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Routines in Puffins
PE (Indoor) – Tuesday (please arrive in PE kit)
PE (Outdoor) — Thursday (please arrive in PE kit)
Spellings – Monday
Times Tables – Friday
Planners checked for reading and signature – Monday
Adults in Puffins
Miss Ingram
Mrs Shanbhag
Miss Saunders

Phase governor: Louise Woffendin

 

Planners
In year 5, 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 which will be checked on a Monday morning. Planners should have been seen and signed by an adult for the previous week (See Reading Books section below). If there are any other messages that need to be read by the teacher on a day other than Monday, please ensure that your child brings these to your attention.

 

Reading Books
Each week, your child will be expected to read three times a week with an adult at home, who will need to sign and date the weekly section in their planner every time they hear them read (See Image Below).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 and Spellings
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 Answers W/C 25.9

Stage 5 Check 2 – Answers Stage 6 Check 2 – Answers Maths Answers E and GD    

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This Half-Term’s Topic Homework and Knowledge Organiser – Click the title for more.

UKS2 Homework Grid and Knowledge Organisers-Autumn 1st 2023

Mayans Homework Grid Mayans Knowledge Organiser UKS2 Science – Art of Being Human – Knowledge Organiser.docx Maths Knowledge Organiser for Year 5 & 6 (Autumn 1)  

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Puffins Maths – Rounding Re-Cap

Today in Maths, we re-capped our knowledge of rounding from year 4. This allowed us to remember the rules of rounding and put it into practise. We were also able to address common mistakes and miss-conceptions and discuss what to do when rounding causes us to cross into the next place value column. Today we …

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Heart and lung dissection – Year 5/6

Today, we were joined by Doctor Khanna, who kindly volunteered his expertise and led a dissection. The children learnt about the chambers of the heart and the purpose of: veins, arteries, the trachea, the bronchi, the lungs and the alveoli. Further to this, on two of the samples, we were able to spot the voice …

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Puffins English/Drama – Making Predictions

Throughout our myth writing unit, we have been reading the story ‘The Rain Player’. Today, we used drama to predict what we think would happen next. Chac (The Rain God), was about to play Pok-a-Tok against Pik, to decide Pik’s fate. Can your figure out what we think is going to happen using our still …

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Puffins Entry Point – The Mayans

This week in Puffins, we’ve been history detectives, discovering what life may have been like during the Mayan era. Using a gallery of paintings by Frederick Catherwood, we worked with our peers to highlight what their key features told us about what life was like back then. We found evidence that gave us lots of …

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Thank You School Council!

This year our school council have been incredibly busy. They’ve held story writing, poetry and design competitions, helped the school save energy and stay tidy, rescued a sea-turtle, made bird feeders, hosted Chill Out Tuesdays, collected for the food bank, recycled thousands of batteries for Duracell’s Big Battery Hunt, met the Mayor of Leeds…and so …

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Reversible Changes – 5/6 Science

This week, we have created Alien Soup (as you do) in order to demonstrate how materials can be separated. We examined what a solution was and discussed irreversible changes learnt in 3/4 (burning, baking, rusting etc). We then began creating our ‘soup’: water, sand, paper clips, salt and rice. The children were challenged with understanding …

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The Big Battery Hunt Final Total…

The Big Battery Hunt is over! A HUGE well done and thank you to everyone who has contributed to the competition. So many of you have brought in THOUSANDS of dead and used batteries, and so many of you have done a fantastic job of helping us to count and recycle these too. Overall, we …

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Big Battery Hunt Update and Final Call…

Thank you to those who have continued to bring in their dead and used batteries over the past few months. We have now collected and recycled just over 15,000 batteries! The competition is about to enter its final week…you have until Friday 30th June to bring in any dead or used batteries that you wish …

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Sexual reproduction in flowering plants – dissecting Lilies.

On Thursday, the Puffins studied the male and female structures of flowering plants. We dissected a Lily and identified the pistil/carpal (stigma, style and ovary), the stamen (anther and filament), the sepals and the petals. One or two groups also thought that they had identified an egg (ovule) in the ovaries.

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Puffins, Kingfishers & Doves Exit Point

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Puffins, Kingfishers, Doves Exit Point.

Winners of the survival challenge.

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Puffins, Kingfishers & Doves Exit Point.

To end our topic on weather & climate, we had a survival challenge day. Pupils were asked to bring to school a rucksack packed with items they feel would be useful if they had to survive in a particular climate. Pupils worked in groups to set up their camp and show what equipment they had …

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Puffins make Pencil Cases – Exit Point

To mark the end of our topic, Express Yourself, we designed and created our own pencil cases using felt. It took a couple of sessions but we’ve finally done! We used various different stitches, including blanket, back, whip and running. We also had to attach a button and create a fastening loop which was slightly …

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School Council – Bird Feeders for Earth Day

After helping promote Earth Day, School Council have been keen to do more to help our planet, particularly through helping the wildlife. This week, we have had a go at creating our very own recycled bird feeders to hang up around the School grounds. We had so much fun making them and are very pleased …

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Puffins celebrate Earth Day!

To celebrate Earth Day, which is on the 22nd April, we have been researching why it is important and why we celebrate this particular day. We learnt all about the history behind Earth Day and even looked at pictures from the very first Earth Day, back in 1970. We talked as a class about what …

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UKS2 PE Days

Just a reminder that UKS2 Outdoor PE has now been changed to a Thursday, instead of a Friday. Children will need to come in their PE kits on a Thursday from now on until the end of the academic year.

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Big Battery Hunt Update – We’re Famous!

Thank you to those who have been bringing in their dead and used batteries over the past couple of months. We have now collected a total of 6400 batteries! A big thank you also, to our school council team who have been making multiple trips to the recycling points to ensure all of these get …

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Puffins – British Science Week

As the majority of us were in Lockerbie during British Science Week, we decided that we still wanted to celebrate it, just at a later date! We read a book called ‘The Most Important Animal of All’ and learnt about lots of different animals, including krill, beavers and elephants. We discussed why they could be classed …

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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 …

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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 …

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