Year 5 blog - Friday 6th February 2026

Date: 6th Feb 2026 @ 3:32pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

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

Spelling

Here are Year 5 spellings for this week.  

doubt  island  lamb  solemn  thistle  knight  badge  bomb  butcher  ghost  knee  answer  comb  Christmas  honest  knife  yacht  crumb

Counting

Count out loud in:

12’s up to 180 and back again                                                      0, 12, 24…

150’s from 17000 to 23500 and back again                              17000, 17150…

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 productive this week – well done Year 5!

In English the class have been practising using a variety of relative clauses, including those where the relative pronoun is omitted. They have also been using metaphors to describe characters from the novel.

 In Maths Year 5 have been re-capping their tenths, hundredths and thousandths fractions as well as ordering numbers and developing their place value knowledge.

In RE this week, Year 5 have been dissecting the meaning of the Lord’s prayer and translating the seven petitions that sit within it. They have also been reflecting again on the meaning of happiness, through The Beatitudes given by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.  

In Art, the class completed their workhouse stages, including lots of details relating to the ‘Street Child’ novel. The level of creativity was amazing!

 Finally, in History, the class have investigated the similarities and differences between the Anglo Saxons and the Vikings.   

Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –    Tiffany

Super Learners –     Henry

Superstar Writer –     Bertie

Bookworm -  Alfie

Marvellous Mathematician  -  Archie P

Special Mention -    Mark

Reception - Friday Blog 6th February 2026

Date: 6th Feb 2026 @ 3:27pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

Phonics

We learnt the digraphs th and ng

We have been reading and writing them in words, for example; thin, wing

Drawing Club

We read the story Farmer Duck. This week the children had to think of a disguise for the farmer to return to the farm without the animals seeing him.

We also drew and labelled our own farm independently. 

Maths

We have been learning about subtraction.

We have been using the part, whole model to help us visually see taking away different amounts from the whole.

RE

We learnt the story of 'Jesus Feeding the 5000' 

We made our own baskets and filled them with the fish and bread. 

Understanding the World

We discussed the role of the farmer. 

We have been learning about all the ways that a farmer helps us, including growing fruit and vegetables for us to eat, feeding the animals and how they harvest the food.

PE

This week we got the climbing frame out, the children had a go at climbing up, over and through the frame. We travelled up the elavated bench and jumped off. We also practised our fundamental skills in balancing, hopping and underarm throwing. 

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

Forest School

We stayed inside this week due to the strong wind.

We listened to a story about trees and how they change through the seasons and then the cycle continues every year.

We practised tying knots and did some stick wrapping. We showed our amazing imaginations when talking about what our special sticks could do.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Arabella

Super Learner – Lucie

Superstar Writer – Henry.W

Bookworm – Teddy

Mathematician – Jenson

Year 3 Friday 6th February 2026

Date: 6th Feb 2026 @ 2:25pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a fab week in year 3, meeting lots of new learning and learning lots of new skills.

Reminders

Fr Michael has kindly invited us to attend the Parish mass on Tuesday at 9:30am. It would be lovely if you could join us.

Home Practice

Reading – Please read every night for at least 15 minutes. Don’t forget to record it in your reading diary and change your book regularly!

Maths – We’ve set two challenges on Sumdog this week. They focus on multiplication and division and the x4 and x8 times tables.

Spellings – This week’s spellings all end with -ure. Practise reading and spelling them at home:

Measure, treasure, pleasure, future, enclosure, creature, furniture, cure, picture, nature, adventure, sure, capture, leisure, literature, manicure, departure, puncture, mixture, temperature

This week in Year 3

In English we have been enjoying our novel Toro! Toro! and have been writing in character to retell parts of the story using our own ideas. Check out our gallery for some of our brilliant writing.

In maths we have been learning how to find fractions of amounts. This has been very tricky and we have found that knowing our times tables really helps in lots of different maths learning.

In science we explored light and shadow, investigating how shadows are formed and how moving the light source changes their length and size.

In PE we have been fine tuning our gymnastic performances, making sure to include rolling, balancing, jumping and travelling with stillness and smoothness.

In RE we have been learning about prayer, exploring the Our Father and what the words mean, before creating our own prayer cards to share on Seesaw.

 In geography we have continued exploring the physical geography of North America and studied the eruption of Mount St Helens. The children were amazed and asked some fantastic questions.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week - Felicity

Super Learner - Florence

Writer of the week - Frankie 

Marvellous Mathematician - Noah S

Bookworm - Charlie

Special Mentions - Zack W for his amazing Canva creations in RE

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 1 Blog - Friday 6th February 2026

Date: 6th Feb 2026 @ 9:06am

Home Practice - Sumdog

Maths challenge - Identifying 2D shapes

Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups

Counting – Can you find as many 3D shapes around your house and count their faces, vertices and edges?

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

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

We read a new story: How to Grow a Dragon. We created our own dragon plant and wrote sentences about it. Then we made an informative booklet about how to look after a dragon.

Maths

We identified different 2D and 3D shapes. We looked at their properties and found everyday examples of them in the classroom.

See our pictures here.

R.E.

We read two Bible passages: The call of the disciples (Luke 5:1-11) and the little children (Luke 18:15-17). We talked about how Jesus encouraged others to follow Him and how He welcomed everyone. We made colourful fish for our RE display, and then made welcome posters using the word 'hello' in different languages.

See our pictures here.

In our class collectives, we focused on the word 'goodness' from our Wednesday word. We talked about we need to let our light shine, just like Jesus.

P.E.

