We have all been given logins for our homework platform, SATs Companion.  This weekend we need to log in and save the website in our 'favourites', as well as trying a practise task. 

Next week is our residential trip to Norfolk Lakes.  Mrs Forshaw and Mrs Ryder will be in the outside classroom on Monday morning at 8.30am ready to collect any medications.

We wish you all a restful weekend and look forward to seeing everyone on Monday ready for our trip!

Mrs Purser and Mrs Walker

The most important piece of homework for you to do this weekend is to get lots of rest!  We have a very busy week ahead, and we need you all to be full of energy, enthusiasm and stamina!

In the 'Get Ahead' Transition booklet please complete the Geography tasks and bring your work into school next Wednesday to share.

Next Thursday afternoon is Enterprise - make sure you have any resources from home you will need in order to run your stall successfully.

Next week is Science week. Please can you all bring in a range of different sized milk/ fizzy drink bottles which we can use for our Science Investigation - please bring in as many as you can on Monday morning.

Remember to check which ingredients you need for making your Healthy Wrap and bring all your ingredients to school on Wednesday (the children have brought home a letter with all the ingredients they need).

We have attached some Year 7 Mini Knowledge Organisers which you will be using when you move to Year 7.  It would be a great idea to print these at home and begin to learn some of the terminology so that you feel confident for the start of next term.

In addition, the Hinchingbrooke 'Get Ahead Booklet' contains activities which you are being asked to complete over the summer.  To help manage this work, we are suggesting an activity for you to complete each week, and we will spend time in class discussing the work the following week.  This week, please have a go at the tasks in the History section of the booklet and then bring this work to school next Wednesday.  We suggest completing the work on paper and then organising it in a folder under different subject headings.  

Buckden's Got Talent!

The school is having a fun event in the last week of this term to celebrate the wider talents of the children in our school. If your child would like to take part we would love to see their act. They can choose to do an individual piece or join up with others in their year group to perform. You will receive an email shortly with details of our year group audition time.

One act from each year group will be selected to perform in the whole school show.

The children have been given costume ideas today and a copy of these are attached below.  Please think about your costume over the holiday and bring it into school (named and in a bag which can be kept on your peg) on Monday 24th June.

There are no tasks set on SATs Companion, but please do have a go at practice tasks at home, to ensure you keep your skills fresh and are ready for Year 7.

There is no homework set for you on SATs Companion this week - but you are very welcome to go on and try some practise tasks - why not try some Science activities?  Instead of learning spellings this week, please learn the words for the song, 'Just Another Day'.  The backing track is attached below.

In order to support our revision for the SATs Tests in May, we are sending home some Maths and English booklets where there are short tasks for you to complete over the holidays.  Try to spend 10 minutes on Maths and 10 minutes on English every day, and bring your completed booklets back to school on Monday 15th April.  Please don't worry if you find some questions tricky - we will talk through all the questions when we return to school.  A few minutes each day is the best revision technique rather than completing the whole booklet in one go.

We are also sending home some spelling vocabulary for you to revise.  Use the techniques we practise in school, such as 'rainbow write', 'waterfall words', 'capital and lower case', 'words in a sentence' or 'look, cover, write, check'.  Why not get someone to test you at the start of the holiday and then at the end to see how many more words you know after some revision?

For those children who were absent today, or for any children who have misplaced their homework booklets, please find them all attached below.  Thank you for your support in encouraging your child to complete their homework.

We wish you all a very Happy Easter break.

Mrs Purser and Mrs Walker

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday: martial, spatial, partial, essential, substantial, potential, influential, confidential, sequential, torrential.

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday: official, superficial, special, social, racial, crucial, antisocial, artificial, facial, beneficial.

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday: environment, secretary, jewellery, explanatory, company, desperate, definitely, poisonous, reference, temperature.

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday 26th February: easel, restaurant, pyjamas, veranda, ballet, blizzard, hoist, bungalow, gymkhana, origin.

Remember to read every day with three sessions in the week reading aloud to an adult.  We will be checking your progress against your AR Target next Friday.

If you would like to find and print any images to use in your balanced argument (linked to your topic), please bring them into school by next Wednesday.  A maximum of 3 images each, all smaller than 8x8cm.

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday:  dissatisfied, dissimilar, unsure, unnatural, overseas, overrule, disappointed, unnecessary, overreact, impatient.

Share your Discussion Writing Question with an adult at home and talk through your initial ideas.

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday: nuisance, hindrance, sacrifice, certificate, celebrate, necessary, prejudice, cemetery, deceased, December.

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday: smoulder, mould, thrown, blown, window, shallow, poultry, shoulder, known, soul.

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday: produce, impact, transport, object, contest, subject, silence, increase, freeze, permit.

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday: plentiful, fearful, beautiful, merciful, faithful, boastful, doubtful, thankful, fanciful, pitiful.

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday: overbalance, overturned, overcoat, overthrow, overcook, overpaid, overslept, overreact, overtired, overlooked.

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday: rhyme, identify, multiply, occupy, apply, hyphen, recycle, hygiene, python, supply.

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday: system, antonym, symbol, mystery, lyrics, oxygen, rhythm, symptom, typical, crystal.

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday: community, desperate, excellent, attached, hindrance, mischievous, physical, restaurant, sufficient, yacht.

Ensure you can spell this week's spelling words, and are ready for our quiz on Monday:  communicate, definite, exaggerate, appreciate, harrass, marvellous, persuade, relevant, stomach, vehicle.

There are a number of children who are not remembering to bring their PE kit to school and are therefore not able to take part fully in PE lessons.  Please ensure PE kits are brought into school every Monday, and they will be sent home on a Friday.

Next Tuesday, as part of our work in History, we plan to walk up to the War Memorial in the village.  Please ensure you have a suitable coat for the weather.

Please bring in any wallpaper we may have at home as we need these for the Art project we are doing this term.  

We have given out Times Tables Rockstars login reminders today, so you are free to log in at home to complete challenges and improve your multiplication and division skills.

Your spellings this week are: category, correspond, environment, amateur, frequently, language, occur, queue, signature, twelfth.  Please ensure you know these and are ready for our quiz on the Monday back after half term.

Over the holiday, remember to read each day and be ready to take a quiz on at least one book when we return to school on Monday 30th October.

Have a lovely half-term.

Mrs Purser and Mrs Walker

Your spellings this week were:  achieve, programme, secretary, bargain, controversy, disastrous, temperature, foreign, interfere, nuisance.  Make sure you know these and are ready to be quizzed on them on Monday.

This week in school, we have spoken to the children about entering the BBC 500 Words Writing Competition.  Information is included in the Weekly Newsletter - please encourage your child to enter and send in any stories to school where we will share them.

We look forward to seeing lots of you at the Jubilee Juniors Parkrun at 9am on Sunday - remember to bring your barcode and wear your school PE t-shirt.

Our spellings for this week are:  accommodate, muscle, prejudice, available, competition, determined, rhyme, suggest, existence, identity.  Please ensure you know these ready for a quiz on Monday.

Remember to read for at least 20 minutes every day and read to an adult on at least 3 of these occasions.  Your reading will be monitored through the quizzes you take and pass on AR.

Please ensure that you have a blue ink pen in your pencil case on Monday!

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Purser and Mrs Walker