We have had a wonderful first week back in the Foxes’ class this week! We have had lots of fun getting to know each other and getting back into the school routine after a lovely, relaxing summer break!

At RPS we are introducing a new approach to help us manage our emotions called ‘Zones of Regulation’ (updates about this soon). Inspired by this, our first English topic is based on a book, all about feelings, called ‘The Grand Hotel of Feelings’. We began by reading and comprehending the story; understanding how the hotel acts as a metaphor for humans and their experiences with feelings! We then used our understanding to support us in creating a bank of vocabulary for one or more of the feelings in the book. Our word banks included synonyms of the feeling, associated colours, items, shapes, sounds, colours and much more. During our next lesson, we discovered how to 'show not tell' emotions in our writing, using facial expressions, body language and actions to portray a particular feeling and make our writing more exciting. On Friday, we completed our first extended piece of work; writing a letter or diary entry from the perspective of one of the characters in the book. We will continue to develop our descriptive writing skills next week.

In Year 5 Maths, we began our place value unit of work this week which has consisted of using Roman numerals and reading and representing numbers to 10,000. We have also spent time recapping the four operations and our times tables

In Year 6 Maths, we also began our place value unit of work this week. This has included representing numbers to 10,000,000 in different ways (words, numerals, counters on a place value grid, partitioning) and placing numbers to 10,000,000 on a number line.

Homework –

Children will be given their first piece of homework on Tuesday. This week, we would like the children to focus on practising their spellings, learning their times tables and reading at home. 

Spellings -

Year 6, List 1 – Homophones or near homophones

advice

advise

prophecy

prophesy

device

devise

licence

license

practice

practise

Year 5, List 1 - Words ending in 'cious'

vicious

gracious

spacious

malicious

precious

conscious

delicious

suspicious

atrocious

ferocious

Spellings given out: Tuesday 9th September 2025

Spelling test: Tuesday 16th September 2025 

Have a fantastic weekend,

Miss Hanslow