This week, we’ve stepped into the role of journalists, planning a news report for the CBBC Newsround website about the Amazon Rainforest. Our focus is on deforestation and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s commitment to protecting the rainforest from destruction.

Ask your child if they can remember the features of a newspaper report.

It has been a very busy week of Maths learning!

We have been thinking about the rules of divisibility, as well as identifying prime, square and cubed numbers.

We have also learnt how to use BIDMAS to help us solve calculations with more than one operation. BIDMAS tells us the correct order:

9 + 4 x 3 + 2 = ?

Monday 14 October – HT Photos

We will be having individual school photographs taken. Please ensure your child comes into school in full school uniform and is ready to say “cheese!”

Monday 14 October - Auditions for the Christmas Show

We are delighted to announce that our Christmas show is going to be ‘A Christmas Carol’!

Auditions for on-stage roles will be on Monday 14th October after school 3:15-4:15pm. Auditions may go on later if there is lots of interest in auditioning.

If for any reason your child can’t make it after school, please ask them to speak to their class teacher.

Children who would like to be a part of the back-stage crew will be applying after half term.

Spellings

This week, we have been recapping the short ‘e’ sound and how it is represented in letters.

weather, descend, section, exhibit, definite, unfriendly, leisure, dictionary, context, said

Learn these throughout the week ready for a quiz on Monday 14 October.

Year 6 class reps

Class reps are a helpful part of the school community allowing the class teachers to communicate messages to parents.

If you are the class rep, please email us 😊.