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Year 3 Friday Blog 19th April 2024
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 8:20am
Welcome back to the Summer Term
It has been lovely to see everyone back from their Easter Holidays looking smart in their Summer uniforms!
Home Practice
Continue with the good regular reading practice at home. It has been lovely to see the children bringing in their own books to school and sharing them with their friends this week.
This week we have been learning how to use apostrophes for possession and how to use plural apostrophes. Your home spellings are all plural apostrophes.
boys' girls' kids' teachers' cats' children's men's mice's women's parents'
For your maths practice this week, we have set a challenge to practice the x3,x4 and x8 times tables. We have been very impressed in the improvement in speed and accuracy in your times tables over the year. Keep it up!
Practice your counting in 3, 4 and 8, forwards and back. This will help with understanding your times tables and help you to remember them. We've added your songs below.
There is also a short column addition and subtraction challenge to complete.
This week in Year 3
This week in Year 3 has been filled with exciting learning adventures!
In English, we finished our captivating journey through "Toro! Toro!" by Michael Morpurgo. We wrote some insightful book reviews that showcased our writing skills. Check out on our gallery where you can read some of our thoughts on the story!
In Maths, we delved into the fascinating world of lines, mastering the art of identifying parallel and perpendicular lines within 2D shapes. Plus, we revisited our trusty written column method, practising this important skill so we can add it to our mathematical toolkit.
Art took us on a dynamic exploration of moving pictures, igniting our creativity as we watched mesmerizing natural world videos for inspiration. Our artistry flourished as we honed our skills, ready to bring motion to our creations this half term.
In RE, we read the story of the Ascension of Jesus, delving into its significance and relevance with some thoughtful responses.
In History, our journey through ancient Egypt began with enthusiasm as we visited websites, and pooled our collective knowledge and curiosity to unearth the mysteries of this captivating civilization. Find your knowledge map below which cover some of the learning we will be meeting in the coming weeks.
In Computing, we have started our learning all about loops and how we can use these to write more efficient algorithms.
Have a super weekend
The Year 3 team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 19th April 2024
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 6:10pm
Welcome to the first blog of the Summer Term.
Home Practice
Phonics - a_e words, OR au words OR ay words.
Maths - Identifying odd and even numbers.
Counting - Count in 2s, 5s and 10s starting at different numbers, 12,22,32 and so on.
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
English
This week we have been learning through the story of 'I Want My Hat Back' by Jon Klassen. The bear kept asking: "Have you seen my hat?" to all the characters!
We have had some interesting discussions about the book and written some great sentences.
We have learnt to use different conjunctions (such as 'and' and 'because') and focused on using adjectives to describe the characters and the hat.
Phonics
Some of us have been revising the split digraphs a-e as in cake, o-e as in mole and e-e as in concrete.
Some of us have been learning the different u spellings - u in sun, oo in wood and oul in could. We have also started to look at the different or spellings - aw in paw, au in haunt, oor in door and ore in more.
Maths
We have been learning how to halve shapes and amounts. We know that each part must be equal for it to be a half. We have found halves of amounts by sharing.
R.E.
Our new piece of scripture is 'The Road to Emmaus'. We role played the story and talked about how the men were feeling when they found out that they were in Jesus' presence.
P.E.
We have started to get ready for sports day. We practised running fast, jumping and rolling a ball to each other.
Science
We made our own rain gauges to measure how much rain is falling. We will check on them on Monday and use jugs to measure the volume.
Forest School
We played a game, some of us were bees and some of us were flowers. The bees had to collect the pollen from the flowers. We also discussed how the nectar attracts the bees to the flowers.
We also took part in a stone challenge. We showed excellent team-work and perseverance when trying to balance the stones on each other.
We also took part in some child-initiated learning which involved cooking with the blossom that has been blown off the trees, building dens and inventing our own games.
We also spotted changes in the nature area, bluebells have grown, there are leaves on the trees and it's a bit less muddy!
Year 6 Blog Friday 19th April 2024
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 3:38pm
A great first week back, well done Year 6.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read for up to 30 minutes every night, this will improve the speed at which you read and your understanding of the text. If you come across any new words that you don’t understand, ask an adult or look it up in the dictionary. Building up your vocabulary knowledge is really beneficial.
