Hello Year 6, Wow Year 6 you’ve all had another very busy week. We love receiving all the pictures and lovely emails that you send us. It’s been great to see so many of you commemorating VE day last week with your family. You are definitely becoming wonderful bakers. We have been sent pic-tures of a scrumptious looking pineapple upside down cake, beautifully decorated VE Day celebra-tory cupcakes and many more tantalizing treats. The British Bake Off had better watch out for our talented bakers of Y6. We’ve seen some great work on Robots this week—We loved the video of a Lego Robot being made and then seeing it zoom off into the distance and watching a rather groovy, mechanical robot being programmed to play music, flash its lights and strut its moves on the dance floor. Wonderful! This week’s whole school theme is Healthy Lives Don’t forget to send us photographs of your work as it really brightens up our day. Keep working hard and playing hard!

Maths WEEK 5

• Some of you are getting on really well with Oak Academy so please continue to access it for your maths lesson. Choose the year group that suits you best.

Year 6: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6#schedule

Year 5: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-5#schedule

Year 4: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-4#schedule

• Your Arithmetic books are probably nearly finished. Keep ticking a page off each day as it is all good revision on arithmetic methods. Let me know if anything is confusing for you and I can try to help over email.

• There are still plenty of activities on MyMaths so please do one new homework activity each day. Remember to look at the lesson if you are finding the work challenging.

• One more new resource: Take a look at White Rose Maths, using the link below. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ YOU DO NOT NEED TO DO ALL OF THE ABOVE. WE ARE JUST GIVING YOU LOTS OF RESOURCES TO TRY AND FIND THE ONE/S THAT WORK BEST FOR YOU. Times Tables Hooray! Yippee! Celebrations and jubilations!!! You DID it Year 6! You beat Year 5! Very very well done. They are an incredibly good team on TTRockstars and are very hard to beat. But you did it! I am ecstatic… can you tell??! Final scores were 44,057 year 6; 43, 210 year 5. This weeks battle will be back to 6M v 6H. Let’s get you all on there again please. Keep calm and get on TT Rock Stars! Mrs Melhuish

English Reading KEEP READING!!!! It is so lovely to hear that so many of you are really enjoying snuggling up with a good book. ‘The Beast of Buckingham Palace’ by David Walliams is his most epic adventure yet and it is seems to be a favourite with lots of you. Writing Let the creative juices keep flowing Y6! This week you are continuing to write your own portal story. We have read some of your plans al-ready and we are gripped! We are going to continue to use Talk4writing to help inspire you all with

your story. You can again access the topic we are working through here - https://www.talk4writing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Y6-Unit.pdf Doors—the World of Possibility. Continue to look at Session 10 on page 16 to help you. Remember to punctuate your work carefully and correctly. Please remember to include – . , ! ‘ “ ” Remember to ‘SHOW NOT TELL’ the reader how the character is feeling: His heart froze and his stomach turned to ice; She gasped, jumping backwards instinctively.

Keep checking over your work carefully to make sure that it makes sense. Read it aloud to yourself first like you always do at school. If it doesn’t make sense to you then it won’t make sense to your reader. These ideas will hopefully continue to help you. 1. Describe the portal in intricate detail. 2. Think about what lies on the other side of the door. 3. ‘Magpie’ ideas from other great writers and work you have previously done at school. 4. We want you to ENJOY writing your story. Keep writing with passion! If you love writing it then your audience will love reading it. We really look forward to reading them.

Spelling We are basing our weekly spelling tasks on Spelling Frame (Year5/6).

This week: word list year 5 and 6—g to le These are the next 12 words from the tricky words list. Hopefully you got on well with the words

we set you last week. If you’re finding the spellings quite tricky then please access a year 5 list. Choose the first set on the section and work hard at learning those. It really doesn’t matter which ones you work on—it

will all help you get better at spelling.

This week’s year 6 spelling list. Government guarantee harass hindrance identity immediate immediately individual Interfere interrupt language leisure Monday/Tuesday - Spelling Tiles - Choose from these activities to help you to learn the spellings for this week. Wednesday— Choose a game to play with these words Thursday - Practice - Choose to practise the spellings on your list Friday – Test - Choose to take a test. If you don’t get them all right, perhaps have another go.

Enjoy your work on ‘Healthy Lives’. One of you could be the future Joe Wicks! Are you exercising every day? We think lots of you could make a playlist of songs to make you happy — you could dance around your home to them and make a dance routine. Hope you have fun this week , Mrs Tang, Mrs Melhuish and Mr Haslock

Year 6 Extra: We would like to put together a list of books recommended by Year 6. There is nothing quite like a good book that grabs your attention and you find that you cannot put it down. Mrs Tang, myself and all the other female teachers at school are all part of a Book Club. We meet up once every half term at someone’s house and have a lovely evening catching up with each other. We always choose a book that we are all going to read and then we can talk about the book the next time we have our Book Club. We have even had 2 Book Clubs on Zoom! We ALL love , love, love reading. So your extra challenge this week, Year 6, is to email me or Mrs Tang with the name of your absolute favourite book ( and its author) that you have read in the last year please. We will share this list with you next week.

Staying Active

GoNoodle Recommendations:

(1) Believer - Recommended by Ava C & Harriet (2) Roar - Recommended by Ava C & Harriet (3)Fresh Prince - Harriet

(4) Footloose ( I just had to pop this one in again) (5) Lines and Angles (6) Get Energised

Please send any recommendations to: jmosley@robertmiles.notts.sch.uk I’d love to hear from you

Weekly Fun Challenge:

Choose your favourite sports day activity and practice it throughout the week. Can you improve your score or time?

Notts School Games

This week’s sports theme is Orienteering. There are some fun activities to do both inside and out. Have a go and see

how you get on. Remember, each Friday there is a virtual competition to enter. All entries must be in by 9.00am on

Friday. Details are on this link Notts School Games.

RMJS Virtual Sports Day

Wednesday 20th May 2020

We are so excited to be holding our first ever Virtual Sports Day on Wednesday 20th May 2020. We are

hoping it will be an exciting morning filled with fun activities for you to enjoy in your own home or garden.

The format will be simple. Put on a t-shirt to represent your house (red, yellow, green or blue) and grab

a bottle of water. There will be 20 exercises to complete. Each exercise will take no more than one minute.

You will gain either 5, 10 or 15 points depending on the number of repetitions or time taken. Work your

way through the exercises and record your scores. An exercise and score sheet can be found here. Don’t

worry if you can’t print it; just record your scores on a piece of paper. Maybe you could compete against

another family member if you are feeling extra competitive! When you have completed all the activities,

total your scores and send them to Mr Gilbey. He will be sending a text and an email with the link on Tues-

day after school. We would love to see any photos of you taking part - please send them to Mrs Mosley, Mr

Gilbey or your class teacher.

Finally, a huge well done to Jasmine, Ava, Harriet, Rory, James and Adam whose ideas helped shape our

sports day. They all receive a gold star worth 10 house points - well done!