Holiday homework for Year 6

The following letter was received on behalf of Y6J:

Dear Mrs Joseph,

I am writing to try and change your mind about giving out homework for the spring break.
All children need an equal balance of work, rest and play. We do our work at school. In the holidays we get our valuable rest and play. If we have homework, we will come back to school after a ‘holiday’ when we work everyday. That would mean we would be bored of work, which is very bad for the SATs term. Surely you want us to do well in our SATs?
My second reason is that it would take up more of your precious free time, to set homework and then mark it. As you already have a lot of marking and work-setting to do, maybe it is better to leave the homework for the half-term?
If I still haven’t changed your mind, then hopefully my third point will. In the holidays, people go out or away, and they don’t have any time to do homework. When ten or so people come in without their homework, you will just spend lesson time telling them off and getting angry. Why not just skip the annoyance by leaving the homework?
Lastly, all the year sixes need a break from the high level of SATs studying. If we don’t get a break we might explode! If we get no break, nerves will mix with no-break tempers, and friendships and learning will be in the firing line.
I hope this letter helps you to rethink your decision.
Yours sincerely,

Becky

Well, you have convinced me, Becky. so what should we do? We wish you a good break and hope this is a good compromise:
Use any spare time to go over your revision booklets and revise your times tables etc
Use the list of websites you were given to make revision fun
Spend NO MORE THAN half an hour a day (or an hour every other day, or any other combination) on school work

This should mean that we can all have a lovely spring break and I look forward to seeing you again on 22nd April.

Vive le francais

This term, KS2 pupils have been learning how to name and describe different parts of the body, in French. Some pupils learned to sing,'Head, shoulders, knees and toes' but in french! Here are the words; see if you can sing it too.

Tete, epaules, genoux, pieds,
genoux, pieds,
Tete, epaules, genoux, pieds,
genoux, pieds,
et les oreilles, les yeux, la bouche et le nez.
Tete, epaules, genoux, pieds,
genoux, pieds.

Y1/2 Acrostic Poems

This week Mr Sherwin's and Mrs Ford's classes have been basing all their work on the story of the very hungry caterpillar. On Wednesday they made up some great acrostic poems. Here is an example:

Creepy crawly
Amazing
Tighny caterpillar
Eater beater
Rams food down
Pritty butefly
Interesting
Lovely butefly
Long legs
Amazing maker
Recelece caterpillar
By Eve and Oliver

Lovely Easter Story by Samantha

Improving Writers

Well done King, Cole and Micah for working so hard to improve your writing.

Year 6 Learners Awarded by Bristol Rovers

A day not to forget!

Early this morning Y5/6C was involved in a science lesson which went badly wrong.

It is believed that the class was undertaking an experiment which sparked a mini explosion. This explosion unfortunately destroyed a projector, adding fuel to the fire. The blast also caused many school items such as pens, pencil cases and Nintendo Wii’s to fire out across the classroom. As a result many of the class received terrible injuries.

Obviously the class has been very upset by the incident. Mr. Condon has very kindly given the class next week off school, in order to get over the accident.