Reception Blog - Friday 12th May 2023

Date: 12th May 2023 @ 12:54pm

We have had another great week learning all about dinosaurs!

This week we have continued to look after the eggs that we had delivered last week. When they hatched, they were dinosaurs! We have written letters explaining how to look after the eggs and the baby dinosaurs.

In maths we have been looking at more/less and playing an interactive game to find the missing numbers. We have also looked at the numbers from 11-20 and how many tens and units make that number.

Year 4 Blog - Friday 12th May 2023

Date: 12th May 2023 @ 12:46pm

Year 4 Blog

Friday 12^th May 2023

Another very busy week in Year 4! Here’s a brief overview of what we have been learning:

In English, we investigated contrasting settings. We read two descriptions of the grotto of the fire fiend and considered how the words and phrases described the setting. We also explored noun phrases and had great fun writing sentences which included interesting adjectives.    

In Maths, we subtracted two numbers with one decimal place using the formal written method. We needed to be confident with our number facts and this is something which some of us need to practise a little bit more. We also started our new topic - 2d shape.  We started by identifying acute and obtuse angles and understanding what these words meant.  (An acute angle is less than a right angle. An obtuse angle is larger than a right angle, but less than a straight line.)

In RE, we learnt how the Holy Spirit gave courage to Peter and John. We hot seated Peter and John, and this helped us to understand how the Holy Spirit confirmed their faith in Jesus and gave them the courage they needed to speak out about the Good New, even when they were threatened.

In French, we produced the grand finale of our Matisse project.  We described our picture in French, remembering to put the adjectives after the nouns and make them agree. (A feminine noun needs a feminine form of the adjective etc). Well done Y4 - these will be on display now to show everyone your amazing French!

In PE, we continued with our striking and fielding topic.  We learnt how to bat off a tee and then played mini games of ‘cricket’ which involved all the players on the batting team running and all the fielders throwing and catching to each other.  This ensured everyone was actively involved in the game.

We also perfected our hymns and words for the parent assembly.  We all worked really hard to make sure we could be heard clearly, didn’t rush when we were speaking and knew exactly when we needed to speak.  Well done to everyone in Year 4 you were fantastic.

Thank you also to everyone who came to our Parent Assembly, we hope you enjoyed it.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes each evening.  Look carefully at any descriptions – what makes them descriptive? Can you use any of the words in your own writing?

Spellings

Next week we will be revising apostrophes for possession, including singular and plural, therefore there will be no words to learn.  We will be practising this each day in class and you will be tested on this rule next Friday. (19^th May 2023).

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 9’s

Start at 0 and count up to 108 and back again

0   9   18    etc             108   99   90 etc

Start at 20 and count up to 146 and back again

20   29   38   47          146  137   128   119   etc

(TIPS - When counting up, add on 10 and take one away

When counting down, subtract 10 and add one back on)

Times tables

You will be tested on your tables target next Wednesday (17^th May 2023). Please practise every day. Remember you can practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Please also practise the ‘Multiplication Tables Check’ on timestables.co.uk

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:

• An acute and obtuse angles challenge, including comparing and ordering angles
• A times tables challenge based on all the times tables

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

AS YOU ONLY HAVE 2 SUMDOG CHALLENGES THIS WEEK, PLEASE TAKE SOME MORE TIME TO PRACTISE YOUR TABLES !

Another app for practising tables and number facts is One Minute Maths from White Rose.  It is free to download from the AppStore and PlayStore. There are lots of excellent games you can play which will help you brush up your mental maths skills.  Please do your best to access this fabulous free resource!  Knowing your tables and number facts off by heart is crucial and will help you in many different areas of maths.

The Year 4 Team

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy your First Holy Communion Celebrations.  

Year 5 Blog Friday 12th May 2023

Date: 11th May 2023 @ 7:07pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.

We have had a great week in year 5.

We finished writing our own version of The Highwayman poem. We then perfomed our poems in small groups thinking about how we could change our tone and volume to have an effect on the audience. Everybody did such a fantastic job and felt so proud. 

In maths we have been looking at co-ordinates and translating shapes. Translating a shape means that the shape stays exactly the same but moves to a different position. 

In history we looked at an overview of the earliest civilisations. We noticed that they all thrived by being near to a river and having the ability to grow crops and farm animals. Next we are going to learn all about The Shang Dynasty. We can't wait! 

Click here to see some videos all about The Shang Dynasty 

In French, we practised the subject pronouns (Je, tu, il, elle etc) before moving on to reading some paragraphs in French about sports with opinions. The children were able to read and translate these very well. We discussed what to do if we come across a word we don't know. The strategies are the same as meeting an unknown word when reading in English - read on, use the context, take a good guess at what would make sense. Well done, year 5. 

On Thursday afternoon we did PE and computing. In PE we have been practising our cricket skills and playing mini games. Mrs Cookson has been very impressed. 

On Friday afternoon we did some map work to celebrate the Eurovision. We had a great time listening to some of the songs and located the countries on a map. We also spoke about capital cities, surrounding seas and oceans, and bordering countries. 

You can see us in action here. 

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day to somebody for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read. 

Spelling

Here are your new spellings. Practise every day. 

accident          accidental          centre          central          nature          natural          medicine          medicinal         

arrive          arrival          magic          magical          survive          survival 

Times Tables

You have been given your new tables target this week. Please practise every day.

Counting

Count out loud in:

6s from 0 to 72 and back again.

0, 6, 12, ...

7s from 0 to 84 and back again.

0, 7, 14, ...

12s from 0 to 144 and back again.

0, 12, 24, ...

Sumdog

Spelling Challenge

Times Tables Challenge

Geometry Competition 

Year 1 Blog 12th May 2023

Date: 11th May 2023 @ 10:29am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

We are enjoying Miss Forshaw being in our class. She is learning how to become a teacher and we are all helping her.

English

This week, we have been reading the story ' There's a tiger in the garden'. We had some great discussions about whether the tiger was real and also about what we could infer from the story. We created our own story map of the main events in the story.

