Another lovely week full of positive shoutouts, awards and Crew Champions. Well done Y5/6!
Y6 Spelling Rule – Root words
Over the next week Year 6 will be focusing on spellings linked to root words. The children will be tested on the following spellings before half term. Click on the video if you need to remind yourself about what root words are.
create – creation – creative
happy – unhappy – happily – happiness
music – musical – musician
Crew Jackson – Accelerated Reading
Today, we enjoyed reading books of our choice in Accelerated Reader Time. Everyone is working hard to improve their reading fluency and trying to increase their minutes by quizzing more frequently.
Year 5/6 Community Crew Winners!
Another lovely week full of positive shoutouts, awards and Crew Champions. An added shoutout to our Reading Stars for this week who have been able to choose a book as their reward.
KS2 – XP Outdoors
Please remember to send your child with appropriate XP Outdoors kit suitable for the weather – especially now it is getting colder and wetter! Appropriate footwear is essential as the children spend time in the grassy XP Outdoors area.
A reminder of the days that XP Outdoors takes place:
- Tuesday – Year 4
- Wednesday – Year 3
- Thursday – Year 5
- Friday – Year 6
A further reminder of the suggested XP Outdoors kit –
Reading Week – Challenge 1
How many of these children’s books can you work out from the emojis? Add your answers in the comments!
Girls Tag Rugby Winners
Well done to our Y5&6 girls who won the tag rugby festival on Friday at Thornensians. Even though the girls have never played rugby before they played fantastic throughout the whole tournament and won every game they played. Well done girls!
Crew Jackson – Library visit
As part of National Libraries Week, we paid a visit to Thorne Library this morning. Everyone enjoyed sharing books, completing activities and helping put books back on to the shelves. Edward even learnt how to be a librarian, checking books in and out!
Crew Jackson – Fabulous home learning
A big shout out to Charlie for producing more fabulous home learning. Thank you for sharing these pictures of your solar system recreated using lego. This shows not only your scientific knowledge but your creativity too. Well done Charlie!