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Friday 21st May 2021

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 12:57pm

This week we have been doing the story of the Hungry Caterpillar. We have written a diary about what he ate and made our own fruit kebabs, which we enjoyed for our snack.

In art, we made our own caterpillars with repeating patterns and had a look at making symmetrical butterflies by painting one side and folding it in half.

We have also been looking at sharing different amounts, playing bingo and making our own butterfly lifecycles.

We started our new topic in RE, which is all about friends. We have spoken about what makes a good friend, made friendship cards and friendship bracelets. 

Such a busy week! well done everyone!

Year 3 Home Practice 21st May 2021

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 12:55pm

We have had a very fun week in Year 3. We made beautiful pieces of ocean art after learning about the ocean and about how different creatures adapt to living in the deep sea. We also looked at the different oceans and seas in an atlas in Geography. We then squeezed in another Geography lesson; we couldn’t miss out on the Eurovision Song Contest. We had a lot of fun and laughter listening to the songs by some of the contestants, we rocked some of the dance moves (especially Iceland’s dance) and then we found out about the different countries by looking at maps.

In French we continued to practise reading and writing numbers and days and fruit vocabulary, ready to read The Hungry Caterpillar in French next week.

In Maths we have been focussing on multiplying a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number, we are getting very good at this. Knowing our times tables well helps a lot!

In English we have been focussing on splitting our writing into paragraphs and using good words to make our writing exciting.

Home Practice for 21^st May – 28^th May

The key to completing your home practice is to do a little bit every night.

Reading

Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read.

Times Tables

Please practise the 8x tables on Hit the Button. Play 3 games every night. See how much quicker you can get each night.

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

Sumdog

Times Tables Challenge: 21^st May – 28^th May

Year 3 Competition: 21^st May – 28^th May

Spelling Challenge: 21^st May – 28^th May

Spellings

Your spellings this week are past tense verbs but they do not follow the same rules as the spellings from last week. They are irregular.

sent

heard

thought

did

went

caught

wrote

forgot

taught

Say the words out loud, find the meaning of the words, write them out in different coloured chunks that you will remember, and write them out each night.

Tests

You will be tested on your spellings and times tables on Thursday 27^th May. Make sure you practise every night.

Year 5 Home Practice 21st May 2021

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 11:14am

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 21^st May 2021

A great week Year 5, made even better with some lovely sunny days. In English, we have written letters about homesickness. Something that Boy (Roald Dahl) experienced at boarding school. The children used the text to say why he was homesick and how he could make it better. We have moved on to addition and subtraction in Maths, using near multiples of 10, 100 and 1000 to add and subtract mentally and did some tricky problem solving. In RE, we made a collage of all the things we learned about the Holy Spirit and transformation. There were some very creative/artistic pieces of work, well done Year 5.

Reading

Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book, look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find more information.

Y5 book changing day is Friday. Although, some children may change books at different times, so always bring your book bag into school every day. Remember to sign when you have finished a book, it makes it much easier to issue new books.

Remember to complete your ‘Reading Journal’ task. At the front of the journal there are activities for you to do using your current book or one you have just finished. Choose an activity, complete it in your journal (best presentation and handwriting!) and colour/highlight the square to show you have done it. Complete one activity per week.

Maths

This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on addition and subtraction problems/ division facts. We will have a division facts test on Friday.

Spelling

There will be no Sumdog spelling challenge this week, so please spend extra time learning the spellings below.

Please learn these spellings for Friday (28.5.21): If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult.

We are investigating the Year 5/6 Spelling List.

accommodate     achieve              ancient           attached        awkward                        

accompany         aggressive         apparent         available        embarrass           

according           amateur            appreciate         average       exaggerate   

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Gravili

Year 1 Home Practice Friday 21st May

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 8:06am

Welcome to your Friday blog! 

This week we have been writing our own Lighthouse Keeper stories. We are going to read our stories to the children in Year 2 and Reception so we will have a real audience!

Some of our book titles are... The Lighthouse Keeper Lost his Glasses, The Lighthouse Keeper's New Cat, The Lighthouse Keeper Goes to Hospital!

In Maths we have been learning how to use our friends of 10 to solve tricky number problems and worked don explaining our working out. Super maths this week!

In between the showers, we got outside for P.E. and practised our Athletics skills. We are seeing some huge improvement from September so well done everybody.

On our round the world trip we stopped off in Nigeria exploring all the different places including cities, forests and desert. We also designed some African patterns in Art using repeating pattterns and contrasting colours.