Phonics

Some of us have been learning about ir in girl and er in her. Some of us have been learning to read words such as shrink, plank, frost.

Click here to sing some phonics songs.

Maths 

We have been learning about finding halves and quarters of shapes and amounts.

We have been counting in 2s,5s,and 10s. Start on different numbers and count forwards as well as backwards.

R.E.

We focused on the term 'Holy Day' and how they are special days that are celebrated. We recapped all the days that we have learnt about, focusing on the Easter story, and then chose one to draw and write about in our books.

P.E.

We had our final sports day practise on Wednesday. 

Thank you to everyone who came to watch us take part in our sports day. The children we absolutely amazing, showing great determination, resilience and physical skills.

P.S.H.E.

We started to think about safety and who keeps us safe. We explored different job roles involving safety (police, fire fighters) and other people like parents and teachers who want to keep us safe. We then drew pictures of them and talked about what they do to help us.

History

We had such a fun lesson learning about past and present seaside clothing. We looked at what is the same and what is different and then we got to try some clothes on from the museum loan box!

Art

We made a great tiger craft each in choosing time using lolly sticks.

Then in our learning, we planned our perfect seaside picture in our sketchbooks ready to paint our final digital seaside picture next week.

French

We practised numbers to 15 and adding two numbers with a game. We recapped weather phrases, then moved on to begin to learn some clothes vocabulary with a story - Je m'habille et je te croque. 

Music

We played the boomwhackers. We really had to concentrate so that we played our note at the right time.

Outdoor Learning

This week four groups cooked on a fire. We used wood and charcoal this time and cooked in the embers of the fire . We rolled bread dough into balls and cooked it in the fire-it was delicious!

We also cut a slit in the skin of bananas and put chocolate buttons in the slits. We then wrapped the bananas in foil and baked them in the embers of the fire. They were so yummy, the chocolate melted and the bananas went soft.

The last group will do this on Monday.

We also chose to build shelters and our own play fires which we could pretend to cook on. Some of us were still very interested in making mouse traps !

Cooking on a Fire

Home Practice

Phonics - ear words OR split e_e

Maths -  quarters

KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!

Even more children are changing their reading books more often and it's having a great impact on their progress.

Don't forget to keep reading the Tricky words and if your child recognises them on sight they could learn how to write them.

Please return your trip slip on Monday if you haven't already!

Year 3 Friday 5th May 2023

Date: 5th May 2023 @ 3:55pm

Happy Friday and Welcome to your Coronation Blog

We had a lovely celebration on the field with lots of smiles, singing and dancing. Have a look at our coronation celebration gallery.

In our English we have almost come to the end of our Deathwood letters story. We have loved the letter writing story format of this book. It has really tested our reading skills, especially our inference. The letters have given us lots of clues and we now need to figure out what has happened to the main character Damien Drake.

In our Maths learning we have finished our Fractions topic and been learning about postition and direction. Everyone did really well with this. If you would like to practice this in a fun way. Go to code.org and sign in to our class area with the code XJYWDV. There are lots of coding games using position and direction. PLEASE DON'T GO ON COURSE C. This is our Computer Science course for this term in school.

Here is some of the vocabulary we have met this week.

anti-clockwise  clockwise     right angle      quarter turn      half turn

In our Art this week we used Batic dye to stain our fabric. We also started removing our paste to unveil our designs. Everyone has worked hard on these and they will be going home next week. We also started the design process for our 3D sculptures. We are looking forward to creating these.

This week we learnt that in French, most adjectives have to go after the noun and have to agree with their noun; so a feminine noun needs a feminine form of the adjective. We practised translating phrases such as a black cat - un chat noir, and a green apple - une pomme verte. 

In science, we recapped the parts of the flower and learnt the function of each part.  Then we moved on to learning about pollination and fertilisation. There is a lot of new vocabulary to learn! We planted some cucumber and courgette seeds which may be ready for next year's Y3 to harvest in September with any luck!

In our History we learned all about how the pyramids were made. We investigated some theories on their construction and used our skills to deduce which were most likey to be true. We learned all about how they probably used causeways and that artisans rather than slaves were responsible for building them. Below you will find a little knowledge organiser on the key facts on the Ancient Egyptians.

Home Practice 

Continue to read your school books regularly. We have seen great improvements in our reading skills so keep it up. Remember to throw in a few questions about what your child has read to promote understanding.

In maths we've set a fractions challenge focusing on solving problems. 15 children didn't access last weeks challenge so from next week we will be starting Sumdog club for those children who find it hard to access the platform at home.

We have also set a x8 times table challenge for everyone. Do your best!

Next week in our spellings we are looking at word families eg. medic/medically. Have a go at spotting others in your reading book.

plant  planters   transplant   planting     design    sign     designer  

    signature     medic     medical    medicine    medically

Have a lovely Coronation weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 4 Blog - Friday 5th May 2023

Date: 5th May 2023 @ 3:39pm

Year 4 Blog

Friday 5^th May 2023

We have only been in school for 4 days, but we have been very busy!  Here’s a brief outline of what we have been learning:

In English, we wrote our ideas for our parent assembly. We then practised performing our songs and readings. We tried hard to put expression into our reading - speaking slowly and clearly - and at a volume which could be heard by the audience. This week, we also worked hard on our handwriting, making sure that anything that we wrote looked beautiful on the page. 

In Maths, we practised counting on to find a difference – this method was most efficient when the numbers in the calculation were close to a multiple of 10 or 100. In addition, we consolidated our knowledge of column addition – adding more than 2 numbers together with up to 4 digits, and 2 numbers with one decimal place.

In RE, we learnt about Pentecost.  We listened to an account of the coming of the Holy Spirit, and to another when Peter addressed the crowd and discussed the effect of the Holy Spirit on people’s lives.  We also looked in detail at a picture depicting Pentecost and described the people, symbols and colours we could see.

In French, in made a collage in the style of Matisse and began to describe our pictures. There are some beautiful pictures and a great start to the descriptions. Magnifique, Year 4!

