The fantastic week that was...

So as you ALL no doubt know, last week Year 6 finally got to perform their Production. The entire cohort really rose to the occasion and gave us one of the best Productions ever. I was really proud of Room 26 for a number of reasons: 1. They all knew their lines; 2. They delivered the lines with clarity and expression and they remembered to face the audience when speaking; 3. They supported each other and worked as a team, whether setting up, packing up, moving props on and off stage or bringing in costumes for others. A special mention must go out to Rebecca Shen. Sadly, Rebecca had a temperature and was just too ill to perform, However, she still found the time to pop in and lend William B her rabbit onesy. Also AJ... without any real prep time, she took over Rebecca's role on stage and delivered her lines perfectly. So well done.

I was in the wings and so have a few rather bad Production pictures. If any of you have any good ones, please send them in. 

In Maths last week we looked at how to find percentages, we also did a separate session on how to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000. IMPORTANT: please remember that the children should not learn, 'add a zero when multiplying by 10 and take it off when dividing' etc...

eg. 2.5 x 10

If you simply add a zero, you end up with 2.50.. the SAME number!

Rather, we are teaching them, if you multiply by 10, 100, 1000, you move all of the digits one place to the left 1 space, 2 spaces or 3 spaces.. and similarly for division, you move all of the digits, to the right, 1, 2 or 3 spaces... Once again, place value understanding is paramount for this..

This is explained very clearly here. Please watch with your child and discuss.

This week, we shall be focusing on getting our display ready for next week's science expo. So lots of explanation and report writing and, hopefully, some time to get out and do some experiments that capture the children's imaginations. Basically, I shall try to link reading and writing and some aspects of Maths to the science expo prep. work.

Zones Cross Country

Probably the muddiest zones XC for some time. The children were encouraged to run barefooted as those that wore shoes ran the risk of losing them in the mud or, more rather obviously, be weighed down by sodden footwear. Anyhow, Amity Drake came 2nd in the Year 6 girls' race.. a stellar effort and our teams overall had more higher placed athletes than any other school.. we managed 2 second and 1 third placed team.. So we shall be continuing with running club to the end of the year. 

Once again, I would like to thank all you hard working parents for your continued support. We always have so many volunteers to help out at sports events and we had heaps for Production too. So good on you. I hope your children appreciate all you do for them.

Roll on week 8...