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Year 5 blog Friday 9th January 2026
Date: 9th Jan 2026 @ 3:50pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They relate to the list of statutory words that Year 5 and 6 have to learn.
conscience conscious controversy convenience correspond criticise curiosity definite desperate determined develop dictionary disastrous embarrass environment equipped especially exaggerate
Counting
Count out loud in:
5’s up to 180 and back again 0, 5,10 …
10’s from 16980 to 18010 and back again 16980, 16990, 17000…
50’s from 0 to 1250 and back again 0, 50, 100, 150…
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 returned to school with a really positive learning attitude– a super effort all round Year 5!
In English the class have started a new novel called, ‘Street child’, by Bertie Doherty. They have started to discuss how people without money lived in Victorian times in London, where the book is set. They have been practising building up their sentences into complex ones, with lots of detail included.
In Maths Year 5 have been focussing on multiplication methods of large numbers, as well as practising calculating the area of various shapes..
In RE this week, Year 5 have been learning about the Beatitudes; Jesus’ guide for us on how to be happy in life. The class have also been comparing them to the ten commandments and looking for links between the two sets of guidelines for life.
In computing, the class spent some time discussing how to keep safe online, as well as working in groups to create ideas for new community based apps, where children with like minded interests could share ideas and socialise remotely.
Finally, in RSE, the class have been discussing and exploring how every person is created in the image of God and recognising that, as children, they are developing from baby through to adolescent, and recognising how changes happen at each stage of childhood. The focus was on the social and emotional changes children go through as they transition to becoming teenagers.
Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!
Golden stars this week
Star of the Week – Evelyn
Super Learners – Edward
Superstar Writer – Jack
Bookworm - Evangeline
Marvellous Mathematician - Willow
Special Mention - Josh W
Year 3 Friday 9th January 2026
Date: 9th Jan 2026 @ 2:21pm
Welcome to your first Friday blog of the Spring term
Home Practice
Keep changing your books regularly and read for at least 15-20 minutes every night!
Well done to everyone who continued with their Sumdog practise over the holidays! Three new challenges have been added today. Remember, little and often every night will benefit your children with their learning in school. We have set a times table and number challenge this week.
Try and do a little counting at home as well. This will promote number fluency and understanding. There are lots of counting games here at ictgames.com that we use in school. You will also find lots of counting songs on YouTube.
We have given out your home spellings to practice for next week's test. In our spelling lessons this week we have been revisiting our spelling strategies. We have been breaking our words into syllables to help us spell more accurately and using what we already know to spell new words. Your spellings this week are...
yellow, green, blue, red, white, orange, purple, eighty, turquoise, two, three, four, eight, twelve, eleven, thirteen, thirty, nineteen
This week in Year 3
In RE, we started our new branch, Galilee to Jerusalem. We explored Matthew’s Gospel and learned about how and why it was written. The children listened carefully and shared some thoughtful ideas during our discussions.
In English, we have been reading Orion and the Dark by Emma Yarlett. Over the next few weeks, we will be exploring lots of stories and poetry linked to the theme of the dark, making connections with our science learning. This week, the children wrote some super character descriptions, using conjunctions to expand and develop their ideas.
In Maths, we have had a very busy week. The children have been learning how to bridge 100 in addition and subtraction, revisiting rounding to the nearest 100, and we also introduced the 8 times table. Everyone worked really hard and showed great focus when tackling these new challenges.
In Science, we completed our rocks topic by learning all about how fossils are formed. The children were fascinated by this and showed a really good understanding of the process, asking some excellent questions along the way. A fantastic end to a great topic. Next week we will begin our light learning.
Next Monday, we will be starting Forest School with Mrs Corbett. Please make sure children come to school with appropriate footwear, as we will be outdoors whatever the weather.
Assembly
Star of the week - Amelia C
Super Learner - Florence
Writer of the week - Grace
Marvellous Mathematician - Jonah
Bookworm - Felicity
Special Mentions - George, for his great playtimes with his friends
Have a lovely weekend,
The Year 3 Team
Reception Blog - Friday 9th January 2026
Date: 9th Jan 2026 @ 12:54pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Happy New Year to you all. It has been lovely to have the children back in school,
telling us all about their Christmas break!
Maths
This week we have been exploring the number 10.
RE
The week we have been listening to scripture about the 3 kings visiting Jesus and celebrating Jesus’ birth.
We talked about how we show love to one another, just like Jesus.
We also looked at our topic for Journey in Love.
This half term it is all about ourselves.
We did a circle time and talked about how we are special and who makes us happy.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we have been doing lots of crafts.
We have made new year wishing wands and arctic penguins.
My Happy Mind
This week we have started our new topic of Appreciate.
We have been talking about the meaning of the word Gratitude.
We have discussed ways to show thankfulness, including; saying thank you, smiling, a hug and a high five.
