St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolOur blogs
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 4:10pm
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.
disappoint disagree misbehave mislead inactive incorrect illegal illegible midday impossible unable unaware government environment ancient curiosity twelfth neighbour
Counting
Count out loud in:
12s up to 156 and back again 0,12,24,36…
80s from 240 to 880 and back again 240,320, 400 …
50s from 2150 backwards to 1450 2150, 2100, 2050…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Most of the class are being tested on 10x/100x larger than tables.
Sumdog
Maths practise based on shapes - individual challenge
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Please also continue to use the fluency booster on sumdog.
We have had another fantastic week of learning in Year 5.
We have been creating and using similes at the beginning of our sentences this week in English and we have used them in our re-telling of the novel. We have also written about the pros and cons of junk food for under 16’s. Some very interesting thoughts here!
In Maths we have been learning about perimeter and, once again, practising measuring angles using a protractor. We have now moved on to 3-D shapes and nets.
In RE we have explored and evaluated the key points of Our Lady’s life, including The Annunciation, the birth of Jesus and Pentecost. We have then discussed her discipleship and how she is an inspiration to us.
We have been spending time building our programming abilities in computing this week on code.org. The children are welcome to play some of the games available on this website at home, to further boost their skills.
The week has ended with us discovering facts about the Amazon river and the people that live along it. A great week of learning Year 5 – well done!
Golden stars this week
Florence – star of the week
Imogen – marvellous mathematician
Alfie G – super learner for a super effort with writing
Zachary M – superstar writer
Ronnie – bookworm for lots of reading
Darcey – for being a positive, helpful role model
Year 3 Friday blog 16th May 2025
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 2:29pm
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 end in –que or –gue. Practise reading and spelling them at home:
league, tongue, antique, unique, mosque, fatigue, rogue, vague, intrigue, dialogue, analogue, argue, plaque, epilogue, plague, argue, torque, barbeque.
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 stepped into Bertie’s shoes from The Butterfly Lion, writing heartfelt letters begging not to be sent away to boarding school. We also worked together to write and perform playscripts retelling the magical moment Bertie first met the girl. The children really enjoyed bringing the characters to life and thinking carefully about dialogue and stage directions.
In maths, we have been getting to grips with the grid method for multiplication. Everyone showed great resilience breaking down larger numbers and using their place value knowledge to solve problems step by step.
In history, we compared life in Ancient Egypt to life in Stone Age Britain. We explored how the two time periods were different and learned all about Egyptian hieroglyphics. We even had a go at writing our own names using the ancient symbols!
Our new science topic on plants is off to a great start. We made our own mini books explaining the importance of plants, what they need to grow, and how they help our world.
In PSHE, we talked about shared responsibility. This led to a brilliant class discussion about the environment and how we can all play our part in protecting it.
We also had our fourth yoga session this week, focusing on confidence. We learned some tricky new poses and showed great balance, strength, and perseverance.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week - Violet
Super Learner - Alexander
Writer of the week - Hunter
Marvellous Mathematician - Lewis
Bookworm - Violet
Special Mentions - Jessica, Mia, Isla and Francesca for super playtimes all week. Well Done!
Have a lovely weekend!
The Year 3 Team
Reception Blog - Friday 16th May 2025
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 10:48am
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
Mrs Robinson's group have been revisiting the oa and igh sounds.
Mrs Dixon's group have been focusing on the air and ure sounds.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club we read the story, Room on the Broom.
We have been drawing pictures of the witch and labelling her and we have drawn an animal that could join the witch on her broomstick.
Maths
We have started to learn numbers beyond 10.
This week it was the numbers 14,15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20.
We have been making them using lots of different equipment and investigating how many tens there are in a number.
RE
We listened to the story of Pentecost again and described how the disciples felt when the Holy Spirit came.
We talked about how we would feel and chose an emoji face to talk about.
Expressive Art and Design
We have listened to the story of the Kings Pants. We loved how the King had so many different kinds, so we have designed our own pair for him!
We have also been making our own watercolour planets. See the photos here!
Understanding the World
This week we have launched our mice!
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week – Harriet
Super Learner – Isla-May
Superstar Writer – Darragh
Bookworm – Evie B
Mathematician – Thomas
Year 1 Blog - Friday 16th May 2025
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 4:49pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Arrays
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Counting - Make an array and count each row/column in twos, fives or tens.
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We read our new story this week: Someone swallowed Stanley. We made a wanted poster for Stanley and wrote sentences explaining how to look after our environment.
We also wrote a recount about our trip to Martin Mere.
Phonics
Some of us have compared the different aw spellings - aw in saw and au in haunt.
Some of us have been learning the different u spellings: u in umbrella and oo in shook.
Maths
We continued to make arrays to help us solve multiplication problem questions. We are so quick at making them now! We also learnt the difference between a row and a column.
R.E.
We discovered that different countries celebrate Pentecost in different ways. We focused on England, Italy, France, Ukraine and Vanuatu, and wrote Pentecost party invitations.
