Brainy Basilisks

Year 6 arranged a fabulous Enterprise event for the whole school.  Each group had to decide on a business idea and then was given £10 to buy any materials they needed.  They used brilliant independent skills as they had to work out what to make and how to make it; research the materials or ingredients they needed; work out their budget and how much they were going to sell the items; do the shopping and finally make and sell their products.  They did such a good job and the money they raised will go towards their leaving treat.

It’s hard to believe that we’ve reached the final half term at Barlborough for our Year 6s!

We’ve got a lot to get through this half term but it hopefully should be lots of fun.  Over the next couple of weeks we need to finish the writing assessments so the children will need to keep working hard and stay focussed on their writing.  We also need to prepare for the Leavers’ Play which is coming up very quickly.  The children will also be working in groups on an Enterprise project where they will need to plan and run a business.

Targets

READING

Keep up the reading at home!  Remember 3 reads a week in your Reading Diary will get you a tick.  This is your final chance to get a Sapphire, Diamond or Platinum reward.

SCIENCE

Homework

Your child will receive homework every Friday to be handed in the following Wednesday. 

Weekly homework will be as follows

Dates for your diary

17.6    After school rehearsal 3.25 – 5.00

20.6    Enterprise afternoon (Parents are welcome to come at the end of the day)

24.6    Leavers’ Play dress rehearsal

26.6    Leavers’ Play for Year 5 parents

27.6    Sports Day

28.6    Leavers’ Play

2-3.7  Netherthorpe transition days

8.7     Heritage transition starts

Water Bottles

Children are encouraged to bring drinks bottles to school with water so they can have a drink in class.

PE

This half term PE will be on a Wednesday and Friday afternoon. However, we will be flexible with PE this term depending on the weather, play rehearsals and transition days so it would be really useful if your child can keep their PE kit or at least footwear in school. Long hair must be tied back and earrings should be removed.

If you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to help, please come and see one of us.

Mrs Biggin & Miss Parsons

 Our Year 5s and 6s put together a fantastic Maths Fair for the parents throughout the school.  They demonstrated and explained some of the calculation methods we use in school.  Thanks so much to those parents who came; we hope you enjoyed it and maybe learned something new.

We had a great response from the parents who came.

"Children were welcoming and presented the information well."

It was useful to "see how the working out is broken down and explained."

"The children are very enthusiastic about Maths. That's great!"

"This will help me help my child at home."

Welcome back to a very short but important term!

Of course the SATs are a big part of this term and we will be working hard to get the children prepared for SATs week so that they can show their very best.  However, we have lots of other fun things to do this term as well. 

Targets

READING

We don’t have any specific reading targets this term as it is such a short term and we will spend our time working on all of the targets and helping the children know how to answer test style questions.

Keep up the reading at home!  Remember 3 reads a week in your Reading Diary will get you a tick.  Ten ticks will get you your next award. 

SCIENCE

Homework

Your child will receive homework every Friday to be handed in the following Wednesday. 

Weekly homework will be as follows

Dates for your diary

Week beginning 13 May                SATs week

21.5.19                                      Maths Fair for parents

26.6.19                                      Leavers’ Play for Year 5 Parents

28.8.19                                      Leavers’ Play for Year 6 Parents

Water Bottles

Children are encouraged to bring drinks bottles to school with water so they can have a drink in class.

PE

This half term PE will be on a Wednesday and Friday afternoon. Please ensure your child has appropriate kit in school on these days.  Long hair must be tied back and earrings should be removed.

If you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to help, please come and see one of us.

 On March 27th the Brainy Basilisks travelled to all four corners of the world on their visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

We watched polar bears playing in the water, baby wallabies hitching a lift in their mothers` pouches ,camels parading with a very snooty expression on their faces and otters diving and swimming.

We went to a workshop all about polar bears and learned how global warming threatens their habitat .The teacher told us ways we can help slow down global warming- simple things like switching off lights and appliances.

We've really enjoyed the Science teachers at Heritage coming in to teach some lessons on the Human Body.  We really enjoyed the practical experiments we did, which included testing oranges for vitamin C and seeing how enzymes break down the nutrients in our food. 

Welcome back to a busy term! 

Well done to all of the children who are coming into the Hub each morning to do some extra revision.  It would be lovely to see a few more there every day – it really can help the children gain confidence and reinforce tricky concepts.

Targets

READING

Keep up the reading at home!  Remember 3 reads a week in your Reading Diary will get you a tick.  Ten ticks will get you your next award.  Some children are getting close to their diamond award now.

SCIENCE

Homework

Your child will receive homework every Friday to be handed in the following Wednesday. 

Weekly homework will be as follows

Spellings will be handed out on a Wednesday to be tested the following Monday.  Children can then take their books home so that you can see their results but they must have their book in school every Monday. 

Dates for your diary

28 Feb                             I live in the Round City topic celebration

7 March                 World Book Day

15 – 18 March          Trip to London

27 March               Yorkshire Wildlife Park trip  - Children need to bring lunch and a drink in a rucksack which they can carry around the park. They may bring up to £5 in spending money .They will need a coat in case of wet weather.  We will set off and return within school hours.

Week beginning 1 April       Sex and Relationships Education

Water Bottles

Children are encouraged to bring drinks bottles to school with water so they can have a drink in class.

PE

This half term PE will be on a Wednesday and Friday afternoon. Please ensure your child has appropriate kit in school on these days.  Long hair must be tied back and earrings should be removed.

If you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to help, please come and see one of us.

Mrs Biggin & Miss Parsons

Today we`ve started our new History topic -all about The Islamic Golden Age which centred around the Round City of Baghdad c 900AD.We made up plays set in the hospital in Baghdad ,which had a health system amazingly advanced for its time: free care for the poor and  such things as infection control.All the same- some of the operations look fairly painful! 

Click to view and download all the exciting things we'll be learning this term: 

This half term in Geography lessons, we have been learning all about La Dolce Vita - life in Italy. We made 3D maps to learn about Italy`s physical features and decided where in Italy people would go skiing or grow olives, for example. We`ve discussed the advantages and disadvantages of tourism in Venice and written some fantastically detailed discussion texts in our books. We`re about to find out about the dramatic events which happened in Pompeii in AD 79 and write interviews with some of the witnesses and survivors! At the same time, we will investigate why volcanic eruptions occur.

Last Thursday, Councillor Duncan Haywood, chairman of Barlborough Parish Council, came into class. We had some questions ready for him : we asked him what he enjoys about the job, what are the powers of a parish council and what are the council`s priorities for the coming year. We mentioned several issues that we wanted the council to address, such as a pedestrian crossing near Barlborough Treatment Centre. He told us that the council were on the case!

 Click to view and download all the exciting things we'll be learning this term: