This is a very important year for year 6 children as it is their last year at Clifton Green Primary School and they will be preparing to go on to their secondary schools.  The children will be encouraged to take on more responsibilities for themselves, for instance ensuring they have their PE kit in school for games, to learn their tables and so on.  Along side this the children will be participating in activities within school, these will include serving tea and talking to the senior citizens who come to our harvest festival, showing visitors around school and showing responsibility towards the younger children in school.

Parents are encouraged to support their children within school.  This includes encouraging them to complete and hand their homework in on time, to learn their tables and listen to them read.

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Swimming               Wednesday afternoon                 £2

Half of the class will be swimming this term (letters have already been sent home for those children) and the rest of the children will be swimming in the summer term.

Earrings must be removed by the pupil for safety reasons.

PE                         PE may be indoors or outdoors, depending on the weather conditions.  Mr Reed and Mr Binns encourages the children to take responsibility for ensuring they have their PE kit in school.  The PE kit should include a pair of black shorts and a white T-shirt plus a pair of plimsolls/outdoor training shoes.

                             Earrings will have to be removed by the pupil during this lesson for safety reasons.

                             The PE lesson will be on a Monday afternoon.

Homework             The children will receive literacy homework on a Friday to be handed in on Monday morning and numeracy homework will be on a Monday to be handed in on Wednesday morning. This should take them one hour to complete and should be returned to school for marking.  This is very important for the children to do as it indicates to Mr Reed and Mr Binns whether the children have understood the past week’s lessons and enable him to flag up with any children who have misunderstood any aspect of a lesson.

Tables                   It is very important for the children to learn their tables.  This will help them with all aspects of their numeracy work.  Those children who do not know their tables find the lessons a lot harder and so it is in their interests to learn their tables to make their numeracy lessons easier.

Weekend Challenge
Each week we will have a Quiz
(Just to keep your brains working over the weekend !!)

The results will be published on our page the following week

Week 13 - 8th May 2009
This is the latest quiz
Entries still open
Results will be published in due course

Latest quiz

Quiz – numeracy and science

1.                   Which decimal is equivalent to 9 tenths?

a.                  0.009

b.                 0.9

c.                  9.0

2.                 Which number is 0.1 less than 4.0?

a.                  3.9

b.                 0.39

c.                  3.99

3.                 What fraction is equivalent to 0.75 ?

a.                  ¾

b.                 ½

c.                  ¼

4.                 Which set of decimals are in order, from smallest to largest?

a.  0.4, 0.43, 0.07

          b.  0.4, 0.07, 0.43

          c.  0.07, 0.4, 0.43

5.                 What is the female part of the flower called?

a.                  The carpel

b.                 The stamen

c.                  The stigma

6.                 What do the stamens do?

a.                  They attract insects

b.                 They provide food for insects

c.                  They make pollen

7.                 The movement of pollen from the stamens to the carpel is called…

a.                  pollination

b.                 germination

c.                  fertilisation

8.                 Which of these is true?

a.                  After pollination, the pollen grain travels down inside the carpel

b.                 All flowers are pollinated by insects

c.                  All flowers are pollinated by pollen from a different flower

9.                 When an ovule is fertilised, it turns into…

a.                  a bud

b.                 a leaf

c.                  a seed

10.              Which of these is correct for the life cycle for the plant?

a.                  pollination, germination, fertilisation, seed dispersal

b.                 germination, fertilisation, seed dispersal, pollination

c.                  germination, pollination, fertilisation, seed dispersal

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Answers
(written out- or e-mailed to school)- to Mr Reed .
Judges decision is final.
Last weeks answers below.

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The winner for 1st May quiz was:

Sophie Knights