We created our own gymnastic sequence which contained a travel, roll and a jump.

Art

We made our medals!

See our pictures here.

Computing

We continued learning to type on a keyboard. This week, we typed up our Edgar story. Our typing skills have really improved!

Forest School

We went for a walk up to our pond. We noticed changes to the trees and that some branches had been blown down.In our log circle area we chose to do some bug hunting, den building, crafting and tree climbing.

We found a dead stick which has some jelly ear growing on it.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Ariana

Super Learner: Evie E

Superstar Writer: Jack

Bookworm: Isla-May

Marvellous Mathematician: Isaac

Special Mentions: Louie for his amazing medal in Art and Noah H for always listening so beautifully on the carpet.

Year 4 Blog Friday 6th Febraury 2026

Date: 6th Feb 2026 @ 8:41am

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  

Can you spot any apostrophes when you are reading?

If so, are they used for contractions (because a letter or letters are missing) or to show possession?

Spellings

This week we have been learning how to use an apostrophe for singular possession.

Therefore, there are no spellings to learn.

You will however be tested on the apostrophe spelling rule next Wednesday as we have been practising it in class.

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 100’s  

For example, start at 568 and count to 2068 and back again

568    668    768     etc                      2068    1968   1868  etc

Times tables and Number facts

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

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

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

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

TTRockstars challenge

A ‘Battle of the Bands’ session – boys v girls

Sumdog challenges

A maths challenge based on negative numbers

A maths challenge based on finding 10, 100 or 1000 more or less than a given number

Our Learning this Week

In English, we consolidated our knowledge of adverbs and how they can be used at the beginning of a sentence.

We used 'human sentences' to help with our learning - you can see some pictures in our gallery.

In Maths, we continued learning about place value.

We correctly placed numbers on a number line with multiples of 1000 marked, but not labelled, and labelled positive and negative numbers on a number line. 

In addition, we understood that to find 1/100, we could divide an object into 100 equal parts.

We then used pictorial representations to find the equivalence of tenths, hundredths, common fractions and decimals. (eg 0.5 = 1/2 and 0.25 = 1/4)

In RE, we listened to Matthew 16:13-26 - Peter’s profession of faith.

We then showed our understanding by creating a picture in our books which showed who people thought Jesus was, what Peter said to Jesus, and what Jesus replied to Peter.

Additionally, we learnt what the word marginalised means and described how St Damien of Molokai showed the virtues of faith, hope and love during his life.

In PSHE, we learnt which hormone is released when we give or receive gratitude – dopamine.

We also learnt how gratitude can help us to face problems.

In Science, we tested the viscosity of different liquids by completing a liquid race – see our gallery for some photos.

In PE, we performed a well-structured duet which expressed character and explored patterning and timing.

We worked together to create, rehearse and perform duet sequences.

Have a look at some of the pictures in our gallery.

In History, we heard the story about Boudicca and her rebellion against the Romans.

We then retold this as a story board.

In Art, we finished making our ‘plinths’ and prepared the pictures of ourselves, so that they stood up unaided.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Noah

Super Learner: Violet Co

Superstar Writer: Hunter

Bookworm: Alice and Isla

Marvellous Mathematicians: Drew and Daisy

Special Mentions: Eliza – for being a good friend to everybody

Rory – for always being super helpful in class

The Year 4 team

Year 2 Blog Friday 6th February 2026

Date: 3rd Feb 2026 @ 9:55am

• 
• 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 (13.02.26):

wait      weight       mail     male       weak      week        sail         sale      pain    pane

Sumdog: Complete the missing numbers and spelling challenges.

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in 10 to 100 but start at a one-digit number not zero. For example, 3, 13, 23, 33, 43 or 7, 17, 27, 37.

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 wrote some facts about tortoises. We made some puppets of the characters and used them to act out the story. We learnt how to write in tortoise language , we wrote our name and messages in our new language. We planned our own Esio Trot story and we are going to write books next week.

We also followed some tutorials to draw in the style of Quentin Blake.

SPaG

We continued to learn some more homophones. We tested our knowledge with some quizzes.

Maths

We have continued our work on addition and subtraction this week with more of a focus on subtraction with exchange.

The children have been using base ten/lines and dots to help with this.

We have also been working out missing numbers in a number sentence when adding and subtracting for example, ?+12=20 or 23-?=18

PE

The children have been working really hard on their balances, jumps and rolls.

This week we got some of the apparatus out for them to put together sequences, which they demonstrated to the class.

R.E.

We listened to The Parable of the Lost Sheep and thought about it's meaning.

In response, the children did some lovely work in their booklets.

History

This week we completed a timeline that showed all the different technology that has entertained people over the last 60 years.

We learnt about the first televisions which were black and white, radios, personal cassette players, ipods and old games consoles.

Art

We used pastels to draw daffodils.

Forest School

We made some weather wands by tying ribbon onto sticks. We watched which direction the ribbons blew in.

Science

We carried out an investigation into how different materials can be changed. We worked in pairs to find out which materials could be squashed, twisted, stretched and bent.

We all contributed to the conclusions.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Freya

Super Learner - Cerys

Superstar Writer - Nelly

Bookworm - Izzy

Mathematician - Harry

Special Mentions - Jaxon, Rhodes and Reuben for super Lego group work.

-Amelia and Cara for being kind and thoughtful friends.

