Welcome to Doves’ class page!
| Routines in Doves | Adults in Doves |
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PE Outdoor — Tuesday (Please arrive in PE kit) |
Mr Learmonth |
PE Indoor – Friday (Please arrive in PE kit) |
Mrs Tate |
Spellings — Monday |
Mrs StevensMrs Wood Mrs Brady |
Times Tables – Thursday |
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| Planners checked for reading and signature – Friday
Phase governor: Helen Perry |
In years 5 and 6, the children will be encouraged to work with growing independence. To support this, your child will be taking responsibility for their own organisation. Each child has been given a planner (Y6 planners are provided by Guiseley school to support children to be secondary ready when they leave us). Planners will be checked on a Friday morning and should have been seen and signed by an adult for the previous week. If there are any other messages that need to be read by the teacher on a day other than Friday, please ensure that your child brings these to your attention.
Reading Books
Each week, your child will be expected to read twice a week with an adult at home, who will need to sign and date the reading record in their planner every time they hear them read. Your child can choose a book from home or an appropriate free choice book from school. Even though many children in years 5 and 6 are quite fluent readers, it is important that an adult hears them read and asks questions about what they have read in order to aid their comprehension and to improve their writing skills.
Books can be changed on any day in the classroom.
Homework
Your child will receive their homework every Monday as a paper copy and will need to be handed back in by the following Monday. The answers for this will be posted on our class page. We politely request that parents mark the work with their child so that any misconceptions can be addressed when returned to school. The homework will alternate between the maths skills test and the Grammar Hammer. We only expect children to spend 20 minutes on each piece of homework, if they are struggling please just write a note to the teacher explaining this – don’t struggle on! A topic homework grid will also be available on the school website by the end of the first week of a new topic. It is expected that your child will complete at least two of the activities from the grid and return them to school. There are a range of fun and exciting options to choose from so please feel free to be creative!
Spellings will be tested each week on Monday and the new list will be given out following the weekly test. A spelling book will also be sent home with the spellings in.
This Week’s Homework – Click the title for more.
UKS2 Homework – w/c 20/3
Please find attached the answers for this week’s homework. English Year 5 Answers – Noun Phrase Homework – Answer Sheet Maths Year 5 Answers – Stage 5 Check 15 Answers Year 6 Homework this week is to complete specific pages of the SAT Buster books that have been sent home this week. The specific pages for this …
This Half-Term’s Topic Homework and Knowledge Organiser – Click the title for more.
UKS2 Knowledge Organisers and Homework Grid
Please find attached the Knowledge Organiser for Topic. Also, please find the Homework Grid for our topic this term, Express Yourself. Please complete a minimum of two pieces. Express Yourself – Homework Grid Express Yourself -Knowledge Organiser
Latest class news – Click the title for more.
School Council – World Poetry Day Competition
Today is World Poetry Day! To help celebrate, School Council have hosted a poetry writing competition. There were lots of amazing entries and they found it incredibly hard to judge! In assembly this morning, 2 winners were announced… Ruby from Herons and Luca from Woodpeckers. A huge well done to everybody that entered! Below are …
School Council – Chill Out Tuesday
After a successful term of running ‘Chill Out Tuesday’ for KS2 children, School Council have now swapped their club to allow Reception and KS1 children to attend. So far, it’s been very popular! The children have loved mixing with each other through playing board games, building models, reading, drawing, crafting and dancing (thanks to DJ …
Doves Assembly
Our first Doves Assembly since Covid and the children pulled it out of the bag. We were so proud of their attitude during our rehearsals and how involved they got at adding extra bits into the script. A great performance and your teachers are very proud of you. Well done,,
UKS2 Muddy Puddle Reminder
A quick reminder that it is Muddy Puddle Day tomorrow (Thursday 16th) for Upper Key Stage Two. The children have already been informed of this. Please can all children come in appropriate non-uniform, including footwear. Also, if you can collect any small branches, twigs or sticks, please bring them in too! Thanks, The UKS2 Team
A visit from Leeds United‘s Primary Choices
As a part of Leeds United’s Primary Choices initiative, we were lucky enough to be visited by two colleagues who discussed important issues around the law and anti-social behaviour. This was for children moving from Primary to Secondary. Our children were a credit to Tranmere and joined in with all the activities maturely, whilst asking …
World Book Day – Herons and Doves Buddy Up
This morning, Doves and Herons decided to buddy up for World Book Day. Each child chose their favourite book, magazine or comic to bring into school to share with their buddy. They read to each other and discussed their story. We couldn’t believe how quiet and calm the classrooms were! What a lovely way to …
Big Battery Hunt Update…
Thank you to those who have been bringing in their dead and used batteries across the past few weeks. So far, we have recycled a total of 2553! A big thank you also to our school council team who have been out recycling the batteries at various recycling points after scores have been totalled in …
Big Battery Hunt Competition – Recycle your used batteries with us!
