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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.
Year 2 Blog Friday 7th November 2025
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 11:14am
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 (14.11.25):
father class grass pass plant
path bath hour move prove
Sumdog: Complete the multiplication and spelling challenges.
Counting: 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
We started learning through our new book, The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield.
The bear's beautiful music takes him to amazing and wonderful places in his imagination.
We wrote a description about Bear using great adjectives and we tried to describe what Bear looks like physically but also describe his character/personality.
Maths
We learned about 3D shapes this week. The children can name and talk about their properties.
PE
We are doing dance this half term and it is linked to The Great Fire of London.
The children were moving very energetically, just like flames of fire.
Geography
The children looked at the map of the world and thought about our location in the world.
They learnt that we live in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe, England, Preston and our own village or area.
History
We learnt more about the story of the Gunpowder Plot and wrote our own version of the poem 'Remember, remember the fifth of November.'
RE
We read Isaiah (9:1-2) and thought about light and darkness in relation to Jesus and his different titles.
The children responded creatively decorationg their own lightbulbs with the different names of Jesus.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week - Emma
Super Learner - Nelly
Superstar Writer - Jesse F.
Bookworm - Faisal
Mathematician - Izzy
Special Mentions - Lara and Luca for their art
and Jessie H. for putting 100% effort into all her learning.
Year 4 Blog Friday 7th November 2025
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 3:34pm
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 spot any conjunctions when you are reading? Are they coordinating or subordinating conjunctions?
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
would could should because said
hear here where were people
night knight father friend mother
children water too two beautiful went
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 6’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 72 and back again
0 6 12 etc 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 the formal written method of column addition
Our Learning this week
In English, we learnt about subordinating conjunctions – how to identify them in a sentence, where they are used and what their job is.
We also learnt an acronym to help us remember some subordinating conjunctions (AWhITEBUS).
In Maths, we revised and learnt more about the formal written method of addition.
We added 4 digit numbers together, including exchanging.
We then extended our learning to identify missing digits in column addition calculations.
In RE, we started our new topic – Prophecy and Promise.
We began by showing an understanding of what a prophet is, drawing on Elijah as an example and retelling the story of Elijah’s encounter with God using symbols.
You can see some examples of our work in our gallery.
In Geography, we learnt about the water cycle and how water travels around our world.
We watched a video to explain the journey of a water droplet and then labelled a diagram to show our understanding using some new vocabulary – evaporation, condensation, groundwater and precipitation.
In Science, we started our new topic by creating a mind map of what we already know about electricity.
We also discussed key vocabulary and the electrical appliances we use at home and at school.
We learnt that big appliances usually need to be plugged in and run on electricity whilst smaller appliances (which are often portable) can be powered by batteries.
In P.S.H.E, we learnt more about managing emotions and practising strategies to calm ourselves down.
We explored our 3 key places and identified and talked about who our trusted adults are – people we can turn to when we wish to share our feelings.
In Art, we started our new topic ‘Exploring Pattern’.
We started by making a sensory drawing using a needle.
Take a look at some examples in our gallery.
This week, we also enjoyed outdoor learning with leaves.
Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week: Albie
Super Learner: Drew
Superstar Writer: Jessica
Bookworm: Alexander
Mathematician: Oliver
Special Mentions: Eddie Year 6 for beautiful manners around school
Alice and Rudy for excellent knowledge about the water cycle in geography
The Year 4 team
Year 6 Blog - Friday 7th November 2025
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 8:02am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have started our new novel, 'When The Sky Falls'. We have used our inference skills to explore what the themes of the book could be from the front cover and blurb. We have also explored what features an evacuee letter by reading WW2 letters from an evacuee to her parents. We then used our knowledge to help us write in role as Joseph to his Gran.
Maths
This week, we have started a new topic all about fractions. We have learned how to use common multiples to convert fractions so that they have the same denominator. We also learned how to use common factors to simplify fractions. We then applied this knowledge to add and subtract fractions.
RE
In RE, we have started our new topic 'Prophecy and Promise'. We have shared the story of the Annunciation in both Matthew's and Luke's gospel and compared the intent of each author in their writing.
Topic
In History, we learned about how Britain reacted to the start of WW2. We discussed the home front and created our own WW2 propaganda posters!
In Science, we started our new topic all about light. We investigated how light travels and discovered that it only ever travels in straight lines.
In French, we started our new topic about how to say the time. We learned the vocabulary of how to say each hour - Il est une heure / Il est deux heures / Il est trois heures etc.
