(Week Commencing 12th November 2018)

In Humber this week we are learning the following:

English:

In English this week, we are continuing with our class novel – War Horse. We will also be finishing our non-chronological reports about the Christmas Truce. Do pop in and have a look at these once they are finished; they are looking brilliant!

SPaG/Phonics:

In spelling, punctuation and grammar we are focussing using colons and semicolons to include multi-clause sentences in our writing.

Maths:

In maths, we are working on ordering and comparing fractions, using equivalent fractions and multiplying and dividing methods to help.

Maths Basics:

Maths basics  are key skills/facts children need to know.  In maths basics this week we are focusing on decimal – fraction – percentage equivalents. Test your child to see how many they know!

Creative Curriculum:

In creative curriculum this week we are focussing on Science, and using dataloggers to conduct different experiments. Continuing with our topic of light, we will be looking at which materials reflect the most light.

Homework:

Homework is set every night.  From Monday to Thursday children will have:

• A short maths sheet (between 4 and 6 questions).
• Reading for 10 minutes (+ one more reading over the weekend)

Every week the children have a comprehension task to complete in their CGP book. This is due in every Monday, so they have a week to complete it.

Spellings are learnt in class but if you could help with practising at home, this would be brilliant. This week, the children are practising the spellings they didn’t get right in our test of all the words they have learnt so far this term.

Knowing times tables and number bond (pairs of numbers to 10/20 and beyond) well helps children make massive progress in maths so any help you can give your child will be great.  Your child has a Number Gym log in and password in their planners and if they could go on Number Gym at home, even for 5 minutes, it will really help them have a secure knowledge and faster recall of times tables and number facts.

(Week Commencing 22nd October 2018)

In Humber this week we are learning the following:

English:

In English this week, we are continuing with our class novel – War Horse. We will also be looking at some WW1 poetry written by Wilfred Owen. We are writing letters from a soldier back from the trenches.

SPaG/Phonics:

In spelling, punctuation and grammar we are focusing using colons and semicolons to include multi-clause sentences in our writing.

Maths:

In maths, we are consolidating our long division skills, as well as looking at factors, prime numbers and square numbers.

Maths Basics:

Maths basics  are key skills/facts children need to know.  In maths basics this week we are focusing on decimal – fraction – percentage equivalents. Test your child to see how many they know!

Creative Curriculum:

In creative curriculum this week we are focusing on creating a chronological timeline of WW! – researching the key events and locating them in the war.

Homework:

Homework is set every night.  From Monday to Thursday children will have:

• A short maths sheet (between 4 and 6 questions).
• Reading for 10 minutes (+ one more reading over the weekend)

Every week the children have a comprehension task to complete in their CGP book. This is due in every Monday, so they have a week to complete it.

Spellings are learnt in class but if you could help with practising at home, this would be brilliant. This week we are looking at adding suffixes to root words ending in -fer.

Knowing times tables and number bond (pairs of numbers to 10/20 and beyond) well helps children make massive progress in maths so any help you can give your child will be great.  Your child has a Number Gym log in and password in their planners and if they could go on Number Gym at home, even for 5 minutes, it will really help them have a secure knowledge and faster recall of times tables and number facts.

(Week Commencing 25th June 2018)

In Humber this week we are learning the following:

English:

In English this week we are writing diary entries from the point of view of our anthropomorphised objects.  

SPaG/Phonics:

In spelling, punctuation and grammar we are working on using formal language, including the subjunctive form.

Maths:

In maths we are creating and budgeting for our own theme parks.

Maths Basics:

Maths basics  are key skills/facts children need to know.  In maths basics this week we are focusing on decimal – fraction – percentage equivalents. Test your child to see how many they know!

Creative Curriculum:

We are finishing our street art project, as well as continuing with our classification topic in Science.

Knowing times tables and number bond (pairs of numbers to 10/20 and beyond) well helps children make massive progress in maths so any help you can give your child will be great.  Your child has a Number Gym log in and password in their planners and if they could go on Number Gym at home, even for 5 minutes, it will really help them have a secure knowledge and faster recall of times tables and number facts.

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(Week Commencing 11th June 2018)

In Humber this week we are learning the following:

English:

We are continuing with our independent writing, .

SPaG/Phonics:

In spelling, punctuation and grammar we are working on using formal language, including the subjunctive form.

Maths:

In maths, we are doing a statistics project, where we are budgeting for a class pet! We are also practising constructing bar graphs, line graphs and pie charts.

Maths Basics:

Maths basics  are key skills/facts children need to know.  In maths basics this week we are focusing on decimal – fraction – percentage equivalents. Test your child to see how many they know!

Creative Curriculum:

We are focussing on Science this week, and continuing our light topic by using data loggers to investigate the most reflective materials.

(Week Commencing 4th June 2018)

In Humber this week we are off on residential to Robinwood!

On Monday and Tuesday, in maths we will be constructing charts and graphs: particularly focussing on drawing distance time graphs for our journey to Robinwood.

We will also be continuing with our street art project, and practising techniques ready for our final piece. In Science, we are carrying on with our light topic by making and explaining how Newton wheels work.

(Week Commencing 14th May 2018)

In Humber this week it is SATs week!

The children will be doing tests every morning from Monday to Thursday.

In the afternoons we will be revising, as well as starting our new project on street art.

On Friday, Year 6 will be having a day of fun activities, as a reward for all their hard work for SATs.

Good Luck Team Humber!!

(Week Commencing 23rd April 2018)

In Humber this week we are learning the following:

English:

In English this week we are writing persuasive letters around the themes of our class novel.  

SPaG/Phonics:

In spelling, punctuation and grammar we are working on using formal language, including the subjunctive form.