Understanding the World
We have been on a winter walk looking for signs of winter.
We collected a huge piece of ice and brought it into class. We watched it for 2 days as it melted and talked about what changes we saw.
We have also started our new topic of People who help us. We have been discussing lots of different roles.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week – George
Super Learner – Cameron
Superstar Writer – Hugh
Bookworm – Chester
Mathematician – Maeve
Special Mention – Louie and Elsi
Year 4 Blog Friday 9th January 2026
Date: 9th Jan 2026 @ 10:25am
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.
Discuss what you have read with an adult.
Can you find out the meaning of any new words in a dictionary?
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
famous various jealous serious obvious
poisonous dangerous enormous glamorous vigorous
outrageous curious hideous humorous mountainous
courageous spontaneous tremendous
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 11’s
For example, start at 11 and count to 132 and back again
0 11 22 etc 132 121 etc
Then have a go at counting up in 11’s from a different number, for example 54 or 79
54 65 76 etc
79 90 101 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 doubling, halving and related facts (times tables)
Our learning this week
In English, we wrote about our first day back at school after Christmas and how everything had changed – what wonderful imaginations we have!
We also started our new novel – The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips.
We began by thinking of the similarities between this novel and Kensuke’s Kingdom, also written by Michael Morpurgo.
We were also introduced to the main character (Lily) and we thought of lots of words to describe her personality.
In Maths, we consolidated our learning about chunking. Many of us found this tricky as we are not confident with our tables or number facts.
Knowing these off by heart would be beneficial in lots of maths areas.
We also learnt how to divide by 10, and described the effect of dividing a 2digit number by 10.
In RSHE, learnt that God loves us in our differences. We considered how we are all different and that these differences should be celebrated.
We then created a poster in our books to describe how we should all be accepted and respected, along with how we should relate to each other to make the word a better a place.
Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.
In Music, we composed patterns on the boomwhackers using pentatonic scales.
In Geography, we discussed the causes of flooding, the impact and how it can be prevented.
In addition we talked about river pollution and the impact on this on communities.
We carried out some research and presented our findings ina poster.
In Art, we produced an independent piece of work based on previous work we had completed when exploring pattern.
You can see some examples in our gallery.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Isla
Super Learner: Eddie
Superstar Writer: George
Bookworm: Heidi
Marvellous Mathematician: Jessica
Special Mentions: Daisy for always using beautiful manners
Lottie and Georgie for beautiful RE work
The Year 4 team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 9th January 2026
Date: 9th Jan 2026 @ 8:11am
Welcome to your first Friday blog of 2026!
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challenge - Number bonds to ten
Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups
Counting – Can you practise counting in tens quickly, from different starting points?
Reading - Please try and read at least three times a week.
Please remember to bring book bags each day.
English
We started to read our new book - Dragon Post. We created our own dragons and labelled them. We also drew pictures of the story and wrote sentences about them.
Phonics
Some of us learnt igh and ee.
Some of us finished learning the split digraphs.
Some of us recapped the split digraphs, then learnt the alternative sounds for g (j sound) and u (you sound).
Maths
We focused on the number bonds to ten and then practised using part-whole models for addition.
R.E.
We read The Presentation of Jesus where Simeon and Anna came to visit baby Jesus at the Temple. We labelled the people and talked about why Simeon and Anna were excited to meet Jesus.
We also started our RSHE topic about God's love. We discussed how we can show love to others and wrote thank you messaged to the people we love.
P.E.
We finished our dances from last half term.
P.E. will now be on a Thursday instead of a Friday.
P.S.H.E.
We learnt about the word 'appreciate' and how we can show appreciation to others, ourselves and for different experiences.
Art
We sketched different sculptures in our sketchbook.
Computing
We used the iPads and laptops to practise typing our name. We then tried to type our friends' names.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Ada G
Super Learner: Indie
Superstar Writer: Roman
Bookworm: Oscar
Marvellous Mathematician: Amelie
Special Mentions: Evie E and Connall for being a good friend.
Year 2 Blog Friday 9th January 2026
Date: 8th Jan 2026 @ 2:12pm
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 (16.01.26):
going looking hopping talking walking seeing playing running pushing pulling
Sumdog: Complete the money and spelling challenges.
Counting: Have a go at the doubling and halving puzzle below.
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/double-or-halve
You could also work on your 2, 5, 10 or 3 times tables.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
English
We started learning through our new story. Barnaby lives in a lab but he dreams of escaping. We wrote predictions about what might happen in the story. We described one of the Perfect Pets. We invented our own pet and wrote a fact file about it.
Maths
We have been learning all about money this week.
We have learned about the value of coins and notes...1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1, £2 and £5, £10, £20, £50.
The children were very good at adding two amounts of money together. For example, 25p + 34p = 59p or £12 + £24 = £36.
Show your child any coins or notes you have at home and help them to become more familiar with their value.
