Crew Rodgers have been practising their reading comprehension test skills today by scanning a piece of text for specific words. This is a great skill to have and will help them to answer questions more quickly in a reading comprehension test. The children were given a piece of text and a felt tip pen. They then had 10 seconds to scan the text for the given word. They all did very well. Why not try give it a try at home with your child’s reading book?
Today, Year 6 began Case Study 2 by looking at the life of Charles Darwin whose book, ‘On the Origin of Species’ is considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
To start with, the children were given a five minute starter where they were tasked with drawing a quick sketch of what comes into their heads when they think of a scientist. Having looked through the drawings, it was amazing to see how similar they all were despite being given no prompts or ideas beforehand. It was interesting to see how children imagined a scientist to be (i.e. The wacky hair style, glasses and large white lab coat) compared to what an everyday scientist actually is.
Once we had spent time discussing what a scientist does, we then began looking at the life of Charles Darwin by comparing two images; one at the start of his career and one from the end.
The children then created notices and wonders whilst also inferring what the images were trying to depict. In addition to this, they also made educated guesses as to what work Darwin may have carried out throughout his lifetime.
Here are some of the fantastic notices and wonders that were generated.
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Today in English, the children in Y6 explored The Mystery of the Missing Painting! They had to use their retrieval reading comprehension skills (as well as detective skills!) to read through the scenario and the suspect statements. They then had to figure out who stole the painting using all of the reading provided!
I was so impressed with the groups that got it quite quickly! You would definitely make great detectives!
Why not have a go yourselves? There are 3 different levels to try (1 star, 2 stars and 3 stars) but each gives the same answer.
Let me know who you think the suspect is!
Some fab photos of everyone enjoying PE this afternoon. Super dancing by all (especially Mr Ambler!)
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If your circumstances have changed or you haven’t applied previously I encourage you to try, to see if you are entitled to a free meal for you child every day we’re at school. Throughout the current lockdown period we are able to offer food parcels to anyone who is in receipt of free school meals and would like one. If you would like to check your eligibility please complete the online form with the local authority which can be found below.
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I have set a challenge in Y5 to beat my time on the following game linked to the 4x table. Can anyone in school beat me?
This week, the children in school worked together to research and collect information on Skara Brae. They then created their own presentations using Google Docs or Slides. I was really impressed with how hard everyone worked to put together their new knowledge and was really proud of you all for standing in front of each other and presenting your learning. Lots of really positive Crew attitudes were shown throughout – well done to you all.
As part of our English starter, the Y6 children at home had to recap our class text (Skellig) so far! We used Padlet to write our recaps and I was absolutely blown away by some of the responses and the information that they chose to include!
Why not ask your child what has happened in Skellig so far?