In PE, we practised our throwing and catching skills again and then played a game which involved batters and fielders.  Well done Year 4 – our overarm throwing and catching is certainly improving.

In Science, we investigated the link between the pitch made by musical instruments and their features. They described the patterns they found such as the thicker the guitar string, the lower the pitch.  For next week, please make a string telephone. A sheet of instructions is provided. Ask someone at home to help you and remember to thank them for their time and assistance.

In PSHE, we talked about self-control and how as we are growing up, we need to be more mindful of our actions and the things that we say.  

In Art, we finished our pictures for our parent assembly. These look beautiful and we are looking forward to sharing these with you at the assembly.

We also enjoyed celebrating the Coronation of King Charles III. We all dressed in red, white and blue and went onto the field for a picnic.  You can see some pictures of us enjoying ourselves here.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes each evening.  Look carefully at any descriptions and see if you can identify any noun phrases.

Spellings

Here are this week’s spellings. You will be tested on these words next Friday (12^th May 2023).

centre         probably      separate      library         occasionally

peculiar       straight       remember    possible       question

famous         difficult       increase       interest       ordinary

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 10’s

Start at 76 and count up to 256 and back again

76  86   96 etc             256   246  236 etc

Start at 32.5 and count up to 152.5 and back again

32.5   33.5   35.5          152.5   142.5   132.5  etc

Times tables

You will be tested on your tables target next Wednesday (10^th May 2023). Please practise every day. Remember you can practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Please also practise the ‘Multiplication Tables Check’ on timestables.co.uk

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 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables
• A column addition and subtraction challenge

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

Another app for practising tables and number facts is One Minute Maths from White Rose.  It is free to download from the AppStore and PlayStore. There are lots of excellent games you can play which will help you brush up your mental maths skills.  Please do your best to access this fabulous free resource!  Knowing your tables and number facts off by heart is crucial and will help you in many different areas of maths.

Enjoy the Coronation and the Bank Holiday weekend.

The Year 4 Team

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING IN YOUR STRING TELEPHONE NEXT THURSDAY

Year 2 Blog Friday 5th May 2023

Date: 5th May 2023 @ 2:40pm

Year 2 have had such a fun packed week and it was topped off with a mini picnic to celebrate the Kings Coronation this afternoon. The children made their own crowns, did some singing and dancing and waved their flags proudly. Have a look at the photos in the Gallery section. In English, the children worked on reading comprehension and also wrote their opinions of Aladdin’s character, giving reasons and using conjunctions (because). In Maths, we have been learning about fractions, especially quarters. The children have been finding one, two or three quarters of a shape or amount. In Science, we carried out a survey to see what materials were on our tables, in our classroom and outside. We also planted our radishes and lettuces. Looking forward to sampling them when they grow! In French, we recapped the phonic sounds and actions that we started last week, thinking about the sounds in the colour words. Then we recapped the weather phrases with some games. Well done everyone. The didgeridoos (Art) were amazing, Mrs Robinson was so pleased! The children used the patterns and ideas from last week to create beautiful designs on their own didgeridoo. We had a great time playing along to some traditional Aboriginal music. In PE, we spent time practising for Sports Day - so excited about that on Tuesday 16th May 2.15pm. Have a lovely long weekend and enjoy being part of a historic event Year 2.

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.

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 (12.05.23). 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 12.05.23.

This week’s spellings:

Adding the suffix ‘ful’. Including two words from the Year 1/2 spelling list.

joyful              careful

useful              thankful 

helpful             wonderful

playful              bath

mindful             hour

Maths

Next week for our times tables quiz (Friday 12.05.23) we will be learning the 3x table in a random order.

Count in 3’s forwards and backwards, see how quickly you can go, but it must still be accurate. Chant/sing the x3 table. Ask an adult to quiz you on them in a random order. Try playing ‘Hit The Button’ game from the maths games listed below.

You will have a 3x table challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 12.05.23.

Here are some links to other maths games/apps the children can play to help them learn their number facts.

Topmarks.co.uk also have and English section for phonics/spellings games. If you explore the site you will find lots of different games that are relevant to Year 2.

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

https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/1-minute-maths

(I believe this app is free to download.)

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/multiplication-and-division

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Have a lovely Coronation Day and Bank Holiday Weekend.

Year 2 Team.

Reception Blog - Friday 5th May 2023

Date: 5th May 2023 @ 1:01pm

Year 6 Blog Friday 5th May 2023

Date: 5th May 2023 @ 12:18pm

Welcome to our Year 6 blog. This week our Sports Captains led their first sports day for Reception. They did a great job and are looking forward to leading the next one. This Friday, we celebrated the King’s Coronation wearing red, white or blue and with a special picnic outside, including music and biscuits!

Also, Year 6’s learning this week:

• In Maths, we have been improving our learning of 2D shapes and used that knowledge to help with perimeter, area and coordinates. One main area we have been improving is fractions of amounts and percentages of numbers.
• In English, we have focused on our descriptive writing, and learnt how to better use similes and personification to create a more detailed image for the reader.
• In PE, we learnt how to improve the accuracy of throwing and catching within cricket and how to perform the basics of batting.
• In PSHE, we discussed ways of keeping calm under pressure and devised a plan for how to organise ourselves for next week.
• In Art, we completed a collage of our Mayan masks. 
• In French, we recapped the items on a cafe menu then conjugated a regular ER verb - Aimer, to like. We will put this learning together next week to say what people like and dislike from the menu. 
• In Science, we summarised our learning from this topic about Healthy Lifestyle Choices. Then we had a video call with a hospital pharmacist who talked about the path she took from St Oswald’s to where she is now - the lead Major Trauma pharmacist for Central Manchester. She answered the children's questions about her job, medicines and drugs. The children were very interested and asked some great questions.  The idea was to show Y6 that many, varied science careers are open to all of them. 

No Home Practice this week.

But make sure you spend the weekend doing at least one or a number of the following things:

• Rest and enjoy doing something you love,
• Do something active,
• Spend time with your family,
• Read a good book,
• Watch a film.

Have a great weekend everybody, rest and sleep well with a good breakfast Tuesday morning.

