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Year 2 Blog Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 8:40am

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 (19.09.25):

said, are, the, was, his, today, is, were, has and you.

Sumdog: Complete the 'Place Value - Tens and Ones' challenge.

English

Burglar Bill

We have been learning through the story of Burglar Bill.

We wrote him a letter telling him all about ourselves. We also made a poster.

In handwriting we have been learning how to form our letters with lead-ins.

Phonics

We have been revisiting ee as in tree, ea as in leaf, e-e as in Steve and y as in happy.

Maths

Place value - we have been learning how to represent 10s and 1s using different equipment. We have used Base 10, straws ,counters and cards.

R.E

Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed reading the story of Noah's Ark. Using pictures and sentences they retold the story brilliantly.

Computing

It was interesting to learn and understand what Information Technology (IT) is.

The children identified items/objects that were IT and were not IT. They drew pictures and labelled them so well.

Golden Assembly

Star-Arianna

Bookworm-Zac

Super Learner-Nelly

Mathematician-Joshua I.

Writer-Isabella

Special Mentions-Emma and Rhodes

Reception Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 8:36am

Welcome to the Reception Friday Blog!

We have done our second week in school and WOW, what a week. A big well done to everyone.

This week we have been listening to the story 'The Colour Monster,' each day we have focussed on a different emotion and we have spoken about a time we have felt that way.

We have had yoga with Hannah, Forest School with Mrs Corbett and Music with Mrs Campbell.

We have been matched up with our Year 6 buddies and we have had a buddy play.

Have a restful weekend and we will see you all next week, for week 3!

Please note our Meet the Teacher on Wednesday 17th September at 3.30pm - we look forward to seeing you all there.

Do not worry if you cannot make it - the presentation will be available on the website.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 10:18am

Welcome to the Year 6 Blog.

Year 6 have all enjoyed their first Friday play with their Reception buddies this week - well done Year 6 for being such amazing role models!

This week in Year 6

English

The Nowhere Emporium | The Occasional Bookwitch

For English, we have continued to be inspired by 'The Nowhere Emporium'. This week, we have been thinking about the character of Daniel and what we can infer about his thoughts and feelings. All of Year 6 wrote some amazing diary entries in role and worked hard to edit their writing. We also debated if the character of Lucien Silver would be good or evil using evidence that we could find in chapters 5 and 6.

Maths

Rounding 4th Grade Quiz | Wayground (formerly Quizizz)

This week we have continued to improve our place value knowledge in Maths. We have learned how to round whole numbers up to 10,000,00 and decimals with up to three decimal places. We have also learned how to find powers of 10 more than and less than a given number.

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In RE we have continued to focus on the second story of creation. Together, we have explored the symbolic meaning of the story and understood what important message it teaches us. We have learned that this story teaches us that we need to live in a community with each other. We also discussed what original sin is and how we can sometimes be tempted by things!

Topic

In Year 6, we are really enjoying our new WW2 topic! This week we compared Germany in 1937 to Germany today. We also learned about the differences between a democracy and a dictatorship and investigated which countries in Europe were dictatorships and which were democratic in 1937.

We have continued our Science topic, which is all about classification. We have learned about classification keys and how these can be used to categorise different animals.

In French, we have been reviewing our prior learning on greetings, numbers 0-50, age and colours.

Home practice

Homework - Kristina Stevenson's Classroom - SSD Public Website at Salem School District

As mentioned in meet the teacher, homework has been set for this week. Please complete the following tasks by next Thursday:

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 -

Please practise the following spellings this week from the Y5/6 spelling list:

muscle

occupy

occur

neighbour

necessary

opportunity

parliament

nuisance

persuade

physical

prejudice

privilege

profession

programme

pronunciation

queue

recognise

recommend

relevant

marvellous

All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test next Friday.

Maths Challenges:

Sumdog

Counting: This week we have had to count in tenths to complete our rounding work. Try to count in decimal steps of 0.1, 0.2 or 0.5. You could do this out loud or write it on a piece of paper.

