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Year 5 Home Practice Friday 23rd April 2021

Date: 22nd Apr 2021 @ 4:16pm

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 23rd April 2021

What a great start to the Summer Term Year 5! You all look very smart in your summer uniforms and have come back enthusiastic and ready to learn. It was lovely to be outside doing cricket and tennis in the sunshine during our PE lesson. I was impressed with your throwing, catching and racket/bat skills. In English, we are continuing our work on the novel, Room 13 by Robert Swindells and you wrote some creepy descriptions of what you think was inside room 13. The poems for Earth Day were also very good with fantastic vocabulary choices. In Maths, we worked on adding multiples of 10 to 6-digit numbers, partitioning 7-digit numbers and decimals. For Outdoor Learning, we planted some wild flower seeds which will look great on the school grounds when fully grown.

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.

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Online Safety - 21st April 2021

Date: 21st Apr 2021 @ 1:29pm

Using social media websites is among the most common activity of today's children and adolescents. Any website that allows social interaction is considered a social media site, including social networking sites such as Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter; gaming sites and virtual worlds such as Club Penguin, Second Life, and the Sims; video sites such as YouTube; and blogs. Such sites offer today's youth a portal for entertainment and communication and have grown exponentially in recent years. For this reason, it is important that parents become aware of the nature of social media sites, given that not all of them are healthy environments for children and adolescents. - From the American Academy of Pediatrics

Below you will find two guides. One for Snapchat and one for Sadfishing. 

For more guides and explainer videos, join us at National Online Safety and explore the range of resources to keep updated with developments in social media and much more.

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

HAPPY EASTER

Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 4:47pm

Year 4

Home Practice 1^st April 2021

Well done everyone for working so hard since we all came back to school on 8^th March, 

We have had a great week in Year 4, learning more about Holy Week and how we can be more like Jesus, as well as creating bright and colourful Easter cards for our families.

Have a wonderful Easter and relaxing half term! Enjoy the break and spending time with your families.

We look forward to seeing you all again on Monday 19^th April in your summer uniform. Let’s hope that the weather is lovely and sunny so we can enjoy some learning outside in our wonderful grounds.

Thursday 1st April 2021

Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 3:52pm

A fabulous end to our spring term!

We have watched frogspawn all week for any changes, made our Easter cards, baskets and cakes.

Silly hair day was a hit too.

Have a great Easter break and here are some photos for you to look at.

From the Reception Team

Thursday 1st April Happy Easter

Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 3:30pm

 Thursday 1^st April 2021 Happy Easter

A great final week of the Spring Term Year 5. A huge well done to you all for working so hard and with such enthusiasm. We have been very busy doing our D.T project. The children have made some amazing Easter themed toys with cams mechanisms that move. We have also been outside enjoying the sun in PE, the children are getting really skilled at playing in attack and defensive positions. In RE, we have discussed and produced some thoughtful work on the Easter Triduum and Mrs Wood did a lovely session all about ‘The Stations of the Cross’. Have a lovely Easter Holiday with your family and friends.

 I hope you get lots of chocolate Easter Eggs!!

 Miss Gravili.

Year 3 Half Term Message

Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 3:30pm

What a wonderful 4 weeks we have had back together. It has been lovely to see our friends and make each other smile every day.

We have had a lovely week in Year 3. We have been thinking a lot about Jesus during Holy Week and how we can make ourselves better people.  

The sunshine has been wonderful so we have been enjoying lots of time outside.

We are very proud of all of the hard work we put into our rainforest projects, they all look amazing!

Well done Year 3 for all of your hard work and thank you for being so kind and caring all of the time. Have a lovely Easter and a wonderful Half Term. You definitely deserve a rest J

HAPPY HALF TERM

Year 2 Home Practice - 1st April 2021

Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 3:27pm

What a brilliant final week of the spring term! We have celebrated Holy Week, enjoyed an Easter egg raffle and we have had plenty of fun in the sun. This term, the effort from the children has been incredible and they have worked very hard. There will be no work set on Sumdog over the next 2 weeks but keep reading every day.

