GENERAL ELECTION DAY!

Year 6,

We hope you have a great time at home today! There is plenty of learning to keep you occupied, which is detailed below!

1. Use the Mathsframe website (see below) to continue our work on telling the time in different formats, and calculating start times from given time intervals! To keep up your arithmetic learning, have a go at the MathsBot question set (link also below!)

2. Research your secondary school ahead of our transition work next week. Go onto your new school's website and make notes about the key information for Year 7! You could look into things like uniform expectations, timings and equipment that you will need...

3. LEARN LINES and SONGS for our Peter Pan production! All of the songs are on the website (see below) and you should all have your scripts! Remember to learn your cues as well, and try to practise with someone at home if you can!

4. Finish the day with some relaxing yoga! It has been a busy time in school for all of us lately, so switch off your mind and enjoy some yoga with the video link below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sYUnnyPsRM

We look forward to seeing you all on Friday!

Mr B and Mr C!

Maths support for telling the time!

Mathsframe - telling the time from analogue clocks:

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time

Mathsframe - slightly trickier! Working out the start time by counting back minutes:

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/119/find-the-start-time

Peter Pan comes to Mapledene!

Here all the songs that you need to learn for our performance. Happy singing!

Neverland

I have a place where dreams are born,
And time is never planned.
It's not on any chart,
You must find it with your heart.
Never Never Land.

It might be miles beyond the moon,
Or right there where you stand.
Just keep an open mind,
And then suddenly you'll find
Never Never Land.

You'll have a treasure if you stay there,
More precious far than gold.
For once you have found your way there,
You can never, never grow old.

And that's my home where dreams are born,
And time is never planned.
Just think of lovely things.
And your heart will fly on wings,
Forever in Never Never Land.

Thank you to all the parents that were able to attend the SATs workshop on Thursday. It was great to have so many of you and we hope you enjoyed working with your child no some challenging maths!

The PowerPoint we used is available above and below is the specific slide that details the dates of our upcoming tests. The links to the websites you and your child can use to support their learning are also available below as well as in the document.

Thanks again.

The Year 6 team.

https://mathsbot.com/primary/ks2Mini

(Arithmetic practice with a similar set of questions to real SATs.)

https://rollama.com/index-games-toggle.php

(Grammar games and practice – some free games and some where you need to sign up)

https://www.satspapers.org/

(All past papers from Reading, Grammar and Maths 2016-2023)

We hope you are staying safe at home and are keeping warm enough. The decision has been made today to shut the school today because of the snow.

Hopefully, you will have chance to get outside and have a play in the snow today, but when you are taking some breaks or warming yourself back up inside, we have posted some work on here to make today a learning day too.

There are objectives on Doodle from what we have been covering this week:

In Maths, please try measuring the acute and obtuse angles using protractors.

In English, there is a Reading comprehension on 'Winter Arriving' (as it seems to have returned!)

In Spelling, the words are very similar to the ones we have been practising for our Dictation this week. 

The Vile Victorians!

We were also planning to show you how the vicious Victorians treated children during Victorian times. Watch the videos below to learn a few facts about what life was like for young people in the 1800s. Compare it to the life you have now.

Find some inner peace too this afternoon

Normally, we would be doing some Yoga this afternoon and we know many of you enjoy it. Try to find some time to practice some of the moves and positions we have been doing on Friday afternoons.

Look at the video below, or search for some yoga tutorials yourself. Namaste!

SATs workshop

Thank you all for coming to work with your child and to hear the teachers talk about the forthcoming test that the children will be sitting. It was great to have you in school and working with your children. We hope you will agree that the children are working very hard and are all starting to show real confidence with their Maths learning.

Please find below the PowerPoint that Mr Barber and Mr Collett showed to the parents before we went downstairs. Also below are copies of the sample papers that the children completed.

If you are looking for more questions like these, remember it can be as simple as substituting the numbers for new ones to keep the questions fresh. More example questions will be uploaded and please ask your child to ask their teacher for any on areas they are finding particularly difficult.