In P.E., we started our new topic of hockey. We recapped how to hold and use the hockey stick correctly. We then practised passing in a relay game, as well as passing between a group of four - making sure to stop the ball before passing. After this, we paired up to do an accurate power pass through a set of cones. After six successful passes, we could take a further step back. See our gallery for some photos!
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 -
|
adorable |
applicable |
considerable |
tolerable |
|
changeable |
forcible |
horrible |
noticeable |
|
legible |
dependable |
sensible |
comfortable |
|
understandable |
reliable |
incredible |
enjoyable |
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reasonable |
possible |
visible |
acceptable |
Please practise these spellings this week. The rule to practise is looking at -able and -ible 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 0.5 and 0.05, like we have done in class together.
Draw a numberline and choose a starting number, Count in 0.5 or 0.05. How far can you go?
Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!
Maths Task: This week there are 50 questions about equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting fractions.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Holly W
Super Learner - Joe
Superstar Writer - Tommy and Darcey
Bookworm - Elia M
Marvellous Mathematician - Willow
Special Mentions - Libby and Florence - for perseverance in PE.
The Football Team for their amazing performance!
Have a wonderful weekend Year 6!
Year 1 Blog - Thursday 23rd October 2025
Date: 23rd Oct 2025 @ 3:48pm
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challanges - One more and one less
Counting – Can you count in 10s to 50 forwards and backwards?
Reading - Please try and read at least three times a week.
Please remember to bring book bags each day.
English
This week we read a new Winnie story - Winnie's Haunted House.
We focused on using bossy (imperative) verbs to write a set of instructions for making a potion. We identified different verbs, wrote a group set of instructions and then our own.
We also had a brilliant time at the library!
Phonics
This week, we all focused on tricky words and recognising all of the phase 2 and 3 sounds.
Maths
We continued to recognise numbers between 20 and 30.
We completed another arithmetic using cubes to help us to count.
R.E.
We read Laudato Si and wrote sentences explaining how we can look after our world
In Prayer and Liturgy we focused on kindness, linking into our RE. We talked about kind words and how we can be kind by praying.
Computing
We had our first online safety lesson. We talked about why we need to ask permission to do certain things online.
Art
We made Winnie pictures with pastels.
Science
We compared ourselves to our friends. We used the words 'same' and 'different'.
Geography
We labelled our own maps.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Imogen
Super Learner: Ariana
Superstar Writer: Stan
Bookworm: Jack
Marvellous Mathematician: Noah B
Special Mentions: Isaac and Rory for spotting symbols on a map in Geography.
Have a great half term and we will see you back on the 3rd of November.
Year 5 blog Thursday 23rd October 2025
Date: 23rd Oct 2025 @ 3:44pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Year 5 have had a fabulous week of learning and have kept trying right to the end of half term – well done!
In English the class finished the class novel and wrote a detailed book review. They also continued to practise their relative clauses and use of apostrophes.
In Maths Year 5 have been learning to read and interpret tables of data, as well as revising place value and arithmetic methods!
Thank you to everyone in Year 5 who has brought in shoebox donations for other children in need in Preston. Donations are still welcome until 7th November. The class have reflected and prayed for this week for those in real need and who are displaced from their homes.
In PE, the class were joined by Mr Hough and everyone enjoyed showing him their skills in defence team games. He was most impressed!
There is no home learning set for half term. I hope you all have a lovely half term holiday. See you back at school on Monday 3rd November .
Golden stars this week
Star of the Week – Madelaina
Super Learner – Ada-May
Superstar Writer – Brooke
Bookworm - Louie
Marvellous Mathematician - Evangeline
Special Mention - Franco and Louie
Reception Blog - Thursday 23rd October 2025
Date: 23rd Oct 2025 @ 1:47pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week we have been learning the new sounds; o, c and k.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club, we have continued to listen to different versions of the Jack and the Beanstalk.
We have thought of new treasure for the giant to have in his castle.
Maths
This week we have continued to build number land.
We have been looking at and discussing the number 4.
RE
This week we have been learning about Diwali and the Festival of Light.
We have been designing our own Mehndi and Rangoli patterns.
Understanding the World
This week we have been testing our sense of smell. We had items hidden in cups. We had to guess what it was without seeing it. Some of it was really smelly.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we have been decorating pumpkins. We had to mix our own orange and used our knowledge of the primary colours from last week!
PE
We have had a brilliant session of Yoga with Hannah this week. It was spooky yoga.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week – Elsi
Super Learner – Luca
Superstar Writer – George
Bookworm – Elise
Mathematician – Ella
What a fantastic 8 weeks we have had in school! We have all done incredibly well.
We hope that you have a restful half term and we will see you in November!
Year 3 Blog Thursday 23rd October 2025
Date: 23rd Oct 2025 @ 1:43pm
Welcome to your final blog of the half term!
This week in Year 3:
In RE, we learned all about Laudato Si’ and how Pope Francis encourages us to care for God’s creation. We compared the lives and messages of Pope Francis and St Francis of Assisi, spotting many similarities in their love for nature and people.
In English, we finished our story Stone Age Boy. The children wrote their own versions of the exciting hunt scene and shared their brilliant writing with eachother. We used speech to bring our stories to life and included some fantastic action sentences. Well done, Year 3!
In Maths, we have worked hard on our number facts, making all the numbers to 20 and improving our recall speed. We were the top class at St Oswald’s and finished in the top 20 in Lancashire in the North West Contest. An amazing achievement!
In PE, we practised our throwing and catching skills with a game of benchball. Everyone joined in brilliantly, showed great teamwork and learned the rules very quickly.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week - Teddy
Super Learner - Charlie
Writer of the week - Harper
Marvellous Mathematician - Melodie
Bookworm - Leo
Special Mentions - All of Year 3 for their fantastic effort in the Lancashire Sumdog competition
Well done for a super half term, Year 3. You have worked so hard and should be very proud of everything you have achieved! Have a lovely and restful break.
The Year 3 team
Year 2 Blog Thursday 23rd October 2025
Date: 23rd Oct 2025 @ 8:37am
We have had another fantastic week of learning in Year 2.
Have a wonderful, safe and happy half term holiday.
There is no home practice this week.
However, please keep reading as much as you can and remember to learn those spellings for the first Friday back.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week - Cerys
Super Learner - Rhodes
Superstar Writer - Jessie H.
Bookworm - Arthur
Mathematician - Rudy
Special Mentions - Emilie-Mae, Oliver and Marvin in Year 4 for super dodgeball skills.
Faisal for looking at the blog and doing lots of home learning.
Year 4 Blog Thursday 23rd October 2025
Date: 23rd Oct 2025 @ 8:32am
Welcome to your weekly blog
We have had a brilliant half term in Year 4 and worked really hard!
Our learning this week
In English, we interpreted a character’s feelings in different parts of the story.
We attempted to explain how we felt using description as well as a variety of sentence openers.
In addition, we wrote a character description of Kensuke.
We wrote words to describe his character and then backed up why we thought this using evidence from the text.
In Maths, we drew bar charts to present data.
We needed to look carefully at the scale given and draw the bars accurately.
Additionally, we interpreted data and solved one-step problems from information presented in bar charts.
In RE, we listened to a story about the live of Oscar Romero.
We then considered how his life and work was an example of faith made active in love.
In PSHE, we learnt to recognise that feelings can change over time and range in intensity.
We are learning strategies to help us manage and respond to feelings appropriately and proportionally.
In our Art lesson, we completed our retelling of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by sketching the story rather than using words.
Some of us also added oil pastels to our sketches.
Have a look in our gallery.
Home Practice
As it is half term, there is no Home Practice.
However, please try and read every single day as this really helps unlock your learning.
In addition, please practise your tables using the games on Hit the Button and Rockstars.
Little and often is the key to success.
Poetry Recital Competition
In class, we have both performed and written some poetry.
It is a statutory requirement in the National Curriculum that children learn to recite poems from heart.
With this in mind, we are entering a poetry recital competition against local schools – this is to be held at Priory Academy in November.
We are therefore asking all the children in Year 4 to learn a poem over the half term holiday – a copy has been sent home with your child and a copy is attached to the blog.
After half term, we will hold an internal competition and one person will go forward to the local competition.
Further details will follow in due course.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week: Violet Co
Super Learner: Archer
Superstar Writer: Oscar
Bookworm: Lottie
Marvellous Mathematician: Francesca
Special Mentions: Bobby – top of the leader board for the most weeks on Times Tables Rockstars
Violet Ca – for lovely manners and bringing a bright smile into Y4 everyday
We hope you have a peaceful and relaxing holiday and look forward to seeing you all again on Monday 3rd November 2025.
The Year 4 Team
Year 6 Blog - Thursday 23rd October 2025
Date: 22nd Oct 2025 @ 8:23am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!
All of Year 6 have worked so hard this week on their Bikeability! They have shown great resilience and learned lots of new skills to keep them safe on the roads - well done Year 6!
This week in Year 6
English
In English, we have written an independent biography. We chose to research either David Wier or Ellie Simmonds, and worked hard to research and write all about their lives.
Maths
This week, we have completed our topic on division. We have learned how to divide using chunking, mental partitioning and how to choose the best strategy.
Topic
In Science, we learned how to use a classification key to classify animals. We challenged ourselves to be creative with our questions! We also researched and presented to the class information about different invertebrates. We were very proud of our work!
In Music, we were inspired by Black History Month! We played the djembe drums and made clapping patterns in pairs.
Home practice
Please read your books over the half term holidays - there is no work on Sumdog or spellings set for over the break.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Agatha
Super Learner - Willow
Superstar Writer - Dominic
Bookworm - Henry
Marvellous Mathematician - Theo
Special Mentions - All of Y6 for their hard work on Bikeability!
Have a wonderful half term break Year 6!
Year 5 blog - Friday 17th October 2025
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 4:00pm
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:
People, achieve, dragged, limitation, forgotten, because, bargain, completely, simply, information, different, category, happily, limited, various, accept, knot, peace
Counting
Count out loud in:
4’s up to 104 and back again 0,4, 8 …
40’s from 160 to 520 and back again 160, 200, 240…
200’s from 3200 backwards to 1600 3200, 3000…
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% effort – well done!
In English the class have been continuing to learn about blending similes, relative clauses and sub-ordinating conjunctions in a natural way in their writing. The children enjoyed writing a diary entry as Edmund, as well as detailed decriptions of Aslan the lion.
In Maths Year 5 have been consolidating their knowledge of subtraction using the grid method. Well done Year 5!
Year 5 have enjoyed discussing ways that they can help others in the world in RE this week. They have set themselves a mission to collect and bring in unwanted items like small toys, hair accessories, stationery and books. They are then going to be sent in decorated shoeboxes to a local organisation in Preston, who will then distribute them to children in need. All donations welcome.
In Science, everyone enjoyed taking readings of their paper planes, both as a streamlined model and then after modifying it to add drag to the design.
Finally, in History this week, Year 5 took a more in depth look at life in an Anglo Saxon village and created a chronological timeline.
Golden stars this week
Star of the Week – Louie
Super Learner – Alfie
Superstar Writer – Teddy
Bookworm - Amelia
Marvellous Mathematician - Archie S
Special Mention - Jack and Sam
Year 1 Blog - Friday 17th October 2025
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 4:00pm
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challange - Counting backwards
Phonics challenge - Reception revision 5
Counting – Can you count in 10s to 50 forwards and backwards?
Reading - Please try and read at least three times a week.
Please remember to bring book bags each day.
English
This week our story has been ‘Winnie the Witch’.
We have written a description for Winnie using adjectives, performed out loud becoming the character of Wilbur the cat, written our own speech bubble by Wilbur and sequenced the story.
Phonics
Some of us have learnt phase 5 ph in elephant, ew in chew, ew in few and oe in toe.
Some of us have been comparing phase 3 and phase 5 sounds.
Some of us have been recapping phase 2 sounds.
Maths
We continued to recognise numbers between 20 and 30.
We have explored different equipment for counting in tens.
We have absolutely loved listening to two songs this week to help our learning. Here are the links if you want to listen at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uedvwH6Ay18 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwcCyXsGN7E&list=RDcwcCyXsGN7E&start_radio=1
R.E.
We said the words of the Our Father together and recognised how God is important to us all.
In Prayer and Liturgy we focused on Peace as well as looking after God’s World. We sang a beautiful worship song about looking after everything God has made for us.
Computing
We learnt how to upload our own pictures onto Seesaw.
Art
We sketched objects from Mrs Armstrong's home. We took our time and concentrated on adding detail.
Science
We conducted a smelling experiment. We had to guess which smells were in the jar!
P.E.
This week we have played small games using our kicking skills as well as having a go at shooting in the goal!
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Jack
Super Learner: Isaac
Superstar Writer: Oscar and Reo
Bookworm: Evie E
Marvellous Mathematician: Roman
Special Mentions: Judah for his amazing sketching in Art and Amelie for always being a good friend to everyone.
If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the team! Have a lovely weekend.
Year 3 Friday Blog 17th October 2025
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 1:51pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Continue with all the amazing home reading. It will help your children unlock so much more learning throughout their learning journey! Below you will find a link to the VIPERS question stems that will help you when reading with your children.
In maths this week, we have been learning the formal written method for addition and subtraction. Even though everyone picked up the method really quickly, a lot of us were making mistakes with our number facts. Fluency in these will give your children the best chance to succeed when they meet trickier learning as well as boost their confidence! We have set some number fact Sumdog challenges on Sumdog this week. Accuracy + Speed = Fluency.
Counting Practice - X3
Your spellings this week all have the same spelling rule. Try and practice a little every night.
crystal pyramid bicycle oxygen gym symbol cymbals crypt hymn syrup cylinder lyrics mystery typical gymnast lynx myth Egypt gymnastics syrup
This week in Year 3
It was wonderful to meet you all during Parents’ Evening this week. The children have been so excited to share all their brilliant learning and progress with you. We’re very proud of how hard they’ve been working!
In RE, we have been writing prayers about creation and exploring the themes of power and praise found in psalms and prayer. The children had some fantastic ideas and showed a lovely understanding of how we can praise God in many different ways.
Next Tuesday, we have been invited to join the Parish Mass, celebrated by Fr Michael. You are all very welcome to come and enjoy the Mass with us, it would be lovely to see you there.
In English, we have been learning how to write speech sentences and comparing these with action sentences. We’ve loved reading Stone Age Boy and will be exploring written speech further next week, using adverbs to make our writing even more exciting.
In Maths, we’ve been learning how and when to use the formal written HTO methods. Everyone has shown great resilience with this tricky learning and made huge progress in explaining their working out clearly.
In Science, we’ve been investigating animal skeletons and learning all about vertebrates and invertebrates. Check out our gallery to see some of our brilliant learning in action!
In French we have been learning lots of new ways to greet people. A bientot, Salut, Bonjour, et toi?, Bon soir were all popular choices. Fantastique!!
Star of the week - Amelia F
Super Learner - Frankie
Writer of the week - Noah S
Marvellous Mathematician - Henry P
Bookworm - Dylan
Special Mentions - Isaac and Rowan for super Sciewnce this week
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team
Year 2 Blog Friday 17th October 2025
Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 1:09pm
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.
WE HAVE NOTICED THAT SOME CHILDREN HAVE NOT CHANGED THEIR BOOKS RECENTLY.
A FEW MINUTES OF READING EVERY NIGHT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE. THANKS.
Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!
Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (07.11.25):
every great break steak pretty beautiful after fast last past
Sumdog: Complete the 'Measure' challenge.
We have also included a spelling challenge to help your child learn the spellings above.
Counting:
At home, count in 5's forwards and backwards.
What do you notice about the numbers you are counting each time?
You may also like to practise the 10x, 5x, 2x and 3x table on Hit The Button. Doubling and halving is also good to practise
Follow the link below:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
English
We listened to the story of pumpkin soup and identified the contractions such as it's, didn't, I'll and don't.
We also investigated noun phrases such as 'old white cabin'.
We used our senses and imaginations to write noun phrases about duck's kitchen.
We will be continuing with this learning next week.
Maths
We have been measuring length, height and mass, using rulers and balance scales.
RE
Next week, we will continue learning about Baptism. It would be great if you could talk to your child about their own Baptism and maybe send some photographs (not precious ones) into school.
We will use them to further discuss what happens at a Baptism and the importance of being part of the Church family.
History
Year 2 read small extracts from the diary of Samuel Pepys and answered questions about what happened during the fire.
They found it interesting that Samuel Pepys buried his precious cheese and wine to stop it from burning in the fire!
We also looked at how London was rebuilt after the fire using bricks or stone instead of wood and how the houses would be built further apart to make them safer.
Science
We learnt about food chains. We drew our own food chains and we learnt a song about them.
Forest School
We went on a bug hunt in our log circle area. We had special pots to collect them in so we could look at them closely. The lids were special because they magnified what was in the pot. We found ladybirds, woodlice , worms, slugs , snails and other creatures that we need to research.
Art
We created our final piece of art. We used the metallic wax crayons again and special Brusho paint. The finished pieces are true works of art.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week - Hannah
Super Learner - April
Superstar Writer - Kamali
Bookworm - Cara
Mathematician - Zac
Special Mentions - Freya for being a good friend.
Seb and Joshua I- Beautiful art work using paint and wax crayons.
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Year 4 Blog Friday 17th October 2025
Date: 17th Oct 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 predict what will happen next?
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
information preparation adoration sensation floatation
admiration exaggeration hibernation propagation imagination
concentration moderation education differentiation taxation
hesitation litigation isolation invitation
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 8’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 96 and back again
0 8 16 etc 96 88 80 etc
Now try counting in 100’s from 253 to 1753 and back again
253 353 453 etc 1753 1653 1553 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 ‘studio’ session to help you build your rock star status
Sumdog challenges
A spelling challenge based on the words above
There is a competition on Sumdog – make sure you have completed the diagnostic test before the contest starts
Our Learning this Week
In English, we performed the poem ‘The Dinner Lady Dance’ in class – you can see some pictures of us practising this in our gallery.
Following this, we wrote a poem of our own in the same style.
In addition, we researched the meaning of words using both a physical and online dictionary, and then attempted to use them in a sentence of our own.
In Maths, we consolidated our learning about perimeter.
We used what we had learnt to calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes when some lengths were missing.
Additionally, we derived and used addition and subtraction facts for 1 and 10 with decimal numbers (for example 0.1 + 0.9 = 1 and 4.8 + 5.2 = 10).
In RE, we listened to the story of Abraham and Isaac.
We then sequenced the story with a partner and made a paperchain of the main events.
You can see some of these in our gallery.
This week, we also wrote a prayer to help us reflect on how the virtues of faith, hope and love help us to be a good neighbour.
In P.S.H.E, we started a new topic – places.
We learnt that mental health, just like physical health, is part of daily life, and it is important to take care of both.
We also learnt that everyday things affect our feelings and that it is important to express our feelings rather than keep them to ourselves.
In Science, we created a classification key using post-it notes and yes/no questions.
In French, we learnt the names of pets and how to say how many pets we have.
In History, we learnt the names of the items worn by Roman Soldiers.
We then labelled a Roman Soldier to evidence what we had learnt.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Albert
Super Learner: Isla
Superstar Writer: Rowan
Bookworm: Alexander
Marvellous Mathematician: Bobby
Special Mentions: Bella and William - helping to make a beautiful paperchain retelling the story of Abraham and Isaac
Emilia – for being a good friend to everyone in Year 4
The Year 4 team
Reception Blog - Friday 17th October 2025
Date: 16th Oct 2025 @ 1:36pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week we have been revisiting all of the sounds that we have learnt so far: s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d and g.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club, we have listened to different versions of the Jack and the Beanstalk.
We have then retold the story and drawn our own castles.
Maths
This week we have continued to build number land.
We have been looking at and discussing the number 3.
RE
This week we have been to church to visit Father Michael.
He did a Baptism on our class doll, to show us everything that happens.
Understanding the World
This week we have been testing our sense of touch. We had items hidden in a bag.
We had to guess what they could be and describe what they felt like. See the photos here.
We have also been talking about growing up from a baby to an adult.
We revisited our baby photos and then ordered photos ourselves. See the photos here.
Expressive Art and Design
We have revisited the primary colours from last week and have mixed them together to see what secondary colours they make.
PE
We have done super throwing this week! See the photos here.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week – Ava-Grace
Super Learner – Teddy
Superstar Writer – Henry B and Rosie
Bookworm – Jenson
Mathematician – Hugh
Special Mentions – Maeve and Phoebe for brilliant artwork.
Raeni for always keeping our classroom clean and tidy.
Year 6 Blog - Friday 17th October 2025
Date: 16th Oct 2025 @ 10:05am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English, we have been learning all about Dame Sarah Storey, so that we can write a biography about her life. Did you know she is the most decorated female Paralympian in Britain? We have worked hard to research facts about her life and then worked hard to create our biographies. We were all really proud of our hard work!
Maths
This week, we have been learning how to divide using chunking. We have worked hard all week and have now been dividing four digit numbers by a two digit number.
RE
In RE, we created a piece of artwork to help us think about how Jesus restored our relationship with God. We called our artwork 'Jesus the reconciler’ and really enjoyed being creative! We also thought about what our favourite scripture was from our Creation and Covenant topic.
Topic
In Art, we worked hard to scale up a 2D image so that it was enlarged. We then had to transform our 2D artwork into a 3D piece of Art. We were all really proud of our work!
In Computing, we learnt all about the different ways we can communicate online. We had to think carefully about what methods of communication fit different contexts best.
For Science this week we had to use our research skills to investigate how different types of microorganisms could be helpful or harmful to us.
In our Music lessons, we start our sessions with a game to practise the names of the notes: https://www.richmanmusicschool.com/products/name-that-note Try and beat our high score!
Home practice
Please complete the following tasks by next 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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rhyme |
rhythm |
sacrifice |
secretary |
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shoulder |
signature |
sincere |
soldier |
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stomach |
sufficient |
suggest |
symbol |
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system |
temperature |
thorough |
twelfth |
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variety |
vegetable |
vehicle |
yacht |
Please practise these spellings this week, which are from the Y5 and Y6 spelling list.
All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test next Thursday.
Maths Challenges:
Sumdog
Counting:
This week I would like you to practise counting in decimal steps of 0.01 and 0.02, like we have practised in class.
Draw a line with some marks on it. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.
Start with different numbers and count up 10 numbers then back again in 0.01 and 0.02.
Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!
Maths Task: This week's learning is to practise questions about division which will help Year 6 to apply their learning from class this week. For further Maths work, please visit the 'Maths Training' section, where your child will be able to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Ebba
Super Learner - Dominic
Superstar Writer - Sam
Bookworm - Edison and Milana
Marvellous Mathematician - Alfie P
Special Mentions - All of Y6 for their amazing artwork!
The Y6 guides from open morning for being so helpful.
Have a great weekend Year 6!
Year 5 Friday blog 10th October 2025
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 3:48pm
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. They are homophones so the children need to understand the meanings of each type of spelling.
accept, except, ball, bawl, berry, bury, grate, great, groan, grown, knot, not, mail, male, peace, piece, scene, seen
Counting
Count out loud in:
9’s up to 189 and back again 0,9,18 …
40’s from 160 to 520 and back again 160, 200, 240…
100’s from 3200 backwards to 1600 3200, 3100, 3000…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Everyone has their own targets.
Sumdog
NEW - Year 5 have been entered into a School Sumdog competition so please encourage your child to take part and help boost the class points.
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 another great week of learning and have tried very hard – well done!
In English the class have been learning about relative clauses and sub-ordinating conjunctions to upscale their writing. The children enjoyed writing an imaginative short story, using new joining words.
In Maths Year 5 have continued to practise addition and subtraction on number lines, using partitioning and compensation strategies. Well done Year 5!
Year 5 attended parish mass this week and they behaved so respectfully and shared their knowledge of the readings with Father Michael. Well done to all! They have also been talking about the rosary this week, as well as creating beautiful prayers based on virtues for our classroom. Year 5 also enjoyed learning about Saint Carlo Acutis, a young saint and they explored how he used his short life to spread the word of God.
In computing, the class have been designing websites and considering why certain websites appear in the top of searches online.
Year 5 have been applying their typography and design skills in Art this week, as they have started to create their own 3D maps of Narnia.
Finally, in Geography this week, Year 5 used the atlases to identify and locate key physical features of the UK, such as key rivers and mountain ranges.
Golden stars this week
Star of the Week – Franco
Super Learner – Maisie
Superstar Writer – Lily
Bookworm - Willow
Marvellous Mathematician - Josh W
Special Mention - Emma and Edward
Year 3 Blog Friday 10th October 2025
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 3:35pm
Year 3 Weekly Blog – Friday Update
Home Practice
Keep up with your regular reading. It's making a huge difference to everyone's progress and success in their reading.
Check out Sumdog for our new challenges. Make sure to have a go on these as they will help your chilld with learning they meet in class.
The Spellings this week are below. Do a little practise of these every day.
forget, forgetting, forgotten, begin, beginning, beginner, prefer, preferred, preferring, gardening, gardener, limiting, limiting, limitation, footballer, reading, reader, writing, writer
What a brilliant week of learning we’ve had in Year 3!
In English, we read Mammoth: Big Beast, Big City, Big Problem. The children wrote fantastic retells of the story in their own words, focusing on using when and if conjunctions and a range of sentence starters. Super effort, Year 3, your writing is really starting to shine!
In Maths, we’ve been learning the column addition method with 3-digit + 3-digit numbers. Everyone has shown fantastic focus when applying this new strategy. Next week we’ll be moving onto column subtraction, so keep practising those number facts at home; they really help build confidence and fluency!
In RE, we celebrated Saint Carlo Acutis and Saint Francis of Assisi. We explored The Canticle of Creation and sang Psalm 8, reflecting on how we can care for God’s world and follow in the footsteps of the saints.
