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Year 3 Home Practice 23rd October 2020
Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 7:36pm
What an amazing first half term in the juniors. We have had a fantastic time and grown up so much already. We have worked hard and are ready for a well-deserved week off to rest, reflect on our learning and spend time with our families.
This week we have absolutely LOVED reading the instruction book ‘How to Wash your Woolly Mammoth.’ We wrote our own instructions and used our sense of humour to make them funny – like paint the woolly mammoth’s tusks pink and give it a foot massage.
We have been looking at 2-D shapes in Maths and have been measuring accurately using our rulers. As always, we have counted and practised our times tables every day!
We have done lots of art to make spooky pictures which we used to decorate our classroom for Friday’s Halloween themed day. We practised mixing different colours of paint, sketching and cutting out. We also got in the spirit of Halloween in our French lesson where we looked at Halloween traditions in France, read a story in French about Halloween and wrote our own sentences using the text as a model.
Well done Year 3 and thank you for such a super first half term!!! JJJ
Home Practice for 23rd October – 6th November
If you do the home practice for 10 minutes every day and read each night, you will really see a difference in your learning.
- Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read. Retell it in your own words.
- Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
Spelling Challenge: 23rd October – 6th November - target 250 questions.
Maths Challenge: 23rd October – 6th November - target 250 questions.
x tables challenge: 23rd October – 6th November - target 250 questions.
- Practise your x tables – you will be tested on them on Thursday 5th November. You need to know them quickly and confidently without having to count on.
- Spellings - you will be tested on them on Thursday 5th November:
The /l/ or /ul/ sound spelt ‘-el’ at the end of words.
This spelling is usually used after m, n, r, s, v, w and commonly s.
camel, tunnel, squirrel, travel, towel, tinsel, hazel, vowel, angel, jewel
- If you want to do some writing during Half Term, you could keep a diary. Focus on capital letters, full stops, spelling, and handwriting.
Year 1 Home Practice 23rd October 2020
Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 3:52pm
Year 1 Home Practice Friday 23rd October 2020
First of all we’d like to say a huge well done to everyone in Year 1 for settling in so well and completing their first half term in Year 1. You have all been amazing and deserve a well earned break. This week we have enjoyed reading Winnie the Witch and her adventures with Wilbur and friends. We really enjoyed our Halloween dress up day and even created some magical potions. See our galleries on the class page!
We have also been building some skeletons and putting them back together in our Science and looked at some pastel drawings in our Art.
Reading
Continue to read every night over half term. When you have finished your books, please access our eBook library to keep up the practise.
Phonics / Sounds
This week we have been recapping all our long vowel sounds. We will add new spelling challenges on Sumdog over the next week so keep an eye out. First up - words with consonant blends (br, fl, nt, ck etc...) Keep practising your tricky words. We have sent a new set out with everyone today.
Maths
This week we have introduced the features of 3d shapes and continued looking at addition and subtraction within 20. Have a go at the Sumdog challenges we have set.
We’d like to extend thanks to all for your continuing support.
Have a lovely half term
The Year 1 team
Year 6 Home Practice - 16th October 2020
Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 6:07pm
Well done to the whole class for reading this week. We have noticed an improvement already in those who have read every day so please keep it up; little and often will make a huge difference this year. As well as reading, we have introduced the Home Reading Journals where you can add comments, opinions, vocabulary and any thoughts. This helps to show us how much you understand the book you have read. Thank you to those who have written detailed comments about their books. Once again, just to remind you, here are the days when you can change your book:
Monday – Roller Coasters
Tuesday – Big Dippers
Wednesday – The Waltzers
Another thank you to those who have completed their Sumdog challenges by Wednesday. All the challenges will be a practice of last week’s learning which will always help when we review it the following week. We will always have a maths, spelling and grammar challenge to practice all week from Friday to the next Friday. This week have had another brilliant response with 87% completing by Wednesday.
Our learning in Year 6 this week:
- In Maths, we have been learning a range of mental strategies for multiplying large and small numbers.
- In our novel, ‘Private Peaceful’, we have investigated the relationships between Tommo (the main character) and every other character and improved our skill in summarising events. In Mrs Wood’s English lesson, we learnt about the brilliant story of Macbeth and wrote a letter to Lady Macbeth.
- In Geography, we learnt how mountains are formed through two tectonic plates moving towards, away and across each other, which eventually (over millions of years) creates ‘folded’, ‘fault-block’ and ‘dome’ mountains.
- For RE, in our topic of ‘Vocation and Commitment’, we wrote as John the Baptist and the impact that had on many people’s lives as Jesus began his mission.
