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Reception Blog - Thursday 28th March 2024

Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 12:51pm

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Phonics

This week Mrs Stone's group have learnt the long and short oo sounds. Mrs Robinson's group have learnt the or and ar sounds.

Maths and Drawing Club

This week we have been doing our end of term assessments.

R.E.

We have been revisiting the events of Holy week, including Palm Sunday and Good Friday. 

We have also learnt about Easter Sunday.

Understanding the World

We learnt about the life cycle of a caterpillar.

Physical Development

This week we have started to learn the dance for the Dance from the Heart show in June.

Expressive Arts and Design

This week we have made our own Easter cards.

 

We hope that you all have a fantastic Easter holidays and we will see you all on Monday 15th April, with the children in their Summer uniforms.

The Reception Team

Year 4 Blog Thursday 28th March 2024

Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 8:51am

Welcome to the last blog of the Spring term

 

As it is the Easter holiday, we have not set any Home Practice / Sumdog challenges. However, please keep reading every day – this really is the key to unlocking your learning.

 

In English, we learnt what a pronoun is and its purpose in a sentence (pronouns are words which are used instead of a noun). We then used pronouns in our own work - replacing nouns with appropriate pronouns ensuring that the sentence still made sense.

In Maths, we learnt how to double a number with ones and tenths. This was trickier when we needed to exchange ten tenths for a one!

In RE, we used words and pictures to describe Holy Week and produced a beautiful piece of work in our books which we are very proud of.

 

As it is Holy Week, we were also lucky enough to have a visit from Father Michael. He reminded us about some of the events of Holy Week and told us about the Mass of Chrism he was attending during the week. We also went to church on Thursday afternoon for an Easter Liturgy beautifully led by Year 6.

 

Well done for a brilliant term Year 4!

We look forward to seeing you all again on Monday 15th April in your Summer uniforms.

Make sure you relax and enjoy spending time with your family and friends over the Easter holiday.

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Have a fabulous Easter

The Year 4 team

Year 5 Blog Friday 22nd March 2024

Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 3:39pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

 

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look out for speech, discuss how it is punctuated. 

 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. 

 

favourite

temperature

opportunity

opportunities

identity

identities

cemetery

cemeteries

community

communities

curiosity

curiosities

dictionary

dictionaries

vegetable

 

Counting

Count out loud in:

7s from 0 to 84 and back again          0, 7, 14, ...

8s from 0 to 96 and back again          0, 8, 16, ...

12s from 0 to 144 and back again      0, 12, 24, ...

 

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day. You either have your own tables target or please practise dividing by 12.

 

Sumdog

The winner of last week’s maths competition was …

Freya - well done :) 

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Competition – individual   

Spelling Challenge

Reception Blog - Friday 22nd March 2024

Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 12:52pm

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Phonics

This week we have recapped all of our sounds so far.

Maths

We have been learning about length and time.

Drawing Club

This week we have been reading the story; Tad.

 We have drawn our own 'big blub' character who lurks at the bottom of the pond.

R.E.

We have been revisiting the events of Holy week, including Palm Sunday and Good Friday. 

We also discussed Spring and growth.

Understanding the World

We learnt about the lifecycle of a frog.

We went for a walk to our school pond to see which mini beasts were there.

Physical Development

This week we have been balancing beanbags on rackets, focussing on our hand eye coordination.

We  all had our final session of Yoga with Hannah today. We all revisited everything we have learnt so far this year and it was fantastic. A big thank you to Hannah.

Forest School

We played a hide and seek game with soft toys.

We also built shelters using ropes, tarps and mats. We all showed great team-work, communication and resilience.

Easter Egg Raffle

Next week we will have our Easter Egg raffle. If you want to buy a ticket for your child, just send the money in an envelope and we will sort it. It is 50p a ticket.

 

 

Year 3 Friday 22nd March 2024

Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 7:58am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

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Home Practice

Continue with all your brilliant home reading. Everyone has made excellent progress with their reading this year and this is down to reading regularly at home. Keep it up!

Please count in 8's from 0 to 96 and back again.

For example 0  8  16 etc                 96   88   80   etc

Your Sumdog challenges are on all your times tables, addition and subtraction and your home spellings. This week we have been remembering to use syllables to spell independently in our writing.

Here are your spellings for this week. They are all compund words.

 

sunshine     goldfish      anymore    raindrop     myself     skateboard

seaside    gentleman     earring     jigsaw     overflow     eyeball

 

This week in Year 3

We have had a fab week in Year 3!

In English we read Toro Toro and learnt how to write newspaper reports. Everyone worked hard on their sentence structures this week. Well Done Year 3!

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In maths we revisited the formal written methods for addition and subtraction. We have set a challenge for you to practise these. We also used estimating to check our answers. Super maths this week!

