Welcome to Kingfisher Class!

Welcome to Kingfisher Class 2018/2019 🙂

Miss Smith and I (Miss Carter) are so excited to spend Year 6 with the children, especially after I had such a fantastic year with them in Year 5. We have enjoyed spending the last two weeks of term with the children, and have had a brilliant time which I’m certain will continue next year.

Have a brilliant summer and enjoy your well deserved break.

Bring on Year 6, it’s going to be amazing!

Miss Carter & Miss Smith

W/C 12/03/2018

Over this term the focus will be on helping the children thoroughly prepare for SATs

English – In English we will be continuing with our biographical writing,

Maths – Our focus in maths will be the areas our mock SATs have shown need some recapping, such as fractions, measuring volume etc..

Reading – We will be focusing on how to retrieve information in a text and answer questions based on this.

The following link has some good online comprehension for the children to try at home.

https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/reading/index.htm

Each week the children will be bringing home some SATs papers to go through to aid their preparations.  It would be much appreciated if you could ensure they try to complete these, as we will be going through them each Thursday.

Your support at home is invaluable and it is really helping your children to make continued progressed.  Many thanks 🙂

Next Week – W/C 26/02/2018

Over this term the focus will be on helping the children thoroughly prepare for SATs

English – In English we will be continuing with our biographical writing,

Maths – Our focus in maths will be the areas our mock SATs have shown need some recapping, such as fractions, measuring volume etc..

Reading – We will be focusing on how to retrieve information in a text and answer questions based on this.

Science – In Science we will be looking at the functions of the heart.

Each week the children will be bringing home some SATs papers to go through to aid their preparations.  It would be much appreciated if you could ensure they try to complete these, as we will be going through them each Thursday.

Your support at home is invaluable and it is really helping your children to make continued progressed.  Many thanks 🙂

Tesco Bags of Help – School Reading Books

We are very excited to have been shortlisted for the following scheme to raise funds for the federation’s libraries, during the month of March.  Vote for us to win the top prize in store! 

Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 – all raised from the 5p bag levy – being awarded to local community projects.

Bags of Help offers community groups and projects across the UK a share of revenue generated from the 5p charge levied on single-use carrier bags. The public will now vote in store during March- April, on who should receive the £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 awards.

www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp

The stores where you can vote are:

3179     Sheerness       ME12 1RH        
5003    Sittingbourne Express   ME10 1BQ        
6835    Sittingbourne Express   ME10 4SG        

We look forward to being able to share the progress with you.  Happy voting!

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to Term 4!

This term our topic of ‘Japan’ is continuing for the first few weeks.  We will then move onto our topic of ‘We are not amused’, which will focus on the Victorians.

Our English lessons for this term will be looking at biographies, poetry and descriptive writing.

In Maths we will be focusing on lots of revision of all topics, to prepare the children for the upcoming SATs next term.

In Science we will be completing our ‘Animals including Humans’ topic, before moving on to ‘Electricity’.

The children are making fantastic progress and continuing to work hard.  Keep up the good work and many thanks for the continued support from home.

Mrs Bower & Miss Smith 🙂 

Science

The children had lots of fun this afternoon investigating how the heart pumps blood around the body.  They created their own version of the heart and tested how the veins and arteries work.

Week beginning 15th January 2018

This week the children will be learning about decimals and how to use these using the four operations.  In Literacy we will be continuing to research Japan and begin finalising our fact files.  For Science we shall be looking at the circulatory system and how the heart is important to our body.

We will be starting music sessions to prepare ourselves for Young Voices on 6th February.  We will also be learning how to count in Japanese.

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to Term 3!

We look forward to another exciting term.  Please find attached the newsletter and homework grid for the term.

Many thanks 🙂 

Term 3

Christmas wish & Term 3 Homework Grid

A very Merry Christmas to you all.  Please ensure that you have a restful break and spend time making fantastic memories.  There is no expectation of homework over the holiday as from Term 3 the children will be working very hard preparing for SATs.  The homework grid is attached ready for next year.

Term 3 Homework

Bedtime Reading With Santa

A huge thanks to all the parents and carers that attended our bedtime reading session yesterday evening. It was lovely to see all of you sharing stories and enjoying Santa’s story at the end.

We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and are able to share many more stories with one another! 🙂 

Online Safety!

Yesterday Year 5 and 6 were lucky enough to watch a performance about Online Safety. It was a play about Jamie and Serena, and how they got themselves into some sticky situations online. The children helped to sort out their problems. Some of our lovely parents joined us for the performance too and they also found it very useful. We will definitely make sure we are staying safe online and learn from Jamie and Serena’s mistakes! 🙂

Next Week – W/C 06.11.17

English – We will be using the poems about the Blitz from last week to inform a descriptive piece of writing.