We have been thrilled to welcome everyone back to school this half term and we have enjoyed every second of being back together.

We hope you have a relaxing and peaceful Easter holiday and we look forward to seeing you when we all return. Please return in your summer uniform J

Happy Easter!

From the Year 2 team

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Year 6 - Happy Easter

Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 2:55pm

Welcome to the last Year 6 blog this spring term. We are so pleased with everyone’s effort over a tricky term but now is the time to get rested, hopefully get out more (as the weather improves) and prepare yourself for an active last 12 weeks in Year 6.

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In PSHE, we discussed our challenges and hopes for Year 7 and how we can use the strategies we have learnt over the last few weeks to combat any challenges that might affect our mental health.
• Once again, do not forget to see our new Online Safety - 31st March  blog where we have teamed up with the National Online Safety which provides many resources for children, staff and parents.
• In Maths, we have been working out the perimeter of squares, rectangles and triangles, as well as learning how to use quicker multiplication and division strategies for larger numbers.
• In English, we have completed the novel, Skellig, which has very challenging themes throughout and discussed what we thought about the book in a short book review.
• As it has been Holy Week, we have read the story of what Jesus went through and discussed the possible reasons of why Judas betrayed him.
• In Art, we have all completed our mosaic Mayan masks, which you can see on our Year 6 gallery page.
• In PE, we have completed the topic of invasion games for Hockey and Netball where we used our ‘character’ skills of teamwork, resilience, patience and respect to help us all work together in mini teams.
• In Music, we have been continuing our practising B, A and G chords on the recorder.
• In Science, we investigated different ways (using an app, smart watch or checking our pulse) to measure our pulse rate before and after exercise.
• Finally in History, we conducted our own gameshow of ‘Who Wants to be a Mayaniare’ based on all the learning from our topic, The Mayans. The children did very well as nearly eveyone became Mayanaires!

Well done to 97% of you for changing your book this week – a great end to the term!

I have not set up any Sumdog challenges for the Easter holidays as you all deserve a break. There is only one thing I ask you to do every day, if possible, and that is to …

READ!

Have a super Easter Break!

Year 1 - Happy Easter

Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 2:55pm

Well done everyone on a fanastic term in Year 1. We have been very impressed with how you all settled back into our school routines and Golden Rules. 

This week our story has been the brave Beast written by Chris judge. We have written to the Beast, described his journey through the caves and even created our own story. 

In our maths we have been using our number facts to solve problems and written our number sentences in different ways.

In Science we have planted our seeds and taken them home to look after.

Today we had an easter egg hunt and used our maps to help find all our clues. 

We'd like to wish you all a happy and peaceful Easter and hope you all have a lovely Easter break.

The Year 1 Team

Online Safety - 31st March 2021

Date: 31st Mar 2021 @ 1:11pm

This week we are having a look back at our wellbeing week and how we express ourselves online. Below you will find a guide on Expressing yourself safely online and a guide to using Youtube. 

We have also included the #wakeupwednesday guide from NationOnlineSafety.com on RecRoom. This is a new online platform with an age rating of 9+. We haven't yet seen any of our children use this platform but it is always good to be informed on new developments.

Please continue to access all information on the National Online Safety website. You will get access to all videos and guides by clicking the link below and joining free to our school online safety hub.

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

Friday 26th March 2021

Date: 26th Mar 2021 @ 4:11pm

We have had a great week in Reception. 

Painting daffodils,learning about the Easter story, writing about dragons and castles, matching our teen numbers and lots of super choosing. 

Here are some pictures from the week. 

HOME PRACTICE Friday 26th March 2021

Date: 26th Mar 2021 @ 3:48pm

Year 4

Home Practice 26^th March 2021

Doesn’t time go fast – I can’t believe we’ve been back in school for 3 full weeks already, and there’s only one week to go before we break up for Easter!

We now have an Online Safety Blog on our website.  This is updated each Wednesday.  Please have a look at the blog as different guides will be uploaded weekly.  This week’s guides relate to WhatsApp, Fortnite and Comic Relief. We all have an important role in keeping our children safe in our ever growing online world.  

Another great week in Year 4 made even better by a bit of lovely sunshine on Wednesday! This week, we have:

• been learning about place value, both whole numbers and decimals, as well as discovering more about Roman Numerals
• written some very descriptive pieces about the Ceremony of the Full Moon, which was stimulated by our current novel ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter
• competed in an inter-class athletics competition between ourselves and Year 3 – we are incredibly proud of ourselves for taking part and being great competitors
• made PowerPoint presentations about different landmarks in Italy, as part of our geography topic, and started to present these to the class
• written our own prayers for Palm Sunday

HOME PRACTICE

Please complete a little home practice every night as this is the key to success!

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 31^st March 2021.  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?  

Use the link here to practise your tables playing ‘Hit the button’. This is another excellent way to practise your tables.  

Spellings

Your new spellings are all from the Year 3 / 4 Spelling list – a list of words which children should be able to read and spell by the time they leave Year 4.  The spellings will be tested on Thursday 1^st April 2021.  There are some quite tricky words, so please practise them carefully each evening.

exercise      imagine        opposite      regular        calendar

experience   important    ordinary       remember    caught

experiment  increase       particular    separate      certain       

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog: 

• A spelling challenge based on the above spellings
• A maths challenge related to decimals (tenths)
• A maths challenge based on the 3 and 6 times tables (we have revisited these this week!)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

Year 2 Home Practice - 26th March 2021

Date: 26th Mar 2021 @ 1:42pm

We have had another brilliant week in Year 2. This week we have been focusing on a new story in English – Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. We have produced character descriptions to describe the three evil farmers and we have created wanted posters to try and catch the cunning Mr Fox. We are all looking forward to continuing the story next week. In Maths we have continued to consolidate previous learning, whilst also discovering new strategies for addition and subtraction. In RE we have discussed the events of Palm Sunday. We created our own palm leaves and crosses before re-enacting the events of that special day. In Science we have looked at the strength of different pieces of paper. We made predictions, developed an experiment and recorded the results. We have had a superb week!

Online Safety

Thank you to all who joined our Online Safety platform last week. To join, simply follow the link below and follow the instructions provided.

National online Safety

We all have an important role in keeping our children safe in an ever growing online world.

Please follow the link where you will find three new guides on WhatsApp, Fortnite and a Share a Smile online, linked to last week's Comic Relief theme – Online Safety

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

This week we have been learning the /igh/ sound spelt ‘y’

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 every Friday.

This week’s spellings are:

cry

fly

dry

try

sly

reply

supply

terrify

deny

multiply

Maths

This week in Maths we have focused place value alongside addition and subtraction by adding 9, rounding and then compensating. We have looked at mental strategies as well as using concrete equipment like base ten, to help consolidate learning.

e.g. 23 + 9
 

Please have a go at the challenges set on Sumdog.

Sumdog Challenges

Multiplication – x2, x5 x10 and x 3 tables

Maths – Worded Addition and Subtraction

Spelling Quiz – /igh/ sound spelt ‘y’

Please practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 team

Year 6 Home Learning - Friday 26th March 2021

Date: 26th Mar 2021 @ 12:32pm

Welcome to another Year 6 weekly blog. This week, thanks to Mrs Cookson, we organised an Athletics Intra Competition between Year 5 and 6 which included relay races, javelin, speed bounce and long jump. Everyone did extremely well and should be very pleased with themselves for giving it their all. Year 6 also worked hard being officiators for the boys and girls track and field events.  