Year 5 Friday blog - 30th January 2026

Date: 30th Jan 2026 @ 4:17pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

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

Spelling

Here are Year 5 spellings for this week.  

adorable  applicable  readable tolerable  changeable  noticeable  dependable  enjoyable  reasonable  comfortable  understandable  reliable  considerable  adorably  applicably   considerably   tolerably  moveable

Counting

Count out loud in:

12’s up to 180  and back again                                                      0, 12, 24…

200’s from 17000 to 23500 and back again                              17000, 17200…

60’s from 840 to 1440 and back again                                     840, 900, 960…

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 worked very hard this week with some tricky learning – well done!

In English the class have continued to use parenthesis in their writing, culminating in two differing predictions using their new skills. They have continued to follow Jim’s story in the class novel, ‘Street Child’ and are enjoying translating their knowledge of the workhouse into their set building project in Art.

 In Maths Year 5 have been focussing on using the 24 hour clock to interpret timetables, as well as continuing to work on fractions and decimal equivalents.  Well done Year 5.

In RE this week, Year 5 have shared the story of Jesus’ Transfiguration and the message behind it. They also learned about Saint Paul and the early Christian community.

In computing, the class continued to manipulate databases and learned how to use the ‘AND’ and ‘OR’ functions to sort by multiple fields.

 Finally, in Geography, the class have continued to explore volcanoes and research famous volcanoes from around the world.

Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –    Sidney

Super Learners –     Spencer

Superstar Writer –     Emma

Bookworm -  Brooke  

Marvellous Mathematician  -  Sienna

Special Mention -    Evangeline

Year 3 Friday Blog 30th January 2026

Date: 30th Jan 2026 @ 2:47pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Hello and welcome to your Friday Blog

Home practice

Keep up with your brilliant reading at home. We've seen lots of book changes and children sharing their stories from home. Well done year 3!

Your spellings this week all have the ending -ly

kindly, quietly, sarcastically, slowly, angrily, gently, loudly, happily, simply, comically, sleepily, humbly, crossly, hesitantly, basically, quickly, worryingly, frantically

We have set two maths Sumdog challenges, one for your fractions learning and one for practising your times tables.

This week in Year 3

It has  been another busy and enjoyable week in Year 3.

In English, we began reading Toro! Toro! by Michael Morpurgo and used rich descriptive language to bring the farmhouse to life and recount the dramatic birth of Paco. Everyone worked hard to include detail, atmosphere and feeling in their writing.

In maths, we started our learning on fractions. We placed fractions on a number line and learned that the bigger the denominator, the smaller the fraction, with lots of practical discussion to support understanding.

In RE, we read the Parable of the Sower and talked about the important messages Jesus shared through his parables.

In our Geography this week we further explored the continent of North America, focusing on its physical features.

In PE, we continued to develop balance and mirroring with a partner, creating and performing our own sequences with confidence and teamwork.

Forest School

One group made bird feeders and the other group did some child-initiated learning. We will swap next week.

We made the bird feeders by melting the lard on the fire. Mr Corbett did this. We discussed how the lard changed from a solid to a liquid by being heated and how it solidified again when it cooled. We made a hole in the paper cups and tied a knot to secure the string.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week - Harper

Super Learner - Issac

Writer of the week - Sam 

Marvellous Mathematician - Ellie

Bookworm - Rowan

Special Mentions - Adam

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Reception Blog - Friday 30th January 2026

Date: 30th Jan 2026 @ 12:49pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

Phonics

This week we learnt the digraphs qu, ch and sh.

We have been reading and writing them in words, for example; quack, chin and shed.

Drawing Club

We read the story Cops and Robbers. We made our own wanted posters and created our own plan to stop the robbers.

See the photos here.

Maths

We have been learning about addition.

We have been using the part, whole model to help us visually see two amounts added together to make the whole.

See the photos here.

RE

We recapped the story of Jesus blessing the children.

We then made a poster showing all the things we appreciate in our lives, like food, water, doctors etc.

We wrote a prayer for people around the world that do not have these.

Expressive Art and Design

We made our own Supertato’s.

See the photos here.

Understanding the World

We discussed the role of the Police.

A Police Officer also came to see us to talk to us about his job.

We have also had and Intensive Care Nurse and an A&E Manager come to tell us all about their jobs. Such a busy week!

Forest School

We learnt how to tie a simple knot. We kept practising using a strawberry lace-then we made it disappear!

We went to our log circle and had a look for creatures under the logs, did some balancing and climbed trees. We noticed that there are no apples left on the tree but there are a few rotten ones still on the ground underneath it.

We have also had a fantastic trip to Longton Library!

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Elijah

Super Learner – Phoebe and Elise

Superstar Writer – Jenson

Bookworm – Harry

Mathematician – George

Special Mention – Cameron, Erin and Ava - for making brilliant Supertato's in Art!

Year 2 Blog Friday 30th January 2026

Date: 30th Jan 2026 @ 9:53am

• 
• Home Practice

Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (06.02.26):

pear    pair       meet     meat     hear     here      sun      son        ate       eight

Sumdog: Complete the addition/subtraction and spelling challenges.

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in 3 to 60.

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 started our new book, Esio Trot. Wemade some predictions about the story. We wrote some character descriptions about  Mr Hoppy and Mrs Silver. We invented imaginative plans to help Mr Hoppy.

We have been trying really hard with our handwriting, adjectives and sentence starters.

SPaG

We have been working hard at learning the spellings of different homophones.

Maths

This week we have been counting in 3 recognising the patterns in the numbers.

We have been adding and sutracting numbers where we have to cross the tens barrier, for example, 25 - 17 or 32 + 11.

We have used Base 10 equipment and lines and dots to help us with this. Some children have been mentally partitioning the numbers to work out the answers.

Great effort from everyone, we are so impressed with the hard work we have seen in class.

