Spring 1

Welcome back to Spring 1 and Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a brilliant Christmas, New Year and time to recharge the batteries. 

At the very end of Autumn 2, we had our first class Assembly as Year 6! Our Assembly focused on Christmas through the ages and ended in us singing 'Sparkle and Shine' from Nativity. However, the words were slightly different to the original song and were all about the meaning of Christmas! A huge well done to Lara and Erin who used their talents to re-write the song. Letting their light shine in everything they do! I was immensely proud of all the children for how well they spoke, adapted to performing on a stage and showed so much resilience when learning lots of words!

We had enormous fun at the Camberley Pantomime! We took all the children to Camberley Theatre to watch the festive production of 'Aladdin'. We enjoyed watching a live performance and the staff were delighted with how well the children all behaved. Hopefully this becomes a school tradition for years to come – oh yes it should be!

Another busy half term is upcoming too!

Our new English text is 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret'. Throughout this unit, we will be learning to write in a range of styles for different audiences, including a journalistic report, a flashback narrative and a diary entry. At the end of a unit, the children will produce a biography based on one of the characters who is actually based on a real person! Our English focus is editing and re-drafting sections of a text to make sense. We will continue to focus on using dictionaries and thesauruses to consistently up-level or writing.

Our Maths learning will be looking at fractions, decimals and percentages and the relationship between the three. If you are working through the CGP books at home, I highly recommend looking at the percentages tasks/ learning as this is quite an abstract concept for children to get their heads around. 

As we draw ever closer to SATs, we will be refining our skills on how to answer questions properly! In Maths, we will use the POLYA problem-solving approach when developing strategies. In DR, we use the CLEAR approach when answering questions. CLEAR stands for Clues, Locate, Explore, Answer, Re-read.

I look forward to another half-term filled with brain growing and success!