Computing
We learnt how to create instructions using positional language such as forwards, backwards, left and right. We used these to create simple code to help Scrat reach his acorn.
PSHE
We discussed how we can relate to each other and how sometimes it can be quite tricky to get along with everyone. We learnt a friendship song and identified ways to relate to people who are different to us.
Art
We made feathers using the materials available in the classroom. We used our art skills of ripping, tearing, cutting and gluing.
Martin Mere
We used our scientific knowledge to investigate plants and compare mammals. We also had fun playing on the playground.
A big thank you to everyone who came to watch our sports day! We appreciate your support and we are so proud of each child!
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Faisal and Emma
Super Learner: Zac
Superstar Writer: Harry
Bookworm: Amelia
Marvellous Mathematician: Seb and Genevieve
Special Mentions - Luca, Reuben, Hannah and Izzy for their super coding!
Year 4 Blog Friday 16th May 2025
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 12:42pm
Welcome to your weekly blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Look up any words you are unsure of in a dictionary.
Spellings
These are your spellings for next week:
science scene discipline fascinate crescent fascinating
disciplinary disciple muscle scent scissors muscles
ascend isosceles scenario scientific susceptible transcend
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 6’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 72 and back again
0 6 12 18 etc 72 66 60 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
You can practise a similar Multiplication Tables Check on timestables.co.uk
If you practise for 5 minutes every night, you will see a big improvement in your tables fluency.
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 classifying geometric shapes challenge
Our learning this week
In English, we perfected our speaking parts for our Parent Assembly.
We also wrote an article giving our opinion about whether junk food should be banned for all children under the age of 16.
In Maths, learnt the names of triangles (equilateral, isosceles and scalene) and used the terms regular and irregular.
In addition, we named different quadrilaterals based on their particular properties.
In RE, we explored the text of the Apostles’ Creed and the meaning of the words.
We also considered what taking our First Holy Communion means to us.
In PSHE, we learnt how to better understand our differences.
We discussed how we can use our strengths in different ways and how seeing things from a different perspective is a positive thing.
In Science, we recapped the digestive model from last week.
We then identified how our teeth have different jobs and help break down food.
In DT, we designed and created a product made out of felt.
We started by practising three different stitches (running, backstitch and overstitch).
Following this, we designed and created a useful item – for example, a purse, pencil case or glasses case.
We then evaluated our finished product by considering what went well and what we would change if we were to make the product again.
You can see some pictures of our finished products in our gallery.
Thank you for coming to our Parent Assembly – we hope you enjoyed celebrating with us.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday at the First Holy Communion Masses.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Mark
Super Learner: Spencer
Superstar Writer: Tiffany
Bookworm: Maisie
Marvellous Mathematician: Evangeline
Special Mentions: Sidney, Emma and Sam
The Year 4 team
Year 2 Blog Friday 16th May 2025
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 8:31am
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.
Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!
Spelling:
Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (23.05.25):
knee know knight knife knock knew knot knit knead knack
Sumdog:
Counting:
Starting at 0, count in fives forwards and backwards to 60.
This will really help with telling the time. You could also look at the clock and count in fives around the numbers on the clock face.
Times Tables:
Great effort in our quiz this week.
Next week, Thursday (22.05.25) we will quiz your knowledge of the 2 times tables.
English
We started a new book called Snail Mail. We had a great discussion about what snail mail is and the developments in technology which mean we can communicate with each other more easily and quickly.
We used the map from the book to find out where Tiger the snail visited. He sent a postcard from each country.
We used the atlases and globes to see where the places are and what the flags look like.
We then planned our own story which we will write next week.
Maths
We have been learning about time this week.
The children now know, five, ten, quarter/fifteen, twenty, twenty-five and half/thirty minutes past the hour.
You could look at the minutes to the hour (as above) and keep asking your child to tell you the time. It will really help them to become more familiar with all the times.
We used clocks to make the times ourselves and we went outside to make shadow clocks.
R.E.
We learnt about Saint Paul's story, he was called Saul at first.
The children sequenced the events themselves then illustrated their work beautifully.
P.E.
We have been preparing for Sports Day (19.05.25).
It's been great fun using the track and improving our athletics skills.
History
We found out more about Queen Elizabeth II and her favourite palaces and castles, such as Windsor and Balmoral.
Science
We had a good look at our beans and the different conditions are starting to have an effect on the germination and growth of the beans. We will bring them home next week and continue to grow them.
Forest School
We learnt about the flower moon which happened on Monday. A full moon happens once every 29 and a half days and May is when wildflowers start showing their beauty, so this Moon got the flowery title. We looked at pictures of the lunar cycle and then we made our own flowers out of natural materials.
Art
The children worked in groups outside to create mini tree houses using natural materials.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week- Felicity
Super Learner- Henry P.
Superstar Writer- Noah S.
Bookworm- Adam
Mathematician- Rowan
Special Mentions- Charlie, Henry Y. and Jonah for bring kind friends and playing well at breaktimes.
