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Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 4:11pm
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.
doubt island lamb solemn thistle knight badge bomb butcher ghost knee answer comb
Christmas honest knife sword crumb
Counting
Count out loud in:
7s up to 105 and back again 0,7, 14, 21 …
30s from 390 to 840 and back again 390, 420, 450 …
10s from 2110 backwards to 1790 2110, 2100, 2090 …
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables. There is a new task set up on TTRS for children to access.
Sumdog
Maths practise based on prime numbers and multiplication – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs.
We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus and times tables challenges.
We have had a great learning week in Year 5.
Year 5 have been creating reports about Russian Blue cats and discovering about the strange vanishings in our novel Varjak Paw. We also enjoyed a visit from the Japanese students who taught us how to write our names in Japanese!
In Maths we have been identifying prime numbers and also practising our grid method for multiplication, using 2 digit numbers x 3 digit numbers.
This week in RE, we have been acting out real life scenarios where we could choose to sin or follow one of God’s commandments.
In history we are all working hard to create informative reports about Victorian life in Lancashire! We learned about the Industrial Revolution and how much life changed at this time.
PE was varied this week – a mixture of Freddy Fit, Tag Rugby and handball. Well done Year 5 for giving everything a go!
Finally, it was British science week so Year 5 spent time looking at lifecycles as well as trying to create static using our whiteboards. It was lots of fun!
Reception Blog - Friday 14th March 2025
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 3:20pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week Mrs Robinson’s group have been learning the sounds ai and ee and Mrs Dixon’s group have been learning the sound oo (long and short).
Drawing Club
This week in Drawing Club we have been doing some non-fiction writing all about chicks, using our sounds to write labels.
Maths
This week we used the part whole model to find one more and one less.
RE
This week we talked about Lent and what it is. We then listened to other children and how they celebrate Lent in their countries.
We discussed the Stations of the Cross and how Jesus felt.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we made our own paper flowers.
Understanding the World
This week we enjoyed bird spotting outside using binoculars.
PE
This week we have had a visit from Freddy Fit. We had so much fun in teams, racing to build a hula den.
My Happy Mind
This week we continued our new topic of Appreciate.
We listened to the story of Arabella and her friends at the seaside and talked about her feelings at different parts of the story.
Japanese Lesson
This week had a Japanese lesson with Yuichi and his students. It focussed on Japanese Festivals. The children took part in 4 different Japanese Festival games.
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 2:39pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
We’ve had another fantastic week in Year 3! The children have been working so hard and showing great enthusiasm for their learning.
Home Practice
Keep up with regular reading at home and remember to change books when needed. Practising little and often makes such a big difference!
In maths, we have been applying our written methods to statistics questions. This has been a great challenge, and the children have shown brilliant problem-solving skills. We have set some Sumdog challenges to reinforce this learning and improve our number fluency.
Counting Practice - Next week we will be learning about fractions. Practise counting forwards and backwards in thirds, quarters, fifths, eighths and tenths.
Spellings have been sent home today—keep practising a little each night to help improve accuracy and confidence.
This Week in Year 3
English
This week, we focused on recount writing, using Toro! Toro! as inspiration. The children wrote powerful pieces retelling the bombing of Sauceda. Their use of description and emotion was excellent—well done, everyone!
Maths
We continued developing our written methods and applied them to statistics questions. The children worked hard to interpret data in tables and charts, showing great resilience when tackling tricky problems.
RE
We learned about the Offertory and the Liturgy of the Eucharist. The children reflected on why these parts of the Mass are so important and learned a new song to help deepen our understanding.
Freddie Fit Visit
On Wednesday, we had a fantastic visit from Freddy Fit! The children loved getting active and learning about keeping fit and healthy. It was brilliant to see so much energy and enthusiasm throughout the session—check out our gallery for some action shots!
Computing
We have been looking at how to design magazine covers using placeholders for text and images. This week, we created some fantastic templates using our brilliant Whizz, Pop, Bang magazines as inspiration. The children showed great creativity and attention to detail in their designs!
Music
This week, we used our iPads to create some amazing pieces of music. The children experimented with different sounds, rhythms, and melodies, producing some really impressive compositions. Well done, everyone!
Science
As part of Science week we had some baby chicks visit our class. We looked at them in detail and discussed the function of all their features. We then created some fantastic scientific sketches.
A great week of learning all around! Have a lovely weekend, everyone.
The Year 3 Team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 14th March 2025
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 12:44pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
We've had a very busy week this week!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Number line to 20
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Counting - We have been practising counting from 0 to 40, forwards and backwards. Please practise this at home!
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We read a different version of The Princess and the Pea - The Princess and the Greedy Pea! We predicted what could happen in the story, made a menu for the greedy pea, explored different rhyming words and wrote our own poem, deciding what the greedy pea could eat next!
Phonics
Some of us have been comparing the oa sounds: oa in oak, o_e in stone, ow in grow and oe in toe.
Some of us have continued to learn the different ai spellings: a in acorn and ea in great.
Maths
We have been counting in twos and fives and placing missing numbers on a number line.
R.E.
We recapped the story of Jesus entering Jersusalem. We ordered the story and recorded videos of ourselves saying the story.
History
We learnt about a different nurse this week, who like Florence Nightingale, changed hospitals for the better. We read about Edith Cavell and how she helped soldiers in the war. We wrote some amazing facts about her and compared her to Florence.
Science
We went on a Spring walk around school. We spotted new flowers and wildlife.
P.E.
We challenged ourselves to throw and catch through hoops this week. We had to listen to our partner in order to make the throwing easier or harder.
Art
We painted watercolour pictures ready for our Mother's Day assembly.
Forest School
We worked in the nature area. We had a go at building shelters using tarps, ropes, pegs and mats. Great teamwork and co-operation was shown. We are noticing all the changes in our nature area, new leaves, new buds, and it's warmer!
Freddy Fit
We had so much fun with Freddy on Wednesday! We worked brilliantly in our teams.
Library
We walked down to the library and listened to three Easter stories. We also made our own bunnies to take home.
Japanese students
A big thank you to Haruka and Yuichi who have been with us for two weeks. The Japanese students set up Japanese games for us to play in the classroom.
Year 2 Blog- Friday 14th March
Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 11:38am
Welcome to your Friday Blog.
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 (21.03.25):
easily quickly sadly strangely cleverly luckily happily quietly busily coldly
Sumdog:
Counting:
Starting at zero, count in twos forwards and backwards to 100.
Play the 'follow me' game where one person says the multiple of two and the other person says the next multiple of two. Continue like this, then try to go faster!
Times Tables:
Great work on your 10 Division Facts.
Next week, Thursday (20.03.25) we will quiz your knowledge of the 10 division facts in a muddled order.
Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and do a bit more practise on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
English
We finished our learning through the story of Manfred The Baddie. We wrote questions for a quiz to see how well we knew the book. We wrote a poster to try and find the missing scientist after he was kidnapped. We finished designing our diabolical machines and wrote a description about how they worked.
SPaG
We learnt about how to use the suffix ly.Nice becomes nicely, terrible becomes terribly.
Maths
We have been learning how to measure mass and capacity. We practised reading scales.
My Happy Mind
We finished our learning about being grateful. We designed our own poster.
Forest School
We planted the remaining seeds from last week.
We worked in the log circle area.
We spotted buds starting to appear.
Science
Some of the seeds we planted last week have started to grow and we can see the shoots appearing. We know that in the other pots there will be growing happening from the time-lapse videos we have watched, we just can't see it yet!
We recorded what we observed in our growing diary.
Freddy Fit
Everyone had a great time keeping fit with Freddy. He also talked to us about healthy eating and getting enough sleep.
Golden Assembly
We had a brilliant assembly. We all joined in with a dance which the students from Japan taught us.
We also watched some former pupils perform Irish dancing to celebrate St Patrick's Day.
We said goodbye to Yuichi and his students at the end of their two weeks in school.
Year 4 Blog Friday 14th March 2025
Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 10:24am
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 and find out the meaning of any words you are unsure of.
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
division invasion confusion decision collision
television mission fission submission supervision
expansion vision version illusion immersion
corrosion mansion pension
Counting
This week, please practise counting in hundredths
For example, start at 0.01 and count to 0.21 and back again
0.01 0.02 0.03 etc 0.21 0.20 0.19 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 dividing one and two digit numbers by 10 and 100
Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs.
We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus and times tables challenges.
In English, we identified pronouns in a text which helped us to understand the function of pronouns. We also continued reading our class novel (Wonka) spotting a variety of pronouns as we read.
In Maths, we learnt how to correctly place multiples of 0.01 on a numberline with multiples of 0.1 marked on, but not labelled. In addition, we described the concept of dividing a one and a two digit number by 100, and doubled a number which had ones and tenths. You can see some pictures of us using place value counters to help us calculate doubles in our gallery.
In RE, we learnt the name and described the Corporal Works of Mercy. We found out that Works of Mercy are ways that we can live out the commandment to love our neighbour. They are to:
- feed the hungry
- give drink to the thirsty
- clothe the naked
- shelter the homeless
- visit the sick
- visit the imprisoned
- bury the dead
In Science, we planned an experiment to find out which type of chocolate melts the fastest. We discussed the melting points of different substances and then made predictions, drew the method and considered things to change / keep the same for our investigation.