R.E.

The children learnt that when we want to say sorry to God, we can go to Church and have the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

They wrote out the special prayer (Act of Contrition) that is said with the Priest and decorated it beautifully.

The children also wrote their own prayers and thought about how we can put things right by doing good things (Act of Penance).

History

This week we thought about how technology has changed or stayed the same over the last 60 years.

The children sorted pictures into those two groups.

Art

We finished our Hundertwasser inspired structures by adding detail and colour. 

Forest School

We planted the bulbs we observed last week in Science.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Jaxon

Super Learner - Genevieve

Superstar Writer - Emma

Bookworm - Arthur

Mathematician - Joshua Irving

Special Mentions - Seb for including others in his games.

Jesse F. for trying hard in all his learning.

Year 4 Blog Friday 30th January 2026

Date: 30th Jan 2026 @ 8:35am

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. 

If you are unsure about the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary and write out the meaning in your reading diary.

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

their           there           they’re        because       does

doesn’t         too              to                two              its

it’s               off              of                where          were

when            went            with             our              are

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 7’s  

For example, start at 12 and count to 144 and back again

0    7    14  etc                          84    77    70  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 rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000

Our Learning this week

In English, we consolidated our learning about verbs and then learnt more about adverbs.

We found out that they are used to modify or describe a verb and often tell us how, where or when something happened.

We then practised writing sentences using adverbs both before and after the verb.   

In Maths, we consolidated our 3d learning by identifying and describing the properties of lots of different 3D shapes (eg a cone, a sphere, a cylinder and a prism).

We then started our place value topic by rounding numbers to the nearest 1000.

In RE, we listened to the story of Jesus walking on water and considered why Jesus might have worked miracles.

We also learnt the word ‘incarnation’ and described ow Jesus is both fully God and fully human.

In Science, we explored the properties of a liquid.

We discussed the different types of liquids and found out that thick liquids are called ‘viscous’ and although they pour more slowly, they still form a puddle.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we learnt how to develop an ‘attitude of gratitude’.

This meant that we found out how it feels to give and receive gratitude.

We also learnt what the ‘gratitude domino effect’ is.

In PE, we demonstrated unusual ‘iron man’ style movements to keep in time with others.

In our groups, we worked together to improve and rehearse our dance. Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.

In Music, we composed and performed our own arrangements on the glockenspiels.

In Art, we continued with our topic ‘the art of display’.

We continued making our ‘plinths’ and started preparing the pictures of ourselves, so that they stood up unaided.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week: Bella

Super Learner: Francesca

Superstar writer: Evelyn

Bookworm: Archer

Marvellous Mathematician: Noah

Special Mentions: Alexander – for bringing lots of laughter to Y4

William – for thoughtful responses in RE

The Year 4 Team

Year 1 Blog - Friday 30th January 2026

Date: 29th Jan 2026 @ 4:59pm

Home Practice - Sumdog

Maths challenge - Part-whole models

Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups

Counting – Can you count in tens?

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

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

We continued to learn about Edgar the dragon. This week, we pretended that Edgar had come into our school and caused chaos in the classrooms! We gathered ideas together, planned our story, and wrote a newspaper article describing what Edgar had been up to!

Maths

We tackled some tricky subtraction problem questions. We learnt to read the question and identify the important numbers in each part. We then used manipulatives and part-whole models to find the answers.

R.E.

We read Luke 4:16-22, which describes how Jesus announced His mission. We identified how we can help others, just like Jesus, and made some beautiful Candlemas art.

P.E.

This week, we used a bear walk and crab walk to travel around the room. We performed a 'rock and roll' on the mat, and a star jump off the bench onto a mat.

P.S.H.E

We talked about how to live a healthy lifestyle.

Art

We made a prototype of our medal to see which materials we would like to use next week.

Computing

We continued learning to type on a keyboard. This week, we utilised all the previously taught skills and changed our typing using the toolbar. We changed the font, colour and size of the text.

Science

We identified the properties of materials using adjectives.

Forest School

We listened to a story called Bear's Winter Home. We discussed changes in the weather and the seasons.

We worked in teams to build an animal home. We used sticls, leaves and moss. We showed  great teamwork and there were some great discussions about what might work.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Felicity

Super Learner: Thomas

Superstar Writer: Amelie

Bookworm: Indie

Marvellous Mathematician: Reo

Special Mentions: Zara for her fantastic gymnastics and Oscar for his beautiful manners.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 30th December

Date: 29th Jan 2026 @ 8:20am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week in Year 6

Well done to the athletics team who made it through to the finals next week! 

English

In English we have continued reading and learning about Macbeth. We shared the scene together where Lady Macbeth begins to sleepwalk and wrote a dialogue of this scene. We had to work hard to choose appropriate vocabulary and punctuation! We then wrote an independent dialogue about the end of the play, where Macduff and Macbeth fight together. 

Maths 

This week, we have learned all about calculation. We have explored when it is appropritate to use a mental method, jotting or written method for an addition or subtraction. We have also learned how to use a column method to multiply. 

RE

In RE, we have continued learning about the miracles that Jesus performed. We have shared the story the healing at the pool in Bethesda and the feeding of the 5000. We created some fantastic artwork to show what the feeding of the 5000 taught us about Jesus. 

Topic   

In PE, we explored how to create a counter balance or a counter tension balance in groups of four. 

In Geography we began our topic all about mountains. We learned what a mountain is and explored the seven summits by using atlases. 

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 13/02/26, after Robin Wood. 

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 Tuesday: 

Maths - Topic 5: Order of Operations & Number Systems

English - Topic 7 Adjectives

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

Star of the Week  -  Eliza W

Super Learner -  Dominic

Superstar Writer - Eliza M and Darcey

Bookworm -  Theo

Marvellous Mathematician - Freddie

Special Mentions - The athletics team

Have a great weekend Year 6!

Year 3 Friday 23rd January 2026

Date: 23rd Jan 2026 @ 3:50pm

Year 3 Weekly Blog

This week in Year 3 has been another busy and exciting one, with lots of fantastic learning taking place across the curriculum.

Home Learning

Reading – Please read every night for at least 15 minutes. Don’t forget to record it in your reading diary!

Maths – We’ve set two challenges on Sumdog this week. They focus on multiplication and times tables – perfect for reinforcing the grid method we’ve been learning in class.

Spellings – This week’s spellings all end in –ation. Practise reading and spelling them at home:

information, adoration, hibernation, sensation, preparation, admiration, exaggeration, propagation, imagination, concentration, education, taxation, abomination, creation, isolation, floatation, moderation

Counting – Keep counting too! Check out all our counting songs and videos on past blog posts to practise your 2s, 5s, 10s, and challenge yourself with 3s, 4s and 8s.

In English, we finished reading Orion and the Dark and wrote our own imaginative stories inspired by the text. The children then had the brilliant opportunity to visit Year 2 and Year 5 classrooms to read their stories aloud. Everyone did a fantastic job and showed great confidence and pride in their work. Check out our gallery.

In Art, we created our own illustrations to match our stories, which really brought them to life.

In Maths, we continued developing our multiplication skills by learning how to use the grid method. The children worked hard, showed great perseverance and are becoming much more confident in explaining their methods.

In RE, we explored the parable of the talents during our collective worship, thinking about how we can use our own gifts and talents. We also learned about the miracle of the Centurion’s servant and reflected on the importance of faith and trust.

In PE, we continued our gymnastics unit, creating our own sequences. The children worked fantastically in teams, supporting one another and showing great cooperation and creativity.

In French, we continued learning the alphabet and practised our pronunciation with great enthusiasm.

Another brilliant week of learning, well done, Year 3!

Forest School

We have received a gererous donation of bulbs which we planted. We took care to plant them the right way up.

Mr Corbett got the Kelly Kettle out and we had a hot juice to keep us warm.

The Year 3 Team

Year 5 Friday blog - 23.01.26

Date: 23rd Jan 2026 @ 3:44pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

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

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.  

innocent  innocence  obedient  decent  decency  frequent  frequency  confident  independent  independence  obedience  transparent  transparency  client  parent  intelligent  accomplishment

Counting

Count out loud in:

7’s up to 140  and back again                                                      0, 7, 14…

250’s from 17000 to 23500 and back again                              17000, 17250…

25’s from 1500 to 2250 and back again                                     1500, 1525, 1575…

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

A sumdog competition is launching on 26th January and Year 5 have been entered. Good luck everyone!

Maths practise – individual challenge.

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

Year 5 have worked very hard this week with some tricky learning – well done!

In English the class have continued to practise listening and reading out loud from the novel called, ‘Street child’, by Berlie Doherty. They have written a letter from Jim to his sisters, describing the workhouse and using complex sentences and ambitious vocabulary. The class also practised using parenthesis in sentences this week.

 In Maths Year 5 have been continuing to work hard on fractions, including comparing and ordering fractions with different denominators and also simplifying fractions. Well done Year 5.

In RE this week, Year 5 have enjoyed learning about and acting out the parable of the Good Samaritan. They have also been reflecting on the meaning of the parable and shared how the message can be applied to their lives.

In computing, the class started viewing and manipulating computer databases. They developed their learning on how to sort data by various fields.

In PE, the class have been progressing in their gymnastics skills, including mirror shapes, matched shapes, counter balance and counter tension. The children have been working in pairs to create sequences to showcase a variety of skills. This week the focus was on core strength and using the correct postures.

Finally, in art, the class have continued to explore the topic of set building for stage and screen. They have been creating detailed sketches of the elements that will make up their Victorian workhouse sets.        

Well done Year 5 on another great week of enquiry, discussion and debate!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –   Brooke

Super Learners –    Madelaina

Superstar Writer –    Louie  

Bookworm -   Archie S

Marvellous Mathematician  -  Milo

Special Mention -    Elena, Alana and Edward

Year 4 Blog Friday 23rd January 2026

Date: 23rd Jan 2026 @ 10:53am

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. 

Remember to include lots of expression when you are reading.

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

measure       enclosure     picture        capture        departure

future         treasure      creature      nature         leisure

puncture      cure             pleasure       furniture     adventure

literature    mixture       sure

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 7’s  

For example, start at 12 and count to 144 and back again

0    7    14  etc                          84    77    70  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 3d shapes

Our Learning This Week

In English, we rewrote an extract of the novel in first person as if we were Lord Somethingorother.

We considered how the Lord would speak and what he saw and heard.

In addition, we wrote a postcard from an evacuee, called Barry, to his mother.

We had to think about every word we wrote and tried to include vocabulary from the novel.

In Maths, we continued our shape topic by investigating 3D shapes.

We started by learning how to identify and name different prisms according to their properties.

We then extended this learning to include the names and properties of different pyramids.  

In RE, we familiarised ourselves with Matthew 11 1-15 (Jesus’ speech to John the Baptist’s followers) and then made links between this speech and signs that Jesus was the Messiah.

We also read through and discussed the Nicene Creed.

