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Reception Blog - Friday 13th March 2026

Date: 13th Mar 2026 @ 3:59pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

This week we have been learning all about the life cycle of a frog. 

Drawing Club

In our drawing club time, we had a go at writing the different stages of the life cycle. Some children labelled the pictures and some children had a go at writing sentences. 

Phonics

We recapped ch, sh ,th, ng, qu, ai, ee, igh, oa

she, he, we, be, me, we, was, you, they, my, her, are

Our new sounds are the long 'oo' and the short 'oo' 

The long 'oo' such as food, moon, zoo and the short 'oo' such as cook, hook, wood. 

The children are working hard on their letter formation at the mintue and trying to write their words on the lines. 

Maths

In Maths this week our focus was addition and subtraction with number sentences.

For subtraction this week, we were all given a different subtraction number sentence, we used the sentence and our part whole model to find the answer. 

For addition, we thought about what number was already made on the ten frames, we had to decide how the amount had been made and to extend ourselves we then wrote the addition number sentence!

Wow such a big job for Reception, Well done everyone! 

7 + 3 = 10

Art

In Art, we created spring flower pictures.

As an independent challenge this week, the children had a go at drawing in detail, using a magnifying glass to look closely at a flower and selecting the correct colours to draw it. 

Understanding the world 

We had a special lesson from the Japanese Students this week, they taught us all about how they celebrate the new year in Japan, we learnt, that it was a bigger celebration than christmas to them.

We had a go at playing some of the games they would play.

The children really enjoyed themselves. 

Make sure to check out our galleries to see all our brilliant learning from this week!

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Finlay 

Super Learner – Jake

Superstar Writer – Elijah

Bookworm – Billy

Mathematician – Ivy, Amelie

Year 5 blog Friday 13th March 2026

Date: 13th Mar 2026 @ 3:51pm

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 Year 5 spellings for this week.  

co-ordinate, re-enter, co-operate, co-own, pre-existing, de-emphasise, pre-recorded, re-edit, re-enact, co-worker, co-pilot, re-cover, re-educate, pre-date, pre-election, pre-print, re-form

Counting

Count out loud in:

9’s up to 189 and back again                                                      0, 9, 18…

40’s from 19000 to 19440 and back again                              19000, 19040…

80’s from 840 to 1440 and back again                                     840, 920, 1000…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables.  Everyone has their own targets, which the children should have noted on the top of their spelling sheet.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.

Year 5 have had a very productive week – well done Year 5!

In English Year 5 have been continuing to read the class novel, ‘Varjak Paw’ by SF Said. They have also been planning and creating non-chronological reports about Russian Blue cats .

 In Maths Year 5 have been multiplying and dividing by 100 and 1,000. They have also been re-capping their arithmetic methods.

In RE this week, Year 5 have been investigating the meaning of sin and conscience. They have considered how to react in certain scenarios, deciding how to make the right choice. 

In Art, the class have spent time learning about David Hockney and his style of art. They have then created a Hockney style coloured landscape, using pastels. 

The whole class enjoyed Science week by joining in a lesson on farming and making up their own science inventions.

Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –     Willow

Super Learners –    Ada-May

Superstar Writer –      Archie S

Bookworm -  Evelyn

Marvellous Mathematician  -   Lily

Special Mention -    Teddy and Brooke

Year 3 Friday Blog 13th March 2026

Date: 13th Mar 2026 @ 2:48pm

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 all our 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 solve subtraction and addition problems. 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.

Spellings have been sent home today.They all end in -sion. keep practising a little each night to help improve accuracy and confidence.

division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision, television, mission, fission, suupervision, submission, expansion, vision, version, illusion, immersion, corrosion, mansion, pension

This week in Year 3

This week in RE we continued our learning about the Mass and focused particularly on the Liturgy of the Eucharist. The children learned that this is the part of the Mass where we remember the Last Supper and where the bread and wine are offered to God and become the Body and Blood of Jesus. We talked about the important actions and prayers that take place during this part of the Mass, including the offertory, the Eucharistic prayer and Holy Communion. The children showed a really thoughtful understanding of why this is such a special and sacred moment in the mass.

In English, we have started our new class text Journey to Jo’burg. We were introduced to the main characters, Naledi and Tiro, and learned about their brave plan to walk all the way to Johannesburg to try to find their mother. The children were very interested in the challenges the characters might face on such a long journey, and we had some excellent discussions about why they feel they must go. We are looking forward to following their journey and discovering what happens next.

In Maths, we have revisited the formal methods for addition and subtraction. While the children are beginning to understand the written methods, we have noticed that some pupils are not yet fully secure with their number facts to 20. When these facts are not automatic, it can make the written methods much more difficult. To help build confidence and fluency, we have launched a Number Facts Challenge on Sumdog. Practising these facts regularly will make a huge difference and will help the children tackle more complex calculations with greater ease.

In PE, we began our new superhero dance topic. The children explored how different emotions and expressions can be shown through movement and used this to help them create their own superhero characters. They then worked in groups to begin building short dance sequences that showed their superhero’s personality and powers through movement. It was fantastic to see their creativity and confidence grow as they performed their ideas. We also welcomed Freddie Fit into school this week, who certainly put us through our paces with a high-energy fitness session! The children showed great enthusiasm and effort throughout. 