Spelling
Please practise these spellings (Y3/4 Word List) for your test on Friday A sheet will go home every Thursday/Friday with the spelling list on.
Spellings (19.04.24 – 26.04.24):
important learn
increase length
interest library
island material
knowledge medicine
Maths
Counting/Number Games
Have a go at working out the distances/counting with negative numbers!
Sumdog
You have a mixed times table/division facts challenge on Sumdog to complete by Thursday 26.04.24.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
If you would like to do a bit more work on your times tables, Hit the Button is a great game to play.
Follow this link: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
We have just recently received passwords for Times Table Rock Stars which is another great way to practise your times tables.
Follow this link: https://ttrockstars.com/
Reminders
Cricket Festival Monday 29th April.
Bank Holiday Monday 6th May.
Year 6 Sports Day Friday 21st June.
In English, we wrote fantastic arguments for and against homework for children at Primary School. We gave our own good opinions and reasons for these.
In Maths, we worked on multiplying and dividing fractions.
In RE, we started the topic - Serving (this includes Pentecost). We listened to a story about a witness. Following this, we had mini-debates on the subject: Is it better not to be a witness or to be one?
In PE, we practised our cricket skills - we played mini games and put into practice some new skills we'd learnt.
In French, we completed our end of topic assessment. We demonstrated our listening, writing and reading skills linked to items of clothing/colour/description.
Year 6 Team.
Year 2 Thursday 28th March 2024
Date: 29th Mar 2024 @ 12:44pm
Welcome to your Easter Blog
Reading - try and read your school books every day over the holidays.
Thank you!
Year 5 Thursday 28th March 2024
Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 4:32pm
Welcome to your Easter Blog
We have had a brilliant last week of the Spring Term
We retold some chapters of our novel in our own words and as characters from the story. Everyone has tried to improve their presentation this week, well done Year 5!
In maths we have been revisiting the formal written method for addition and subtraction. We have been working with 4 digit numbers and remembering our place holders.
In In Science we researched the planets in our solar system and created fact files for each planet.
In DT we completed our straw house designs. They all stood up on their own and resisted some rigorous testing!
In French we learned how to ask for help at the doctors and how to describe our condition. Tres bien!
Have a fantastic Easter break and keep up the regular home reading!
The Year 5 Team
Year 6 Blog Thursday 28th March 2024
Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 3:38pm
A fantastic week, well done Year 6.
The Easter Liturgy in Church was wonderful this afternoon, you all did so well with the readings, singing and performing.
Have a great holiday and a good rest, but it's important to keep doing some home practice each day!
Home Practice:
A pack has been issued for you to work on over the Easter Holiday.
See you in the Summer Term in your summer uniform.
Year 6 Team.
Reception Blog - Thursday 28th March 2024
Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 12:51pm
Phonics
This week Mrs Stone's group learnt the long and short oo sounds. Mrs Robinson's group learnt the or and ar sounds.
Maths and Drawing Club
This week we have been completing our end of term assessments.
R.E.
We revisited the events of Holy week, including Palm Sunday and Good Friday.
We also learnt about Easter Sunday.
Understanding the World
We learnt about the life cycle of a caterpillar.
Physical Development
This week we started to learn the dance for the Dance from the Heart show in June.
Expressive Arts and Design
This week we made our own Easter cards.
We hope you all have a fantastic Easter holiday and we will see you all on Monday 15th April in your Summer uniforms.
The Reception Team
Year 4 Blog Thursday 28th March 2024
Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 8:51am
Welcome to the last blog of the Spring term
As it is the Easter holiday, we have not set any Home Practice / Sumdog challenges. However, please keep reading every day – this really is the key to unlocking your learning.
In English, we learnt what a pronoun is and its purpose in a sentence (pronouns are words which are used instead of a noun). We then used pronouns in our own work - replacing nouns with appropriate pronouns ensuring that the sentence still made sense.
In Maths, we learnt how to double a number with ones and tenths. This was trickier when we needed to exchange ten tenths for a one!
In RE, we used words and pictures to describe Holy Week and produced a beautiful piece of work in our books which we are very proud of.