In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we learnt which hormone / chemical is released when we give or receive gratitude. In addition, we learnt how to create a habit of giving gratitude and how gratitude can help us face problems.
In Geography, we discussed what we had learnt about rainforests during our trip to Chester Zoo. We then consolidated our learning with some research into the different plants, animals and conditions found in each of the different layers of the rainforest. Following this, we recorded the information in our books. Take a look at our work in the gallery.
This week, we also enjoyed a fantastic trip to Chester Zoo. We visited lots of different animals and found out lots of information about the rainforest during our workshop session. Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.
On Friday afternoon, we were also treated to a lesson given by the Japanese students. We created our own friendship flags and you can see some pictures in the gallery.
We wish the Japanese students and Yuichi a safe journey back to Japan and would like to thank them for teaching us about their culture.
On Wednesday, we had a super time keeping fit with Freddy. He also taught us how to keep both our bodies and our minds healthy.
The Year 4 Team
Year 6 Blog - Friday 14th March 2025
Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 8:06am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been revising how to use active and passive voice, as well as modal verbs. We also edited our dialogues of 'Little Freak' and wrote our own version from the perspective of the father
Maths
This week, we have been learning about ratio. We have learned how to use scaling and how to share in a given ratio.
RE
In RE, we shared the gospel story of 'The First Farewell Discourse' and wrote a diary entry in role as Peter, thinking carefully about his thoughts and feelings. We also read the gospel story where Jesus was arrested and brought before Pilate. We debated whether Jesus had a fair trail and discussed what made a trial fair.
Topic
In My Happy Mind, we continued our topic called 'Appreciate'. We thought about what we appreciated about ourselves, other people and experiences and learned how appreciation has benefits for our mental wellbeing.
In Art, we continued our portrait topic by drawing portraits of each other! We held a 'portrait club' session in class.
For Science we investigated how changing the voltage in a circuit affected the brightness of a bulb. You can see pictures of our investigation on the galleries page!
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday:
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 -
Spellings this week are from the Y5/Y6 and the Y3/Y4 statutory spellings.
We will have our test on the 21/03/25
It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.
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persuade |
programme |
particular |
possess |
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physical |
pronunciation |
peculiar |
possession |
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prejudice |
queue |
perhaps |
possible |
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privilege |
recognise |
popular |
potatoes |
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profession |
recommend |
position |
pressure |
SATS Revision:
Today, the children have been given a login for SATs bootcamp. This is a fantastic website, which will really help with the children's SATs revision: https://www.yearsix.co.uk/sats-boot-camp/.
Please complete the following topics for next Thursday:
Maths - Topic 7: Fractions
English - Topic 15: Reading Skills
Have a great weekend Year 6!
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 4:17pm
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.
Possible horribly visible incredibly legible possibly terrible visibly sensible legibly horrible terribly incredible sensibly forcible forcibly impossible impossibly
Counting
Count out loud in:
5s up to 110 and back again 0,5,10,15 …
50s from 550 to 1350 and back again 550,600,650,700…
10s from 1080 down to 890 1080, 1070, 1060, 1050…
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables. There is a new task set up on TTRS for children to access.
Sumdog
Maths practise based on factors and multiplication – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs.
We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus and times tables challenges.
We have had a super learning week in Year 5.
In English, we have been practising using direct speech in our writing. We also debated the character’s actions in the novel. Everyone is enjoying Varjak Paw.
In Maths we identified factor pairs and learnt the divisibility rules of numbers. It’s been a lot to learn, but we rose to the challenge superbly. It’s lovely to see us all trying our best.
This week in RE, we reminded ourselves of Jesus’ temptations during his 40 days in the desert and we discussed the temptations we face too!
In geography we started to learn about earthquakes: what they are, where they happen and why. We also established that they don’t really happen in our country as we are not sitting on a plate boundary!
Finally, we all embraced World Book Day by coming to school dressed as a character. We also had a lovely visit from Tom, who used to work at Longton library, to talk about ideas for this summer’s reading challenge.
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 2:50pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
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We have had a great week in Year 3 with World book day and the arrival of our Japanese visitors
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 Sumdog challenges, one is practising your times tables and the other is on addition and subtraction. 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 the Year 3 /4 statutory words
minute, nature, naughty, notice, occasional, occasionally, opposite, ordinary, particular,
mention, notice, peculiar, potatoes, perhaps, popular, often, pressure, position
This week in Year 3
In RE we have been learning the last supper story and comparing it with the feeding of the 5000. We created some beautiful pop up pictures and had some lovely ideas.
We have loved having our Japanese visitors. Next week they will be teaching us a Japanese dance!
We are loving Toro, Toro! This week we read about Paco's escape and how Antonito rescued him. We have been learning how to use conjunctions to develop our ideas.
In maths we have been learning the tricky column method for addition and subtraction. We use this method when we have to exchange.
In PE we played some handball and touch rugby, practising our invasion games and fundamental skills. Well done Year 3!
Today in DT we learned how to make a new mechanism. Everyone showed great perseverance when constructing their designs. Have a look in our galleries.
Have a great weekend
The Year 3 Team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 7th March 2025
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 12:41pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Place value - tens and ones
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Counting - Count in tens from different numbers e.g. 19, 29, 39, 49
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We read our next Traditional Tale - The Princess and the Pea. We have produced some amazing writing this week. We focused on using 'I' and past tense verbs to write our own diary, pretending to be the princess.
We then learnt how to edit our writing using purple pens, dictionaries and thesauruses!
Phonics
Some of us have been learning different ai spellings and different ee spellings.
Some of us have also been exploring the different ai spellings: ay in play, ey in grey, a_e in shape and eigh in neigh.
Maths
We have been adding and taking away ten from numbers. We had the discussion about how the ones number does not change, only tens.
We used base ten to make numbers, making sure that we check each time.
R.E.
We read the story of Jesus arriving in Jerusalem. We made welcome posters for Jesus.
History
We learnt all about Florence Nightingale and why she was so important. We learnt that she strived to make hospitals a safer place to be, by cleaning and providing medicine.
Science
The chicks were delivered to the classroom on Monday! We were so excited to see them hatch out of their shells. On Thursday, we were able to hold them!
P.E.
We recapped how to throw a beanbag underarm, focusing on our aim and power. We tried throwing to a partner and into a hoop.
Please remember to have trainers in your PE kit. We are outside this half term!
World Book Day
We had a lot of fun going on an orienteering scavenger hunt outside to find questions about different books. We worked brilliantly together!
Year 4 Blog Friday 7th March 2025
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 10:02am
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 already read and make a prediction about what you think will happen next?
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
yellow red purple green white
blue orange turquoise two three
four eight twelve eleven thirteen
thirty nineteen eighty
Counting
This week, please practise counting in tenths
For example, start at 1.8 and count to 3.5 and back again
1.8 1.9 2.0 etc 3.5 3.4 3.3 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 ‘girls v boys’ tournament
Sumdog challenges
- A spelling challenge based on the words above
- A maths challenge based on comparing decimal numbers
Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs.
We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus and times tables challenges.
In English, we wrote a dialogue between Wonka and Mrs Scrubitt using the rules we’d learnt about direct speech.
In Maths, we consolidated our knowledge about numbers to two decimal places in the context of money and then compared and ordered decimal numbers.
In RE, we listened to the parable of the sheep and the goats, and then expressed a view about who the sheep represented, and who the goats represented. We also wrote a Lenten promise and attended church on Ash Wednesday.
In Science, we compared ice and other frozen liquids and observed how they melt. We also recorded our observations of an ice cube melting – starting as a solid and finishing as a liquid. Finally, we prepared an investigation into how different liquids freeze. You can see some pictures in our gallery.
In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we learnt how to develop an ‘Attitude of Gratitude’ – learning how it feels to give and receive gratitude. We also learnt what the ‘Gratitude Domino Effect’ is.
In PE, we developed ways of travelling (for example, using our hands and feet to travel like a caterpillar, frog or monkey) and balancing (for example balancing on one leg for 10 seconds). We will attempt to incorporate some of these into a gymnastics sequence over the coming weeks. Take a look in our gallery.
In Geography, we learnt the names of the 4 different layers of the rainforest. We then found out about the different plants and animals which are found in each of the different layers due to their unique nature.
Enjoy your weekend!
The Year 4 team
Year 6 Blog - Friday 7th March 2025
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 7:53am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been revising how to use clauses, phrases and tenses in our writing. We were also inspired by the video 'Little Freak' to write our own dialogues from the perspective of Little Freak.
Maths
This week, we have been learning all about fractions. We have revised how to add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers. We have also learned how to multiply and divide fractions.
RE
In RE, we shared the gospel story of 'The Anointing at Bethany' and wrote some beautiful prayers about what this scripture revealed to us about Jesus. We also shared and discussed the gospel story where Jesus washes the feet of his disciples. We reflected on what this story teaches us and how we can live this message each day.
Topic
In My Happy Mind, we began our new topic called 'Appreciate'. We thought carefully about what we appreciated about ourselves, other people and experiences.
In Art, we started our new topic and made visual notes for exploring our identity. We were inspired by the photographs of Thandiwe Muriu.
For spelling, we revised the ou letter string, prefixes and the suffix -ation.
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday:
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 -
Spellings this week are from the Y5/Y6 and the Y3/Y4 statutory spellings.
We will have our test on the 14/03/25
It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.
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marvellous |
nuisance |
mention |
occasion |
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mischievous |
occupy |
minute |
occasionally |
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muscle |
occur |
natural |
often |
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necessary |
opportunity |
naughty |
opposite |
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neighbour |
parliament |
notice |
ordinary |
SATS Revision:
Today, the children have been given a login for SATs bootcamp. This is a fantastic website, which will really help with the children's SATs revision: https://www.yearsix.co.uk/sats-boot-camp/.
Please complete the following topics for next Thursday:
Maths - Topic 12: Area and Perimeter
English - Topic 14: Prepositions and Determiners
Have a super weekend Year 6!
Date: 4th Mar 2025 @ 10:01am
Welcome to your Friday Blog.
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 (14.03.25):
knight night bare bear flower flour hear here see sea
Sumdog:
Counting:
Starting at zero, count in fives forwards and backwards to 100.
Play the 'follow me' game where one person says the multiple of five and the other person says the next multiple of five. Continue like this, then try to go faster!
Times Tables:
Great work on your 10 Times Table.
Next week, Thursday (13.03.25) we will quiz your knowledge of the 10 division facts in order as seen below.
Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and do a bit more practise on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
English
We continued our learning through the story of Manfred the Baddie. We closely examined the picture of his hideout and discussed what features an effective hideout needs. We designed and labelled our own hideout.
Manfred has henchmen who work for him. We wrote in role as Manfred as he decided he needed to recruit some more henchmen and hench ladies!
We wrote great descriptions of all the attributes and skills these people would need.
SPaG
We learnt about contractions, I'm, there's, here's, doesn't.
Maths
We continued our learning about money. We found different ways to make amounts with coins. We used our knowledge to solve problems involving money.
R.E.
We had a lovely collective worship about the start of Lent.
We made our own Lenten promises which will be displayed in the hall.
My Happy Mind
We discussed all the experiences we are grateful for. We recognised how it is so important to take time to appreciate all the experiences we have.
Forest School
We had a great session in our nature area. We spotted all the flowers growing and how they have changed even from last week.
We had the den building equipment out and demnstrated some excellent teamwork.
World Book Day
Everyone looked brilliant in their costumes for World Book Day.
We read a lot of books and even had a parent come and read the end of day story (Zog) to us.
We also went outside and did a book scavenger hunt and designed our own book tokens.
Y2 really enjoyed the day!
We welcomed our visitors from Japan.
We are so lucky to have a student in Year 2. She is enjoying spending time with us and seeing how we learn.
Year 2 Team.
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 3:52pm
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. Don't forget to add them to your vocabulary book!
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week.
adorable enjoyable reliable applicable readable tolerable changeable noticeable dependable
reasonable comfortable understandable considerable reasonably considerably reliably
shoulder soldier
Counting
Count out loud in:
2s up to 46 and back again 0,2,4,6 …
60s from 540 to 900 and back again 540,600, 660 …
11s from 132 down to 0 132, 121, 110…
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables and division. There is a new task set up on TTRS for children to access.
Sumdog
Maths practise based on addition and subtraction – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs.
We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus and times tables challenges.
We have had another great learning week in Year 5.
In English, Year 5 had a fabulous week full of poetry – everyone wrote and performed some amazing poems. We have a lot of very talented poets! We also started reading our new novel - Varjak Paw.
In Maths we practised lots of different ways to complete addition and subtraction calculations. Well done Year 5!
This week in RE, we explored symbols relating to Ash Wednesday and thought about the meaning of Lent, which starts next week.
In PSHE we talked about different medicines and drugs, especially the contents of cigarettes and vapes. The children were very knowledgeable about this and we had lots of conversation about the negative effect they can have on physical health.
In Science, we started our new topic about animals and human life cycles. We compared an average human life span to that of other mammals.
Well done Year 5 - a super week with lots of learning!
Year 3 Friday blog 28th February 2025
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 3:47pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
It was lovely seeing you all on parents' evening and the children were very proud to show off all their learning!
Home Practice
Continue with your amazing reading at home. Everyone has made great progress in their reading this year so far.
Your home spellings are all a recap of the common words from Key Stage 1. Some of these can be decoded with phonics but it will also help to learn them by sight. Lots of regular practise will help this.
On Sumdog we have set the usual challenges. Everyone has a individual times table target now and this will be set in their times tables challenge. We will review these every week.
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 3:37pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week we learnt the 'ee' and 'ai' sounds and practised all of our tricky words.
Drawing Club
This week in Drawing Club we read the story ‘Oliver's Fruit Salad’ and designed our own fruit dessert.
Maths
This week we have been spotting patterns and finding similarities and differences.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we made stories using cut outs from magazines.
Understanding the World
We started our new growing topic by exploring and tasting lots of fruits and vegetables.
We loved the mango and pomegranate.
Have a lovely weekend!
The Reception Team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 28th February 2025
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 3:32pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Place value - tens and ones
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Sumdog update: Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs. We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus.
Counting - We have continued to count in ones this week, especially when crossing boundaries (e.g. 19 to 20). Practise counting on from different numbers.
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We have started learning about fairy tales, focusing on the story of The Three Little Pigs. We read this story in Reception so we were really good at repeating the words together.
We made a change to the story. We changed the wolf to our own bad character and re-wrote the story.
Phonics
Some of us have been recapping the phase 5 sounds.
Some of us have started to compare the different oo spellings. We have recapped oo in moon, ew in chew, u_e in flute and ue in glue.
Maths
We have continued to learn about place value and how numbers are made of tens and ones. We have been counting in ones to check that we know which numbers come next. We have also used the base ten to make different numbers.
R.E.
We learnt about Jesus being tempted in the desert. We talked about the word 'temptation' and how it can be tricky to do the right thing. We linked the story to Lent and we wrote a Lenten promise each.
History
We started our new History topic all about hospitals. We looked at pictures of hospitals from the past and compared them to present-day hospitals. We learnt that hospitals in the past were very dirty and dangerous!
Science
We started to learn about the weather, which will lead onto seasonal change later in the half term. We observed the weather and talked about different weather patterns.
P.E.
We started our underarm throwing unit. We learnt how to set our bodies up correctly, focusing on aiming our throw with our spare hand.
Art
We explored watercolour paints, creating our own design.
Music
We had a lot of fun experimenting with Chrome Lab (a free website that can be accessed at home) to create our own sounds. We will be using this website to make some high and low pitched sounds over the coming weeks.
Golden Assembly
Star - Buzz for always trying his best in his learning.
Bookworm - Arianna for excellent reading all week.
Super Learner - Harry for working extremely hard on his listening skills.
Writer - Huxley for an amazing description of his new character in The Three Little Pigs.
Mathematician - Kamali for making numbers using base ten.
Special Mentions - Reuben and Rudy for their kindness. Izzy and Hannah for their amazing French!
Year 2 Blog Friday 28th February 2025
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 1:01pm
Welcome back after our half term break.
It was great to see everyone at Parent's Evening and
share/celebrate Year 2's learning and progress so far.
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 (07.03.25):
there their they're who what why when where which how
Sumdog:
Counting:
Starting at zero, count in tens forwards and backwards. Then choose a different one-digit number to start on. For example, 3, 13, 23, 33 or 9, 19, 29, 39.
Times Tables:
Our first times tables quiz went really well.
Next week, Thursday (06.03.25) we will quiz your knowledge of the 10x table in a muddled up order.
Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and do a bit more practise on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
English
We read our new story, Manfred the Baddie by John Fardell.
The children drew the character and talked about different words (adjectives) they would use to describe him.
They learnt to write expanded noun phrases, which they will use for a character description next week.
Maths
The children have been solving muliplication and division word problems.
They found out that sometimes they need to share, group or draw pictures to work out the answers.
Science
We went outside to observe and draw the crocuses, daffodils and snowdrops which are growing.
R.E.
Year 2 wrote some beautiful prayers for our new prayer tree display next to the library.
We were very lucky to be the first class chosen and wrote prayers asking God to help Pope Francis get better soon.
P.E.
Our new focus this half term is games/fundamental skills.
The children thoroughly enjoyed learning and playing some 20th century playground games.
History
We found out about Tim Berners-Lee who was famous for inventing the World Wide Web.
Music
Year 2 have had great fun experimenting with Chrome Music Lab (a free website they may wish to visit at home) to create their own sounds.
We will be looking at this website to make some high and low pitched sounds over the coming weeks.
Year 2 Team.
Year 6 Blog - Friday 28th February 2025
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 1:53pm
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been revising how to use parenthesis, commas and inverted commas. We created our own quizzes for the class to complete! We also created persuasive posters to encourage someone to come and see the greatest show on earth, inspired by 'The Greatest Showman'.
Maths
This week, we have been learning all about long division and practising being able to divide when there is a remainder. We also thought about how to choose an appropriate strategy to multiply and divide.
RE
In RE, we have started our new topic 'desert to garden'. We made some beautiful title pages!
Topic
In PHSE, we thought about why it is important to 'think before you click' when posting things online.
In Science, we started our new topic on electricity. We learned how to use symbols to represent the components in a circuit.
For Art, we completed our topic on colour by designing our own colourful space!
In Music, Year 6 have used Flocabulary to listen to a rap about climate change. We have begun to write the lyrics to our own raps, and will use Garage Band to create our own drum loops to go with our raps over the next few weeks.
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday:
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 -
Spellings this week are from the Y5/Y6 and the Y3/Y4 statutory spellings.
We will have our test on the 7/03/25
It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.
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hindrance |
interfere
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increase
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learn
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identity
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interrupt
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important |
length
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immediate
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language
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interest
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library
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immediately
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leisure
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island
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material
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individual
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lightning |
knowledge
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medicine |
SATS Revision:
Today, the children have been given a login for SATs bootcamp. This is a fantastic website, which will really help with the children's SATs revision: https://www.yearsix.co.uk/sats-boot-camp/.
Please complete the following topics for next Thursday:
Maths - Topic 16: Shapes
English - Topic 10: Reading skills, vocabulary and language
Have a great weekend Year 6!
Year 4 Blog Friday 28th February 2025
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 10:10am
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 see any speech marks when you are reading – what do you notice about the punctuation?
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
accident accidentally actual actually address
answer appear arrive believe bicycle
breath breathe build busy business
calendar caught centre century certain
Counting
This week, please practise counting in negative numbers
For example, start at -10 and count to 10 and back again
-10 -9 -8 etc 10 9 8 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 tenths and hundredths
In English, we started our new novel – Wonka by Sibeal Pounder. We began by using evidence from the first few chapters to describe Wonka and Scrubitt’s characters – they are both very different! This week, we also revised the rules for dialogue.
In Maths, we consolidated our knowledge of the equivalence of tenths, hundredths, common fractions and decimal form. We now know that ¼ = 25/100 = 0.25 and ¾ = 75/100 = 0.75). In addition, we learnt about numbers to two decimal places in the context of money. You can see us exploring money in our gallery.
In RE, we started our new topic – Desert to Garden. We read the parable of the Prodigal Son and then retold it to show our understanding. Have a look in our gallery for some examples of our work.
In Geography, we explored an atlas to find out where rainforests are usually located around the world. We discovered that rainforests are usually found close to the equator.
In Music, we listened to a song about Dragons and then used YuStudio (on Charanga) to write our own music - our own music was based on the Dragons song we had listened to.
In Computing, we continued our photo editing topic by learning how to clone and retouch images. Following this, we planned an image we wanted to create, took a photograph, and then used the photo editing skills we’d learnt to attempt to create this image. Have a look at our finished projects in our gallery.
In Art, we started a new topic – Exploring still life. We began by looking at the art work of Paul Cezanne. Then we used the ‘Four Colour Gestural Drawing Exercise’. This involved using only 4 colours to help us appreciate how seeing simple shapes can help improve drawing skills.
The Year 4 team
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 4:17pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Reading
Please keep reading over the half term holidays!
English
We have finally completed our ‘Street Child’ novel and everyone really enjoyed our last piece of writing; an advert encouraging people to visit the Victorian circus.
Maths
The children tried really hard with their bridging addition and subtraction. To be continued after half term!
Science
We have now completed our topic on space and our solar system. This week we learned lots of facts about the moon and why it changes its appearance.
Art
Year 5 ended their art unit on set building. There was so much detail in everyone’s recreated workhouses – it was fantastic to see!
Computing
There’s been some fantastic powerpoints created on the Vikings. This week everyone finished them off and added transitions and animations! Well done Year 5!
RE
Finally, we have spent the week giving a lot of thought as to how we could make the village of Longton a more loving place to live in, as part of our theme of mission. There were some fantastic ideas, including friendship clubs, fund raising ideas and ways to help the environment and protect the world God has given us.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 14th February 2025
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 3:50pm
Welcome to your final Friday blog of this half term!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Counting within 20
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Counting - We have been working hard on counting in ones this week, especially when crossing boundaries (e.g. 19 to 20). Practise counting on from different numbers.
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We read our last dragon book called 'The Boy Who Dreamed Dragons'. We met a little boy called Albie who had a great imagination. He dreamed dragons!
We described dragons using adjectives, compared different dragons, ordered the story and chose an animal that we would dream about.
Phonics
Some of us have comparing the igh and i spellings, also the oa and o spellings.
Some of us have been focusing on high frequency words and tricky words. We are becoming super tricky word spotters, recognising them more in our reading books.
Maths
We have been recapping how to distinguish between tens and ones in numbers. We have compared numbers using 'more than' and 'less than' but also giving our reason why. For example: 20 is more than 10 because it has two tens and 10 only has one ten.
R.E.
We read about a man called Zacchaeus who was a tax collector. He was not a nice man but he changed when he met Jesus. We wrote some super sentences describing how Zacchaeus changed.
Geography
We compared physical and human geographical features.
Science
We conducted another experiment to see if materials were absorbent. We quickly realised that we were looking for the opposite results to last week as we now wanted the water to soak into the materials. We chose the best absorbent material out of paper, blue paper towel, cling film and a cotton cloth.
Art
We made Valentine's Day cards for someone special at home. Do not worry if you left your card at school, we will keep it safe!
Forest School
We were in our nature area this week. There was a lot of mud inspired learning! Great imagination and teamwork was shown.
Thank you for all of your hard work. We're looking forward to seeing you at Parents' Evening after half term.
Reception Blog - Friday 14th February 2025
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 3:44pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week we have been recapping all of the sounds we have learnt so far.
Drawing Club
This week in Drawing Club we read the story ‘Superworm.’
We designed our own base and a vehicle for him to escape in.
Maths
This week we have been measuring length, height, width, mass and volume.
RE
We continued to learn the Glory Be and recapped the stories from this half term.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we made Valentines cards.
Understanding the World
We finished our learning about China with a Chinese New Year celebration, trying some chinese food!
Have a lovely, safe half term everyone!
The Reception Team
Year 3 Friday Blog 14th February 2025
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 12:02pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
As it is the half term holiday, there is no home practice set. However, please keep reading every day as this really does help to unlock your learning. Sumdog is also still available for maths and spelling training!
This week in Year 3
We have loved reading Toro Toro. We met Paco the baby bull this week and wrote some fantastic recounts of his birth. Everyone continues to improve their handwriting and presentation. Well done Year 3!
In maths we met a tricky strategy for our division. We looked at repeated addition and grouping and division with remainders. We will meet this again but everyone made a great start!
In RE we finished our Galilee to Jerusalem where we learned about the Gospel of Matthew and the parables of Jesus. It has been lovely listening to everyone's questions and responses to the learning.
In geography we also wrapped up our topic on North America. We investigated the eruption of Mount St Helens and explored the site on Google maps.
In History we completed our learning on the Stone Age to the Iron Age. This has been a popular topic and everyone showed great knowledge in all our Kahoot quizzes! Brilliant History Year 3!
Have a lovely half term break
The Year 3 team
Year 4 Blog Friday 14th February 2025
Date: 13th Feb 2025 @ 10:00am
Welcome to your Friday Blog
As it is the half term holiday, there is no home practice set. However, please keep reading every day as this really does help to unlock your learning. You could also practise your tables using TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
In English, we learnt how to write and punctuate sentences which included fronted adverbials. You can see some photos of our ‘human sentences’ in our gallery. We also finished our class novel The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips – a book we have thoroughly enjoyed reading – and we wrote a book review of the novel to recommend it to other readers.
In Maths, we built on our understanding of the number system extending it further into hundredths. We learnt how hundredths are represented as a fraction and as a decimal (for example 0.01 = 1/100) and the equivalence of tenths, hundredths, fractions and decimals.
In RE, we watched a film about the life of St Damien of Molokai. Following this, we gave examples of how St Damien showed the virtues of faith, hope and love throughout his lifetime. In our final lesson of this topic, we created a poster to show how Jesus loved and ways that we could show love in our everyday lives.
In Science, we recapped the meaning of ‘viscosity’. We then carried out our ‘viscosity’ experiment. We made predictions about which liquid we thought would be the most / least viscous and then raced liquids against each other, recording our results in a table. You can see some photos in our gallery.
In History, we finished our PowerPoints detailing some of the legacies left behind by the Romans. We made sure that they included lots of information and some pictures, as well as a hyperlink and some animations.
In PSHE we discussed ‘keeping safe’. We considered how we can decide if something is risky and what signs to look out for. In addition, we were presented with different situations and discussed whether they were low, medium or high risk, and how we could reduce or remove the risk.
In PE, we added a transition to our ‘action word’ dance routine. Whilst doing this, we were able to demonstrate an unusual movement and keep in time with others, as well as work together to improve and rehearse our dance. Have a look at some pictures in our gallery.
In Art, we created our ‘pocket gallery’. We used the boxes we had made as plinths and placed objects/artwork on them. Then, we placed the figures we had created in our gallery and made it look as though they were inspecting the artwork. Have a look at our gallery to see our finished creations.
The Year 4 team