In History, we explored the society of Ancient Egypt and learned about the different roles people had. The children discovered that Egyptian society was organised like a pyramid, with the Pharaoh at the very top, followed by priests, scribes, soldiers, craftsmen and farmers. We talked about how each group had an important role to play in keeping society running and discussed what daily life might have been like for people in these different jobs.

In Science, we celebrated Science Week by taking part in a live lesson all about light and how it can be used to create movies. The children learned how early filmmakers used light and shadow to tell stories and explored some of the clever techniques used to create moving images. They were fascinated to see how simple ideas using light can be used to produce impressive visual effects.

We also say goodbye to Ryoko who has been working with us over the past two weeks. We have learned how to write our name in Japanese and made some beautiful gift boxes using traditional Japanese patterns. Thank you to Yuicho and his students for another brilliant experience for our children.

Finally, in DT, we continued our learning about mechanisms. This week the children tried to build a more complex mechanism using the knowledge they gained in our previous lesson. Not all of them worked perfectly, but this actually turned into a fantastic learning opportunity. The children evaluated their designs, discussed what had gone wrong and thought carefully about how they might improve them next time. This kind of problem-solving is a really important part of the design process.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week - Eliza  

Super Learner - Jonah 

Writer of the week - Orlaigh

Marvellous Mathematician - Lydia

Bookworm - Harper

Special Mentions - Melodie and Rose for their amazing effort in PE this week.

Happy Mother's Day on Sunday and have a lovely weekend.

The Year 3 team

Year 4 Blog Friday 13th March 2026

Date: 13th Mar 2026 @ 12:48pm

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. Look up any words you are unsure of.

Spellings

You will be tested on the Year 3 / 4 spellings next week. A sheet has been sent home.

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 ‘garage’ session

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on some of the Year 3 / 4 words

A maths challenge using place value and known facts to multiply and divide

Our Learning this week

In English, we revised the rules for speech / dialogue and then wrote a conversation between Lila and Rambashi (a pirate and character in our class novel).

We ensured that we used alternative words for said, and that we thought carefully about how each character might speak.

We used human sentences to help us with our learning – take a look in the gallery.

In Maths, we learnt how to double a number with ones and tenths using a partitioning and recombining method.

In addition, we revised multiplying multiples of 10 and 100 by single digits (eg 6 x 40 = 240; 3 x 400 = 1200) and then applied this to multiplying 3 digit numbers by a single digit using the grid method (eg 4 x 237).

In RE, we read the parable of ‘The judgement of the nations’ (sheep and goats) which emphasises that genuine faith is demonstrated through carrying out loving deeds.

In Science, as part of Science Week, we took part in the BBC live lesson about light and moon.

Following this, we completed some activities about light sources, reflection and information about the moon.

We also investigated the probability question ‘does toast always land butter side down?’ We made predictions then recorded the results – have a look in our gallery.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we learnt how to understand and celebrate differences.

In PE, we practised running with a rugby ball. We also learnt how to move into a space to receive a swing pass in a game.

You can see some pictures in the gallery.

This week, we also took part in an energetic keep fit session with Freddie Fit (have a look at some of the pictures in our gallery)

and a lesson led by the Japanese students during which we learnt the meanings of some traditional Japanese patterns. 

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Rudy

Super Learner: Lottie

Superstar Writer: Albie

Bookworm: Jessica

Marvellous Mathematician: Bobby

Special Mentions: Heidi – for being a good friend to everyone and making Year 4 a lovely place to be;

Albert – for beautiful manners

The Year 4 Team

Year 1 Blog - Friday 13th March 2026

Date: 12th Mar 2026 @ 4:38pm

Home Practice - Sumdog

Maths challenge - Subtraction

Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups

Counting – Can you practise counting in twos, fives and tens? 

Reading - Please try to read at least three times a week.

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

We continued with our Mother's Day writing. 

Maths

We continued to explore halves, focusing on halving a shape into two equal pieces.

We also completed an arithmetic using the manipulatives.

R.E.

We role played the Widow's Mite where Jesus was extremely happy with an old widow for giving her small fortune to the temple.

See our pictures here.

P.E.

We had an amazing Freddy Fit session!

See our pictures here.

Science

We made paper aeroplanes for British Science Week. 

See our pictures here.

History

We wrote facts about another nurse from the 1800s - Edith Cavell. We compared her to Florence.

P.S.H.E.

We recognised how we have close family who live with us, and extended family who we are related to but we do not live with.

Art

We painted roses for our Mother's Day cards. We then drew spirals on top with pen.

D.T.

We sorted food into fruit and vegetables. We found that fruit have seeds in them!

Japanese lesson

Yuichi and his students taught us about Japanese dolls. We made our own dolls using paper cups.

See our pictures here.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: George

Super Learner: Isla-May

Superstar Writer: Hartlley

Bookworm: Imogen

Marvellous Mathematician: Oscar

Special Mentions: Felicity, Noah B and Rupert for their amazing writing about Florence Nightingale.

Thank you to everyone who came to our Mother's Day assembly. We are so proud of the class!

Year 6 Blog - Friday 13th March 2026

Date: 12th Mar 2026 @ 7:51am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have been revising how to use different types of tense. We have also been continuing our crime fiction unit. We have shared the story 'Saxby Smart and the Hangman's Lair' together. We thought carefully about justifying our opinions with evidence from the text. 

Maths 

This week, we have continued our topic on ratio. We have learned how to solve problems involving ratio. We have also explored how to find percentages of amounts and to find equivalences between fractions, decimals and percentages. 

RE

In RE, we shared the gospel story where Jesus was arrested and brought before Pilate. We debated whether Jesus had a fair trial and discussed what made a trial fair. We also explored the many names for Jesus in the gospels. We created our own signs for the cross, deciding what we would call Jesus by thinking about what he means to us. 

Topic 

We had our last visit from Freddie Fit this week and we really enjoyed being active and learning how to keep ourselves healthy! 

In Art, we continued our portrait topic by drawing portraits of each other! We held a 'portrait club' session in class. 

For Science, we learned what is in our blood and the function of each part. 

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 20/03/26

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.

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

Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week! 

Star of the Week  - William

Super Learner -  Oscar

Superstar Writer - Imogen

Bookworm -  Holly W

Marvellous Mathematician - Bella

Special Mentions - Ebba, Eliza W and Dominic: for great attitude to learning and always trying their best. 

Have a great weekend Year 6!

Year 2 Blog Friday 13th March 2026

Date: 10th Mar 2026 @ 10:07am

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 (20.03.26):

one       two      three   four    five      six    seven    eight    nine   ten 

Sumdog: Complete the measuring and spelling challenges.

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in 5 to 100 or beyond.

You could say them out loud or write the numbers down. Look at the pattern, what do you notice?

You could also work on your 2, 5, 10 or 3 times tables and doubling and halving.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

English

We finished our learning through the story of Manfred The Baddie.

We designed a poster to try and find the missing scientist after he was kidnapped by Manfred.

SPaG

We learnt how to use different suffixes such as -ly, -est, ed, ing, -er.

Maths

We have finished our money topic and moved on to learning how to measure mass and capacity.

We practised reading different scales.

RE

The children recapped the events of Holy week by looking at religious art for each day.

For example Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Then they wrote about their favourite piece and why.

We also discussed Jesus' last words on the cross and decorated our own crosses with the words.

Forest School

We discussed how birds will start building their nests at this time of year.  We looked at a real birds nest. We noticed all the changes in the nature area. We did some great child- initiated learning. We wondered why there weren't as many ladybirds about as last week....was it because it was colder?

Science

We sorted, examined and drew different vegetable seeds. We looked closely at their shape, size and colour.

Everyone had a great time keeping fit with Freddy and enjoying the motivational music.

He also talked to us about healthy eating and getting enough sleep.

We said goodbye to our student from Japan, Mizuki. She has loved spending time in our class and we really enjoyed her lesson.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Nelly

Super Learner -  Izzy

Superstar Writer - Joshua I.

Bookworm - Faisal

Mathematician - Jesse H.

Special Mentions - Huxley for being a kind and thoughtful friend and

Harry and Genevieve for lovely art work.

Reception Blog - Friday 6th March 2026

Date: 6th Mar 2026 @ 4:03pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

Phonics

We recapped ch, sh ,th, ng, qu, ai, ee

she, he, we, be, me, we, was, you and they

Our new sounds are igh and oa

Such as light night coat float

Drawing Club

We created our own plan to catch the wizard lizard.

The children enjoyed innovating the story to create their own endings.

Maths

We have been focusing on finding one more and one less than a given number.

We practised our addition and subtraction using our part whole model.

Art

We have been painting pictures of daffodils.

We also learnt about colour mixing the colour purple for Lent.

RE

This week we have been discussing how Lent is a time to help others. We read the story of Penguin and Pinecone and recognised how he cared for the pinecone. We compared this to Lent.

We read the story of 'The Good Samaritan' and discussed how he cared for the man - We made suggestions to a discussion about who we would care for at school or at home.

Bring Yer Wellies

What a fabulous time we had on our class trip!

We had great discussions about plants and what they need to grow and how to care for them.

We planted our own oregano - Look after it, there will be a home challenge in a few weeks about it.

We took part in den building, boat racing and even explored a 5 tier wormery! 

Make sure to check out our galleries to see all our brilliant learning from this week!

Year 5 Friday blog - 6th March 2026

Date: 6th Mar 2026 @ 3:56pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.

Spelling

Here are Year 5 spellings for this week.  

referring, referred, referral, preferring, preferred, transferring, transferred,  reference, referee

preference, transference, different, suffering, differing, suffered, conferring, offered, offering

Counting

Count out loud in:

12’s up to 288 and back again                                                      0, 12,24…

30’s from 19000 to 21000 and back again                              19030, 19060…

80’s from 840 to 1440 and back again                                     840, 920, 1000…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables.  Everyone has their own targets, which the children should have noted on the top of their spelling sheet.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.

Year 5 have had a very productive week – well done Year 5!

In English Year 5 have been continuing to read the class novel, ‘Varjak Paw’ by SF Said. They have also been practising writing narrative, using direct speech.

 In Maths Year 5 have been continuing to learn divisibility rules for large numbers, identifying factors and prime numbers and have now moved on to using the grid method. Everyone has done really well with this.

In RE this week, Year 5 have been investigating the meaning of Matthews’ recount of Jesus in the Wilderness. They have explored the temptations Jesus faced and why, and then gone on to create role plays in groups, acting out the temptations that they face and how to react to them.

In Art, the class have  continued to practise their sketching skills this week, focussing on cityscapes and perspective.

The whole class enjoyed using CANVA again in computing this week and creating presentations on the meaning of Lent.  

Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!

Year 3 Friday Blog 6th March 2026

Date: 6th Mar 2026 @ 3:49pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog!

Year 3 have had another fantastic week of learning.

Home Practice

Keep changing your books regularly and read for at least 15-20 minutes every night! 

Well done to everyone who completed their Sumdog challenges. Three new challenges have been added today. Remember, little and often every night will benefit your children with their learning in school.

Try and do a little counting at home as well. This will promote number fluency and understanding. There are lots of counting games here at ictgames.com that we use in school. You will also find lots of counting songs on YouTube.

We have given out your home spellings to practice for next week's test. In our spelling lessons this week we have been revisiting our spelling strategies, especially our past tense verb rules. Your spellings this week are from the statutory year 3/4 word list.

Minute, opposite, material, natural, ordinary, possible, naughty, particular, mention, notice, peculiar, potatoes, occasional, occasionally, perhaps, popular, often, pressure, position

This week in Year 3

In English, we finished reading Toro! Toro! and the children thoroughly enjoyed the story. They loved following the journey of Antonito and discussing the emotions and themes throughout the book. We have been working hard on retelling parts of the story and using ambitious vocabulary to make our writing more exciting and engaging.#

In RE, we continued our learning about the structure of the Mass. This week we focused especially on the Offertory and discussed why this part of the Mass is important. The children showed great understanding when explaining the different parts of the Mass and how we take part in them. We were very proud of the class as our visitors this week were extremely pleased with the children’s knowledge and the thoughtful way they answered questions about their learning.

In Maths, we have been learning about parallel and perpendicular lines in 2D shapes. The children worked brilliantly to identify and sort different examples. They also explained their reasoning clearly, showing a strong understanding of how lines relate to one another within shapes.

In DT, we began our new topic on mechanisms. This week we explored fixed pivots and loose pivots and learned how levers work. The children enjoyed experimenting and discovering how these mechanisms move.

In Art, we explored the textile artwork of Hannah Rae. The children looked closely at her work, discussing what they could see and how the artwork made them feel. They shared some thoughtful ideas and we look forward to exploring her style more in the coming weeks.

Make sure to check out our galleries.

Well done for another wonderful week of learning, Year 3!

Year 4 Blog Friday 6th March 2026

Date: 6th Mar 2026 @ 12:52pm

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

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 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 all the times tables

Our Learning This Week

In English, we started our new novel - The Firework Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman.

We studied the front cover and labelled what we could see, and then made predictions about what the novel might be about based on our observations.  

In Maths, we learnt how to identify and describe the rule of a sequence and extend the given sequence using this rule.

We also understood the effect of dividing a two digit number by 100. 

In RE, we discussed our gifts and talents as well as the things which make us unique.

Following this, we created a litany which recognised the gifts and uniqueness of friends and family.

In addition, we showed an understanding that loving God means we want to help ourselves and others, using the virtues of faith, hope and love, which have their foundations in God.

You can see some photos of our paperchain links in our gallery.

In Science, we carried out our melting chocolate experiment – which type of chocolate melts the fastest. You can see some pictures in our gallery.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, learnt about first aid and what to do in an emergency. We learnt the acronym HELPS :

H – help

E – explain

L – location

P – pay attention

S – stay calm

In Art, we practised sketching gerberas.

We also practised tints and shades of a colour and then painted gerberas in our books.

Have a look at some examples in our gallery.

On a Monday afternoon, we are also enjoying taking part in Forest School.

It was rather rainy for our session but we didn't mind. We found snails, ladybirds, slugs and worms. We realised that different creatures prefer different habitats, the ladybirds were all found in some long, thin leaves and the snails were all huddled together in a compost bin.

There was also some great child-initiated learning which included a cafe and an outdoor gym.

Some of us made forest eyes with wool and lolly sticks which develops our fine motor skills and it's also a very mindful activity.

Take a look at the pictures in our gallery.

As it was World Book Day on Thursday, we enjoyed reading with Year 2 in the afternoon.

You can see some photos in our gallery of us in our World Book Day costumes, and reading with Year 2.

On Friday morning, we took part in a Wellbeing Festival Day which provided some much needed calm and relaxation after a busy week.

The session included yoga, learning breathing techniques and practised calming movements.

There are some photos in our gallery.

 The Year 4 Team

Year 1 Blog - Friday 6th March 2026

Date: 6th Mar 2026 @ 8:30am

Home Practice - Sumdog

Maths challenge - Finding half

Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups

Counting – Can you practise counting in twos, fives and tens? 

Reading - Please try to read at least three times a week.

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

We started our Mother's Day writing ready for our assembly next week. We wrote lovely sentences about our mums.

Maths

We started our fractions topic. We learnt that with fractions, we have parts and a whole. We also learnt that our parts need to be equal in a fraction. We then practically made halves.

See our pictures here.

R.E.

We recapped the Bible passage of Jesus entering Jerusalem. We role played the story using our own palm leaves.

We also listened to the story of Jesus teaching in the Temple, and we discussed the reasons why the leaders did not like Jesus.

In our class collectives we read a story about Jesus coming across a Samaritan woman trying to get water from a well. She was afraid because Jesus was a Jew. We talked about how we should celebrate our differences and accept everyone.

Science

We identified and drew different types of weather.

History

We started our Hospitals topic and focused on the impact that Florence Nightingale had. We wrote facts about her in our books and recognised why she is historically significant.

P.S.H.E.

We learnt how to 'stop, understand and consider' how other people are feeling when difficult situations arise.

Computing

We learnt how to add voice recordings onto pictures on Seesaw.

Art

We made Holi pictures using watercolours and straws.

We also painted flowers using watercolours.

See our pictures here.

Yoga

We had a great yoga session with Beth.

See our pictures here.

Our Mother's Day assembly is next week: Friday 13th March at 2:40. Please come along if you can!

Year 2 Blog Friday 6th March 2026

Date: 5th Mar 2026 @ 12:02pm

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 (13.03.26):

Monday   Tuesday     Wednesday     Thursday      Friday       Saturday      Sunday

Sumdog: Complete the money and spelling challenges.

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in 10 to 100 or beyond.

You could say them out loud or write the numbers down. Look at the pattern, what do you notice?

You could also work on your 2, 5, 10 or 3 times tables and doubling and halving.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

English

We continued our learning through the story of Manfred the Baddie.

Everyone closely examined the picture of his hideout and discussed what features an effective hideout needs. We designed and labelled our own hideout.

We created our own Manfred The Baddie Quiz.

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 read another Miracle - The Cure of the Paralysed Man.

The children discussed a piece of art work based on the story in detail and sequenced the story with pictures.

They also wrote speech bubbles and sentences to retell the events.

Forest School

We planted the seeds from our science lesson last week.

Art

We made some visual notes about the work of the artist Marela Zacaries.

We also sketched tulips and did some colour mixing in preparation for our Mother's Day cards.

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 to us.

We also went outside and read to Year 4. They thought Year 2 were really good readers!

Y2 thoroughly enjoyed the day!

We welcomed our visitors from Japan.

We are so lucky to have a student in Year 2. Mizuki is enjoying spending time with us and seeing how we learn.

There was no Golden Assembly this week as we had a wellbeing Yoga session with Beth, one of our South Ribble Coaches.

Year 2 Team.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 6th March 2026

Date: 5th Mar 2026 @ 11:48am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have been continuing with our detective fiction topic. We have shared the story 'Bad Presents' together and written an independent diary entry based on the text. 

Maths 

This week, we have been learning all about ratio. We have learned how to scale up a ratio from the total or a part. We have also learned how to identify a ratio from a given set.   

RE

In RE, we shared the gospel story of 'The Anointing at Bethany' and created a film clip retelling of the story to explain what this story teaches 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 through drawing some beautiful artwork. 

Topic 

In Art, we completed our Brave Colour topic by designing a colourful Art instillation for an exhibition. We thought carefully about light, colour and sound and how we would want someone to experience our rooms. 

For World Book Day, we all enjoyed creating character profiles about the characters that we had dressed up as. You can see our work on the galleries! 

In PE, we continued to hone our tag rugby skills by practising tagging, intercepting and working as part of a team. 

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 13/03/26

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.

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!

Year 5 Blog - Friday 27th February 2026

Date: 27th Feb 2026 @ 3:57pm

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 Year 5 spellings for this week.  

determined  develop  dictionary  disastrous  embarrass environment  equipped  especially  exaggerate   excellent  existence  explanation  familiar  foreign  forty  frequently  government  harass

Counting

Count out loud in:

11’s up to 166 and back again                                                      0, 11, 22…

50’s from 19000 to 21000 and back again                              19000, 19050…

40’s from 840 to 1440 and back again                                     840, 880, 920…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables.  Everyone has their own targets, which the children should have noted on the top of their spelling sheet.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.

Year 5 have been very creative and expressive this week – well done Year 5!

In English the class have been practising learning and performing poems in small groups. This is to build their confidence and performance skills. Everyone did really well. Year 5 have also started reading their new novel, ‘Varjak Paw’ by SF Said.

 In Maths Year 5 have been re-capping their division and have started to learn divisibility rules for large numbers. Everyone has tried hard with this.

In RE this week, Year 5 have been investigating the meaning of Ash Wednesday as well as symbols and themes relating to Lent and what they mean.

In Art, the class have started a new topic on cityscapes and landscapes. They practised their sketching skills for landscapes this week.

The whole class enjoyed accessing a new presentation application called CANVA in computing this week. They learned how to animate and create AI images in presentations on the Victorians.

Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –     Jack

Super Learner –     Evelyn

Superstar Writer –      Josh W

Bookworm -  Joni

Marvellous Mathematician  -   Maisie

Special Mention -    Franco

Reception Blog - Friday 27th February 2026

Date: 27th Feb 2026 @ 3:50pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

Welcome back to Spring 2. We have started our new learning topic all about Growing.

Phonics

We recapped ch, sh ,th, ng, qu

she, he, we, be, me, we, was, you and they

Our new sounds are ai and ee

Such as rain, pain, feel, bee

Drawing Club

We read Superworm, we discussed superworm as a character describing him as kind and helpul. We looked at the setting of the story and designed our own garden for him to live in.

The children also had a go at categorising different minibeasts with wings, no wings, legs and no legs. They cut the pictures out and stuck them on the correct section and added a label independently. 

Maths

We have been exploring shape this week. 

We learnt about 2D and 3D shapes, learning the names of the shapes and some of their properties.

Art

In Art, we cut out different things from a catalogue. We then tried to create our own story from the pictures we have used.

We heard lots of great story language from the children when retelling the stories they had made.

PE

We have started a new unit in PE, all linked to the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. 

Today, we played the bean game, moving in lots of different ways to warm up our bodies, then we all got a magic bean bag, we explored balancing it on different body parts. 

Our main focus of our lesson was to practise underarm throwing, thinking about using the opposite arm to leg as we throw. 

Forest School

We has a lovely muddy time in our nature area. We found snails and worms, we made some delicious mud creations, we noticed all the flowers growing and we listened to the birds.

Make sure to check out our galleries to see all our brilliant learning from this week!

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Joey

Super Learner – Chester

Superstar Writer – Billy

Bookworm – Erin

Mathematician – Jenson

Special Mentions - Henry.B, Ivy, George

Year 3 Friday 27th February 2026

Date: 27th Feb 2026 @ 12:50pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

This week in Year 3, we’ve been busy diving into lots of exciting learning!

Home Practice

Reading: Please read every night at home. Remember to change your school books regularly, we have an amazing selection to choose from!

Spellings: The common words taught in KS1. Look for the tricky bits in these words. If you remember the tricky bits you will remember more spellings!

Maths: Challenges are set on Sumdog. They are on 2D Shape and your x3,x4 and x8 times tables. Make sure to access the fluency challenge to practise your hard skills.

This week in Year 3 

What a fantastic week of learning we have had in Year 3!

In RE, we have been exploring two powerful miracle stories from the Bible. We read about the miracle of the manna in the desert from the Old Testament and compared it to the feeding of the 5,000 in the New Testament. The children made thoughtful links between the two stories, recognising how both show God’s care and provision for His people. We brought the Gospel story to life by acting out the feeding of the 5,000 and recording it using Apple Clips. The children really enjoyed stepping into role and retelling the miracle in a creative way.

In English, we have been reading and retelling the traditional tale of Ferdinand the Bull. The focus this week has been on telling the story in the correct order, ensuring our writing flows with cohesion and clarity. The children worked incredibly hard to use ambitious vocabulary to elevate their ideas and bring the gentle Ferdinand to life for the reader. We will be finishing Toro! Toro! next week and are looking forward to seeing how the story finishes.

Below you will find the reading VIPERS question stems.

In Maths, our focus has been angles in 2D shapes. Everyone shared their ideas brilliantly and demonstrated a strong understanding of how to identify and describe angles within different 2D shapes. It has been wonderful to see such confident mathematical discussion taking place.

In PE, we were delighted to welcome back Mrs Cookson and begin our touch rugby. This half term we will be focusing on teamwork, supporting one another during matches and ensuring everyone is included equally in the game. There was a fantastic team spirit on display already!

In Music, the children explored the djembe drums. They worked carefully on creating and maintaining rhythms, learning how to accompany a piece of music with control and confidence. Mrs Campbell was very impressed with everyone's focus and musicality.

Well done, Year 3. Another week of hard work, creativity and brilliant learning. 

Have a lovely weekend 

The Year 3 Team

Year 2 Blog Friday 27th February 2026

Date: 27th Feb 2026 @ 12:41pm

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 (06.03.26):

January February March April may June July August September October November December

Sumdog: Complete the money and spelling challenges.

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in 5 to 100 or beyond.

You could say them out loud or write the numbers down. Look at the pattern, what do you notice?

You could also work on your 2, 5, 10 or 3 times tables and doubling and halving.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

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.

Next week, we will be learning more about money.

RE

As part of our RSHE, the children discussed times we felt safe in our community and times we might feel unsafe. The children wrote/illustrated their ideas very well.

Science

We got some seed heads from our garden area and observed them closely. We opened them and got the seeds out which we are going to plant next week.

We watched some time-lapse videos of plants growing from seeds.

Forest School

We went to sow some wildflower seeds near our pond.

The first group saw a deer in the field.

P.E.

Our new focus this half term is games/fundamental skills.

The children thoroughly enjoyed learning and playing some 20th century playground games.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Zac

Super Learner - Lara

Superstar Writer - Rudy

Bookworm - Arthur

Mathematician - Bobby

Special Mentions - Kamali and Genevieve for makig beutiful maps of where they belong for PSHE and

Dean for being a kind and thoughtful friend.