As it is Holy Week, we were also lucky enough to have a visit from Father Michael. He reminded us about some of the events of Holy Week and told us about the Mass of Chrism he was attending during the week. We also went to church on Thursday afternoon for an Easter Liturgy beautifully led by Year 6.
Well done for a brilliant term Year 4!
We look forward to seeing you all again on Monday 15th April in your Summer uniforms.
Make sure you relax and enjoy spending time with your family and friends over the Easter holiday.
Have a fabulous Easter
The Year 4 team
Year 3 Thursday 28th March 2024
Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 8:13am
Welcome to your Year 3 blog!
This week we continued reading our novel Toro, Toro, written by Michael Morpurgo. We wrote some brilliant recounts of the bullfight and tried to use emotional vocabulary to describe how Anonito was feeling. We also read Ferdinand the Bull, a classic story from Spain about a reluctant bullfighting bull. We watched the film and talked about the similarities and differences in the stories.
In Maths we learnt how to find and measure right angles in 2D shapes. It was tricky in parts, but we remembered our statistics learning from Autumn really well.
We have had lovely week remembering Holy Week in school. We had a visit from Father Michael and had a beautiful celebration in church on Thursday. Year 6 led a very thoughtful Easter liturgy and Year 3 joined in brilliantly with their singing.
Check our our galleries showing some of the brilliant learning we have been doing this week.
On Thursday we finished out fabric and thread pieces. The children have shown great skill and resilience in completing these and they look amazing!.
In French, we finished our colours learning. Everyone has joined in brilliantly in our french lessons this term. Miss Whiting has been very impressed!
We have had a lovely Spring term and seen lots of progress in all areas of our curriculum.
We are looking forward to seeing you all next term!
Have a lovely Easter break and keep reading!
The Year 3 team.
Year 1 Blog - Thursday 28th March 2024
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 4:36pm
Home Practise
Your child has brought home some tricky words which they need to learn to read on sight. This will really help with their reading progress.
We have set an addition and subtraction maths challenge on Sumdog, have a go over Easter!
English
We read the story of The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. We re-told the story and read our stories to the children in Year 2.
Phonics
Some of us have been revising all the sounds which make the /ee/ sound.
Some of us have been learning the different /ar/ spellings - ar in park, al in half and a in rather and revising the two /oi/ digraph spellings: oi and oy.
Maths
We have been learning how to double amounts.
We have been using our knowledge of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s to solve problems, for example 6 vases contain 5 flowers each, how many flowers are there altogether?
R.E.
We learnt about Jesus' crucifixion and the angel's message. We made some amazing Easter slider cards and wrote our own version of how Jesus died.
P.E.
We played benchball in the hall. We worked well as a team and had fun practising our throwing and catching skills.
Forest School
We have been flying bird gliders. We also paprticipated in some great child- initaited learning in the nature area.
We noticed forget-me-knots, buttercups and daisies growing in there.
Have a happy and holy Easter.
Year 5 Blog Friday 22nd March 2024
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 3:39pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look out for speech, discuss how it is punctuated.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week.
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favourite |
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temperature |
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opportunity |
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opportunities |
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identity |
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identities |
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cemetery |
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cemeteries |
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community |
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communities |
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curiosity |
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curiosities |
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dictionary |
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dictionaries |
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vegetable
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Counting
Count out loud in:
7s from 0 to 84 and back again 0, 7, 14, ...
8s from 0 to 96 and back again 0, 8, 16, ...
12s from 0 to 144 and back again 0, 12, 24, ...
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables every day. You either have your own tables target or please practise dividing by 12.
Sumdog
The winner of last week’s maths competition was …
Freya - well done :)
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition – individual
Spelling Challenge
Reception Blog - Friday 22nd March 2024
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 12:52pm
Phonics
This week we have recapped all of our sounds so far.
Maths
We have been learning about length and time.
Drawing Club
This week we have been reading the story; Tad.
We have drawn our own 'big blub' character who lurks at the bottom of the pond.
R.E.
We have been revisiting the events of Holy week, including Palm Sunday and Good Friday.
We also discussed Spring and growth.
Understanding the World
We learnt about the lifecycle of a frog.
We went for a walk to our school pond to see which mini beasts were there.
Physical Development
This week we have been balancing beanbags on rackets, focussing on our hand eye coordination.
