After a few weeks of internet issues from our avid bloggers (it is now a weekly job for two Orcas) I will now fully update you website browsing Glemfordians.

Year 6 are hitting December running up with a solid understanding of those peskly angles and triangles. They put up with a week of dairy lea and odd songs designed to help us remember acute 90, reflex >180 and 90 degree right angles. This week we have been hunting through our eye patches for treasure ARRRRRR on four quadrant grids, reflecting skulls, boats and lizard shapes (they're a grisly bunch). Next week in maths we are doing the dreaded fractions and percentages, so I will be trying to engage the children with 20% off and 50% extra free lessons! What a deal! Year 6 children are doing fantastic work in Numeracy in particular and this is their strongest subject, constantly suprising me with extra work and determination.

In literacy we are finishing our Quirky Quests by re-writing and publishing on the web our 'choose-your-own-adventure' take on my favourite Quest 'The Hobbit'. After their previous amazing powerpoint work for their Tudor famous people, and the current 'book' animated slides - Microsoft should be hiring from the current Year 6's! This weeks homework is to write a quest saga in 50 words, and these will form a class full of entries to the young writers Mini-Sagas competition...fingers crossed... We are working really hard on our joined up handwriting (especially Callum and James) and even I am practising! For our last two christmas weeks we are going to tackle 'live aid' poetry, remembering the 'Do they know it's Christmas time?' classic TUNE.

In Topic work, most of the Year 5/6 children can describe executions of Henry's wives... but they will suprise you with their additional knowledge of the religion rollercoaster, the spanish defeat, being ill in Tudor times, how to dance like a Tudor, what the Mary Rose looked like, painting a Tudor portrait, how the Tudor rose came about and why Henry VIII was so fat/unhealthy!!

Finally I will quickly squeeze in a PE/Dance/Music update: Breaking news - Year 6 have brought gymnastics into the new century with some Parkour moves, and word is Olly Murs is after a few of their dance moves after completing their Wake and Shake to his 'Heart Skips a Beat' chooone. We all chuckle watching it, so I think we will have to make a Glemsford W&S DVD to buy, available in the stores for Christmas. Could be a bestseller!!

So, that's all for now, Oh no she Ditton (invented by them, not me),

Miss Donaldson