Next week, will be our last at primary school with a mixture or fun activities involving art, preparation for leavers' assembly and then a sad farewell on the last day.  Well done leavers of 2024.  You've been amazing and Keyingham really hopes you pop in to see us again to let us know how you're getting on.

How do I estimate volume and capacity? What techniques can I use in Drama activities to help my voice be clearer? What will I learn and find out on our STEM trip? What is it like to be a teenager and do magazines make us think we should act a certain way when we are a teenager? Are there any main differences between the eight planets in our solar system? How could I persuade a Roman Emperor to put an end to slavery?

Our 'Flash Back 4' questions were...

Today: What is the difference between VOLUME and CAPACITY?

This/last week: Which civilisation influenced the Romans beliefs of gods and goddesses?

This term: What are the two types of satellites you can get in a planet’s orbit?

Last term: What is the difference between a ‘Biome’ and a ‘Climate Zone’?

Next week we will be asking....

What skills do we need to help us count through zero in ones and multiples? How do you find the difference between negative and positive numbers? Can I improve my speech in drama by learning my lines? What is it like to be an astronaut and live in space? What skills do I need to learn how to play a number of new sports? Can I improve the melody of my hip hop track? Can I design and make a mechanism that can lift a toy car?

Our spelling rule next week will be ‘s’ including words such as …..

announce, correspond, desperate, mischievous, necessary, precede, principal, principle, proceed, pronunciation

Our Graduate Award that we are working towards is …..

Maths - Pythagoras

year 6 have also been discussing and demonstrating their understanding of fundamental British values.

REMEMBER: PE is every Monday and Tuesday

Next week, all of our work on the climate in Geography will continue with us considering how we are the guardians of this world.  Our understanding of the cold war and the space race will also continue.  More big questions will be asked about the meaning of life according to Judaism.  Our science will continue to look at chemistry and what happens when chemical reactions occur.  We're also looking forward to finally getting a bit of summer sunshine, enjoying PE outside and refining our performance for the school play.

Next week the children will be completing their narrative work on a modern day retelling of MacBeth.  We will be looking at climate across the world in greater depth.  Our history work on Power, Empire and Democracy will start to look at the space race in the context of the Cold War.  Religion and world views will continue to ask that big questions of what is the purpose of life according to different viewpoints?  The children will also continue to develop their artistic drawing skills and programming those new micro:bits.

Next week we will be continuing with all of the topics we have started so far.  Our writing will continue on MacBeth.  More work on climates around the world, Democracy, Power and Empire in history will also come up.  Computing is a new topic that involves programming micro:bits to perform a variety of functions.  The days are busy but it’s good preparation for next year.

Next week, we’re looking forward to our trip to Driffield for the food and farming day (let’s hope the weather is kind to us). Going forward from this point, we’ll be continuing our work on the functions of the human body, asking those big questions about life’s purpose according to different faiths and beginning to look at the climate across the world.  Have a safe and restful weekend everyone.

Next week, we will be doing our SATs tests.  We have worked incredibly hard all year and are excited to both show off everything we have learned and also to get them done.  We will be having a SATs breakfast every morning to fuel us up for the day (children wishing to have something will need to be here when the gates open at 8:30). We are looking forward to the next dance session for our musical production and also to making full use of our school field now it has finally dried out enough to play on.  Bring on the summer.

Next week, we will be revising a wide variety of grammatical terms in preparation for our SATs tests and practising our different reading skills such as retrieve, infer, predict and summarise. In maths we will look at a variety of skills relating to data.  RE will focus on beliefs of life after death in the context of Islam.  In science, we will explore all the different ways that we can keep ourselves healthy.

The spelling pattern for next week involves use of homophones and includes: morning, mourning, past, passed, principle, principal, profit, prophet.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

Next week, we will be revising a wide variety of grammatical terms in preparation for our SATs tests and practising our different reading skills such as retrieve, infer, predict and summarise.  In maths we will explore a variety of geometry based topics such as measuring and drawing.  In History we will be asking what happened to migrants to Britain after the war.  Science will be an investigation in to the effect of exercise on our heart rates.  We will also be exploring Christian beliefs about life after death and continuing our Jigsaw work on Healthy Me.

