Goldfinch
Hello Goldfinch Class and your families,
Wow. Weren't we lucky to have such amazing weather over half term. It certainly makes lock down a lot easier when we can get out into our gardens or go for walks and bike rides. So many of you were able to send in your work last week. Well done to you all; check out the Goldfinch Showcase slideshow below.
This week will be busy in school getting everything ready to welcome the Year 6 back into school on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th. We are lucky that we'll be able to space out between Chaffinch and Goldfinch class and use the Chaffinch garden so it will be safer for us all. Not everyone in Goldfinch class will be able to come into school for the two days so we will continue to set all the work on the website (below) but Mrs Wirth or Mrs Williams will be able to help you and answer your questions if you do come into school. We'll be having lots of PSHE and P4C in school and be getting out into the sunshine if this great weather holds on. Of course, you can still send work in by email and we will respond to these on Wednesday to Fridays when I'm not in school. I will still check the email at the end of each day in case Y5 have any queries.
I'm pleased to see that we now have 6 Rock Legends in Goldfinch class ( and a Y5 has managed to take the lead for the first time - hope you're still all getting enough vitamin D!) as well as another 5 Rock Stars. The best part is that everyone has improved their response speeds since starting to use TTRS - that's fantastic. I have set up a new tournament between the Y5 and the Y6: let the battle begin!
Stay safe, do your best and enjoy the time with your families. We can't wait to start seeing some of the Y6 children from the 8th June.
Mrs Wirth, Mrs Stangroom and the Goldfinch team.
Goldfinch Home Learning Summer Week Beginning 1st June 2020
Goldfinch Home Learning Summer Week Beginning 18th May 2020
Goldfinch Home Learning Showcase WC 11/5/2020
Goldfinch Home Learning Summer Week Beginning 11th May 2020
Goldfinch Learning Showcase - see our wonderful home learning.
Goldfinch Home Learning Summer Week Beginning 4th May 2020
Goldfinch Home Learning Showcase: The children were set the task of investigating, designing and building replica iron age round houses. Their projects needed to be able to support a 1kg weight, protect against 200ml of water and hold up against a 30 second blast from a hairdryer or fan. We think their projects look fantastic.
Goldfinch Home Learning Summer Week Beginning 27th April 2020
Goldfinch Home Learning Summer Week Beginning 20 April 2020
Goldfinch Easter Holidays Project: Have a go at this media project if you're looking for something to do over Easter.
Puple Mash Update: Goldfinch pupils can now use the 2Simple 2Email function to contact me and other children in your year group. It is a safe environment for you to contact each other. You can only 'email' children in your own year goup and I will be able to monitor all messages including deleted emails. Click the Computing icon followed by the 2Email icon.
Goldfinch Home Learning Week Beginning Monday 30th March 2020
Goldfinch Home Learning - Week Beginning Monday 23rd March 2020.
Keeping Healthy: Smoky Sue helped us to learn about the dangers of cigarette smoking. Just look at how much tar was collected from one cigarette!
How and why is oxygen transported around the body? We were creative in the way we presented our research to help our explanation writing .
Year 6 SATs meeting for parents - discussion notes.
Come Dine with Me: Ancient Greece. For this DT project, the children researched the food that would have been eaten by the ancient Greeks, before planning and considering the health benefits of their own ancient Greek menus. The whole school smelt delicious with the mouth watering aromas that came from the children's kitchen. But, it is certain that the best part was tasting and evaluating each other's menus. Some of us even went on the investigate contemporary Michelin chefs from Athens who have added a a modern twist to Greek cooking.
Learn to Earn. Today we welcomed Mrs Hagan-Grenfell to our class to talk about her role as a regional director for Barclays. She shared lots of the skills she needs on a daily basis when working with her team and her customers; we were able to think about how we are learning to develop these skills in school.
Ancient Greece Family Learning Event. November 2019. It was lovely to see so many parents working alongside their children to find out more about Ancient Greece. The children's Greek Myth inspired dances were very entertaining.
Greek Myths and Legends Presentations
Goldfinch Class Meeting with Parents - notes from the meeting.
Year 5 and 6 Spelling List
DT Project: Making moving mechanisms with cams. It was very industrious in Goldfinch class today.
Investigating Air Resistance. We asked the question: What variables affect the effectiveness of a parachute? We investigated a range of variables such as the area, shape and material of different parachutes. We thought about fair testing and ensuring our data was reliable.
