We had a fantastic time at Tropical World on Tuesday. It was great to see all the animals and get a feel for the heat and humidity of the rainforest.
Year 5 Tropical World
Category : Mrs Dutton’s Class
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue “Kitchen Nightmares” Competition
The competition is the first part of our “Kitchen Nightmares” campaign that will be running throughout the autumn. Children aged between 6-12 are invited to take part.
Our advice to help you avoid a kitchen nightmare is:
- Keep electrical leads, cardboard and fabrics well away from the hob and keep ovens, hobs and grills clean from grease and crumbs
- Keep an eye on cooking at all times and never leave it unattended
- Switch off cooking appliances when you’ve finished cooking and gone to bed
Find more information here.
NSPCC – Kindness Week – Non Uniform Day!
A reminder that tomorrow will be a whole school non-uniform day to raise money for the NSPCC. We are asking for a donation of £1 to support their charity.
Challenge – To end the week, could you complete a random act of kindness at home or in our local community and send a photograph to your teacher.
Class 7 Shout Outs
All of the children in Class 7 have been working super hard this week. We’ve been learning about Martin Luther King in expedition ready for speech writing next week and, in maths, we have been extending our place value knowledge into addition and subtraction by adding tens to 2 and 3 digit numbers!
A few special shout outs to mention … Well done to Tianna and Ava D who are our first sparkly pencil owners for showing consistently beautiful handwriting and pride in presentation – well done girls! Who will be next?
Also, keep up the good work shout outs for Charlotte who is working on what is sure to be a fantastic piece of GFOL artwork, and to Jack who is enjoying reading his new ‘big boy’ chapter book from the book sale! Well done both of you.
And a final shout out goes to Martha who has had a brilliant idea to create a class chores list with the HoWLs reward attached. She has even started a fabulous presentation to help get Mrs Dutton and Miss Hilton off the starting blocks! Watch out boys and girls because you will be helping us to develop this next week ready for an official launch in Class 7 after the half-term break.
Year 5/6 Science Club – Friction
Over the last 3 weeks we have been investigating friction. We started by looking at how far toy cars moved on different surfaces. We looked for similarities and differences between the surfaces. We found that rough bumpy surfaces had more friction than smooth shiny ones. We used what we found to create our own surface to try and slow down a ball.
This week, we tested our surfaces to see which slowed the ball down quickest. We predicted which surface would be the best, created a results table and then found the average distance.
Crew Barnett – Reading Week
We have had a busy week for reading week. On Monday, we watched an online Q&A with the author of How to Train your Dragon, Cressida Cowell. Then, we walked to the library in the afternoon.
On Wednesday, we linked reading to looking at Black History Month. We looked at the stories of some inspirational black women using the little people big dreams books.
We have also been working really hard in accelerated reader this week to try and improve our crew average. We have managed to improve our minutes by 4 this week.
Year 5/6 Crew Champions and HoWL point winners!
A huge shout out to this weeks HOWL point winners and Crew champions! Keep up the great work – we’re all very proud!
Crew 5/6 reading champions 📚
A huge well done to these children in Year 5/6 who have impressed their crew leaders with their reading so far this year. I hope you all enjoy reading your new book!!
Keep up the great work!
NSPCC ‘The Kindness Challenge’
Next week, we will be taking part in a week full of activities linking to Kindness. This is part of the NSPCC fundraising and awareness week.
We will be taking part in lots of fun activities during Crew each day and there will be lots of opportunities for children to complete Kindness Challenges at home too.
Next Friday, to raise money for the NSPCC, we will be holding a Non-Uniform Day for donations of £1.
Class 7 – National Poetry Day
Today is National Poetry Day and in Class 7 we have been finding lots of different poems online to listen to. We also explored the poem, My Treasures, during our crew session before having a go at writing some of our own … and finding out just how tricky poetry writing can be!
You can have a look at the poem, My Treasures, below but there are so many wonderful poems out there for you to find and enjoy. Don’t forget to keep having a go at writing your own poems at home and bring them in for us all to hear at school.