Following this, we chose our favourite phrase and explained what it means to us.

In Science, we classified a range of objects and materials as solids, liquids or gases in a Venn diagram.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we started our appreciate topic.

We learnt what appreciation means and the 3 categories (yourself, others, experience).

We also learnt why gratitude is important.   

In PE, we continued our dance topic based on the Iron Man.

In Art, we continued making our ‘plinths’ and taking pictures of ourselves in different poses in preparation for our ‘pocket gallery’.

We continued our new topic ‘photo editing’ in Computing.

We learnt how to rotate and crop pictures and then practised editing and recolouring.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Emilia

Super Learner: Albert

Superstar Writer: Marvin

Bookworm: Oscar and Isla

Marvellous Mathematician: Hunter

Special Mentions: Annie – for coming in every day with a big smile on her face

Rory and William – for being super helpful around the classroom

REMEMBER TO TAKE PART IN THE NORTH WEST MATHS CONTEST STARTING ON MONDAY 26^th JANUARY

The Year 4 team

Year 1 Blog - Friday 23rd January 2026

Date: 22nd Jan 2026 @ 8:28pm

Home Practice - Sumdog

Maths challenge - Adding more

Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups

We have also been entered into a Sumdog competition so try your best to score as many points as possible!

Counting – We have been counting on in Maths this week. Can you practise counting on from the largest number (e.g. with 9 + 4, have 9 in your head and count on 4 more).

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

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

We didn't read a book this week in English; we watched a video! We met a dragon called Edgar who just wanted to play with everyone, but he kept making mistakes. We focused on feelings this week, identifying the children's feelings, Edgar's feelings and creating a feelings timeline.

Here is the link if you want to watch the video at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xGW_M0O4xI 

We also focused on producing correctly-formed capital letters.

Phonics

Some of us learnt the two oo sounds - oo in soon and oo in look.

Some of us have compared ir and ur, ow and ou and oi and oy.

Some of us learnt ch in chorus, ch in chef and a in wasp.

Maths

We introduced the counting-on method to add single-digit numbers to teen numbers.

We also solved some tricky one-step addition word problems.

R.E.

We read the story of Jesus in the Temple as a twelve-year-old boy. We learnt a new word - obedience, and how Jesus was not obedient at the beginning of the story. We identified Mary and Joseph's feelings during the passage and wrote sentences explaining how we can be obedient.

P.E.

This week, we used a frog jump and a bunny hop to travel around the room. We performed an egg roll on the mat and a tuck jump off the bench onto a mat.

See our pictures here.

P.S.H.E.

We identified an experience that we show gratitude for. For example, being taken on holiday.

Art

We planned our medal and labelled the features.

See our pictures here.

Computing

We continued to learn how to type on a keyboard. This week, we used the caps lock key to add capital letters to our sentences.

Science

We started our new unit on materials. We sorted everyday objects into the material that they are made from.

See our pictures here.

Forest School

We listened to a story called The King of the Birds.

We made bird feeders and hung them up.

It was very muddy in the nature area but we had so much fun!

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Grace

Super Learner: Eilish

Superstar Writer: Rupert

Bookworm: Darragh

Marvellous Mathematician: Harriet

Special Mentions: Isla-May for reading so nicely with Darragh and Lucas for his RE writing.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 23rd January 2026

Date: 22nd Jan 2026 @ 12:04pm

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have continued reading and learning about Macbeth. We have explored the scene in the play where Macbeth returns to the witches and they tell him more prophecies. We wrote some amazing diary entries in role as Macbeth recounting this scene. We applied our learning to our independent diaries, which we wrote in role as Macduff. 

Maths 

This week, we have learned all about how to calculate co-ordinates on a blank axis, translate and reflect shapes. 

RE

In RE, we have begun to learn about the miracles that Jesus performed. We shared the story of the wedding at Cana and thought tracked how the different people at the wedding felt. We also shared the story of the healing of the official's son and wrote a thank you letter in role as the official to Jesus. 

Topic 

In PE, we began to develop our gymnastic sequences using apparatus. We have been thinking of how we can make our movements flow.  

In Computing, we investigated what makes a good website in preparation for designing our own websites. 

For History, we explored what crime and punishment is and worked on our chronology skills. 

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. 

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 3: Multiplication  

English - Topic 6: Nouns and Pronouns  

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

Star of the Week  -  William

Super Learner -  Leo H

Superstar Writer - Eliza W

Bookworm -  Milana

Marvellous Mathematician - Agatha

Special Mentions - Maisie - for always being kind and helpful

Have a great weekend Year 6!

Reception Blog - Friday 23rd January 2026

Date: 22nd Jan 2026 @ 9:02am

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

Phonics

We learnt the x, y and z sounds.

Drawing Club

 We read the story 'Supertato, Run, Veggies, Run.'

We thought of our own fruit and vegetables to take part in the supermarket sports day.

Maths

We have been learning how to partition numbers.

We used animals to share the whole number into the fields.

See the photos here.

RE

We listened to the Bible story about Jesus welcoming the little children.

We talked about Jesus loving everyone and coming to earth for us all.

Expressive Art and Design

We have been doing still life drawings.

We discussed what we could see first and tried to take our time.

Understanding the World

We discussed the role of fire fighters this week. We investigated  what they wear and why it is important.

A big thank you to Mrs Bannister who came and visited our class to talk about being an Occupational Therapist.

My Happy Mind

We continued with our topic of Appreciate.

Forest School

We listened to a story called The King of the Birds.