You could draw a numberline, like we have done in class this week. Can you count up and down in decimal tenths? How far can you go?

Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to answer on Sumdog!

Place Value: This week's learning is to practise questions on place value. For further Maths work, please visit the 'Maths Training' section, where your child will be able to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them.

Golden Assembly

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

Star of the Week - Ebba

Super Learner - Imogen

Superstar Writer - Bella

Bookworm - Leo H

Marvellous Mathematician - Maisie

Special Mentions - All of Y6 for being amazing buddies!

Thank you to everyone who came to Meet the Teacher on Tuesday. The presentation is attached at the bottom of the blog. If you were unable to attend, please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions regarding the slides.

Have a great weekend Year 6!

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Year 3 Friday Blog 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 5:23pm

Welcome to your first blog of Year 3!

We have had a super week settling in and getting used to the new classroom! It has been lovely seeing everyone back after the summer holidays looking smart in their Summer uniforms.

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This week in Year 3

English

In English this week we have read Stickman by Julia Donaldson. We wrote some fantastic descriptions and even created our own version!

The Stick Man Trail, a new free activity for children at Windmill Hill City Farm! | Bristol Mum

Maths

In Maths, we started revisiting place value and number. Everyone has shown great knowledge and asked some great questions in class.

We started our RE topic – ‘Creation and Covenant’.

This week we read the creation story from Genesis and created some lovey artwork.

Let There Be Light! - drawing and painting art lesson - Christian Art Lessons

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Noa

Super Learner – Rowan

Superstar Writer – Melodie

Bookworm – Elyse

Marvellous Mathematician – Amelia L

Special Mentions – All of Year 3 for settling in so well to the Juniors!

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Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 5 Blog Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 4:41pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a fantastic start in Year 5 and all the children have tried so hard with their learning. Well done to the new Year 5!

The usual weekly home practise will start next week but it would be great if the children enjoy their reading this weekend.

We have started our novel this week in English – ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and Year 5 have already done some impressive writing using expanded noun phrases.

In Maths we have been looking at large numbers, how to say and write them and we have also been revising how to exchange.

Well done Year 5!

Our first piece of scripture in RE was from Exodus and was all about Moses and the burning bush in the desert, where God spoke to him and gave him an important task. The children enjoyed re-telling the story.

In PE, Year 5 have been practising their throwing skills in netball and they all tried their best playing in teams.

Finally, we all enjoyed getting outside for an autumn nature walk and collecting ‘treasures’ for our class display.

Golden stars this week

Jenson – star of the week

Mark – marvellous mathematician

Milo – super learner for contributing great ideas

Willow – superstar writer

Madelaina – bookworm for reading lots

Alfie B – special mention for being so helpful in class

Reception Blog - Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 3:53pm

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Hello and welcome to the Reception Friday Blog!

All the children had an amazing first week at school!

We are amazed at how quickly they have settled into our routines, exploring their new classroom, making new friends and joining in with our prayers.

We drew self portraits and decorated our names for our classroom door.

We had buddy play with Year 6, we will be paired up with our own buddy next week.

We have been to explore the Forest School areas with Mrs Corbett. She read us a story in the lodge. It was called 'The Leaf Thief'.We will have Forest School every Thursday.

Lunchtimes are a big hit, with many empty plates.

At the end of Friday, we asked the children if they would come back next week and they all said yes, excitedly.

Have a restful weekend and we will see you all next week!

Year 1 Blog - Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 12:52pm

We are so proud of how well everyone has settled into Year 1!

Reading - Your child has new books in their book bag. Please try and read at least three times each week.

Please remember to bring book bags in each day. Books will be changed every Friday (or more often if wanted!)

English

We have read two lovely stories this week: A Letter From Your Teacher and Our Class is a Family.

We have been talking about how we might be feeling different emotions surrounding starting a new school year, and how this is okay! We also drew and labelled our families.

Phonics

We have been joining in with our phonics songs. We have also been reading real and nonsense words.