In R.E .we had a quiet reflection to celebrate the end of our topic of Holidays and Holy Days. We used our fire-coloured streamers to represent the coming of the Holy Spirit. 

We started our new topic called Being Sorry and discussed making good choices,

In Science we started a new topic on materials by making a collection of objects and sorting them into groups and saying how we had sorted them. We began to discuss materials and their properties.

In French we continued to practise the vocabulary for clothes with games, songs and stories.

In Golden Assembly we celebated all our learners including our Daily Miler which this week was Ronnie!

Keep up all the reading at home, it all has an impact.

Keep an look out on Sumdog for new Spelling and Maths challenges. Well done to everyone who completed this week's learning.

Don't forget our fund raising Friday next week. Come to school dressed as a teacher!

Have a lovely weekend!

Reception 14th May 2021

Date: 17th May 2021 @ 3:46pm

We continued looking at Superworm this week. 

In literacy, we made our own plans to save superworm and wrote a letter to the minibeasts thanking them for helping. 

In Maths, we were practising our subtraction, using practical equipment. 

During our topic learning, we made nature pictures to celebrate mental health week and we made wormerys to explore what worms get up to underground. In RE, we did a postcard about our good news.

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 14th May

Date: 14th May 2021 @ 4:06pm

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 14^th May 2021

It was lovely to speak to all the parents this week and let them know how hard you have all been working. Keep up the good work Year 5! In Maths, we have been reading timetables, the 24 hour clock and working out time intervals. Also, recapping the properties of 3-D shapes and sorting/problem solving. The book, Boy is such a good read and we have learned so much about boarding schools and life back in the early 1900’s. The children did some lovely work about the fruits of the Holy Spirit and which one they would want to have and why. Their PowerPoints in science were great and really explained what Science is all about and the different types of Sciences like Biology, Physics etc.

Reading

Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book, look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find more information.

Y5 book changing day is Friday. Although, some children may change books at different times, so always bring your book bag into school every day. Remember to sign when you have finished a book, it makes it much easier to issue new books.

Remember to complete your ‘Reading Journal’ task. At the front of the journal there are activities for you to do using your current book or one you have just finished. Choose an activity, complete it in your journal (best presentation and handwriting!) and colour/highlight the square to show you have done it. Complete one activity per week.

Maths

This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on reading and interpreting tables/timetables and division facts. We will have a division facts test on Friday.

Spelling

There will be no Sumdog spelling challenge this week, so please spend extra time learning the spellings below.

Please learn these spellings for Friday (21.5.21): If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult.

We are investigating the Year 5/6 Spelling List.

bargain         cemetery              community           conscious             correspond                 

bruise           committee             competition         controversy         criticise      

category       communicate          conscience          convenience         curiosity        

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Gravili

Year 2 Home Practice - 14th May 2021

Date: 14th May 2021 @ 3:54pm

Well done for all your hard work this week Year 2!

This week in English, we started our new story, Georges Marvellous Medicine. We have looked at George’s grizzly old grunion of a Grandma and we created some great character descriptions. We have also looked at poetry and rhyme. We attempted to create our own medicine poem. In Maths, we have looked at place value and placing numbers on different number lines. Our bean plants and cress are looking great and we have kept up with our diaries, carefully monitoring how they grow. In French this week, we started by trying to use our French phonics to spell numbers. We are getting better! Then we read the story Je m’habille et je te croque about a wolf who puts his clothes on before eating someone. We tried to learn the words for clothes by playing some games. During Mental Health Week we have made it a priority to get outside in the fresh air. We even managed to take part in some relaxing meditation sessions. This helped to focus our minds and let go of any worries we had.  

Well done to the 22 children who have had a go at the SumDog challenges this week. Those children will receive dojos for going on and completing the work set. There will be a prize for the child with the most individual dojo points this week.

Reading

In Year 2 we aim to read for a minimum of 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an older sibling or adult to help deepen your knowledge.

Reading books are changed every Monday so please remember to bring in your book bag.

Reading resources:

Here is a useful link for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS

Spelling

Next week’s spellings are all about the suffix ‘–es’.

A spelling list will be sent out on a Monday with book bags and the spelling list will be available to practise on Sumdog. Please practise these spellings ready for your quiz on Friday.

buses

kisses

horses

matches

churches

dishes

classes

glasses

boxes

foxes

Maths

This week we have looked at place value and putting numbers on a number line. The children have also been learning how to use information in tables to answer questions. The children continue to work hard to spot the key information to help us answer mathematical questions. In Maths we have had a big focus on talking through worded problems with our talk partner.

Please have a go at the challenges set on Sumdog.

