It was lovely to have the children back in school after the half-term break, ready to start what is always a very busy last half-term of the school year.
In English, we have started our new book 'Wild Boy' by Rob Lloyd Jones. This is a story about a boy who is covered in hair with an extraordinary power of observation. He grows up in an orphanage where he is treated horribly by the children and adults. A man called Augustus Finch takes him away from the orphanage and into a travelling freak show. The children turned themselves into Mr. Finch this week and wrote mini speeches using hyperbole to encourage the crowd to come to view Wild Boy. They then got to use their drama skills and act these out, using exaggeration and expression. Great fun was had by all.
In maths, we recapped place value focussing on decimals to ensure everyone had a secure understanding before we move on to adding and subtracting decimals with the same and different decimal places.
In science, Y5&6 continued with their research project on either Edward Jenner or Alexander Fleming. This is their last piece of work on our microbes topic from last half-term.
In PSHE, we have started the 'Changing Me' topic and this week we were talking about self-image. We looked at some pictures of celebrities and compared the real photos with the air-brushed ones. We discussed how these 'perfect' images can be misleading and give people a false image of how they think they should look.
Kestrels will have PE on Mondays, where they will be practising the different events in preparation for Sports Day. It would be helpful if the children could bring their PE kits in on Mondays and then leave them in school until Friday so that we can be flexible with PE lessons.
The children will bring their spellings home on Fridays and be tested the following Friday. They will also bring their mental arithmetic books home on Friday and these should be handed in the following Wednesday. They will also be set 15 minutes of TTRS on Friday which should also be completed by the following Wednesday.