Science
We finished off our last topic with an investigation. We wanted to find out the answer to the question, " Do the children who are tallest have the biggest hands?".
We found out that in our class the answer is "NO".
R.E
We celebrated Epiphany on Tuesday 6th January.
The children heard the Epiphany story and rewrote it beautifully in their own words with a lovely illustration.
RSHE
We learnt about the joy and friendship you can receive when you belong to a diverse community.
The children listed and illustrated the good behaviours that have a positive impact on God's community.
History
This term, we will be learning about Changes in Technology.
The children looked at various pictures of old technology and wrote what they thougt it might be used for and how it helped society.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week - Lilly-Mae
Super Learner - Harry
Superstar Writer - Honey
Bookworm - Huxley
Mathematician - Luca
Special Mentions - Rudy for thoughtful responses in RE and
Faisal for all the extra learning he does at home.
Year 6 Blog - Friday 9th January 2026
Date: 8th Jan 2026 @ 7:53am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog and Happy New Year!
It has been lovely to have all of the children back in school this week after the Christmas break. Year 6 have settled back in well and worked hard this week!
This week in Year 6
English
In English we started reading 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare. We explored the key characters in the play and thought about whether we think Macbeth will be a good or an evil character. We worked hard to retell the scene where Macbeth meets the witches for the first time from the perspectives of different characters.
Maths
This week we have been working hard on our Place Value topic. We have revised how to round whole and decimal numbers and we have also learned how to compare and order negative numbers.
RE
In RE, we started our new topic 'From Galilee to Jerusalem'. We learnt about the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church.
Topic
In Music, we looked at changing the rhythm pattern to suit the style of music. We demonstrated this using the Boom Whackers to follow the rhythm pattern that we created. See the pictures of this in our gallery.
In Science, we started our new topic all about our bodies. We learnt about the circulatory system and created some fantastic comics to explain how this system works in our bodies.
In French, we started our new topic about our physical description. We learned how to describe our gender, height, eye colour and hair colour. We also translated some character descriptions.
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.
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accommodate |
amateur |
accident |
arrive |
|
accompany |
ancient |
actual |
believe |
|
according |
appreciate |
answer |
bicycle |
|
achieve |
attached |
appear |
breath |
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aggressive |
available |
address |
breathe |
SATS Revision:
Y6 now have daily overnight homework, to help with their revision for SATs. Please ensure that your child has their pink SATs revision book in school each day.
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 5: Order of operations and number systems.
English - Topic 11: Types of sentences
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Xabier
Super Learner - Bella
Superstar Writer - Imogen
Bookworm - Edison
Marvellous Mathematician - Theo
Special Mentions - Alfie G: for working hard to edit and improve his English work
Libby - for fantastic work on the seven sacraments in RE
Have a great weekend Year 6!
Year 1 Blog - Friday 19th December 2025
Date: 19th Dec 2025 @ 2:18pm
Welcome to your final blog of 2025!
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challenge - counting in tens
Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups
Counting – Can you count how many people you celebrate Christmas with?
Reading - Please continue to read as much as possible over the holidays.
What we have been up to this week:
D.T.
We made the mechanism for our Christmas card.
P.E.
We did a Christmas orienteering session outside.
Art
We made our Christmas trees and calendars.
History
We explored some toys from the past.
Celebrating Mrs Dixon
We had a party to say goodbye to Mrs Dixon. There were some super dancers!
Our 5 Golden Stars of the term:
Noah B for working extremely hard all term to focus on his learning. And for always teaching the teachers new facts!
Noah J for being polite, sensible and a perfect year one role model.
Ada G for her amazing reading, writing and maths. She is always such a hard worker.
Elsie for being a kind friend to all and for making the year one classroom a lovely place to be.
Lucas for being golden, for super listening and for always doing the right thing (even when he thinks no-one is watching!)
Year 3 Blog - Friday 19th December 2025
Date: 19th Dec 2025 @ 2:02pm
Welcome to the final blog of this term
We've had a lovely last week of term in Year 3!
On Thursday, we attended the Christingle service beautifully led by Year 6. You can see this on our YouTube channel, StOswaldsTV
On Friday, we had our final Golden Assembly of the term. Our Five stars of the term were, Zach W, Florence, Wilbur, Devyn and Harrison.
We also spent the last week creating some super Christmas cards and 2026 calendars, using some of our new art skills. We hope you like them.
We would like to wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas.
Over the holidays, remember to keep reading.
Thank you so much for all your kind gifts and messages.
We'll see you all again on Monday 6th January
The Year 3 Team!
Year 5 Blog - Friday 19th December 2025
Date: 19th Dec 2025 @ 12:35pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Wishing you and your families a lovely Christmas and a peaceful time. There is no homework set other than please keep reading over the holidays.