On Wednesday, in our art lesson, we created the background for our final piece. Check out our gallery. We have made some beautiful landscapes.

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We also finished our dance topic this week. We really enjoyed learning our routines and using gesture, stillness and travelling to create our own performances.

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In computing this week we explored branching databases. We used seesaw to create some simple databases and tried them out on each other. 

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Have a great weekend

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The Year 3 Team

 

Year 2 Blog - Friday 22nd March

Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 4:22pm

Reading - Please try to read for 10 minutes every night. 

Spellings –Spelling quiz will be on MONDAY 25th March.

enjoyment        payment       achievement      agreement     punishment     government       treatment        placement     statement      movement

Times Tables –  A times tables sheet will be sent home every Wednesday/Thursday. 

Counting - Practise counting in 10s from any given number.  Challenge – count in tens from 0 to 150. 

Sumdog Challenges Maths – x5 times tables practice and money

Sumdog Challenge Spellings –  suffix -ment

Sumdog Competition for Year 2 – apostrophes

 

This week in Year 2

English

This week the children started a new novel 'The Big Bad Owl'. The children made predictions using the front cover and title, wrote a description of 'Cupcake Wood' and described what all the animals were doing and how friendly they were. The children have started to use verbs, adverbs, adjectives and superlatives to make their writing better.

Maths

This week the children have been learning about money.

RE

The children re-told the Easter Story and explored all the events which happen before Easter. 

PSHE

In PSHE this week the children have discussed self-belief and values, The children have also started to use thier feelings books. 

 

 

 Reminders

Year 2 Assembly - thank you to everyone who came to watch our class assembly.

Easter Egg Raffle tickets - Available to buy from class - 50p per ticket.

Year 2 trip - Please return the orange slip from the trip letter before the Easter holidays - thank you.

 

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 4 Blog Friday 22nd March 2024

Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 4:19pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.

Can you summarise what has already happened in the book so far? Can you make a prediction about what you think will happen and explain why you think this?

 

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

physician      optician       magician       politician      mathematician

electrician   musician       extension     collision        confusion

explosion      division        exclusion      conclusion     invasion       

 

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 0.2’s  (similar to your 2 times table but 10 times smaller)

For example, start at 0.2 and count to 2.6 and back again

0.2   0.4   0.6   etc                    2.6    2.4    2.2   etc

Now try starting at 0.1 and count to 2.7 and back again

0.1   0.3  0.5    etc                     2.7   2.5   2.3   etc

 

Times tables and Number facts

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week. 

You can practise your tables on Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

 

Sumdog challenges

  • A spelling challenge based on the words above
  • A times tables competition based on all the times tables
  • A missing number times table challenge

 

 

In English, we wrote a conversation between Lila and Rambashi ensuring that our words for said reflected the characters, and our punctuation was correct. We then acted this out with a partner.  

 

In Maths, we continued learning how to accurately place hundredths on a blank numberline. We also found the effect of dividing a one or two-digit number by 100, and started to learn how to solve number sequences when we needed to add or subtract to find the difference.

 

In RE, we learnt about the events of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday. We then started to produce a beautiful piece of work in our books which explained our learning. We will continue this next week.

 

We also made our DT projects this week. First, we stitched a button or a pattern on the ‘front’ of the product, then we sewed the two pieces of felt together. You can see some pictures of us busy at work and of our finished products in the gallery.

 

This week, we also took part in a retirement assembly for Mr Bedford who taught us how to swim when we were in Year 3. We wish Mr Bedford all the very best for his retirement.

In addition, we had our last dance session provided by Beth from South Ribble Sports Coaches, and attended the Parish Mass and Stations of the Cross on Friday morning. 

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Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 team

Year 6 Blog Friday 22nd March 2024

Date: 19th Mar 2024 @ 2:50pm

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A great week, well done Year 6.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for up to 30 minutes every night, this will improve the speed at which you read and your understanding of the text. If you come across any new words that you don’t understand, ask an adult or look it up in the dictionary. Building up your vocabulary knowledge is really beneficial.

Spelling

Please practise these thirteen spellings (Y5/6 Word List) for your test on Friday. A sheet will go home every Thursday/Friday with the spelling list on. 

Spellings (22.03.24 – 28.03.24):

soldier                system               vegetable

stomach             temperature       vehicle

sufficient             thorough            yacht

suggest               twelfth

symbol                variety

 

Maths

Counting/Number Games

Have a go at this factors and multiples game!

https://nrich.maths.org/factorsandmultiples 

Sumdog

You have a mixed times table/division facts challenge on Sumdog to complete by Thursday 28.03.24.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

If you would like to do a bit more work on your times tables, Hit the Button is a great game to play.