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In PSHE, we discussed ways to help a fictional person on how to deal with change by using strategies to improve their mental health. (Do not forget to see our new Online Safety Update 24th March blog where we have teamed up with the National Online Safety which provides many resources for children, staff and parents.)
• In Maths, we have been learning how to work out the area of squares, rectangles and compound shapes.
• In English, we have continued reading our novel, Skellig, and dived deep into understanding the characters more, learnt about the English poet and painter William Blake, and written a balanced argument for and against home vs school education.
• In RE, we discussed and acted out freeze frames of ways we can be selfless and spread to joy to others through our actions.
• In Art we created super mosaic Mayan masks.
• In PE, we have completed the Year 5/6 Athletics Intra competition, which you can see the pictures of in the Year 6 gallery.
• In Music, we have been practising B, A and G chords on the recorder.
• In French, we wrote prepositions of where the Easter Bunny was hiding.
• Finally in History, we started our own ‘Who Wants to be a Mayaniare’ quiz based on all the learning from our topic, The Mayans.

Well done to 90% of you for changing your book this week. Remember that reading should be your number one priority every day.

These are the new 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 (which will end next Thursday):
  • x11 and x12 Times tables (100 correct answers needed):
    • There will be times and divide questions of the 11 and 12 times tables.

• • Area of rectangles (100 correct answers needed):
    • These questions have a mixture of finding area of rectangles and the length of rectangles from areas given.

• • Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
    • This week’s words have unstressed vowels that can be tricky to remember:

(category, separate, definite, difference, desperate, reference, temperature, jewellery, company, interest, secretary, stationery, voluntary, miserable, factory)

Year 3 Home Practice 26th March 2021

Date: 26th Mar 2021 @ 12:30pm

We have had a lovely week in Year 3. We are all such great friends to each other. We were even given a Gold Award from Mrs Wood for being so kind to each other. 

We really enjoyed our athletics competition against Year 4. We worked so well as a team. There is a photo gallery in the class page where you can see us in action.

We have started to learn about fractions in Maths. In English we have been reading The Accidental Prime Minister.  

Home Practice for 26^th March - 1^st April

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

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

2. Please practise division facts for the 3x 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

3. Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

Fraction and Division Challenge: 26^th March – 1^st April

Times Tables Challenge: 26^th March – 1^st April

4. Spellings

We did so much better with our spellings this week – it just shows that practising a little bit every day makes a huge difference.

Here are your spellings this week:

They all have the /i/ sound spelled with a y

gym, myth, Egypt, pyramid, mystery, symbol, synonym, lyrics, system, gymnastics

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.

5. You will be tested on your spellings and times tables on Thursday 1^st April. Make sure you practise every night.

Year 1 Home Practice 26th March 2021

Date: 24th Mar 2021 @ 12:33pm

Welcome to your Friday blog for this week.

We have been really enjoying all our learning this week again and we are now used to all being back together keeping the Golden Rules. We have enjoyed our playtimes in the sunnier weather and have been great friends to each other.

Our story this week was The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. We all loved following the story of the seed and all the obstacles it had to ovecome before it could start to grow. We have done some super retelling of the story with Mr Campbell and lots of great writing. We could also use all our Science learning we've been doing with Mrs Quilliam to help us to understand the seed's journey.

In R.E. we have continued our learning through our topic of Change. We talked about being kind to each other.

On Tuesday we had some quiet time as it was a National Day of Reflection. We thought about what we could look forward to.

We all enjoyed our French with Mrs Quilliam and our Music with Mrs Winter.

Mrs Corbett and Mrs Anderson joined Mr Campbell for P.E. this week. There was super skills development in rolling, throwing, running, dribbling and catching.

In our Maths learning we were looking at doubling and halving numbers. We also played games which involved using our number facts and taking turns.

Home Practice

Please keep reading every single day. This is so important!

Also, sign the diary each time you read with your child.

Sumdog

We have set only 2 challenges for your Sumdog Practice this week. Well done to those who are still answering all your questions. We realised we set a little too many last week so we have limited the maths to 50 and spelling to 20 questions. All your children can access this learning! 

Keep your eye on our website for new galleries of photographs and school information.

Every Wednesday, we will be updating our new Online Safety blog.

Thank you for your continued support.

Online Safety - 24th March

Date: 24th Mar 2021 @ 12:22pm

Thank you to all who joined our Online Safety platform last week. To join, simply follow the link below and follow the instructions provided.

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

We all have an important role in keeping our children safe in an ever growing online world.