Golden stars of the term
Trudy Franco Alfie Louie Maisie
Year 5 have been outstanding this term - thank you to all of you! We will see you back in school on Tuesday 6th January 2026
Reception Blog - Friday 19th December 2025
Date: 19th Dec 2025 @ 11:49am
Welcome to our last blog of 2025!
We have had a brilliant week in school. Here is some of the things we have got up to.
Learning all about the number 9
Enjoy reading a few books over the holidays, then you can tell us all about it when you are back.
We wish Mrs Dixon the best of luck at her next school and thank her for everything she has done over the past year!
Finally, please stay safe over the holidays and have the most enjoyable time with your families.
From The Reception Team
Year 4 Blog Friday 19th December 2025
Date: 19th Dec 2025 @ 9:17am
Welcome to your last blog of 2025
What a fantastic last week of term we’ve had! It’s been busy and lots of fun!
On Monday, we recapped conductors and insulators and discussed how switches work in a simple circuit.
We then created our own using tin foil or a paper clip.
On Tuesday, in DT, we created our ‘iron models’.
We were all very impressed with our products – each one included an electrical circuit with a light bulb which lit something up!
On Wednesday, we looked fabulous in our Christmas jumpers, swapped Christmas Cards and enjoyed a Christmas Dinner.
We also made Christmas Cards and calendars.
On Thursday, we researched the Jesse Tree and make links with Jesus' ancestry.
In addition, we attended the Christingle service in church led by Year 6.
On Friday, we had our final Golden Assembly and celebrated the stars of the term. The Year 4 Stars were Lottie, Violet Co, Heidi, Rory and Oscar.
Although there is no 'home practice' set over the Christmas Holidays, please keep reading.
Thank you so much for all your cards, presents and Christmas wishes.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy, peaceful and relaxing Christmas and New Year.
Thank you for your support during the term – it is very much appreciated.
We look forward to seeing everyone again on Tuesday 6th January 2026.
The Year 4 team
Year 6 Blog - Friday 19th December 2025
Date: 18th Dec 2025 @ 9:37pm
Welcome to the last Year 6 blog of 2025!
This Week in Year 6
We have had a really exciting and busy week in school before the Christmas break!
On Monday we wrote in role as a Christmas ornament, completed our topic on statistics and worked hard in our RE to think about why Mary was special to us.
On Tuesday we worked hard to practise our Christingles service, learned about the Battle of Britain in History and made periscopes in Science.
On Wednesday we also enjoyed Christmas jumper day and our Christmas dinner in school. We learned about our character strenths in PSHE and debated about the role of women in the church during RE. We also made our Christmas cards and Christingles.
On Thursday we all worked so hard to rehearse and lead our Christingle service in Church. Well done to all of Y6 children - you were wonderful! There is a video of our service on St Oswald's TV.
On Friday, we had our final Golden Assembly of the term and enjoyed watching Holes as a Christmas treat!
Home Practice
There is no Sumdog being set for the Christmas break, so you can have a rest and come back fresh and ready for the exciting learning in January!
BUT please keep reading as much as possible!
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our stars of the term!
Bella, Xabier, Libby, Leo H and Holly W.
The Year 6 team would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas and New Year. Thank you for your support during the term, it is appreciated! Thank you for all your gifts and cards.
We look forward to seeing everyone again in the New Year!
Happy Christmas Year 6!
Year 2 Blog Friday 19th December 2025
Date: 18th Dec 2025 @ 6:13pm
Welcome to your last blog of 2025!
We have had a brilliant week in school.
Home Practice
Reading: Enjoy reading a few books over the holiday.
Sumdog: If you would like to, you could work on some of the games but there will be no challenges over the holiday.
You could also work on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables/doubling and halving.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
English
We finished writing our own Christmas storybooks. We took great care with our handwriting, spelling and punctation.
We read them to Reception and they thoroughly enjoyed the stories.
Maths
We learnt about capacity and which containers held more or less liquid than others.
On Wednesday, we all looked fabulous in our Christmas jumpers, delivered our Christmas cards and enjoyed our Christmas lunch.
On Thursday, we were in Church for the Christingle service, which was beautifully led by the Year 6 children.
On Friday, we had our final Golden Assembly of the term where we celebrated all our stars of the Autumn Term.
Our stars of the term are,
Emma-always doing her best with her learning.
Freya- a super example to all.
Reuben-a superb listener.
Jesse F.-a fabulous learner.
Geneiveve-A kind, thoughtful friend.
We wish you all a happy and Holy Christmas.
Thank you for all your gifts and cards.
Thank you for all your great support.
The Year 2 Team.