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

 

Reminders

 Easter Egg Raffle - you can still buy tickets for 50p in class.

        

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In English, the children wrote draft reports about Hurricane Michael, including cohesive devices. We will proof-read and edit these next week and write a final version.

In Maths, we worked on division and the chunking method.

Year 6 led a lovely Retirement Assembly for Steve, the swimming instructor at Penwortham pool, who has taught swimming lessons for nearly 30 years.

  

 

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Year 6 Team.

 

 

Year 1 Blog - Friday 22nd March 2024

Date: 19th Mar 2024 @ 11:43am

Home Practice

Phonics - ou words OR y (ee sound) words OR phase 4 words

Maths - Money

Counting - Count in 2s, 5s and 10s starting at different numbers, 12,22,32 and so on.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

 

English

This week our learning has been through a story about Scaredy Squirrel. We have met him before but now he's trying to organise a birthday party.

We wrote some facts about squirrels.

We interviewed Scaredy Squirrel and asked him questions about his party.

Phonics

Some of us have been revising all the /ee/ sounds, ie as in field, ea as in leaf, e as in behave, y as in baby, ee as in meet, e-e as in Steve.

We have been learning ey as in donkey.

Some of us have been learning the final oa spellings - o_e in stone, o in both, ol in cold and oul in shoulder.

We then moved onto learning the different ow spellings - ow in cow, ou in shout and ough in plough.

Maths

We have been revising the different coins and notes that we use in England. We had a discussion about how our coins and notes will soon be changing as the Queen is currently on our money.

We then started to explore equal groups, specifically making doubles.

R.E.

We read the story of The Widow's Mite. This was when Jesus saw a rich man and a poor woman putting money into the Temple box. We talked about how Jesus was happier with the widow because she had given all that she had left, where as the rich man had more money at home.

We also read the story of The Last Supper and had our own version of a Passover meal together on the carpet.

Art

We used the watercolours to make our own weather painting. We used our science knowledge to choose to make either a sun, rain, cloud or lightning picture.

D.T.

We made our smoothies! We had so much fun learning how to safely use a knife to chop up fruit and how to use a blender to blend it together. Some of us liked our smoothies, some of us did not!

 

Next week the reading books will be changed on Thursday.

Year 2 Blog - Friday 15th March

Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 4:00pm

Home Practice

 

Reading - Please try to read for 10 minutes every night. 

Spellings –Spelling quiz will be on MONDAY 18th March

homeless      careless      hopeless      spotless      endless      tasteless     heartless      fearless       helpless     speechless

Times Tables –  A times tables sheet will be sent home every Wednesday. No quiz this week.

Counting - Practise counting in 3s from any given number.  Challenge – count in twos from 0 to 36. Challenge.

Sumdog Challenges Maths – x3 times tables practice and addition

Sumdog Challenge Spellings –  suffix -less

Sumdog Competition for Year 2 – apostrophes

 

This week in Year 2

English

This week the children finished the book 'The Lumberjack's Beard'. They wrote super apology letters to the animals who lost their homes from the point of view of Jim Hikory. 

Maths

This week we started to learn about addition and subtraction using exchanging. 

RE

In our learning this week, we re-told the story of Palm Sunday. The children drew lovely pictures of Jesus arriving on his donkey.

Science

In Science this week, we carried out an investigation about the properties of materials. The children explored which materials would be best when water was adding to them.

Forest School

Some of us have been learning how to plant seeds. 

Some of us practised our knots and made a forest eye.

There was also some super child-initiated learning involving making a stream, cooking with wild garlic and discovering a snail hide-out!

 

 Reminders

Year 2 Assembly - Thursday 21st March at 2.40pm.

PTFA Easter Bingo – Thursday 21st March 6.30pm-7.30pm.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 5 Blog Friday 15th March 2024

Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 2:06pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Tell somebody your favourite thing about the book you are reading.  

 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. Most of them contain the letters -ei or -ei.

achieve          leisure          mischievous          neighbour          soldier          sufficient          variety          ceiling          belief          believe          experience          weight           quite          quiet          quit

 

Counting

Count out loud in:

1s from 5 down to -20 and back again          5, 4, 3, …

5s from 5 down to – 60 and back again         5, 0, -5, …

3s from 3 down to -36 and back again          3, 0, -3, …

 

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day. You either have your own tables target or please practise square numbers e.g., 2 x 2 = 4, 3 x 3 = 9.

 

Sumdog

The winner of last week’s maths competition was …

THE DOGS by one point!

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Competition – individual   

Spelling Challenge

 

 

We have had a great week this week. On Wednesday we were joined by Freddy Fit and enjoyed our workout. We spoke about the importance of both physical and mental wellbeing.

