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Reading Habits at East Tilbury Primary School
Here we are at the start of a new term and we are looking forward to another step up in your child’s reading progress and confidence. To ensure your children are reading at home, we will send out resources to help you support them. Your child should have received a new reading record and a banded reading book suited to their ability. If your child has not received either of these items, please contact your child’s class teacher. As you may know, the school also uses an online reading programme called Bug Club; we would like to take this opportunity to remind you of the ways you can help your child with their reading at home. What is Bug Club? Bug Club is a finely-levelled reading scheme, which ensures that all children can read books at exactly the right level for them. What’s more, there are online versions for every printed title and a personalised website for each child. What do the Book Band Levels mean? All school books and Bug Club books are graded into colour-coded Book Band levels, and within each level there is a carefully planned progression of books. This fine progression gives children plenty of opportunities to develop their reading skills. Using the online reading world If you have access to an internet connection, your child can enjoy reading Bug Club books online as well as in print. Each child has a unique homepage, and can log into it by following these steps: 1. Go to www.activelearnprimary.co.uk 2. Enter the login details. 3. Your child’s homepage will appear. Reading a book online Your child’s teacher will regularly allocate new books to your child according to their reading level and these books will appear on their personal homepage. By now your child should be quite used to the online environment and the process of answering quiz questions and earning ‘Bug Points’. If you haven’t already, why not ask your child to show you the books they have already read and how many rewards they have accumulated. The reader Until they are fluent readers, younger children will benefit from reading aloud to you as often as possible. By the time they are in Years 5 or 6, many children prefer to read silently to themselves. Create quiet opportunities for them to do so, but then talk to them about the book they are reading. Sharing reading When sharing a book with your child, try to take opportunities to talk about the book – before, during and after reading.
Year 6 has been amazing so far! We’ve learned loads of new things, especially in our World War II topic, which has been super interesting. We’ve also been trying out different ways to solve tricky questions, which has made learning even more fun. One of our favourite parts of the day is reading our class book, Crater Lake. It’s really exciting and keeps us guessing! In English, we’ve been writing in a new way and using some brilliant vocabulary that makes our work sound really grown-up. At the start of the year, we went to Stubbers and it was epic! We got to climb high ropes, go abseiling, and even tried double kayaking. Some of us were nervous, but we faced our fears and had a blast. The evening disco was awesome too—we danced loads and laughed with our friends. We’re already excited for the school disco coming up soon! There’s still so much to look forward to in Year 6. We can’t wait to go swimming and have our camp out on the field--it’s going to be so cool sleeping under the stars with our classmates! In music, we’ve been playing glockenspiels and learning the song Three Little Birds by Bob Marley. It’s part of our lessons for Black History Month and it’s been really fun to learn about different music and cultures. This half term, some of us were chosen to be prefects and house captains, which means we get to help out more around school. It feels great to have extra responsibilities and be role models for the younger children. We also had our first practice SATs and guess what? They weren’t as scary as we thought they’d be! We’re feeling more confident now and ready to keep working hard. We cannot wait to see what else year 6 has in store for us! Using manipulatives when learning, talking about and investigating maths is essential for helping pupils with their conceptual understanding. In school, we use manipulatives (equipment) from Reception to Y6. When doing any maths at home, what can you use to help? Scales, clocks and measuring jugs when cooking, money – coins and notes- when shopping, card games, instructions when building Lego (numbers of bricks and parts needed), the number of steps when walking to school or the park, road signs showing decreasing distances when travelling to a destination, timetables when using buses and trains, clocks and times when going on holiday. You can get a lot of maths talk when travelling; if you are flying somewhere, can you challenge your children with who can generate the most maths questions from arriving at the airport until you reach your destination? We would love to hear the questions you all created! Please let Miss Coldwells know the maths questions you all challenged each other with and the physical equipment you have used at home at the start of Autumn Half Term 2 - House Points will be given!  |
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