Year 2 Team.

Year 1 Blog - Friday 27th February 2026

Date: 27th Feb 2026 @ 9:15am

Home Practice - Sumdog

Maths challenge - Shape patterns

Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups

Counting – Can you practise counting in twos, fives and tens? 

Reading - Please try to read at least three times a week.

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

We have solely focused on neat handwriting this week, practising our letter formation and using the correct spellings.

We wrote about our half term and our trip to the library.

Maths

We spotted and created our own repeated patterns. We also sorted criteria into groups.

R.E.

We recapped Jesus being tempted in the desert and how it links to Lent. Mrs Armstrong tempted us with marshmallows, just like Jesus was tempted by the devil.

We also read the passage of Jesus entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. We made a welcome poster for Jesus using our new word of 'Hosanna'.

P.E.

We started to learn how to underarm throw and catch. We threw beanbags into hoops and practised throwing to a partner.

See our pictures here.

Science

We identified signs of Spring on our walk around the school grounds.

P.S.H.E.

We identified what it means to be an active listener. We found that we have to make eye contact, ask questions and make sure that there are no distractions.

Computing

We started our Seesaw unit and focused on how to add captions to our pictures. We chose our favourite page in our sketchbook and wrote a caption.

Art

We began to explore watercolour paint.

See our pictures here.

Library

We had a great trip to the library! We read lots of different dinosaur books.

See our pictures here.

Forest School

We made shelters with tarps and mats. We had to secure the tarps onto the branches or find other ways as we weren't using ropes. There was great team-work and collaborations. Some children made lassoes whith some skillful knot-tying.

We identified the different flowers growing in our nature area.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Harriet

Super Learner: Roman

Superstar Writer: Oscar

Bookworm: Noah B

Marvellous Mathematician: Rupert

Special Mentions: Evie E and Thomas for their throwing and catching in PE.

Our phonics workshop is next week (Thursday 5th March at 3:15), so please come along if you can! We will be explaining the phonics screening check and showing you how we teach a phonics lesson.

Year 4 Blog Friday 27th February 2027

Date: 27th Feb 2026 @ 8:52am

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 adverbs or adverbial phrases when you are reading?

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 hundredths  

For example, start at 0.52 and count to 0.66 and back again

0.52   0.53   0.54  etc                         0.66  0.65  0.64  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 comparing decimal numbers

Our Learning this Week

In English, we practised using adverbial phrases and fronted adverbials.

We used ‘human sentences’ to help us with our learning – you can see some pictures in our gallery.

We also finished our class novel, The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, and then discussed the characters and the story.   

In Maths, we consolidated our knowledge about numbers to two decimal places by comparing and ordering decimal numbers using the greater than ( > ) and less than ( < ) signs.

We also placed hundredths on a number line.

Year 4 have shown a super understanding of hundredths - well done to you all!

In RE, started our new topic – Desert to Garden.

We read the parable of the Prodigal Son and then retold it to show our understanding.

Following this, we 'hotseated' some of the different characters to find out their feelings and delve further into the idea of God forgiving, even when we turn away from him.

In Science, we continued with our States of Matter topic by planning an investigation to see which type of chocolate melt the fastest.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, learnt how to show respect to others and ourselves.

In PE, we played tag rugby. We demonstrated how to pass a ball using a swing pass accurately and then used a simple tactic in a game.

Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.   

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 Computing, we finished our photo editing topic by planning an image we wanted to create.

We 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.

In our Forest School session there was amazing resilience and team-work shown when making the shelters. The children also demonstrated their knot-tying skills. 

We also talked about all the flowers growing in our nature area.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week: Oscar

Superstar Writer: Francesca

Bookworm: Eliza

Marvellous Mathematician: Eddie

Super Learner: George

Special Mentions: Bella – for beautiful RE work

Evelyn and Daisy – for a super ‘Magic Dragon’ photograph which they edited for their final piece in computing

The Year 4 team

Year 6 Blog - Friday 27th February 2026

Date: 26th Feb 2026 @ 10:07am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have begun our new unit all about detective fiction. We have shared the story 'The Happy Alien' together and used tentative language to explore our suspects in the text. We have also written a diary entry in role based on the events of the story. 

Maths 

This week, we have been learning all about fractions. We have revised how to add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers and we have also learned how to multiply two fractions together and divide a fraction by an integer. 

RE

In RE, we have started our new topic 'desert to garden'. We made some beautiful title pages and created our own Lenten promises, thinking about how kindness can be transformative in our communities. 

Topic 

In Science, we continued with our work on the body. We learned what pulse was and investigated which exercise increased our pulse the most. 

For Art, we completed our topic on colour by designing our own colourful space!

As part of our Faith in Action award, we completed our second reflection. We thought carefully about the story of 'The Good Samaritan' and explored how we could show love to our neighbours through acts of kindness. 

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 6/03/25

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.

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

Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week! 

Star of the Week  - Joe

Super Learner -  Eliza W

Superstar Writer - Freddie

Bookworm -  Casper and Zach M

Marvellous Mathematician - Maisie

Special Mentions - Willow and Holly W - for always helping to hand out books and worksheets in the morning.