Maths – We will be looking into the order of operations in maths problems and beginning our fraction unit of work.

RE –  We will be beginning to look at Judaism.

Topic –  We will be continuing to investigate World War II, with a particular focus on The Blitz

Blitz Poems

The class have produced some wonderful poems about the ‘Blitz’.  Here are some for your enjoyment:

Short Poem of The Blitz by Charlie Porter

Complete silence, to a screaming classroom,

a normal day, to sudden death.

I was above a book, now under the table,

from peace in a city, to war in a battlefield.

Bombs blowing up, destroying houses to kill,

from slow walking, to fast running.

Guns firing, killing the innocent,

soldiers marching, breaching well made defences.

From normal and ragged clothes, to army uniforms,

from normal people, to horrible monsters.

When will the air raid end?

Blitz Poem By Reggie Oliver

Ear piercing bombs scream towards the ground,

loud sirens growing, people feel unsafe now.

Searching spotlights scan the sky,

looking for the enemy flying sky high.

Frantic families head down,

searching for cover in the underground.

Some of the families are frozen in fear,

others are holding their painful ears.

Crying children diving for cover,

evacuated evacuees having never-ending nightmares in their bed.

Pumpkin Carving

It was wonderful to see so many parents arrive for the pumpkin carving activity.  The children and parents all looked like they thoroughly enjoyed themselves.  Thank you for showing your support.

Black History Month

The children took part in a whole school writing activity on the last day of term, which was linked to ‘Black History Month’.  Each child was given the opportunity to investigate inventors of black ethnicity and create a report on one or more of them.

Gemma Acott’s conclusion is a fitting way to end a wonderful report:

“All of these inventors were amazing.  It doesn’t matter if you’ve got black, brown, olive or white skin. All individuals are special in their own way.  You can make a massive difference to society.  People in this world should all be treated with respect.  Equal doesn’t mean we all have to be the same.  Each of us is different so we should embrace this.  Each of us should be treated with respect and dignity and treat others in the same way.  Stay truthful and embrace differences so that the world isn’t the same.”

During the last week of term the children showed that they have an acceptance of others through the learning and discussions that took place.  We should all be very proud of the future generation and the attitude and outlook they have shown.  Well done to all of Year 6! 🙂

Homework Grid

Here is the homework for next term.  Have a wonderful half term and we will see you ready for the next one on Monday 30th October 2017. 🙂

Term 2 Homework

Spellings to practise at home from Year 1 to Year 6 (1)

Lego Challenge – 19.10.17

On Thursday 19th October, Arif (Y5) and Findley (Y6) were joined by two children from West Minster Primary School to participate in the Lego Challenge final, at BAE Systems in Rochester. They had won the previous challenge day held at Rose Street the week before, granting them a place in the final.

The children were given a design brief to design a castle fit for a king. The brief specified that it had to have:

• A doorway large enough for two knights on horseback to enter.
• Narrow windows all around for archers
• A pleasing design
• A drawbridge or gate

The children drew some fantastic to scale drawings and worked brilliantly as a team to create their model. Unfortunately, they didn’t win but we couldn’t be prouder of them and what a fantastic job they did at representing the Sheerness West Federation! 🙂

Christmas Cards

This year we are participating in a Christmas Card art project.  All the children in the school have had the opportunity to design their own Christmas cards that you may purchase to be able to send the ultimate personalised Season Greeting.

The cards were handed out by class teachers last Friday and the deadline for ordering is Monday October 16th.  The cards will then go off for printing and be back in time for sending to all for Christmas.

The school will receive £1 for every pack of cards ordered.  The money will go towards buying some playground toys and equipment.  We hope to raise lots!! Here are some of examples of some of the amazing artwork that was created from Nursery to Year 6.

Next Week – W/C 18/09/2017

English –  In English we will be continuing to look at our text for the term and writing a letter to Lucy’s siblings to plead with them to listen to her regarding her discovery.  Lucy’s brother, Peter and sister, Susan do not believe her about Narnia and to make matters worse, Edmund, who has been with her has lied about it, making out that Lucy is pretending it exists.

Maths – In Maths we will be looking at addition and subtraction and moving onto multiplication towards the end of the week.

Topic –  This week we will discover a little more about rationing and will create a ‘Dig for Victory’ poster.

Science – This week our focus will be inheritance.  The children will find out about the traits that they inherit from their biological parents, such as eye colour.

Reminder – Swimming is on Tuesday afternoon, all the children enjoyed the first session last week. 🙂

Roald Dahl Day

We challenged the school to have a go at writing their own class ‘Revolting Rhyme’ today, to celebrate the work of Roald Dahl.  I am extremely proud to share what the class managed to create.  The class created two poems.  The first is a version of the story ‘Goldilocks and The Three Bears’.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

This is our own revolting rhyme,

It won’t take up a lot of your time.

