Last week was an extremely busy and exciting week! A huge well done to White Cloud for winning the competition overall but also to all teams for putting in the effort and great growth mindset attitude of the teams. Your traditional Kiwi cooking was really appreciated and I was impressed with your knowledge and inventions for The Perfect New Zealand Holiday, as were the Branch Manager and Assistant Branch Manager from Fred Olsen Travel Agents who judged. Will you use the Haka to unsettle future netball opponents?

This week we have our half termly Assessment Test in maths, continued past paper practice in reading, maths and grammar and spellings and preparing for our readings and guitar playing in the Easter Service on Friday. Make sure you know the equivalence chart off by heart and I will be giving you a revision guide that will be useful as a check list for maths revision over the Easter holiday. We will check that everyone knows and understands it as soon as we are back so don’t forget to work at it. The Easter holiday in Year 6 is crucial for rest, fun but also revision as you only have 3.5 weeks really, before Sats.

Homework  23/03/15

   Due in on Friday as homework will be given out on Mondays.

English

 This week’s English homework is to complete the ‘ough’ spelling challenge that will be given to you.

I would like you all to write to our peers in New Zealand too this week on the blog. I will tell you their names and I would like you to chat and ask questions. Can you strike up a friendship over the Internet?

Maths - Neolithic and Bronze Groups

Log on to our class blog and click on the web link for G Hammond. Pause the video quickly and attempt the question. After you have finished it, watch the video. I have already explained that I need you to log on and complete 10 mins for four evenings per week and a fifth 10 min session at the weekend. As a class you all agreed that 50 minutes per week broken into easy to complete chunks will make such a difference in May. Please log in your homework book which questions and which past paper you attempted and watched.

Iron Group

Please complete the above using the L6 past papers. We will allocate L6 Rising Stars pages in school for you to work through next. TTT! You are all becoming more able and knowledgeable to tackle L6 questions, well done! It will do you good to dip into the KS2 past papers as well KS3. You may find some gaps in your knowledge that you weren’t aware of and you will become more familiar with the types of questions and language used.

Please ensure that you have completed any backlog of online maths challenges, we will be checking in class.  

Blueberry cheesecake!

Class 5 Kiwi team in the final

Our judges

All over! Enjoying their efforts.

Excitedly writing to Horotiu School on the blog link!