Have a great weekend Year 6!

Year 5 Blog Friday 13th February 2026

Date: 13th Feb 2026 @ 4:33pm

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.

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 5 have once again been outstanding this half term - thank you to all of you! We will see you back in school on Monday 23rd February 2026

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –    Jenson

Super Learner –     Joni

Superstar Writer –      Teddy

Bookworm -  Henry

Marvellous Mathematician  -  Josh M

Special Mention -    Elena and Alana

Reception Blog - Friday 13th February 2026

Date: 13th Feb 2026 @ 3:41pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

What another fabulous half term we have had, well done to all of Reception for trying their best every single day.

Phonics

We have been consilidating all of the sounds that we have learnt so far this week. 

Please practise your tricky words over the holidays. 

she, he, we, be, me, we, was, you and they

Drawing Club

Our learning has been all about Chinese New Year this week, we read the story 'My First Chinese New Year' by Karen Katz. 

The children have been writing chinese numbers, tasting chinese food, making chinese lanterns and learning all about the different traditions that people do to prepare for Chinese New Year. 

Maths

This week our learning has been around measure. 

We have been measuring the lengths of sticks, using the language of longest and shortest. 

We used the balance scales to measaure the weight of the toy animals, investigating which where heavy and light. 

Finally, we explored capacity, by filling lots of different containers and seeing which could hold the most and least amount of water. 

RE

We spke about what Lent is and made our own Lent Promises. 

We thought about doing something kind for others or practising something we want to improve and get better at over the 40 days of Lent. 

Understanding the World

We found China on the map this week and explored the similarites and differences between China and the UK. 

We also had a visit from an ambulance, the children got to go inside the ambulance and ask lots of questions about how paramedics help people. 

Forest School

Make sure to check out our galleries to see all our brilliant learning!

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Amelie

Super Learner – Vinnie

Superstar Writer – Raeni

Bookworm – Louie

Mathematician – Caleb

Special Mentions - Maeve & Luca

Year 3 Friday 13th February 2026

Date: 13th Feb 2026 @ 1:23pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog.

We’ve had a fantastic end to the half term in Year 3.

In English we have continued enjoying Toro! Toro! where we met Uncle Juan and retold the part of the story when Antonito attended his first bullfight. We used brilliant sentence starters to make our writing flow and ambitious vocabulary to bring the action to life.

In maths we have been learning how to use a vertical number line to solve tricky division problems. Everyone showed super perseverance and resilience. Well done Year 3.

In geography we explored native animals of North America. We watched nature clips and used our computing skills to design posters on Canva, so be sure to check out the gallery.

This week in art we completed our ‘Telling Stories Through Sculpture’ topic by painting our creations and backgrounds, then proudly shared them with Year 2 who are reading Esio Trot!

On Tuesday, we performed our final gymnastics routines to music, making sure our sequences included six different elements.

In RE we have been reflecting on Lent and created our own Lenten promises, which are now displayed in the hall as a reminder of the promises we have made to God.

Star of the week - Henry P

Super Learner - Amelia C

Writer of the week - Melodie and Dylan

Marvellous Mathematician - Amelia L

Bookworm - Orlaigh

Special Mentions - Leo and Wilbur for their brilliant playtimes

Thank to to all the children who have shared their home learning with the class this week. Well done Zack who brought in a poster he created on Mount St Helens us ing Canva! Amazing work!

Have a brilliant weekend and a lovely half term holiday.

The Year 3 Team

Year 4 Blog Friday 13th February 2026

Date: 12th Feb 2026 @ 3:49pm

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

Our Learning this week

In English, we learnt what an adverbial phrase is and how to identify them in a sentence.

We then wrote some sentences of our own using adverbial phrases.

In Maths, we built on our understanding of the number system extending it further into hundredths.

We learnt the equivalence of tenths, hundredths, fractions and decimals, for example:

 50/100 = 5/10 = ½ = 0.5

25/100 = 1/4  = 0.25

75/100 = ¾ = 0.75

We also learnt about numbers to 2 decimal places in the context of money.

In RE, we created a poster to show how Jesus loved and ways that we could show love in our everyday lives. 

As it is Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent during half term, we wrote our Lenten promises in preparation for this.

In Science, we recognised that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled.

For example, ice needs to melt to become water (solid to liquid); water needs to freeze to become ice (liquid to solid);

water needs to evaporate to become water vapour (liquid to gas); water vapour needs to condense to become water (gas to liquid).

In History, we finished our Romans topic by researching some of the legacies left behind by them.

We then created a poster on Canva to show our learning, ensuring it contained both information and some pictures.       

As it was Children’s Mental Health Week, in PSHE we covered the theme ‘this is my place’.

We discussed what it means to belong and how we can help ourselves and others feel like we belong.

We then thought about our happy place and the things we love.  

In PE, we performed out Iron Man dance in a team. You can see some photos 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.  

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Annie

Super Learner: Mia

Superstar Writer: Violet Ca

Bookworm Award:

Marvellous Mathematician: Archer

Special Mentions: Jessica and Rowan: Thoughtful RE work

Francesca and Violet Co: an excellent ‘pocket gallery’ in art

The Year 4 team