Year 6 Blog - Friday 16th May 2025
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 7:58am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
Year 6 have worked so hard on all their tests this week! All of the staff are really proud of their resilience and effort - well done Year 6 for completing your SATs!
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have explored a poem together called 'Ageing: A Reflection'. We have thought about how we might look different when we are 60 years old and imagined what our favourite achievements from our lives might be. We created our own poetry imagining what our favourite things about being an adult would be and what our favourite things about being 10 or 11 are!
Maths
This week, we have completed some outdoor revision by doing arithmetic orienteering. We also revised our reasoning so that we were really confident for our SATs tests!
RE
In RE, we have researched different saints and thought about how they were committed to their faith. We used our research to create a book inspired by the 'Little People Big Dreams' books. We also learned all about CAFOD and created posters and leaflets to explore how they help people and how faith underpins their mission.
Topic
In PE, we have played rounders and football and used our skills of teamwork!
In Art, we have continued to explore chair design and we have been inspired by design videos to look closely to sketch shapes and patterns.
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 21/05/25.
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 -
There will be no spelling test this week, as the children have worked hard on their spellings for SATs!
This week, there will be no set homework as the children need a well-deserved rest after their SATs tests!
Golden Assembly
There has been a big special mention for all of Year 6 in our Golden Assembly this week for their effort, resilence and hard work for their SATs this week. Well done Year 6!
Have a great weekend Year 6 and well done for this week!
Year 5 Blog Friday 9th May 2025
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 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.
ought bought thought nought brought fought rough tough enough cough though although dough through thorough borough plough bough
Counting
Count out loud in:
8s up to 104 and back again 0,8,16,24…
60s from 240 to 720 and back again 240,300, 360 …
25s from 2125 backwards to 1925 2125, 2100, 2075…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Most of the class are learning square numbers for their test next week.
Sumdog
Maths practice based on fractions – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practice test on Sumdog.
Please also continue to use the fluency booster on Sumdog.
We have had another great learning week in Year 5.
We continued reading our new novel this week – The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. We wrote as Edward and blended action, feelings and description.
In Maths we learnt how to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers, as well as continuing to add and subtract fractions with mixed denominators. There has been a lot of great progress this week!
In RE we have continued to discuss and explore the meaning of confirmation and chrism, and how the Holy Spirit is linked to this. We also spent time learning about how the new pope would be chosen.
To celebrate VE day we all created our own Union Jack flags – it is trickier than you think!
The week ended with us discovering how the Maya civilisation lived. A great week of learning Year 5 – well done!
Golden stars this week
Ronnie – star of the week
Libby – marvellous mathematician
Sam – super learner - trying hard all week
Willow – superstar writer
Ebba – bookworm for lots of home reading
Holly P – special mention for super listening
Reception Blog - Friday 9th May 2025
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 11:45am
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
Mrs Robinson's group have been revisiting the ai and ee sounds.
Mrs Dixon's group have been focussing on the oi and ear sounds.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club we read the story, The Smeds and the Smoos.
We drew the planet where they live and described it.
Maths
We started to learn numbers beyond 10. This week it was the numbers 11,12 and 13.
RE
We listened to the story of Pentecost again and described how the disciples felt when the Holy Spirit came. Then we talked about the fire and made our own fire hats.
Expressive Art and Design
We continued with our Art project about Imagination lands.
Our task this week was to add the drawings to them! They all look fantastic.
Understanding the World
This week we explored how rockets work and we prepared our rocket mice, ready to launch them next week.
Forest School
In our session this week we did some cloud gazing on blankets using our senses to really experience being outside.
We also used different shades of green ribbon and tried to find something growing in the nature area which really matched our piece of ribbon.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 9th May 2025
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 8:59am
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Counting in tens.
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Counting - We have been making groups of objects this week (groups of twos, groups of fives and groups of tens). Please practise this at home and count in your patterns.
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We continued to read The Lumberjack's Beard. We made a story map together and re-wrote the whole story in our books.
Phonics
Some of us have been recapping phase 4 clusters at the start and end of words.
Some of us have learning the different ar spellings: ar in car, al in palm and a in rather. We also had the discussion about the south of England's pronunciation of bath and path.
Maths
We continued to solve different multiplication problem questions, this time using arrays. We used the maths resources to make our own arrays for each question.
We also completed lots of arithmetic questions. Most of us even got onto some arithmetic ninja challenge questions!
R.E.
We learnt about Pentecost and how the Holy Spirit came to the disciples. We identified the five main symbols of the Holy Spirit and made some beautiful artwork for the classroom.
P.E.
We have continued to practise for sports day this week!
Computing
We learnt how to log onto our new website: code.org. We started to learn how to follow simple coding instructions using a drag and drop motion.
PSHE
We continued to learn about how to be healthy, focusing on daily hygiene.
Forest School
In our session this week we did some cloud gazing on blankets using our senses to really experience being outside.