We all had our final session of Yoga with Hannah today. We all revisited everything we have learnt so far this year and it was fantastic. A big thank you to Hannah.
Forest School
We played a hide and seek game with soft toys.
We also built shelters using ropes, tarps and mats. We all showed great team-work, communication and resilience.
Easter Egg Raffle
Next week we will have our Easter Egg raffle. If you want to buy a ticket for your child, just send the money in an envelope and we will sort it. It is 50p a ticket.
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 7:58am
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Continue with all your brilliant home reading. Everyone has made excellent progress with their reading this year and this is down to reading regularly at home. Keep it up!
Please count in 8's from 0 to 96 and back again.
For example 0 8 16 etc 96 88 80 etc
Your Sumdog challenges are on all your times tables, addition and subtraction and your home spellings. This week we have been remembering to use syllables to spell independently in our writing.
Here are your spellings for this week. They are all compund words.
sunshine goldfish anymore raindrop myself skateboard
seaside gentleman earring jigsaw overflow eyeball
This week in Year 3
We have had a fab week in Year 3!
In English we read Toro Toro and learnt how to write newspaper reports. Everyone worked hard on their sentence structures this week. Well Done Year 3!
In maths we revisited the formal written methods for addition and subtraction. We have set a challenge for you to practise these. We also used estimating to check our answers. Super maths this week!
On Wednesday, in our art lesson, we created the background for our final piece. Check out our gallery. We have made some beautiful landscapes.
We also finished our dance topic this week. We really enjoyed learning our routines and using gesture, stillness and travelling to create our own performances.
In computing this week we explored branching databases. We used seesaw to create some simple databases and tried them out on each other.
Have a great weekend
The Year 3 Team
Year 2 Blog - Friday 22nd March
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 4:22pm
Reading - Please try to read for 10 minutes every night.
Spellings –Spelling quiz will be on MONDAY 25th March.
enjoyment payment achievement agreement punishment government treatment placement statement movement
Times Tables – A times tables sheet will be sent home every Wednesday/Thursday.
Counting - Practise counting in 10s from any given number. Challenge – count in tens from 0 to 150.
Sumdog Challenges Maths – x5 times tables practice and money
Sumdog Challenge Spellings – suffix -ment
Sumdog Competition for Year 2 – apostrophes
This week in Year 2
English
This week the children started a new novel 'The Big Bad Owl'. The children made predictions using the front cover and title, wrote a description of 'Cupcake Wood' and described what all the animals were doing and how friendly they were. The children have started to use verbs, adverbs, adjectives and superlatives to make their writing better.
Maths
This week the children have been learning about money.
RE
The children re-told the Easter Story and explored all the events which happen before Easter.
PSHE
In PSHE this week the children have discussed self-belief and values, The children have also started to use thier feelings books.
Reminders
Year 2 Assembly - thank you to everyone who came to watch our class assembly.
Easter Egg Raffle tickets - Available to buy from class - 50p per ticket.
Year 2 trip - Please return the orange slip from the trip letter before the Easter holidays - thank you.
Have a lovely weekend.
Year 4 Blog Friday 22nd March 2024
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 4:19pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Can you summarise what has already happened in the book so far? Can you make a prediction about what you think will happen and explain why you think this?
Spellings
These are your spellings for next week:
physician optician magician politician mathematician
electrician musician extension collision confusion
explosion division exclusion conclusion invasion
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 0.2’s (similar to your 2 times table but 10 times smaller)
For example, start at 0.2 and count to 2.6 and back again
0.2 0.4 0.6 etc 2.6 2.4 2.2 etc
Now try starting at 0.1 and count to 2.7 and back again
0.1 0.3 0.5 etc 2.7 2.5 2.3 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
Please also practise your number facts.
You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
Sumdog challenges
- A spelling challenge based on the words above
- A times tables competition based on all the times tables
- A missing number times table challenge
In English, we wrote a conversation between Lila and Rambashi ensuring that our words for said reflected the characters, and our punctuation was correct. We then acted this out with a partner.
In Maths, we continued learning how to accurately place hundredths on a blank numberline. We also found the effect of dividing a one or two-digit number by 100, and started to learn how to solve number sequences when we needed to add or subtract to find the difference.