Maths

We have been counting in ones and practising our number formation. We have also been spotting patterns and making groups of numbers.

R.E.

We looked at different Bibles and recognised that they are special books which contain special stories. We talked about Jesus and God and recited our prayers.

P.E.

We went onto the playground and practised rolling, throwing and catching different sized balls.

P.S.H.E.

We learnt all about our brain in My Happy Mind. We drew pictures of our brains in our journal.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Judah and Evie E

Super Learner: Reo

Superstar Writer: Ada G

Bookworm: Imogen

Marvellous Mathematician: Louie

Special Mentions: Thomas for helping the Reception children into class and Isla-May for always keeping the classroom tidy!

If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the team! Have a lovely weekend.

Year 4 Blog Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 12:45pm

Welcome to our first blog of this school year!

We have had a super week! We have put lots of effort into our lessons and settled well into the new routines in Year 4.

We were proud of our Summer scrapbooks and enjoyed sharing them with our friends and teachers. They enjoyed finding out what we got up to over the Summer holiday.

This week in Year 4

English

In English, we read the poem The Magic Box by Kit Wright.

We used the poem as inspiration for writing our own verses, explaining what we would put in our own ‘magic box’.

Maths

In Maths, we started exploring place value.

We considered that the position of the digit in a number is important, and that 10 hundreds and 1 thousand have the same value.

We started our RE topic – ‘Creation and Covenant’.

We focussed on the story of Abraham and his covenant with God, and showed an understanding of the historical context of Abraham.

History

In History, we started our Romans topic.

We discussed what we already knew, and where when and how the Roman Empire began.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Heidi

Super Learner – William

Superstar Writer – Bella

Bookworm – Georgie

Marvellous Mathematician – Jessica

Special Mentions – Albie and Oliver

Have a lovely weekend

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Year 2 Blog Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 11:47am

Calcot Schools - Year 2

The children have had a great week back and settled into Year 2 really well.

We are looking forward to a fantastic year of learning together.

Thank you for completing your holiday books. We have enjoyed reading them together.

English

We role played being Burglar Bill and wrote some questions for him when he was in the hot seat. We wrote sentences about what information we knew about him.

Maths: Grouping tens and ones - St James' Primary School, Wetherby .

Maths

We have been working on place value this week.

The children used base ten to make two-digit numbers.

They also did a lot of counting and recapped adding and taking 1 and 10 from a number.

We spent time looking at the Bible and discussing any stories we had already heard.

The children learnt that their are two parts - The Old Testament and The New Testament.

They even started to recognise whether a story was written in The Old or New Testament.

Geography

Our new topic is Continents and Oceans.

The children labelled a world map with all seven continents.

The Great Fire of London – Early Years teaching resource - Scholastic

History

The Great Fire of London - we watched a video clip about how the fire started.

The children drew a scene from the fire labelling it with things they had learned.

Underarm and Overarm Throwing Technique

The children have revisited the fundamental skills of underam throwing and catching.

They played mini-games and displayed fantastic team work.

Art

We discussed the work of Andy Goldsworthy. We then went outside and chose different things to sketch. We looked very closely at what we were drawing.

Forest School

We had a look at all the fruit growing on our trees. We tidied up the nature area by working together to collect all the rubbish which has appeared over the holiday. We reminded ouselves about keeing safe at Forest School. We chose our own learning and demonstrated superb problem solving, teamwork and resilience.

Science

We started our new learning about Living Things. We sorted pictures of objects into groups ,living and dead. We then added another group which was things which have never been alive. We sang a great song about our learning which included the life processes which living things have.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Faisal

Super Learner - Reuben

Superstar Writer - Zac

Bookworm - Harry

Mathematician - Ella

Special Mentions - Cerys for her beautiful manners and Hannah for being a caring friend.

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Year 6 Blog - Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 12:12pm

Welcome to our first blog of the year!

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Year 6 have all worked so hard during their first week of school! They have put great effort into their lessons, been amazing role models and applied for their school 'jobs'. I would like to congratulate each of the children for their brilliant letters of application for responsibilities around school; we are looking forward to seeing all of our Year 6 working hard to support the school as ambassadors, eco team members, school councillers, sports captains, housepoint team members and much more!

Thank you to everyone who completed a summer holiday challenge, it was lovely to see the children enjoying the outdoors this summer!

This week in Year 6

English

The Nowhere Emporium - Kelpies (Paperback)

In English, we have begun reading 'The Nowhere Emporium' by Ross Mckenzie. This week, we have explored the prolouge and created our own descriptions of a magical shop, inspired by Ross Mackenzie. We have also created a setting description for the interior of The Nowhere Emporium and written in role as Daniel when he first encounters the shop.

Maths

Rounding Numbers - Elementary Math - Steps, Examples & Questions

This week we have explored our place value topic. We have learned how to represent numbers up to 10,000,000 on a place value chart and challenged ourselves with our deeper learning tasks!

World Pictures

We have started our new RE topic this week, with a focus on the second story of creation. We have shared the story together and created storyboards to help us remember the key parts of the scripture.

Topic

This week, we started our Science topic, which is all about classification. We have learned about how animals are classified into different groups and made posters to show our learning.

We have also begun our new Art topic, which is all about making a 2D drawing into a 3D drawing. We have explored the work of artist Lubaina Hamid and shared our opinions on their work!

Homework will be handed out next week after meet the teacher.

Golden Assembly

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

Star of the Week - Leo H

Super Learner - Cian

Superstar Writer - Freddie

Bookworm - Darcey

Marvellous Mathematician - Libby

Special Mentions - Eddie - for looking after the new Reception children

Have a great weekend Year 6!

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Final Year 3 Friday Blog 18th July 2023

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 3:17pm

Well done everyone on completing Year 3!

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We have had an amazing week of celebrations and fun learning.

It has been a pleasure to teach every one of you this year and we are so proud of how far you have all come!

Enjoy your Summer holidays! You deserve a rest!

Thank you so much for all your kind messages and gifts. We are all so grateful.

Have an amazing summer and we are already looking forward to seeing you all in September!

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The Year 3 Team

Year 5 Friday Blog Friday 18th July 2025

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 2:09pm

Thank you Year 5 for an amazing year. It has been a privilege to teach you. We wish you all the best for Year 6 !

Thank you also to all the parents for our thoughtful and generous gifts!

Special mentions - Imogen, Freddie, Maisie and Tommy

See you in September!

Mrs Whitworth and Mrs Dexter

Year 1 Blog - Friday 18th July 2025

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 2:08pm

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A big thank you to you all from all of us for your hard work and lovely gifts.

We are so proud of how far the class have come this year!

We will miss everyone so much!

Have a lovely summer and we will see you in September.

Special Mentions of the Term:

Huxley

Reuben

Nelly

Jaxon

Reception Blog - Friday 18th July 2025

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 11:52am

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A big thank you to you all from all of us.

Thank you for your amazing support and your very generous gifts.

Have a great summer and make lots of memories.

See you on Tuesday 2nd September.

The Foundation Stage Team.

Mrs Robinson, Mrs Dixon and Mrs Cliffe.

Special Mentions of the Term:

Noah J

Imogen

Darragh

Louie

Year 2 Blog- Friday 18th July

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 9:33am

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Thank you from all of us for your amazing support and your very generous gifts.

Have a great summer.

See you on Tuesday 2nd September.

Mrs Corbett, Miss Gravili, Mrs Deighton & Mrs Tiley

Special Mentions of the Term

Florence, Wilbur, Jonah,Amelia C.

Year 4 Blog - Friday 18th July 2025

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 8:56am

Welcome to your final blog of the year

The Year 4 team would like to thank each and every one of you for the lovely cards and gifts - they are very thoughtful and we appreciate your kindness and generosity.

Thank you also for being the most amazing Year 4! We have loved teaching you and seeing you grow over the past year.

Have a fantastic summer.

We look forward to seeing you again on Tuesday 2nd September 2025.

The Year 4 Team - Mrs Tipping, Mrs Mulgrew, Miss Dineen and Miss Whiting

Special Mentions:

Bertie

Madelaina

Sam

Amelia

Evangeline

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Year 6 Blog - Friday 18th July 2025

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 8:00am

Good Luck, Year 6! – Hexham Middle School

Welcome to the final Year 6 weekly blog!

All of Year 6 have had a fantastic year! They have all challenged themselves, shown resilience and are now ready for a new adventure at High School next year. We hope that all of Year 6 have enjoyed their time at St Oswald's and have many happy memories from their time at Primary School.

Good Luck and best wishes for High School Year 6 - from everyone at St Oswald's!

Good Luck Cute Card

Have an amazing summer holidays Year 6!

Happy Summer Holidays – St. Dominic's National School

Year 5 blog - Friday 11th July 2025

Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 5:24pm

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

There are no spellings for this week.

Counting

Count out loud in:

5s up to 60 and back again 0,5,10,15…

50s from 350 to 750 and back again 350, 400, 450…

200s from 100,400 backwards to 98,200 100,400, 100,200, 100,000…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables. TTRS and Hit the Button are great resources for this.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

We have had another great week of learning in Year 5.

We have been writing poems in English and sharing our ideas and performance styles.

In Maths we have been continuing with revising methods for division.

There have been many rehearsals followed by three performances of our special production of ‘Joseph.’ The class have shown real determination and enthusiasm with this – a great job Year 5!

In History, we have continued to learn about the Maya civilisation, including how they created calendars, using glyphs.

Finally, Year 5 finished the week by creating their own unique fashion design clothing in Art.

Another super week Year 5 – well done!

Star of the week - Ebba

Marvellous mathematician - Agatha

Superstar writer - Willow

Super learner - Milana

Super learner - Joe

Special mention - Zachary O

Bookworm - Theo

Reception Blog - Friday 11th July 2025

Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 3:33pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

Phonics

We have all been recapping our sounds and tricky words from this year.

Drawing Club

In Drawing Club, we have been writing clues for animals and reading them to our friends for them to guess the animal.

See the photos here.

Maths

We have been taking part in memory games (I went to the shop and bought ...)

We have also been comparing base 10 and multilink cubes and talking about the similarities and differences. See the photos here.

We have continued talking about seeing Jesus through other people's eyes.

We talked about how different countries view Jesus, specifically Nigeria.

Understanding the World

We have also been comparing arctic animals and woodland animals.

My Happy Mind

We have been talking about perseverance.

We have taken part in orienteering.

Also have a look at our choosing time this week here!

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Connall

Super Learner – Tommy

Superstar Writer – Harriet

Bookworm – Zara

Mathematician – Reo

Special Mention - Imogen - for always taking great care in the creative area.

Year 1 Blog - Friday 11th July 2025

Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 8:45am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Positional language

Phonics - Sounds learnt this week

Counting - Please practise counting from 0 to 20, forwards and backwards.

Reading - We've had a drop in the number of children changing their reading books so please keep reading at home.

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We have been writing non-chronological reports about bears. We used the facts that we gathered on Friday and drew fantastic pictures.

See our pictures here.

We have also been writing beautiful messages for Mrs Wood's card.

Phonics

Some of us have been practising spotting our sounds in our reading books.

Some of us have started to identify the different air spellings: air in chair, ear in bear and are in care.

Maths

We have been comparing turns (full and half turns) and using positional language (forwards, backwards, left and right).

Science

We made the most of the weather and drew around our shadows!

See our pictures here.

Art

We went outside and sketched what we could see.

See our pictures here.

D.T.

We learnt how to complete a simple running stitch.

Year 6 production

A big thank you to Year 6 for letting us watch their production!

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Joshua Wright

Super Learner: Jaxon

Superstar Writer: Ella

Bookworm: Seb

Marvellous Mathematician: Joshua I and Luca

Special Mentions: Lara for her super answers in Maths.

