Dear Parents/Carers

The Year 5/6 teaching team will be uploading home learning activities to our Google Classroom pages.  Please make sure that your child checks regularly for updates and completes any tasks given.  There is also a Year 6 SATs Classroom page which children joined in class last week.  I will post the joining code for this on the Home Classroom page for Ruby, Sapphire and Topaz for those children who were absent and may not have joined.

We are now using MyON (an online reading library) in school.  Children have been issued with their log in passwords today and are bringing home a letter for your information. Their log in is the same as for Accelerated Reader.  Books they read on MyON link directly with Accelerated Reader and they will be able to quiz on them from home until 4pm each day. 

Please keep checking the school web site, the Year 5/6 blog and Google Classroom for updates.

Your continued patience and support is very much appreciated at this time.

With kind regards

Miss Sharman and the Year 5/6 team

Dear Parents/Carers

The children have settled back into school after the half term break.
This week, they enjoyed celebrating Shrove Tuesday with a special menu.  Pancakes all round for pudding!
Year 6s received letters regarding a SATs and Isle of Wight talk which is coming up in March.  Please check your child's bag if you have not been given the letter and return the reply slip.  Both talks are on the same day, one after the other.
There will also be a talk on Belchamps for the parents of children in Year 5.  The date for this is yet to be set,  More details will follow.

Year 6 Homework Pages for this week are:
Maths - 55 and 56
English - 65-67

Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Sharman, Mrs Devlin and Mrs Pasquale

Dear Parents/Carers

This week in Year 5/6 we have been researching animals and how they have evolved over time.  We used our computing skills to present our findings using Google Slides.  We have also been writing and performing speeches on topics which are important to us.

This week's homework
Year 5 English homework is on Google as usual.
For maths, please use half term to brush up on your times tables - TT Rockstars and SUMDOG

(Maths homework was uploaded to Google today.  However, one or two of the questions had multiple answers and Google did not recognise this.  Therefore, it has been removed so as not to cause the children any confusion.) 

Year 6 pages:
Maths - 8 and 9
English 50 and 51
(Please make sure you do the correct pages)

Have a fab half term.
Miss Sharman, Mrs Devlin and Mrs Pasquale

This week's homework:

Year 5 maths is on Google as usual. 
Year 5 English is a paper based comprehension activity.

Year 6 maths: Pages 46 and 47
Year 6 English: pages 10 and 11

Have a lovely weekend. 

Miss Sharman, Mrs Devlin and Mrs Pasquale

Dear Parents/Carers

This week in Year 5 and 6, children have enjoyed making clay fossils as part of their work in science.
In English, we have been learning about persuasive arguments.  Children have chosen a topic to write about and have been thinking of reasons for and against the argument.  We have seen some interesting choices of topic, such as:
Should children wear school uniform?
Should children aged 10 be allowed to vote?
Should parking at hospitals be free?
Should women footballers be paid the same as men?

Miss Sharman would like to thank all those who came to Maths Club on Friday.  The club was extremely well attended.  It was great to see so many children taking the opportunity to ask for help with homework, solve puzzles, tackle arithmetic papers and play games to improve their understanding.  Well done to you all.

This week's homework pages for Year 6 are:
Maths: Pages 34 and 35
English: Pages 46 and 47

Year 5 homework is on Google Classroom as usual.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Sharman, Mrs Devlin and Mrs Pasquale

Dear Parents/Carers
This week in Year 5/6 we have enjoyed looking at our family photographs and spotting similarities that we may have inherited. Also this week, the children braved the cold, damp weather to take part in the final Southend United session. They have enjoyed the opportunity to get outside, take part in some new games and learn about how to keep themselves healthy.


This week, children in Year 6 have been issued with homework books for English and Maths to support them in preparing for the SATs tests they will take in May.

Year 6 homework pages for this week are:
English pages 2, 3 and 44
Maths pages 15 and 16

Your child should hand their homework in by Wednesday 29th January.  Miss Sharman will be available in Sapphire class on Monday lunchtime if they would like some help.

Year 5 English and Maths homework is online, on Google Classroom as usual. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Devlin, Miss Sharman and Mrs Pasquale

Blogging

Pupils will be learning about blogging during computing lessons this term.  We will study the features of blogs as well as their purpose and intended audience. Pupils are asked to find good examples of blogs and share them in class (not including this one!)