Flixton Primary SchoolTalk Topics
These are topics that are linked to what we are learning about in school. They are designed as a 'way in' for you to chat about your child's learning with them. They might form a quick 30 second chat or develop into something bigger, depending upon your and your child's interests.
Monday 16th March
What are the advantages and disadvantages of different materials for what they're used for at home?
What cohesive devices do you notice in your reading?
What examples of printing can you find?
Monday 9th March
What have you learnt about the Anglo Saxon and Viking struggle for the Kingdom of England?
Can you name some clothes in your wardrobe in French?
Can you explain how to multiply a fraction by an integer? (eg 1/3 x 5, or 2/5 x 6)
Monday 2nd March
Which songs are you practising on your clarinet?
What persuasive techniques can you think of?
Look at different materials and what they're used for in your home (and why)
Monday 24th February
Talk about the sol fa hand symbols and practise them.
Discuss what you've learnt about road safety.
Discuss our Islamic(workshops (after Tues).
We have completed the Y5/6 spelling list so no new words will come home. Keep practising those you don't know as we will continue to test them. We will remind the children how to set up their own lists on Spelling Shed next week.
Monday 17th February
Talk about what you'll be doing for your sponsored event on Thurs.
Discuss what you've learnt so far about online safety.
Talk about how to make the notes shown on the sheet music for clarinet.
Monday 3rd February
What do you need to practise on your clarinet over the holiday (D and E, 3 tunes, tonguing)?
What examples of battery operated lights can you spot?
Can you count up and back in different fraction amounts?
Monday 27th January
Explain equivalent fractions.
Discuss our 'tremendous terminology' (dismantling, reassembling).
Should Alex be sent to Port Tallon? Discuss!
Monday 20th January
Please ask your child:
How would you multiply - eg- 23x17?
Examples:
44 x 32 OR 43 x 13
1200+120+80+8 =1408
What do you notice about the land use nearby to where you live?
What battery operated lights do you have around the house?
Are there any you could bring in to share with the class?
Monday 13th January
Please ask your child:
- What is the embouchure for playing the clarinet?
- How do you write a De:de sentence?
- What strategies can you think of for mental + and -?
(e.g. - partitioning, near doubles, round and adjust, find the difference)
Monday 6th January
Please ask your child to talk about:
(1) e safety.
(2) New Year's resolutions and whether there are any to do with school.
Monday 9th December -
Ask your child to talk to you about:
1) Which unit of work have you enjoyed most this term and why?
2) What did you enjoy about The Demon Headmaster and would you like to read other books by Gillian Cross?
3) Where do you see graphs in everyday life?
This is our last Talk Topic until Jan.
Monday 2nd December -
Ask your child to talk to you about:
1. Mental division. There is an example below of how you might think about it:
2. Practice the difference in there, their & they're.
3. What did you learn in our unit on Earth and Space and what would you still like to find out?
Monday 25th November -
Please ask your child to tell you about:
- What is your DT puppet going to be like? (Also - please start to collect any additional items you want to bring from home.)
- What ways can we keep ourself safe online?
- What do we know about road safety and the Green Cross Code?
Monday 18th November -
Please ask your child to tell you about:
- Observe the moon and talk about the different phases.
- Talk about what an Anglo Saxon settlement was like.
- Explain 'short multiplication'. (Example below)
Monday 11th November -
Please ask your child to tell you about:
- (From Tuesday) what you wrote about for your Pobble Day.
- French months and days of the week.
- What do you know about Greenland?
Monday 4th November -
Please ask your child to tell you about:
- noun, www, sentences. Where do the commas go?
- what you now know about Antarctica that you didn't know before.
- why do we have day and night and different time zones?
Monday 28th October -
Please ask your child to tell you about:
- What do the characters in the Demon Headmaster look like and how might you show this in a puppet?
- Explain the meaning of these homophones:which, witch, whose, who's, there, their, they're, your, you're.
- Have a look at the moon over the next few weeks. What do you notice?
Monday 14th October -
Please ask your child to tell you about:
- The Demon Headmaster story so far.
- Draw a bar model & describe it in a maths sentence. (There are some photos in the Autumn term section of our class page from our Monday lesson to help you with this.)
- The skills that you have learnt in lacrosse.
Monday 7th October -
Please ask your child to tell you about:
- How speech is punctuated. (Look in some books at home.)
- Why the Anglo Saxons came to Britain.
- Ice formations.
Monday 30th September -
Please ask your child to tell you about:
- Which animals you would like to see at the zoo...in French.
- What different methods can you use to mentally add and subtract numbers?
- Name all the planets in the Solar System in order.
Monday 23rd September -
Please ask your child to tell you about:
- What an O.(I.) sentence is (and how to punctuate it!).
- What they've learnt in swimming so far.
- Their random acts of kindness.
Monday 16th September -
Ask your child to talk to you about:
- The helio- and geo- centric models of Earth and Space.
- Sensible rules for safe internet use.
- What they know so far about the Anglo Saxons and Vikings.
Monday 9th September -
Ask your child to talk to you about:
- Place value to millions, including decimals.
- 'The more..., the more' sentence type.
- Lacrosse