Sumdog Challenges

Multiplication – x2, x5 x10 and x 3 tables

Maths – adding numbers to a number line, more and less than symbols.

Spelling Quiz – suffix -es

Please practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.

We hope you have a relaxing weekend.

The Year 2 team

HOME PRACTICE 14th May 2021

Date: 14th May 2021 @ 3:42pm

Year 4

Home Practice 14^th May 2021

A busy week in Year 4! Well done for working hard.

We refined our compact method of addition and recapped and revised our 6, 9 and 7 times tables.  In English, we wrote our own Haiku’s and a character description of Grace, both of these were based on our class novel.  We completed our Science topic ‘Teeth and digestion’ by looking at and learning more about food chains.  We finished our Powerpoint quizzes about Italy and made sure that we included transitions, animations, and at least one hyperlink – we are so proud of what we achieved!

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

You have been given your own individual times table target.  Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables in preparation for your test next week, on Wednesday (19^th May 2021).  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?  

You can also practise your tables playing ‘Hit the button’.  Select the times tables or division button and then the table that you want to practise.  This is an excellent way to practise your tables.  Either type in ‘hit the button’ (the game is on Top Marks) or use the link below:

Hit the Button  

Some of you have asked if you can practise your times tables on the ‘Multiplication check’ program we used this week.  Unfortunately, you cannot use exactly the same program at home.  You can however play something very similar by clicking on the link below.  You will be given 6 seconds to answer the question and there will be a gap of 3 seconds between each question.

Multiplication tables check

Spellings

The spellings this week all have the suffix ‘sion’.  A suffix is a group of letters that are added to the end of the word, and which change the meaning or make a new word.  ‘Sion’ is usually used if the root word ends in ‘d’ (eg extend, extension) or ‘se’ (adverse, adversion).  These words will be tested on Thursday (20^th May 2021).  We have discussed different strategies to learn spellings in class, or you can always use ‘Look say cover write check’.  The spellings are on Sumdog this week.

expansion     extension     tension        suspension   exclusion

explosion      collision        erosion        invasion        television

illusion         confusion     inclusion       intrusion      division       

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A multiplication tables check, similar to the check you completed in school this week
• A maths times table challenge (based on the 9 and 7 times table)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 14th May 2021

Date: 14th May 2021 @ 3:41pm

Welcome to the Year 6 blog. This week has been Mental Health Awareness Week where we discussed how to look after our mental health through: exercise, sleep, doing things they really enjoy, being kind to others and practicing gratitude. Also, we learnt about different medicines and how they can support our health and well-being.

We were lucky to have an online meeting with a hospital pharmacist who explained the job of a pharmacist and the training needed. She answered Y6’s questions about her job role and medicines in general. She was very impressed with the quality and range of the children’s questions. Well done Y6 and thank you to Rachel for her time.

Reminders:

• Do not forget to bring in your cycling booklet, ‘Passport to Safer Cycling’, which we would like to be completed and brought back into school by next Monday 17^th
• Do not forget that your bike and helmet need to be in school on Monday 17^th May for the bike check.

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In PSHE, we have chosen to focus on one thing that helps our mental health this week and learnt about ways to reduce worry and anxiety.
• In Maths, we have strengthened our knowledge of fractions: how to compare them, add and subtract proper, improper and mixed numbers.
• In English, we have connected the story of The Lost Magician to ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ and how they both relate very closely. We have also been improving our prediction skill using evidence from the text and how to use commas more effectively.
• In PE, we started to learn the correct rules for ‘Quick Cricket’ and ‘Tag Rugby’.
• In RE, we have completed the topic of Witness by working in teams to write all the things we do for ourselves, our school and the community as we act as witnesses of God.
• For our Art lesson, we continued our PSHE discussion of ways to reduce worries, one of which was to ‘settle our thoughts’. Then we were inspired by the artists Bruce Gray and Wassily Kandinsky for our art work for drawing, colouring and pattern making to help us settle.
• In Music, we have learnt how to increase and decrease our tempo using the Boomwhackers and glocks.
• In French, we conjugated and used the verb jouer – to play in sentences about playing sports or musical instruments. Then we learnt that if a sport involves a ball, the verb ‘jouer’ is used but if we don’t ‘play’ other sports, we do them so we need the verb ‘faire’.
• For Science, we have practised our data handling skills and drawn excellent graphs of the results of our crisp burning experiment last week. We used them to try and find a pattern between how much energy they produced when burnt and the nutritional information on the packet. There seemed to be a link with the fat content, but not in all cases so scientists would repeat the test to delve deeper into this.
• Finally in History, we researched and presented information about the evacuees of World War II.

Well done to 95% of you for changing your book this week. Remember that reading is STILL your number one priority every day.

These are the days when you can change your reading book:

Monday – Dodgems

Tuesday – Roller Coasters

Wednesday – Big Dippers / The Waltzers

These are the tasks to be completed:

• Reading – Please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day.

Please complete the ‘Reading Challenges’ you have been given by answering them in your Reading Journals.

• Sumdog challenges:

•     Times tables x7, x8, x9 (100 correct answers needed):
  • This will be great to continue to know these times tables fluently.

•      Multiply and divide numbers mentally using known facts (100 correct answers         needed):
  • Use your place value knowledge to quickly multiply and divide the numbers you see in the questions.
•      Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
  • Spellings with /acc/ pattern (part 3)

(accidentally, accept, acceptance, accessory, accident, accommodate, according, account, accessible, unacceptable, accuse, vaccinate, accelerate, accent, access)

Year 3 Home Practice 14th May

Date: 14th May 2021 @ 12:46pm

We have had a very messy and fun week in Year 3.

We have made our own Ancient Egyptian mummies out of clay and tissue paper, we have experimented with celery and food colouring to find out about the function of different plant parts, and we have made gums and teeth out of salt dough in our PSHE lesson all about keeping our teeth healthy. We have worked so well as a team in all of these lessons and have been very respectful of the classroom by tidying and cleaning up after ourselves.

In Maths we have been looking at subtracting big numbers by using a written method and have been practising dividing by 5.

In English we have been focussing on using exciting words to describe – we might spot some good words to describe when we are reading at home.

Home Practice for 14^th May – 21^st May

The key to completing your home practice is to do a little bit every night.

Reading

Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read.

Times Tables

Please practise the division facts for the 4x tables on Hit the Button. Play 3 games every night. See how much quicker you can get each night.

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

Sumdog

Times Tables Challenge: 14^th May – 21^st May

Year 3 Competition: 14^th May – 21^st May

Spelling Challenge: 14^th May – 21^st May

Spellings

Your spellings this week are past tense verbs. Pay attention to double letters, can you figure out why some have the last letter doubled before adding -ed, and others just have -ed added?

ask: asked,

answer: answered

talk: talked

jump: jumped

walk: walked

look: looked

allow: allowed

slip: slipped

skip: skipped

admit: admitted

Say the words out loud, find the meaning of the words, write them out in different coloured chunks that you will remember, and write them out each night.

Tests

You will be tested on your spellings and times tables on Thursday 20^th May. Make sure you practise every night.

Online Safety - 13th May 2021

Date: 13th May 2021 @ 9:28pm

This week is Mental Health Awareness week and a great opportunity to remind us to be kind to ourselves as well as others.

Below you will find two guides from National Online Safety on how to promote wellbeing both online and offline and how to be kind when using the internet.

Join us at our Online Safety Hub at National Online Safety and gain free access to a huge range of videos, resources and support.

http://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primary-school-pr45eb

Year 1 Home Practice 14th May 2021

Date: 12th May 2021 @ 2:20pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

This week we have met Mr Grinling the lighthouse keeper and his wife. They have a cat called Hamish. We have done some super writing about their adventures. We will  be finding out more about what they get up to next week.

In Maths we have been learning about addition and subtraction. We have also been checking that we are writing our numbers correctly.

Well done who completed their Sumdog challlenges this week. You have all received a bonus 200 coins. 

We have been finding out about South America in our Geography, visiting Rio and the Amazon Rainforest. We heard some fantastic questions and even looked at some photos of an explorer from Year 1!

 In Collective Worship we have been hearing about May being the month of Mary.

In Science, Mrs Quilliam showed us lots of different leaves and we learned some great new vocabulary. Serrated, deciduous and evergreen.

We have enjoyed catching up with you all this week with the phone calls and thank you for all your continued support.

Keep reading every day, this is the key to success. 

Spelling and Number practice has been uploaded to Sumdog. 

Have a lovely and relaxing weekend.

The Year 1 Team 

HOME PRACTICE 7th May 2021

Date: 7th May 2021 @ 4:24pm

Year 4

Home Practice 7th May 2021

Another wonderful week in Year 4!