Year 5 Blog Friday 12th December 2025
Date: 12th Dec 2025 @ 4:11pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They relate to the use of -tial and -cial suffixes.
special official artificial partial confidential essential martial crucial torrential racial prudential beneficial presidential social glacial commercial initial twelfth
Counting
Count out loud in:
7’s up to 147 and back again 0, 7,14 …
10’s from 16980 to 18010 and back again 16980, 16990, 17000…
1000’s from 0 to 25,000 and back again 0, 1000, 2000, 3000…
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 superb listening skills this week and kept going with a great work ethic, despite all the excitement and anticipation of Christmas – well done!
In English the class have been writing their non-chronological reports, using some really challenging vocabulary. They have also impressed Gareth this week with their sport blogging skills. A super effort Year 5!
In Maths Year 5 have continued to develop their multiplication and division skills, using various methods, including the compensation method and partitioning.
In RE this week, Year 5 have been critically evaluating ‘O Antiphon’ art and creating their own. They have also reflected on week 2 of Advent, with its message of peace and made great contributions in the Celebration of The Word assembly about how to practically be peacemakers and hope givers in the run up to Christmas..
In Art, the children have been painting pictures, based on a poem, ‘the Ghost in the Garden.’
Finally, in computing, Year 5 have continued their topic on video production and editing. They have been creating storyboards ready to create the videos in groups next week.
Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!
Golden stars this week
Star of the Week – Sienna
Super Learners – Evangeline
Superstar Writer – Archie S
Bookworm - Alana
Marvellous Mathematician - Josh W
Special Mention - Tiffany
Year 2 Blog Friday 12th December 2025
Date: 12th Dec 2025 @ 2:34pm
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: No spellings this week.
Sumdog: No challenge this week but you could work on the normal Sumdog games.
Counting: Count in halves like we did in class.
For example, zero, a half, one, one and a half, two, two and a half, three, three and a half etc.
You could also work on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables/doubling and halving.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
English
The children planned and wrote some excellent Christmas stories.
Maths
We continued to work on fractions this week.
RE
We spent time reflecting on our learning this half term.
The children answered questions and shared their new knowledge.
PE
We put together our final 'Fire Fire' dance which retold the events of The Great Fire of London through movement and dance.
The children had a lot of fun and performed really well.
Art
We used carrots to print a repeating pattern. We then used this print to make our Christmas cards.
D.T
D.T Day was a great success. The children worked so well to make their Tudor Houses.
Great attention to detail was shown and a lot of D.T skills were used, like cutting, glueing, folding and measuring.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week - Cerys
Super Learner - Hannah
Superstar Writer - Joshua W.
Bookworm - Rhodes
Mathematician - Zac
Special Mentions - Huxley and Buzz for helping each other with their Tudor houses.
and Nelly for her beautiful manners.
Also we received a very kind email from a parent in Reception to say that Hannah had helped her child when she had fallen at playtime.
Thank you for coming to see our Nativity.
All the children performed brilliantly.
Have a lovely weekend,
Year 2 Team.
Year 4 Blog Friday 12th December 2025
Date: 12th Dec 2025 @ 8:41am
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.
Discuss what you have read with an adult.
Try and add expression to your reading and think about how the characters might be speaking to each other.
Spellings
There will be no spelling test next week, however, we have included a Sumdog Challenge based on some of the Year 3 / 4 Statutory Words.
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 3’s, 6’s and 9’s and back again using your times tables
For example, start at 0 and count to 36 and back again
0 3 6 etc 36 33 30 etc
Then have a go at counting in 0.3’s, 0.6’s and 0.9’s and back again using your times tables as a guide
0 0.3 0.6 etc 3.6 3.3 3.0 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
Please also practise your number facts.
You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
TTRockstars challenge
- A ‘garage’ session
Sumdog challenges
A spelling challenge based on some of the Year 3 / 4 Statutory Words
A maths challenge based on using known and related facts to multiply and divide mentally
Our learning this week
In English, we wrote a menu for a special guest – the Iron Man.
We included alliteration in the titles of our dishes and a mouth-watering description of the food.
We then published our menus.
They have all been included in a book of menus which is on the Year 4 bookshelf.
We are all very proud of our writing this week! Brilliant work Year 4.
In Maths, we learnt how to divide using related facts.
In addition, we learnt how to divide two-digit numbers by a single digit using the chunking method.
Many of us found this tricky as we are not yet fluent with our tables.
Knowing our tables off by heart will help us to succeed when we meet trickier learning and boost our confidence.
In RE, we made links between the ancestry of Jesus and the Jesse Tree.
In Science, we explored electrical conductors and insulators by testing different materials in a simple circuit.
In French, we continued learning the names of the different rooms of a house and described the locations of family members eg Dad is in the living room = Papa est dans la salon.
In History, we discussed reasons why the Roman Army was so powerful. We concluded that:
Only the strongest men were accepted in the army
They received top training
Their equipment was the best
They used strategic formations
They never accepted defeat
We then created a recruitment poster on Seesaw to entice Roman citizens to join the army.
In Art, created our own patterns taking inspiration from our previous work over the past few weeks.