In English we continued reading our class novel - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We finished our character description of the professor using dialogue and action. Our objective was to describe a character who sounds eccentric to the reader. We then read our descriptions to Year 4. We didn’t tell the children our objective. After reading, we asked them to write a word to describe the professor. When they wrote unusual, strange, etc, we knew we had achieved our objective.

In maths we learnt about negative numbers and different methods to add and subtract. We spoke about where we might see negative numbers including lifts, football matches, and thermometers.  

In RE we started our new topic all about Lent. We thought about giving. We also had a visit from Father Michael. He spoke to us all about saying sorry for things we had done wrong. We then each had the chance to say sorry to God with Father Michael.  

In history we started to learn about the Vikings who arrived in Britain around 790AD. We discussed what the Vikings were like and reasons they might have come to invade Britain.

We have had a fantastic two weeks with Atsuya and the other Japanese students. It was amazing to learn about their culture. We were lucky enough to play with some traditional Japanese toys which we loved! Safe travels back to Japan. 

Have a fantastic weekend! 

Reception Blog - Friday 15th March 2024

Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 12:44pm

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Phonics

This week Mrs Stone's group have been learning the igh and oa sounds. Mrs Robinson's group have been learning the long oo and short oo sounds.

Maths

We have been learning about number bonds to 5 and 10.

Drawing Club

This week we have been reading the story; Jasper's Beanstalk. We had a beanstalk appear in class! At the end of the week it even got chopped down!

We have been writing the beginning,middle and end of the story and we even thought of our own ending.

R.E.

We have been learning about the events of Holy week, specifically Palm Sunday. We listened to a story about Jesus arriving in Jerusalem. We learnt the word Hosanna, which is what the people shouted to him. We each made our own palm leaves and acted out the story together.

Understanding the World

We learnt how a plant grows.

Expressive Arts and Design

This week we have had a lesson with the Japanese students all about oragami. We each made our own oragami art.

We wish the best of luck to them as they travel back to Japan this weekend. The children have loved having them in class.

Stay and Play

A big thank you to everyone who came to our stay and play.

Year 4 Blog Friday 15th March 2024

Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 12:22pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.

Keeping looking out for dialogue / speech marks. Look carefully at how the dialogue is punctuated. Can you see the inverted commas? What words are inside the inverted commas? Can you spot any capital letters and punctuation within the speech marks?

 

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

antiseptic    antidote       antibiotic     antibody      anticlockwise

antisocial     anticlimax    antihistamine         interfere     international

interrupt     internet       intervene     intercept     interject

 

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 4’s. 

For example, start at 0 and count up to 48 and back again

0    4    8     etc                                  48   44   40 etc

Now try counting in 8’s.

Start at 0 and count up to 96 and back again

0   8   16 etc                                       96   88   80 etc

 

Times tables and Number facts

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week. 

You can practise your tables on Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

 

Sumdog challenges

  • A spelling challenge based on the words above
  • A times tables challenge based on all the times tables
  • A dividing by 10 and 100 challenge

 

 

In English, we read some more of our class novel – The Firework-Maker’s Daughter.  We then revised the rules for speech / dialogue. Following this, we thought of lots of different words for ‘said’ which Lila and Rambashi (2 characters from the novel) would use. We will be writing our own dialogue between the characters next week.

 

In Maths, we compared and ordered numbers with tens, ones, tenths and hundredths.  In addition, we placed hundredths on a blank numberline. 

 

In RE, we started our new topic – ‘Giving: Self Discipline’. We read a story and discussed how feelings and beliefs affect self-discipline. We learnt that although being self-disciplined can be difficult, it can also lead to positive results.

 

We started our DT project this week. We practised 3 different types of stitches, then planned and designed our product. We will be making our product next week.

We need to remember to bring in any decorations we want to include on our product next week.

 

This week, we also enjoyed a trip to Formby Beach and Southport Eco Centre. We learnt a lot of information about the Formby coastline, and ways to be more eco friendly. It was an excellent trip and we gained a lot of knowledge from the experience. Have a look at our photos in the gallery. 

 

In addition, this week we have taken part in an energetic keep fit session with Freddie Fit and a lesson led by the Japanese students, during which we learnt how to show hospitality in Japan. See the photos in our gallery.

 

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Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 team

 

 

Year 3 Friday Blog 15th March 2024

Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 7:52am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a very active week this week with Freddie Fit, Dance and Netball with Mrs Cookson

Freddy Fit

 

Home Practice

Continue to read every night and remember to change your books with Mrs Lancaster and Mrs Woof! We have loads of great books to read!

We have set 2 maths challenges on Sumdog, fractions and times tables. A little practice every night does the trick!