In English, we explained what we would take on a long journey and why, and wrote a diary entry as a character from our novel Journey to Jo

Year 2 Home Practice - 7th May 2021

Date: 7th May 2021 @ 3:45pm

We have had another wonderful week in Year 2. We have loved being outdoors and staying active by completing the Daily Mile every day. This week in English, we have continued with our story The Tin Forest by Helen Ward. We have created some brilliant riddles for Mr Ingram to solve. In Maths, we have looked at statistics and we have answered questions about pictograms, bar charts and tallies. Today, in science we filled out our bean diary. They are just beginning to sprout! We have now planted some cress seeds and we will monitor them over the coming weeks. In French this week, we have been using phonics to spell numbers and we have also learnt how to say weather phrases. In RE we have continued to focus on the Pentecost. We have learnt how the Holy Spirit can help Christians. We have been learning how to make safe choices in PSHE. 

Well done to the 15 children who have had a go at the SumDog challenges this week. Those children will receive dojos for going on and completing the SumDog challenges. There will be a prize for the child with the most individual dojo points this week. 

Reading

In Year 2 we aim to read for a minimum of 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an older sibling or adult to help deepen your knowledge.

Reading books are changed every Monday so please remember to bring in your book bag.

Reading resources:

Here is a useful link for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS 

Spelling

Next week

Year 3 Home Practice 7th May

Date: 7th May 2021 @ 3:38pm

We have had an excellent week in Year 3. Everybody has worked hard and been a good friend. 

We have been looking at different methods to subtract and recapping on the 3x tables in Maths. In English we have been trying to include speech marks in our writing. We are getting very good at it. 

In French we have been using French phonics to spell numbers and to write sentences. 

We have been enjoying our new Science topic which is plants, we have been looking at different parts of a plant and their jobs. We have also been looking after our poppy seeds by making sure they are watered every day and are kept somewhere in the sunlight. 

In History, we looked at the different beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians. One of their beliefs was that after they died, they had an afterlife. This was why they spent so much time on mummification and building tombs. We learnt about the stages of mummification, we were disgusted by some of them

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 7th May 2021

Date: 7th May 2021 @ 1:01pm

Welcome to the Year 6 blog. After a very wet Bank Holiday Monday, Year 6 have had a super week learning more songs for the production, burning crisps in Science and heading out into the nature area to take artistic pictures to sketch. 

We were also treated to a visit by Mrs Washington and Miss Hall from All Hallows

Year 1 Home Practice 7th May 2021

Date: 7th May 2021 @ 12:42pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

We have really enjoyed reading all the Katie Morag stories. This week we read a story about a wedding on the Isle of Struay. We made some beautiful invitations. We have been carefully checking our writing and looking for ways to make it even better.

Next week we will be learning through the story of The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch.

In Maths we have been practising our 10 more and 10 less learning and looked at adding 1 and subtracting 1 to any 2 digit number. Everyone has really tried hard in their number lessons and never given up when our learning got tricky!

Mrs Quilliam showed us some flowers and we have explored them using magnifying glasses. We had a great time with Mrs Winter in our Music session this week playing our boomwhackers to some Red Riding Hood songs.

We had some special visitors in our Golden Assembly from The Players. We did some acting and some singing! Look out for a flyer and contact the office if your child wants to sign up. The sessions run on Fridays after school.

Home Learning

Continue to read every night. Your children are developing a love of reading and story and they are loving all the new texts we have added to our library. 

Books will be changed on a Friday or a Monday. It is important to re-read the books we send home and ask lots of questions about what they remember from previous reads. Re-reading will improve comprehension as well as fluency.

We will extend the Sumdog maths challenges to give everyone a chance to complete them. If you have, look at the maths training and all new challenges will appear on the site.

This week we have been looking at the or, aw, au, al, or and ore sounds. Have a go at the spelling Challenge on Sumdog.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 7th May

Date: 6th May 2021 @ 4:43pm

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 7th May 2021

Year 5 have had a busy four days this week. Well done for all your hard work and enthusiasm. In Maths, we have moved on to fractions, writing improper fractions as whole numbers and vice versa. We have also found fractions of amounts and looked at time intervals. In English, the children have learnt about autobiographies and biographies. They have thought about events in their own lives, ready to write an autobiography in chronological order and written some great wanted posters for a young Roald Dahl. In French, they carried out a survey, asking other children their opinions of various sports. It was wonderful to plant our wild flowers in the nature area. Fingers crossed they will grow and bloom.

Reading

Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book, look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find more information.

Y5 book changing day is Friday. Although, some children may change books at different times, so always bring your book bag into school every day. Remember to sign when you have finished a book, it makes it much easier to issue new books.

Remember to complete your

Reception 7th May 2021

Date: 6th May 2021 @ 3:43pm

This week we have been reading

Online Safety - 5th May 2021

Date: 5th May 2021 @ 10:40am

It