We visited Winchester Planetarium and Science Museum as part of our science topic about space.
Goldfinch Home Learning
The following timetable will help you plan your home learning over the week and give you an idea of the expectations in Goldfinch class.
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Weekend |
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At least15 mins reading |
At least15 mins reading
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At least15 mins reading |
At least15 mins reading |
At least15 mins reading |
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5-10 mins times tables practice |
5-10 mins times tables practice
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5-10 mins times tables practice |
5-10 mins times tables practice |
5-10 mins times tables practice |
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5-10 mins spelling practice |
5-10 mins spelling practice
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5-10 mins spelling practice |
5-10 mins spelling practice |
5-10 mins spelling practice |
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Your choice from list:
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Your choice from list:
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Your choice from list:
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Your choice from list:
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Your choice from list:
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English and Maths Homework due |
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Spelling Journals needed in school |
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Homework choices
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English – set on Thursday and due the next Thursday
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Maths - set on Thursday and due the next Thursday
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Spelling is set on Thursday but should be practiced little and often. Your spelling journals are needed every Thursday.
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Reading – a question is set every Friday but reading should happen every day. Your Reading Records are needed every Friday.
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After school Activity eg Guides, football, swimming, chess etc
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Completing work from class ( not always applicable)
SATs Meeting for Parents: Wednesday 6th February 2019 in Goldfinch Class
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. What a busy time we have had in the past few weeks. We're sure that you are all ready for a relaxing break and spending some precious time with your families. Thank you so much for all the generous Christmas cards and gifts which were all very much appreciated.
We look forward to welcoming our new teacher on the Goldfinch team, Mrs Osmond, who has met with Mrs Wirth to plan our learning for next term. Follow the link to find out what we will be covering next term.
Goldfinch Ho Ho Ho Home Learning for the Holidays
Maths: we used our knowledge of place value to divide 4 digit numbers. The concrete apparatus helped us to understand the maths behind the equation.
Maths: we used Dienes to help us visualise what happens when we multiply 2-digit numbers together:
Preparing for our Acts of Remembrance
Autumn Colours - Artwork inspired by Andy Goldsworthy
Views of Mount Fuji - October 3rd 2018
Science: What variables may affect the rate of dissolving? We came up with a list of variables which may affect dissolving: type of liquid, temperature of liquid, amount of solid, amount of liquid, type of container etc.
Goldfinch Class Parent Information Meeting Notes
Move Up Morning: this morning we had to work in teams to figure out how we could use a pencil and a trundle wheel to work out the height of the trees at the park. How would you do it? ( As an added bonus we were treated to a flyover by the Red Arrows.)
'Dino-Week': We continued our celebration of all things dinosaur with our Family Learning event. We scaled up dinosaur footprints; I think everyone was astounded at the size of an ultrasaurus footprint and we worked our memories hard to remember all the details from the Mesozoic era.
Dino-Scientists at the Natural History Museum
What better way to get rid of pre-SATs nerves than with a spot of Desk Yoga and then hot buttered toast?
#SATSDetox: To wind down from our SATs this week, we started a new painted stones movement. Check out 'The Finchstones' on Facebook.
Useful SATs Revision guides and Quizes
Click here to see our Summer Term Curriculum Overview:
Easter Home Learning and Year 6 Revision Activities
Science: How does the circulatory system work?
We answered this question by acting out the circulatory system. Some of us were the heart, lungs, muscles, brain and digestive tract. The rest of us were blood cells transporting oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nutrients around the body.
Could you memorise the circulatory system in a minute?
We played Memory Tag in teams to complete a drawing of the circulatory system. We worked in a relay to memorise sections of the original diagram with only one minute each to remember and draw what we had seen. It was quite a challenge but we all felt we had really paid a lot of attention to the original diagram and had to work well as a team to complete our own versions.
Hello Goldfinch Class.
We hope that you've had some fantastic fun in the snow over the last couple of days. Did any of you manage to make a World Book Day inspired snowman. If you did, don't forget to post a photo of it on my post on the school's Facebook page.
Just in case you want to come inside and warm up at any point, Mrs Gan and I have some home learning for you to look at, including the spelling activities that you should have had in school on Thursday.
Year 6: make use of the extra time to get ahead with some pages in your SATs revision books.
Year 5: what can you learn about Roman numerals?
Keep warm and stay safe. See you on Monday.