In RE, we learnt about the events of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday. We then started to produce a beautiful piece of work in our books which explained our learning. We will continue this next week.
We also made our DT projects this week. First, we stitched a button or a pattern on the ‘front’ of the product, then we sewed the two pieces of felt together. You can see some pictures of us busy at work and of our finished products in the gallery.
This week, we also took part in a retirement assembly for Mr Bedford who taught us how to swim when we were in Year 3. We wish Mr Bedford all the very best for his retirement.
In addition, we had our last dance session provided by Beth from South Ribble Sports Coaches, and attended the Parish Mass and Stations of the Cross on Friday morning.
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 4 team
Year 6 Blog Friday 22nd March 2024
Date: 19th Mar 2024 @ 2:50pm
A great week, well done Year 6.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read for up to 30 minutes every night, this will improve the speed at which you read and your understanding of the text. If you come across any new words that you don’t understand, ask an adult or look it up in the dictionary. Building up your vocabulary knowledge is really beneficial.
Spelling
Please practise these thirteen spellings (Y5/6 Word List) for your test on Friday. A sheet will go home every Thursday/Friday with the spelling list on.
Spellings (22.03.24 – 28.03.24):
soldier system vegetable
stomach temperature vehicle
sufficient thorough yacht
suggest twelfth
symbol variety
Maths
Counting/Number Games
Have a go at this factors and multiples game!
https://nrich.maths.org/factorsandmultiples
Sumdog
You have a mixed times table/division facts challenge on Sumdog to complete by Thursday 28.03.24.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
If you would like to do a bit more work on your times tables, Hit the Button is a great game to play.
Follow this link: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Reminders
Easter Egg Raffle - you can still buy tickets for 50p in class.
In English, the children wrote draft reports about Hurricane Michael, including cohesive devices. We will proof-read and edit these next week and write a final version.
In Maths, we worked on division and the chunking method.
Year 6 led a lovely Retirement Assembly for Steve, the swimming instructor at Penwortham pool, who has taught swimming lessons for nearly 30 years.
Year 6 Team.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 22nd March 2024
Date: 19th Mar 2024 @ 11:43am
Home Practice
Phonics - ou words OR y (ee sound) words OR phase 4 words
Maths - Money
Counting - Count in 2s, 5s and 10s starting at different numbers, 12,22,32 and so on.
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
English
This week our learning has been through a story about Scaredy Squirrel. We have met him before but now he's trying to organise a birthday party.
We wrote some facts about squirrels.
We interviewed Scaredy Squirrel and asked him questions about his party.
Phonics
Some of us have been revising all the /ee/ sounds, ie as in field, ea as in leaf, e as in behave, y as in baby, ee as in meet, e-e as in Steve.
We have been learning ey as in donkey.
Some of us have been learning the final oa spellings - o_e in stone, o in both, ol in cold and oul in shoulder.
We then moved onto learning the different ow spellings - ow in cow, ou in shout and ough in plough.
Maths
We have been revising the different coins and notes that we use in England. We had a discussion about how our coins and notes will soon be changing as the Queen is currently on our money.
We then started to explore equal groups, specifically making doubles.
R.E.
We read the story of The Widow's Mite. This was when Jesus saw a rich man and a poor woman putting money into the Temple box. We talked about how Jesus was happier with the widow because she had given all that she had left, where as the rich man had more money at home.
We also read the story of The Last Supper and had our own version of a Passover meal together on the carpet.
Art
We used the watercolours to make our own weather painting. We used our science knowledge to choose to make either a sun, rain, cloud or lightning picture.
D.T.
We made our smoothies! We had so much fun learning how to safely use a knife to chop up fruit and how to use a blender to blend it together. Some of us liked our smoothies, some of us did not!
Next week the reading books will be changed on Thursday.
Year 2 Blog - Friday 15th March
Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 4:00pm
Home Practice
Reading - Please try to read for 10 minutes every night.
Spellings –Spelling quiz will be on MONDAY 18th March
homeless careless hopeless spotless endless tasteless heartless fearless helpless speechless
Times Tables – A times tables sheet will be sent home every Wednesday. No quiz this week.
Counting - Practise counting in 3s from any given number. Challenge – count in twos from 0 to 36. Challenge.