In History, we continued our Stone Age to Iron Age topic and explored the invention of farming during the Neolithic period. There were some fantastic questions and discussions. Super history thinking, Year 3!
In Art, we took our charcoal drawings a step further and explored how early humans communicated through cave art. The children studied examples and then created their own expressive pieces using charcoal. Check out our gallery to see our artists in action!
In French, we finished our Greetings topic. Everyone had a brilliant go at pronunciation and worked confidently in pairs to practise their conversations. Très bien, Year 3!
Star of the week - Lydia
Super Learner - Charles
Writer of the week - Dylan
Marvellous Mathematician - Amelia F
Bookworm - Frankie
Special Mentions - Isaac and Henry P for brilliant playtimes.
Well done on another wonderful week. Have a restful weekend, you’ve earned it!
The Year 3 Team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 10th October 2025
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 3:30pm
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challange - Counting on
Phonics challenge - Reception revision 4
Counting - Use your fingers to practice your number bonds to ten. Count your fingers to work out the answer each time! Test yourself with a partner.
Reading - Please try and read at least three times a week.
Please remember to bring book bags each day.
English
We read 'Maya's walk' which is about a little girl who spots different objects whilst on her walk. We focused on adjectives this week, which help to improve our writing. Maya used fabulous adjectives in the story.
We spotted adjectives, wrote our own adjectives and then wrote an adjective poem about flowers.
Phonics
Some of us have learnt phase 5 ue in statue (you sound), aw in paw and wh in when.
Some of us have been comparing phase 3 and phase 5 sounds.
Some of us have been recapping phase 2 sounds.
Maths
We have focused on recognising numbers between 20 and 30. We made sure to say that the numbers have two tens, rather than one ten.
We also completed our first arithmetic together!
R.E.
We spotted key words which describe God. We talked about Him being kind, powerful and invisible.
In Prayer and Liturgy we focused on being resilient and not giving up. We also talked about loving one another, as Jesus taught us.
P.S.H.E.
We learnt how to help our Team H-A-P when they aren't working properly and how happy breathing calms our brain.
Computing
We continued to learn how to use a keyboard. We typed our own name.
Art
We sketched shells as we found out that some shells have a spiral pattern!
Science
We identified which body parts are responsible for our senses.
We also went on a senses walk around school, identifying what we could see, smell, hear and feel.
P.E.
We put our throwing skills into action by playing games of dodgeball in the hall.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Eilish and Isabelle
Super Learner: Felicity
Superstar Writer: Connall and Noah B
Bookworm: Harriet
Marvellous Mathematician: Ada Cobham
Special Mentions: Grace and Tommy for always looking after Darragh in class.
If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the team! Have a lovely weekend.
Year 4 Blog Friday 10th October 2025
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 2:59pm
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. Write down the meaning of any words you don’t know.
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
young touch double trouble country
courage colour couple southern encourage
cousins enough nourish countries rough
cousin doubling touched youngster troubling
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 4’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 48 and back again
0 4 8 etc 48 44 40 etc
Now try counting in 10’s from 146 to 326 and back again
146 156 166 etc 326 316 306 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 perimeter
There is also a Sumdog competition on line this week!
Our Learning this Week
In English, we read about Michael’s first encounter with Kensuke on the island.
We then planned and wrote a diary account from Kensuke’s point of view.
We tried to ensure we included lots of thoughts and feelings and made it entertaining for the reader.
In Maths, we learnt that perimeter is the measure of length or distance around the boundary of a shape.
We then applied our understanding to help us calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes.
In RE, we listened again to the story of the three visitors who came and told Abraham that he would have a son.
We drew a picture and wrote a sentence to show our understanding of the story.
In addition, we described the covenant between God and Abraham which included what each promised.
In P.S.H.E, we learnt how to look after our brains and continued to develop our ‘happy breathing’ habit.
In Science, we explored and used classification keys to identify living things.
In addition, we created our own classification key using yes/no questions on post it notes.
In History, we became archaeologists as we looked at different artefact.
We considered what they were, what they were made of, who might have used them and what it told us about the Romans.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Georgie
Super Learner: Annie
Superstar Writer: Daisy and Eddie
Bookworm: Mia
Marvellous Mathematician: William
Special Mentions: Alexander for thoughtful responses in RE and George for being a good friend to everyone in Year 4
The Year 4 team