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Year 3 Friday blog 28th November 2028
Date: 28th Nov 2025 @ 4:22pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
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What a wonderful week we have had in Year 3, beautifully rounded off with our Advent Assembly this afternoon. The children were amazing, so confident and so joyful, and we are incredibly proud of them all. Thank you so much to everyone who came along to support and celebrate with us. It really made the occasion special.
Home Practice
Keep reading every night with an adult or on your own. Talk about what you have read and explore new books, magazines and newspapers.
We have set two maths Sumdog challenges, one is practising your times tables and the other is on time, to prepare for next weeks maths learning. We have seen a big improvement in fluency with times tables this week. Keep up the good work!
Remember to access the fluency booster feature too!
Your spellings this week are words with the prefixes re-, sub-, tele-.
redo, refresh, return, reappear, redecorate, subdivide, subheading, submarine, submerge, telephone, television, recount, rearrange, reassure, reassess, subconscious, telescope.
This week in Year 3
In English this week, we have continued our work on The Ice Palace, writing some fantastic descriptive pieces. We have been exploring different ways to start our sentences and thinking carefully about how to vary our sentence structures to make our writing even more exciting for the reader. Super effort, Year 3!
In Maths, we have been diving into division, even learning how to divide with remainders. We have used grouping to help us understand what happens when a number does not divide equally. Everyone has shown brilliant perseverance and reasoning skills.
In RE, alongside preparing for our Advent celebration, we have been learning about the Annunciation. We explored how Isaiah’s prophecy came true and how the Angel Gabriel appeared to both Mary and Joseph. The children created some beautiful artwork and shared some thoughtful ideas during our discussions.
In French we have been learning our numbers to 20 and applying our learning by singing songs and playing games.
Next week we are looking forward to making our dirt puddings to investigate the layers of the earth’s crust. We will also be delving deeper into animation in computing, creating some animations with stop frame software.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week - Frankie
Super Learner - Amelia L
Writer of the week - Rose
Marvellous Mathematician - Noah S
Bookworm - Harper
Special Mentions - Sam, for his lovely RE work this week
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Have a lovely weekend from the Year 3 team.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 28th November 2025
Date: 28th Nov 2025 @ 3:50pm
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challenge - Number bonds
Phonics challenge - Common exception words
Counting – Can you count in 2s using the even numbers and then count in odd numbers? (1, 3, 5, 7...)
Reading - Please try and read at least three times a week.
Please remember to bring book bags each day.
English
This week we started our first Christmas story! We read 'The Robin Who Stole Christmas'. We described the robin using adjectives, described Santa HQ, made a wanted poster for the robin and wrote questions to the robin using question marks.
Phonics
We all have been practising reading and writing the common exception words for Year 1. Keep practising these at home!
Maths
We recapped the place value of numbers to 20.
We also completed another arithmetic together, talking about how we make a number sentence (three numbers and two symbols).
R.E.
We learnt about the word 'Advent' and made our own Advent promises. We also ordered the Nativity story.
In our 'Celebration of the Word' we delved deeper into Advent. We talked about patience and how we light the candles on the Advent wreath.
History
We wrote about the toys that we used to play with as a baby. We talked about the materials that they were made from.
Thank you for all of your parent sheets about your favourite toys as a child. We will be discussing this in the next few weeks.
D.T.
We wrote the insert for our Christmas card.
Computing
We made Kandinsky circles on Paintz.app
Science
We used Seesaw to write about what we saw whilst on our winter walk.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Grace
Super Learner: Imogen
Superstar Writer: Eilish
Bookworm: Connall
Marvellous Mathematician: Darragh
Special Mentions: Reo and Roman for helping others in Computing.
Year 5 blog Friday 28th November 2025
Date: 28th Nov 2025 @ 3:49pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They relate to the use of prefixes.
Immature, impatient, irrelevant, refresh, redecorate, immortal, imperfect, irresponsible, return, subdivide, impossible, irregular, redo, reappear, subheading, submarine, submerge, reimburse
Counting
Count out loud in:
9’s up to 180 and back again 0, 9, 18 …
60’s from 240 to 660 and back again 240, 300, 360…
25’s from 0 to 575 and back again 575, 550, 525…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Everyone has their own targets, which the children should have noted on the top of their spelling sheet.
Sumdog
Maths practise – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Year 5 have had another great week of learning – a super effort all round Year 5!
In English the class have enjoyed developing their figurative language skills and written some amazing poems, writing as Popsicle from the class novel. In their sports reporting session this week, the class focussed on the role of a referee in sport and the challenges they may face.
In Maths Year 5 have continued to look at common factors and multiples and, also, are moving onto division.
In RE this week, Year 5 have been learning about why Jesus is called the ‘Son of David’. They created a family tree to show Jesus’ descendants right back to Abraham. The children also learned about St Andrew this week in Celebration of the Word and they spent time discussing how they can also follow Jesus’ path in life.
In Science, the class have started to explain and explore simple machines like levers, gears and pulleys and why they are useful.
In computing, Year 5 have started their topic on video production and editing. They will use the clips app to complete this.
Finally, the class have been learning lots of facts about Liverpool in geography, including the physical and human features of the area as well as the economic activity of the city.
Well done Year 5!
Golden stars this week
Star of the Week – Bertie
Super Learners – Lily
Superstar Writer – Joni
Bookworm - Sam
Marvellous Mathematician - Spencer
Special Mention - Emma
Reception Blog - Friday 28th November 2025
Date: 28th Nov 2025 @ 3:40pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week we have been learning the new sound f and we have learnt three diagraphs ff, ss and ll. We have found them in different words like, huff, fuss and bell.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club, we have listened to the story ‘The 100 Decker Bus.’
We have really enjoyed designing our own decks to add to the bus.
