English

This week children have written a scientific report, suitable for publication in a science magazine.  They based their report on the chapter in our class novel where Miss Minton finds a rare butterfly, and they were able to apply what they have learnt about the features of formal writing as well as their research about swallowtail butterflies. Year 6 were all really pleased to read the following chapter to find out what happened to Clovis once he arrived at Westwood! Next week we will be looking at the features of argument/persuasive writing.

Maths

In maths this week we have continued our work on fractions and learnt how to convert fractions to the same numerator (the top part of the fraction) to help us arrange fractions in order of size.  We have discussed the rule, “when the numerators are the same, the bigger the denominator the smaller the fraction” e.g. 1/2    1/3    1/5    1/10.              Children have grasped a really good understanding of this concept and have been able to use it confidently in their reasoning, both verbally and in their written work.  Most children have also been able to use a pictorial representation to prove this rule using the bar model. We have also looked at adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators and we will continue this next week.

Science

Children have enjoyed two afternoons of science this week and have explored the solubility of a range of different substances including salt, flour, sugar and bicarbonate of soda.  In the first lesson they made predictions of what they thought would happen when they added each substance to water then carried out their activity the following afternoon. In the next lesson, they will make use of the associated subject vocabulary to explain their findings and observations.

Geography

The children have completed their research on the 5 different types of mountain, recording how they are formed and giving well-known examples. Some children also wrote a diary entry to describe what it would be like to be on one of the mountains.

Homework

We are currently focusing on improving children’s knowledge of times table facts and children have been told which times table they need to revise.

Children In Need

Well done to everyone for such a fabulous effort today with their hero or spotty costumes. Thank you also for all the donations of cakes and biscuits. We raised £254.20 which is an amazing total!

FOBS Writing Competition

Hayley from Shrewsbury Library visited this morning to announce the winners and runners up of the Planet Superheroes writing competition. She explained how she and her colleagues were very impressed with all the entries when they judged them last week and all entries will be going up on display in the Library in the next couple of weeks. Thank you to Karen and Barbie for coming along to present the prizes this morning and for all their hard work in arranging the competition.

A big well done to the winners in each class: Benji, Cerys, Matilda, Ione, Charlie and Ffion. Well done also to the runners up: Aston, Harry S, Charlie B, Sophie and Tommy.

A selection of photos of the writing competition prize-giving and of Children In  Need will be uploaded over the weekend.

Letters out this week

Parents’ lunch – Classes 4, 5, 6 and Nursery new entrants

Class 1 and Nursery nativity letter

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend.