Reception Blog - Friday 9th December 2022

Date: 9th Dec 2022 @ 11:46am

A big well done to all of Reception for their first school Nativity this week. The children did amazing and sang their hearts out. 

This week we have been making presents out of numicon, writing letters to Father Christmas, singing carols, looking at the change in the weather and making all of our Christmas crafts to bring home next week!

Year 6 Blog Friday 9th December 2022

Date: 9th Dec 2022 @ 8:16am

Welcome to Year 6 weekly blog.

Congratulations to our Year 5/6 Football team who came second in the South Ribble finals on Tuesday. They have worked incredibly well as a team, helping to reach the Lancashire Finals for the first time ever for St Oswald’s.

Also on Tuesday, the juniors were very lucky to see the infant nativity in church. We thought they did an amazing job and sang beautifully.  You can also see the Nativity video here.

On Friday, eleven of our children volunteered to be carol singers at this month's Caritas lunch at St Teresa's church. They did a brilliant job singing for the parish. 

Our learning this week:

• In Maths, we have been learning how to solve word problems by highlighting the important information, finding the numbers and working out what the calculation is.
• In English, we have had our last lesson with Gareth Walker, who has been teaching us how to be a sport journalist. We have used the skills he has taught us to create this term’s edition of the Learning Times, which will be available next week.
• In PE, we used this term’s learning of invasion games tactics to play small sided games of hockey. The most important thing we learnt is to move into space to gain a better advantage against an opponent.
• In PSHE, we learnt how important sleep is for a healthy lifestyle and discovered ways of improving our own sleep.
• In French, we wrote a story called Qui a tue le pere Noel? Who killed Father Christmas, based on a game of Cluedo. Fantastique, y6!
• In Science, we carried out a carousel of activities to prove that light travels in straight lines. 
• In Design and Technology, we began our final design for our Christmas tree decoration using tapestry thread and needles. It has been great to see everyone develop their stitching skills this week.

Home Practice

Please try to complete the following tasks by next Thursday:

1. Reading – Please read up to 30 minutes a night, complete your reading task and change your book one last time.
2. Maths challenges:

• Sumdog (Lancashire Sumdog Winter Wonderland Contest))
  • This week’s Sumdog contest is once again against Year 7 from All Hallows’. Try your best to get as many questions completed before next Thursday 15^th The questions will be based at your Sumdog level and will vary across many topics.

No spellings for home practice:

• Due to a double sitting of spellings this week, no spellings are to be completed as ‘Home Practice’. Although, we will be recapping our learning of our spellings this term, in class.

Year 1 Blog-Friday 9th December

Date: 9th Dec 2022 @ 7:40am

Welcome to your Friday blog. We hope you enjoyed our Nativity. All the children did so well. You can watch it again on St Oswald's TV.

English

This week we have been learning through a story about a little boy who lives in a hut on top of the Roly Poly Mountain which is far, far away. Father Christmas has forgotten to deliver Harvey's present so he goes on a treacherous journey involving planes, scooters, jeeps and other modes of transport! We planned our own story and we are going to be finishing it next week. We have been been very careful with our writing.

Maths

We have been learning about one half of a shape and that they are equal parts of a whole.

We have also been counting in 2s,5s and 10s.

 R.E.

We learnt about the Advent wreath and which candles are lit on which week. We coloured in our own version and labeled each candle.

DT and Art

We painted our Christmas cards ready for next week where we will add on our mechanism - either a slider or a lever. We used a printing technique to apply our paint.

History

We learnt about timelines - what they teach us and how we read them. Then, we predicted what we think future toys will look like. There were some great ideas!

See our pictures here.

Science

We learnt about what animals need to survive. We then compared this to what they want and the difference between the two. We delved deeper into the 4 main needs - food, air, water and shelter and wrote about each one.

Outdoor Learning

This week it has been so cold but we don't mind! We started our session by looking at our shadows and we also talked out the full moon we'd seen. We played some running games to keep warm.

We made some Christmas decorations using braches of willow. We used willow because it is so flexible and we could easily make it into a shape.We tied knots in the wool to decorate our willow. We showed great perseverance and imagination.

P.E.

We continued with our robot dance. One group has completely finished! We will show each other our dances next week.

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - ea/e_e words OR oi words

Maths - 2D and 3D shape recap

Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.

Please read for at least 10 minutes every night.

Year 5 Blog Friday 9th December 2022

Date: 7th Dec 2022 @ 9:47am

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog. 

Here is a summary of our learning from the week:

In maths we have been looking at angles. We have been measuring and drawing angles using a protractor. We have also been naming angles. We then moved on to measuring lengths accurately in cm and mm and then using the measurements to find the perimeter of shapes. 

Here is a really great website to practise drawing and measuring angles. We have had a go in class too. 

https://www.visnos.com/demos/basic-angles

In English we have been working on a persuasive piece of writing to persuade people to go and stay at the Crow's Nest Hotel. We decided who we wanted to try to persuade and then looked at different types of sentences and words we could use to persuade our target audience. 

In RE we have started our new topic. It is called Advent/ Christmas - Loving. 

So far we have learned about the Advent Wreath and what each candle represents. We have also thought about what it was like for people waiting in hope for the coming of the Messiah. We read some scripture which was of the different things the prophets told people to give them hope and to help them live in the way God wanted whilst they were waiting for the coming of Jesus. We then thought of ways we could give people hope if they were finding things difficult and needed encouragement. 

We have finished our DT topic by evaluating our Greek snack. We thought about how our snack met its purpose, how authentic it was and how we would improve or change it if we made it again. 

We had our final swimming lesson on Wednesday. Steve was very impressed with the progress we have all made so he treated us to a fun week. We played some games and listened to Christmas music. We also got our certificates for the Advanced Water Satefy Award, Water Safety Award, and 10 or 25 metres. 

In French, we drafted our own version of the Saving of Christmas story, using bilingual dictionaries to look up any nouns we needed. We managed really well to change the definite article (le,la or les) to an indefinite article (un, une or des). Tres bien, Y5! They'll look great as soon as they're finished!

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud to somebody every night for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read and discuss the meaning of new words. 

Counting

Count out loud in:

7s from 0 to 84 and back again.           7          14            21          ...

5s from 0 to 60 and back again.           5           10          15           ...

30s from 0 to 360 and back again.        30         60          90          ... 

Times Tables

Please practise the division facts for the times table you are on:

2 x 3 = 6 so 6 ÷ 2 = 3 and 6 ÷ 3 = 2

Spellings

This week you have all done such a fantastic job in your spelling test - you were tested on over 200 words! 

Because you have worked so hard, there are no new spellings this week. 

Please continue to practise the spellings from last week and you will be tested on these next week. 

graph          graphics          autograph          automobile          automatic          headphones          microphone         

      telescope          television          telegram          telepathy          position          solution 

Have a wonderful happy weekend! You are all amazing. 

Year 2 Blog Friday 2nd December 2022

Date: 2nd Dec 2022 @ 3:59pm

Another fabulous week in Year 2 and it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, especially after our Santa Dash this afternoon and all the effort the children are putting into our Nativity rehearsals. In English, we wrote letters to Father Christmas, using neat handwriting, capital letters and full stops, joining words and exciting vocabulary. In Maths, we learnt about block graphs, pictograms, tables and tally charts. The children are getting very good at understanding the data and answering questions. We read the story of the Angel Gabriel visiting Mary and thought about what they said to each other. In French this week, Year 2 recapped some animal words through a song, repetition of vocabulary with actions and a game. They also managed to say their own sentences about pets for the first time! Tres impressionant, Y2! In Art, we designed Christmas Trees in the style of Mondrian, next week we will paint them. This week’s highlight was the trip to the library, the children had a great time listening to a story, searching for books and doing a craft activity, well done everyone.

Reading

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

Please date, sign and leave a small comment when you have read with your child and make it clear that you have finished a book, then we know we can change it. For Example - 14.11.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or finished the book. MG.

Reading books are changed every Wednesday. You will receive 2-4 books depending on their length, they should last the week, if you read a little each night. However, if you need to change a book at any other time, we will change it as needed.

Reading resources:

Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read and really enjoy it.

If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’. You could also explore the rest of the site and read books from the Oxford Owl eBook library or listen to audio books.

Username: sto2

Password: 1234

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - https://www.literacyshedblog.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/ks1_reading_vipers.pdf

In addition to this, reading a good bed time story to your child is so worthwhile and really helps towards a lifelong love of reading.

Spelling

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (09.12.22). A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by Friday 09.12.22.

This week’s spellings:

chew             argue

grew              suit    

huge              fruit

cute              jumped

untrue           stopped

Maths

At home, count in 3’s forwards and backwards. Write it down and spot any patterns that help you remember. When we count in 3’s, the numbers we say are actually the 3x table.

You will have a 2x, 5x, 10x and 3x tables and a tables and tally chart challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 09.12.22.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Please sing Nativity songs at home with the actions.

Nativity Performances Tuesday 6^th December at 2pm and 6.30pm.

Have a look at the gallery section, you will see some Santa Dash and Library Trip photos.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.

Year 4 Blog Friday 2nd December 2022

Date: 2nd Dec 2022 @ 3:40pm

Year 4 Blog

Friday 2^nd December 2022

Welcome to your Friday blog. Here’s what we have been learning this week:

In English, we learnt what alliteration was and then wrote sentences using our names and alliteration.  Following this, we wrote animal poems which again used alliteration.

In Maths, we learnt how to double numbers efficiently. In addition, we learnt how to multiply using the grid method, and started to reason using the grid method by identifying missing numbers in a calculation. 

In RE, we started our new topic ‘Gift’ during which we will explore God’s gift of love and friendship in Jesus.  We started the topic by listening to a story and writing our own ‘recipe’ which showed what we look for in our ideal friend.  We also described how Christians prepare during Advent for the coming of Jesus.

In French, we designed a Christmas jumper ready to describe it next week.

In Science, we tested materials and classified them as conductors or insulators of electricity. We then thought carefully about how to explain the results.

In PE, as part of our invasion games unit, we practised our hockey skills. Our hockey skills included dribbling, passing and intercepting the ball. 

In Computing, we practised recording sound, editing it and then tried moving sections of audio using the ‘time shift’ tool. We then started planning our own podcast. 

In Geography, we learnt more about the North and South Poles and their similarities and differences.    

On Monday, we spent the day with Father Michael and the catechists preparing for our Reconciliation. Throughout the day, we considered what ‘reconciliation’ means and how when we say sorry, we should mean it. Following this, we took part in a Celebration of Reconciliation and came forward to Father Michael or Father John to say sorry for one thing.  Many thanks to all the parents and family members who have supported Year 4 on this journey and who came to the service on Monday afternoon.

We finished our week with a ‘Santa Dash’.  You can see some pictures here.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you discuss the story and predict what you think will happen next.

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 4’s and 25’s.  

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

0   4   12   16     etc                            48   44    40   etc

Now have a go at counting in 25’s

Start at 0 and count to 250 and back again

0   25   50   75   etc                            250   220   200  etc                      

Times tables

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week on Wednesday (7^th December 2022) Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?

Remember you can also practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Spellings

Your spellings next week practise adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable (eg -ing, -er, -en, -er). Your test will be on Friday 9^th December 2022.

forgetting   excelling      excelled       regretting   regretted

upsetting     beginning     beginner      recapping     recapped

travelling     traveller      travelled      forbidding   forbidden   

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above (Please note, not all the words are on Sumdog)
• A times tables challenge based on the 2, 4 and 8 times tables
• A challenge based on multiplying 2 and 3 digits by 1 digit

(eg 32 x 8          30 x 8 = 240     2 x 8 = 16       240 + 16 = 256

Use the grid method which we have practised in class this week for 3 digit multiplications)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  Little and often is the key to success!

Have a super weekend

The Year 4 Team

Reception Blog - Friday 2nd December 2022

Date: 2nd Dec 2022 @ 2:18pm

We have had a great week this week!

We have been on a trip to Longton Library. We lisened to a story about the Fire service, then we made our own Fireman or Firewoman bookmark. We had great manners, listening to the story so well.

We also had a visit from a Paramedic this week. Mr Brown came into speak to us about his job. We got to hear all of the stories about his job and what his equipment is for - even trying some of it out ourselves. We all know to call 999 if someone is poorly.

We finished this week with our sponsored Santa Dash! the whole school took part together on the playgroud!

Next week we start the Jolly Christmas Postman and our Christmas crafts. Don't forget our Nativity on Tuesday!

Year 6 Blog Friday 2nd December 2022

Date: 2nd Dec 2022 @ 1:01pm

Welcome to Year 6 weekly blog.

This week the athletics team continued their winning streak by becoming champions of South Ribble! An excellent achievement, which means another trip to the Lancashire finals. We will update you soon on when that will take place.

Also, the Santa Dash was on Friday. The whole class completed a very quick mile, and then supported the infants really well. Thank you to everyone for any sponsorship money raised.  

Our learning this week:

• In Maths, we have learnt how to use our times tables knowledge to quickly divide with partitioning.
• In English, we have learnt the structure of persuasive writing, by analysing, planning and writing our own. We became Mrs Peaceful, from our Private Peaceful novel, trying to persuade the Colonel to not shoot Bertha the dog.
• In PE, we were able to be outside for both athletics and invasion games. We worked on our baton changes in athletics and how we pass and receive in hockey.
• In History, our World War I topic continued with investigating sources from the past to uncover what life was like on the front line. We listened to audio files, read letters from soldiers and explored pictures of the trenches.
• In RE, we used the hymn of Maranatha to help understand the meaning of Advent and how Christians prepare for the coming of Jesus. We then created our own Advent calendar filled with positive actions to do, people to think about and prayers to say each morning of Advent.
• In French this week, we played Cluedo (in French!) to guess who killed Pere Noel. Next week, we will write a story in French based on the game.
• In Science, we checked on the food that's going nicely mouldy to see if our predictions were correct. Then we revisited all our learning about Classification before moving on to our new topic about Light. We began by recapping what we recalled from Y3, understanding that light comes from a source, that we need light to see and explaining what darkness is.
• In Design and Technology, we continued our topic of sewing by learning new skills of the running stitch and over stitch.

Home Practice

Please try to complete the following tasks by next Wednesday:

Reading – Please read up to 30 minutes a night and complete your reading task.