Please could all reading books be returned next week, Mrs Anderson will be collecting them in!

Little Owls - Week 6

Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 8:35am

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Little Owls - Week 6

Thank you so much for all your support over the last six weeks, we have loved getting to know everyone and we cannot wait for September!

Don't forget to make your 'Treasure Box' over the holidays and bring it with you during the first week of school.

We would like to say a big 'thank you' to everyone who came along to our stay and play this week!

Have a great summer holidays and we will see you in September

The Reception Team

Year 3 Friday blog 11th July 2025

Date: 10th Jul 2025 @ 6:07pm

Home Practice

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

Beat the Winter Blues: Make Your Own Sunshine - You Make It Simple

Home Learning

Reading – Keep reading every night for at least 15 minutes.

Maths – We’ve set two challenges on Sumdog this week. They focus on multiplication and fluency. Good luck!

Reminders:

On Monday, we will be making and evaluating our sandwiches in a MasterChef-style session! Please make sure your child brings in the ingredients for one sandwich and a butter knife to use. Thank you!

Our Wooden Pencil Case Shop is still open! There’s plenty of stock left – £3 for one or 3 for £5. This is part of our Enterprise Project, and we’re hoping to clear the shelves by the end of term!

This week in Year 3

We’ve had another fantastic week of learning in Year 3!In English, we have been really enjoying Journey to Jo’burg. This week, we wrote in role and retold parts of the story, showing great empathy and imagination. The children have really connected with the characters and their journey.

Journey to Jo'burg - Beverley Naidoo

In Maths, we’ve been learning how to read scales accurately and recapped our time learning too. Super maths work, Year 3, great focus and effort all round!

In Art, we proudly finished our moving pictures projects. The children worked so hard to bring their ideas to life. Head over to our gallery to see their amazing creations!

In PE, we took part in our intra-sport orienteering event. Everyone gave 100%, tackling the exercises and finding all the points on the course with brilliant teamwork and determination. Well done, everyone!

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On Wednesday, we had the pleasure of watching the Year 6 production of Joseph – it was absolutely amazing, and we were so proud of our older pupils!

In History, we learned about the end of the Egyptian Empire, including figures like Alexander the Great, Marc Antony, and Cleopatra. We’ve loved learning about Ancient Egypt this term, we've gained so much new knowledge and developed some excellent history skills along the way.

In Geography, we’ve been exploring the human and physical features of South America. We used our new atlases and researched using iPads to discover more about this fascinating continent. Super geography work, Year 3!

South American Flag Quiz (+ Free Games and Flashcards)

In Computing this week we have been learning all about events in code. We greated our own flappy bird games. Look in our gallery to play them!

Pixilart - flappy bird gif by trewfdsa

Have a lovely weekend in the sunshine!
The Year 3 Team ☀️

Year 4 Blog Friday 11th July 2025

Date: 10th Jul 2025 @ 3:04pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

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

Spellings

There are no spellings to learn for next week

Counting

Keep counting ….

There are some 2, 4, 5 and 10 times tables counting songs on the link below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/topics/cnep90jwjj7t

Have fun!

TTRockstars challenge

A ‘garage’ session

Sumdog challenges

A converting between different units of measure challenge

Our learning this week

English

In English, we wrote poems and thoughtful message for a special person.

We then published these beautifully.

We also labelled the features of a playscript and then drafted our own playscript based on the novel.

Maths

In Maths, we converted from kg to g using the conversion 1kg = 1000g.

We discovered that we needed to multiply by 1000 to convert from kg to g.

We also converted measurements between litres and millilitres using the conversion 1l = 1000ml.

We discovered that we needed to multiply by 1000 to convert from l to ml.

In RE, we learnt some facts about the Byzantine Rite.

We discovered that the Rite’s roots are in the Greek speaking Christian communities.

PSHE

In PSHE, we learnt what ‘Big Dream Goals’ are.

