Key Messages

• As the temperature gets colder and we experience more rainfall, please ensure your child is coming to school with a waterproof coat. If they have a sports club, please consider sending them to school with spare socks and shoes. 

• Please help your child remember the difference between prime numbers, square numbers and cube numbers. 

• 6th is Odd Socks Day- We are looking for funky socks in UKS2

• PC Mick will be coming into speak to Y5 & 6 children about 'stranger danger' on 5th & 6th December

Year 5

This week in Science, the children enjoyed a practical experiment to reinforce their learning about the difference between mass and weight. Is this something about which their adults are 100% confident?! You can check what your weight would be on different planets on this website.

The children have enjoyed their new KIRFs (Key Instant Recall Facts) for this half term, which is to practise their knowledge and recall of factor pairs. Gamification is a great way to bring fun and competitiveness into our maths learning. A current class favourite is Hit The Button: Select times tables/Hit the question/mixed to practise at home

We are sorry to be finishing 'I love you', Michael Collins, our second Reading for Pleasure text. The children have listened attentively to the letters from Mamie, written in Summer 1969, to the astronaut who wasn’t part of the moon walk that made world history.

Year 6

This week in maths we learnt how to measure angles and use a protractor. We also learnt how to find missing angles on straight lines and different types of triangles.

In English we wrote a powerful letter to Rishi Sunak about combating climate change. In our letters we used expanded noun phrases, perfect tense and modal verbs. We were inspired by the gutsy story of Greta Thunberg.

Our favourite part of the week was planning and designing our bird houses. In order for a birdhouse to be a bird home it must have a slanted roof, a front with a perch and an entrance, a back, a bottom and sides.

Science was an experiment filled week where we got to test our own heart rates and how they changed based on different activity types. This was really fun because we got to do exercise to feel our heart rate in different places such as our neck and wrist.  

This week was filled with excitement, fun and energy!!!

• Adele, Vlad & Woody (6 Garnet)

A reminder that the Osmington Bay second payment is now due on Pay 360.