We also had a go at making shelters, we found some mini beasts, and we noticed new flowers growing.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Bobby
Super Learner: Jaxon
Superstar Writer: Faisal, Joshua I and Rudy
Bookworm: Honey and Arianna
Marvellous Mathematician: Lara
Special Mentions - All of Mrs Sheen's multi-skills club for showing their super tennis skills!
Year 6 Blog - Friday 9th May 2025
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 8:40am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
Year 6 have worked so hard on their SATs revision - we are all very proud of them! Please make sure that the children have a good rest this weekend so they are ready for their first tests on Monday. Good luck Year 6 - you will all be amazing next week!
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been working hard to revise for our SATs tests. We have practised past paper questions, made our own quizzes and even practised on Kahoot!
Maths
This week, we have learned how to solve problems involving algebra. We have revised shape, volume, Roman Numerals and co-ordinate grids.
RE
In RE, we have shared the story of Stephen and thought about whether we would stand up for what we believe in like he did. We also discussed and reflected on why the ressurection is so important to Christians.
Topic
In PSHE, we have completed our My Happy Mind topic called 'Be Your Best!'. We have learned how important sleep is and how to get ready before our tests on Monday!
In History, we finished our topic on Crime and Punishment. We thought carefully about how crime, punishment and the police have changed over time. We wrote some amazing reports on the changes we identified.
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 14/05/25.
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 -
There will be no spelling test this week, as the children will sit their SATs spelling test on Monday. The children should revise the statutory spellings for Y5/6 and Y3/4.
This week, there will be no set homework as the children have revised hard and are ready for their SATs next week!
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Zofia
Super Learner - Tom and Eleanor
Superstar Writer - Ava M
Bookworm - Amelia
Marvellous Mathematician - Elizabeth
Special Mentions - All of Y6 for working so hard on their revision!
Have a super weekend Year 6!
Year 3 Friday Blog 9th May 2025
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 2:52pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Continue to read regularly, 10-15 minutes every day.
Practise your number facts regularly. Knowing these inside out will help your children succeed in their future maths learning. We have been using the White Rose Maths - 1 minute maths app in class this week. You can download this from the Appstore or the Google Playstore.
Please also practise counting in 3s's from 3 to 36 and back again.
Next week we will be looking at the /ch/ spelling pattern. Here are your home spellings for this week
chorus, chemist, echo, character, chef, chalet, machine, brochure, ache, anchor, chaos, monarch, mechanic, school, parachute, chute, champagne
On Sumdog you will find 3 challenges. Times tables, Multiplication and division and your spellings. Good luck!
This week in Year 3
In English we retold the lion cub rescue by Bertie. We looked at using good description to describe movement and recorded our ideas onto Seesaw.
In maths we have been learning about how to use different strategies to add and subtract. We looked at using our number facts, consolidation , partitioning and bridging through 10s. Everyone showed good understanding of when was best to use each method and explain why. Super maths Year 3!
In history we learned all about the roles ancient Egtptians had in society. We explored some wall art and created some fantasic reports.
In DT this week we used all our prior learning to make our own mechanisms for our moving picture in our new art topic. We planned our designs, thinking about what output we'd need in our pieces.
In RE we looked at the story of the Road to Emmaus and how this story is mirrored in the mass. We discussed the links and had some lovely ideas. We also wrote some lovely prayers to place on our prayer tree. See our gallery.
Have a lovely weekend in the sun
The Year 3 team
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 11:43am
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.
Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!
Spelling:
Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (16.05.25):
hopping dancing looking clapping waving
walking drying crying sitting dropping
Sumdog:
Counting:
Starting at 0, count in fives forwards and backwards to 100.
Times Tables:
We repeated the division facts for 5 (in order) this week in our quiz.
Next week, Thursday (15.05.25) we will quiz your knowledge of the division facts for 5, in a muddled order.
English
We learnt through the book, "The Ugly Five". It's a rhyming story about animals in Africa.
We used it as inspration to write our own poem about one of the animals featured in the book.
We had a writing workshop where we discussed our ideas and helped each other out with rhyming words.
We then wrote a rough draft of our poem and finally published our poem in our English book.
We read our poems to the children in Year 3.
SPaG
We revisited the rules for adding ing to a word.
Maths
We continued to learn about fractions of amounts using bar models.
We also learned about fractions when describing a turn.
R.E.
Exciting news about our new Pope Leo XIV
P.E.
We have been preparing for Sports Day (19.05.25).
It's been great fun using the track and improving our athletics skills.
Science
We closely observed the beans which we planted last week and noted down any changes.
Forest School
We have a new lodge. When the children went in for the first time they described it as "AMAZING", "FANTASTIC" and "BRILLIANT".
In our session this week we did some cloud gazing on blankets using our senses to really experience being outside.
Computing
The children are working so well on code.org and have been progressing through the lesson so proficienly.
Art
The children made their stick people, using thread, string and ribbon. They looked fantastic.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week- Isaac
Super Learner- Rose
Superstar Writer- Dylan
Bookworm- Ellie
Mathematician- Florence
Special Mentions- Lydia and Charlie for being really kind and helpful
Orlaigh-Superb listening and participation in Yoga
Year 4 Blog Friday 9th May 2025
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 10:05am
Welcome to your weekly blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Can you summarise what you have read – including the most important details. Then, predict what you think will happen next.