Maths
This week we have been exploring the number 8.
RE
This week, our focus has been on journeys.
We have been talking about a long journey that we have been on and how it felt. We compared this to Mary and Joseph's journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem and how it was for them.
We then created the journey that Mary and Joseph took from Nazareth to Bethlehem. We did this by using construction equipment or drawing.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we have began a small art project. Our first one in Reception.
We are using the focus of ‘Using our bodies to make art’ and this weeks focus was printing with our bodies.
Understanding the World
We went out to the front of school and conducted a vehicle survey.
We carefully watched all the vehicles come past school and marked them off on our charts. We discovered that there are a lot of cars on the road (74 in 20 minutes) but only 1 bus!
PE
This week did a dance to the music from Mary Poppins.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week – Billy
Super Learner – Amelie
Superstar Writer – Raeni
Bookworm – Harry
Mathematician – Maisie
Special Mention – Finlay for being a brilliant helper and Elsi, for always being honest.
Year 2 Blog Friday 28th November 2025
Date: 28th Nov 2025 @ 1:37pm
Home Practice
Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (05.12.25):
many everybody even could should
would because beautiful great Christmas
Sumdog: Complete the tables/tally charts and spelling challenges.
Counting: Have a go at the 100 square puzzle below.
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/100-square-jigsaw
You could also work on your 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
English
This week we started our new novel, The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine.
The children spent time looking at the front cover and the blurb, making predictions on what the story might be about. We talked about Tuffy the cat's good points and bad points.
The children also wrote some excellent speeches from Ellie's perspective (character) about the poor little bird.
The standard of writing is really improving in Year 2, great use of interesting words and conjunctions.
Keep up the good work!
Maths
This week we continued our work on statistics.
The children have been interpreting and creating their own tables, pictograms, bar charts and tally charts.
RE
The children re-told the story of The Annunciation of Jesus on a storyboard.
We also talked about the Advent wreath and started to decorate our own picture version.
Forest School
This week it was so cold but we were wrapped up and we didn't mind. There was some great child-initiated play.
Science
We learnt about how humans grow and devleop from newborn babies to adults and older people. We drew and labelled pictures of this.
Art
We used carbon paper to make prints. We were thrilled with how well this worked. We also used oil pastels to introduce some colour into the print.
D.T
We will be having our D.T Day soon. The children will be designing, building and evaluating a Tudor House.
Please could you send one or two small boxes into school (no bigger than a shoe box).
Library Trip
We had a lovely morning at Longton Library. The Librarian read stories to the children and they voted for their favourite.
After that, we made Christmas cards and the children really enjoyed exploring all the books and choosing their own to read.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week - April
Super Learner - Gigi
Superstar Writer - Arthur
Bookworm - Cara
Mathematician - Rhodes
Special Mentions - Dean for being a kind friend
-Zac for detailed and carefyl drawings in Art
The Nativity play is going really well. Year 2 are being great singers, narrators and actors.
Don't forget it's on Tuesday 9th December in church at 2pm and 6.30pm.
Year 4 Blog Friday 28th November 2025
Date: 28th Nov 2025 @ 1:10pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.
Discuss what you have read with an adult.
Can you find out the meaning of any new words in a dictionary?
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
irregular irrelevant irresponsible irrational
irrefutable irrevocable submit subdivide
subheading submarine submerge subconscious
subatomic subcontract subordinate subtitle
subcontinent subnormal
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 3’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 36 and back again
0 3 6 etc 36 33 30 etc
Then have a go at counting in 6’s from 0 to 72 and back again
0 6 12 72 66 60 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, 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.
TTRockstars challenge
A ‘garage’ session
Sumdog challenges
A spelling challenge based on the words above
A maths challenge based on multiplying by 10 and 100, as well as using known facts to work out other multiplications (eg 30 x 6, use 3 x 6 = 18, then multiply by 10)
Our Learning this Week
In English, we wrote questions about a chapter ensuring they were open questions, punctuated correctly using a question mark, and they made sense.
In addition, we explored alliteration. We had fun writing our names and sentences using alliteration as well as a humorous poem.
In Maths, we understood the effect of multiplying a one or two digit number by 10 and 100.
We extended this learning to recognise the relationship between a known fact and a related calculation.
For example, if 4 x 3 = 12, then 4 x 30 = 120 – the answer is 10 times larger.
In PSHE, we started the ‘celebrate’ module.
We learnt about character and character strengths.
We also learnt which strengths we use the most and why it is important to use our character strengths.
In RE, we learnt about the liturgical year – the cycle of seasons which organises the Christian year around the life of Jesus.
We then complete a liturgical calendar using appropriate symbols and colours.
We also labelled the feast of Christ the King, which marks the end of the liturgical year.
You can see some of these in our gallery.
In Science, we recapped what is needed for a simple circuit to light a bulb.
We then discussed the difference between a complete and incomplete circuit, and predicted whether examples of circuits would light a bulb or not.
In Geography, we researched and then discussed the different uses of a river.
In Art, we created a ‘zentangle’ as part of our ‘exploring pattern topic.
You can see some examples in our gallery.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Lewis
Super Learner: Mia
Superstar Writer: Emilia
Bookworm: Jessica
Marvellous Mathematician: Georgie
Special Mentions: Alice – for representing Year 4 in the interschool poetry competition.
Rudy, William, Annie, Rowan, Violet Co, Violet Ca, Albert and Rory for representing Year 4 in the interschool dodgeball competition.
The Year 4 team
Year 6 Blog - Friday 28th November 2025
Date: 27th Nov 2025 @ 7:53am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been learning all about WW1 poetry. We have thought about what life was like for soldiers in the trenches and shared 'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen. We have been inspired by Wilfred Owen to create our own WW1 poetry.