We stayed in our nature area. There was loads of child- initiated learning, the waterfall was an apple slide today! There was decorating of the Christmas tree and some great stick wrapping.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Maisie

Super Learner – Rosie

Superstar Writer – Ivy

Bookworm – Ella

Mathematician – Alice

Special Mention – Harry and Billy, for brilliant music with Mrs Campbell.

Year 2 Blog Friday 23rd January 2026

Date: 20th Jan 2026 @ 10:26am

• 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 (30.01.26):

blue      blew       new    knew    night    knight   see    sea    there   their

Sumdog: Complete the place value and spelling challenges.

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in twos to 100.

You could say them out loud or write the numbers down. Look at the pattern 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8. 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 learnt how to use speech marks. We wrote about our favourite part of the story.

SPaG

We have been learning the rules about homophones. Wo which are sound the same but have different spellings.

Maths

We started our new leaning on place value.

We spent time adding and taking 10 from multiples of ten, but also from other 1-digit/2-digit numbers. For example, 50+10= or 34+10=

We have also been ordering groups of numbers and using the tens digit to help work out the largest or smallest numbers.

We learnt that if the tens digit is the same, we then look at the ones digit to help us decide.

Science

We observed and drew pictures of different bulbs. We are going to plant them next week and watch them grow.

PSHE

We have moved on to the Celebrate section of My Happy Mind which is all about our character strengths and spotting them in other people.

RE

The children have been learning about Jesus' Baptism.

We have also made mobiles about wrong and right choices and written lovely sorry prayers.

P.E

During gymnastics sessions, the children have been performing jumps, rolls and travelling. They have made up their own sequences with a clear start/finish and smooth movements between.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Ella

Super Learner - Hannah

Superstar Writer - April

Bookworms - Genieveve,Harry and Zac who have read 96 books since September and filled their bookmarks.

Mathematician - Lara

Special Mentions - Zac and Jessie H. for careful sketching in art.

-Izzy and Bobby for being kind and thoughtful friends.

-Luca  for great reading and discussion about the story with Mrs Nowak. 

Year 3 Friday 16th January 2026

Date: 16th Jan 2026 @ 4:31pm

Welcome to you Year 3 blog

It’s been another busy and brilliant week in Year 3!

Home Learning

Reading – Please read every night for at least 15 minutes. Don’t forget to record it in your reading diary!

Maths – We’ve set two challenges on Sumdog this week. They focus on multiplication, division, and times tables – perfect for reinforcing the grid method we’ve been learning in class.

Spellings – This week’s spellings all the next set of Year 3/4 words. Try and learn a few couple every day

fruit, grammar, group, guard, guide, heard, heart, height, history, imagine, increase, important, interest, island, knowledge, learn, length, library

Counting – Keep counting too! Check out all our counting songs and videos on past blog posts to practise your 2s, 5s, 10s, and challenge yourself with 3s, 4s and 8s.

This week in Year 3

In English, we have been learning how to write clear non-fiction sentences and how to group our ideas using subheadings to help organise our writing and make it easier for the reader to understand. We explore light and dark, taking inspiration from our story, Orion and the Dark. Well done Year 3!

In Maths, we have been focusing on our 8 times tables. The children have been using doubling strategies alongside our multiplication method to help them calculate efficiently and build confidence with their times tables.

In Science, we have been learning all about reflective materials, investigating which materials reflect light best and thinking about where we see these used in everyday life.

In PE, we started our new gymnastics topic. The children have been working on balances, shapes and control, and have begun to link movements together to create simple sequences. They showed great effort, focus and resilience throughout the lesson. Please take a look at our gallery to see some of our fantastic gymnastics.

In Geography, we launched our new topic on North America, using atlases to explore the continent, locate countries and oceans, and begin to understand its key features.

FOREST SCHOOL

We were excited to be doing Forest School again. We discussed how to be safe around the fire and watched Mr Corbett light it. 

We had some brilliant scientific discussions about the water travelling through the drainpipes and showed great teamwork and problem solving. It was very rainy and muddy but we just got on!

We had a hot chocolate with marshmallows and a reflection on our learning at the end.

Star of the week - George

Super Learner - Adam

Writer of the week - Zack 

Marvellous Mathematician - Harper

Bookworm - Grace

Special Mentions - Rose and Florence for lovely playtimes

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year 3 Team

Lancashire Football Finals

Date: 16th Jan 2026 @ 4:14pm

A Fantastic Showing at the Lancashire Football Final

We are incredibly proud of our football team for their outstanding performance at the Lancashire Football Finals. The boys showed fantastic teamwork, resilience and determination throughout the tournament, winning their group with a series of strong, disciplined performances that truly reflected their hard work and commitment.

Having progressed to the knockout stages, the team continued to represent our school and South Ribble superbly. Unfortunately, their journey came to an end in a closely fought quarter-final, losing 1–0 to the eventual winners, Bolton le Sands. Despite the result, the players can be immensely proud of how they conducted themselves on and off the pitch.

A huge thank you goes to all the supporters who cheered the team on, and to Fleetwood Town and the Lancashire School  Games for organising such a brilliant tournament. It was a memorable experience for everyone involved and a fantastic achievement for our school.

Year 5 blog - Friday 16th January 2026

Date: 16th Jan 2026 @ 3:35pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

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

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.  

observant   observance   expectant   hesitant   hesitancy  tolerant   tolerance   assistant   assistance  substance   reliance   defiance   reliant   defiant  sustenance  vacancy   vacant   infancy

Counting

Count out loud in:

6’s up to 120  and back again                                                      0, 6, 12  …

100’s from 16900 to 18600 and back again                              16900,  17,000,  17,100…

25’s from 500 to 1250 and back again                                        525, 550, 575 …

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 shown a great attitude to learning this week – well done!