Sumdog Challenges Maths – x3 times tables practice and addition
Sumdog Challenge Spellings – suffix -less
Sumdog Competition for Year 2 – apostrophes
This week in Year 2
English
This week the children finished the book 'The Lumberjack's Beard'. They wrote super apology letters to the animals who lost their homes from the point of view of Jim Hikory.
Maths
This week we started to learn about addition and subtraction using exchanging.
RE
In our learning this week, we re-told the story of Palm Sunday. The children drew lovely pictures of Jesus arriving on his donkey.
Science
In Science this week, we carried out an investigation about the properties of materials. The children explored which materials would be best when water was adding to them.
Forest School
Some of us have been learning how to plant seeds.
Some of us practised our knots and made a forest eye.
There was also some super child-initiated learning involving making a stream, cooking with wild garlic and discovering a snail hide-out!
Reminders
Year 2 Assembly - Thursday 21st March at 2.40pm.
PTFA Easter Bingo – Thursday 21st March 6.30pm-7.30pm.
Have a lovely weekend.
Year 5 Blog Friday 15th March 2024
Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 2:06pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Tell somebody your favourite thing about the book you are reading.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. Most of them contain the letters -ei or -ei.
achieve leisure mischievous neighbour soldier sufficient variety ceiling belief believe experience weight quite quiet quit
Counting
Count out loud in:
1s from 5 down to -20 and back again 5, 4, 3, …
5s from 5 down to – 60 and back again 5, 0, -5, …
3s from 3 down to -36 and back again 3, 0, -3, …
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables every day. You either have your own tables target or please practise square numbers e.g., 2 x 2 = 4, 3 x 3 = 9.
Sumdog
The winner of last week’s maths competition was …
THE DOGS by one point!
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition – individual
Spelling Challenge
We have had a great week this week. On Wednesday we were joined by Freddy Fit and enjoyed our workout. We spoke about the importance of both physical and mental wellbeing.
In English we continued reading our class novel - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We finished our character description of the professor using dialogue and action. Our objective was to describe a character who sounds eccentric to the reader. We then read our descriptions to Year 4. We didn’t tell the children our objective. After reading, we asked them to write a word to describe the professor. When they wrote unusual, strange, etc, we knew we had achieved our objective.
In maths we learnt about negative numbers and different methods to add and subtract. We spoke about where we might see negative numbers including lifts, football matches, and thermometers.
In RE we started our new topic all about Lent. We thought about giving. We also had a visit from Father Michael. He spoke to us all about saying sorry for things we had done wrong. We then each had the chance to say sorry to God with Father Michael.
In history we started to learn about the Vikings who arrived in Britain around 790AD. We discussed what the Vikings were like and reasons they might have come to invade Britain.
We have had a fantastic two weeks with Atsuya and the other Japanese students. It was amazing to learn about their culture. We were lucky enough to play with some traditional Japanese toys which we loved! Safe travels back to Japan.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Reception Blog - Friday 15th March 2024
Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 12:44pm
Phonics
This week Mrs Stone's group have been learning the igh and oa sounds. Mrs Robinson's group have been learning the long oo and short oo sounds.
Maths
We have been learning about number bonds to 5 and 10.
Drawing Club
This week we have been reading the story; Jasper's Beanstalk. We had a beanstalk appear in class! At the end of the week it even got chopped down!
We have been writing the beginning,middle and end of the story and we even thought of our own ending.
R.E.
We have been learning about the events of Holy week, specifically Palm Sunday. We listened to a story about Jesus arriving in Jerusalem. We learnt the word Hosanna, which is what the people shouted to him. We each made our own palm leaves and acted out the story together.
Understanding the World
We learnt how a plant grows.
Expressive Arts and Design
This week we have had a lesson with the Japanese students all about oragami. We each made our own oragami art.
We wish the best of luck to them as they travel back to Japan this weekend. The children have loved having them in class.
Stay and Play
A big thank you to everyone who came to our stay and play.
Year 4 Blog Friday 15th March 2024
Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 12:22pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Keeping looking out for dialogue / speech marks. Look carefully at how the dialogue is punctuated. Can you see the inverted commas? What words are inside the inverted commas? Can you spot any capital letters and punctuation within the speech marks?