As Goldilocks was walking through the bitter woods,

She realised she had forgotten all her goods.

Deeper in the woods she found,

A large house half underground.

She ventured in and found a treat,

That she already wanted to eat.

Across the room were cookies with choc chips,

But then she was thinking of a quick kip.

The first cookie was far too hot,

She already wanted to eat a lot.

The second cookie was too cold,

And she thought she saw some mould.

The third cookie was just too ordinary,

It tasted like there was no dairy.

She thought the first cookie made my day,

It was the best one I would say.

She ate the lot the greedy pig,

Except one she saved under her wig.

Now her lazy legs were aching,

And she didn’t feel like baking.

So she sat on the first chair,

Then started to curl her hair.

But the first chair wasn’t too comfy,

It was a bit hard and lumpy.

The second chair was soggy and soft,

It smelt like it had been in the loft.

The third chair was by far the best,

Now she could finally get some rest.

It started to creak and started to crack,

Suddenly she hit the floor with a SMACK!

The chair was now a pile of rubble,

 Goldilocks was not bothered about the trouble.

She then crept up the spiral stairs,

Then turned left into the cosy lair.

In front of her were the wooden bunks,

Surrounded by piles of smelly junk.

She landed on the first bed with a great jump,

But didn’t expect to find a lump.

The second bed was far too soft,

“Not good enough for me!” Goldilocks scoffed.

The third bed was simply splendid,

After all it had just been mended.

She settled off into a peaceful snooze,

Dreaming of fancy clothes and shoes.

Unaware to her that downstairs,

Arriving home were the unsuspecting bears.

Annoyed that their cookies were now just crumbs,

Then furious they had nowhere to rest their bums,

They ventured upstairs angry, cross and red,

To find a stranger sleeping in their bed!

Goldilocks woke to an earth shattering ROAR!

Then was greeted by the bears at the door.

She darted out the window as fast as she could,

Scarpering into the deep, dark wood.

This is the end of our revolting rhyme,

We hope it didn’t take up too much time.

The second rhyme, was based on the bears getting their revenge.  Special credit to Daisy T. & Casey for the idea and to Daisy T for her creative writing skills to start the poem off.

Bears Revenge

You know the story of Goldilocks, do you not?

Well let me tell you the REAL plot!

It’s slightly more gruesome and slightly more gory,

So here goes the real story…

Oh look there’s Goldilocks,

Entering in the cottage in her pink frock,

In the dusty, old kitchen she notices three bowls,

Of odd tasting porridge all warm, hot and cold.

The rest of the story you probably know,

So let’s skip a bit, here we go…

Baby Bear comes in and says

“She ate our porridge, she broke our chairs.”

“Now she’s sleeping in our bed upstairs!”

The bears start to consider a revenge plan,

So they start to telephone the whole bear clan.

Sadly not all could attend,

But six suddenly strolled round the bend.

Into Goldilock’s house they walked,

They ate all the porridge but none of them talked.

When Goldilocks returned and noticed her porridge had vanished,

Out of her lovely home she banished.

To find out who had committed the crime,

Not knowing the peckish bears were not far behind…

Feeling contented the bears yawned,

Not happy to sleep on the wet front lawn.

They scanned the room with their beady stares,

Until one spotted six comfy armchairs.

Some were too big and some were too small,

Not every bear could fit in them all.

For some however the chairs were just right,

So they settled down for a comfy night.

Unknown to the bears the chairs were not strong,

So their slumber didn’t continue for long.

The bears’ bodies were too heavy and big,

The fragile chairs snapped like a twig!

Furious that they had been awoken,

Now their dreams had been broken.

The grizzly bears stormed up the stairs,

Then noticed three beds perfect for bears.

The first bed was solid so out the window it flew,

The second too soft so they gave it a chew.

The last bed was perfect, soft and just right,

So the bears left a smelly surprise, what a whiffy delight!

Goldilocks came home after a tiring night,

Exhausted of searching for the little blight.

Whole stole her porridge and ate it so fast?

When she entered her home she was aghast!

The bears suddenly awoke surprised,

“She’s home she’s home!” all of the bears cried.

They slowly tip toed down the stairs,

To find Goldilocks staring at her damaged chairs.

“What have you done to my beautiful house?”

Thundered Goldilocks now not as quiet as a mouse.

Turn on the taps and fill up the sink,

I have an awesome idea – I think!

Ill drown this girl, yes that’s nice

We’ll finally make her pay the price.

They shoved her head in and down it plunged,

Covering the washing-up sponge.

It didn’t work, alas she was alive,

How on earth could she survive?

They had one last fool proof idea,

One that goldilocks would fear.

The bears gobbled her up with one big crunch,

That kept them full ‘til way past lunch,

Flossing blonde hair from their jaw,

Goldilocks was now no more.