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Hi all,

During the Summer holidays, the nrich maths website are producing a challenge a day. These aren’t compulsory (you don’t have to do them); they are optional (you can choose to do them if you want). Have a look at them here:

https://nrich.maths.org/summer-primary-posters

Following this week’s visits by Coombeshead Academy staff to talk with our children about their transition to Coombeshead, we have managed to arrange visits from Newton Abbot College staff next week. Claire Cowan, KS3 Raising Achievement leader, will visit us on Wednesday and Thursday (8th & 9th July) with one of their Heads of House, to discuss transition with groups of children who attend our school on those days. Mr Hankin

Hi all,

It was great to meet Mrs Coulson and Mr Emanuel from Coombeshead Academy this week – we all said how it helped us know lots more about going to secondary school. They answered loads of our questions and made us feel excited about going to Coombeshead. They told us about the Induction day which will take place online this year, due to our current Covid situation. Future Coombeshead students will need to be ready to go online at 10am tomorrow – that’s Wednesday 1st July at 10am. They think it should last until lunchtime. You can just watch or you can join in at some points during the session. There are lots of important people to meet so enjoy it!

If your parents/carers can’t find the email from Coombeshead which was sent yesterday, you can follow the link here:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MWFmYTA4ZjEtZmIxZi00ODkwLWFjNDYtM2E5OTE5MmI2Zjhm%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%220c36f116-41e2-4d31-a0d6-699ae4627098%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%225120110d-8880-4ddb-a40b-9c636427d803%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d

If you can’t follow it, copy and paste it into your address bar, like we did in class over the last couple of days. This is a really important part of the transition process so make sure you are ready just before 10am on Wednesday – that’s TOMORROW!

Mr Hankin

Hi Parents/Carers – I hope you are well.

We have managed to arrange a Question and Answer session via Zoom with the Station Youth Centre in Newton Abbot. It will take place during your child’s day in school of the week commencing 22^nd June and will give the opportunity to ask any questions about the transition to secondary school. In order for this to happen, you will need to give your consent by filling out an online form here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKLFgVlAvNzrj8STFo9FcLbmltR7DT3FEFjGLETT10qw_3iQ/viewform

The event should really help kick off our efforts to invest in the process of transition and all of the benefits this will bring your child.

Graeme Hankin

Year 6 teacher

First of all – thank you! Thanks for making our first week back together so enjoyable. I had a great time seeing you all again and it sounds like you had a decent time too seeing your friends in school and having a bit of a laugh – oh and doing some learning too! Thank you for following the social distancing rules – I know it can be difficult but you did a great job of sitting apart in class, trying hard to not touch your face and washing your hands thoroughly before and after every transition. It’s tough, I know, but you did it! As a result, you kept yourself and others safe, so thank you and well done!

Thank you again for the attitude to learning you brought to school with you. It’s been tricky being away from school for 10 weeks so you’re bound to forget some things. It was such a great experience for me this week, seeing you lot as great learners recognise where your understanding was a little rusty, then face up to that challenge and accept the fact that you got something wrong and tell yourself that you noted the mistake and didn’t want to let it happen again. That’s what brilliant learners do! You are brilliant learners!

Whichever day you were in school this week with your small group, you did the same learning as the other children who came into school on different days. Home learning activities are the same for you all too. They are as follows:

Maths – the calculation sheet I handed out

Science – Animal classification profiles for two animals of your choice – just like the ones we looked at in class. Kingdom, phylum, class, order etc

History – research education and learning in Ancient Greece

Reading – The First News crossword and comprehension you were given.

Four learning activities for four remote learning days out of school. All of the remote learning opportunities were practised during your contact day in school then you took the activities home in a plastic wallet. Please make sure you have a go at them and bring them in with you next week on your contact day in school. If any parents of the small number of children who didn’t come in, would like a home learning pack for their child, just get in touch via telephone or email with our Office Team. There have been a couple of requests so far and I have made sure the learning pack was ready at the office when the parent/carer pulled up outside.

So enjoy the remote learning activities, have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you again next week. Look after each other and keep yourselves safe,

Mr Hankin