where electricity comes from and discovered that there are many different ways to generate electricity, including using the wind! In R.E. we have looked at why Muslims pray and what prayer means to them. In computing, we had a go at some photo editing and learnt how to ‘crop’ an image, which means to select a section of it. I must say that the children were all fantastic at it!

This week was the last week of swimming for our class. Well done to all the children for trying their absolute best, we are all very proud of you!

We hope you have a lovely weekend,
Miss Allison and Mrs Davies

Hello!

Happy New Year! We have had a fantastic first week back. We are all very excited because we’re starting our new topic: Meet the Flintstones! We cannot wait to get stuck in!

In Literacy this week, we have started our unit on persuasive writing. We have looked at our example text and discussed some words that we’ve never heard. In Maths, we have continued our unit on multiplication and division.

We have started a new unit in R.E. this term. Our focus will be on Islam and ‘how festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim’. This week we have discussed what we think we already know about Islam.

On our class information page, you will find our topic web and there will also be remote learning uploaded for anyone who is having to isolate due to Covid.

Stay safe and enjoy your weekend!

Miss Allison and Mrs Davies

Hiya!

We have been cracking on with our assessments in reading, writing and maths this week. The children have all worked very hard and I am so proud of them! Next week I will let each child know how they did and give them targets for next term.

Swimming was great again this week and they were much quicker in the changing rooms!

We have finally come to the end of our  ‘Extreme Survival’ topic. I have really enjoyed teaching this topic and I hope that the children have enjoyed learning equally as much. I’ve learnt a few new things myself. We’ve had lots of fun this term, from our survival day and overnight camp out, to creating our own extreme miniature habitats. I can’t wait to start a new topic in the spring term!

We hope you have a good weekend, see you next week!

Miss Allison and Mrs Davies

Hello!

We have had a fantastic week and it’s definitely beginning to look like Christmas in Sycamore class!

In Literacy, we have been looking at the grammar features of a character description and planning for our writing, next week we will write our character descriptions about Bear Grylls. We also had the chance to hot seat Bear Grylls, it was great to have him in the classroom! (Some of the children said he had a striking resemblance to Mr P!)

In Maths, we have continued our unit on multiplication and division. We have been focusing on how we can use our timetables facts to help us with our division and to check our division using the inverse.

We have nearly finished our Design and Technology unit and the scarves look marvellous! Next week, we will be evaluating our final product.

The children had their first swimming session this week and it went very well (you could say swimmingly!). It would be helpful if the children could practice getting dressed and ready, so that next week they will all be as quick as a flash getting back for lunch!

Take Care!

Miss Allison and Mrs Davies

Hello!

We’re at the end of the week again.

This week in Literacy, we have started our unit on character descriptions. We’ve looked at a description of Charles Darwin and identified some of the features.

In maths we carried on with multiplication and division. To improve their times tables, we have suggested that children access and practice ‘hit the button’ at home; there is a link below.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

We have also begun to make our scarves in Design and Technology. They look fab so far! I’m looking forward to continuing them next week.

Please can I remind you that children are to come in with water only in their bottles and if they bring a break time snack, it should be something healthy, such as a piece of fruit.

I hope you have a restful weekend!

Miss Allison and Mrs Davies

Hello!

We’ve had a fab week in Sycamore class! We have continued our unit on setting descriptions and have focused on different types of sentences. We have also written some fantastic noun phrases that will eventually be part of our final writing piece.

In maths, we have started our unit on multiplication and division. Keep practicing those times tables and we’ll all be whizzes in no time!

We had the fire service in on Wednesday, who taught us the importance of making sure our smoke alarms work and planning an escape route in case of a fire.

We have also talked lots this week about remembrance, and why we have a 2 minute silence at 11 o clock on the 11th. The year 6 children have been round a few times this week, selling lots of things for the poppy appeal.

Have a good weekend!

Miss Allison and Mrs Davies

Hello!

What a great week we have had.
In Maths, we have now finished our unit on addition and subtraction and completed our assessment. Next week we will be starting our unit on Multiplication and Division, so get practicing those times tables!

In Literacy, we have started our unit on setting descriptions. We have identified features and even re-written a setting description ourselves. Some of them are fantastic!

We started our D&T project by looking at some items of clothing and evaluating whether they would be very good at helping to keep us warm in the cold. We are going to be designing our own soon!

We talked about bonfire night this afternoon too, why we celebrate it, and how the children can keep themselves safe. We even talked about how to hold a sparkler safely.

Have a fun and safe bonfire night and we will see you next week!

Miss Allison and Mrs Davies