Spellings
These are your spellings for next week:
league tongue antique unique mosque fatigue
cheque rogue vague intrigue dialogue analogue
argue plague epilogue plaque torque barbeque
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 8’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 96 and back again
0 8 16 24 etc 96 88 80 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
You can practise a similar Multiplication Tables Check on timestables.co.uk
If you practise for 5 minutes every night, you will see a big improvement in your tables fluency.
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 – let’s see if EVERYONE can log on and play this week!
Sumdog challenges
- A spelling challenge based on the words above
- A symmetry challenge
Our learning this week
In English, we have been busy writing parts and learning them for our Parent Assembly next week.
In addition, we listened to the class novel and compared it to the film ‘Wonka’.
In Maths, we learnt how to identify vertical or horizontal lines of symmetry in a shape.
We then extended this learning by completing simple symmetrical figures.
In RE, we learnt the terms ‘apostle’ and ‘apostolic’. We tried our best to explain these words in simple terms.
During our yoga session, we worked with a partner to help us balance. You can see some pictures in our gallery.
In computing, we started coding. We began by practising sequencing and debugging skills in maze puzzles.
In Art, we created some beautiful artwork for our Parent Assembly.
We look forward to seeing you at our Parent Assembly on Friday 16th May 2025 at 2.40pm.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week - Madelaina
Super Learner - Archie P
Superstar writer - Edward
Bookworm - Milo
Marvellous Mathematician - Willow
Special Mentions - Emma and Franco for beautiful artwork
Brooke for being a good friend
The Year 4 team
Reception Blog - Friday 2nd May 2025
Date: 2nd May 2025 @ 3:45pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
Mrs Robinson's group recapped the ch, sh, th, ng and qu sounds and used them in our writing.
Mrs Dixon's group have been focussing on the ow and ur sounds.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club we read the story, Zog and the Flying Doctors.
We designed our own dragon friend for Zog and we wrote about how the King felt when he was better.
Maths
We learnt about numbers in order within 0-10.
RE
We listened to the story of Pentecost.
We went outside to feel the wind and then made a whole class art interpretation of wind.
Expressive Art and Design
We continued with our Art project on Imagination lands.
Our task was to cut and tear them to make our own Zog land!
Understanding the World
We listened to stories about the Royal Family, who they are and where they live.
Year 5 Blog Friday 2nd May 2025
Date: 2nd May 2025 @ 3:36pm
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.
grief brief mischief pierce fierce niece pier patient deceive conceive receive perceive
ceiling protein seize science ancient glacier
Counting
Count out loud in:
6s up to 120 and back again 0,6,12,18…
40s from 240 to 840 and back again 240,280,320 …
30s from 2130 backwards to 1920 2130,2100,2070 …
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Most of the class are on division targets for testing next week.
Sumdog
Maths practise based on fractions – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Please continue to use the fluency booster too!
We have had another great learning week in Year 5.
We have started our new novel this week – The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. We have also enjoyed writing short, fictional stories this week.
In Maths we have started to re-cap fractions, including mixed numbers, equivalent fractions and improper fractions. Well done everyone with this.
Following our talks about the Holy Spirit, we all enjoyed critically evaluating various famous paintings of the Holy Spirit before moving on to focus specifically on the sacrament of Confirmation and how the Holy Spirit is a fundamental part of this Sacrament.
In computing, we have started our computer science topic and we are using code.org to practise our programming skills.
The week has ended with lots of atlas work as we learn about the continent of South America. A super week Year 5 – well done!
Golden stars this week
Holly W – star of the week
Luiza – marvellous mathematician
Cian – super learner for a super effort with writing
Joe – superstar writer
Maisie – bookworm for lots of home reading
Eddie – special mention for looking after our school
Tommy – special mention for kindness shown to others in class
Year 1 Blog - Friday 2nd May 2025
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 4:47pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Doubles
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week
Counting - Practise counting in ones, twos, fives and tens.
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We continued to read The Lumberjack's Beard. We found out that the lumberjack had been chopping down all of the animals' houses! We acted out how the bird was feeling and wrote an apology letter from Jim.
Phonics
Some of us have been focusing on our phase 5 tricky words.
Some of us have learnt the three ow spellings: ow in clown, ou in cloud and ough in drought. Then we compared the two oi spellings: oi in spoil and oy in toy.
Maths
We have been learning how to make equal groups of objects, leading onto calculating the doubles up to 10 (double 10 = 20).
Then, we solved multiplication problem questions which required us to make equal groups of objects.
R.E.
First, we listened to Jesus' journey to Emmaus. We wrote our own speech bubbles, showing how the apostles felt when they walked beside Jesus.
Then we read about His ascension. We made some beautiful cloud mobiles. We drew pictures of the event and decorated the classroom with them.