• You may change your book any day between Monday and Wednesday

Spellings 

• Sumdog (A2 wk 6 -ough words)
  • though, although, rough, tough, through, cough, nought, brought, ought, thought, fought, plough, dough, enough, thorough

Maths challenges:

• Counting:
  • This week we have been counting in decimal steps again.
  • Start with these numbers: 7.5, 2.46, 19.05 and count up 10 times then back again in 0.3:

7.5, 7.9, 8.2, 8.5, 8.8, 9.1, etc

and in 0.03:

7.5, 7.53, 7.56, 7.59. 7.62, 7.65 etc

• Number facts:
  • To help your maths even more, please continue to learn your numbers facts, 6 + 8 = 14, 8 + 9 = 17.
  • The best way to do this is to simply have someone in your home quiz you with questions like (8 + 6, 6 + 5, 3 + 8, 5 + 9, etc)
  • Then get them to change the place value of these digits (0.8 + 0.6, 0.06 + 0.05, 0.5 + 0.9, etc)

• Sumdog (Times Tables A2 wk 6)

• Sumdog (Fractions, Decimals and Percentages)
  • This challenge will help cement the knowledge of equivalent fractions to decimals to percentages. Hopefully this task will be straight forward so we can build on this learning next week. Please get in touch if it becomes too tricky.

Maths Training

For further maths work, please visit the ‘Maths Training’ section which you can find in the tasks box on the left of the main screen. This will enable your child to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them, following the diagnostic test, which they completed in the first week of school.

Year 5 Blog Friday 2nd December 2022

Date: 2nd Dec 2022 @ 8:39am

Happy Friday and Happy December 

We have had a great week in Year 5. 

In English we have really enjoyed continuing our story Room 13. It is getting really scary now and we still haven't found out what is hidden inside Room 13. We have spent the week writing our own scary story about one of the characters from Room 13. She is called Ellie-May, she isn't the main character in Room 13 but she is in our stories. Everybody has done a really fantastic job at using excellent vocabulary and different sentence structures to scare the reader. 

In maths we have been looking at angles. We have been measuring angles and also naming them as:

Acute angle - less than 90 degrees

Right angle - 90 degrees

Obtuse angle - more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees

Reflex angle - more than 180 degrees and less than 360 degrees

Your Sumdog challenge this week will give your more practice of angles. 

We made our Greek snacks in DT. The teamwork shown by everyone was incredible. The pitta breads made by everybody were delicious. We used lots of skills like chopping, slicing, mixing, weighing, measuring, kneading, rolling and shaping. 

Following on from our DT learning about Greek food, we continued with our history topic about Ancient Greece. This week we were looking at Ancient Greece on a timeline and comparing it with the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. We have already started to identify some similarities. We then looked at some of the Greek myths and legends including Hercules. We watched some of the movie whilst making notes, we read some books about Greek myths and legends and then we wrote our own version of the story of Hercules. One thing we all noticed was that there are many different variations of the Greek myths and legends. We understand that this is because the stories were told thousands of years ago and passed on verbally. We can't wait to learn more about Ancient Greece - we are especially excited to learn about the history of the Olympics. 

Home Practice 

Reading

Read out loud to somebody every night for 20 minutes. Speak about what has happened and what you think will happen next. 

Spelling

You have brought your spellings home this week. See if you can spot any patterns in the spellings and find any more spellings which follow the same patterns. 

Practise your spellings in a different way each night. Use the strategies we do in class. 

graph          graphics          autograph          automobile          automatic          headphones          microphone         

      telescope          television          telegram          telepathy          position          solution 

Counting

Count out loud in:

2.5s from 0 to 25                    2.5       5       7.5        ...

6s from 0 to 60                        6         12       18       ...

7s back from 84 to 0                84       77       70       ...

Times Tables

Please practise all of your times tables this week. If there is a particular one you find difficult, focus on that one. 

Sumdog

There are 3 Sumdog challenges to complete:

Spelling

Maths

Times tables 

Have a fantastic weekend 

Year 3 Friday Blog 2nd December 2022

Date: 1st Dec 2022 @ 9:13pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog!

We have had a brilliant week in Year 3. Everyone was a amazing on Thursday afternoon at our Advent parent assembly. Well Done Year 3!

This week we have also enjoyed reading The Postbox Mystery by Robert Swindells. We have been working hard on our sentence writing this week and added some more pieces to our Proud Wall. 

In maths we have been looking at division and been practising our grid method learning from last week. Well done to everyone who has been practising these at home. There has been some great understanding and explanations in our class this week!

In PE we have been learning some new hockey skills including passing, dribbling and trapping the ball. This is part of our invasion games learning. Have a look at our gallery here.

In RE we started our new topic for Advent. It is called Visitors will look at family, preparations and the Christmas story.

We also revisited our computing learning on Friday. We learned how to use onion skinning to make our animations run smoothly. Next week, can we have some toy models to create our final stop frame animations. Two characters and one prop max. This can be a toy car or a train or small setting.

Home Learning

Continue to read regularly for 15-20 minutes every day. Here is a helpful poster for ways you can help your child with their reading.

Maths - We have set 2 Sumdog challenges. One looking at the relationship between multiplication and division and one on our x8 times tables. We can see lots of regular practice is going on at home and it is making a huge difference for everyone in our maths lessons. 

Have a look at our counting by 8 song here.

Your home spellings this week are...

playtime     birthday       breakfast     ballroom      cupcake     chairman    

sunflower        dishcloth    doorway     patchwork

We will be learning how to use words we know to spell compound words. Practise these on Sumdog or by having a go of some of them activities on your spelling sheet.

In school we have been learning how to use syllables more effectively in our writing and looking carefully when we spell our words. We are seeing a great improvement in our spelling. Well done Year 3!

Unfortunately we have had an issue with our printer in school and are unable to print out the spellings and maths sheets. We will send these out on Monday.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Year 1 Blog - Friday 2nd December 2022

Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 3:47pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

English

This week we have been learning through the story of Bob and his best ever friend. His friend is an alien dog called Barry. We drew and described some alien pets-we got ideas from a fabulous picture of the pet shop Bob visits. We wrote captions about all the things Bob and his pet could do together. We also made posters advertising Bob's trips to the moon.

Maths

We have started to learn about fractions and used our existing knowledge of part-whole models to understand them. We learnt that fractions are made up of parts and whole and that these parts are usually of equal size. We starting exploring halves in shapes.

Phonics

We have been learning alternative pronunciations, a as in alien and a as in was. We already know a as in act.

R.E.

We started our 'waiting' topic and explored the meaning of waiting - is it hard or easy? Then we wrote about a time that we have had to wait and then learnt about the liturgical calendar in relation to Advent.

P.S.H.E.

We read an interesting story about about some billy goats who used their phones to intimidate a troll. We learnt that it was a twist on the Three Billy Goats story. We talked about how it was not a good choice to be mean and how our actions have consequences. We wrote our own postitive texts, that included messages such as "you are amazing" and "I am sorry, please could I be your friend?".

D.T.

We finished planning our Christmas card by writing the instructions that we will need to follow. We then wrote the messages to go inside our cards. We thought really carefully about the message and who we would like to give our card to!

Science

We built upon our knowledge from the past few weeks and learnt about how certain animals grow and change. We learnt about life cycles, especially that of a butterfly, and compared it to a human's life. We then drew our own examples of life cycles.

Computing

Our next artist focus was Georges Seurat. We learnt that his artwork was wholly made up of dots. We had a go at creating our own digital sunflower using just the paintbrush and adding dots. It was hard not to use the fill button on our paintings!

Art

We painted our own Christmas trees using the style used by Helen Frankenthaler. We learnt that our painting didn't have to be perfect - it will always be a work of art.

Outdoor learning

Our first session this week started with some active games to keep us warm! We then went on a Winter scavenger hunt. We looked for lichen on a tree, a hole in a tree, a leaf skeleton, a tree stump and shadows amongst other things-we are getting really good at spotting changes.

Our second session started with some free play in the nature area. Everyone had amazing ideas for games and we showed  great imagination and co-operation.

We then revisited an activity we have tried before- making obstacle courses! We used what learnt last time and made really challlenging courses which involved balancing, jumping, running and throwing. Great team work was shown and medals were awarded-made of sticks and leaves of course!

Santa Dash

We had great fun doing our santa dash. The children all looked amazing. Please send in your sponsor money.

Nativity

We are looking forward to performing our nativity in church next Tuesday. We have been trying so hard to learn the songs and actions.

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - high frequency words OR ow words

Maths - halves

Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.

Please read every night for at least 10 minutes.

Year 6 Blog Friday 25th November 2022

Date: 25th Nov 2022 @ 4:08pm

Welcome to Year 6 weekly blog.

We have had a fabulous week getting back to our curriculum, following Robinwood last week. As we had missed one of our sports journalist sessions, Gareth Walker came for an extra visit to help us understand how an editor edits a journalist’s work before we then created our own. We will be using what we have learnt to help create articles for the upcoming Learning Times.

Our learning this week included:

• In Maths, we have learnt to use bar models to find percentages of numbers and continue to use the grid method for up to four-digit by two-digit numbers.
• In English, we have read more of our novel, Private Peaceful, and inferred main characters words and actions to help us write in role.
• In PE, we focused on net/wall and gymnastics this week. In net/wall, we introduced the children to using better accuracy with the sport of table tennis. In gymnastics, we used the paired sequences from last week and applied them to different apparatus focusing on good transitions and slow and accurate movements.
• In History, we began our new topic on World War I with an introduction of how it started and who was involved. Out topic will delve into what life was like for people living during this time.
• In RE, we looked at the expectations of ourselves now and in the future, what expectations we have of others, and what it’s like when people let others down.
• In French, we used a dictionary to look up the meanings of adverbs of frequency (sometimes, always, never etc) then we read some sentences about the climate in different seasons in the Alps and in Marseille - two contrasting locations in France. Some of us were able to continue by writing about the climate in England in French - fantastique! 
• In Science, to hone our working scientifically skills, we looked at some investigation plans and worked out what kind of graph the scientists would draw to show their results. We then recapped our learning about Classification as we are coming to the end of this topic. Finally, we looked at the food we set up to grow mould last week and checked to see if our predictions were correct. 
• In Design and Technology, we began our new topic of sewing by evaluating last year’s products before designing our own, which we will create in the coming weeks.

Home Practice

Please try to complete the following tasks by next Wednesday:

Reading – Please read up to 30 minutes a night and complete your reading task.

• You may change your book any day between Monday and Wednesday

Spellings 

• Sumdog (A2 wk 5 -ent, -ence)
  • persistent, persistence, violent, violence, intelligent, intelligence, inconvenient, inconvenience, obedient, obedience, conference, difference, conscience, reference, excitement

Maths challenges:

• Counting:
  • This week we have been counting in decimal steps.
  • Draw a line with some marks on it like I do in class.
  • Start with these numbers: 7.5, 3.9, 25.4 and count up 10 times then back again in 0.7:

7.5, 8.2, 8.9, 9.6, 10.1 etc

and in 2.5:

7.5, 10, 12.5, 15, 17.5, etc

• Number facts:
  • To help your maths even more, please continue to learn your numbers facts, 7 + 8 = 15, 4 + 7 = 11.
  • The best way to do this is to simply have someone in your home quiz you with questions like (8 + 6, 6 + 5, 3 + 8, 5 + 9, etc)
  • Then get them to change the place value of these digits (0.8 + 0.6, 0.06 + 0.05, 0.3 + 0.8, etc)

• Sumdog (Times Tables A2 wk 5)

• Sumdog (Adding and subtracting fractions)
  • This challenge will help to cement the learning we have done with adding and subtracting fractions. Try to work through them quickly as they now should be easier to answer. Let me know if you find this tricky and we can work on this together.

Maths Training

For further maths work, please visit the ‘Maths Training’ section which you can find in the tasks box on the left of the main screen. This will enable your child to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them, following the diagnostic test, which they completed in the first week of school.

Year 2 Blog Friday 25th November 2022

Date: 25th Nov 2022 @ 4:05pm

Another great week in Year 2, the time is going by so quickly! We have started to prepare for our Nativity Play already. The children have been amazing, learning the songs/actions and acting out their parts so confidently. In English, we read The Sand Horse by Ann Turnbull and the stories about sand creature adventures that Year 2 wrote were really fantastic. Everyone has been trying to use more exciting adjectives to describe things in more detail. We have finished our topic on multiplication and we are moving on to tables and graphs in Maths. In RE, we learnt about the Advent Wreath and what the different parts symbolise. In Computing, the children are learning about digital photography and they took careful photos of objects/people around the classroom. In French, they focussed on the words for parts of our face and even began to read in French too - managing to read the correct colours and body parts for the worksheet. Tres bien!

Click here to see some Outdoor learning photos

Reading

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

Please date, sign and leave a small comment when you have read with your child and make it clear that you have finished a book, then we know we can change it. For Example - 14.11.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or finished the book. MG.

Reading books are changed every Wednesday. You will receive 2-4 books depending on their length, they should last the week, if you read a little each night. However, if you need to change a book at any other time, we will change it as needed.

Reading resources:

Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read and really enjoy it.

If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’. You could also explore the rest of the site and read books from the Oxford Owl eBook library or listen to audio books.

Username: sto2

Password: 1234

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - https://www.literacyshedblog.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/ks1_reading_vipers.pdf

In addition to this, reading a good bed time story to your child is so worthwhile and really helps towards a lifelong love of reading.

Spelling

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (02.12.22). A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by Friday 02.12.22.

It has been brought to my attention that occasionally the spellings game can cut off. This is a minor tech issue, if this happens and you have completed your work, there is no need to do it again. 

This week’s spellings:

relax              thief

record            only    

dream              she

speed               key

swede               great

Maths

At home, count forwards and backwards in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. Play the ‘follow me’ game. Start at different numbers and speed up for more of a challenge.

You will have a 2x, 5x and 10x tables and an array/repeated addition challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 02.12.22.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Remember coats and wellies for Forest School!

Please sing Nativity songs at home and do the actions that you can remember!

Sponsored Santa Dash next Friday 2^nd December.

Library visit on Tuesday 29^th November.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.

Year 4 Blog Friday 25th November 2022

Date: 25th Nov 2022 @ 3:44pm

Year 4 Blog

Friday 25^th November 2022

Welcome to your Friday blog. Here’s what we have been learning this week:

In English, we created our own ‘Wanted’ poster for the Iron Man. We tried to include lots of description, so that he could be easily identified. Have a look at some of our posters in the gallery. We also wrote a diary extract as if we were Hogarth when he enticed the Iron Man into the pit.  We felt very guilty for our actions and tried to explain this in our diary account.

In Maths, we learnt how to multiply by 10 and 100.  We used counters and place value charts to demonstrate the digits getting either 10 or 100 times larger.  In addition, we learnt how to multiply using compensating (eg using 20 x 6 to help calculate 19 x 6).