Year 1 Blog 5th May 2023

Date: 4th May 2023 @ 10:25am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

We are enjoying Miss Forshaw being in our class. She is learning how to become a teacher and we are all helping her.

English

This week, we have been reading the story "We are Going on a Lion Hunt". The story follows the pattern of the Bear Hunt story which we learnt about in Reception. We went on our own animal hunt in our school grounds. Some of use role played being the lion and answered questions.

Phonics

Some of us have been learning about words where we have to be really careful to sound out all the vowels and consonants, for example smell,grass,smug. We also learnt to read words such as print

Some of us have been learning about ough in bought and augh in taught. We couldn't believe how many 'or' spellings there were!

Click here to sing some phonics songs.

Maths 

We have been learning about finding halves of shapes and amounts. We used practical equipment to work out and check our answers.

We have been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, forwards and backwards. Practise counting in odd numbers, 1,3,5... Practise counting in 5s from different numbers, 2,7,12,17,22,.......what's the pattern?

Practise counting in 10s from different numbers, 3,13,23,33,.....what do you notice ?

Click here to play a fact families game.

R.E.

We started to learn about our new topic of 'Holidays and Holydays'. We first discussed the meaning of each and then we focused on our holidays. This tied in well with our history learning! We drew what we need to take on a holiday with us and then we watched a video of Barnaby Bear going on holiday.

Click here to watch more Barnaby videos.

P.E.

We started practising for our sports day, which is on Thursday 11th of May at 2:15pm

We practised all of our races and talked about competing in a fair way and celebrating everyone's achievements.

Computing

We have used a brand new website this week called code.org. By the end of the summer term, we are all going to be amazing coders! This week, we learnt to drag and drop objects. We challenged ourselves by using the trackpads to drag each time.

If you would like to access www.code.org at home, our class code is ZQTKZD. Each person has their own password icon to click to access the learning.

Science

We went in our outdoor area to see our bean plants that have been planted by the gardening club. We compared them from when they were in the bags in the classroom to now. Some had grown, some unfortunetly hadn't! We then wrote about how they had changed.

History

We learnt about King Charles' upcoming coronation. We read 'The King's Pants' together and drew our own pants. We hope that he comes to school one day so we can question him!

Art

We have been doing lots of art work this week! We have been sketching the King in our sketchbooks and then we continued with our digital media lesson. We used Paintz.app to digitally draw a seaside picture. It was fun to see how much we could remember from our computing lessons.

French

We recapped the weather phrases and practised them with some games. Then we read a story from the Berthe series about a witch who always has the wrong clothes on for the weather. This introduced the vocabulary for clothes which we will work on next week. Well done everyone. 

Outdoor Learning

This week the last group learnt about fire safety and toasted marshmallows.

In our other session we got out all the shetler building equipment and worked together to make shelters. It was quite windy on some of the days which provided extra challenge! It's great to see such resilience, imagination, teamwork and resilience.

Coronation of King Charles 

We all enjoyed our celebration school lunch on Thursday.

Everyone looked fabulous in their red,white and blue outfits.

Our Golden Assembly on Friday was a lovely celebration - we loved singing our special song. The picnic was great and we are all excited to watch the event tomorrow.

To The Sound Of Trumpets. Click here to sing the song.

Don't forget that it is Bank Holiday on Monday. We will see you on Tuesday.

Home Practice

Phonics - common exception words/compound words

Maths -  halving

KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!

Even more children are changing their reading books more often and it's having a great impact on their progress.

Year 5 Blog Friday 5th May 2023

Date: 3rd May 2023 @ 9:40am

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday blog. 

Although we have only had a four day week, we have still done lots of exciting learning!

in English we have been using The Highway as inspiration to write our own poem. 

We included certain features which we thought made the poem exciting and helped to create an image in the reader's mind. Here are some of the features we included:

Metaphor - an imaginative way of describing something by referring to something else which is the same in a particular way.

For example, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moors. 

Simile - an expression including the words "like" or "as" to compare one thing with another.

For example, His heart was beating as fast as a horse galloping across the cobbles. 

Speech - spoken words from a character.

For example, "One kiss my bonny sweetheart."

Onomatopoeia - the use or creation of a word that imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

For example, Tlot-tlot went the horse's hooves. 

In maths we were dividing decimal numbers and solving measures problems. We also learnt about reflecting shapes. Everybody did such a fantastic job! 

In DT we used cereal boxes and pencils to practise making our cam toy. A cam toy has a sliding or rotating piece which we will be making ourselves. Some of you even practised some more at home - well done! Don't forget to bring in a shoe box or cereal box next week to make our final cam toy. We will be taking these to Year 1 one afternoon for them to play with. 

We started our new PSHE topic. Throughout the topic we will try to answer the question 'How can drugs common to everyday life affect health?' We started by talking about we already know about the topic. Then we looked at some common everyday drugs and their risks and effects. 

We will be learning about common everyday drugs including nicotine, alcohol, caffeine and medicines, laws surrounding drugs and that some drugs are legal whilst others are illegal, and risks associated with different drugs.

On Wednesday we had our session with Gareth the sports journalist. We wrote about the first time a woman beat a man at a professional darts competition.

We loved celebrating the coronation on King Charles. We all dressed in red, white and blue and went onto the field for a picnic and a sing and dance. You can see us enjoying the coronation here. 

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes. Look out for new words, use the context and a dictionary to find their meaning. 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. 

happened          hurried          grabbed          worried          adventurous          disastrous          enormous          fabulous          famous          generous          jealous          mischievous          smiled          danced          behaved 

Times Tables

You have been given your new tables target. Please practise every day. 

Sumdog

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Competition - you have been put into these teams:

Gryffendor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin

Spelling Challenge

Reminders

Don't forget to bring in a shoe box or a cereal box for our DT project.

