The Puffins have had another busy week this week, involving creating Persuasive adverts and radio adverts, creating their own Hans Holbein portrait and learning about the adaptations of animals Read on to find out more…

In Maths, Year 5 have done their Place value assessment and begun their new unit of Addition and Subtraction. We have focused on addition and subtraction involving whole numbers with more than 4-digits. We concentrated on the formal method making sure that our work was presented perfectly so that it was easy for us to calculate the correct answer. Can you explain this True or False question to your grown-up?

Year 6 have been carrying on their work on the four operations. This week they have focused on division with remainders. Can you explain this True or False to your grown-up?

In English the children read their stories to the Key Stage 1 and Early Years children. It was lovely to see them take such pride in their stories and see how much the younger children enjoyed hearing their stories. This unit was finished off by the children creating persuasive posters and radio adverts for their books.

We have also now begun our new unit in English focusing on Biographies. We looked at an example biography and identified the features that are typical to this genre of text. Can you remember any of these features and explain them to your grown up with some examples?

In History we learnt about the cameraman of the Tudor times, Hans Holbein, and how he was the catalyst for the end of Henry VIII’s fourth marriage. We then created our own Hans Holbein portrait, focusing on the fine details that he was famous for.

Science involved us looking at the attributes or characteristics that animals have, that they have developed due to the habitat or environment they live in.  Can you remember why camels have such big hooves, or why polar bears have little ears?

Here are this week’s spellings:

Year 5 (Homophones and near homophone)

past,

passed,

proceed,

precede,

aisle,

isle,

aloud,

allowed,

affect,

effect

Year 6

man-eating

rock-bottom

free-range

red-hot

pig-headed

tight-fisted

cold-hearted

green-eyed

stone-faced

short-tempered

Stay safe

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Karamucki