Marlcliffe Y6

English:  Make your own ending for the story The Dancing Bear (see plot below).  You should make sure that you use the features of endings we learnt in class this week.

Dancing Bear plot:  Kind orphan Roxanne in mountain village, adopts abandoned bear cub - Bruno, film crew arrive, want dancing bear for film set in village, Bruno won’t dance, Roxanne sings to him & he dances, film crew hear singing & take her off to be a star.  Task:  Start the ending one year after Roxanne has been taken off to be a singing star.  In your ending, we should find out what the rest of the village is like now, after the excitement of last year; whether Roxanne has been in contact with anyone in the village; and what has happened to Bruno the bear (remember – Roxanne and Bruno have both been abandoned before!).  The ending should be set only in the village. Features of endings:  in endings, problems are solved and any loose ends tied up; sometimes your own opinion (you are the author) is implied in the mood & language. 

Maths: (Mr Brooks & Mr Shaw’s group):  Play on Coventry function wheel game on Internet: http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/851/Functionwheelv3.swf    Make own 2-step number sequences, with rule & first 10 terms.  Predict 125th term for each.

Maths: (Mr Gelsthorpe’s group) Solve the percentage problems. You should use a calculator to solve these! 

Science: Complete the sheet about vaccination and Edward Jenner. Find as many items as possible that are pasturised before they are consumed.

Year 6 Boys Football

Match Report

Tournament at Stocksbridge Junior School

Marlcliffe boys under 11’s football squad were entered into a Sheffield Tournament.  We were drawn in a very difficult group against Stocksbridge, Lound and Nethergreen.  The matches were also to be played away from home at Stocksbridge Junior School.

The behaviour of all the children representing our school was fantastic, and we were very proud of them all.

The results were as follows:

Stocksbridge  0 - 0  Marlcliffe

            Lound  0 - 1  Marlcliffe

  Nethergreen  1 - 0  Marlcliffe

The whole squad battled hard throughout the three matches. 

During the first match against Stocksbridge there was a goal mouth scramble which ended in one of our team hitting the cross bar.  We were very unlucky not to score.  Winger, Luke, made some amazing runs and crosses into the box for striker James.

The game against Lound was a great display of moving and passing resulting in an amazing goal from Reece.  Nathan and Nat held off any attacks from the opposition, feeding the ball to mid-field.

Nethergreen managed to score a goal early on in the third game, and it was then very difficult for us to get back in the game as we were playing against a brick wall defence.  Nethergreen pulled everyone back, but our team never gave up.  Leon launched some incredible throws into the box.  William gave a great performance in mid-field.

Our goal keepers Joel and Ross both gave strong performances, pulling off saves and distributed the ball well, conceding only one goal throughout the three matches.

It was very difficult to choose the player of the tournament as the whole team played extremely well together.  There is one boy however who has not been with our school very long and has settled in extremely well.  He gave is all during the tournament, passing, dribbling and showed some awesome skill defending, and that is Nat - well done 

All in all a team to be proud of, both on and off the field - well done to you all.

English:  Correct the punctuation in two texts.  Play the full stops game on the Internet at home or at Hillsborough library http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/sentencebasics/whatisasentence/flash7.shtmlMaths

SB group:  Make & investigate factor chains

Maths JG group: Continue with the questions from the sheet. All questions should be finished. Practice 6 & 12 times tables for test on Monday 22^nd October.

Maths J.G. group – Complete the questions on adding, subtracting and multiplying decimals.

Maths J.B. group –  Using a calculator’s memory functions with bracket calculations

English - Look at five different stories from own collection or at Hillsborough library.  Note down the types of openings and the build-up.