Maths
This week, we have started our new topic all about angles. We have learned how to draw angles accurately using a protractor and complete a given shape.
RE
In RE, we have thought about how Mary is an important lady for Christians. We have also thought about the significant women in our own lives and written letters to them to thank them for their guidance and support.
Topic
In History, we learned about how WW2 impacted the North West. We found out that Lancashire was used for evacuees, as it is a rural county. We wrote letters in role as an evacuee to tell our parents about the Christmas party the council had put on for evacuees from Salford.
In Science, we planned an investigation to find out how shadows change over the course of one day. We discovered that
In Computing, we continued our work on Tinkercad and learned how to manipulate 3D shapes on the work space. We investigated how to combine 3D objects and change their colour.
Home practice
Please complete the following tasks by Thursday:
Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen.
Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Spelling -
For spelling this week, Year 6 need to revise the Y5/6 statutory words, ready for a test on Friday. A copy of these words can be found attached to the blog.
All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test on Friday.
Maths Challenges:
Sumdog
Counting:
This week I would like you to practise counting up and down in 0.3 and 0.03.
Choose a starting number and see how high or how low you can go!
Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!
Maths Task: This week's practise is all about angles.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Milana
Super Learner - Ebba
Superstar Writer - Eddie
Bookworm - Zach M
Marvellous Mathematician - Casper
Special Mentions - Bella: for being kind and helping to tidy the classroom at the end of the day.
Alfie G and Leo W - for great singing in hymn practise.
Have an amazing weekend Year 6!
Year 1 Blog - Friday 21st November 2025
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 4:11pm
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challenge - Mass - heavier and lighter
Phonics challenge - Set words depending on phonics groups
Counting – Can you count in 2s using the even numbers and then count in odd numbers? (1, 3, 5, 7...)
Reading - Please try and read at least three times a week.
Please remember to bring book bags each day.
English
This week we read the story 'Astro Girl' about a little girl who wanted to be an astronaut like her mummy. We wrote about a job that we want to have and sequenced the story.
We also wrote Christmas lists for Father Christmas.
Phonics
Some of us continued to learn the phase 3 digraphs.
Some of us have continued to recap the phase 3 trigraphs.
Some of us learnt the two sounds that the split digraph u_e makes (oo and you).
Maths
We measured length using cubes and mass using balance scales.
R.E.
We read learnt about waiting and how it is important on the lead up to Christmas. We talked about Mary waiting for Jesus and wrote about a time that we have waited.
In our 'Celebration of the Word' we continued to learn about trust.
P.E.
We had a great dance session with South Ribble.
D.T.
We planned our Christmas card and decided whether we wanted a slider or a lever mechanism.
Science
We made the most of the frosty weather and went on a winter walk around the school grounds.
Forest School
We listened to a story about kind Mr Bear, he lives in the forest and helps all his friends but they started taking him for granted. We discussed how it's important to help others.
We practised tying knots in strawberry laces. Such concentration!
We then went into our nature area. Some of us did some bug hunting and we had some new identification sheets as last week someone asked Mrs Corbett to Google something to find out what it was!
Try to remember to bring named hats and gloves to school, especially on Wednesday.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Noah J
Super Learner: Evie B
Superstar Writer: Noah H
Bookworm: George and Ada G
Marvellous Mathematician: Isla-May
Special Mentions: Elsie and Connall for always being kind to everyone.
Year 5 blog Friday 21st November 2025
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 3:32pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They relate to the use of prefixes.
interact intercity international interrelated supermarket superman superstar antiseptic anticlockwise antisocial autobiography autograph interactive antidote antibiotic intersect superimpose
Counting
Count out loud in:
7’s up to 112 and back again 0, 7, 14 …
70’s from 210 to 770 and back again 210, 280, 350…
25’s from 0 to 575 and back again 0, 25, 50 …
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Everyone has their own targets, which the children should have noted on the top of their home spelling sheet.
Sumdog
Maths practise – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Year 5 have had another fantastic week of learning – well done!
In English the class have developed their skills in writing a balanced argument, based on the class novel, ‘Escape from Shangri-La’ by Michael Morpurgo. In their sports reporting session this week, the class focussed on a Paralympic athlete called Nathan Maguire who overcame great difficulties to succeed in sport.
In Maths Year 5 have started a new topic on multiples and factors. This is based on quick retrieval of basic times table and division knowledge.
In RE this week, Year 5 have been reading and discussing psalm 21, which is a song of praise for David and his victory over Goliath.
In Science, the class performed an experiment to examine and record the effects of water resistance on different shapes.
Year 5 also enjoyed participating in a dance festival this week as well as developing their hockey skills in PE this week.
Finally, the class have joined the rest of the school and around the world in a day to celebrate the CAFOD jubilee year of hope. They have joined a live lesson and created journals, reflecting on the theme of hope and how we as a school have participated in the mission. Another super week of learning Year 5!
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week – Sidney
Super Learners – Louie and Henry
Superstar Writer – Samuel
Bookworm - Josh M
Marvellous Mathematician - Maisie
Special Mention - Edward and Evelyn
Reception Blog - Friday 21st November 2025
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 3:30pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week we have been consolidating all of the sounds that we have learnt.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club, we have continued listening to the story; ‘Coming to England.’
We have designed our own bedrooms.
Maths
This week we have been exploring the number 7.
RE
We have been learning about the word Advent and that it is a time when we wait for Jesus to come.
We listened to the story The Littlest Watchman and then we made our own class Advent Wreath.
Understanding the World
This week we have been using google maps to explore our capital city, London.
We also listened to the Queen’s Hat and spotted some of the landmarks.
PE
This week did hopping and skipping and travelling in different ways.
We have also taken part in the whole school dance festival. See the photos here.