Spellings
These are your spellings for next week:
antiseptic antidote antibiotic antibody anticlockwise
antisocial anticlimax antihistamine interfere international
interrupt internet intervene intercept interject
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 4’s.
For example, start at 0 and count up to 48 and back again
0 4 8 etc 48 44 40 etc
Now try counting in 8’s.
Start at 0 and count up to 96 and back again
0 8 16 etc 96 88 80 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
Please also practise your number facts.
You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
Sumdog challenges
- A spelling challenge based on the words above
- A times tables challenge based on all the times tables
- A dividing by 10 and 100 challenge
In English, we read some more of our class novel – The Firework-Maker’s Daughter. We then revised the rules for speech / dialogue. Following this, we thought of lots of different words for ‘said’ which Lila and Rambashi (2 characters from the novel) would use. We will be writing our own dialogue between the characters next week.
In Maths, we compared and ordered numbers with tens, ones, tenths and hundredths. In addition, we placed hundredths on a blank numberline.
In RE, we started our new topic – ‘Giving: Self Discipline’. We read a story and discussed how feelings and beliefs affect self-discipline. We learnt that although being self-disciplined can be difficult, it can also lead to positive results.
We started our DT project this week. We practised 3 different types of stitches, then planned and designed our product. We will be making our product next week.
We need to remember to bring in any decorations we want to include on our product next week.
This week, we also enjoyed a trip to Formby Beach and Southport Eco Centre. We learnt a lot of information about the Formby coastline, and ways to be more eco friendly. It was an excellent trip and we gained a lot of knowledge from the experience. Have a look at our photos in the gallery.
In addition, this week we have taken part in an energetic keep fit session with Freddie Fit and a lesson led by the Japanese students, during which we learnt how to show hospitality in Japan. See the photos in our gallery.
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 4 team
Year 3 Friday Blog 15th March 2024
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 7:52am
Welcome to your Friday Blog
We have had a very active week this week with Freddie Fit, Dance and Netball with Mrs Cookson
Home Practice
Continue to read every night and remember to change your books with Mrs Lancaster and Mrs Woof! We have loads of great books to read!
We have set 2 maths challenges on Sumdog, fractions and times tables. A little practice every night does the trick!
Please also practise your counting in 10's. Start at 0 and count in 10's up to 210 and back again. For example, 0 10 20 and so on. Then count back 210 200 190 until you get back to 0.
Your spellings this week are based on the different /aw/ sounds.
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This week in Year 3
This week we have started our new novel, Toro Toro by Michael Morpurgo. We have been spotting similarities in the story and The Butterfly Lion and writing descriptive pieces about Antonio's farm and the cork forest. Some brilliant pieces and a real improvement on spelling this week! Keep it up Year 3!
In maths we have been learning about volume and capacity and how to add 2 three digit measurements using the formal written method. Super learning this week!
In art we explored lanscapes in preparation for our final piece using fabric, paint and thread. Mrs Robinson was blown away by our work. Check out our gallery.
In geography we learned all about the United States and where it gets it's name. We used atlases and digital globes to locate some states on our maps.
On Friday, Year 1 came to read their Wild Things stories to us. Year 3 gave great feedback to the children. Great job year 1!
We have had a lovely couple of weeks with Yuri, one of our Japenese students. She made us some matcha tea and taught us a song called Totoro. Thank you Yuri for visiting us!
Have a lovely weekend and a Happy St Patrick's Day
The Year 3 Team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 15th March 2024
Date: 13th Mar 2024 @ 10:16am
Home Practice
Phonics - ow (oa sound) words OR ea words OR tricky words
Maths - 2s, 5s and 10s counting
Counting - Count in 2s, 5s and 10s starting at different numbers, 12,22,32 and so on.
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
English
We are authors! We all wrote our own version of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. We took great care to use full stops, capital letters, ambitious vocabulary and to keep our writing on the line. We tried to make our writing look beautiful on every page.
We read our books to the children in Reception, Years 3 and 4. They were impressed and also gave us some great feedback.
Phonics
Some of us have been revising ee in see, ea in leaf and e_e in Pete.
Some of us have been revising some of the different oa spellings - ow in snow and oe in toe.
