Well done!

Well done to everyone leading the Liturgy at mass this morning.
Well done also to all the children in the choir and to all of you who came to celebrate the first Sunday of Advent!

Look at our Jesse Tree!

Today we welcomed the season of Advent to Holy Souls. This is our prayer focus with our Jesse tree...

What's happening next week?

As always in year 6 it is going to be another busy week next week.

We start the week as we always do with RE.
As it is the beginning of Advent our lesson will be linked to that. We will be looking at 2 parables and how they help us to prepare and be ready.
What can you remember about parables?




In maths we continue with data handling. You will also be assessed this week as we will complete a past SATs paper.

DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT DAY!!!

Friday 28th Novemeber is 'Do something different day' at school. It is a time when we stop and think about Advent and what we can do in order to prepare for it.
Remember that you need to wear purple. We hope you enjoy the day.

Literacy - SPOOCS gadgets!!!!

In Literacy this week you will get the opportunity to work in your ghosthunting groups to design and write about a gadget that you use to ghosthunt!!!
 

When you have designed and labelled your gadget you will then have to explain what it looks like and how it works. So get your thinking caps on!!!!
 

Maths for the coming week

How did you get on with averages?
Can you remember how to find the Mean, Mode, Median and range?
Next week we are continuing to handle data through interpreting charts.
How many different types of charts can you remember?

This link will refresh your memory and give you the opportunity to play some games in preparation for next week.
Enjoy :)

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/data.htm#Graphs


       

RE for the coming week

On Tuesday 25th November we will be looking at the Archdiocese of Birmingham.
What do you know about our Archdiocese already?
Who is the Archbishop?
St Chad's is known as the Mother church, why is this?
Follow the link below to help you to find out as much as you can before Tuesday.
http://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/

 

Coming up in RE

We will be finding out about MARTYRS. Do you know what this means? This definition will help.


http://dictionary.kids.net.au/word/martyr


We will be understanding the lives of the English Martyrs. Can you name any? These links will help us find information.


Thomas Moore

http://youtu.be/khkx5pe2cTI

Video about John Fisher and Sir Thomas More:
http://youtu.be/XQeRBDFcOHo

Video about John Fisher:

http://youtu.be/X37mj7a7T7s

Video about Nicolas Owen:

http://youtu.be/hk-UXIAL1GQ

Non- Chronological reports

                                          This week in Literacy we will be writing....

                          Non-Chronological reports about the ghosts in Tudor House.
                                                     Which ghost will you describe?
                                  Can remember what is on our SUCCESS approach?

Coming up in Maths

We will be looking at reading scales accurately and converting currency. Look at the link!

                                                
                                                    http://www.ictgames.com/weight.html

In RE this week...

In RE this week we will think about the structure of the Catholic Church?

What is the Church?

Who is the leader of it on Earth?

What is our role?

Coming up in Literacy

We will be role playing what happened in Tudor House on that unsuccessful night. What happened?

We will then be writing an email ( recount) to a good friend of ours!!

This link is a good reminder of how we write a letter and recount:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/letters/read/4/

Maths

This is a good recap on the maths work we did on SHAPE.


Look at this link to help you. Last week some of us were confused by the number of parallel lines in different polygons. Use this link to create them and count the sets of parallel lines.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/polygons-interactive.html