Happy Long Weekend

Year 2 Blog 28th April 2023

Date: 28th Apr 2023 @ 4:13pm

It was great to see everyone back in school, looking lovely in their summer uniforms and ready to learn. Year 2 have worked so hard this week and it is really showing in the work they are producing. In English, we have worked on reading comprehension and started our Aladdin topic by describing the market place using noun phrases. For example, bustling market, ornate lanterns, and silk robes with golden trims. In Maths, we are working on addition and subtraction with exchange. The children know to represent tens and ones as lines and dots and how to exchange one ten for ten ones. In RE, we have started our topic - Spread the Word which focuses on Pentecost. In Science, we were observing the signs of Spring by drawing and labelling what we saw on our nature walk. We spent time in PE getting ready for Sports Day. In French, the children began to learn some French phonics by adding actions to sounds to help them remember. They segmented the colour words and thought about the sounds in the words. Getting ready for beginning to write French in year 3 - well done Year 2! We learnt some weather phrases too. In Geography, we learnt about simple human and physical geographical features. This term, we are very lucky to have Mrs Robinson (Art Lead) come into class on Thursday afternoons to teach Australian Art and Textiles. The children thoroughly enjoyed printing and painting with different tools and their art work was amazing! Have a look in the Gallery section.

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.

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 (05.05.23). 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 05.05.23.

This week’s spellings:

Add –es to verbs and nouns ending in ‘y’ (Rule – take off the y and add -ies). Including two words from the Year 1/2 spelling list.

fly             parties

flies           lady   

copy           ladies

copies         plant

party           path

Maths

Next week for our times tables quiz (Friday 05.05.23) we will be learning the 3x table in order.

Count in 3’s forwards and backwards, see how quickly you can go, but it must still be accurate. Chant/sing the x3 table. Ask an adult to quiz you on them in order. Write them down in different colours to help you remember them.

You will have a 3x table challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 05.05.23.

Here are some links to other maths games/apps the children can play to help them learn their number facts.

Topmarks.co.uk also have and English section for phonics/spellings games. If you explore the site you will find lots of different games that are relevant to Year 2.

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

https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/1-minute-maths

(I believe this app is free to download.)

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/multiplication-and-division

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

The Summer Term Overviews are now on the class page to have a look at.

We would really appreciate some kitchen roll tubes for our Art lesson. Many thanks.

Have a lovely Bank Holiday Weekend.

Year 2 Team.

Year 4 Blog Friday 28th April 2023

Date: 28th Apr 2023 @ 4:00pm

Year 4 Blog

Friday 28^th April 2023

Welcome to the first blog of the Summer Term. It has been lovely to see everyone again this week and although it’s been a little bit chilly the sun has been shining a little bit! Here’s what we have been learning this week:

In English, we learnt how to identify, select and effectively use pronouns.  We also wrote a description of the water goddess and the ‘Ceremony of the Full Moon’ using our senses and vocabulary from the novel.    

In Maths, we learnt how to find fractions of numbers using a bar model split into equal parts.  We used counters to share an amount equally and then found unit (eg 1/3   1/4   1/5) and non-unit (eg 2/3   ¾    2/5) amounts. Following this, we used bar modelling to help add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.    

In RE, we started our new topic – New Life. We listened to a story and then talked about our own experiences of feeling a bit miserable or something upsetting us, and then something happened which brightened our day and made us feel alive.  We also considered what we learnt from the experience and how good news changed the way we felt. 

In French, we learnt lots of different ways of spelling the 'ay' sound which I thought was difficult, but the children proved me wrong! Then we looked again some artwork by Matisse and described them.  Some children excelled themselves - super French writing Y4! Next week, we'll make our own picture in the style of Matisse.

In PE, we started our striking and fielding topic.  We started by practising throwing and catching both underarm and overarm and the played a mini game similar to cricket.  We will be developing our fielding and batting skills over the coming weeks!

In Science, we carried out a practical experiment around the school to help us recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear.  We were surprised to find out that sound travels best through a solid, then a liquid and then a gas! Look at some of our experiments here.

In Geography, we recapped some of our findings from the Formby trip. We will be creating a PowerPoint to highlight the impact of climate change on our local coastline.  This is a work in progress and will take a few weeks to complete.

In PSHE, we described how someone could respond to, and manage feelings in different circumstances.  We read different scenarios and discussed how the main character might be feeling and what they might do and say at the time. Finally, we thought about who the character could talk to after the situation. This was an interesting and thought-provoking discussion – well done Year 4.

In Art, we painted some pictures for our parent assembly.

Have a look at our Summer Term Class Overview to see what else we will be learning this term.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes each evening.  Look out for speech marks and pronouns when you are reading.  Look carefully at the punctuation used with inverted commas and think carefully about what noun the pronoun has replaced.

Spellings

Here are this week’s spellings. You will be tested on these words next Friday (5^th May 2023).

corrode        corrosion     intrude        intrusion

conclude       conclusion     comprehend comprehension

suspend       suspension   decide         decision

erode           erosion        expand         expansion

Counting

This week, please practise counting in fractions  

Start at ½ and count up to 10 and back again

½   1   1 ½    etc                       10   9 ½   9  etc

Start at 1/3 and count up to 4 and back again

1/3   2/3   1   1 1/3                              4   3 2/3   3 1/3   3   etc

Times tables

You will be tested on your tables target next Wednesday (3^rd May 2023). Please practise every day. Remember you can practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Please also practise the ‘Multiplication Tables Check’ on timestables.co.uk

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A times tables challenge based on all the tables

AND a class competition based on adding and subtracting fractions – have fun!

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

Another app for practising tables and number facts is One Minute Maths from White Rose.  It is free to download from the AppStore and PlayStore. There are lots of excellent games you can play which will help you brush up your mental maths skills.  Please do your best to access this fabulous free resource!  Knowing your tables and number facts off by heart is crucial and will help you in many different areas of maths.

Have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend

The Year 4 Team

Reception Blog - Friday 28th April 2023

Date: 28th Apr 2023 @ 1:04pm

Year 3 Friday 28th April 2023

Date: 28th Apr 2023 @ 11:04am

Welcome back to the Summer Term

We have a very busy term of learning ahead! You can see all of our Summer topics on our class curriculum overview on the class page.

In English this week we have started our new book, The Deathwood Letters by Hazel Townson. The story is written in letter format, following the correspondence between Damien Drake, a young boy who lives with his family on a huge estate, Deathwood Hall, and Frankie, a girl who lives in a run down part of town. They strike up a strong friendship and we have noticed some strange goings on already. We have written some letters in reponse to the characters and created a fact file on Deathwood Hall.

In Maths we have been learning about equivalent fractions and how to add and subtract fractions from a whole. Everyone has shown great undersatnding and used what they already know about fractions to solve problems. We have set a bumper fractions challenge on Sumdog. Do your best with these.

In Art we have added paste to our Egyptian fabric designs. Everyone took great care when applying their paste and we seen some fantastic designs come to life. Next week we will dye our fabric and see how they turn out. Have a look in our gallery.

In History we learned all about the afterlife and how the Egyptians prepared the bodies. We learned all about canopic jars and how they were welcomed into Paradise.

In PSHE we started our new topic on healthy eating and what a balanced diet looks like. Everyone had some great ideas and drew on their prior science learning on food groups.

Home Practice

Well done to everyone who continued reading over the Easter holidays. 20 minutes every night with your school books will help improve comprehension and fluency.

We have set 2 maths challenges on Sumdog, one on fractions and one on x4 and x8 tables. 

Practice counting regularly with your child as well. Regular reviews of the number system will help build understanding and number fluency. Sing our songs, play what comes next, count forwards and backwards in numbers and fractions.

Spelling

We will be revisiting all our suffix rules this week. We have set a Sumdog challenge looking at the 'drop the e add the suffix' rule.

decided

taking

serving

writing

making

driving

shaking

baked

famed

giving

tiled

stored

using

dancer

server

Year 6 Blog Friday 28th April 2023

Date: 28th Apr 2023 @ 9:18am

Welcome to our first Year 6 blog of the Summer Term. It has been great to see the children back in their summer uniforms. They have all come back with a super attitude after having two weeks off and have done brilliantly with all the tricky tasks set this week. Keep up the hard work Year 6!

Also, Year 6’s learning this week:

• In Maths, we have been learning how to solve problems with our place value knowledge by making sure we underline the important parts of the question and to check our answers. We have also learnt about ratio (the relation of one quantity to another) and proportion (which is a number, a share or a part of something in relation to a whole – like portions).
• In English, we have written an explanation text, a story and a poem using a range of conjunctions and noun phrases. We have also been improving our grammar knowledge by revisiting the names of all the word classes.
• In History, we continued our learning of the Maya civilisation by interpreting evidence from a range of artefacts.
• In PE, we began our striking and fielding unit through the sport of cricket, and focused on our bowling skills, both underarm and overarm.
• In Music, we have started a unit of living composers: people composing music who are alive now. This week we looked at Anna Meredith and began composing our own raps.
• In French, we began to learn about the Cafe culture in France and used dictionaries to look up any unknown words to help us read a cafe menu. We were pleasantly surprised how much we could understand without having to look up the words - great progress y6!
• In Science, we learnt about medicines and drugs - how they are helpful but can also be dangerous. We have a talk next week from a hospital pharmacist who will talk about her job role and answer the children's questions about medicines and drugs so we prepared for that. We have now learnt about many different ways of making healthy lifestyle choices - we will put all our learning together next week to conclude this topic. 

Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:

• Reading – Continue to read every night for 30 minutes. It is important to keep reading, right up until the end for the year.

• NO SPELLING LIST THIS WEEK (We will be recapping our knowledge of the Year 5/6 spellings). Next week’s test will be on a random 15 spellings from this list so please look through those which you need to practise on.

• NO SUMDOG – please complete the sheets that have been given, by Monday.

• Maths challenges:
  • Counting:
    • This week we have been counting in 60s and 600s
    • Start with 225 or 850 or 575
    • Then count up in 60s ten times and back again
      • 225, 285, 345, 405, 465, 525, 585, etc
    • Then count up and back in 600s
      • 850, 1450, 2005, 2650, 3250, 3850, etc
    • Number facts:
      • To help your maths even more, please continue to learn your numbers facts, 17 – 9 = 6, 15 – 8 = 7.
      • The best way to do this is to simply have someone in your home quiz you with questions like (13 – 5, 18 – 9, 16 – 8, 15 - 9, etc)
      • Then get them to change the place value of these digits (1.3 – 0.5, 1.8 – 0.9, 1.6 – 0.8, 1.5 – 0.9, etc)

Year 1 Blog 28th April 2023

Date: 27th Apr 2023 @ 10:11am

Welcome to your first Summer Term blog!

English

This week, we have been reading the story 'I want my hat back' by Jon Klassen. We met a bear who had lost his hat who then used his detective skills to realise that actually, he had seen his hat! We predicted what was going to happen in the story, we drew our own hats, we made missing posters for the hat and used speech bubbles to write what was being said by each character.

Then, we read 'We found a hat' and compared it to the first story.

Phonics

We have been learning about oar and our is roar and pour.

Click here to sing some phonics songs.

Maths 

We focused on parts and wholes in number sentences. We learnt that the parts add together to make a whole. Then we looked at the inverse, making the subtraction number sentences using same numbers. We had to remember that the whole comes first!

Click here to play a fact families game.

R.E.

We recapped the Easter story and talked about how Easter Sunday, and Jesus' ascension, is not the end. We read about Peter telling everyone to spread the Good News and wrote about how we can continue to change for the better.

P.S.H.E.

We recapped different forms of money before learning about distinguishing between needs and wants. We defined both of them and sorted objects into each category.

P.E.

We started practising for our sports day, which is on the 11th of May at 2:15.

We practised the relay race and the egg and spoon race together.

Computing

We had an online safety session regarding the internet. We looked at some rules to follow and practised being safe on the internet. We used the NatGeo website to learn about a country of our choice.

Science

We went outside for a lovely nature walk! We spotted lots of different plants and flowers and sketched them in our science books. We learnt a lot of new plant names!