In English the class have continued to share the new novel called, ‘Street child’, by Berlie Doherty. They have written a report on the pros and cons of children working in the Victorian era and explored the variety of jobs available to children. They have also continued to practise when to use possessive apostrophes in writing.

 In Maths Year 5 started a new topic on creating equivalent fractions and comparing fractions. Everyone has put 100% effort into this tricky subject. Well done Year 5.

In RE this week, Year 5 have been reflecting on the meaning of Jesus’ greatest commandments of love God and love people, and how they apply to their lives.   

In computing, the class started a new topic on databases. They had to work in groups to sort data about animals, using paper records containing a variety of data fields.

In science, there has been much enthusiasm about our new topic on the solar system. The children have really engaged with this topic and are busy finding out all sorts of fascinating facts about our planets and sun.

Finally, in art, the class have started to explore the topic of set building for stage and screen. Over the next few weeks the children will create their own set of a Victorian workhouse, relating to the class novel ‘Street Child’.      

Well done Year 5 on another great week of discovery!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –   Sam

Super Learners –    Ada-May

Superstar Writer –    Caleb  

Bookworm -    Mark

Marvellous Mathematician  -  Amelia

Special Mention -    Lily and Joni

Year 4 Blog Friday 16th January 2026

Date: 16th Jan 2026 @ 10:59am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. 

Can you summarise what has already happened and predict what you think will happen next?

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

quarter        question       recent         though         regular

reign           remember    thought       sentence      separate

special         through       straight       strange        strength

various         suppose       woman          women          therefore

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 12’s  

For example, start at 12 and count to 144 and back again

0    12   24  etc                         144    132    120  etc

Times tables and Number facts

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

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

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

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

TTRockstars challenge

A ‘Battle of the Bands’ tournament – Boys v Girls

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A maths challenge based on reading, writing and converting time

Our learning this week

In English, we planned and wrote a diary extract as if we were Lily, the main character in the novel.

We used phrases Lily would have used and included lots of thoughts and feelings. 

In Maths, we learnt how to read the time and write it to the nearest minute. We also learnt how to tell, write and math analogue and digital times.

Please try and practise telling the time at home with an adult.

This week, we also started to explore 2d shape using geoboards – have a look in our gallery.

In RE, we continued with our Galilee to Jerusalem topic.

We listened to and sequenced the story of Jesus healing Peter’s mother-in-law (Matthew 8:14-17), and learnt about what we may see and hear during the Sacrament of Reconciliation

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we learnt why it is important to spot and use our character strengths.

We also learnt how we can use our character strengths in different ways.  

In Science, we started our new topic – States of Matter.

We started by identifying and classifying some solids, liquids and gases.

In History, we learnt how Britain became part of the Roman Empire.

We discovered that it took 3 attempts to conquer Britain and explored reasons why the Romans wanted to invade.

In PE, we worked as a team to create a still, connected shape.

This was an introduction to our dance unit which is based on The Iron Man. Take a look at the photos in our gallery.

In Art, we started our topic ‘the art of display’. We began by questioning the role of a ‘plinth’ in sculpture.

We then discussed how to make a ‘pocket gallery’ and took some pictures of ourselves in various poses.

In Computing, we used the BeFunky app to practise editing a photograph.

We were given 'free rein' to alter the photo, so that we could learn some of the app's capabilities.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Alice

Super Learner: Albie

Superstar writer: Eliza

Bookworm: Lottie and William

Marvellous Mathematician: Bobby

Special Mentions: Lewis - beautiful RE work

Violet, Alexander and Isla for fantastic answers when being hotseated

The Year 4 team

Year 1 Blog - Friday 16th January 2026

Date: 15th Jan 2026 @ 8:05pm

Home Practice - Sumdog

Maths challenge - Part-whole models

Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups

Counting – Can you count in fives to 50? This is a bit trickier so count slowly!

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

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

We continued reading our new book - Dragon Post. We wrote descriptive sentences about dragons and wrote lists describing what to do if we found a dragon.

We also practised our handwriting, focusing on writing letters on the line which are formed correctly.

Phonics

Some of us learnt the oa sound and focused on it all week to embed the learning!

Some of us focused on comparing ow in cow and ou in shout.

Some of us learnt ea in bread, ie in chief and ow in snow.

See our pictures here.

Maths

We continued to use part-whole models for addition. We added single-digit numbers to teen numbers.

See our pictures here.

R.E.

We continued to learn through the story of Jesus being presented at the Temple. We wrote in speech bubbles, identifying what Simeon and Anna said to God. Then we learnt about Candlemas and made our own colourful candles.

P.E.

We started our gymnastics unit. We learnt how to travel like a gymnast, how to perform a straight jump and a pencil roll.

See our pictures here.

P.S.H.E.

We drew a picture of someone who we are grateful for.

Geography

We discussed where we live and identified places we have been to in the UK.

Art

We compared different materials (which links perfectly to our upcoming Science learning!) and chose the materials which would be suitable for our medal.

Computing

We continued to learn how to type on a keyboard. This week, we wrote sentences about a lost teddy bear.

Science

We sorted animals into their food groups: carnivore, omnivore and herbivore.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Roman

Super Learner: Judah

Superstar Writer: Felicity and Isaac

Bookworm: Rupert

Marvellous Mathematician: George

Special Mentions: Noah B for his fantastic gymnastics and Hartley for her beautiful Candlemas candle.