Forest School
We listened to a story about kind Mr Bear, he lives in the forest and helps all his friends but they started taking him for granted. We discussed how it's important to help others.
We made some bird feeders by threading Cheerios onto a pipe cleaner- Great for our fine motor skills. We hung them on the trees.
We then discussed how to be safe around a fire. We watched Mrs Corbett light a fire and boil some water in the Kelly Kettle. We knew when the water had boiled because we heard the whistle.
We had a drink of hot juice around the fire to keep us warm.
Try to remember to bring named hats and gloves to school, especially on Thursday.
Trip to the British Vehicle Museum
What a great trip we had today.
All of the children were extremely well behaved and enjoyed exploring all of the different vehicles.
A big thank you to everyone who came to our Maths Workshop.
If you could not attend, here is a copy of the presentation.
Year 4 Blog Friday 21st November 2025
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 1:02pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.
Discuss what you have read with an adult.
Can you find out the meaning of any new words in a dictionary?
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
inactive incorrect introvert insecure intake
immortal imperfect immature impossible impractical
implant impatient impose improper impartial
impunity impassive illegal illegible illogical
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 9’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 108 and back again
0 9 18 etc 108 99 90 etc
Then have a go at counting up in 9’s from a different number, for example 32 or 79
32 41 50 etc
79 88 97 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, 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.
TTRockstars challenge
A ‘battle of the bands’ boys v girls
Sumdog challenges
A spelling challenge based on the words above
A maths challenge based on multiplication arrays and the 3, 4 and 8 times tables
Our Learning this Week
In English, we studied different front covers of the novel The Iron Man.
We then made predictions about the story and justified these with reasons why we had come to this conclusion.
In addition, we rewrote the beginning of the first chapter using powerful vocabulary and ideas from the novel.
In Maths, we started our new topic – multiplication. Initially, we used the ten times table to help us work out the 9 times and 11 times tables.
We then learnt how to use arrays to identify factors.
You can see some pictures of using counters to find factors in our gallery.
In RE, we made links between the words of Isaiah and the preaching of John the Baptist – creating symbols to show the links.
In addition, we discussed why we might hear the words of Isaiah and John the Baptist read out during Advent.
We then created a collage in our books which demonstrated the links we had found.
See our gallery for some examples.
In Science, we constructed and named the parts of a simple circuit.
We made a buzzer work and a motor spin as well as making 2 bulbs light up in the same circuit.
In Art, we continued with our 'exporing pattern' topic.
We were given a rule and created our own desgns from this.
Take a look in our gallery.
This week we also took part in a dance festival (see the pictures in our gallery) and practised our hockey skills in PE.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Evelyn
Super Learner: Rory
Superstar Writer Oscar and Alexander
Bookworm: Lottie
Marvellous Mathematician: Violet Co
Special Mentions: Eliza and Francesca for beautiful artwork, Violet Ca for bringing in lots of examples of arrays!
The Year 4 team
Year 3 Friday 21st November 2025
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 11:39am
Welcome to your Friday Blog!
We have had a jam packed week of learning!
Home Practice
Keep changing your books regularly and read for at least 15-20 minutes every night!
Well done to everyone who completed their Sumdog challenges. Three new challenges have been added today. Remember, little and often every night will benefit your children with their learning in school. We have set a division challenge this week as we are learning all about division next week.
Try and do a little counting at home as well. This will promote number fluency and understanding. There are lots of counting games here at ictgames.com that we use in school. You will also find lots of counting songs on YouTube.
We have given out your home spellings to practice for next week's test. In our spelling lessons this week we have been revisiting our spelling strategies. We have been breaking our words into syllables to help us spell more accurately and using what we already know to spell new words. Your spellings this week all have mis and dis prefixes.
disappoint, disagree, disobey, misbehave, mislead, misspell, misunderstand, misunderstood, disobedient, misconduct, misdeed,
misfire, misguided, misuse, misspent, misplace, disgrace, disguise
This week in Year 3
In Maths, we’ve been getting to grips with the grid method and learning how to multiply two-digit numbers by one-digit numbers with confidence. The children have shown great resilience tackling these steps. We also introduced division, revisiting our Year 2 learning and setting a fun division challenge for everyone to have a go at. Super effort all round!
In English, we began our new and very exciting story, The Ice Palace. We were introduced to Ivan and the mysterious villain Starjik, which sparked some fantastic discussions. The children produced wonderful character descriptions and even wrote a brilliant retelling of the wolf attack. Super English this week, Year 3!
On Friday, we joined children from around the world to celebrate the Jubilee Year of Hope, taking part in the live lesson together. The class created thoughtful journals and designed beautiful bunting to display proudly in school. It was a lovely way to reflect on hope and community.
In Art, we continued our Drawing with Scissors collage topic. This week we focused on stencilling and explored the idea of negative space. The children worked so carefully to create their own stencils, resulting in some truly beautiful pieces of artwork.
We also took part in a fantastic dance festival with the South Ribble coaches this week. Everyone was brilliant, learning new moves, performing with confidence, and showing off their dance skills. Well done, Year 3!
In Computing, we explored flipbooks and how moving pictures are created. We talked about only moving one element at a time to keep the animation smooth, and the class had great fun trying it out. Next week, we’ll be using stop frame software to take our animations even further.
Star of the week - Frankie
Super Learner - George
Writer of the week - Isaac
Marvellous Mathematician - Grace
Bookworm - Melodie
Special Mentions - Dylan, for changing his book everyday this week!
Have an amazing weekend,
The Year 3 Team
Year 6 Blog - Friday 21st November 2025
Date: 20th Nov 2025 @ 8:03am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have continued our unit on persuasive battle speeches. We edited our D-Day speeches and then researched all about the Battle of Britain for our own independent speeches. We imagined that we were Winston Churchill addressing the nation over the radio. We were all really proud of our work!