The spelling pattern for next week involves use of homophones and includes: advice, advise, device, devise, farther, father, guessed, guest, heard, herd.

Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

Next week, we will be finishing our work on co-ordinates and solving problems.We will also be adding an exciting ending to our narratives.  We will be extending our understanding on the purpose of life in the context of different faiths.  In History, we will be asking about the effects of migration to the UK in the post war period.  Science will focus on the blood vessels of the circulatory system.

The spelling pattern for next week is the sound ‘sh’ and will involve words like cautious, fictitious, instruction, initial, definition, duration, infectious, negotiation, malicious.
 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

Next week, we will be studying co-ordinates in maths and writing some more of our narrative.  In History we will be asking what made the British Empire decline, continuing with our performance and again looking at the functions of the human body (specifically the heart and the circulatory system).

The spelling pattern for next is the sound ‘s’ and will include words like restaurant, necessary, secretary, specific, harass and incision.

Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

PE days are Monday's (Outside) and Wednesday's (inside Dance).

 Next week we will be asking… How useful are statistics?  How do we write effective reports?  What are the reasons for forced migration?  Can we use spreadsheets effectively for different purposes?  If there is no divine plan, what is life’s purpose?  What are microorganisms?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘e’ and includes words like:  agenda, explanation, jealousy, ambivalent, explanation, jeopardy.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

 Next week we will be asking… What makes a good biography, can we calculate area, perimeter and volume of different shapes, what are push and pull factors in migration?  Can we use excel to perform complex calculations for us? Who was Nietzche?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘sh’ and includes words like:explanation, essential, social, misshapen, pronunciation, partial, ambitious, foolishness, confidential.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

Next week we will be asking… how do we write effective biographies?  What is area and perimeter? Who was Socrates and what were some of his teachings? What are push and pull factors in migration?Can we format spreadsheets to make the cells work for us?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘sh’ and includes words like: explanation, essential, social, misshapen, pronunciation, partial, ambitious, foolishness, confidential.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

Next week we will be asking… Can we convert between fractions, decimals and percentages?  What is effective persuasion?  Why do people migrate? Can we use spreadsheets effectively? Who was Plato?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘ch’ and includes words like:mischievous, natural, furniture, adventure, fetch, nature, picture, ditch, creature, structure, signature, cello.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

In the first week back after half term we will be asking… what do philosophers teach us about life’s purpose? How do we classify living things? What is migration?  Are percentages easy to work with?  What is displacement in Art? 

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘z’ and includes words like: represent, who’s, fuse, disastrous, whose, bruise, recognise, physical.

Year 6 have also been working hard on their handwriting and are taking great pride in their written work.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

Next week we will be asking… how do we structure non-chronological reports? Is Algebra becoming more trickyto understand?  Why did the Vikings come to Britain?  How do Hindus celebrate Diwali and Holi?  How does the eye work?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘w’ and includes words like: twelve, consequences, language, wondrous, frequently, equalise.

Year 6 have also been working hard on their handwriting and are taking great pride in their written work.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

 Next week we will be asking…how much fun is algebra to understand? Why did the Vikings come to Britain?  How does the River Ganges create a sense of spiritual community? How do we communicate around the world? What are visual impairments?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘t’ and includes words like: restaurant, vegetable, constant, relative, equipped, yacht, monitor, walked, variety, construct, select, doubtless.

Year 6 have also been working hard on their handwriting and are taking great pride in their written work.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

 Next week we will be asking… how do we write effective flashbacks in narrative? Can we solve problems using ratio? What were the Vikings craftsmen and traders in? How do we communicate and collaborate online?  What role does the river Ganges play in a spiritual community? How does colour vision work?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘s’ and includes words like: nuisance, sword, practise, responsible, persuade, license, practice, criticise.

