Spring 2 blog - 24.2.23

 

Year 5/6 Blog - Friday 24th February 2023

Happy Friday everybody and welcome back to the second half of the Spring Term! 

In maths, Year 5 has been working on the area of rectangles and compound shapes. Year 6 have been revisiting fractions and shapes as well as continuing to practise the techniques needed for their SATs. Throughout our English lessons, we have been busy planning and writing a piece of narrative, independently, to demonstrate the skills that they have learnt in the previous half term.

Whole School Trip to Barleylands

This week your child will have brought home a letter regarding our whole school trip to Barleylands on Monday 27th March. Please ensure that you have completed the reply slip and returned this to school by Friday 17th March.

Please keep an eye on the newsletter for any further information regarding this trip.

Times Tables Rock Stars Day

This year, at Down Hall Primary School, we have had a big focus on Times Tables through our Times Table Programme as well as Times Tables Rock Stars. These have both helped the children become more fluent in their times tables.

On Thursday 9th March, we would like all the children to take the opportunity to dress up as rock stars for the day. During this day they will take part in a range of maths activities. Prizes for the best dressed rock star will be handed out. You do not need to bring a donation on this day.

The Young Shakespeare Company

This afternoon, the children enjoyed watching a performance of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. They thoroughly enjoyed not only watching but also participating throughout the play alongside the enthusiastic actors. 

We hope that the children had as much fun as we did watching, and bring the same enthusiasm to recording a performance review next week.

World Book Day

Don't forget Thursday is World Book Day. The information about how we are marking this in school can be found here. We are looking forward to finding out about the children's favourite stories. 

We hope that you have a wonderful weekend.

Love

Miss Sharman, Mrs Devlin, Mrs Witherall and Miss Parsons

Friday 10th February 2023

Year 5/6 Blog-  Friday 10th February 2023

We find ourselves not only at the end of another week but also half way through the year. There are quite a lot of upcoming events, so we expect the remaining half to go fairly quickly.

This week, the children have been creating texts that required them to use the evidence found within the story 'Street Child' in order to write an account of a Victorian child's daily routine. In maths, Year 5 has been exploring both perimeter and area. Year 6 has been converting metric units in their maths lessons this week. All homework pages have been posted on Google Classroom. They have also been set spellings to practise on Spellingframe (passwords and logins have already been given out).

PTA Coin Run

The children thoroughly enjoyed creating their coin runs today. We would like to say a big thank you to the lovely parents for organising the event. Topaz were the class that managed to create the longest line of coins out of the school and was given a bag of sweets to celebrate this - well done Topaz!

Parent/Teacher Consultations

These will be taking place in school on Monday 27th February and Wednesday 1st March between 3:30-6:30pm. You can book your slot using your Scopay account - booking will open at 8:00am on Monday 20th February.

It will be lovely to see you all and a chance for you to see your child's books and discuss their progress and future targets!

World Book Day

This year, World Book Day is on Thursday 2nd March. To promote reading within our school community, for this day the children can bring in a favourite book from home which they can share with the other children in their class.

They can also bring in a prop which serves as a clue to their favourite book/character or come dressed up as a favourite character too if they so wish. On this day, all the children will also receive a £1 World Book Day voucher!

We hope that you have a lovely half-term and look forward to seeing the children again on Monday 20th February. 

Miss Sharman, Mrs Devlin, Mrs Witherall and Miss Parsons.