History

We started to learn about seaside holidays, both in the past and the present. We compared the two and stuck pictures into our books under each column.

Art

We had two separate art lessons this week. Our first was a lovely lesson drawing Earth pictures for World Earth Day. Then in our second lesson, we started our Digital Media topic. This is where you create art online. We Googled images of the seaside and sketched what we could see in our sketchbooks.

French

We recapped animals words and began to learn some phrases for the weather through games and a story. 

Outdoor Learning

This week four of the groups leant about fire safety. We watched a fire being started by Mrs Corbett using a flint and steel. We toasted marshmallows-they were yummy!

The last group will do this session next week.

We also checked how our plants are growing and put some of them in bigger pots.

Our summer term class and subject overviews are live on the school website. Please look on the year 1 page and the separate curriculum pages to see what we are learning about.

Don't forget that it is Bank Holiday on Monday. We will see you on Tuesday.

Home Practice

Phonics -  au and aw words

Maths -  counting practise

KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!

Year 5 Blog Friday 28th April

Date: 26th Apr 2023 @ 9:41am

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.

We have had a brilliant week back after the Easter holidays. Everybody has worked so hard and has shown that they are ready for the Summer Term. 

In English we have been reading a poem called The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. We are working towards writing our own version of the poem. Before writing our own poem we needed to find out:

What is a highwayman?

Who is Dick Turpin?

What do some of the words mean in the poem?

We have been finding the answers to all of these questions in order to help us understand the poem. 

You can see us in action here. 

We did some extra writing on Wednesday afternoon with a sports journalist. He taught us all about what it means to be a sports journalist and we had a go at writing our own match reports on the England v England women's Euro finals. Gareth, who is a sports journalist, was extremely impressed and said that the children in year 5 are very talented. 

In maths we have been mutlitplying and dividing by 100 and 1,000 and then using these skills to convert measures. 

1kg = 1,000g

1km = 1,000m

1L = 1,000ml

1m = 100cm

In geography we have continued with our learning about North America.

We learnt about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world. We spoke about what has caused this amount of plastic to be in this place, and what we can do to help. 

One of the main things we can do is reduce, resuse and recycle. 

In French, we learnt how to pronounce the 'qu' sound, then we began to learn the vocabulary of sport. We learnt how to use an online dictionary to look up unknown words and talked about the pros and cons of a book v online dictionary. Well done, as always, Y5.On Wednesday afternoon we 

In science we looked at the potatoes that we planted and observed how they have changed. We couldn't believe how many leaves had grown out of the soil. We have now covered the leaves with more soil and compost as we want the plant to focus on the potatoes and not the leaves. 

Thank you to everybody who looked after the potatoes so well over the Easter holidays. 

We have also taken some cuttings of different plants including thyme, basil, rosemary, coriander, parsley and chives. We have planted these cuttings in some soil and are going to see if they are able to grow roots and turn into new plants. 

If you would like to see what exciting learning we will be doing this term, you can have a look on our class page on the school wesbite here. 

Home Practice

Reading

Well done to so many of you who kept up with your reading over the Easter holidays! 

Please read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes. Retell what you have read in your own words. 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. 

You need to know how to spell each word and also what it means. Try writing out sentences with the spellings in. 

you're          your          there          their          they're         there's          theirs          where          were          we're         

vegetable          temperature          secretary          recognise          pronunciation       

Counting

Count out loud in 1.1s:

From 5.7 to 15.6

5.7        6.8          7.9          9          ...

From 3.6 to 13.5

3.6          4.7          5.8          6.9          ...

From 21.3 to 31.2

21.3          22.4          23.5          24.6          ...

Times Tables

You will be given your new tables target next week, please practise every day. 

Sumdog

Maths Competition

Times Tables Challenge

Spelling Challenge 

Have a nice long weekend :) 

Year 1 Blog-Thursday 6th April

Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 5:29pm

Welcome to your final Friday blog of the Spring term. We had a great Easter assembly with some lucky children winning an Easter egg in the raffle.

English

This week we read our Scaredy Squirrel books to the children in Year 3 and Reception. Everyone loved our stories and we got some really good feedback.

We had a few days learning from a story called The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. The seed has a journey starting in Autumn and ending up in Summer as an enormous flower.

We learnt about life cycles. We also wrote instructions to tell someone how to plant a seed.

Phonics

Some of us have been learning about al as in walk, talk, chalk and some of us have been learning more tricky words.

Maths

We have been doing lots of assessments this week.

R.E.

We learned more about the Easter story. We went to church on Tuesday to watch Year 6 perform their Easter presentation. We loved joining in with the singing and the prayers.

P.E.

We practised our fundamental skills outside.

Art

We all made an Easter card by collaging an egg shape.

French

We listened to La legende des Cloches de Paques - the story of the Easter Bells. In France, they say that the bells fall silent at Easter because they have gone to Rome to be blessed. They return on Easter Sunday, dropping chocolate eggs in gardens for children to find.  We practised some vocabulary related to Easter with a hunt the word game. 

Outdoor Learning

We have all made our hedgehog now using hammers and screwdrivers.

We did some more planting- carrots and foxgloves.

We went in the nature area and found new types of flowers growing, snails,woodlice, spiders ,ants and worms.

We wish you all a happy, holy and peaceful Easter.

Year 6 Blog Thursday 6th April 2023

Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 2:07pm

Welcome to the last Year 6 blog this spring term. We are so pleased with everyone’s effort throughout the term! This week, we led a church service based on Holy Week and were invited to church again by Father, where we learnt more about the stations of the cross, and what it means for Christians.

Also, Year 6’s learning this week:

• In Maths, we learnt that algebra means ‘the reunion of broken parts’, what algebra symbols mean and how to solve them. We also improved our learning on how to add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions.
• In English, we used our Skellig story to help learn how to answer reading questions of retrieval and inference using the text as evidence.
• In PE, we completed our orienteering unit with an intra competition in pairs trying to find the points hidden around the school grounds.
• In History, we learnt how the Maya were so successful, with clever farming and building structures using limestone and obsidian as their main resource. We summarised our findings in the style of a historian.

