This week... Decimals

This week we are going to be exploring the connections between decimals, percentages and fractions. We started looking in to this during our topic work earlier this half term, using it to help us evaluate our market research for our coat project but now we are going to dig a little deeper...

Here is a little resource which you can refer back to to help you secure your understanding of place value when multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000, bridging whole numbers and decimals.

Have a go at exploring it with these numbers too:

• 46
• 57
• 49
• 328
• 194

Let me know if you need/ want any help.

Miss Barrell x

Reading practise...

Take a look at the following extract of text before answering the questions provided.

Tomorrow is the word. Tomorrow was always the word, for Faustino. 
They know they've stopped being kids. He just can't work out when that happened.
Faustino shrugs.
-I guess tomorrow finally came.

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. It was Faustino's word before he and Arturo even met. It was his father's word even before Faustino was born. Back home, in Guatemala, his father used to say it to his mother: tomorrow I will get a job. Tomorrow I will mend the roof. Tomorrow everything will be okay. And Faustino's mother would roll her eyes and moan and love her husband anyway. They survived in La Limonada, picking scraps from the garbage dump, reselling what they could, along with sixty thousand other people crammed into the teetering ravine that cuts almost to the heart of Guate.

One day, Faustino was born, and then his father taught him the word too: tomorrow we'll go to the park and play football, tomorrow I'll find you a bike, tomorrow I'll show you how to ride it.
       As Faustino grew, however, something changed in his father, and the word changed too. It actually began to mean something, and finally, one day, Faustino's father said to Faustino's mother- We cannot stay here anymore.

1. Find and copy one word that means 'full to the point of overflowing'.
2. What impression do you get of Faustino's father?
3. What evidence is there that Faustino's home life was unstable?

Reading stems

Hello again!

As mentioned at last week's SATs information sessions, reading practise at home can go way beyond just listening to your child read. You know they can read; now you need to know that they understand!

Below are some question stems (taken from previous tests) that you can use to think up questions for your child based on whatever text your child is reading at home. You can apply them to all manner of texts from their home reading book to the TV guide, a recipe or even a leaflet for a day out. Perhaps you could think of questions to help them explore TV shows etc.

The more practise they get of these skills they get, the more confident in them they will become.

As always, if you would like any support with this or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch- we're always happy to help.

Thanks again for your continued support,

Miss Barrell

Essential reading skills

Hi all,

Following on from last week's SATs information sessions, here is a resource to help you in supporting your child's reading development.

This is a breakdown of some essential reading skills:

Hopefully this will give you a good starting point, but over the coming days/ weeks I will be putting more resources- question stems/ activities etc. up to help you further.

In the meantime, if you would like any more help please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Many thanks for your continued support,

Miss Barrell

Spellings WC: 29th January 2018

Here are this week's spellings- please explore the rule and learn them ahead of Friday's spelling test:

Also, as we approach the final fortnight of this half term, please remember that incorrectly spelt words from previous weeks will continue to be re-tested. Please ensure you continue to work on these so we can check them off as quickly as possible. We will update these lists for you at the end of this half term so you have a record of the words you need to continue to practise.

Thank you for your continued support,

Miss Barrell x

SPaG homework 26.1.18

Apologies for the delay everybody- a busy schedule and technical difficulties delayed the upload of this, but here is this week's SPaG homework to complete in your homework books.

There are a few links below to help you revise the terminology below should you need it:

* Fronted adverbials- http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zp937p3#zt937p3

* Synonyms/ Antonyms- http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z8t8pbk#zydvjty

* Inverted commas- https: //www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zvftsbk;                http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/ztcp97h

* Relative clauses- http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zsrt4qt#zpx4tv4

I hope these help.

Last, but not least, please remember to maintain high standards in your homework books:

          * complete work in pencil

          * use a ruler/ straight edge to draw lines etc.

          * best effort at all times.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Miss Barrell x

Hull has a Banksy!!

Breaking news Year 6!
Hull has its very own Banksy work of art! Discovered in the early hours of this morning, it certainly has the city in a spin.
Banksy's work is notoriously loaded with hidden meaning... How do you interpret this image? Put your modals to good use to help you explore it...
What could particular details mean? What might he be trying to say? What may happen as a result?

Let me know what you think...