Please also practise your counting in 10's. Start at 0 and count in 10's up to 210 and back again. For example, 0  10  20 and so on. Then count back 210   200   190  until you get back to 0.

Your spellings this week are based on the different /aw/ sounds.

squawk      scrawny     spawn      drawn      audition     applaud     auction     applause     audience     saucepan     overhaul    astronaut

This week in Year 3

This week we have started our new novel, Toro Toro by Michael Morpurgo. We have been spotting similarities in the story and The Butterfly Lion and writing descriptive pieces about Antonio's farm and the cork forest. Some brilliant pieces and a real improvement on spelling this week! Keep it up Year 3!

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In maths we have been learning about volume and capacity and how to add 2 three digit measurements using the formal written method. Super learning this week!

In art we explored lanscapes in preparation for our final piece using fabric, paint and thread. Mrs Robinson was blown away by our work. Check out our gallery.

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In geography we learned all about the United States and where it gets it's name. We used atlases and digital globes to locate some states on our maps. 

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On Friday, Year 1 came to read their Wild Things stories to us. Year 3 gave great feedback to the children. Great job year 1!

We have had a lovely couple of weeks with Yuri, one of our Japenese students. She made us some matcha tea and taught us a song called Totoro. Thank you Yuri for visiting us!

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Have a lovely weekend and a Happy St Patrick's Day

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Year 1 Blog - Friday 15th March 2024

Date: 13th Mar 2024 @ 10:16am

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Home Practice

Phonics - ow (oa sound) words OR ea words OR tricky words

Maths - 2s, 5s and 10s counting

Counting - Count in 2s, 5s and 10s starting at different numbers, 12,22,32 and so on.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

 

English

We are authors! We all wrote our own version of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. We took great care to use full stops, capital letters, ambitious vocabulary and to keep our writing on the line. We tried to make our writing look beautiful on every page.

We read our books to the children in Reception, Years 3 and 4. They were impressed and also gave us some great feedback.

Phonics 

Some of us have been revising ee in see, ea in leaf and e_e in Pete.

Some of us have been revising some of the different oa spellings - ow in snow and oe in toe.

Maths

We have been counting in the pattern of 2s, 5s and 10s. We have identfied where these patterns are on a hundred square and counted groups of different objects.

R.E.

We had so much fun learning about Jesus teaching in the Temple. We realised that many people did not like Jesus and believed that He was not the true king. We role played King Herod and the leaders of the land against Jesus and His disciples.

Computing

You may have noticed that we have been practising how to upload pictures and videos to Seesaw. We now know how to open the iPad and record evidence of our amazing learning!

D.T.

We planned our smoothies ready for next week. We chose our fruit and wrote some simple instructions.

Forest School

Some of us have been learning how to plant seeds. 

Some of us practised our knots and made a forest eye.

There was also some super child-initiated learning involving making a stream, cooking with wild garlic and discovering a snail hide-out!

 

We have really enjoyed having the students from Japan working with us. Their professor, Yuichi, spent lots of time with us in Year 1, finding out how we learn in our school.

We also had a great time with Freddy Fit! He put us all through our paces and taught us about the importance of keeping fit and healthy.

Year 6 Blog Friday 15th March 2024

Date: 12th Mar 2024 @ 1:38pm

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A very busy week, well done for working so hard Year 6.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for up to 30 minutes every night, this will improve the speed at which you read and your understanding of the text. If you come across any new words that you don’t understand, ask an adult or look it up in the dictionary. Building up your vocabulary knowledge is really beneficial.

Spelling

Please practise these spellings (Y5/6 Word List) for your test on Friday. A sheet will go home every Thursday/Friday with the spelling list on. 

Spellings (15.03.24 – 22.03.24):

relevant                secretary

restaurant             shoulder

rhyme                   signature

rhythm                  sincere

sacrifice                sincerely

 

Maths

Counting/Number Games

Have a go at this counting game!

https://nrich.maths.org/1241 

Sumdog

You have a mixed times table/division facts challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 22.03.24.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

If you would like to do a bit more work on your times tables, Hit the Button is a great game to play.

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

 

Reminders

Thursday 21st March Family Bingo 6.30 - 8.00pm (tickets available from the office).

 

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In English, we worked on direct speech (inverted commas) and indirect speech (reported speech) linked to what the characters in our book might have said. Also, the children wrote some fantastic ideas for a sequel story, using modal verbs and adverbs of possibility.

In Maths, we were dividing decimal and large whole numbers using both mental and written methods (chunking).

  

The Japanese students delivered a fantastic lesson all about toys in Japan on Thursday afternoon. Year 6 had great fun playing with the toys and they learnt a few Japanese words too!

Last Freddy Fit session for Year 6, we had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the loud music and high energy lesson.

