Below are the lyrics to our Harvest song for this year. Mrs Goldsmith will go over this with you tomorrow and I expect you to know the words off by heart by Monday.
Y6 Parent information
Space Chase: Summer Reading Challenge 2019
The Summer Reading Challenge 2019 theme is Space Chase, an out-of-this-world adventure inspired by the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
Children taking part in the Challenge will join our super space family, The Rockets, for a thrilling mission to track down books nabbed by mischievous aliens!
Space Chase will feature bespoke artwork from top children’s illustrator, Adam Stower, and will celebrate adventure, exploration, reading and fun!
Illustrations © Adam Stower 2019 for The Reading Agency
Taking part in the Summer Reading Challenge
The Summer Reading Challenge is aimed at children aged four to eleven and it is run in almost all libraries in the UK.
Visit your local library during the summer holidays to sign up – the sooner you go, the longer your child will have to read six books!
Staff will register your child for the Challenge and give them some fun materials to get them started.
Many libraries will also offer pre-school activities suitable for under-fours, including specially designed Summer Reading Challenge materials. Visit your local branch to find out more.
The Summer Reading Challenge is the UK’s biggest free reading for pleasure event for children. It is run by the national charity The Reading Agency in partnership with the UK public library network.
The aim of the Challenge is to encourage children to read any six books of their choice from their library during the summer holidays.
Children receive special rewards each time they finish a book and there’s a certificate for everyone who completes the Challenge.
Y6 – Last week of term
Key dates :
Tuesday 16th July: Children to come to school at 6.30 pm to get changed for the performance which will begin at 7.00 pm.
Wednesday 17th July: Leavers’ Mass 7.00 pm
Thursday 18th July : Leavers’ Assembly 9.00 am
Please could children bring a plastic bag to school on Monday to take their books home in.
Many thanks,
Mrs Butterworth
Reading
Please continue to read as much as possible and when responding ensure you are asking increasingly challenging questions. Many of you are now asking more challenging questions with the help of the question stems provided. This will really support your understanding when responding to the texts you read.
If you are looking for some great books to read, below are two lists that should have something for everyone.
Spelling
You have been given the Y5/6 spelling list. Please ensure you are continuing to practice these words at home – use the spelling pattern revision posters attached to help you. You could pick one to focus on each day, writing three sentences using words that fit that pattern in your spelling journals.
Please find the year 5/6 National Curriculum spellings attached. You should continue to revise these over half term.
HWT English
Year 6 Isle of Wight Thursday
Wednesday evening:
More fun in the sea:
Thursday Morning 7 am:
“Morning boys”
(No answer)
Louder- “Wake up boys.”
“Ugh Ugh”
Yes, its getting increasingly difficult to get the boys up in the morning, so soundly are they sleeping after a day’s activities. Today is surfing then Robin Hill then the Disco – I’m already toying with the idea of a sharpened stick for tomorrow’ early morning wake-up call.
We went surfing with the same company as last year (I-Surf) and once again, they totally engaged with the children bringing the best out of them. The children had a thoroughly enjoyable time.
After this it was off to Robin Hill where we had lunch, tried the 4 D Cinema and Swinging Galleon Ride.
Then came the maze challenge.
For the maze challenge, two groups of boys are pitted against two teams of girls and they race against the clock to complete the maze. Mr Creaton and Mr Sallis coaching the boys while Mrs Hawkes coached the girls. I’m informed that in the last 15 years, the boys’ teams have only beaten the girls once. How can this be? That question was soon answered when Mrs Hawkes drilled the girls with her pre-maze prep talk with the conviction and ferocity akin to that of an competitive/ambitious mother to her baton-twirling, 9 year old daughter just before entering a Texan Beauty Pageant.
The girls beat the the boys again.
But there was a twist….
How about Mr Sallis and Mr Creaton V Mrs Hawkes and Mrs Butterworth? Game on.
Mrs Hawkes and Mrs Butterworth emerged from the maze in self-congratulatory mode only to see that Mr Creaton and Mr Sallis had already finished 1 second earlier. After it had sunk in, Mrs Hawkes gave a perfuntory ‘Well done’ and then went strangely quiet. However, she was later to recover her voice:
“I wouldn’t say we let you win, but we weren’t really trying”
and:
“Besides, the girls were still the overall winners”
and:
“It’s not really fair and doesn’t really count because Mr Sallis had a height advantage”.
