Class Blog for Year 5/6 H

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Information for a new half term 

Information for a new half term

 SPRING 2 in Year 5/6H

It has been so lovely to have some sunshine to start this half term. The children have settled back in brilliantly after half-term and we are enthusiastic to get stuck into our learning.

CURRICULUM

Our topics for this half term can be found in the overview that I have attached below. In addition to this you will find this half term’s Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRFs) to practice with your child. I have also included the Year 5 and Year 6 recommended reads and statutory spelling lists.

PE

Our PE day has had to change to a THURSDAY – please remember that children should come into school in full PE kit.

CLASS BLOG

We will endeavour to regularly update this blog to give you a flavour of what we have covered in class, and also pass on any important information. To help us with this, please make sure that all permissions are up to date on Arbor so that we can share images as soon as possible.

YEAR SIX

In preparation for the SATs in May – we have given Year 6 children access to ‘Yearsix.co.uk’ which has a range of videos, practice tasks and assessments for each area of the Maths and Grammar curriculum. If you have lost your child’s login then please do get in touch and we can send it to you.

SUPPORTING LEARNING AT HOME

In Upper Key Stage 2, it is important to support the children’s learning at home as much as possible. A reminder that our home learning expectations are:

Daily Reading (15 minutes) – recorded reading record to contribute to a Reading Karate reward

Times-tables and KIRF practice (20 minutes weekly) using TTRS and the KIRF sheets below

Spellings (20 minutes weekly)

Online learning – set on Atom Prime (logins will be stuck into children’s reading record)

As always, if you have any questions or concerns please do get in touch. All the very best, Mr H and the Year 5/6 team .

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A wonderful day on the Moor 

A wonderful day on the Moor

As a celebration of all the work we have done about Mining in our local area - we all took a trip to Minions!  We met Iain Rowe - an expert guide for mining around the area and he took us all around the Phoenix United mine.  He was so knowledgeable about the sites, jobs and local history and he even enabled us to see the house of the mine owner and explain the process of bidding for pitches in the mines.

After touring the mine site - we stopped for a pasty on Minions village green before heading down the old mining railway track and heading home.  We just had enough time for a photo opportunity at Trethevy Quoit before heading back to school.  We walked a long way - but it was a great day out!  Big thank you to Will from Ginsters who helped us make out pasties, and Iain from Cornwall Heritage Trust for all their help  in making this trip possible!

 


Flyku 

Flyku

As part of a national event to celebrate short-form poetry, our class took part in a Flyku competition.

The challenge was simple - to create an original and inspiring Haiku poem and then present it in the form of a paper aeroplane.

The winning entries will get the chance to take their winning Flyku onto a plane and to fly their paper planes at altitude!  What a great prize!!

We really enjoyed the creativity of writing the Haiku poems - and we followed the instructions carefully to create our paper aeroplanes.  Most of all - we loved testing them when we were finished!

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Information for a new half term 

Information for a new half term

Spring 1 in 5/6H

It has been an icy start back to the new term but the children have settled back into their learning with enthusiasm.

CURRICULUM

Our topics for this half term can be found in the overview that I have attached below. In addition to this you will find this half term’s Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRFs) to practice with your child. I have also included the Year 5 and Year 6 recommended reads and statutory spelling lists.

PE

Our PE day has had to change to a THURSDAY – please remember that children should come into school in full PE kit.

CLASS BLOG

We will endeavour to regularly update this blog to give you a flavour of what we have covered in class, and also pass on any important information. To help us with this, please make sure that all permissions are up to date on Arbor so that we can share images as soon as possible.

SUPPORTING LEARNING AT HOME

In Upper Key Stage 2, it is important to support the children’s learning at home as much as possible. A reminder that our home learning expectations are:

Daily Reading (15 minutes) – recorded reading record to contribute to a Reading Karate reward

Times-tables and KIRF practice (20 minutes weekly) using TTRS and the KIRF sheets below

Spellings (20 minutes weekly)

Online learning – set on Atom Prime (logins will be stuck into children’s reading record)

As always, if you have any questions or concerns please do get in touch.

All the very best, Mr H and the Year 5/6 team

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Incredible artists 

Incredible artists

We have really enjoyed getting stuck into our Art topic this half term about portraits.  Focusing on Lucien Freud (a celebrated portrait artist) we have enjoyed evaluating his famous portraits and trying to develop our own artistic styles.

We have considered Freud's use of colours and tried to develop different skin tones as well as working on our sketching skills.

We have challenged ourselves to move out of our comfort zones and use different styles and techniques than we usually would.  We are very please with the results so far!

 


Snow day activities 

Snow day Activites (21st November)

Unfortunately, the school has had to remain closed today due to the heavy snow falling in St Cleer.

Please see below some learning activities you can use today (mainly winter themed).
-  Learn the class text map (text map and WAGOLL text provided)
-  Solve the maths mystery
-  Easier, Medium, Harder maths challenge cards to try to solve.
-  Iceberg area challenge (remember - to calculate the area of a triangle you calculate WIDTH x HEIGHT...then divide by two).

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Year 6 residential 


Please find below some pictures from our Year 6 Residential to Beam House.  Please be sensitive about who you share these images with.


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Beliefs in Benin 

Beliefs in Benin

We have really enjoyed learning about the Kingdom of Benin.  At the start of our learning journey hardly any of us had even heard of the Kingdom of Benin, but we have enjoyed finding out all about life in Benin and why it is important for us in the UK to learn about the Benin Kingdom.

As a celebration of our learning, we finished our adventure by investigating what beliefs were common in the Kingdom of Benin.  We learned that the people worshipped many different Gods (making links to Hinduism) and also that they would offer sacrifices to try and please the Gods.  We learned that sometimes humans were sacrificed!  We also found out that people in Benin were Animists - who believed that animals had special powers.  Leopards were very important because they represented power, and crocodiles were thought to be guardians of the water.  We know this from artefacts found in Benin.

We created our own clay tiles to represent animals which might have been worshipped in the Kingdom of Benin.  Needless to say it was dirty - but fun!

 


Creating Automata toys 

Creating Automata toys

We had great fun in our DT project this half term - which focused on using cams.  Our design brief was to create a themed window display which used cams to make the display interactive.

First of all, we investigated different Automata toys and mechanisms.  We watched videos to understand how different automata work and also how cams of different shapes would impact the follower.

Then we started to create our frame.  We measured, cut and assembled the pieces of wood for our frame, and then measured and cut pieces of card to encase our frames.

Once our frames were completed, we considered the designs for our displays and also created the cams to place in the rod which went through the frame.  The final piece was the trickiest bit - 
fitting the cam rod so that the follower pieces were positioned correctly.

We were very proud of our finished designs!

 


Zero pairs (negative numbers) 

Using zero pairs

Within our maths unit looking at Place Value, the year 6 children have been building their confidence calculating with negative numbers.  As well as using number lines which continue past zero to help them - we introduced the children to the idea of zero pairs.

We used double sided counters to help them visualise positive and negative numbers - and they could easily see that +1 + -1 = 0.  They used this idea to spot zero pairs (where positive and negative counters cancelled each other out) and find out the answer to number sentences such as 'What is 6 less than 4?'

The children enjoyed using the counters to consolidate their learning and were able to use visual representations in their books to help them solve more complex problems.

 


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