In RE, we discussed and wrote about the qualities of good friendships and things that might spoil those friendships with a focus on class unity.

 

 

 

21 Great Ways to Wish Someone for the Upcoming Weekend

 

 

Year 6 Team.

 

 

Year 2 - Friday 8th March

Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 3:52pm

Home Practice

 

Reading - Please try to read for 10 minutes every night.  

Spellings –Spelling quiz will be on MONDAY 11th March

patted     dropped    skipped    fastest     saddest     skipping      sadder    dropping     faster    patting

Times Tables –  A times tables sheet will be sent home every Wednesday. Please learn these like the tables for a quiz on Wednesday 13th March.

Counting - Practise counting in 10s from any given number.  Challenge – count in twos from 0 to 100. Challenge – now count from 100 to 0!

Sumdog Challenges Maths – x10 times tables practice and measure challenge

Sumdog Challenge Spellings –  suffix to words ending in consonants

Sumdog Competition for Year 2 – punctuation

 

This week in Year 2

English

This week we wrote lovely Mother's Day poems. The children also continued learning with the story 'The Lumberjack's Beard'. The children loved World Book Day - the costumes were amazing. During the day the children watched an author called Sarah Bowie share her illustrations from her novel 'Nina Peanut is Amazing'. 

Maths

This week we have finished our learning about measuring. The children ordered different masses of objects and placed arrows to show volumes in measuring cylinders. 

RE

In our learning this week, we wrote a lovely prayer about Jesus in the desert and thanked him for all that he has done for us. 

Science

In Science this week, we have been learning all about Spring and we also went outside to observe and measure our Crocuses which we planted last term.

Forest School

We continued our learning about using tools safely. We used a hammer and a screwdriver. We learnt the difference between a nail and a screw.

 Reminders

#LetGirlsPlay – well done to all the girls from Year 2 who took part in this today !

PTFA Easter Bingo – Thursday 21st March 6.30pm-7.30pm.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 5 Blog Friday 8th March 2024

Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 12:54pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Try to find 3 new words to bring into school.

 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. They are homophones. This means they sound the same but have different meanings. You need to know how to spell them and also what the different spellings mean.

isle          aisle         aloud          allowed          are          our          affect          effect          herd          heard          past          passed          led          lead          definite

 

Counting

Count out loud in:

10s from 217 to 417 and back again                 217, 227, 237, …

1000s from 99 to 10,099 and back again          99, 1099, 2099, …

0.001s from 2.199 to 2.229                                2.199, 2.2, 2.201, …

 

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day. You either have your own tables target or please practise dividing by 7.  

 

Sumdog

The winner of last week’s maths competition was …

THE GIRLS

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Competition – Cats v Dogs  

Spelling Challenge

 

We have had a very exciting week this week. We are very lucky to have been joined by 4 Japanese students who are training to become teachers in Japan. Atsaya has spent the week with us in Year 5 and has been very impressed.

In English we started our new class novel – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. So far, we have been introduced to the main characters and are starting to learn about Narnia and The White Witch. In our writing we have been using action and dialogue to describe the professor from the story. We all agreed that he was an eccentric character so we have been discussing things that an eccentric character would say (dialogue) and do (action).

Narnia: The Professor From The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Explained

In maths we learnt about the place value of numbers up to 3 decimals places. We also used our knowledge of place value to order and compare numbers.

In RE, we considered different parts of the Eucharist and discussed their significance. We read the Eucharistic prayer and wrote our own prayer to God remembering Jesus and the sacrifices he made for us.

We had a fantastic World Book Day. It was wonderful to see all of the different book characters and discuss our favourite books. We even managed to take part in our dance lesson dressed as the characters!

 

Happy Weekend!

Reception Blog - Friday 8th March 2024

Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 12:52pm

Choose your favourite World Book Day Costumes 📖

Phonics

This week we have been learning the igh and oa sounds.

Maths

We have been learning about subtraction and 3D shapes.

Drawing Club

We have been learning about non-fiction writing. We have been writing labels and facts about chicks.

R.E.

We have been learning about the events of Holy week, specifically Good Friday. We talked about Jesus dying on Good Friday.

Understanding the World

We went on our first trip to Bring Yer Wellies. This has enhanced our learning about growing. We learnt what plants need to grow and planted our own lemon thyme. We also looked at a wormery and what foods worms eat. We then did team building acitvities; den building and boatracing.

Expressive Arts and Design

On Friday we had a whole school yoga day.

Year 3 Friday blog 8th March 2024

Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 8:09am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

 

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This week we have enjoyed World Book Day, Dance and Yoga. We also added to our brilliant Nature Journals!

Home Practice

Continue with your regular reading. At least 15 minutes every night.