In French, we practised saying some words with the an/en sound and we continued to learn the verb etre, to be by listening and reading

We made simple electrical circuits in science this week and tried to problem solve when they didn’t work. We now understand that a complete circuit is needed for a component to work. You can see some pictures here. To extend our learning, we also drew a picture of the circuit in our books.

In PE we practised our hockey skills. We got into pairs and practised stopping the ball and pushing it back. We also practised dribbling the ball around a cone and then passing it back to our partner. Following this, we took part in a mini competition which involved dribbling a ball, turning around a cone, dribbling back and passing to our partner. This was very competitive! 

In Computing, we practised recording sound and editing it.  We also discussed what makes a good audio recording so that we could make improvements to our work.

In Geography we started our new topic ‘Climate Change’. Throughout this topic, we will be learning what climate change is and how it affects different environments (eg a local area, oceans and glaciers).  We started the topic by looking at atlases and finding the position of the Equator, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the Prime Meridian and the Arctic and Antarctic Circle. We then labelled these on our own maps.  Next, we located the North and South Poles and briefly discussed any differences we would see on the map.  

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you discuss the story and the characters.  Find the meaning of any new words too.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding. 

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 6’s and 9’s as many of you are finding this tricky.

For example, start at 0 and count up to 72 and back again

0   6   12   18     etc                            72   66   60   etc

Start at 0 and count up to 108 and back again 

0   9   18   27     etc                             108   99   81   etc

Now have a go at this, still adding 9 (Tip – add 10 and subtract 1).

Start at 56 and count to 155 and back again

56   65   74   etc                                 155   146   137  etc                      

Times tables

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week on Wednesday (30^th November 2022). Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?

Remember you can also practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

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

Spellings

Your spellings next week are all from the Year 3 / 4 Tricky words list.  You will be given a paper copy home on Monday and we will practise these in class during the week.  Your test will be on Friday 2^nd December 2022.

caught         experiment            increase       particular    separate

certain        extreme                interest       peculiar       special

complete      famous                  island           potatoes      thought

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A times tables challenge based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables
• A challenge based on multiplying by 10 and 100, as well as using known facts to work out other multiplications (eg 30 x 6, use 3 x 6 = 18, then multiply by 10)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  Little and often is the key to success!

Have a great weekend

The Year 4 Team

Reception Blog - Friday 25th November 2022

Date: 25th Nov 2022 @ 12:38pm

This week we have been having lots of fun going to the Circus with Ninja Nan.

As this has been our story of the week we have talked about all the different acts that Ninja Nan saw at the circus and had a fabulous go at writing about them. We have drawn some lovely pictures.

In Maths we have been learning about repeating patterns and enjoyed using interactive games for this. Also we have been measuring different objects with cubes and discussing which is longer and shorter. 

We have looked at toys from the past and how they are different from the ones we have today and even that some toys we have today have been around for a very long time! From this we are going to make our own toys, therefore we have planned what we want to make and what we will use. If you have any junk modelling things at home please bring them in next week. For example: boxes, tubes, egg boxes, lids etc. 

Year 3 Friday Blog 25th November

Date: 24th Nov 2022 @ 8:55pm

Happy Friday!

This week we have finished reading the Ice Palace and really enjoyed the ending. Here are some examples of the fantastic writing we have done from the story. Next week we are reading another Robert Swindell's novel, The Postbox Mystery. We will be exploring news papers and writing some articles.

In our maths learning this week we have been learning the grid method and everyone picked it up really quickly. Super listening was the key! We did find that not knowing our times tables fluently slowed us down a little but we are definitely getting quicker and more accurate. We have sent home some grid method practice to help embed this learning.

In our RE learning we have been completed our Promises topic. In this learning we explored Baptism and the role of parents and Godparents. Everyone contributed to these lessons and shared some lovely thoughts on their own experiences. Well done Year 3!

As part of our PSHE learning on keeping ourselves safe, we have been exploring how to prevent the spread of germs. We had a great discussion and learned some reasons why we need to wash our hands and bin our tissues.

In our Science, we used our results from our pattern seeking investigation last week to work out what they told us. We wrote what we had found out. After this, we recapped all our learning so far about bones and muscles. Next week we will move on to find out how invertebrates move without a skeleton like ours. Mrs Qulliam was very impressed with our knowledge adn ideas.

In French, we practised saying some words with the an/en sound and we continued to learn the verb etre, to be by listening and reading. Our language leaders have done a great job this week at asking everyone the french question in the mornings. Fantastique!

Next week we invite you to come to our Advent assembly. We have sent home some words to learn and you can use the songs below to practise together.

Home Practice

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

Well done to everyone who completed their Sumdog challenges and even had some time to practise on the Sumdog Training. Three new challenges have been added today. Remember, little and often every night will benefit your children with their learning in school.

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

We have given out your spellings to practice for next week's test. We are looking at the -al and -il spelling pattern next week. In our spelling lessons this week we have been revisiting our spelling strategies. We have been stretching our words into sounds to help us spell more accurately and using what we already know to spell new words.

Here are your spellings for this week.

petal      mental       pedal       cereal      hospital      pencil      devil     anvil      gerbil       pupil

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 1 Blog- Friday 25th November 2022

Date: 24th Nov 2022 @ 10:16am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

English

This week we have been learning through the story of Bob. He is an astronaut but he doesn't believe in aliens - they don't exist.......do they?

We have been writing in sentences. We have tried really hard to use finger spaces, our own ideas and to make sure our writing is on the line. We have also been really careful with our handwriting so that our writing looks beautiful on the page.

We also visited Year 3 to read our Traction Man books. The children and Mr Campbell were really impressed. The Year 3 children gave useful and thoughtful feedback.

Phonics

We have been learning about alternative pronunciations, ch as in Christmas, ch as in chef. We already know ch as in chunk.

Maths

We have been learning about repeating patterns. We have been describing the patterns and finding the part that is repeated. We have also been sorting objects using different criteria.

R.E.

We learnt about Jesus' baptism in the River Jordan. We answered some tricky questions about it and some of us even acted it out during choosing time!

P.E.

We are now half way through our robot dance. We split off into groups and began thinking of ideas for our dances. We worked so well together!

P.S.H.E.

We compared two families and wrote about how they are the same and different.

D.T.

We looked at the DT Christmas cards from last year and talked about how they were made. We then planned our own cards - how they were going to move, what they will look like and what we need to make it.

I.C.T.

Our next artist focus was Kandinsky. We made our own circles on the iPads, it was a bit trickier than using the laptops!

Science

We read lots of fact files about animals and their diets. We then sorted them into whether they were a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. We were so impressed with their knowledge!

History

We sorted toys into 'new' and 'old'. We drew our own pictures in our books.

Outdoor Learning

Nearly every time we go out for our learning we see a robin on the fence. This lead us to a discussion about birds around school and where they find food in Winter. We made bird feeders using lard, meal worms, bird seed, raisins and oats. We had fun mixing it together!. We also practised tying knots in string so that we could hang the feeders on a tree.

In our second session we went for a walk to find places to hang our bird feeders. We also noticed some more changes-some of the trees have hardly any leaves left so we could see the nests. We also saw a few trees with unusual bark on them so we are going to try to identify them. For the last part of this session we all got a special listening stone out of a velvet bag. The stone helps us to listen as we feel its smoothness. We lay on a tarp to just listen and look at the clouds as they changed shape.

