Fielding Primary School and Nursery
Creative Homelearning Showcase
Please continue to bring in homelearning this week.
The showcase will be in the final week of school on Thursday 20th December. This showcase is for classes only not parents.
Gardening and Cooking Lessons
Due to staff absence, we have rescheduled 6H's G & C lessons for Wednesday 19th December
Restaurant Dream Team is an exciting, new kids TV show for a popular children’s broadcaster. The format sees two teams of 6 compete to put on the best pop-up restaurant, with two celebrity foodies mentoring and judging their efforts in the kitchen and on the restaurant floor.
The children must know each other in some capacity; for example, be from the same school or the same cooking club. We’re also happy to include extended family members or friends that attend different schools but know members within the team. Teams must be from the same school. Producers are especially interested in those with a natural flair in the kitchen or an interest in running their own restaurant.
We are looking for mixed groups of boys and girls. Three of the group members will be working on the restaurant floor, coming up with a pop up restaurant theme, welcoming and serving guests, as well as dealing with customers. The other three members will be creating their own menu and cooking to a high standard, under pressure, whilst remaining calm. It’s a demanding challenge so we’re looking for candidates who are capable of working independently in the kitchen or are confident when talking to adults and people.
Further details and application form below. Applications direct to Lion TV, closing date Friday 8th February.
The recommended submission date for High School applications is Friday 19th October 2018. The deadline is Wednesday 31st October.
Applications should be made to the admissions department of the borough in which you live, irrespective of which borough your chosen school is in. Click here to create an eAdmissions account. If you experience difficulty in submitting an online application, please visit the school office where paper forms are available.
Click here to download a High School prospectus for information about all Ealing High Schools and a list of key dates.
School outcome emails are sent during the evening of Friday 1st March 2019, you will then have until 15th March to accept or decline your offer.
Please be reminded that the payment schedule is as followings:
1st payment (deposit) due by 6th July 2018: £75.00
2nd payment due by 30th September 2018: £75.00
3rd payment due by 31st January 2019: £75.00
4th payment due by 28th February 2019: £75.00
5th payment due by 30th April 2019: £75.00
Final payment due by 31st May 2019: £65.00
Top education researchers tell us that homework has minimal impact for primary age pupils, unless it requires children to rehearse and practise. We have therefore adapted our routines to reflect this. The routines for children in this year group are as follows:
You will be able to see achievement and progress through the dictation and times tables challenge sheets going home weekly. You will also be able to witness progress through class exercise books for English and maths being sent home at least once during every term as well as at parent consultation meetings.
English H/W - Formal and Informal Writing - p27,28 & 29
Maths H/W - Worded Problems - p17 & 31
We encourage the children to read at least 5 times a week, recording each time in their reading records/planners. They should be signed by an adult at least once a week please and will also be signed by class teachers. Children must bring them in daily. The diary and organisation of this resource will prepare the child for further independence.
Please encourage them to select age appropriate books both fiction and non-fiction. Newspapers, magazines and pamphlets are also great materials to read.
The English team in school have worked hard to identify 40 appropriately challenging books for the children in Year 6. The recommended reading lists contain 40 age-appropriate books for children in Year 6 which will capture the children's imagination. The lists contain colour-bands and a description of the books so that the children are able to 'cherry-pick' their favourites according to their book-band level and their personal interests.
While it is not compulsory for the children to read these books, it is highly recommended as it will deepen your child's inference, retrieval and vocabulary skills while also strengthening their love for reading.
At the end of each half-term, teachers will award bronze, silver and gold certificates in reward assembly to pupils who have read a set number of books from their year group list AND completed a short reading response activity in their reading records (where possible).
Ideas for these short reading responses might be any one of the following;
- Describing settings and characters from the story
- Identifying possible alternative endings
- Predicting what might be in a sequel (the next book if the story was carried on)
- Summarising the story in 6 bullet points
- Writing a book review
If you have any queries or questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher.
Times Tables Rockstars is a online programme we have introduced to encourage children to have fun with multiplication facts while improving fluency, recall and speed. Children can access it in their own time on any IOS, Android or Windows device.
Times Tables Rock Stars is a carefully sequenced programme of times tables practice. This programme has very successfully boosted times tables recall speed for hundreds of thousands of pupils over the last 7 years in over 4500 schools - both primary and secondary - worldwide.
Incorrect answers are always immediately corrected in front of your child so that they start to associate the correct answer to every question. The clever code behind the scenes works out which times tables facts each child is consistently taking longer to answer and then it gradually starts to present these facts more frequently until they have mastered them. It will also ask related division questions 20% of the time in order to reinforce division facts.
No, this is to supplement the times tables challenge, giving children a fun way to practise and challenge themselves.
From June 2020, all pupils at the end of year 4 in England will take an online multiplication tables check .The national curriculum specifies that pupils at this stage should be able to recall the multiplication tables up to and including 12x12.
The check aims to support pupils to master multiplication skills, which are essential for future success in mathematics. It will help to identify pupils who have not yet mastered this mathematical concept, so additional support can be provided.
Log in here: https://ttrockstars.com/login, use your child'd details that came home at the end of the Summer Term, lost them? Speak to your child's class teacher.
Our next book is Hansel and Gretel. We will be exploring narrative writing and the description of settings. The grammar skills we will be looking at are: integrating dialogue into narrative, cohesion within writing and sentence structure.
We are looking at calculations, including factors, common factors, multiples, squared and cubed numbers and prime numbers. We will also continue to look at multi step problems.
Science
This half term we will explore the topic of: Living Things and their Habitats. This will include describing how living things are classified into broad groups and according to their characteristics.
We will be completing some previous SATS papers in class, beginning with a SPAG assessment on 6th December, Reading paper on the 7th and Maths papers on the following week.
This will give us an opportunity to assess what pupils are currently able to do and plan accordingly for the coming term.