Rotary Writing Competition...

Hi all!

 

I come with very exciting news... We have been invited to submit entries for an annual writing competition which has proved very popular with Hull schools over the last five years: The Rotary Writing Competition!

This year is an open competition and children are asked to write a story of no more than 700 words about any subject they wish. The topic is not restricted so children can let their imaginations fly and write about anything that interests them.

The judges will be looking for a piece of creative writing which captures the reader’s interest through imaginative ideas and use of interesting vocabulary.

Prizes up for grabs include:

• 5 prizes of £20 awarded to the writers of the top 5 stories
• The writer of the overall winning story will also receive a trophy
• The school of the overall winner will also receive a trophy

 

Entries must be hand written and must be submitted by no later than this Friday 17th November; schools will be notified of the results before the end of term.

Please ensure you include the following information on your entries at the top righthand corner of the first page:

• Child’s name
• Age
• School is written

I cannot wait to read your entries and get them sent off! 

Let me know if you want any advice/ support- my door is always open! 

Miss Barrell

Tom's Midnight Garden

This week we started reading our new class text: Tom's Midnight Garden.

We're really enjoying the story so far and it has already inspired some fantastic writing from us as we have taken on the role of Tom Long, the main character, to write a letter back to our brother Peter who has measles to tell him all about life with Aunt Gwen and Uncle Alan...

Spellings WC: 13th November 2017

Friday thoughts...

Friday 10^th November 2017

Welcome back!

We hope you had a nice relaxing week off- you certainly deserved it after a busy half term; yet we have been really impressed by the number of you who continued your hard work with a bit of practice with activities on the class blogs.

This half term is set to be even busier, especially with the approach of all things fun and festive!

This half term we have started reading a couple of new texts:

·      Tom’s Midnight Garden

·      The Hounds of Fate

We have been looking at letter writing and recapping inference skills in literacy this week whilst in maths we have been going over our written division method, developing our ability to reason mathematically with more complex problems.

In other news, we have revised our class reward system and in place of pennies we are now using dojos!  Needless to say, with their very own avatars each, everyone is incredibly excited about the change and seem very motivated to try and work toward the different rewards on offer!

Lastly, an update on our home reading… First of all, we want to congratulate all those who have brought their home reading book in every day, having read the night before and with their log signed by an adult- keep up the fantastic work! Remember- every week you achieve this every day, your name will be put in to the prize draw for one of our fantastic prizes. If you haven’t managed it this week, don’t worry, just start fresh on Monday. You’ve got to be in it to win it and reading is your ticket to success!

As always, have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday, ready and raring to learn!

Miss Barrell and Mr Storr

Adding and subtracting LIKE fractions

Part 2 of my fractions series is about adding and subtracting 'like' fractions... This just means adding and subtracting fractions that have the same denominator (bottom number)...
Click the pic to take a look at a video from the super stars at Math Antics to help you practise this simple step and look out for the videos to follow.

Now try these...

Multiplying fractions- Pre-load

The first instalment of our fractions series is focussing on multiplying fractions... It might sound complex, but actually it's super easy!
Click the image below to go to a helpful video from the Math Antics crew and then have a go at the calculations below!

Now try these...

Extension...

BODMAS pre-load

Hi all,

Apologies for the delay in getting these next lessons to you, but here's your next instalment: BODMAS!

To make this a little more fun, as always, I have found a video/ song that you might want to have a little listen to to help you remember the order of operations. Just click the image and you should be taken there!


BODMAS is an important part of maths that helps us to agree on the order in which we should do things. Without it, we could tackle the same question, without making mistakes, and get completely different answers.

I'll show you what I mean:

4 + 5 x 10

I could do 4 + 5 first which would equal 9 and then multiply that by 10 to get 90
OR
I could do 5 x 10 first to get 50 and then add 4 to make a total of 54


Luckily, BODMAS helps to guide us... 

1) As shown in the image above, whatever is in brackets needs to be done first
e.g. 4 x ( 5- 3)
because 5 - 3 is in brackets, I MUST do that part of the calculation first, so now I have:
4 x 2 which equals 8. Simple!

2) O stands for orders, or indices or powers- this would cover things like square numbers etc.
e.g.

2 + 3² =

Because there is a 'power' number  in there, we must do that before the addition. Three squared just means 3 x 3 which equals 9, so now we have:
2 + 9 which equals 11!

3) Division is next
e.g.
2 + 9 ÷ 3
Because it contains a division, we must do that first, so then we have
2 + 3 which equals 5!

4) Multiplication after that
e.g.

4 + 2 x 5

Because it contains a multiplication, we must do that first, so now we have:

4 + 10 which equals 14. Easy!

5)Addition
e.g.
15 - 8 + 4
Because it contains an addition, we do that before the subtraction part, so now we have:
15 - 12 which equals 3!

6) Subtraction comes last after ALL the other operations...
Look how I tackle the example below:

Now you have see how I do it, have a go for yourself with the following calculations... Bring your answers in once you've had a go and I will mark them for you :)