Top Tips for the English SATs test

Here's the link to the excellent Top Tips for the English SATs test booklet which you were given last Friday:

http://www.wimbledonpark.merton.sch.uk/download/top%20tips%20for%20SATs%20booklet.pdf

Definitely worth another look!

Useful spelling practice

Here's the link to the spelling practice activity to help you prepare for tomorrow's spelling test:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/activities_y6/activity2.shtml

You are certian to get spellings from some of these spelling families, so 20 minutes spent on this tonight would be 20 minutes well spent!

Year 6 Chiller Writing Project

Just in case you forget, here's the link to our mini-blog all about our Chiller Writing Project:

http://y6chiller.blogspot.com

Now get writing and researching ready for next week. Don't forget to send us a comment which I will do my best to add to the blog.

Computer Programming Club

Here's the link to where you can download all of the programs you will need to start programming Python at home:
http://www.manning.com/sande/installers/hello_world_setup.exe

It's a big download (27MB) so you'll need to be patient. When it finishes downloading, run it, clicking 'I agree' and 'Next' wherever you have to.

If you don't have a Windows PC then you can download a version for Linux or Mac from http://www.helloworldbook.com  (Rory - you will need the Linux version for your EeePC).

You'll then be ready to have a go at writing your own programs.

Don't forget to bring in any programs you have written!

It feels like Christmas...

It certainly will feel like Christmas next Monday - the date of the school Christmas performance of 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens (who occasionally used to hang out around Church Street in Stoke Newington by the way).

Charles Dickens

So, Year 6 have one more week to learn all of the words to the song 'It feels like Christmas'.

To help you, here's a link to the song, complete with the lyrics (words):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg55oVDXv3o

Good luck!

Leapfrog problem

See if you can get all of the frogs to their opposite lilypad:
http://www.subtangent.com/maths/ig-leapfrog.php

TIMES TABLES CHALLENGE!

Here's the link again to the times table program we will be using in Friday's Times Tables Challenge final:
http://www.markhanley.co.uk/tables/timetrial/

If you've got through qualifying to reach the final then practise! Even if you haven't then practise too! There's always next year :)

I've just spotted a bug in the program which I need to fix. Until I do that, don't press the 'START AGAIN' button in the middle of a game as it makes the countdown go haywire!

If you need to start the game again, just press 'Refresh' or the f5 key.

Good luck! And well done to all those who have taken part.

I can't wait to find out who's going to win those iPods!