Year 6 have also been working hard on their handwriting and are taking great pride in their written work.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

 Next week we will be asking… how do we write effective flashbacks in narrative? What is ratio? What are data packets?  What did the Vikings believe? How do shadows work?  How do Hindus celebrate Holi?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘r’ and includes words like:profession, thorough, trend, wrecked, programme, tractor, irregular, embarrass.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

When asked, it won’t come as a surprise, that the children’s favourite memories this term are dominated by their trip to Peat Rigg where abseiling, stream walking and rock climbing were all tried - some more successfully than others. One child said, “The stream walking was fun, but freezing!”

As thoughts turn to the Christmas break, Lie-ins seem to be one of the things people are most excited about, as well as opening presents and spending time with the people that mean the most to them.

Next term they are looking forward to more Maths, more DT and continuing to use the tools in forest school.

Merry Christmas from everyone in Year 6!

 Next week we will be asking… Are religion and science in conflict? What is evolution? How big is the Pacific Garbage patch? How do we write interesting blogs? What sort of character was Scrooge? How tricky are decimal numbers to understand?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘l’ and includes words like:relevant, marvellous, serial, ethical, shoulder, bridle, cereal, internal, especially.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

Next week we will be asking… how do we write effective character description? Do we understand metric and imperial measurements? What does Pope Francis believe about genesis? What’s the problem with plastic?  How beautiful is our singing?  Can we write our own blog?  What are evolutionary biologists?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘k’ and includes words like: vehicle, prospect, public, stomach, occupy, frequently, aquatic, wreck, construction

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

Next week we will be asking… Can we write clear instructions?  Can we convert between metric measures? What can we learn about evolution from fossils?  Can we write our own blog?  What are the impacts of climate change? How does science explain the origins of the universe?  How do artists use the environment?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘j’ and includes words like:strategy, jealous, adjacent, digest.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

 Next week we will be asking…are we ready for the challenge of our outdoor and adventurous activities?  The children are looking forward to their year 6 residential at Peat Rigg.  I’m sure they’ll have a great time, grow in confidence and learn a whole new set of skills.

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘er’ and includes words like: desert, dessert, heard, herd, determined, favourite, government.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

Next week we will be asking…Do we have variation within the same species? How do we adapt to climate change? Can we effectively describe an imaginary world?  Can we multiply and divide fractions?  Can we create text based adventures using coding?  Are religion and science in conflict?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘er’ and includes words like: desert, dessert, heard, herd, determined, favourite, government.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

 In the first week after half term we will be asking…Can we master the art of fractions? Are religion and science in conflict?  Can we use recycled materials in Art?  How have animals and plants adapted?  Can we use dialogue in narrative?  Do we understand how user input can be used in a program?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘air’ and includes words like: aware, therefore, dictionary, secretary, compare, whereas, necessary.

Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

 Next week we will be asking…How does electricity come in to our homes?  What is the significance of the resurrection for Christians? What are the features of a non-chronological report? What skills show good body control in gymnastics and how important are positions in team games? Are fractions easy to work with?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘ue’ which includes spellings such as: beautiful, individual, accurate, cue, queue, opportunity, annual.

 Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

 Next week we will be asking…can we use flowcharts and control simulations whilst coding?  Is the world designed? Can we create parallel circuits? What are the features of a non-chronological report? What skills show good body control in gymnastics and how important are positions in team games? Do we know the order of operations(BODMAS)?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘oe’ which includes spellings such as: donate, component, notice, groan, evolution, prohibited, tomatoes.

Children are free to work on whichever graduate award takes their interest.

What did the Anglo-Saxons make and trade?

Can we plan and make a program which has a timer and a score?

What are the features of a good biography? 

Do we know any notes on the recorder?

What are the features of a good biography?

What skills show good body control in gymnastics?

Next week we will be asking:

Why did Jesus have to die (salvation)?

Can street foods save us?