Better luck next year Mrs Hawkes!
There was still some time for an ice-cream and a ride on the toboggan run before catching the tractor ‘train’ back to the car park.
Its time to pack the bags and get ready for tonight’s dico.
As a footnote, all the staff and pupils would like to say a big THANK YOU to Vinnie, our coach driver from Welham Travel, for whom, nothing was too much trouble and who has been proactive in helping us at every turn.
Year 6 Isle of Wight Wednesday
Tuesday Evening
Just as some meals look really delicious but taste bland, the sea looked l as calm and inviting as a tropical lagoon but was freezing! However, our children are made of stern stuff and were determined to not let the opportunity pass.
Wednesday Morning
Not a boy was awake at 7am when they received the early morning call and there was a similar story with the girls. Breakfast soon put things right and we headed off for Black Gang Chine.
When we arrived, some of the children spied the silhouette of the Cliffhanger (roller coaster) and felt that the occasion was ripe for some bravado: ( (loud voices) “Is that it?” and :“I’ve been on much more scary rides on my (all-inclusive) holiday last year” – the boys in the party had suddenly developed a swaggering gait. However, the children were soon to learn that talk is cheap and once on board: the squealing began; their voices went from baritone to falsetto;the swagger replaced with a wobble. It was a similar story at the water slide- “Plughole”.
There was much for the children to do and it was great seeing them enjoy the simpler pleasures of mazes, adventure parks and slides – some of us even forsook extra time in the gift shop for a visit to fairyland.
We’ve worn them out again but, just in case there are any children out there planning to keep the adults and others awake tonight, its off to the beach again after supper.
Year 6 Isle of Wight 2019 (Monday night and Tuesday)
The beach is just a short walk away and so we were able to play a couple of games of football on the beach.
Tuesday
Down to Alum Bay for our boat ride to the Needles followed by a chance to spend their allowance in the shops nearby.
The children were up by 7 am and ready for breakfast at half past. The children were well rested and ate heartily.
Carisbroke Castle- The weather was glorious as we played on the ramparts, wandered around the museum and keep and learnt about medieval weaponry and life in the castle in general
The needles.
After tea, it’s back to the beach (by popular request).
Donations required!
When you return to school on Tuesday you may notice a new addition by the gate in the playground … it is our new recycling bin!
As you can see, it clearly states which materials are accepted and we would love for you to get involved by donating some clothes, towels, sheets, blankets, curtains or even shoes. The bank holiday weekend is the perfect time for a spring clean and all donations are greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance,
Miss Costello and the Eco Council
Fluency Teaser
Thank you to everyone who had a go at our first fluency teaser. Lots of you came up with fantastic ways to give yourself a better chance of winning!
If you didn’t manage to have a go, follow the link below and enjoy!
https://nrich.maths.org/content/id/8016/Strike%20it%20Out%206589.png
Our second ‘Fluency Teaser’ is a wonderful activity called ‘Shape Times Shape’. See how good your working mathematically skills are by following the link and solving the problem.
Send any solutions to Mr Sallis.
Enjoy!
https://nrich.maths.org/content/id/6653/NRICH-poster_ShapeTimesShape.pdf
This week we got a range of solutions from across key stage 2.
We’ve been sharing stories!
We’ve been celebrating World Book Day this week with special assemblies where teachers have taken it in turns to share favourite stories or poems with the children in their key stage.
We hope that the stories we share will inspire the children to read on and read the books for themselves or find other stories by those authors.
We will list the books we have share on this page.
Monday
- Mr Hayes (whole school):
- Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, from Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
- Mrs Hayes (key stage one):
- Mrs Wobble the Waitress by Allan Ahlberg
- All Join In by Quentin Blake
- Mr Hayes (key stage two):
- The Rise of Wolves by Kerr Thomson
Tuesday
- Mrs Teixeira (key stage one)
- Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen
- Please Mrs Butler by Allan Ahlberg
- Miss Costello (key stage two)
- Little House in the Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Wednesday
- Mrs Ruffell (key stage one)
- The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
- Mr Sallis (key stage two)
- ‘Infinity and Me’ written by Kate Hosford and illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska
