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Year 4 Blog - Friday 9th September 2022
Date: 9th Sep 2022 @ 3:39pm
Year 4 Blog
Friday 9th September 2022
Welcome to the Year 4 Blog. We have had a fabulous first week back at school and the children have settled down very well to their new routines, teachers and learning.
Each week the Year 4 blog will include a brief summary of our learning and the children’s Home Practice to be completed during the week. Home Practice will start next Friday (16th September 2022).
In the meantime, we have sent some spellings home tonight. We will discuss and investigate these words in depth on Monday. However, please feel free to look at these words over the weekend. The children will be tested on these spellings next Friday (16th September 2022). Please also continue to read with your child every evening. You child will be given an individual tables target next week.
Here is a brief outline of our learning this week:
In English, we started our new novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. We made predictions about the book based on the cover and blurb. In addition, we wrote reasons for and against sailing around the world.
In Maths, we learnt about place value especially tenths.
In Science, we went outside to look at the fruit, berries and seeds we could find on trees. We drew pictures and described what we could see in our Nature Journals.
In PE, we practised throwing and catching skills and played mini games of netball.
In RE, we started our first topic about ‘Families’. We looked at a family tree and then drew a picture of our own families in our book. We also wrote what we enjoyed doing with them. In addition, we reflected on the 70 years of service Queen Elizabeth has given and wrote very thoughtful and respectful prayers.
We also had a very special Golden Assembly in school as we took some time to pay tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We had a minute silence and said some prayers for the Royal Family at this difficult time.
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Enjoy looking at the photos in the gallery which show the children walking around the school grounds and completing their Nature Journal.
Please remember your Meet the Teacher Meeting in the hall at 6.30pm on Tuesday 13th September 2022. We look forward to seeing you there.
Year 5 Blog 9th September 2022
Date: 9th Sep 2022 @ 3:35pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had a wonderful first week in Year 5. We have worked hard, played hard and been kind to each other. We were delighted to earn 46 golden tokens for our hard work and teamwork which gave us 23 minutes of Golden Time on Friday afternoon. We played a team game outside called Kick the Can and then watched some children sing and do magic tricks. It was a fantastic celebration of all of our hard work throughout the week. It takes the whole class to earn the tokens so it is a real team effort.
In maths we have been looking at 6-digit numbers and numbers with 3 decimal places. We have been using place value counters to make different numbers and have been solving problems involving the numbers. Everybody has done so well and tried their best!
We have started to read our class novel Goth Girl. We have identified the novel as a gothic style novel. We have looked at features of gothic novels including where they are often set, the different types of characters you would usually meet, and things that might happen in a gothic story. We have been looking at how the author develops the different characters and are working on developing our own characters. We have been looking at spellings with the letter string ough. Everybody has brought a spelling sheet home to stick up. We will practise these in school next week and everybody will practise writing them out at home too.
Today we had a very special Golden Assembly in school as we took some time to pay tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We had a minute silence and said some prayers for the Royal Family at this difficult time.
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We can't wait for another super week next week, and are excited to earn as many golden tokens as we can!
Well done Year 5.
Have an amazing weekend!
Year 1 Blog- 9th September 2022
Date: 9th Sep 2022 @ 3:35pm
Welcome to your first blog of Year 1.
All the children came in looking so smart and ready to learn.
We have all been really golden !
Our learning has been great in English, R.E.,Phonics, Maths, Geography, History, French, Music, P.S.H.E., P.E. , Art, Outdoor Learning and Computing! Phew- what a lot of learning! From next week we will give you more detail about what we have been learning in each subject area. We will also set some Maths and Phonics challenges on Sumdog.
Today we had a very special Golden Assembly as we took some time to pay tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We had a minute silence and said some prayers for the Royal Family at this difficult time.
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Please try to read every night- we change the reading books every Friday so please make sure the reading books and signed diary are in school on that day.
Please remember your Meet the Teacher meeting in the Hall on Tuesday 20th September at 6.30pm. We look forward to seeing you there !
Year 2 Blog Friday 9th September
Date: 9th Sep 2022 @ 12:49pm
Welcome back to a new school year. We hope you all had a lovely summer.
What a great first week back in Year 2! Everyone has settled in really well, the children are so enthusiastic about their learning and we have seen some great work.
Today we had a very special Golden Assembly in school as we took some time to pay tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We had a minute silence and said some prayers for the Royal Family at this difficult time.
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Next week we will be sending home the reading books, spellings and you will find the home practice tasks on this blog.
We look forward to seeing you at 'Meet the Teacher' next Thursday 15th September at 6.30pm.
Have a lovely weekend
Year 2 Team
Year 6 Blog - Friday 22nd July 2022
Date: 21st Jul 2022 @ 11:37am
Welcome to our last blog of the year.
Year 6 have had a great final week with super performances on Monday and Tuesday for the Joseph production. Check out St Oswald’s TV to enjoy the performance again and again.
It was lovely for us all to gather together for the Leavers Mass on Wednesday, with special thanks to Father Michael for giving us his wishes of hope for the future.
The Leavers Assembly had a few parents in tears with great memories shared and excellent hopes and dreams – we cannot wait to see what your children achieve in the coming years.
On Thursday, we took a trip to the Liverpool Cathedral to complete our Faith in Action and to remember the time this class have spent together these past 7 years.
I have had an amazing time teaching you all and I wish you all the best at All Hallows’ and beyond.
Mr Mears
Date: 21st Jul 2022 @ 11:10am
Happy Holidays
We have had a brilliant last week to end our school year. We have created some more animations, using all our skills and creativity. We have also been reading the playscript of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The children have loved finding out what happens to Harry after he leaves Hogwarts.
Over the holidays, continue to read every night and the Sumdog platform will remain open for practising all your maths and spelling.
Well done for an amazing year of hard work and lots of fun. You have done such a great job during your first year in the juniors and should feel extremely proud!
We'd also like to say a massive thank you for all your support throughout the year. Your children have been amazing and have had a great year of learning experiences, making some wonderful memories along the way. We hope you all have a lovely summer break and enjoy the sunshine.
Year 2 Final Blog - Thursday 21st July 2022
Date: 21st Jul 2022 @ 9:08am
A massive well done to everyone in Year 2. You have all worked so hard and made great progress this year. We have thoroughly enjoyed watching you learn and grow. You are definitely ready for the juniors and the new exciting learning that will come in Year 3. Please read, read, read as much as you can and enjoy it. If you want to do some maths, there's always Sumdog training for you to do.
Have a fun, happy and safe summer holiday.
Miss Gravili, Mrs Sheen and Mrs Whitworth.
Year 4 Final Blog - Friday 22nd July 2022
Date: 21st Jul 2022 @ 9:03am
A final blog to wish each and every one of you a happy, restful and safe summer holiday. We have had a fabulous year getting to know you and have loved teaching you. You will be just as amazing in Year 5, but please pop in and see us every now and again.
Keep reading as much as you can over the holiday.
Best wishes
Mrs Tipping and Mrs Dexter
Date: 20th Jul 2022 @ 4:23pm
Wow what a year we have had. We've had the best time in Reception this year and have throughly enjoying teaching you all.
We hope you all have an amazing summer holidays and enjoy lots of family time.
Take lots of pictures with your finger puppets for your scrapbook for Year 1. Keep reading all your favourite stories and have a go at writing a little diary with something fun you have done.
Here are a few pictures of our final week in Reception 2022.
Thank you for all your support this year !!
From
Mrs Stone, Mrs Robinson & Mrs Cliffe :)
Year 1 Final Blog-Friday 22nd July 2022
Date: 20th Jul 2022 @ 2:07pm
We wish you all a happy and safe holiday. We have loved teaching you this year. Keep reading as much as you can and we will see you in September.
Best wishes
Mrs Corbett, Miss Fisher & Mrs Anderson.
Date: 15th Jul 2022 @ 4:35pm
DT and PE Stars!
We have had a brillant week of learning this week. Thank you for all supporting our DT event. The children were amazing and had a fantastic time designing and preparing their very own afternoon tea. They showed off their DT skillls and enjoyed keeping you all busy with their active playtime.
This week we also finished Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The children have been emmersed in a world of wizardry of the last few weeks and created some stunning pieces of writing. Well done everyone!
In our Maths learning this week we have learned how to use partitioning to help us bridge 10 and 100. We also looked at using this strategy when finding the difference.
As part of our computing topic on animation, we have been creating some whiteboard animations. Keep and eye on our galleries for some of our creations. We have started to plan our own animations using toys, action figure, doll or lego. The children have been asked to bring in 2 'characters' to star in their animation. If these could be sent in by Wednesday as we will start filming that afternoon. If you don't have something, we can use some of the figures we have at school.
Home Practice
Continue to read regulary, especially over the holidays. A daily 10-15 minute read is the key!
Continue to access the training feature on the Sumdog platform for maths and spelling. A little practise everyday helps to embed learning and promotes fluency in both spelling amd maths.
Have a lovely weekend!
The Year 3 Team.
Year 5 Final Blog - 17th July 2022
Date: 15th Jul 2022 @ 3:46pm
Welcome to this week’s Year 5 class blog
This will be our final blog for this year, doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun! I would like to thank you for all your hard work and support this year, the children have been a pleasure to teach and I wish them all the best for next year. They are all ready to face the challenges of year 6 and I look forward to coming back and seeing them all at their production next year! Many thanks again, and a very fond farewell.
This week in year 5
In Maths, the children have worked on adding and subtracting decimals of different decimal places and have completed their final arithmetic quiz of the year! They have worked really hard to consolidate all of the strategies and knowledge gained over the year to show how much they have learnt.
In English the children were challenged to write a short story with a build-up and dilemma, to show Mr Mears all that they have learnt this year. They were given two photographs as inspiration and then planned and wrote a fantastic piece of work. They did themselves proud.
In RE the children have continued to work hard on their stewardship topic and have shown outstanding understanding. They are really learning to link the scriptures that we read to the learning taking place.
In PE the children had their last lesson practising net and wall techniques in tennis. They have really enjoyed this topic and they have improved their aim and power skills using good hand-eye coordination.
In computing, the children completed some online safety training, looking at commenting online. They were given access to comments on seesaw and had to think carefully about comments they made on others work and the consequences of not being nice. This was linked on online social media and the responsibility they have of using it appropriately in the future.
The children have been practising their singing for the Joseph show next week. They have the weekend to have their final practises at home and really learnt all the songs before the dress rehearsal on Monday and the live shows on Tuesday. Please encourage them to practise at home.
The children had a great time on Wednesday at Tough Kidder. I was told, “All the teachers join in!” Once I was wet through, I realised I had been duped! The children have been chatting about how fun it was all week and it really has been a highlight for them as we approach the end of their year 5 journey.
DON’T FORGET
Reading books need to be returned to school by Monday 18th July
Children need to bring in black leggings or black shorts for the dress rehearsal on Monday 18th July. Boys may wear their school shorts if they wish. They must be plain black without logos etc. The children will be provided with a coloured t-shirt on Monday. Please come to school in uniform as normal but bring black shorts or leggings with them.
Please can you send a carrier bag in with your child, with their name on so they can bring all their work home in it.
Over the Summer
Please remember to encourage your child to continue to read over the summer holidays and discuss with them what they have read. Ask them to summarise what they have read, or ask them questions about the characters in the book. These are skills that will help them hit the ground running next year. There are lots of maths games online that the children can play during the summer. If you type Topmarks maths into google and select key stage 2 games. There are all different kinds of skills to practise, whilst having fun.
Sumdog has a challenge section where the children can undertake diagnostic challenges and then it will provide them with a range of challenges at their level to help them develop. Feel free to access these over the holidays.
Date: 15th Jul 2022 @ 3:33pm
This week we have been learning all about going on a Safari.
The children have written their own Safari Dairies about what animals they have seen and how the felt when they saw them.
We have also really enjoyed joining in tough kidder, all the children completed the course and were very wet!
We had a go at orienteering, we had to follow the maps to the different colour cones and work out the pattern. We did this really well in teams.
Year 4 Blog Friday 15th July 2022
Date: 15th Jul 2022 @ 3:30pm
Year 4
Home Practice 15th July 2022
Welcome to this week’s blog. Here’s what we have been learning this week ….
In English, we drew and labelled a picture of Bill’s playground using evidence from the text. In addition, we looked at the features of a playscript. Following this, we wrote our own playscript using Chapter 3 of the novel and then acted this out.
In Maths, we learnt different strategies for mental addition. We practised these using a numberline. We also practised our tables playing different games in class.
In RE, we continued our topic, God’s people. We learnt about the life of Oscar Romero and Saint Teresa of Calcutta and discussed what made these people extraordinary.
During our PSHE lesson we learnt what ‘risks’ were and how to assess and manage risk in different situations. Following this, we discussed how we can be influenced by our peers and how to manage this influence.
In Science, we continued our topic of ‘Teeth and digestion’. We revised the different types of teeth in our mouths and their function. We also set up an experiment to find out what damages teeth. We used boiled eggs and left them in different liquids to see what effect the different liquids would have on the egg shells. We are looking forward to finding out the results next Monday. We also learnt the names of the basic parts of the digestive system, labelled a diagram and described how the digestive system works.
In Art, we sketched different patterns and shaded them in carefully. We repeated the same pattern 4 times and and experimented using different grades of pencil. We were impressed with our sketches and how different pencils made different marks.
We also had great fun at the Tough Kidder event on Wednesday afternoon. Thank you for the sponsorship money, this is being put towards the firepit for our Forest School.
REMINDERS
Please:
- bring you PE kit back into school – you will need it next week.
- return all reading books by Tuesday 19th
- bring a carrier bag into school on Monday for everything you will need to bring home next week.