Can we make parallel circuits?

What do we know about the Anglo-Saxons? 

Can we solve long division confidently?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ‘o’ which includes spellings such as:

correspond, alternate, convention, solitary, foreign, octopus, contemporary, complex,

Our Graduate Award that we are working towards is the maths one (a bit of problem solving) which can be found in the homework opportunities on the school website.  The children can work on this if they wish to and receive a graduate award certificate next week.

Our PE days are:

Monday & Thursday

 Next week we will be asking…what did the Anglo-Saxons make and trade? Why did Jesus have to die?  Significance of salvation. Can we plan and make a program which has a timer and a score? What are the features of a good biography? Do we know any notes on the recorder? What are the features of a good biography?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound ie including words such as: sacrifice, diversity, variety, provide, environment, reliable, confide, eyeball, identity.

 Our Graduate Award that we are working towards is the first of the Jigsaw ones, ‘being me’ which can be found in the homework opportunities on the school website.  The children can work on this if they wish to and receive a graduate award certificate next week.

 Next week we will be asking… What are the accounts of Christ’s resurrection in Christian theology? What beliefs did the Anglo-Saxons have, can we plan and make a program which has a timer and a score?  In science, can we make series circuits? What are the features of a good biography?  How effectively can we multiply?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound including words such as: individual, epidemic, system, equipped, privilege, building, misheard.

Our Graduate Award that we are working towards is the first of the Jigsaw ones, ‘being me’ which can be found in the homework opportunities on the school website.  The children can work on this if they wish to and receive a graduate award certificate next week.

Many of the children also successfully took part in their bikeability training.

Next week we will be asking…how do we know about the Anglo-Saxons?  What’s the same and what’s different about the different gospel narratives?  What’s the different between a battery and a cell?  How long should we spend on our screens?  How confident is our arithmetic?  How do we add suspense to our writing?

Our spelling rule next week is the sound including words such as: individual, epidemic, system, equipped, privilege, building, misheard.

Our Graduate Award that we are working towards is the first of the Jigsaw ones, ‘being me’ which can be found in the homework opportunities on the school website.  The children can work on this if they wish to and receive a graduate award certificate next week.

 Next week we will be asking…Why is the resurrection significant to Christians?   Where did the Anglo-Saxons live?  What are electrical circuits and symbols? How do we stay safe online? How do we write an interesting narrative?  Do we understand place value?

 Our spelling rule next week is the sound e including words such as: category, curiosity, protein, convenience, immediately.

 Our Graduate Award that we are working towards is the first of the Jigsaw ones, ‘being me’ which can be found in the homework opportunities on the school website.  The children can work on this if they wish to and receive a graduate award certificate next week. 

This week in Year 5, we have shown courage by coming up with some very well composed answers in Reading whilst studying the lyrics of ‘Do You Hear the People Sing’ from Les Miserables.

This week in Year 5, we have shown curiosity by looking at our salt crystal investigation and discovering how we were successful in reversing the change of dissolving and creating our own salt crystals.

Next week, we are looking forward to our transition week with Mr Copley as we take a step closer to becoming Year 6.

This week in Year 5, we have shown courage by standing in front of all the other children in school and our parents/families to perform Wizard of Oz as part of our dance work this term. Even though we had nerves at times, we composed ourselves and performed admirably.

This week in Year 5, we have shown curiosity in Science by completing our unit of work on Reversible and Irreversible changes. We set up an investigation involving water, salt and food colouring to try and reverse the process of dissolving and see if we can get the salt back in the form of crystals. We have focused on the scientific enquiry skill of ‘Observing over time’ and checked on the progress each day.

Next week in Year 5 will be our final week together as a Year 5 class. We will be completing our work on Measures in Maths and exploring a song and its lyrics in our Reading lessons. Writing will look a bit different as we will be completing some grammar tasks and using the time to complete our Geography work. In the afternoons, we will be reviewing our Jigsaw work in Year 5 as well as completing a ‘Top Tips’ infographic for the new Year 5s. We will also work on an Art task to commemorate our time in Year 5 as well as a few other tasks to finish off our time in this class.