Forest School
This week we did some wild weaving. This is really good for developing our fine motor skills, creativity and imagination. We carefully put the rubber bands on the base and then used grasses, leaves and flowers in our piece of work. Usually we do not pick anything but today we could pick a few things. At the end of the session we had a reflection, we told whoever was next to us what we liked about their work.
We also discussed the cotton tree seeds and how they are all being dispersed by the wind.
P.E.
We have been practising for sports day this week!
Geography
We identified features of a cold place, such as Antarctica. We spotted lots of ice, snow and animals, such as penguins.
Art
We sketched feathers and added detail using pen, pastel and charcoal.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Cara
Super Learner: Huxley
Superstar Writer: April
Bookworm: Seb
Marvellous Mathematician: Nelly
Special Mentions - Reuben for always helping his friends. Emma for always listening and working hard in class.
Year 4 Blog Friday 2nd May 2025
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 4:12pm
Welcome to your weekly blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Find a couple of words you don’t know the meaning of and look them up in a dictionary. Write them in your reading diary and use them in a sentence of your own.
Spellings
These are your spellings for next week:
scheme chorus chemist echo character chef chalet machine ache brochure
anchor chaos monarch chute mechanic school parachute champagne
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 3’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 36 and back again
0 3 6 9 etc 36 33 30 etc
Now try counting in 4’s
0 4 8 12 etc 48 44 40 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
You can practise a similar Multiplication Tables Check on timestables.co.uk
If you practise for 5 minutes every night, you will see a big improvement in your tables fluency.
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 – lets see if EVERYONE can log on and play this week!
Sumdog challenges
- A spelling challenge based on the words above
- A comparing and ordering angles challenge
This week in Year 4
In English, we discussed the features of instructional writing.
Following this, we used our imagination to plan and write a recipe for our very own chocolate inspired by Willy Wonka.
We were very proud of our creations and think Wonka would be too!
In Maths, we learnt that an angle is a measure of a turn.
We then identified acute and obtuse angles, and also compared and ordered angles from smallest to the largest.
In RE, we explored the fact that St Peter was the first Pope and discussed what Peter’s life teaches Christians today.
In PSHE, we started our new topic – ‘relate’. Throughout the topic, we will learn to understand and celebrate our differences.
We began by learning what it means to ‘stop, understand and consider’.
In Science, we named the basic parts of the digestive system and described their functions.
We also found out how 'poo' is made in our digestive systems. Take a look at the pictures in our gallery.
In History, we studied different Greek pots with pictures on.
We considered what the people in the scene were doing and wearing and what we could see in the background.
From the pictures, we then inferred what life was like during Ancient Greek times.
In art, we finished our still life collages. Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week - Emma
Super Learner - Joni
Superstar Writers - ALL of Year 4!
Bookworm - Josh M
Marvellous Mathematician - Tiffany
Special Mentions - Josh M, Josh W and Alana
The Year 4 team
Year 3 Friday blog 2nd May 2025
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 2:47pm
Welcome to your Friday update
It has been a lovely week in school with the fine weather allowing us to take lots of our learning outside.
Home Practice
Keep up with the great reading at home. We can see a lot of children showing interest in some fab series of books including, Dogman, Harry Potter and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Lots of super future reading habits being formed!!
We have set some maths challenges on Sumdog. Please ensure these are completed as they will boost fluency in the key learning that will support your child in all their future maths learning.
Keep counting, a secure knowledge of the number system will also help secure new concepts and learning.
Practice counting in 2s, 4s, and 8s. Forwards and backwards. What patterns can you spot?
Here are your spellings. We are looking at the statutory words for Year 3 this week. To remember these spellings its useful to remember the tricky bits.
fruit, grammar, group, guard, guide, heard, heart, height, history, imagine, increase, important, interest, island, knowledge, learn, length, library
This week in Year 3
We have been enjoying our new RE topic, To the ends of the Earth. We have been reading the Road to Emmaus where Jesus appeared to his disciples. We retold the story in comic form, looked at some art inspired by the story and created our own pieces of art. Check out our gallery.
In English we have been reading about Bertie, the little boy from Africa and his home. We wrote some fantastic descriptions of the watering hole and all the animals that he could see from his compound. We have been learning about how we can edit our work and improve it through drafting. Have a look at some of our finished pieces.
In Maths we have been learning how to subtract 3 digit numbers using the column addition method. To understand this method and use it accurately, it is important that everyone knows their number facts to 10. One minute maths is a great app for practising these as well as your times tables. Click the image below to access or download the app.
In History we have been exploring the Ancient Egyptian timeline and comparing it to the Stone Age in Britain. We will be learning lots about Egyptian culture in the coming weeks. The children are very excited.
In PE we have been playing cricket and practising our striking, fielding and catching skills and on Friday we went outside for some orienteering. Everyone showed great teamwork to find all the stations!
Golden Assembly
Star of the week - Rudy
Super Learner - George
Writer of the week - Eliza
Marvellous Mathematician - Heidi
Bookworm - Isla
Special Mentions - Oscar, Eliza, Francesca and Alexander for keeping our playground tidy and litter free. Thank you!
