Week beginning 12th November 2018

This week many children will be working at Whitgift school. Please provide a packed lunch for those selected to attend every day. The children attending Whitgift will return to Howard by 2:30 each day.

Those in class will be working on the themes below.

Those children in school will be swimming on Tuesday

Maths:
This week, we shall be  continuing to look  a adding and subtracting  fractions with unrelated denominators and/or mixed numbers.

English:

We shall  be  writing a film review of the film Zoo,  in line with our upcoming trip to the cinema as part of the Into Film Festival. We shall be looking at how to plan, write an edit an effective film review.

SPAG:

we continue to prepare for the tests in this subject

we have reviewed, all the year4/5 compulsory spellings and have completed the first set of year 6 statutory words.

The second set of words are:

ancient, apparent, appreciate, attached, available, average,  awkward, bargain, bruise, category, cemetery.

I am happy to provide you with the full set of words if  you would like.

have looked at subordinate clauses, speech marks and adverbial phrases.

Reading: The class book is holes by Louis Suchar.

Year 6 children are encouraged to independently select books from the year 6 library located in Tower Bridge Class

It is expected that  a book review will be completed at the end of each bookIn Year 6, children are responsible for changing their own books independently. We do ask that children read at home everyday and mark this by a simple comment in their homework diary. Please do encourage your child to read aloud, even though they are in Year 6, to build the stamina with their fluency.

PE:Our PE lessons will be on Friday Please ensure your child has their full PE kit on this day.

Our topic this half term is gymnastics

 

 

Music:with Mrs Hughes on Thursdays

RE:We continue to study  Christianity on Wednesdays

PSHE: with Mrs Forde on Wednesday

 

Computing. with Mrs Forde on Wednesday

Spanish. animal names lesson 2

 

Geography:The British Isles.

Name major cities and geographical features of the UK

Key dates:

12th November – Film trip