DON’T FORGET SCHOOL CLOSES AT 1.30pm ON FRIDAY 22nd JULY
Year 2 Home Practice Friday 15th July 2022
Date: 15th Jul 2022 @ 2:38pm
Another great week in Year 2, the children had so much fun at the Tough Kidder event. Thank you for sending in sponsorship money for that. The firepit will be a fantastic addition to our Forest School resources. We made fruit faces in D.T and the children were so creative. The best part was eating all the delicious fruit, pomegranate was a real favourite!
Reading
In Year 2, children should read for at least 15 minutes every night and talk about what they have just read. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Please try to continue to read throughout the holiday. There are some great reading challenges at the local library, so plenty of opportunities to borrow books, or try some of the books on the Oxford Owl link below.
Reading books will be collected in on Monday.
Reading resources:
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read and really enjoy it.
Please 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
There will be no spelling test next Friday.
Maths
You will have a times table challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Friday.
Sumdog
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Please could you remember to send a small cardboard box into school for our D.T project next week.
Also, the children will be bringing their school exercise books home next Thursday. Please could you send a bag for life (carrier bag) for them to bring them home in.
Have a great weekend.
Year 2 Team.
Year 6 Blog - Friday 15th July 2022
Date: 15th Jul 2022 @ 12:35pm
Welcome to our Year 6 blog. This has been a very busy week:
- Rehearsals have been completed, with the inclusion of music, lights and the Year 5 choir. We are looking forward to everyone seeing our super performances next week.
- In Maths, we have been improving our calculation knowledge with quicker division strategies to help with large division questions.
- In English, we reminisced over the last 7 years to help us write about our memorable moments. Also, as we are about to leave primary school, we discussed our hopes and dreams for the future.
- In Music, we worked closely with Year 5 to add extra volume to our Joseph production.
- In our last PE session, we gave the children the option of which sport they would like to take part in. They all chose invasion games, with football and dodgeball being the most popular. It was great to see everyone’s developed skills after a year of so much PE and sport.
- In Science, we were fortunate to have a zoom visit from Richard Butcher, a geologist, who taught us more about fossils and explained the various jobs that any budding scientist may want to explore: seismologist, palaeontologist and engineering geologist.
- Finally, Year 6 led an amazing Tough Kidder event. They set up, planned and executed a fun filled afternoon for the whole school, which ended in the teachers becoming very wet.
NEXT WEEK REMINDERS
Monday Production for whole school (please remember your outfits)
Tuesday Three productions for parents (10am, 2pm and 6.30pm – please be in school around 6.15pm).
Wednesday Bring in a t-shirt or shirt for people to sign.
Please bring in a plastic bag for all your books.
Leavers Mass at 6pm, then fish and chip van at 7pm – finishes at 9pm.
Thursday Leavers Assembly at 9.15am then visit to Liverpool Cathedral and Crosby Beach (please wear sun cream).
Friday School closes for Summer 1.30pm.
Home Practice
Last time to rehearse these three tasks:
- Final time to practise all the words from your script and any acting parts you have been given.
- Perfect all the songs – all 14 are uploaded on a separate blog named, ‘Joseph production song lyrics 2022’.
- French – final weekend to learn the song Je suis un enfant de paix on Youtube.
Year 1 blog-Friday 15th July 2022
Date: 14th Jul 2022 @ 4:05pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
English
This week we read a story about Matilda and her dad who went on a great adventure and found some treasure. The treasure was unexpected!
We have been writing about the story and trying to remember all the things which make our writing beautiful.
Maths
This week we have been learning about halves and quarters. We have been finding halves and quarters of shapes and amounts. We have used cubes and Base 10 to help us.
R.E.
We continued to learn about our neighbours. We drew a picture of a good neighbour and wrote about how God loves our neighbour, just like we should.
P.S.H.E.
We talked about what these words mean and how we can help to look after our planet by doing them. We made posters about saving water, turning off electricity and using less packaging.
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Art
We made a whole class collage ready to be displayed in Year 2!
Geography
Miss Fisher took half of the class on an observation walk around school. They then drew a bird's eye view map of the infant building and surrounding outdoor areas. The second half of the class will be completing their map next week!
Tough Kidder
We all had a great afternoon doing Tough Kidder. We all got stuck in and very wet! Thank you to everyone who supported the event.
PLEASE SEND A CARRIER BAG WITH YOUR CHILD'S NAME ON IT NEXT MONDAY FOR EVERYTHING THAT THEY WILL BE BRINGING HOME.
DON'T FORGET SCHOOL CLOSES AT 1.30PM ON FRIDAY 22ND JULY.
Sumdog challenges
Phonics - tricky words 7
Maths - finding a quarter
Count on and back in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start on different numbers. Talk about whether the numbers are getting bigger or smaller.
Practise quickly recalling number facts, for example 6 is 0+6,1+5,2+4,3+3,4+2,5+1,0+6. practise for other numbers.
Year 4 Blog Friday 8th July 2022
Date: 8th Jul 2022 @ 3:39pm
Year 4
Home Practice 8th July 2022
Welcome to this week’s blog. Here’s what we have been learning this week ….
In English, we chose 3 characters from Chapter 1 and described how they treated Bill. We complemented our work by drawing a picture of the characters. In addition, we wrote a diary account from Bill’s point of view which included lots of thoughts and feelings.
In Maths, we learnt how to round decimal numbers to the nearest whole number and revised some mental addition strategies.
In RE, we started our new topic – God’s people. We learnt about the life of an 8 year old boy called Eric who lives in Rwanda. We then compared his life to our own. In addition, we discussed role models, the qualities we like in them and what makes someone extraordinary.
In PE, we took part in an orienteering activity. We used a map to follow a sequence of cones – this was quite challenging at times, especially if we had the map upside down! In addition, we practised our tennis skills and attempted to return the ball to our partner accurately!
In French this week, we drew a monster and coloured it, then described it using super sentences. The children had to make the colours match the noun eg les jambes is feminine plural so the colour had to be feminine plural as well. Some children even managed to include a negative sentence too - great job, year 4.
During our PSHE lesson we finished our clips videos on the ipads. We were all delighted with our videos which included ideas of simple changes we can all make to reduce plastic pollution.
In Geography, we completed our double page spread about climate change. We wrote sections about what causes climate change, and how we can try and reduce global warming. We were all incredibly proud of our work which is bright, colourful and informative.
In Science, we started our new topic – Teeth and digestion. We looked at our teeth in a mirror and then identified the different types of teeth in our mouths and their functions.
This week’s Home Practice ….
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Make sure you discuss the story and the characters. Find the meaning of any new words too. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Times tables
Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables and division facts, especially those that you find tricky. Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?
Remember - you can also practise your tables playing ‘Hit the button’ and https://www.timestables.co.uk/
Please continue to practise your tables as they will prove invaluable in Year 5 and 6!
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 12’s – draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers down as you count up. When you count down, cover the numbers up, say the number, then reveal what you have got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.
Count in 12’s
For example, start at 0 and count up to 144 and back again
0 12 24 etc 144 132 120 etc
For example, start at 1.2’s and down up to 14.4 and back again
0 1.2 2.4 etc 14.4 13.2 12.0 etc
Spellings
The spellings this week all have the prefix ‘auto’ or ‘sub’. A prefix is a group of letters that are added to the beginning of a word and change the meaning or make a new word. ‘Sub’ means under or below and ‘auto’ means self-controlled or about yourself (eg autobiography). The spellings are on Sumdog this week and will be tested next Friday (15th July 2022).
automatic autograph autocue autopilot autobiography
automobile automatically submarine subway submerge
submit subdivide subheading subordinate
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
- A maths challenge based on the 6 and 12 times tables
- A maths challenge – rounding to the nearest whole number
Please make sure you log on and have a go! Many of you are still not accessing Sumdog on a daily basis. Little and often is the key to success!
Number bonds
Number bonds are very important and help with many aspects of maths. The more confident you are with these, the easier you will find addition, subtraction, mental calculations etc. Therefore, please continue practising your number bonds / addition skills playing Hit the Button
The game you will play will help with your number bonds and quick addition skills. For example:
8 + 6 you could partition this into 8 + 2 + 4 = 14
This is because 8 + 2 is a pair to 10, then add the 4 to 10
Click on the link above, then on Play Game.
Click on Number bonds
On the left-hand side you will see the words ‘Up to 20’
Click on Addition within 20
See how many you can get correct in 1 minute. Then have another go and try and beat your score.
Maths and spelling training
Please continue to use the maths and spellings training sections as these are tailored for your child to practise skills, facts and words that they find difficult.
Date: 8th Jul 2022 @ 2:53pm
Welcome to this week’s Year 5 class blog
This week in year 5
In Maths, the children have completed a number of assessments, including reasoning and their times tables check. They have all worked so hard. I am very proud of the work they have put it. We have also had time to work on adding decimal numbers up to 3 decimal places. We have looked at adding decimals when they have a different number of integers (the number in front of the decimal) e.g. 25.272 + 346.081 = and we have also practised adding when the number of decimal places is different e.g. 390.45 + 283.173 =. The children have practised this in my different ways, including word problems.
In English we have again worked on some assessments but we have also managed to complete our novel Varjak Paw. The children seemed to have really enjoyed the book and for those avid readers there is a follow up book called Varjak Paw the Outlaw, the author is S. F. Said. We have written lots of work using a variety of features to show everything we have learnt this year, including a set of contrasting descriptions of the different settings from the book.
In Science, the children researched insects and amphibians as part of their life cycles topic. They had to find out the names of the creatures at the different stages, how they changed and whether they undertook full metamorphosis or partial metamorphosis.
In RE we continued with our topic of stewardship. The children were able to go outside and take photos and videos of our wonderful world and then wrote why it was precious to them. We also read scripture about creation and discussed what this meant in terms of stewardship and our responsibility of looking after God's precious earth.
We had a special visitor this week in French. Mr Hennigan, who is Head of Modern Languages at All Hallows came to join us for the lesson. He was so impressed! He said, "The standard of French in Y5 is amazing! Their pronunciation is exceptionally good and their grammatical knowledge is very impressive!" Very well done to everyone who joined in wholeheartedly with the lesson. You did St Oswald's proud!
In PE many of you will have seen the children enjoying their tennis session. This was slightly shorter than usual due to the lovely parent's afternoon. The children did however manage to practise their skills keeping the ball bouncing on their racket to improve control and force, they threw a ball to their partner who had to hit it back to them to catch, to improve aim and control power and finally we had a competition like last week where the children had to return a serve.
We have had 2 afternoons of PSHE this week to conclude our topic on careers. The children discussed the different careers they might like to take on in the future and whether these were realistic expectations with their skills and abilities. We looked at what they would need to work on to make these ideas and dreams a reality. We then went on to look at the importance of a range of jobs, the children ranked 17 careers in order of importance. Then I challenged them on the importance of each job, and they concluded that many jobs are important, and it really depends on the situation. I then shocked them by revealing the average wage of the different jobs and the children were able to discuss what wages they thought were unfair and unjust. This sparked a discussion on choosing a job based on wages over interest, vocation and enjoyment. We then went on to look at stereotypes in jobs, where these come from and how they, as future adults, can help to break these stereotypes. We had a discussion on job choices and training with link to university, college and apprenticeships and this all gave them food for thought. They worked really well and debated the topics in a respectful and mature manner.
Home Practice all relates to this week's learning - These are the tasks to be completed.
Reading - You all have a Home Reading book for year 5 so reading every night for 15-20 mins is essential. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be completed and signed. Some children had a break from reading over the holidays but please ensure this is made a priority now that we are back at school. Practise is vital to improve in all areas of English.
You can change your reading book on any school day (book bags to be left on Mrs Mulgrew's desk)
Maths – please ask your child what their times tables target is and help them practise this in order for them to progress.
Spelling words are homophones part 2
alter altar farther father guessed guest heard herd passed past their there they're here hear
Sumdog challenges
PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILDREN TO COMPLETE THE SUMDOG CHALLENGES, MANY CHILDREN ARE STILL NOT ACCESSING SUMDOG.
Please encourage your child to complete the Maths and Spelling Training. As you know, we set weekly challenges that are linked to the learning that takes place in school. As an extra feature, the maths and spelling training sections will provide a tailored challenge for your child to practise skills, facts and words they find difficult. Once the diagnostic challenges have been completed Sumdog will set challenges to aid improvement and development in the appropriate areas for your child. Once you have completed the class challenges, please use this feature for extra challenge in both maths and spelling. Many children have still not completed the diagnostic section.
Times tables have been set to reflect class targets
Maths the children have been set activities relating to adding and subtracting decimals.
Spelling words homophones and near homophones.
Year 6 Blog - Friday 8th July 2022
Date: 8th Jul 2022 @ 1:45pm
Welcome to another Year 6 blog. Year 6 completed their ‘Advanced Cycling’ course this week, which focused on how to keep safe whilst practising on our school playground. After all this practice, please continue to help your child learn how to keep safe and, if you think they are ready, take them on the road.
Just to note that this course does not allow the children to ride on the road - that is a decision up to the parent/carer.
This week in Year 6:
- Rehearsals are coming along with more stage directions and dances being included. We are becoming excited to show you our production, in just a few weeks’ time.
- In Maths, we have been improving our calculation knowledge with quicker times tables to help with large multiplications.
- In English, we have learnt that Aiden’s uncle is really a villain and what that might mean for future of the story. We also wrote about our love of reading and what our favourite books have been.
- In Music, we have used the time to give extra rehearsal practice to perfect the songs before we go into our final week of rehearsals.
- In PSHE, we explored what a good friend is, what a good friend does and what a good friend does not do. This should help us to identify new friends when everyone transitions to high school.
- In French, we practised the phonic sound et/er/ez. Then we practised our cafe conversations - Mr Hennigan, Head of Languages at All Hallows came in and he was very impressed with the children's pronunciation. Finally we watched the first episode of Le Fantome Cycliste - a drama related to the Tour de France.
- In Science, we discussed the dangers of electricity, learnt how to represent circuits in symbols and we had a go at making simple circuits.
- Finally, it was great to see the parents/grandparents who visited our class to celebrate the learning in our books. If you did not have chance to make it, do not worry, as all the books will be coming home in two weeks.
Home Practice
Please continue to rehearse these three tasks:
- Continue to learn all the words from your script and any acting parts you have been given.
- Learn all the songs so you do not need to read the lyrics – all 14 are uploaded on a separate blog named, ‘Joseph production song lyrics 2022’.
- French – please keep learning the song, 'Je suis un enfant de paix' on Youtube.
Date: 8th Jul 2022 @ 12:40pm
Happy Friday everybody.
We have had a lovely week in Year 3. We loved showing off our amazing work on Thursday afternoon. Thank you for the amazing turnout. It was lovely seeing the children show off the work they are proud of. We will send home some books at the end of year so don't worry if you missed out.
We have finished planning our wellbeing afternoon. We have brought home the ingredients which we need to buy. We spoke about changing ideas if we need to if shops don't have what we need or we change our mind. Our wellbeing afternoon will take place on Thursday 14th July at 2pm. We are looking forward to preparing afternoon tea for somebody, teaching them some exercises and doing some mindful colouring.
In our PSHE this week we have been talking about different ways to be active on a daily basis. We know that it is important to be active because it keeps us fit and healthy and also helps us to feel happy and confident.
We had a very exciting morning on Wednesday for our Moving up morning. We spent some time in Year 4 and loved it.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read.
Counting
Count out loud in:
4s from 0 to 48 and back again.
40s from 0 to 480 and back again.
Times Tables
Choose a x table you don't feel confident with out of 2, 3, 4, 5, 8. Practise every day.
Spellings
Have a practise on the spelling training on Sumdog. It will give you the spellings your child needs to work on. 5-10 minutes practice a night is plenty.
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Remember to get your ingredients for your afternoon tea.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Date: 8th Jul 2022 @ 10:43am
This week we have been looking at the story 'We all went on Sarfari by Laurie Krebs'
We have been discussing the differences we can spot between our county and Tanzania.
Year 2 Home Practice Friday 8th July 2022
Date: 8th Jul 2022 @ 9:55am
A very exciting week in Year 2, the children had a fantastic time on our school trip to Skipton Castle. They really enjoyed exploring and seeing what daily life in a castle was like. Well done to everyone for listening so carefully and using lovely manners. Moving up morning was also a lot of fun and really good for the children to experience time as juniors. They are definitely ready for the new, challenging and interesting learning Year 3 will offer.
Reading
In Year 2, children should read for at least 15 minutes every night and talk about what they have just read. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Please sign and leave a small comment when you have read with your child and make it clear that you have finished a book, then we know we can change it.
Reading books are changed every Monday and sent home on Tuesday. However, if you need to change a book another 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.
Please 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 (15.07.22). A sheet will go home on Friday with the spelling list on. This is to do at home and can be kept with you.
It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but also to call the words out and spell them out loud using the letter sounds or names. Other ideas include breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (pleasure). You could look for words within words (division)or think of your own ways to remember the word for example, spell it aloud using a tune or song.
You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by next Friday.
This week’s spellings are:
television pleasure
treasure measure
usual occasion
division usually
vision leisure
Maths
At home, play the ‘follow me’ counting game that we play in school. Take turns to count to 100 forwards or backwards. You could start and finish at any number. Try counting faster to make it more challenging.
You will have a times table and number challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Friday.
Sumdog
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Have a great weekend and enjoy the circus if you are going.
Year 2 Team.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 8th July 2022
Date: 7th Jul 2022 @ 9:52am
Welcome to your Friday blog!
English
This week we continued to write our own versions of The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch. We focused on making our writing look beautiful on the page and making sure that we can read every word and sentence. We are nearly ready to read them to Year 2!
In phonics, we have continued to look at alternative spellings. We focused on the graphemes for ow (ow, ou and ough).
Maths
We have been learning how to partition 2-digit numbers to subtract through the ten (e.g. 12 - 8 = 12 - 2 then - 6). This was very tricky learning but we worked very hard! We also began recapping fractions. Have a go at the topmarks subtraction to continue practising taking away.
Topmarks subtraction number sentences
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We began our Neighbours topic this week. We learnt that everyone can be classed as our neighbour, even if they live far away. We read about a little girl called Marie-Doraine who lives in Africa. She taught us about her family, school, the food she eats and home life. We then drew pictures of our own family, food and favourite game.
PE
Miss Fisher was so amazed by our behaviour and skills in PE this week. We learnt how to play benchball for the first time! We used our throwing and catching skills in the hall to play a friendly game of benchball. It was so fun! We will play it again next week.
Geography
We used our fieldwork skills to observe the school this week. We used 4 of our 5 senses to observe what we could see, hear, smell and touch in different areas of the school.
French
We played traditional playground games. It was so much fun! We even practised counting to 10 to play the game.
Music
We played the glocks again this week in the green room. We are becoming much more confident!
We absolutely loved our morning in Year 2 this week! Mrs Sheen was so impressed by everyone! Please remember to bring your favourite book into school next Wednesday for the next transition morning.
Sumdog challenges
Phonics - ow and ou words
Maths - finding a half
Count on and back in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start on different numbers. Talk about whether the numbers are getting bigger or smaller.
Practise quickly recalling number facts, for example 6 is 0+6,1+5,2+4,3+3,4+2,5+1,0+6. practise for other numbers
See if your child can tell the time on an analogue clock. Look at o'clock and half past.
Year 4 Blog Friday 1st July 2022
Date: 1st Jul 2022 @ 4:52pm
Year 4
Home Practice 1st July 2022
Welcome to this week’s blog. Here’s what we have been learning this week ….
In English, we started our new novel – Bill’s New Frock by Anne Fine. We looked at the front cover and made predictions about the story. Then we read the blurb on the back and wrote a paragraph to explain whether our prediction had changed and reasons why.
In Maths, we learnt how to compare and order decimal numbers. In addition, we revised rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. Following this, we rounded decimals to the nearest whole number.
In French, we described a monster together, remembering to put the colour adjectives after the nouns and make them agree. Then we read a story about a monster. Next week, we will design our own monster and describe it.
During our PSHE lesson we discussed whose responsibility it is to protect the world around us. We then reminded ourselves of simple changes we can all make to help reduce plastic pollution. We then enjoyed making a clips video on the ipads to explain what we have learnt and suggest changes that people can make to help the environment and reduce plastic pollution.
In Computing, we made our final animations. We thoroughly enjoyed making these and are really proud of our end results. Over the past few weeks, we have learnt a lot about making an animation, and now understand that the ipad and background need to be secure, and the characters should only move a small amount each time.
In Geography, we started to write a double page spread about climate change. We wrote the title, a definition of climate change and the impact of climate change on the world, such as: drought, more frequent and powerful storms, and rising sea levels which can lead to flooding. We will be adding more information to our work next week.
We also enjoyed wild weaving outside. We found twigs of a similar size and bound the ends together to make a rectangular shape. We then wrapped wool or string around it to make a loom. Following this, we threaded natural materials into the loom – these looked beautiful, well done Year 4.
This week’s Home Practice ….
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Make sure you discuss the story and the characters. Find the meaning of any new words too. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Times tables
Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables and division facts, especially those that you find tricky. Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?
Remember - you can also practise your tables playing ‘Hit the button’ and https://www.timestables.co.uk/
Please continue to practise your tables as they will prove invaluable in Year 5 and 6!
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 25’s – draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers down as you count up. When you count down, cover the numbers up, say the number, then reveal what you have got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.
Count in 25’s
For example, start at 0 and count up to 275 and back again
0 25 50 etc 275 250 225 etc
For example, start at 1125 and down up to 925 and back again
1125 1100 1075 etc 925 950 975 etc
Spellings
The spellings this week all have the prefix ‘in’ or ‘ir’. A prefix is a group of letters that are added to the beginning of a word and change the meaning or make a new word. ‘In’ and ‘ir’ both mean not. Therefore, when they are added to the beginning of a word, they form words with the opposite meaning. For example inaccurate means not accurate and irrelevant means not relevant. The spellings are on Sumdog this week.
inaccurate incomplete inactive incorrect inconvenient
inexpensive inefficient inedible irregular irresponsible
irrelevant irreversible irresistible irrational irreplaceable
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
- A maths challenge based on the 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables
- A maths challenge – rounding to the nearest whole number, 10, 100 and 1000
Please make sure you log on and have a go! Many of you are still not accessing Sumdog on a daily basis. Little and often is the key to success!
Number bonds
Number bonds are very important and help with many aspects of maths. The more confident you are with these, the easier you will find addition, subtraction, mental calculations etc. Therefore, please continue practising your number bonds / addition skills playing Hit the Button
The game you will play will help with your number bonds and quick addition skills. For example:
8 + 6 you could partition this into 8 + 2 + 4 = 14
This is because 8 + 2 is a pair to 10, then add the 4 to 10
Click on the link above, then on Play Game.
Click on Number bonds
On the left-hand side you will see the words ‘Up to 20’
Click on Addition within 20
See how many you can get correct in 1 minute. Then have another go and try and beat your score.