We will be producing a final piece of work next week.
This week, we also enjoyed our trip to Lancaster City Museum when we met Marcus a Roman legionary.
We learnt a lot the Roman army as well as what life was like during Roman times.
Please remember to bring in a cardboard box and any decorations needed for your DT on Tuesday.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week: Eliza
Super Learner: Heidi
Superstar Writers: Hunter and Rowan
Bookworm: Emilia
Marvellous Mathematician: Bella
Special Mentions: All of Year 4 for fantastic listening during the trip to Lancaster City Museum
The Year 4 team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 12th December 2025
Date: 11th Dec 2025 @ 7:42pm
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challenge - Ordering numbers to 20
Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups
Counting – Can you start counting from a random number (e.g. 12) and count on in ones?
Reading - Please try and read at least three times a week.
Please remember to bring book bags each day.
English
We continued to learn through the story 'The Robin Who Stole Christmas'. This week, we replied to Rotten Robin in role of Father Christmas. We made sure to thank him for fixing his rotten actions and to tell him that he is now on the good list!
Phonics
Some of us continued to learn the phase 3 digraphs.
Some of us learnt a_e in cake and o_e in stone.
Some of us started to learn the alternative pronunciations of 'i' (igh) and 'o' (oa).
Maths
We recapped the place value of the teen numbers.
R.E.
We continued to read the Nativity story, focusing on Angel Gabriel's message to the shepherds. We wrote Gabriel's message in a speech bubble. We also made Nativity art.
In our 'Celebration of the Word' we talked about Jesus' miracles.
P.E.
We recapped the whole group section of our dance, then started to make the small group section in groups of four.
P.S.H.E.
We celebrated our differences and talked about how it is good to be unique!
History
We shared the toys that our parents used to play with when they were little. We then used Seesaw to choose which toys we would like to play with if we had the chance to.
D.T.
We painted the background of our Christmas card using a printing technique.
Art
We started to make our Christmas crafts.
Thank you to everyone who came to watch our Nativity!
Click here to watch the recording.
A big well done to Noah J for his perfomance in the Rock Steady show!
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Noah B and Lucas
Super Learner: Judah
Superstar Writer: Zara and Rory
Bookworm: Amelie
Marvellous Mathematician: Oscar
Special Mentions: Ariana for confidently talking in front of the whole class!
Year 3 Friday 12th December 2025
Date: 11th Dec 2025 @ 6:38pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Keep reading every night with an adult or on your own. Talk about what you have read and explore new books, magazines and newspapers.
We have set two Sumdog challenges, one is practising time and the other is on the 8 times tables. We have seen a big improvement in fluency with times tables this week. Keep up the good work!
Your Spellings this week will have the ou pronounced /u/
young courage doubling cousin touched rough country southern trouble couple countries cousins double touch colour encourage nourish enough
Reminders
On Wednesday, we are having our Christmas Jumper day and our Grand Christmas post!
You are also all invited to join us in Church on Sunday at 3pm for our Christmas Carol service.
This week in Year 3
In English we finished the story of The Ice Palace and brought the ending to life through some fantastic recounts of the meeting between Starjik and Ivan. We focused on using action sentences to create drama and excitement and to help the reader picture the moment clearly. The children worked hard to build tension and describe the atmosphere inside the Ice Palace. We were really impressed with the quality of their final pieces.
In maths we have been learning about time, starting the week by practising how to tell the time to the nearest minute. With regular practice, the children have become much more accurate and confident using this method. By the end of the week we moved on to reading and understanding 3-D shapes, which links to our DT topic. Next week we will be using our 3-D shape knowledge to create some brilliant palace structures of our own.
This week, Year 3 took part in an RE and drama lesson where they acted out the Annunciation of Mary and the Annunciation of Joseph. Through role play, they explored how each responded with trust, courage and openness to God’s message. The drama helped Year 3 to reflect on the importance of listening to God and recognising His call in our own lives. Their performances showed a growing understanding of these special moments in the story of Jesus.
We have also been learning how to create Christmas cards using printing techniques, beginning with experimenting and practising designs in our sketchbooks. We explored different tools, patterns and colour combinations to create bold and festive prints. Our final cards show how carefully we developed our ideas and refined our printing skills. We hope you enjoy our gallery.
We have been creating simple animations using toys and stop frame software this week. We planned each movement carefully, taking photos one step at a time to make our characters come to life. The children loved experimenting with different actions and seeing how small changes created smooth animation. We are excited to build on these skills and create even more animations next week.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week - Sam
Super Learner - Charlie
Writer of the week - Eliza
Marvellous Mathematician - Harrison
Bookworm - George
Special Mentions - Amelia F, for being a good friend to everyone in Year 3!