For the Easter holidays, I have included a ‘Suggested Revision Guide’ that has extra home practice sheets to use as you please. All documents have been given to you in a folder.

The Easter holidays are to rest, relax and enjoy time with your family. The documents I have included in the folder are for those who wish to do some extra practice during the two weeks, for just a small amount of time each day. It is not a requirement to complete everything but little and often of reading, maths revision, grammar and spelling revision will go a huge way when you return on Monday 24^th April. Please bring in any work and revision in on that day so I can advise on what to do next.

Enjoy your Easter break!

Year 2 Blog Thursday 6th April 2023

Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 1:50pm

Year 2 have had a truly excellent Spring Term, they have worked so hard and have made so much progress in their learning. A huge well done to everyone in class and you definitely deserve a good rest over the Easter Holiday. I hope you have lots of fun with family and friends and enjoy your Easter eggs!

In D.T, we designed, made and evaluated our vehicles which were really good and extremely creative. All the vehicles worked well and hopefully you will be able to play with them at home. Look at the vehicles gallery to see your cars!

In R.E, we read the Easter story and the children retold it in their own words with beautiful illustrations. We also went to Church and enjoyed a lovely service prepared by Year 6.

During Easter, read and enjoy as many books as you can. Try to keep reading daily!

I will issue new spellings and times tables in the Summer Term on Friday 28th April. 

There are two Sumdog challenges on 3x tables and comparing and ordering numbers.

Outdoor Learning

We have all made our hedgehog now using hammers and screwdrivers.

We did some more planting- carrots and foxgloves.

We went in the nature area and found new types of flowers growing, snails,woodlice, spiders ,ants and worms.

www.sumdog.com 

Have a great holiday and see you in the Summer Term - remember it's summer uniform!

Year 2 Team

Year 3 Blog 6th April 2023

Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 1:49pm

Welcome to your Year 3 blog!

This week we have finished our novel Toro, Toro, written by Michael Morpurgo. It was an amazing book! We enjoyed travelling with Antonio on his adventure on the run from Franco's army and on his quest to find Paco the bull. We wrote some brilliant recounts from the story as Antontio and a book review using some examples from real book critics.

In Maths we have been learning how to read bar charts and pictograms and used these to solve problems. It has been tricky in parts but we've remembered our statistics learning from Autumn really well.

We had a lovely celebration in Church on Tuesday. Year 6 led a very thoughtful Easter liturgy and Year 3 joined in brilliantly with their singing.

On Thursday we planned out fabric designs using hieroglyphics and Egyptian art. Next term we will apply our paste and dye to complete our designs. Have a look at our gallery.

In French, we learnt how to make animal nouns plural. We read some short texts and matched the words to the correct picture, then some of us were able to draw our own animals picture and write a sentence to describe it, using the correct plural form of the noun. 

We have had a lovely half term and seen lots of progress in all areas of our curriculum.

We are looking forward to next term!

Have a lovely Easter break and keep reading!!

The Year 3 team.

You can find the latest edition of our school Newspaper, The Learning Times in our galleries.

Reception Blog - Thursday 6th April 2023

Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 12:56pm

What a wonderful week we have had this week. Mrs Stone has returned from maternity leave and has enjoyed getting to know all of the children.

Throughout the week we have been learning about the Easter story and drawing pictures of what happened. We have recapped the numbers from 11-20, ordering them and matching them to eggs.

We have enjoyed using our outside area much more this week as the weather has been warmer. We have been watching our frog spawn change and we even went on a little walk to our school pond to have a go at pond dipping!

Towards the end of the week we had our stay and play, with lots of Easter/spring crafts and activities - a big thank you to everyone who came. The children really enjoyed sharing their learning with you.

We hope that everyone has a lovely Easter break and we will see you in 2 weeks!

Year 4 Blog Thursday 6th April 2023

Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 8:21am

Happy Easter and Happy Easter Holiday

We have had a fantastic last week of term in Year 4.  The sunshine on Monday and Tuesday really helped too!

Here is a brief overview of this week’s learning:

In English, we revised the rules for writing dialogue.  We then discussed different words for ‘said’ and how Lila and the chief pirate (Rambashi) might speak.  Following this, we write a scene which included dialogue between these two characters.

In Maths, we practised our mental addition and subtraction skills.  We learnt and refined the strategies of bridging through 10, and compensating using a number line.

In RE, we learnt more about Holy Week and completed a beautiful piece of work in our books which showed our understanding of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.  We also took part in a class worship which was led by some of the children in Year 4.

In DT, we finished our sewing projects.  We also evaluated our creations, describing what we felt went well, what didn’t go so well, and whether the product was fit for purpose.  You can see some pictures of our finished items here. 

On Tuesday afternoon, we also took part in an Easter Liturgy in church which was led by Year 6.

Well done for all your hard work this term Year 4.  We hope you have a lovely Easter Holiday - make sure you enjoy yourselves and spend time having fun with your friends and families.

We look forward to seeing you again on Monday 24^th April 2023 in your summer uniforms.

Please remember to keep reading over the holiday!

The Year 4 Team.

Year 5 Blog Thursday 6th April

Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 7:52am

Happy Easter and Happy Half Term!

We have had a great Half Term.

We had a brilliant time on our school trip to Judge's Lodgings on Tuesday. We experienced life in a Victorian classroom and as a Victorian servant. Here is a gallery of our trip. 

We absolutely loved reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and can't wait to find out what our class novel will be after the holidays. 

Please try to keep reading during Half Term - you might even be able to do some reading outside if it gets sunny.

The Sumdog challenges and competition will continue too - get your team to the top of the leaderboard. 

But most importantly, have fun, spend time with friends and family, and rest! 

Reminders

Please bring in a shoe box and a cereal box for out DT work after Half Term.

Please continue to collect for The Foxton Centre and Bardarndo's.

The CEO from the Foxton Centre will be visiting us after Half Term to collect our donations. It might be a nice idea to donate some Easter Eggs if you get too many or find some in the sale. 

Have a wonderful Easter!