Maths
This week, we have continued our learning in algebra. We have learned how to express a missing number problem algebraically and find the value of a missing number. We have also explored how to find pairs of missing values with and without a total.
RE
In RE, we have explored how some women, inspired by Mary's 'yes' to God, may be inspired to become nuns. We researched about the Holy Order 'Sisters of Mercy' and created beautiful leaflets with what we discovered.
As part of the Jubilee Celebration day, we have written postcards of hope and also designed our own jubilee bunting.
Topic
In PSHE, we learned about rights and responsibilities and discussed the rights of a child.
In Science, we discovered how we see. We learned about the eye and how it works. We also discussed how we see because light reflects off objects and into our eyes. We made some amazing posters about what we had learned!
In Computing, we started our new topic on 3D modelling. We learned how to add shapes to our workspace and how to view a shape from different perspectives.
Home practice
Please complete the following tasks by Thursday:
Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen.
Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Spelling -
|
observant |
observance |
expectant |
frequently |
|
hesitancy |
tolerant |
frequent |
confident |
|
tolerance |
innocent |
confidence |
assistant |
|
innocence |
hesitant |
assistance |
obedient |
|
decent |
decency |
obedience |
expectancy |
Please practise these spellings this week. The rule to practise is use –ant and –ance/–ancy and use –ent and –ence/–ency
Maths Challenges:
Sumdog
Counting:
This week I would like you to practise counting up and down in 0.2.
Choose a starting number and see how high or how low you can go!
Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!
Maths Task: This week's learning is to practise expressing missing number problems algebraically.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Xabier
Super Learner - Holly W
Superstar Writer - Zach M
Bookworm - Eliza W
Marvellous Mathematician - Ronnie
Special Mentions - Imogen, Zach O and Ebba and for amazing leaflets in RE.
Have a lovely weekend Year 6!
Year 2 Blog Friday 21st November 2025
Date: 18th Nov 2025 @ 9:53am
Home Practice
Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (28.11.25):
clothes busy people water again
half money Mr Mrs parents
Sumdog: Complete the pictograms and spelling challenges.
Counting: Keep working on doubling and halving.
For example, double 1 is 2, double 8 is 16 or half of 50 is 25, half of 18 is 9.
Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and practise doubling and halving.
You could also work on your 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
English
The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield.
The children planned and wrote their own version of the story, so instead of The Bear and the Piano, we had a selection of interesting stories.
A few examples were; The dog and the Guitar, The Elephant and the Flute, The Gorilla and the Drum and The Giraffe and the Violin.
Maths
We have been learning how to interpret tables, pictograms and bar charts.
PE
We had a fun dance session with a visiting teacher from South Ribble Council.
The children were very quick to pick up the dance routine and showed great movement.
Geography
We continued our work on the seven continents and five oceans of the world.
We learnt more about the oceans as habitats and the kind of creatures you could find there.
RE
We re-read The Annunciation of Zechariah (John the Baptist) (Lk 1:5-20)
Next week, the children will rewrite the story and illustrate it beautifully.
The children are doing so well during our Nativity Play rehearsals.
It will not be long now - Tuesday 9th December.
Art
We learnt about the work of an artist called Xgaoc'o X'are
We experimented with drawing our own animals in his style.
D.T
We will be having our D.T Day soon. The children will be designing, building and evaluating a Tudor House.
Please could you send one or two small boxes into school (no bigger than a shoe box).
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week - Jessie H.
Super Learner - Freya
Superstar Writer - Huxley
Bookworm - Luca
Mathematician - Reuben
Special Mentions - Arianna for beautiful art
and Ella for being a kind friend
Year 3 Friday 14th November 2025
Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 3:58pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
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We have had a brilliant week this week, with lots of new learning, some animation and a very hands on rock experiment.
Home Practice
Continue with your fantastic home reading. Everyone is making amazing progress this year and this is down to your great home reading and regular practise!
This week we have set 3 challenges on Sumdog. Good Luck!
Make sure you also go on your fluency booster regularly to keep improving on those difficult skills.
Your spellings this week are from the statutory Year 3/4 spelling list. Use syllables and find the tricky bits to learn these. Choose 2 or 3 a day to work on.
This week in Year 3
We have had another fantastic week in Year 3 with lots of creativity, curiosity and brilliant learning on show.
In English, we completed our wordless adventure story Quest by Aaron Becker. The children have absolutely loved this series and have been so inspired by the incredible illustrations. Using the story as a guide, the class planned and wrote their own adventure tales filled with danger, imagination and heroic moments. Their ideas were amazing. You can see some wonderful examples of their writing in our gallery.
In Maths, we learned how to use the grid method for multiplication. The children showed great resilience as they got to grips with this new layout, and many of them were confidently tackling larger calculations by the end of the week. It has been brilliant to see their understanding grow.
In RE, we revisited the Mass and explored some of the important signs and symbols that help us understand its meaning. The children shared some thoughtful ideas and asked excellent questions about why each part of the Mass is so special within our faith.
In Science, we continued our work on rocks by investigating their uses and testing them for hardness, durability and impermeability. The children loved being hands-on scientists and were full of questions as they explored each sample. We definitely have some budding geologists in the class! Take a look at our gallery to see some of the investigations in action.
In Art, we began our new topic called Drawing with Scissors. The children learned how artists use stencils and collage to create shapes, patterns and bold designs. They made a fantastic start, experimenting with cutting techniques and layering. Some of their first pieces are already in our galleries for you to enjoy.
Finally, in Computing, we explored an AI animation tool. The class had to crop their own creations, attach a digital ‘skeleton’ and then bring their characters to life with movement. They were completely absorbed in the process and produced some brilliant animations. Amazing work, Year 3!