Have a lovely and peaceful weekend
The Year 3 Team
Reception Blog - Friday 12th December 2025
Date: 11th Dec 2025 @ 9:15am
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week we have been recapping the digraphs ss, ll, ff and ck.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club, we have been drawing our favourite part of the Nativity story.
Maths
This week we have been exploring the number 9.
RE
The week we have been focussing on the part of the Nativity story about the Angels visiting the Shepherds.
We talked to each other about what we remembered.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we have been creating winter art, using a range of materials including pastels, chalk, paint, and lots of different kinds of paper.
Understanding the World
We have began learning about the season of winter.
Stay and Play
A big thank you to all the parents that attended our Christmas Stay and Play.
Nativity
We want to say a big thank you to everyone that has come and watched the children’s amazing performance.
This can be watched on St Oswald’s TV.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week – Ivy
Super Learner – Arabella
Superstar Writer – Henry W and Lucie
Bookworm – Elijah
Mathematician – Ella
Special Mention – Luca, Elise and Vinnie, for brilliant Christmas card making.
Year 6 Blog - Friday 12th December 2025
Date: 11th Dec 2025 @ 8:13am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have continued learning about the novel 'A Christmas Carol'. We have learned all about the features of a persuasive letter. We have worked hard to write in role as Scrooge, using formal language to persuade London City Council to cancel Christmas!
Maths
This week, we have learned how to calculate the area of a triangle. We have also started a new topic on pie charts and learned how to calculate the amounts of segments using our fractions knowledge.
RE
In RE, we have shared the story of Ruth and Naomi from the Old Testament. We have thought carefully about this quote from Pope John Paul II: “The women of the Old Testament were true protagonists of salvation history" and discussed the role of women in salvation history together.
Topic
In DT, we have been working hard to make some amazing felt ornaments. Look at our gallery to see our work.
In Computing, we completed our work on Tinkercad by designing and creating our own 3D models of a house. You can see some of our creations on the galleries!
In Science, we investigated how refraction works by observing how objects change when placed in water.
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.
Homework this week is to learn the songs for our Christingles service next week.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Darcey
Super Learner - Henry
Superstar Writer - Holly P
Bookworm - Edison
Marvellous Mathematician - Theo
Special Mentions - Bella, Imogen, Willow, Holly W, Leo H, Ebba and Zach M - for being amazing helpers and sorting equipment during our DT day.
Have a fantastic weekend Year 6!
Year 5 blog Friday 5th December 2025
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 3:46pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They mainly relate to the use of suffixes.
vicious, conscious, malicious, suspicious, fictitious, infectious, nutritious, cautious, gracious, spacious, vivacious, precious, ambitious, delicious, tenacious, soldier, shoulder, vegetable
Counting
Count out loud in:
5’s up to 180 and back again 0, 5,10 …
10’s from 16980 to 18010 and back again 16980, 16990, 17000…
50’s from 0 to 1250 and back again 0, 50, 100, 150…
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 incredibly hard this week– a super effort all round!
In English the class have been exploring various types of non-chronological report and have started to research and plan to write a report of their own. In their sports reporting session this week, the class focussed on being a sub editor and checking for errors in reports.
In Maths Year 5 have shown incredible resilience in their arithmetic, reasoning and tables assessments this week and have also been practising long division and chunking.
In RE this week, Year 5 have been learning about the O Antiphons, special songs that are sung at Vespers in the run up to Christmas. They have also made their own advent promises to prepare for Jesus’ arrival.
The whole class enjoyed the Santa dash this week. Everyone looked so festive and gave 100%. Thank you Year 5!
Finally, in computing, Year 5 have continued their topic on video production and editing. They have started to experiment using the clips app to record and edit clips of footage.
Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!
Golden stars this week
Star of the Week – Teddy
Super Learners – Milo
Superstar Writer – Archie P
Bookworm - Trudy
Marvellous Mathematician - Jenson
Special Mention - Brooke
Year 3 Friday 5th December 2025
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 3:33pm
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 prefixes, super, auto and pre
Supermarket, superman, superstar, autobiography, autograph, prehistoric, prefix, preface, automatic, automate, autonomy, predate, predetermined, precondition, precaution, supermodel, supernatural, supernova
Try and learn as many as you can.
We have set 2 maths Sumdog challenges. Best of luck!
This Week in Year 3
We have had another brilliant week in Year 3 with lots of creativity, teamwork and fantastic learning across the curriculum.
In English, we finally arrived at Starjik’s palace in The Ice Palace, and the children produced some wonderful speech sentences and descriptive writing to bring this dramatic moment to life. They worked hard on using punctuation accurately and choosing powerful vocabulary to show how the characters were feeling.
In RE, we created our own Christmas cards and reflected on the meaning of the Nativity. The children also enjoyed practising carols while using some of their drawing with scissors collage skills to design beautiful, colourful artwork. See our gallery.