The school council have signed us up to join in with Duracell’s big battery hunt. Duracell are encouraging pupils up and down the country to recycle their batteries instead of putting them in landfill to help make our planet greener and cleaner. They’ve set schools a challenge to try and collect and recycle as many …
School Council Celebrate Pancake Day!
Happy pancake day! As part of our school council meeting today, we were given a very special treat as a thank you for all of our hard work so far this year. They were delicious!!
School Council – Food Bank Collection
Ed and the School Council would like to say a HUGE thank you to Team Tranmere for all of the wonderful donations that have been given for the food bank. Everyone has been so generous and we know that this donation will make a big difference to those in need.
Buddying up – Doves and Herons
The children from both classes have had a lovely time playing together as part of Mental Health Week. The Year 6s were supposed to be the leaders but we are not sure who was leading who!
National Storytelling Week Competition
This week is National Storytelling Week. To help celebrate this, the School Council have hosted a storytelling competition. Those who wanted to enter needed to write a story (true or made up) and hand it in to their class councillor. On Friday, the councillors got together to choose a selection of their favourite stories. These …
Our solar system…
This afternoon, we have created a scale model of the solar system. Mercury was a peppercorn, Jupiter was a watermelon and we learnt that Neptune (lime) was a long LONG way from our sun.
Year 5/6 Christmas Extravaganza
The children have outdone themselves this Tranmere Christmas; the table decorations, the dancing and the festive spirit on show were so great that we wanted to share. (Don’t panic 5/6; we’ve kept the dancing between us!)
DT – The Little Inventors Christmas Challenge
Over the past couple of weeks, all children, from EYFS to Year 6, have been working hard on their Little Inventors Christmas Competition task. Children were given the following brief and had to come up with their own original, weird and wonderful ideas! ‘Tis the season to hang the stockings, roll up the snowmen, and …
Farmers (in Christmas jumpers) for the day
This morning, the children undertook the farm project. The purpose of this was to apply their understanding of number to a real-world setting. As farmers, they had to: select the best crop based upon the weather forecast, decide whether rental costs for machinery and salary costs for staff would lead to increased profits and present …
UKS2 visit to Jorvik and The Dig.
For our topic exit point we enjoyed visiting Jorvik to discover the sights, sounds and smells of the Viking Age. We also visited The DIG which gave the children a hands-on experience of being an archaeologist by digging for evidence in the digging pits and putting their enquiry skills to the test. There were many …
Anti-Bullying Week: Odd Sock Day
Today marks the start of Anti-Bullying week for 2022. To show our support, we have all come to school dressed in odd/crazy socks! In classes, we have discussed that this represents how is it cool for us all to be different, and how we should never be unkind towards others because of their differences. Throughout …
School Council – KS2 Chill Out Tuesday Club.
In our meetings so far this half-term, School Council have discussed how they’d like a space pupils can go to, to just ‘chill out’ sometimes. As a group we came up with the idea of running a lunchtime club called ‘Chill out Tuesdays’. Here pupils can read, draw, craft, play chess, chat to their friends …
School Council – Suggestion Boxes
This week school council have been decorating their suggestion boxes! These will be placed in their classes after half-term, ready to be filled with pupil suggestions. Thanks to our year 6 helpers who also helped us decorate these at lunch.