The video below is a short one minute video explaining the essential reading skills of skimming and scanning a text to find information and to read at speed. Both skills are vital for you to practise in preparation for your ‘find and retrieve’ reading comprehension questions!
The website also has other pages that go into these explanations in more detail and there are practise tasks provided. A great one to do at home – enjoy!
Congratulations to the winners of the latest Strong and Powerful pins and ribbons!
Thank you to all the parents who attended our Year 5 and 6 workshops tonight. We know it was a lot of information to take in all at once but hopefully you have improved your understanding of how we teach Maths, Reading, Writing, Spellings and times tables in school and have some more ideas of how you can help in some of these areas at home.
Powerpoints, resources and handouts will be posted on the website soon.
Year 5 and 6 team
Year 6 have had a fantastic day today on their Viking Ignite. We spent the morning pretending we were real Vikings and Saxons, making lots of Viking artefacts, including:
We then heard some Viking stories and learnt new facts about the Viking and Saxon period.
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who made such an effort with your Viking outfits, you looked amazing!!
6a are on a roll!
We have awarded two more Strong and Powerful pins and another red ribbon – well done to these lovely girls.
Our target as a class is for everyone to have achieved their first red ribbon by Easter. Come on 6a, you can do it!
Congratulations to Emma and Maheen on receiving their strong and powerful ribbons this morning! You are both great role models in Brooklands Farm school.
Congratulations to our second Strong and Powerful ribbon achiever! The first boy in the class. We are very proud of you!
Congratulations to 6a who have awarded the first Strong and Powerful ribbon of the year. What a fantastic start to 2016! For being the first ribbon recipient, this 6a member has also been awarded a head teacher’s in the Strong and Powerful jar. Year 6 are now in the lead with head teacher’s hearts!
This week we have begun to build on our independence and personalise our own learning journeys through using our morning timetables that we created for home learning last week. This week for home learning we would like you to review your home learning timetable and make any changes that you feel would benefit you utilising this time effectively e.g. you may wish to add in an opportunity to mark the questions you have answered; edit the activity you planned for yourself; change the gap you are closing as you may have already achieved closing your original gap.
Use the timetable below to plan next week’s morning time table:
| Monday (8.30 – 8.55am) | Tuesday (8.30 – 8.45am) | Wednesday (8.30 – 8.55am) | Thursday (8.30 – 8.55am) | Friday (8.30 – 8.45am) | |
| What am I going to do? | |||||
| What resources will I use/need? | |||||
| What gap is this going to close? |
Project
Next term our Project is going to be ‘Microevolution’. For home learning we would like to find out everything that you already know about microevolution, natural selection and adaptation. The purpose of this home learning is to establish what you already know so that in school we don’t teach you something that you already know. Please do not google any of the above as we will be researching and collecting this knowledge after Christmas.
Please complete this task in your home learning book.
Maths
Each maths group has been set their own home learning task by their maths teacher.
Miss Bold – order of operations
Mr Peters – addition
Miss Snowdon – multiplication
As always you can complete your home learning in our Tuesday lunchtime club.
As the morning timetable is for all of next week we are asking for this piece to be in school on Monday.
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Snowdon, Miss Bold and Mr Peters