Your Sumdog maths challenges are on the 4 and 8 times table and multiplication and division. Please complete both. Remember your 8 times table is double your 4 times table!   3x4=12 so 3x8 = 24

Practise counting forward and back in 8's or sing our 8's song.

Hit the Button is also a great way to improve fluency.

Your Home Spellings this week all begin with C or K. Look carefully to remember which words begin with C and which begin with K.

 

cabin   cob    cub    canter    coffee    client    course

kiln    kiwi     kerb    kelp     kiosk

 

This week in Year 3

We have had a brilliant week in Year 3! In English, we wrote police reports, retelling exciting parts of our novel from different perspectives and thinking about how the characters felt at different times in the story. We have seen a huge improvement in our presentation and spelling this week!

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In maths, we learnt how to divide using repeated subtraction. We also explored how we can use a vertical number line to find groups and remainders.

Division for Kids: Short Division & Long Division Explained

In science this week, we took the opportunity to spot signs of Spring with the improved weather. We added to our nature journals and created scientific sketches.

Oxbow At Home Nature Journal - Columbus State University

We have been very lucky this term to have visitors from South Ribble to help us with our dance learning and mindfulness though yoga. We have been brilliant and can't wait to show you our dance!

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We have loved having our Japanese visitors this week. We have been learning a new song and dance. We will also learn a little about Japanese culture next week.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy Mother's Day on Sunday

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The Year 3 Team.

 

Year 4 Blog Friday 8th March 2024

Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 4:33pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

 

Home practice

 

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.

See if you can spot any dialogue / speech marks. Look carefully at the punctuation – this will be useful for our English learning over the next couple of weeks.

 

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

position       straight       consider       favourite     knowledge

possess        possession   strength      minute         promise

through       fruit            probably      remember    separate     

 

Counting

This week, please practise counting in hundredths. 

For example, start at 0.05 and count up to 0.23 and back again

0.05   0.06   0.07   etc                                  0.23   0.22   0.21   etc

 

Times tables and Number facts

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week. 

You can practise your tables on Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

 

Sumdog challenges

  • A spelling challenge based on the words above
  • A times tables challenge based on the 4 and 8 times tables
  • A comparing decimal numbers challenge

 

 

In English, we made predictions about our new class novel – The Firework-Maker’s Daughter.  We read an extract from Chapters 1, 2 and 3 and then thought carefully about the characters, the setting, and what we thought would happen in the book.  In addition, we used evidence from the text to describe the main character, Lila.   

 

In Maths, we learnt more about decimal numbers to two decimal places in the context of money. We also compared numbers represented by place value counters and coins.

 

In RE, we watched a video of The Concluding Rite which ends the Mass. We then described ways we can glorify God and explored Romans 12:8-11.   

 

In Art, we practised sketching a flower. We then experimented with tints and shades by mixing a colour of paint with white paint. Following this, we painted a picture of a flower to go on a card.

 

In Computing, we practised retouching a picture. We will be putting all our photo editing skills together over the next couple of weeks in order to edit a photograph of our own choice. 

 

This week we have also been to Reconciliation with Father Michael, taken part in a dance class and a yoga session, and enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day. Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.

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Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 team

Year 6 Blog Friday 8th March 2024

Date: 5th Mar 2024 @ 1:30pm

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A super week, well done Year 6.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for up to 30 minutes every night, this will improve the speed at which you read and your understanding of the text. If you come across any new words that you don’t understand, ask an adult or look it up in the dictionary. Building up your vocabulary knowledge is really beneficial.

Spelling

Please practise these spellings (Y5/6 Word List) for your test on Friday. A sheet will go home every Thursday/Friday with the spelling list on. 

Spellings (08.03.24 – 15.03.24):

persuade                programme

physical                  pronunciation

prejudice                 queue

privilege                  recognise

profession               recommend

 

Maths

Counting/Number Games

https://nrich.maths.org/6499 

Have a go at this counting game!

Sumdog

You have a mixed times table/division facts challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 15.03.24.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

If you would like to do a bit more work on your times tables, Hit the Button is a great game to play.

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

 

Reminders

Freddy Fit will be in school on Wednesday 13th March, please remember those PE kits!

Thursday 21st March Family Bingo 6.30 - 8.00pm (tickets available from the office).

 

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In English, we continued reading Tuesday by David Weisner. We wrote excellent playscripts, remembering to use all the key features and related it to the story. In addition, we planned and wrote police reports based on what happened on Tuesday, using reported speech and formal language.

We all looked fabulous in our World Book Day costumes, we completed some book related wordsearches and crosswords.

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In Maths, we have been working on translations and reflections. We have done very well with this, using the coordinates to help translate shapes and reflecting shapes through both the x and y axes.

   

Fr Michael came into school to do confession with Y6 on Thursday.