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team
Year 2 Blog Friday 2nd May 2025
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:40am
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.
Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!
Spelling:
Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (09.05.25):
dropped hopped chased looked danced
dried cried tried placed raced
Sumdog:
Counting:
Starting at one quarter count forwards in quarters. For example, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 1, 1 and 1/4, 1 and 2/4, 1 and 3/4, 2, 2 and 1/4, 2 and 2/4, 2 and 3/4, 3.
We enjoyed doing this in class and the children started to spot the pattern.
You could try counting in halves too!
Times Tables:
Great work on your division facts for 5 in order.
Next week, Thursday (08.05.25) we will quiz your knowledge of the division facts for 5, in a muddled order.
English
We wrote about something sad which has happened to us as this is something Lila has to think about in the story.
We learnt about rainsticks and made our own out of a cardboard tube.
We wrote instructions for how to make a rain maker and tested the instuctions on Miss Whiting.
SPaG
We learnt about the different rules for adding ed to the end of words.
dropped hopped chased looked danced
dried cried tried placed raced
Maths
Our new topic is fractions.
We built on our knowledge of halves and worked on finding quarters of shapes.
Art
Our project this half term is stick people.
The children spent time in the nature area searching for the perfect stick to use for making their own stick people.
Back in class, they used their sketch books to explore and draw some of their great ideas.
Forest School
This week we did some wild weaving. This is really good for developing our fine motor skills, creativity and imagination. We carefully put the rubber bands on the base and then used grasses, leaves and flowers in our piece of work. Usually we do not pick anything but today we could pick a few things. At the end of the session we had a reflection, we told whoever was next to us what we liked about their work.
We also discussed the cotton tree seeds and how they are all being dispersed by the wind.
Science
We planted beans to investigation the effects of different conditions on germination.
Geography
The children completed a quiz and looked more closely at the animals and geographical features of Nigeria.
History
Our new topic is Kings, Queens and Castles.
We thought about the Kings and Queens that we know already, including what information/facts we know about them or their reign.
R.E
The children retold and illustrated the story of the Ascension so well.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week- Devyn
Super Learner-Eliza
Superstar Writer- Elyse
Bookworm-George
Mathematician-Harper
Special Mentions-Felicity and Noah B. in Reception for super wild weaving in Forest School.
Amelia L. - Being a lovely friend to everyone.
Year 6 Blog - Friday 2nd May 2025
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:21am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been working hard to revise word class, tense, formality and punctuation! We have completed lots of SATs practise and quizzes to help us consolidate our learning.
Maths
This week, we have learned how to solve problems for measures and time. We have revised how to convert between measures and use these conversions to solve problems. We have also revised how to find fractions of amounts and convert between fractions, decimals and percentages.
RE
In RE, we have contunied our new topic: 'To the ends of the earth'. We have created book covers for John's gospel by thinking carefully about the intention of the gospel writer and what he wanted us to learn about Jesus. We have also shared 1 Cor 15:45-49 and discussed how Jesus is 'the new Adam'. We thought carefully about the similarities and differences between Jesus and Adam and created a symbolic image to show Jesus as the new Adam.
Topic
In PSHE, we have been completing a My Happy Mind topic called 'Be Your Best!'. We have learned how to speak positively to ourselves and how important getting enough sleep is. This topic is helping us to get ready for SATs!
In Art, we started our new topic all about chair design. We worked hard to take visual notes and be creative!
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 7/05/25.
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 taken from the 2017 SATs Spelling test.
We will have our test on the 9/05/25
It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.
|
likely |
straight |
sensation |
nervous |
|
crumb |
probable |
inspiring |
substance |
|
operation |
toughest |
bruise |
sensibly |
|
violence |
disobeyed |
through |
monarch |
|
sympathetic |
originally |
percussion |
coarse |
SATS Revision:
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 15 Money
English - Topic 25 Let’s have some fun!
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Isla
Super Learner - Isaac
Superstar Writer - Artie
Bookworm - Eli
Marvellous Mathematician - Amelia and Walter
Special Mentions - Theo M for doing an extra duty to help out KS1 staff!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 4:03pm
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.
co-ordinate re-enter co-operate co-own pre-existing de-emphasise ultra-ambitious pre-recorded
re-edit re-enact co-worker co-pilot re-cover re-educate pre-date pre-election pre-print re-form
Counting
Count out loud in:
5s up to 105 and back again 0,5,10,15…
50s from 250 to 850 and back again 250, 300, 350 …
25s from 2125 backwards to 1675 2125, 2100, 2075 …
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. It’s so important to be able to re-call them quickly for Year 5 maths.
Sumdog
Maths practise based on measurement– individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs.
We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus and times tables challenges.
We have had a great learning week in Year 5.
Year 5 have finished Varjak Paw this week and practised a variety of writing styles, including book reviews, diary entries and re-telling the plot.
In Maths they have been practising drawing, measuring and estimating angles. They will be moving on to fractions next week.
