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 — Friday |
Mrs Stevens |
Times Tables – Monday |
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Welcome to Doves.
Planners
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 and returned books will be quarantined by staff before being put back on the shelf.
Homework
Your child will receive their homework every Monday on Google Classroom and should upload it by the following Monday. This will consist of weekly tasks in both Maths and English. We politely request that parents mark the work with their child so that any misconceptions can be addressed—answers for the regular sheets are provided. 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 and will also be available on Google Classroom and 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 upload them. There are a range of fun and exciting options to choose from so please feel free to be creative!
The homework will alternate between the maths skills test and the Grammar Hammer. We test the children on the previous week’s homework at the start of the new week. The aim of setting the blank sheet first and testing it second is to encourage the children to learn the method for each question—not just memorise the answers.
Spellings will be tested each week on Fridays and the new list will be posted on Google Classroom following the weekly test. A spelling book will not be sent home this year (based on current guidance).
This Week’s Homework – Click the title for more.
UKS2 Homework Grid and Knowledge Organisers
English Knowledge Organiser Classic Fiction Knowledge Organiser – Express Yourself (1) Maths Knowledge Organiser for Year 5 & 6 (Autumn 1) 56 homework grid express yourself 2020-21 UKS2 Science Knowledge Organiser – Electricity
This Half-Term’s Topic Homework and Knowledge Organiser – Click the title for more.
UKS2 Homework Grid and Knowledge Organisers
English Knowledge Organiser Classic Fiction Knowledge Organiser – Express Yourself (1) Maths Knowledge Organiser for Year 5 & 6 (Autumn 1) 56 homework grid express yourself 2020-21 UKS2 Science Knowledge Organiser – Electricity
Latest class news – Click the title for more.
UKS2 Saltaire visitor.
We were delighted to welcome Maria Glot into school today to provide us with an “eye-witness” account of living in Victorian Saltaire. Many stories were told of working in the factories, life on the street, rules that all residents had to live by and many more fascinating facts. Children were given an identity of a …
Weather and Climate – Yrs 5/6 Exit Point
To conclude our topic on Weather and Climate, we were shown how the professionals present the weather, by Lisa Gallagher, ( a weather presenter for the BBC ). We watched a ‘day in the life’ video of her, at work. She also gave us some useful tips, which we used when we had a go …
Mental Health Awareness Week.
As this is Mental Health Awareness week , we have taken every opportunity to take the children outside for lessons. The photographs below, show children taking part in a practical Maths lesson to calculate the mean length of leaves ( and other things), carrying out a survey, in French and performing some slam poetry in …
Well Being Muddy Puddle Day – Doves Class
It was great to welcome everyone back to school, last week. As part of ‘easing in gently’, we used our Muddy Puddle Day to revise our knowledge of countries and continents. We took part in a scavenger hunt and some of us got very muddy, searching for clues.
UKS2 Muddy Puddles
Hi all! Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is a muddy puddle day. Make sure you come ready for a day of outdoor excitement!
Properties of materials investigation (Doves and Kingfishers)
Afternoon, everybody. In Doves and Kingfishers today, we have been investigating how to sort materials. To begin with, the children were asked to categorise the random assortment of materials however they pleased. Initially, they grouped them by: size, natural vs man-made, metallic vs plant based, ‘see throughness’ and flexibility. Following the lesson, the children then …
The Masked Reader!
Introducing…. ‘The Masked Reader!’ Coming Soon…
Doves EXIT point
On Monday, the Doves used a variety of fruit (and a peppercorn! AND a whole load of toilet roll) to map out a scale model of our solar system. We started at Mercury (the peppercorn) and marched across the solar system all the way to Neptune (a lime) Then, 450 slices of loo roll later, …
Space Explorers – Entry Point
A little later than normal, (due to isolation ), we finally got round to our entry point for our topic, Space Explorers. We built and tested our own rockets: some were more successful than others.
Muddy Puddle / Exit Point
Fortunately, the weather stayed mostly dry and we had a great morning outside, creating our own Emotions Gallery with Ipads and a bit of drama thrown in as well. Despite it being dry, some of us did manage to get very muddy! We have been really impressed with the children this half term and would …
Doves and Kingfishers Science
Hi Doves and Kingfishers For our Science lessons next week, please can as many children as possible bring in: 2 sheets of strong scrap cardboard (roughly A4 sized) Enough tinfoil to cover each of them Consider this the perfect use for all of those Amazon delivery boxes you have accumulated over lockdown! We will be …
Welcome to Doves – Entry Point
ENTRY POINT: Last Friday afternoon, saw us kick off our Topic “Express Yourself” with a fun afternoon creating some ephemeral art – hopefully you will be able to recognise the emotions from the photos??!!
Welcome back!
A big welcome back to all of our classes! Our teachers are all working hard updating their class pages for the new academic year and we are going to be including a lot of this information on here that would have previously been given out via our phase leaflets. Please bear with us whilst we …