Maths
We have been counting in the pattern of 2s, 5s and 10s. We have identfied where these patterns are on a hundred square and counted groups of different objects.
R.E.
We had so much fun learning about Jesus teaching in the Temple. We realised that many people did not like Jesus and believed that He was not the true king. We role played King Herod and the leaders of the land against Jesus and His disciples.
Computing
You may have noticed that we have been practising how to upload pictures and videos to Seesaw. We now know how to open the iPad and record evidence of our amazing learning!
D.T.
We planned our smoothies ready for next week. We chose our fruit and wrote some simple instructions.
Forest School
Some of us have been learning how to plant seeds.
Some of us practised our knots and made a forest eye.
There was also some super child-initiated learning involving making a stream, cooking with wild garlic and discovering a snail hide-out!
We have really enjoyed having the students from Japan working with us. Their professor, Yuichi, spent lots of time with us in Year 1, finding out how we learn in our school.
We also had a great time with Freddy Fit! He put us all through our paces and taught us about the importance of keeping fit and healthy.
Year 6 Blog Friday 15th March 2024
Date: 12th Mar 2024 @ 1:38pm
A very busy week, well done for working so hard Year 6.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read for up to 30 minutes every night, this will improve the speed at which you read and your understanding of the text. If you come across any new words that you don’t understand, ask an adult or look it up in the dictionary. Building up your vocabulary knowledge is really beneficial.
Spelling
Please practise these spellings (Y5/6 Word List) for your test on Friday. A sheet will go home every Thursday/Friday with the spelling list on.
Spellings (15.03.24 – 22.03.24):
relevant secretary
restaurant shoulder
rhyme signature
rhythm sincere
sacrifice sincerely
Maths
Counting/Number Games
Have a go at this counting game!
Sumdog
You have a mixed times table/division facts challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 22.03.24.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
If you would like to do a bit more work on your times tables, Hit the Button is a great game to play.
Follow this link: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Reminders
Thursday 21st March Family Bingo 6.30 - 8.00pm (tickets available from the office).
In English, we worked on direct speech (inverted commas) and indirect speech (reported speech) linked to what the characters in our book might have said. Also, the children wrote some fantastic ideas for a sequel story, using modal verbs and adverbs of possibility.
In Maths, we were dividing decimal and large whole numbers using both mental and written methods (chunking).
The Japanese students delivered a fantastic lesson all about toys in Japan on Thursday afternoon. Year 6 had great fun playing with the toys and they learnt a few Japanese words too!
Last Freddy Fit session for Year 6, we had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the loud music and high energy lesson.
In RE, we discussed and wrote about the qualities of good friendships and things that might spoil those friendships with a focus on class unity.
Year 6 Team.
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 3:52pm
Home Practice
Reading - Please try to read for 10 minutes every night.
Spellings –Spelling quiz will be on MONDAY 11th March
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Times Tables – A times tables sheet will be sent home every Wednesday. Please learn these like the tables for a quiz on Wednesday 13th March.
Counting - Practise counting in 10s from any given number. Challenge – count in twos from 0 to 100. Challenge – now count from 100 to 0!
Sumdog Challenges Maths – x10 times tables practice and measure challenge
Sumdog Challenge Spellings – suffix to words ending in consonants
Sumdog Competition for Year 2 – punctuation
This week in Year 2
English
This week we wrote lovely Mother's Day poems. The children also continued learning with the story 'The Lumberjack's Beard'. The children loved World Book Day - the costumes were amazing. During the day the children watched an author called Sarah Bowie share her illustrations from her novel 'Nina Peanut is Amazing'.
Maths
This week we have finished our learning about measuring. The children ordered different masses of objects and placed arrows to show volumes in measuring cylinders.
RE
In our learning this week, we wrote a lovely prayer about Jesus in the desert and thanked him for all that he has done for us.
Science
In Science this week, we have been learning all about Spring and we also went outside to observe and measure our Crocuses which we planted last term.
Forest School
We continued our learning about using tools safely. We used a hammer and a screwdriver. We learnt the difference between a nail and a screw.
Reminders
#LetGirlsPlay – well done to all the girls from Year 2 who took part in this today !
PTFA Easter Bingo – Thursday 21st March 6.30pm-7.30pm.
Have a lovely weekend.