Hatfield Woodhouse Primary School

Spring Term is going to be extremely busy Term for year 6 as we prepare for SATs. Please find attached the most recent curriculum newsletter.

YEAR 6 SPRING TERM CURRICUMLM NEWSLETTER

Last year, you may remember Year 5 taking part in a European chain reaction with 13 other countries. This weekend we received notice that the project had won the “2011 medea award.” The award was down to the outstanding partnership between the European friends, under the guidance of Dave Schrauwen (from our twin-school, Qworzo in Merksplas, Belgium)

Here is a link to the website – click to read the report and view the video.

As winners of the award, our school has been given Smart tech software worth over £1,600. WELLDONE to all who contributed to such a worthwhile project!

CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THIS YEAR’S CHAIN REACTION BLOGSPOT

Reading is a skill for life!

At Hatfield Woodhouse Primary School, we encourage children to read every night. Each class has a Read Around map with a theme or class topic. At the beginning of each week your child’s reading record and journals are checked, if they have read to an adult 3 times a week or more your child will move 1 step along the map.

At the end of term children who have completed or moved the furthest will be rewarded for their hard work with a fun activity. Last year children were rewarded with a Technology Day, Sports and Games and a Board Games Day.

The Read Around reward for this term will be a Treasure Hunt. The children will have lots of fun reading clues and solving problems to find the treasure. The reward will be held on Tuesday 13^th December.

Please ask your child what their Read Around is?

FS2 will take part in the Read Around in the New Year.

Thank you for your continued support.

L.O: To complete your own rationing book and think about what it would have been like to experience rationing.

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L.O: To plan a victory garden

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Curricular Newsletter

We would like to say a huge thank-you to Gordon Harper for his presentation on Corporal Harper. We found his presentation very interesting and informative. We have shown a deeper interest in our WWII history topic after his entertaining visit.

Both the people of Merksplas and Hatfield Woodhouse Primary School are extremely grateful for the heroism of Corporal Harper’s valiant service. We know how hard it is to receive the Victoria Cross and for Corporal Harper to get it, that is a sign that he was, and always will be, an honoured and memorable man.

We are so proud that this noble and selfless soldier attended our humble school and had such a close connection with our community. We honour Corporal Harper’s significant sacrifice for his squad and for Merksplas’ citizens.

We would once again like to say a great big thank-you to Gordon for giving up some of his time to come and visit us and tell us this fascinating story and considering it was a tragedy, we will always remember the unfortunate death of Corporal Harper.

The correspondent team of Hatfield Woodhouse Primary and the rest of Year 6

As you may already be aware, at Hatfield Woodhouse Primary School we are working hard to Build our Learning Power. We aim to develop our pupils learning power, not just so they can complete school learning more easily and effectively, but so they will leave school with a general purpose set of habits and attitudes which will serve them well in all areas of life.

Please click on the links below to find out more about BLP and suggestions as to how you can help your child continue to Build their Learning Power whilst at home.

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Autumn Term: Literacy Targets (Africa and Australasia)

Sentence Structure and Punctuation

Writing complex sentences and using punctuation within the sentence.

Using commas to separate parts of a sentence, such as phrases, clauses or items in a list.

Using adverbs to give extra meaning to the verbs.

Autumn Term: Literacy Targets (Americas)

Sentence Structure and Punctuation

Reading through work and checking for accurate punctuation –

• Full stops
• Capital letters
• Speech marks
• Commas in a list
• Question marks
• Exclamation marks

Beginning sentences in different ways. The boy went……, He said…… His friend……

Autumn Term: Literacy Targets (Europe and Asia)

Sentence Structure and Punctuation

Use a wider range of punctuation -: ;

Thinking about the order of clauses in complex sentences

Use commas to separate clauses