We learnt how to set ‘Big Dream Goals’ with a checklist:

set a clear goal

describe the key actions

identify any help you may need

Science

In Science, we discussed the relationship between distance and sound.

We established that the further the vibrations travel, the more they spread out.

This means that sounds get quieter as the distance increases.

We then explore string telephones – see us in action in our gallery.

History

In History, we completed our research into the 12 Olympian gods and goddesses, and finished our ‘top trumps’ cards.

In PE, we completed the Intra House Orienteering Competition.

We paired up within our houses and worked together to find 18 markers around the school grounds, using a map.

Once all 18 were checked and completed, we recorded our time.

The fastest team will get 50 housepoints, the 2^nd will get 30 and the 3^rd 10!

Have a look at us enjoying our orienteering in our gallery.

We created different ‘algorithms’ for a micro:bit.

Firstly, we created a ‘beating heart’ on the LED display. Then we used a sequence whereby we needed to press button A or B on the micro:bit to change the display.

There are some pictures in our gallery.

Year 6 Production

On Wednesday afternoon, we watched the Year 6 dress rehearsal of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.

Wow – we thought it was brilliant and we loved the songs and acting.

Well done to Year 6 on an amazing production.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Trudy

Super Learner: Emma

Superstar Writer: Ada-<ay

Bookworm: Lily

Marvellous Mathematician: Joni

Special Mentions: Trudy and Bertie – super experimenting with micro:bits

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Year 6 Friday Blog - 11th July 2025

Date: 10th Jul 2025 @ 9:27am

Year 6|Childwall C of E Primary School

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week in Year 6

Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

All of Year 6 worked so hard on their amazing production - well done to everyone for their wonderful acting and singing. We hope you all enjoyed the performance!

History

What You Need To Know About VE Day 8 May 1945

In History we have continued with our WW2 topic. We have been learning about how the RAF were important in helping Britain win WW2. We also learned how WW2 came to an end by thinking about different causes and their impact.

Science

The Four Types Of Fossils

In Science we learned all about how fossils can show evolution. We revised how fossils are formed and we looked closely at how fossils of horses show a change over time!

Homework - Kristina Stevenson's Classroom - SSD Public Website at Salem School District

No homework or spellings have been set for the last week.

Please can reading books be returned to school to be collected next week.

Golden Assembly

All of Year 6 received a special mention for their amazing effort in the school production. Well done Year 6!

Have super weekend Year 6!

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Year 2 Blog Friday 11th July 2025

Date: 8th Jul 2025 @ 10:07am

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!

Sumdog:

Please complete the multiplication and division challenge by Friday (18.07.25).

Counting:

Spend time counting in 3's forwards and backwards to 60 or even 100. Look at how that links to the 3x table.

Times Tables:

Please keep learning the 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables (and division facts) ready for Y3.

Follow this link to play 'Hit the Button' and 'Tables-Teaser'.

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

https://nrich.maths.org/problems/tables-teaser

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English

Using books from our library, the children wrote interesting information texts about a topic of their choice.

They included facts and detailed diagrams.

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Maths

We learnt more about capacity and volume this week.

The children estimated how much liquid a container held and measured accurately using litres and millilitres.

They also solved tricky word problems related to capacity and volume.

Our Bible story was The Good Samaritan.

We looked in more detail at who the characters were and how they interacted at the time.

In PE, we had an orienteering competition.

The children displayed great map skills and team work and had a lot of fun.

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Year 6 Performance

We spent Wednesday afternoon watching the Year 6 dress rehearsal.

It was very exciting and entertaining.

Nature Art

Art/Forest School

The children were very creative, using materials from nature to create their own art work.

Science

We made our boats and tested them to see if they floated and if they were waterproof. We came to some conclusions.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week-Henry P.

Super Learner-Adam

Superstar Writer-Orlaigh

Bookworm-Wilbur

Mathematician-Felicity

Special Mentions-Devyn for being a kind and caring friend.

Teddy for great listening.

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