This week in Year 5, we have shown courage by learning about ‘Substitution’ as part of Algebra when two teachers from Holderness Academy came to teach us this morning. They were really impressed with our work and behaviour.

This week in Year 5, we have shown curiosity by learning how to work on 2 v 1 attacking situations in our rugby session with the coach from Hull KR. We learnt that the secondary attacker had to be behind and that the defenders job was to engage the attackers.

Next week, will be a little bit different as we have a full day of ‘Wizard of Oz’ on Tuesday as we rehearse in the morning and perform it to school in the afternoon. We also have a further two performances on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. Friday afternoon is sports day as well. So we will still be doing some Maths, Writing and Reading, but it will be a little bit different due to the other events. In Writing, we will be looking at creating a non-chronological report all about Ancient Greek Mythical Creatures. In Reading, we will be looking at a significant person from the past and in Maths we will be starting our last unit of work on converting measures.

This week in Year 5, we have shown courage by trying to complete Year 6 arithmetic tests so we are more than ready for when we move into our new class. We have all shown resilience and Mr Hebb was really pleased with our scores today.

This week in Year 5, we have shown curiosity by investigating the different strengths of magnets in Science – we even managed to link to Maths by working out the mean (average) of each magnet.

Next week, we will be continuing our narrative based on the animation ‘Ruin’ as we have really enjoyed it this week. In Reading, we will be looking at the poem ‘We are Refugees’ by Benjamin Zephaniah and we are moving onto Negative Numbers in Maths. In the afternoons, we will be working on reversible changes in Science on Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon will be spent with the rest of KS2 rehearsing Wizard of Oz and our dances. Friday will be our next rugby session in the afternoon, so don’t forget to come in your PE kit.

This week in Year 5, we have shown courage by trying our hardest in the tests. They were quite tricky because they were end of Key Stage 2 tests, but we wanted to see how we got on with the work that we will be doing when we go into Year 6.

This week in Year 5, we have shown curiosity by working in DT on our food topic: Celebrating Culture and Seasonality. We learnt how to make pitta bread and a Greek salad.

Next week, we will be starting a new piece in Writing – a narrative using an animation as a stimulus. In Reading, we will be focusing on an extract from the book ‘Wonder’ and in Maths, we are continuing our work on angles and shapes. In the afternoons, we will be starting our work on reversible and irreversible changes in Science, looking at whereabouts in the world Alexander the Great’s empire was in Geography as well as our normal Dance and Rugby sessions. 

This week in Year 5, we have shown courage by taking part in our first rugby session and some of us tried new skills whilst others, who were more confident, gave encouragement to the rest of the class.

This week in Year 5, we have shown curiosity by going on a trip to the Humber STEM event at Craven Park. We got to find out all about different types of engineering, AI, construction, power stations, bacteria and hygiene, archaeology, magic maths with Hull university and we saw Ron Dearing and learnt about 3D Printing.

Next week, we will be doing a test week and having a go at some end of KS2 tests to see how we get on. We will also be focusing our afternoons on DT and looking at making a Greek Salad and our own pitta breads. We will also be continuing our dance sessions on Tuesday afternoon and our Rugby session with Hull KR on Friday.

This week in Year 5, we have shown courage by working hard in Dalby Forest when making our shelters – we worked hard, showed resilience and learnt from our mistakes when making them. We also showed courage when we played the hide and seek game especially as we were in an unfamiliar location to what we are normally used too.

This week in Year 5, we have shown curiosity by learning all about different parts of the Farming and Food industry when we went to the show in Driffield on Tuesday. We asked lots of good questions and found out lots of new information as well as getting to see how a sheep is sheared!

Next week, you just need to have a well-earned week off and recharge before your last half term in Year 5.