Star of the week - Noa
Super Learner - Jonah
Writer of the week - Dylan
Marvellous Mathematician - Florence
Bookworm - Harrison
Special Mentions - Amelia C for setting a fantastic example to others
A wonderful week all round. Well done everyone!
The Year 3 team
Year 5 blog - Friday 14th November 2025
Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 3:56pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They relate to the use of prefixes.
disappoint, disagree, disobey, misbehave, mislead, misspell, inactive, incorrect, illegal, misunderstood, inaction, invisible, misplace, impossible, unable, unaware, midday
Counting
Count out loud in:
4’s up to 112 and back again 0, 4, 8 …
40’s from 160 to 520 and back again 160, 200, 240…
100’s from 11,200 backwards to 8,000 11,200, 11,100, 11,000…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Everyone has their own targets.
Sumdog
Maths practise – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Year 5 have had another great week of learning, not to mention all the rehearsing – well done!
In English the class have continued to read and discuss the class novel, ‘Escape from Shangri-La’ by Michael Morpurgo. They also thoroughly enjoyed developing their writing skills as sports journalists with Gareth from Literary Kicks. He will be visiting Year 5 every week until Christmas.
In Maths Year 5 have been continuing to practise their measuring skills, including working out the perimeter of various irregular, multi-sided shapes. Everyone tried really hard to be accurate with this.
In RE this week, Year 5 have been reading and discussing the bible story about David and Goliath and how David’s absolute faith in God ensured that he defeated Goliath and protected God’s people from slavery.
Finally, the class have been discussing what it means to be a true friend and what to do when things get tricky in relationships. They have been very positive and resilient in practising their friendship assembly and it was very heart warming to see them all perform so well. A huge well done Year 5!
Golden stars this week
Star of the Week – Trudy
Super Learner – Elena and Henry
Superstar Writer – Tiffany
Bookworm - Caleb
Marvellous Mathematician - Mark
Special Mention - Elena for helping in class and all of Year 5 for their superb behaviour and attitude at Rock and River.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 14th November 2025
Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 3:22pm
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challenge - Ordering numbers
Phonics challenge - Set words depending on phonics groups
Counting – Can you count in 2s to 20?
Reading - Please try and read at least three times a week.
Please remember to bring book bags each day.
English
This week we read the story 'How to Catch a Star' by Oliver Jeffers. We used the connective 'but' in our sentences, drew a story map and re-wrote the story by ourselves.
Phonics
Some of us have started to learn the phase 3 digraphs.
Some of us have continued to recap the phase 3 trigraphs.
Some of us recapped the split digraphs that we have learnt up to now and then learnt the split digraph o_e in stone.
Maths
We compared length using 'longer' and 'shorter' and compared height using 'taller' and 'shorter'.
R.E.
We read The Visitation story and spoke about how Angel Gabriel told Mary that her cousin Elizabeth was also going to have a baby. We wrote in speech bubbles and learnt the Hail Mary together.
In our 'Celebration of the Word' we focused on two words - trust and faith. We realised that they are quite similar and that we need to trust people, just like God trusts us.
P.S.H.E.
We talked about how we have a busy place, a middle place and a happy place. We drew pictures of our happy place.
P.E.
We learnt how to mirror each other's movements whilst pretending to be a robot.
We also had a brilliant session from Freddy Fit!
Art
We drew flowers on top of our handprints from last week. They look amazing!
Science
We sorted animals into their groups (mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects and fish).
History
We compared toys from the present-day. We wrote what was the same about them and what was different.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Ada C and Ada G
Super Learner: Jack
Superstar Writer: Thomas
Bookworm: Noah B
Marvellous Mathematician: Indie
Special Mentions: Lucas and Felicity for their flower sketching in Art.
Reception Blog - Friday 14th November 2025
Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 1:48pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week we learnt the new sounds; r, h and b.
Drwing Club
In Drawing Club, we listened to the story; ‘Coming to England.’ It is all about Floella’s long journey to England on a boat. We have planned what we would pack in our suitcases if we took a long journey.
Maths
This week we explored the number 6.
RE
We spoke about our mothers again and how important they are.
We then learnt about Jesus’ Mother, Mary.
Understanding the World
This week we used google maps to explore and talk about where we live (United Kingdom). We had a look for the Spar and Booths.
PE
We had a great session with Freddy Fit this week, doing lots of fitness exercises and talking about healthy eating.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week – Rosie
Super Learner – Joey
Superstar Writer – Erin
Bookworm – Henry W
Mathematician – Henry B
Special Mention – Caleb and Cameron – for being great friends to everyone.
Year 4 Blog Friday 14th November 2025
Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 1:47pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.
Discuss what you have read with an adult.
Can you summarise what you have read previously or make a prediction about what you think will happen next?
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
perhaps popular position possess possession
possible pressure probably promise purpose
quarter recent regular reign remember
sentence potatoes question separate special straight
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 9’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 108 and back again
0 9 18 etc 108 99 90 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, 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.
TTRockstars challenge
A ‘garage’ session
Sumdog challenges
A spelling challenge based on the words above
A maths challenge based on the formal written method of column subtraction
Our Learning this week
In English, we learnt more about subordinating conjunctions and practised using them at the beginning of a sentence.
We needed to remember to include a comma after the subordinate clause.
Have a look at some ‘human sentences’ in our gallery.
In Maths, we revised and learnt more about the formal written method of subtraction.
We subtracted 4 digit numbers from 4 digit numbers, including exchanging.
In RE, we read Matthew 3:1-12 and Mark 1:1-8 which both introduce John the Baptist.
We discussed John the Baptist’s message and what he was wearing, and considered how this was similar in style to the prophet Elijah.
In Science, we constructed and named the different parts of a simple circuit – these are the words we used – motor, bulb, crocodile clips, wires, battery or cell, buzzer, and switch.
