Going Bananas!

English

In our English lessons this week, we have been focusing on the present perfect tense and how it differs from the past and present tenses that we are more familiar with. Though it took a little bit to get the hang of, the children were soon able to create their own sentences using the present perfect. Once we were happy that we understood this concept, we placed ourselves into the shoes of the main character of ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’ to write thank you letters to the titular monkeys. The catch was that we had to do so using the present perfect tense. The children all did so well with this and once their initial drafts were complete, they were able to copy them out onto bananas to send to the monkeys.

Science

In Science, we have been developing our understanding of living things by building classification keys. As this can get quite complicated, we began by using photos of our classes to create a shared key that could be used to play ‘Guess Who?’. The catch was that we had to make sure that we were only using yes/no questions – which was a lot harder than it seemed! Following this, we then gave the children chance to make their own (smaller) keys in groups.The children in both classes did such a good job and created some very successful branching diagrams!

KS2 Art Competition

All children in KS2 have been invited to take part in an optional art competition to give them the opportunity to discover their inner artists! The theme of the competition is ‘Farsley through my eyes’. This means that their artwork should link to Farsley in some way, whether it’s their street, significant buildings, Sunnybank Mills, the history of Farsley, or even a happy memory. Anything goes, as long as they can explain the link! The children can create any style of artwork they wish, such as sculpture, collage, painting or even photography! The deadline for entries is Monday 29th June with winners announced on Friday 3rd July in Special Mention assembly. Entries should be labelled with the child’s name and class and given to Mrs Kenvyn. We are so excited to see what amazing creations the children can come up with!

Homework

Now that we have completed the Official Multiplication Check, we will no longer be sending specific times table homework home on a Monday. Instead, children will recieve a targeted maths activity (typically arithmetic) alongside their Friday spelling sheets. Please do encourage your children to continue to develop their times table knowledge in the meantime – it is incredibly helpful having a rapid recall of times tables in our maths lessons, as we have been discovering this week!

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Levett, Mrs Sykes and Mr Nehaul