In Maths, we have been learning all about time. The children explored telling the time to the nearest minute. This can be a tricky concept, but they showed great focus and perseverance.
In Computing, we continued our work on stop-frame animation. The children practised taking clear, careful photographs and learned how tiny changes between frames help create smooth movement. Next week, we will be using toy figures to make our own animations, so please could the children bring in two small toys on Thursday. Thank you!
In PE, we had great fun playing dodgeball and working on our fundamental movement skills. The children practised agility, coordination and teamwork, and it was lovely to see everyone encouraging each other.
In Science, we made our very own dirt puddings to model the layers of soil beneath our feet. This was a messy but exciting lesson, and the children now have a much clearer understanding of how soil is formed and why each layer is important.
Check out all our galleries to see some of the brilliant learning we have captured this week.
Assembly
Star of the week - Rose
Super Learner - Noa
Writer of the week - Charlie
Marvellous Mathematician - Isaac
Bookworm - Teddy
Special Mentions - Henry and Adam for their beautiful RE Christmas cards
Have a lovely weekend.
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The Year 3 Team
Year 2 Blog Friday 5th December 2025
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 2:17pm
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: No spellings this week.
Sumdog: Complete the fractions challenge.
Counting: Work on counting in halves like we did in class.
For example, zero, a half, one, one and a half, two, two and a half, three, three and a half etc.
You could also work on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables/doubling and halving.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
English
We finished The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine.
In the book the characters have to wash a rabbit so we read some instructions on how to clean a pet rabbit.
The children found out about the key features of instructional writing.We discussed the use of numbered points, pictures, time connectives and bossy verbs.
They planned and wrote their own set of instructions.
Maths
This week we moved onto our fractions topic.
The children learnt all about halves, quarters and a little bit on thirds. They understood a fraction is part of a whole and must have equal parts.
RE
After learning all about the symbols of the Advent Wreath we enjoyed taking part in a team quiz.
The advent wreaths we coloured and decorated look lovely.
Geography
We answered quiz questions all about the oceans of the world.
Science
We learnt about life cycles of butterflies and frogs. We drew a life cycle and labelled it.
Art
We used tracing paper to trace a picture of an animal. We then turned the tracing paper over and pressed on hard with our pencil to try to make a monoprint. It was quite tricky but we persevered.
D.T
Next Thursday is D.T Day. The children will be designing, building and evaluating a Tudor House.
If you haven't already, please could you send one or two small boxes into school (no bigger than a shoe box).
Many thanks.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week - Izzy
Super Learner - Freya and Emma
Superstar Writer - Bobby
Bookworm - Genevieve
Mathematician - Amelia
Special Mentions - Dean for being a kind friend and
Jesse F and Joshua I. for great explanations about life cycles in science.
The Nativity play is on Tuesday 9th December in church at 2pm and 6.30pm.
Year 4 Blog Friday 5th December 2025
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 1:05pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.
Discuss what you have read with an adult.
Can you summarise what you have already read or make a prediction about what you think will happen?
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
disappoint disagree disobey disobedient
disgrace disguise misbehave misspell
mislead misunderstood misunderstand misconduct
misdeed misfire misguided misuse
misspent misplace
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 2’s, 4’s and 8’s and back again using your times tables
For example, start at 0 and count to 48 and back again
0 4 8 etc 48 44 40 etc
Then have a go at counting in 0.2’s, 0.4’s and 0.8’s and back again using your times tables as a guide
0 0.4 0.8 etc 4.8 4.4 4.0 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’ competition – Year 4 v Year 5
Sumdog challenges
A spelling challenge based on the words above
A maths challenge based on doubling, halving and related multiplication facts
Our Learning This Week
In English, we read some more of our novel and learnt that the Iron Man enjoyed eating anything made of metal.
We also started gathering ideas together for a menu specially designed for the Iron Man which we will be writing next week.
In Maths, we practised using partitioning to mentally multiply TU x U, and built on our knowledge of the grid method of multiplication.
Some of us found this tricky as we are not confident with our times tables, so we need to make sure we practise these as often as possible.
In RE, we discussed what a Jesse Tree is – a way to prepare for Advent by reading stories about Jesus’ family tree and hanging a symbol each day.
We then drew symbols which showed the different stories from the Bible and created a Jesse Tree in the classroom.
Have a look at some of these symbols in our gallery.
In Geography, we learnt about the different stages and features of a river.
We now know that a river can be divided up into three courses – the upper, middle and lower course – and that each course has different features.
This week, we also took part in the Santa Dash on Tuesday afternoon.
You can see some pictures of this in our gallery.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Rory
Super Learner: Daisy
Superstar Writer: Rudy and William
Bookworm: Emilia
Marvellous Mathematician: Lottie
Special Mentions: Violet Co and Rowan – for making Year 4 a lovely place to be and bringing big smiles into class every day
Have a peaceful weekend
The Year 4 team