Below you will find three new guides on WhatsApp, Fortnite and a Share a Smile online, linked to last week's Comic Relief theme.

Year 5 Home Practice 26th March 2021

Date: 24th Mar 2021 @ 10:59am

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 26^th March 2021

A big well done to all those who completed their Home Practice last week. As you know, every Friday It will be posted on our class blog (school website). It will always be reading (reading journal), spelling and some Sumdog challenges. Please work hard to complete your home practice, it really makes a difference and helps to reinforce what has been learnt at school.

A fantastic week of learning Year 5, you have worked very hard. In Maths, we have continued our work on decimals. The children have been enjoying our new novel, Room 13 by Robert Swindells. It’s not too scary, yet! We have also looked at story structure in preparation for writing spooky, short stories. In Geography, We have learnt about the different geographical features of North America. It was great to hear that some of the children had visited some of these fascinating places, so we had a great discussion in class. The Year 5/6 Athletics Competition went really well and everyone participated to the best of their ability.

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.

I have introduced a ‘Reading Journal’ to the children. They are familiar with this from previous year groups. At the front of the journal, there are activities for the children to do using their current book or one they have just finished. They may choose an activity, complete it in their journal (best presentation and handwriting!) and colour/highlight the square to show they have done it. The children must complete one activity per week.

The first few ‘Reading Journal’ activities have been very good and show me that the children have a good understanding of the text they have read. They are also beautifully presented. Well done, keep up the great work!

Maths

This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on the equivalence of tenths and hundredths and times tables practice. We will have a mixed times tables test every Monday/Tuesday.

Spelling

The Sumdog spelling challenge is focused on tricky words (different from the spelling test words below).

Please learn these spellings for next Thursday (1.4.21): 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.

sincere           stomach           symbol               thorough            vegetable                 

sincerely        sufficient         system               twelfth              vehicle      

soldier            suggest            temperature        variety              yacht        

Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)

This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on the perfect tense.

For our DT project, we will be making Cams mechanisms and toys next week (Easter theme). Please could you bring either a cereal or shoe box into school. 

Have a lovely weekend, Miss Gravili.

Friday 19th March 2021

Date: 19th Mar 2021 @ 4:02pm

We have had a super week in Reception, learning all about 'The Magic Porridge Pot' in our story, Cook, Pot, Cook. 

Have a look at some pictures :)

HOME PRACTICE Friday 19th March 2021

Date: 19th Mar 2021 @ 3:47pm

Year 4

Home Practice 19^th March 2021

We will now be reverting back to Home Practice which can be found on the Year 4 Class Page each Friday.

Home Practice will provide a short insight into our learning from the week, as well as tasks to be completed.  These will include reading, tables, spellings and Sumdog challenges.  It is important that you compete these tasks, as they will help you to progress further with your learning.

We have had a super week in Year 4.  We’ve revisited place value in Maths and refined some counting skills, especially counting in 4’s and 8’s. In English, we wrote a letter from a character to her father and tried to think carefully about the types of sentence we were writing – whether it was a command, statement, question or exclamation.  Our science topic has been very interesting – we recorded results from an experiment to see the effect of different liquids on egg shells and were amazed by the results! In addition, we made our own digestive system – it was gruesome!

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. 

You can find even more books to read on our website.  Go to Year 4, Home Learning and click on Oxford Owl.  Use the class login and password and explore lots of books to read.

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 (24^th March 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:

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

Spellings

The spellings this week are irregular plurals.  Each time ‘ves’ needs to be added to the word ending in ‘f’ or ‘fe’, to spell the plural. These words will be tested on Thursday (25^th March 2021).  We have discussed different strategies to learn spellings in class, or you can always use ‘Look say cover write check’.

calf              calves          half             halves          knife           knives

leaf             leaves          shelf            shelves        thief           thieves

yourself       yourselves    themselves 

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the above spellings (adding ‘ves’ to some words ending in ‘f’ or ‘fe’)
• A maths challenge related to mental addition and subtraction facts within 1000
• A maths times table challenge (based on the 3, 4 and 8 times tables)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!