See our gallery for some pictures of a simple circuit to light a bulb.
In Art, we continued our topic ‘Exploring Pattern’.
We were given a ‘rule’ and then followed and developed our own pattern from this.
Take a look in our gallery for some examples.
In Geography, we discussed and explained what a river is.
We found out that river usually begins high up on a hill or mountain and the water then flows downhill due to gravity.
The river then grows in size as other streams feed into it.
Finally, the river water flows into the sea or a large lake – this is the mouth of the river and where the journey ends.
This week we were also visited by Freddy Fit.
We enjoyed being put through our paces with fun workouts, and learning how to keep our minds and bodies fit and healthy.
Have a look at some pictures in our gallery.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Mia
Super Learner: Noah
Superstar Writer: Heidi
Bookworm: Annie
Marvellous Mathematician: Rowan
Special Mentions: Drew – for working her socks off with a smile on her face
The Year 4 team
Year 6 Blog - Friday 14th November 2025
Date: 13th Nov 2025 @ 1:38pm
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been learning all about how to write a persuasive battle speech. We have investigated what features a persuasive speech needs to have to be effective and applied these to our own writing. We have also researched D-Day, so that we could understand the context for our writing. We have worked hard to write in role as a captain inspiring his men before the battle.
Maths
This week, we have completed our fractions unit by learning how to find a fraction of an amount by dividing by the denominator and multiplying by the numerator. We have also investigated how to find a percentage of a number. In our new algebra topic, we have found missing values by comparing similarities and differences.
RE
In RE, we have shared the Magnificat together. We created some beautiful artwork inspired by Mary's message that God's love can turn the world upside down! We also listened to different songs based on the Magnificat and discussed how they linked to Luke's gospel.
Topic
In History, we learned about the home front in WW2. We researched all about rationing, evacuation and the role of women to create some amazing information texts.
In Computing, we discussed what was acceptable to share online and how we could react to different scenarios of information being shared.
This week, we also all participated in a 'Freddie Fit' session. We enjoyed keeping fit and working on our teamwork skills.
Home practice
Please complete the following tasks by Thursday:
Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen.
Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Spelling -
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vicious |
conscious |
malicious |
suspicious |
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fictitious |
infectious |
nutritious |
cautious |
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precious |
ambitious |
ferocious |
gracious |
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spacious |
scrumptious |
vivacious |
anxious |
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delicious |
tenacious |
superstitious |
pretentious |
Please practise these spellings this week. The rule to practise is looking at -cious and and -tious endings.
All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test on Friday.
Maths Challenges:
Sumdog
Counting:
This week I would like you to practise counting in multiples.
Draw a numberline and choose a starting number. Then choose a times table. How far can you count up in your multiples?
Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!
Maths Task: This week's learning is to practise your learning on fractions.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Bella
Super Learner - William
Superstar Writer - Imogen
Bookworm - Sam
Marvellous Mathematician - Edison
Special Mentions - Alfie G: for working hard in our History research on WW2.
Have a wonderful weekend Year 6!
Year 2 Blog Friday 14th November 2025
Date: 13th Nov 2025 @ 1:03pm
Home Practice
Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (21.11.25):
improve sure sugar eye could
should would who whole any
Sumdog: Complete the multiplication - arrays and spelling challenges.
Counting: We still need to work on doubling and halving so at home count doubles and halves.
For example, double 1 is 2, double 8 is 16 or half of 50 is 25, half of 18 is 9.
Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and practise doubling and halving.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
English
The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield.
The children wrote a setting description about Bear's forest using super noun phrases. For example - tall, bushy trees, crunchy, brown leaves or bright, sparkling sun.
We also wrote a letter to Bear to help him decide if he should stay in his forest or move to the big city.
Maths
We learnt about multiplication as repeated addition and arrays. Our knowledge of doubling helped us with this.
We also learnt about the pattern of 2s, 5s and 10s.
We had a fun fitness session with Freddy.
The children were full of energy and excitement, joining in with motivational music and games.
Geography
We continued our work on the seven continents and five oceans of the world.
We also discussed North, South, East and West and worked out which continent was north of Africa etc.
History
We learnt more about Remembrance day, made poppies and wrote our own poppy poems.
RE
We read The Annunciation of Zechariah (John the Baptist) (Lk 1:5-20)
The children got into groups of three and acted out the story.
It has been so exciting auditioning, choosing our parts and learning all the songs/actions for our Nativity Play.
Science
We learnt about how baby adults grow into adult animals and the different names, for example, a lamb grows into a sheep.
Art
We learnt about small drawing this week. We carefully looked at small objects and drew them in pencil. We thought carefully about how our wrists move when drawing and how important it is to keep looking at what we are drawing.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week - Hannah
Super Learner - Jaxon
Superstar Writer - Luca
Bookworm - Seb
Mathematician - Joshua W.
Special Mentions - Honey for thoughtful RE
and Buzz for beng a great friend.
Everyone looked briliant today in their Children In Need outfits.
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Year 5 Friday blog 7th November 2025
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 4:48pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week: -
available, average, awkward, bargain, bruise, category, cemetery, committee, competition, conscience, conscious, controversy, convenience, correspond, criticise, curiosity, definite, desperate
Counting
Count out loud in:
8’s up to 160 and back again 0, 8, 16 …
40’s from 160 to 520 and back again 160, 200, 240…
250’s from 3250 backwards to 1250 3250, 3000, 2750…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Everyone has their own targets.
Sumdog
Maths practise – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Please also continue to use the fluency booster on Sumdog.
Year 5 have had a fabulous week of learning and have put in 100% positive effort – well done!
In English the class have started a new class novel called ‘Escape from Shangri-La’ by Michael Morpurgo. Everyone enjoyed writing a diary entry by Cessie, about her first meeting with her long lost grandfather.