In Science, we learnt how we see things and labelled parts of the eye. 

In Music, we revised 'Twinkle Twinkle' on the recorders and began to learn 'Old McDonald had a farm' with a new note F#.

In Art, we had a lovely afternoon making Mother's Day cards.

In French, we spoke about the clothes we wear and what other people wear.

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Il/Elle porte...

 

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Year 6 Team.

 

 

Year 1 Blog- Friday 8th March 2024

Date: 5th Mar 2024 @ 11:22am

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Home Practice

Phonics - i_e words OR y (ee sound) words OR ow words

Maths - reading and writing words

Counting - Count in 10s starting at different numbers, 12,22,32 and so on.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

 

English

For the first part of the week we were rehearsing our Mother's Day assembly. We all tried so hard to speak clearly and confidently. Thank you for coming to see our assembly-we hope you enjoyed it.

Then, we started our new learning through the story of Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. We discussed the story and all the wonderful characters. We are going to write our own version and make it into a book which we will read to other children in school.

Phonics

Some of us have been revising ee as in sheep and learning y as in happy. We have also been learning how to pronounce the e as in equal and remind.

Some of us are revising the different igh spellings, we have focused on ie in tie, i_e in time and y in cry.

Maths

We have been learning about the properties of 3D shapes such as cubes, cuboids and spheres.

R.E.

We have been listening to the story of Jesus arriving in Bethlehem, otherwise known as Palm Sunday. We learnt that Jesus was welcomed by some people by them waving palm leaves, but He was not welcomed by everyone. There were some people who were angry and claimed that Jesus was not the king!

D.T.

We have been learning about how to eat healthily. We learnt about the Eat Well Plate and the different sections (protein, carbohydrates, fats, dairy, fruit and vegetables). We talked about how we need bits from each section but they need to be in proportion.

Forest School

We continued our learning about using tools safely. We used a hammer and a screwdriver. We learnt the difference between a nail and a screw.

Year 2 Blog - Friday 1st March

Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 4:07pm

Home Practice

 

Reading - Please try to read for 10 minutes every night.  

Spellings –Spelling quiz will be on MONDAY 4th March

Hiked      hiking     hiker     biked      biking     biker      shined     

Shining     shinier    shaking

Times Tables –  A times tables sheet will be sent home every Wednesday. Please learn these like the tables for a quiz on Wednesday 6th March.

Counting - Practise counting in 5s from any given number.  Challenge – count in tens from 0 to 100. Challenge – now count from 100 to 0!

Sumdog Challenges Maths – x5 times tables practice and measure Challenge

Sumdog Challenge Spellings –  -ed     -er     -ing suffix 

Sumdog Competition for Year 2 – past tense

 

This week in Year 2

English

This week we have continued to learn through our book ‘The Lumberjack’s Beard’. The children wrote a character description for Lumberjack Jim and explored great vocabulary from the text.

Maths

This week we started the Measurement topic. The children ordered mass from heaviest to lightest, read numbers on different scales and compared different weights for objects.

RE

In our learning this week, we wrote about the journey of Lent. We also discussed what happens on St David’s Day.

ART

In Art this week, we observed patterns, colours and shapes when drawing tulips. We also used a fork to experiment with the effects we could achieve when dragging it through paint.

Click here to see some photos.

 

 Reminders

World Book Day is Thursday 7th March. Please come into school dressed as your favourite character. There will also be an oppportunity to swap a book with someone from your class.

#LetGirlsPlay – all the girls who would like to have a go at playing football can do so on Friday 8th March at Dinner Play!

PTFA Easter Bingo – Thursday 21st March 6.30pm-7.30pm.

Have a lovely weekend.

 

Reception Blog - Friday 1st March 2024

Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 3:29pm

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Phonics

This week we have been learning the ai and ee sounds.

Maths

We have been learning about one less than a number. We have been looking at number sentences and using beanbags to help us take an amount away.

Drawing Club

This week, we read the story; The Odd Egg.

We predicted what would be in the duck's egg. Then we designed our own machine to open the egg and drew how we would care for a baby crocodile.

R.E.

We continued talking about Lent and revisited our Lenten promises. We listened to a story all about being sorry and talked about what we can do to make people feel better.

Understanding the World

We continued our new topic about Africa. This week we looked at atlas', maps and globes to help us find Africa. We talked about what the different colours meant and what they could be. The children were fascinated with the animals that lived in certain parts of Africa. We then created our own maps of Africa.

Expressive Arts and Design

In Art, we have been painting pictures of daffodils.

PSED

We  learnt how to brush our teeth. We also watched a story song called The Pantosaurus by the NSPCC, which tells us how important it is to keep what is in our underpants private and to ourselves.

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