I spoke to children and forgot to add to school newsletter so my apologies.
Writing Club is back on from Tuesday 14th of January. Please encourage your child to attend as some children have not been committed. Their attendance to the club is essential for the overall outcome.
Thank you for your continued support.
To support with understanding definitions for spellings, the ‘Collins children’s cobuild dictionary’ is a very useful tool. There is an online version that you can access.
accommodate cemetery
competition develop
excellent forty
marvellous nuisance
physical sacrifice
Read at least 3 times and ask an adult to sign your reading diary to confirm.
Learn your spellings. Complete detailed sentences and definitions in your homework book. We have moved on to revision of Year 5 spelling patterns.
Children to complete a recount of the Panto visit. Children to write using varied sentence structures and to share thoughts and feelings for the visit to Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury.
Pre-Learning Task… After Christmas our new topic will be The Tudors – in particular, crime and punishment.
Over the holidays we would like you to research and present information about the Tudors. How you present your information is up to you but no PowerPoints please.
Encourage your child to carry on reading and record in reading diaries, including adult signatures to confirm reading at home.
Enjoy your Christmas holiday!
N.B: Please seek an adults permission before searching.
There is no homework this week other than reading.
Please encourage your child to read and record comments in their reading record. Children need to have home reading signed by an adult to confirm that they are reading at home.
Read at least 3 times (per week) and ask an adult to sign your reading diary to confirm.
Complete the times table grid over the few evenings.
tables grids week 13
Make an information poster on fraction calculations. The target audience is a new child to Y6. Give key instructions and use images to support understanding.
Due to the changes in the Literacy curriculum children in Year 6 are expected to be secure with all KS2 spellings.
There will be no choice of spellings, in terms of degree of difficulty. All children, of all abilities, need to learn the following for next term:
achieve bargain
criticise dictionary
especially frequently
guarantee hindrance
interfere lightning
Read at least 3 times (per week) and ask an adult to sign your reading diary to confirm.
Learn your spellings. Complete detailed sentences and definitions in your homework book. Please encourage your child to not use capital letters inappropriately, it is affecting spelling test scores.
Complete the times table grids – one per night.
tables grids week 12
Readers for Christmas performance please practice words and others learn words to songs. Children have copies of words and these can also be found on school website.
To support with understanding definitions for spellings, the ‘Collins children’s cobuild dictionary’ is a very useful tool.
Due to the changes in the Literacy curriculum children in Year 6 are expected to be secure with all KS2 spellings. There will be no choice of spellings, in terms of degree of difficulty. All children, of all abilities, need to learn the following for next week:
favourite grammar
knowledge mention
natural occasionally
opposite particular
peculiar possession
Newport C.E. Junior School
Avenue Road,
Newport,
Shropshire
TF10 7EA
Tel: 01952 386600
Head Teacher: Mrs Nicola Moody
School Business Manager: Lesley Green