In Maths Year 5 have been practising measuring angles, using protractors, as well as naming acute, obtuse and reflex angles.
Year 5 have been learning about David the shepherd boy, who was chosen to become king by God. They have been discussing what it is that God saw in David’s heart which made him choose him.
Finally, the class enjoyed a fantastic day out at Rock and River - working in teams on the water, competing against each other in archery and developing their climbing skills on the tower and on the ropes course. Year 5 behaved brilliantly and everyone showed real positivity and enthusiasm for each activity. Well done Year 5!
Special mention this week – Mark Cooke
Mark came third out of 2,491 entrants in Lancashire in the regional Sumdog competition – a fantastic achievement. Well done Mark!
Year 1 Blog - Friday 7th November 2025
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 3:34pm
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challenge - Fewer, more, the same
Phonics challenge - Set words depending on phonics groups
Counting – Can you count in 5s to 50?
Reading - Please try and read at least three times a week.
Please remember to bring book bags each day.
English
This week we read the story of Bob - the man on the moon. Bob's job is to clean the moon as pesky aliens kept making it dirty! We used adjectives and verbs to describe our own alien, then we ordered the story, focusing on using the days of the week in the correct order. See our pictures here.
We also wrote our own firework poems using onomatopoeia sounds.
Phonics
Some of us started phase 3, focusing on the single letter sounds - j, w, v, x, y and z.
Some of us have recapped the phase 3 trigraphs.
Some of us started to learn the split digraphs - a_e in game, e_e in Eve and i_e in slime.
Maths
We have been comparing numbers using the vocabulary of 'more', 'fewer' and 'equal to'.
We also practised our number formation. See our pictures here.
R.E.
We read the Annunciation story where Angel Gabriel visited Mary to tell her about Jesus. We role played the story in groups and talked about how Mary might have felt.
In our 'Celebration of theWord' we focused on Jesus stating that Church is a special place to go to, which is for praying and for talking to God.
P.S.H.E.
We talked our how we all have a 'busy place' that our brain goes to when we are worried or scared. We thought of different things that we could do to get back to our 'happy place'.
Art
We printed handprints in our sketchbooks using a layering technique.
Science
We identified different animals.
History
We explored the differences between toys from the past and the present.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Zara
Super Learner: Noah J
Superstar Writer: Felicity
Bookworm: Elsie
Marvellous Mathematician: Hartley
Special Mentions: Evie E and Rupert - for their fantastic artwork
Year 3 Friday Blog 7th November 2025
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 2:20pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
What a lovely first week back it has been in Year 3! The children have settled back into school life beautifully and are already working hard in our second half-term together. We have also begun preparing for our Advent Assembly, which will take place in a couple of weeks. The children are very excited to start learning and practising their songs.
Home practice
Continue with all your brilliant home reading. We have a huge selection of books at school so if you want to have some more, just let us know through the reading diary.
This week we have set 3 Sumdog challenges. Try and spread this practice through the week as regular practice will have a bigger impact on your child's future learning. We have been learning all about multiplication this week and the 4 times table in maths. Here is a song we will be singing in the weeks ahead.
Your spellings this week are a recap on our Key Stage 1 common words.
would could should because said friend hear here where were people knight night father mother beautiful water children
This Week in Year 3
In English, we have started reading Journey by Aaron Becker, a stunning wordless picture book that tells the adventures of a young girl armed only with her imagination and a red crayon. The children have been putting words to the story and creating some truly fantastic sentences. Next week, we will move on to the sequel Quest and begin exploring descriptive writing and sentence starters to make our writing even more exciting.
In Maths, we have been learning all about multiplication and how to use pattern spotting to solve problems efficiently. We have also introduced the 4 times table, and the children have shown great determination in tackling these new facts. Next week, we will be learning how to use the grid method to help us multiply larger numbers, an exciting next step.
Our new Science topic is Rocks, and the children loved investigating different types of rocks and exploring their features. We discovered what makes each rock unique and created some brilliant informative posters to showcase our learning.
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In RE, we have started our new topic, Prophecy and Promise, by learning about the day of rest and the importance of the Mass. Throughout this half term, we will also be reflecting on the season of Advent and preparing our hearts for Christmas.
Finally, in PE, we have kicked off our new hockey unit. The children have enjoyed learning how to control the ball, move with precision and work as a team during our mini-games.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week - Elyse
Super Learner - Adam
Writer of the week - Henry Y
Marvellous Mathematician - George
Bookworm - Zack W
Special Mentions - Lydia, Noa and Rose for showing kindness on the playground.
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A brilliant start to the half term, Year 3. Keep up the amazing work!
The Year 3 team
Reception Blog - Friday 7th November 2025
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 12:44pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
What a great first week back we have had!
Phonics
This week we have been learning the new sounds; ck, e and u. We have been talking about words with them in, for example sock, egg and umbrella.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club, we have been listening to the story; ‘What’s in the Witch's Kitchen?’
We have been drawing our own witch and thinking of things which could be in her kitchen.
Maths
This week we have been exploring the number 5.
RE
This week we have been recapping the Bible and what it is for.
Then we began to talk about mothers and how important they are.
Understanding the World
This week we have been understanding the meaning of Remembrance Day.
We have made our own poppy, to show a symbol of peace.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we have been making our own firework pictures.
PE
We have been practising skipping and making our own dances to the music of Toy Story.
Outdoor Learning Day
This week we had an outdoor learning day and planted poppy seeds.
We can't wait to watch them grow!
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week – Maeve
Super Learner – Jenson
Superstar Writer – Arabella
Bookworm – Elijah
Mathematician – Lucie
Special Mention – Louie, for his fantastic poppy art.