Click here to see some photos

Music

We have continued to learn the songs for the nativity. This will be in church on Tuesday 6th December. All costumes will be provided by school.

French

We began to learn the words for pet animals. We sang songs, played games using these words and listened to our favourite story, Aboie Georges about a dog who has lost his bark because he has swallowed all sorts of different animals!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - Split digraph u_e OR oo (book) words

Maths - True or false questions

Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.

Year 5 Blog Friday 25th November

Date: 23rd Nov 2022 @ 9:39am

Happy Friday

Welcome to your Friday Blog 

We have had another fantastic week in Year 5. 

On Monday we planned our own Greek snack in DT. We decided which snack we wanted to make and then found out which ingredients and utensils we would need and the steps we would follow to make our Greek snack. As a class we decided to make our own pitta breads. Everybody then decided what they wanted to have with their pitta bread. We will make our Greek snack next week! Yum! Don't forget to bring any extra ingredients you want for your Greek snack on Monday. 

We started our new History topic this week. It is called Ancient Greece. We first spoke about what we already know about Anicent Greece. Then we looked at modern Greece - where it is located and what it is like. Finally we looked at Anicent Greece on a map. It looks different to modern Greece. We can't wait to find out more about Ancient Greece. 

We have been doing lots of map work this week to celebrate the start of the World Cup. Each day we have used a world map in an atlas to locate and talk about the countries that have played matches each day. We spoke about the continent, capital city, bordering countries, surrounding seas and oceans, size, distance from Qatar, etc. 

In French, we began to learn the vocabulary associated with breakfast in France. We also recapped the pronouns je, tu, il, elle, nous, ready to move on to our first verb conjugation next week!

In English we have been reading more of Room 13. We have used some ideas from the book and our own imagination to plan and write our very own story! Everybody really enjoyed using their own ideas and creativity. The focus was to split the writing into paragraphs and to try to include lots of description and some dialogue (speech). 

In maths we have been learning about statistics. We started by learning about discrete data and answering questions from tables and bar charts. Then we learnt about continuous data and aswered questions from tables and line graphs. Your Sumdog challenge this week will give you the opportunity to practise what you have learned. 

Home Practice 

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes every night. Try to answer these questions:

What has happened so far?

What are the characters feeling?

What will happen next?

Why has the author chosen these words? 

Spelling

You have all chosen your own spellings this week. Make sure you practise them every day. 

Counting

Count backwards:

In 10s from 757.33 to 657.33                     757.33     747.33     737.33     ...

In 0.1s from 19.35 to 18.35                        19.35      19.25         19.15      ...

In 10,000s from 631,246 to 531,246          631,246     621,246      611,246     ...

Times Tables

You have been given a new tables target. Please make sure you practise every day. You need to know your tables quickly and confidently. 

Sumdog

Complete the Sumdog challenges. These are essential as they practise the skills you need in maths and English lessons. 

There are 3 challenges:

Maths

Times tables

Spelling - these will be some of the words you need to know by the end of Year 5. 

DT

We will be making our Greek snacks on Monday. 

Please remember to bring in the ingredients and utensils you need. 

Year 2 Blog Friday 18th November 2022

Date: 18th Nov 2022 @ 4:09pm

Year 2 looked great wearing spots for Children in Need Day. We did some Pudsey Bear themed arts, crafts and movement activities (PE). In English, we have done a lot of writing, we retold a story called Wing and wrote our own version of Whatever Next! By Jill Murphy. In Maths, we started our new topic on counting, multiplication and sorting. The children have been doubling numbers and looking at repeated addition. We have completed the Signs and Symbols topic in R.E by designing a Baptism candle. In History, we compared jobs now, with jobs back in 1666. We looked specifically at how different the firefighter’s equipment was. The children are starting to learn their Christmas songs in Music, they have been singing beautifully! In French, they recapped numbers to 15 with a game then recapped parts of the body by singing tete, epaules, genoux, pieds (head, shoulders, knees and toes). Year 2 also labelled a skeleton in French, noticing that French words don't always look like they sound and that some words have accents that change the sound of the letter. The Freddie Fit session was the highlight of the week and the children thoroughly enjoyed the music and exercise.

Reading

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

Please date, sign and leave a small comment when you have read with your child and make it clear that you have finished a book, then we know we can change it. For Example - 14.09.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or finished the book. MG.

Reading books are changed every Wednesday. You will receive 2-4 books depending on their length, they should last the week, if you read a little each night. However, if you need to change a book at any other time, we will change it as needed.

Reading resources:

Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read and really enjoy it.

If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’. You could also explore the rest of the site and read books from the Oxford Owl eBook library or listen to audio books.

Username: sto2

Password: 1234

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - https://www.literacyshedblog.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/ks1_reading_vipers.pdf

In addition to this, reading a good bed time story to your child is so worthwhile and really helps towards a lifelong love of reading.

Spelling

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (25.11.22). A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by Friday 25.11.22.

This week’s spellings:

leader              brief

cleaner             penny    

even                  donkey

delete                I’m

shriek                I’ll

Maths

At home, count forwards and backwards in 2’s to 24. Write the numbers down to see the pattern. Notice how the answers are the same as the 2x table. When you multiply by 2 you are also doubling the number. For example 2x6=12 and double 6 is 12.

You will have a 2x, 5x and 10x tables and doubling challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 25.11.22.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Remember coats and wellies for Forest School!

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.

Year 3 Friday Blog 18th November 2022

Date: 18th Nov 2022 @ 4:06pm

Happy Friday everyone!

We have had a brilliant week this week! We have had a visit from Freddie Fit and been singing lots in preparation for our Advent assembly in two weeks!

In our English we are really enjoying the Ice Palace. It has been a bit spooky and strange but has everyone on the edge of their seat. We have just arrived at Starjik's Palace and we meet him next week! We have been using words and phrases from the story to improve our writing and everyone has written some amazing pieces. We will share some of these next week.

In our Maths we have been learning how to use our times tables to solve problems and and how to sort numbers into Carroll and Venn diagrams. The children are showing great understanding and their explanations are improving every day.

As part of our Big Draw Art, we have been revisiting our collage making skills. We looked at all the countries taking part in the World Cup and looked at their flags. We then used coloured paper to recreate the flags, including some intricate designs. They've turned out brilliantly!

This week in our PSHE learning, we have been exploring how we can keep ourselves safe at home. We listened to some scenarios and assessed the risk they posed. We had some fantastic discussions and very sensible answers. Everyone was able to describe risks they have noticed and how they can keep themselves safe. Well done Year 3!

This year we have been looking at diversity in our Wonderful World assemblies. We listen to a story that makes us think about others in our world and then respond in our own class book. Everyone has enjoyed these stories and written some some thoughtful ideas. Here is a peak at our class book.

On Tuesday, We were visited by Freddie Fit! He put us through our paces and reminded us all about how to keep healthy and stay fit. Have a look here.

Home Practice

Continue to read every night for at least 20 minutes. 

This week in our spelling we have been practising words that have the or, aw,au,al, oor, ore sounds. We talked about how we can spot patterns to help us remember how to spell these words and to look carefully when writing them.

Here are your spellings for this week!

record     enormous    dinosaur     assault     hawk     squawk    floor     door     score   ignore     chalk     wall

We have also been learning about possessive apostrophes and when to use them!

For your maths challenges we have included a mix of x3 and x4 times tables and some number fact practice. We are seeing a huge improvement in number fluency lately. Keep up the regular practising.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team 

Year 4 Blog Friday 18th November 2022

Date: 18th Nov 2022 @ 3:50pm

Year 4 Blog

Friday 18^th November 2022

Welcome to this week’s blog. Another super week of learning in Year 4 which included a visit from Freddie Fit – you can see some photos in our gallery.

Here’s what we have been learning this week:

In English, we started our new novel - The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.  We made predictions about the book by looking carefully at different front covers and reading the blurb on the back.  We also discussed which descriptive phrases we liked in Chapter 1 and their impact and effect on the reader.  Following this, we rewrote the first Chapter from The Iron Man’s point of view as his body parts reconnected. Everyone was very proud of their work and used lots of vocabulary and ideas from the novel.

In Maths, we finished our addition and subtraction topic and moved onto multiplication. We started the topic by using arrays to help understand multiplication facts for the 9 and 11 times tables. Next, we used arrays to identify what the term factor means.  Arrays and multiplication squares were  then used to find all the factor pairs of a given number.  This new learning was tricky to start with, but with perseverance we have hopefully mastered it! You can see some pictures in our gallery.

In RE, we finished our ‘Belonging’ topic.  We watched a two video clips so that we could understand what happens at Confirmation, and discussed the people present and some of the key points (eg the anointing, the blessing and the name.)  We also considered what it means to ‘live in the light’ and how at Confirmation, people promise to try and turn away from what is wrong and follow in God’s light.

We started our new Science topic this week – Electricity. First, we discussed what electricity is, how it is made and what it is converted into (light, heat, sound and movement).  We then classified different appliances according to whether they run on mains electricity or batteries. We also learnt about the dangers of electricity and designed posters to warn children about the different ways it can be dangerous. These are going to be judged by a local electrician – we look forward to hearing what he says!   

In PE we split into 2 groups. Whilst one group learnt hockey skills with Mrs Cookson, the other revised different balances and travel movements with Mrs Tipping.  The children then put together a short sequence which combined balances and travel movements.  They will be adding to this sequence over the coming weeks. You can see some photos here.

We made Clips videos in our PSHE session to demonstrate how to be more resilient and highlight how to ‘reframe’ unhelpful thinking.  We were given a scenario and acted it out twice. The first time demonstrating what unhelpful thinking might look like, and the second time showing how to reframe the thinking in a positive way.

In Art, we continued creating our own mosaic design and also made flags using paper and creating a collage.  We discussed the countries taking part in the World Cup and then chose one we wanted to collage. These will be hung up in the hall so everyone can see our work.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you discuss the story and the characters.  Find the meaning of any new words too.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding. 

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 9’s.

For example, start at 0 and count up to 108 and back again 

0   9   18   27     etc                             108   99   81   etc

Times tables

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week on Wednesday (23^rd November 2022). Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?

Remember you can also practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

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

Spellings

Here are your spellings for this week.  You have also brought a paper copy home with you, so that you can practise these during the week.  Please remember to use neat joined up writing and check them very carefully once you have written them! We will be practising these spellings in class too. Your test will be on Friday 25^th November 2022.

they            weigh           eight           grey             sleigh

young           touch           blood           trouble        country

does            chef            brochure      parachute    machine

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A times tables challenge based on the 9 times tables
• A challenge based on multiplication arrays and the 3, 4 and 8 times tables

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  Little and often is the key to success!

Have a great weekend

The Year 4 Team

Reception Blog - Friday 18th November 2022

Date: 18th Nov 2022 @ 1:05pm

We have had another fabulous week doing Supertato this week!

On Monday we got a video message from the police asking for our help to catch the evil pea. All this week he has been causing mischief in our classroom, from trapping vegetables under things, to sticking them to the table. We have been detectives going round the classroom looking for clues to capture him and we have made wanted posters, desribing what evil pea looks like. On Friday we found him in the school kitchen! Trapped in a block of ice! We have also made our own Supertato's and made up our own stories!

On Tuesday we had a visit from Freddy Fit, he talked to us about keeping healthy and we did a PE lesson with him.

In Maths this week we have been learning about 2D shapes. We have been sorting them and making pictures with them. We also went around school looking for different objects that are like 2D shapes.

We have started our new topic on Birthdays and celebrations in RE. If you have some photos of celebrations the children have been too recently, please could you send them in for us to show to one another.

Continuing our topic of people who help us, we have been learning about the Police and what they do and we have made our own England flag, getting us ready for the World Cup starting on Sunday!

Next week our story is based around the circus!

Have a lovely weekend Reception and we will see you next week. 

Year 6 Blog Friday 18th November 2022

Date: 18th Nov 2022 @ 10:50am

Welcome to Year 6 weekly blog.

This week has been our fabulous residential to Robinwood in Todmorden. We all had a super time. Click the link - Robinwood 2022 – to see some of the pictures. Also, look out for our Robinwood video coming soon on our YouTube channel, St Oswald's TV .

Our highlights included:

• Accurately firing an arrow in archery
• Crawling through tight spaces in caving
• Using our strength and coordination to combat indoor climbing
• Finding the courage to release the wire on the giant swing
• Working together creatively to solve the dungeon challenge
• Using our senses to navigate through the night line blind folded
• Developing great communication skills to solve the quest challenge
• Building confidence to head down the large zip wire

The children have been a credit to the school this week and we hope to build on the 12 qualities learnt at Robinwood:

Responsibility, cooperation, confidence, resilience,

Patience, respect, support, listening,

Developing skills, problem solving, encouragement, communication

Our learning continued on Thursday and Friday with:

• Maths – we have learnt to accurately use the grid method effectively with large numbers and begun to find fractions of amounts.
• English – we learnt how to write a detailed letter so we could thank Robinwood for our fantastic time there.
• Science - we recapped what we learnt about microbes last week, then researched ways of preserving food to slow down the growth of microbes. We used this knowledge to predict which foods will grow mouldy the quickest, giving reasons for the order we predicted.  We will watch what happens to the various food items over the next few weeks!  Safety: All foods will be kept in sealed bags.
• Art – having researched the flags of the World Cup, we designed our own flag using the skill of cutting materials to make a collage.
• RE – we began our new topic of ‘Expectations’ where we discussed different scenarios, and the expectations we have of ourselves and what others expect.

Home Practice

Please try to complete the following tasks by next Wednesday:

Reading – Please read up to 30 minutes a night and complete your reading task.

• You may change your book any day between Monday and Wednesday

Spellings 

• Sumdog (A2 wk 4 -ant, -ance)
  • assistant, assistance, arrogant, relevant, important, importance, appearance, extravagant, hesitant, reluctant, nuisance, hindrance, ignorance, resistant, restaurant.

Maths challenges:

• Counting:
  • This week we have been counting in steps of: 20 000, 200 000 and x 2. Try to do the same out loud or with paper.

• Draw a line with some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.
• g. Start with 5 digit numbers and count up 10 times then back again in 20 000s:

43 654, 63 654, 83 654, 103 654, etc

and in 200 000s:

43 654, 243 654, 443 654, 643 654                

Start at a different number and count up 10 numbers and down again but this time in x2:

9, 18, 36, 72, 144, 288, 576, 1 152, etc    

• Sumdog (Times Tables A2 wk 4)

• Sumdog (Factor pairs linked to division)
  • Remember that a factor is a number that divides into a number, leaving no remainders. 42 ÷ 7 = 6 and 42 ÷ 6 = 7, so both 7 and 6 are factors of 42. In fact, 7 and 6 are factor pairs – which is what we have looked at these past few days.

Maths Training

For further maths work, please visit the ‘Maths Training’ section which you can find in the tasks box on the left of the main screen. This will enable your child to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them, following the diagnostic test, which they completed in the first week of school.

Year 1 Blog-Friday 18th November 2022

Date: 17th Nov 2022 @ 9:55am

Welcome to your Friday blog. Everyone looked brilliant dressed in their spots- thanks for supporting this cause.

English

We listened and discussed a new Traction Man story. In this story he got a new pet but it wasn't as good as Scrubbing Brush! We planned our own story and wrote a book! We are authors and illustrators! We will read the books to children in other classes when they are finished.

Traction Man. Click here.

Traction Man meets Turbo Dog. Click here.

Phonics

This week we continued to learn about alternative pronunciations, ea as in head and ie as in cookie.

Maths

We have been counting in 2s and 5s. We have been counting groups of objects in 2s and 5s. Please practise this at home, start at different numbers and go forwards as well as backwards.

We have also been checking that we are forming our numbers correctly.

R.E.

We learnt about the symbols used in a baptism. We learnt about the Holy water, oil, white gown, candle and the cross.

P.S.H.E.

We read the story - Giraffes can't dance. We learnt that the giraffe wanted to dance, even though his friends told him that he couldn't. He was special and chose to dance anyway! The moral of the story is - be you!

Art

We made our own world cup flags using collage and cutting skills. We concentrated so well!

See our pictures here.

Science

We sorted animals into different groups using the toy animals that we have in the classroom. Some of our ideas were - fur/no fur, tail/no tail and legs/no legs.

See our pictures here.

P.E.

We were amazing in PE! We started to plan our robot dance. We worked so well in our groups that we managed to create half of the dance. We will continue to practise next week.

If you want to listen to the music at home, click here.

D.T.

We made our own prototype of either a slider or lever. The Gingerbread Man was being chased by the character!

See our pictures here.

I.C.T.

We learnt about another artist this week - Henri Matisse. We focused on his 'The Snail' artwork and recreated it on the laptops. There were some great pictures.

History

We learnt about 'new' toys this week and compared them to the old toys from last week. We wrote about our favourite toy and shared them with each other.

See our pictures here.

Yellow table did not have chance to play with their toy, so please bring it back in on Monday!

Outdoor Learning

The first session this week was about making shelters for small woodland creatures. Each team had a soft toy animal which we made a cosy and safe shelter for. We used all the available natural materials and found a way of getting moss of the paths to create a soft surface. We described our shelters to the rest of the group. Excellent team work, communication, imagination, resilience and creativity was shown.

Our second session was all about mini beasts and worms. We had a go at worm charming to see if we could get worms to come to the surface by vibrating the ground. We also looked under the logs to see what other creatures we could find. We talked about how we find different creatures at different times of the year.

PLEASE SEND IN A PAIR OF NAMED WELLIES WHICH WILL STAY IN SCHOOL IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY.

Thank you

French

 We recapped numbers to 12 with a game then we recapped parts of the body by singing tete, epaules, genoux, pieds (head, shoulders, knees and toes) and a game. We finished with the story of Grand Monstre Vert - Big Green Monster. 

Music

We have been practising the songs for our Nativity!

We also got out the boomwhackers and played them. We are getting really good at playing when it's our turn.

Freddy Fit

We had a brilliant session with Freddy. He put us all through our paces and we all had great fun! We all showed him our fabulous golden listening.

 Freddy also talked to us about the importance of eating healthily, drinking enough water and getting plenty of sleep. 

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - split digraph o_e OR oo words

Maths - doubling

Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.

Please read every night for at least 10 minutes- it really makes all the difference!

Year 5 Blog Friday 18th November

Date: 16th Nov 2022 @ 7:18pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog. 

We have had a great week. It was amazing to see the Year 5 children step up to the responsibility of being the oldest children in school whilst Year 6 were on their trip to Robin Wood. Some of the Year 5 children were buddies to help the infants and everybody set a great example to the younger children.

It was great to see everybody in spots on Friday to raise money for Children in Need. 

In geography this week we learnt about land use and natural resources in the UK. We spoke about which of these natural resources are in danger of running out and which we have plenty of like wind to use in wind turbines. We also started to prepare for the World Cup by making flags of the different countries taking part. We will learn more about each country throughout the World Cup. 

In French, we completed our learning on telling the time. The children have done so well with this. It has been a pleasure to watch their confidence grow over the last few weeks. Please keep practising at home to retain this skill - there are lots of games on time, but also other topics here: https://www.french-games.net/frenchtopics

We have been very active this week. First of all we had Freddy Fit on Tuesday afternoon, he was so impressed with our sporting skills and also our behaviour and manners. You can see us being active here. Then on Wednesday we went swimming in our shorts and tshirt. We learnt how to save ourselves if we were ever in danger in water. On Thursday we had PE. We did a dodgeball tournament, it was great!

In maths we have been using the formal written method (column method) to subtract numbers with up to five digits and numbers with two decimal places. Everybody has done a fantastic job. We then used this method to solve problems, everybody was extremely resilient and motivated and some children even spent their lunch times determined to solve a problem. You can see us problem solving here. 

Next week in maths we will be looking at statistics, including bar charts and line graphs, and also looking at angles in shapes. We will continue to practise counting and our times tables. 

We have been reading Room 13 in English. The main character Fliss finds herself alone in the hotel, she is the only one awake. We have been writing our own stories about Fliss in the hotel on her own at night time. We have been focussing on writing in paragraphs, including speech, and describing in lots of detail to create an image in the reader's mind. We have also been sorting words into their different word classes including noun, adjective, adverb, verb, determiner, pronoun, conjunction, article and preposition. It is important that we know what each of these words means and that we can form sentences using these different types of words. You can see us learning about word classes here. 

Home Practice

Reading

Read at home every night for 20 minutes. Look out for ways characters and settings are described. Try to find some good words and sentences to include in your own writing. 

Spellings

Your spellings this week have the prefix co- and re-. Some of the spellings have a hyphen separating the prefix and the root word. 

The prefix co- means together, jointly, in partner with or mutually. 

The prefix re- means again, back or repetition. 

Here are your spellings:

co-operate          co-own          co-ordinate          re-enter          re-emerge          coexist          reinvent          retell 

    retell          reignite          re-educate          re-examine          re-enter          reactive          rearrange          reapply 

Counting 

Count out loud in:

100s from 12,397 to 13,397                   12,397     12,497     12,597     ...

1,000s from 608,912 to 618,912            608,912     609,912     610,912     ...

10,000s from 751,832 to 851,832           751,832     761,832     771,832     ...

Sumdog

Complete the Sumdog Challenges:

Maths Challenge

Multiplication Practice

Spelling Challenge 

Research

Next week we are going to write magazine articles all about a famous person. Please choose a famous person you are interested in and find out about them. You might research things like:

What are they famous for?

When and where were they born?

Where did they study?

What was their childhood like?

What are their hobbies?

Who is in their family?

Have an amazing weekend and well done for such a fantastic week!