Maths:

In maths we are revising multiplication and division questions, as well as factors, prime numbers and square numbers.

Maths Basics:

Maths basics  are key skills/facts children need to know.  In maths basics this week we are focusing on decimal – fraction – percentage equivalents. Test your child to see how many they know!

Creative Curriculum:

In creative curriculum this week we are focussing on research around our key text. We will be looking at the stories and experiences of refugees.  

Homework:

Homework is set every night.  From Monday to Thursday children will have:

• A short maths sheet (between 4 and 6 questions).
• Reading for 10 minutes (+ one more reading over the weekend)
• A short English task (3 sentences).  

Spellings are learnt in class but if you could help with practising at home, this would be brilliant. This week’s spellings are:

Category

Guarantee

Lightning

Mischievous

Neighbour

Amateur

Desperate

Dictionary

Especially

Excellent

Knowing times tables and number bond (pairs of numbers to 10/20 and beyond) well helps children make massive progress in maths so any help you can give your child will be great.  Your child has a Number Gym log in and password in their planners and if they could go on Number Gym at home, even for 5 minutes, it will really help them have a secure knowledge and faster recall of times tables and number facts.

(Week Commencing 12th March 2018)

In Humber this week we are learning the following:

English:

In English this week we are focussing on diary entries, and writing different diaries for the characters in our class novel ‘Kiss the Dust. We will be doing a piece of independent writing from the point of view of Tara – the main character. We are working with Mr Jackson in drama to improve our writing.  

SPaG/Phonics:

In spelling, punctuation and grammar we are working on using colons and semicolons in our writing, as well as recapping word classes.

Maths:

In maths we are looking at algebra and function machines, as well as revising the content covered so far this year.

Maths Basics:

Maths basics  are key skills/facts children need to know.  In maths basics this week we are focusing on decimal – fraction – percentage equivalents. Test your child to see how many they know!

Creative Curriculum:

In creative curriculum this week we are focussing on research around our key text. We will be looking at the stories and experiences of refugees.  

Homework:

Homework is set every night.  From Monday to Thursday children will have:

• A short maths sheet (between 4 and 6 questions).
• Reading for 10 minutes (+ one more reading over the weekend)
• A short English task (3 sentences).  

Spellings are learnt in class but if you could help with practising at home, this would be brilliant. This week’s spellings are:

Reassurance

Insurance

Appearance

hesitance

Nuisance

Acquaintance

Assistance

Endurance

Knowing times tables and number bond (pairs of numbers to 10/20 and beyond) well helps children make massive progress in maths so any help you can give your child will be great.  Your child has a Number Gym log in and password in their planners and if they could go on Number Gym at home, even for 5 minutes, it will really help them have a secure knowledge and faster recall of times tables and number facts.

(Week Commencing 5th March 2018)

In Humber this week we are learning the following:

English:

In English this week we are studying focussing on diary entries, and writing different diaries for the characters in our class novel ‘Kiss the Dust. We are working with Mr Jackson in drama to improve our writing.  

SPaG/Phonics:

In spelling, punctuation and grammar we are working on the passive voice, and modal verbs. We have been practising writing passive voice sentences to include in our writing. (by zombies!)

Maths:

In maths we are looking at algebra and number sequences, as well as revising the content covered so far this year.

Maths Basics:

Maths basics  are key skills/facts children need to know.  In maths basics this week we are focusing on decimal – fraction – percentage equivalents. Test your child to see how many they know!

Creative Curriculum:

In creative curriculum this week we are focussing on research around our key text. We will be looking at the stories and experiences of refugees.  

Homework:

Homework is set every night.  From Monday to Thursday children will have:

• A short maths sheet (between 4 and 6 questions).
• Reading for 10 minutes (+ one more reading over the weekend)
• A short English task (3 sentences).  

Spellings are learnt in class but if you could help with practising at home, this would be brilliant. This week’s spellings are:

excellent

profession

dictionary

vehicle

suggest

artificial

substantial

occur

Knowing times tables and number bond (pairs of numbers to 10/20 and beyond) well helps children make massive progress in maths so any help you can give your child will be great.  Your child has a Number Gym log in and password in their planners and if they could go on Number Gym at home, even for 5 minutes, it will really help them have a secure knowledge and faster recall of times tables and number facts.

(Week Commencing 5th February 2018)

In Humber this week we are learning the following:

English:

In English this week we are studying our new class text: ‘Kiss the dust’ by Elizabeth Laird.

We are exploring some of the characters through drama, and writing an escape narrative piece.

SPaG/Phonics:

In spelling, punctuation and grammar we are focussing on verb starter sentences. .

Maths:

In maths we are looking at perimeter and area, as well as converting between different measurements. Check that your child knows the conversions between mm, cm, m, kg, g, l and ml.

Maths Basics:

Maths basics  are key skills/facts children need to know.  In maths basics this week we are focusing on decimal – fraction – percentage equivalents. Test your child to see how many they know!

Creative Curriculum:

In creative curriculum this week we are focussing on research around our key text. We will be looking at the stories and experiences of refugees.  

Homework:

Homework is set every night.  From Monday to Thursday children will have:

• A short maths sheet (between 4 and 6 questions).
• Reading for 10 minutes (+ one more reading over the weekend)
• A short English task (3 sentences).  

Spellings are learnt in class but if you could help with practising at home, this would be brilliant. This week’s spellings are:

immediately

frequently

sincerely

cemetery

rhythm

Rhyme

stomach

shoulder

Knowing times tables and number bond (pairs of numbers to 10/20 and beyond) well helps children make massive progress in maths so any help you can give your child will be great.  Your child has a Number Gym log in and password in their planners and if they could go on Number Gym at home, even for 5 minutes, it will really help them have a secure knowledge and faster recall of times tables and number facts.