This week in RE, the whole class has been focussing on the signs and symbols of the Holy Spirit and the mystery of the Trinity. They have also spent some reflection and prayer time, following the death of Pope Francis.
Year 5 have also spent some time writing about what the earth means to them and how to protect it – a subject that was very close to Pope Francis’s heart.
The week has ended with a yoga session and, in History, Year 5 have started a new topic about the ancient Maya civilisation. Thank you Year 5 for a great start to the summer term.
This week's stars
William - star of the week
Dominic - marvellous mathematician
Tommy - superstar writer
Willow - bookworm
Freddie - super learner for his work in improving his writing
Maisie - special mention for trying so hard this week with tricky learning
Reception Blog - Friday 25th April 2025
Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 3:32pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week we have all been recapping the phase 2 and 3 sounds we have learnt so far.
Drawing Club
This week in Drawing Club we have read the story, Zog. We have been designing our own dragon friends for Zog and we have been writing sentences about what Zog can do.
Maths
This week we have been sequencing events in the day.
RE
This week we have been listening to the story of Pentecost.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we have started an Art project on Imagination lands.
This week’s task was to make our own painted paper. We each painted different coloured papers and mark made patterns onto them and next week we will use them to make our pictures.
Understanding the World
This week we have started our space topic. We compared the size of the sun, moon and earth.
Year 3 Friday Blog 25th April 2025
Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 1:53pm
Welcome to the Summer term
Home Practice
Continue with your amazing reading at home and remember to change your school reading books regularly, we have lots of great books to choose from.
Your home spellings are all a recap some of the common words from Key Stage 1. Some of these can be decoded with phonics but it will also help to learn them by sight. Lots of regular practise will help this.
We will give out copies of the spellings on Monday but they are availbale to practise on Sumdog.
On Sumdog we have set the usual maths challenges covering the learning well meet will meet next week. We have also set a fluency competition which will practise the key skills and number facts your child needs to work on.
What a brilliant first week back we’ve had in Year 3! It’s been lovely to see everyone looking so smart and ready to learn in their summer uniforms – a great start to the new term.
In English, we’ve been reading the beautiful book Dear Earth as part of our preparations for our Wonderful World assembly. We were inspired by the heartfelt letters in the story and decided to write our own letters to Earth, sharing our hopes, promises and appreciation for our planet. We then published them with care – have a look in our gallery to see some of our lovely finished pieces!
In Maths, we’ve been revisiting column addition and doing some clever thinking around missing numbers. The children have shown great perseverance and are becoming more confident each day with explaining their reasoning.
Our History learning is now taking us back to the fascinating world of Ancient Egypt. This week, we explored an Ancient Egyptian timeline and began to learn about some of the key events and people we’ll be discovering this term. We’ve added a fact file below. This includes some of the learning well meet this term.
On Friday, we had a fantastic yoga session with Katie. The children showed brilliant strength and balance as they moved through different poses. It was such a calm and focused way to finish our week.
In RE, we’ve begun our new topic: To the Ends of the Earth, which will take us on a journey through Pentecost and the early Church. We started by looking at the different types of writing found in the Bible and spent some time exploring the books of the New Testament.
As part of our My Happy Mind learning, we focused on the importance of considering other people’s opinions – part of our ‘Relate’ topic. There have been lots of thoughtful discussions, and the children are already making brilliant links to real-life situations. Don’t forget, you can follow along with what we’re learning through the Happy Mind Parent App.
Well done on a wonderful start to the Summer term, Year 3. We’re really proud of you all.
Have a lovely weekend!
The Year 3 Team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 25th April 2025
Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 9:00am
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Recognising coins
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Counting - Practise counting in tens from 0 to 100, forwards and backwards.
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We started to read our new book - Lumberjack's Beard. We described the setting of the story and explained how the bird was feeling using a speech bubble. The bird was very angry that the lumberjack chopped down his tree!
Phonics
Some of us have been focusing on trigraphs, focusing on air in chair and ear in clear.
Some of us have continued to explore the different oa spellings, focusing on ol in cold and oul in shoulder.
Maths
We continued our counting lesson from before half term, this time, focusing on counting in tens. We spotted the pattern on a number square and filled in missing numbers.
Then, we recapped the different coins and notes that we use.
R.E.
We started our new topic - To the ends of the Earth. We ordered Jesus' life events together from His birth to His death. We made a board game and played it in pairs.
Science
We took pictures of plants that are in our outdoor areas at the moment. In a few months, we will do the same again and make a comparison to see if anything has changed!
Geography
We started our new topic - hot and cold places in the world. We learnt about the equator and how the countries that are close to it have a hot climate. Then we identified hot and cold places on a world map.
Art
We started our new topic - birds. We sketched pictures of different birds in our sketchbooks, focusing on their different features.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Arianna
Super Learner: Emma
Superstar Writer: Lara
Bookworm: Luca
Marvellous Mathematician: Izzy
Special Mentions - Zac and Rudy for always helping in the class and Genevieve for her amazing use of scientific vocabulary whilst spotting similarities and differences.
