Mrs Holmes’ Class

Mrs Giles’ and Mrs Holmes’ class updates 16/11/16

Dear parents and carers,
We can’t believe how hard the children have been working to answer their Victorian research questions! We have learnt so many new things. Did you know the Victorians liked to eat almond soup? Or that boys wore dresses until they were seven? Or that Isambard Kingdom Brunel narrowly avoided drowning after part of a tunnel he was working in flooded in 1828? We are really hoping you can come and visit our Great Exhibition on Wednesday 30th November, 1.15-2.45pm in the school hall. Please invite other family members and friends who may be interested. It is a great opportunity for the children to showcase all of their hard work.

History homework (40 mins research) is due in tomorrow as well as all decorated dividers. Many of the children have been using their lunch times to make sure they do not have too much to do tonight!

Children have been working in history teams based on their chosen topics and have all decided on one thing they would like to create or make individually to contribute towards their team’s display. We have spoken to all of the children individually to discuss their ideas and have asked them to share them with you to see if you agree. We are willing to sort out resources and open up the classrooms in the lunch hours to help them with any ongoing projects but this will also take the place of all homework for the next two weeks so we would be grateful if they could spend some time on it at home too. Final products need to be brought into school on Monday 28th November.

The children have also been invited to dress up for the day but we have told them that they do not need to buy anything new. They have been shown lots of pictures to give them ideas and we have offered to help with any bits they made need. Please let us know if we can help in any way. The children may want to bring in some costumes for filming next week depending on the focus of their movie.

We have now finished the majority of researching so are moving onto writing scripts for our iMovies which will also been shown at the Great Exhibition. The children will be using a variety of apps such as morpho, green screen, tellagami and I can Animate to bring all of their learning to life. Teams will then be editing and improving their work to make an iMovie using the iMacs. As you can imagine, they are very excited!

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information.
Thank-you for your continued support,

Mrs Giles and Mrs Holmes

Update Mrs Holmes, Miss Golland and Mrs Greer

Update 16.10.16 for Mrs Holmes’, Mrs Greer’s and Miss Golland’s classes.

Literacy homework this week is to complete an activity from the front of the Reading Journal.

There is no maths homework this week as the children have history homework to complete. The children should still be practising their rainbow maths targets and using mathletics too. We are really looking forward to seeing the children’s sources of evidence work tomorrow.

Following our Victorian focus visits last week, we would like the children to carefully consider which area of Victorian life they would like to study after half term. Once decided, it would be great if they could try to find some resources to support their learning- maybe visiting the libraries, finding some useful websites (they had training this week from Mr Lane on how to see how reliable a website is) or maybe going to the Guernsey Folk Museum again to take some photos. Please do not let them do any specific research as we will be doing this in class but encourage them to choose an area which really interests them. In literacy this week, we shall be writing recounts of our trip to the Folk Museum- these will be sent as thank-you letters to Mr Morris. We learnt so many things and realised how different life was for the Victorians.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you require any further information,

Year 6 team