This week in Year 5, we have shown courage by completing an End of Key Stage 2 SATs test on Grammar and Spelling – we gave this our best effort and then continued being courageous by working on areas that we found tricky such as Active and Passive sentences. We have also had some of our class members showing great courage as they represented our school at a swimming event and a triathlon event.

This week in Year 5, we have shown curiosity by looking at a new way of presenting our work in our Double Page Spread books – we did this by using a new contents page and completing out first piece of work in it all about Alexander the Great.

Next week, we will be having quite a different week. We will be working alongside the Year 3, 4 and 6 children on Monday as we work towards the Dance production of Wizard of Oz in the Summer 2 half-term. On Tuesday, we will be heading out with Year 6 for the day to the Driffield Food and Farm Show. On Wednesday, we are ALL going out to Dalby Forest for the day and we will be working on our shelter building skills. On Thursday and Friday we will be writing about our days out, continuing our statistics work in Maths and making Ancient Greek Theatre Masks out of clay. What a week coming up!

This week in Year 5, we have shown courage by showing resilience in lots of different subjects were we had to be responsible for working independently and producing work of a good standard.

This week in Year 5, we have shown curiosity by finding out and asking lots of questions all about Alexander the Great’s life, his empire and why he was famous. We learnt that he never lost a single battle or war in 15 years and that he liked to name places in his empire after his own name (he named around 70 places Alexandria).

Next week, we will be focusing on different Grammar and Spelling areas in our Writing sessions which will help us with our writing in general. In Reading, we will be finding out all about Helen Sharman. In Maths, we will be finishing our work on Area and Perimeter before moving onto Line Graphs. In the afternoons, we will be continuing our work on Materials in Science, Ancient Greece in History, Pilgrimage in RE, Being safe online in Jigsaw and starting our Art work looking at Ancient Greek theatre masks.

This week in Year 5, we have shown courage by all giving everything we had when working on our dance routine for our part in the Wizard of Oz show at the end of the school year. It was really nice to see everyone being courageous and trying their best without any fuss.

This week in Year 5, we have shown curiosity by learning about the religion of Buddhism and their pilgrimages. We found out that they were also known as ‘The 8 Great Places’. One of the places was were the Buddha was born: Lumbini.

Next week, we will be starting our new writing unit – a flashback story and continuing with our percentage work in Maths. In Reading, we will be looking at an extract from ‘A Girl Called Owl’ by Amy Wilson. In the afternoons, we will be working on Materials in Science, Ancient Greece in History, Relationships in Jigsaw and Pilgrimage in RE. On Friday afternoon, we are having a special afternoon dedicated to the King’s Coronation.

This week in Year 5, we have shown courage by taking part in the first dance session this week and having to perform in front of other people in our class.  We have also shown courage by having a go at a new arithmetic test and we also tried our best on the online Maths and Reading tests this week.

This week in Year 5, we have shown curiosity by delving into the lives of an Ancient Greek in our Now Press Play session and finding out about the way they lived and what happened between Athenians and Spartans.

Next week, we will continuing writing our persuasive letter to Mrs White in Writing and in Reading we will be looking at Ancient Greece. In Maths, we will be continuing our work on decimals and percentages. In the afternoons, we will be working on our next Computing unit ‘Game Creator’ which will involve using 2DIY 3D on Purple Mash. We will also be continuing our work on materials in Science, Pilgrimage in RE and Ancient Greece in History. Tuesday will also be our next Dance afternoon.

This week in Year 5, we have shown courage by taking our time to put our double-page spreads for RE together. We have used all we have learnt about five different religions, their faith founders, how they show their beliefs and where they worship. We have used a variety of different ways to display the information and tried some new ideas.

This week in Year 5, we have shown curiosity by learning how to create a concept map on Purple Mash and researching different information on the internet to help us with this. In History, we found out all about workhouses during Georgian Britain.

Next week, we will all be having a well-deserved break and enjoying the Easter holiday. This will help us recharge and be ready for the Summer Term in two weeks. Have a great holiday everyone!