- In PE, we have been preparing for this year’s first Intra Competition and the first ever Virtual Inter Competition – Football. It consists of dribbling around cones in the fastest time possible. All the schools in South Ribble are taking part so fingers crossed for those in Year 6!
- In French, we have been writing sentences using opinions and negatives, e.g. “I love … I hate …”
- Following last week’s research into non-flowering plants in Science, we have presented our information to the class and are now beginning to classify animals.
Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks to be completed:
- Reading – Please keep reading for a minimum of 20 minutes every day.
Please write in your Reading Journals often.
As you may know, we have access to Oxford Owl ebooks where you can read a whole range of books from their library. If you would like to use this great resource, the username is ‘sto56’ with the password ‘1234’.
- Spellings (-ant, -ance)
- Just like last week, these spellings will be looked in detail from Monday:
- assistant, assistance, arrogant, relevant, important, importance, appearance, extravagant, hesitant, reluctant, nuisance, hindrance, ignorance, resistance, restaurant
- Just like last week, these spellings will be looked in detail from Monday:
- Sumdog challenges:
- x2, x5, x10, x3, x6, x9
- SPAG – Adverbs
- Spellings (-ant, -ance words)
- Once again, I suggest to first write these out on a piece of paper, then play the games. We will look at these spellings in more detail from Monday so the spelling of these words will be easier after we have investigated them.
Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 4:04pm
This week we have been reading the story 'Kippers Birthday by Mick Inkpen'
We have been thinking about what we might need for a party, we have made cupcakes, we been busy writing lots of invitations and birthday cards. We discussed what we do for our own birthday partys and looked at birthdays in the 1930s.
We have done lots of counting this week, especially getting the right amount of candles for our playdough cakes!
Reception are really trying hard to follow the Golden Rules every single day, so choosing the Golden Stars this week was a tricky job, but here they are :)
Year 1 Home Practice - 16th October 2020
Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 3:54pm
Year 1 Home Practice Friday 16th October 2020
Well done Year One on a fantastic week of learning. This week we have loved our story Black Dog and even retold it with some lovely writing. In our Maths we have been learning our 2D shapes as well as our numbers to 100 and in Science we read all about Linda Buck, a famous scientist who studied smell. (A Smelly scientist)
On Thursday we took part in Lancashire intra-sports football challenge. Everyone took part and didn’t give up, even when it got tricky. Amazing! We’ve also looked at pumpkin sketching, Baptism, in our RE and created some lovely Autumn posters.
For your home practice this week…
Reading
Continue to read every night. This is key to unlocking all the learning we do at St Oswald’s. Continue to access our eBook library at Oxford Owl, via the home learning button on the class page.
Phonics / Sounds
This week we have been learning the oo, ew and ue sounds. Here are the words we’d like you to have a go practising in your Sumdog spellings.
Pool, boot, cool, shoot, spoon, blew, chew, crew, drew, flew, grew, blue, clue, glue, fuel
Maths
This week we have introduced the features of 2d shapes and continued looking at reading, writing and counting numbers within 100. Have a go at the Sumdog challenges. We are seeing great progress in our number learning. Well done!
In other news...
Well done to Year One who competed in the Lancashire Maths Contest this week. Out of 68 Classes across Lancashire we came 21st (Best at St Oswald’s) and on Wednesday Year 1 were the daily winners with an amazing daily score of 165. A special mention to Libby and Xavier who came 44th and 3rd in all of Lancashire. Well Done everyone, an amazing achievement. We’d also like to thank Sam for the video he sent in on Monday. Everyone was so happy to see Sam and his chickens.
Year 2 Home Practice - 16th October 2020
Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 3:52pm
With only 1 week of half-term left, Year 2 have been working harder than ever. Our leaflets from last week managed to make their way to the top shelf in Booths. We have uploaded the photos to our class gallery. Great work by everyone! The children have really enjoyed our class novel this week and they have produced some wonderful pieces of writing. This week we have also taken part in an Intra Sports Competition. The children had to use their dribbling skills and race against the clock on an obstacle course. A great effort by everyone! In French we have been performing and practicing Autumn poems along with learning seasonal colours.
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.
Reading resources:
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’
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
Spelling
This week we have been learning how to spell words with the ‘ow’ sound.
Please complete practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.
This week’s spellings are:
crown
clown
crowd
howl
house
loud
sound
mouth
bath
busy
Maths
We have been counting forward and backwards in tens and fives. We have also looked at repeated addition.
Sumdog
Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x5 tables
Maths – counting in 10 and 5
Spellings – ow and ou
Thank you for all your continued support,
The Year 2 team
Year 5 Home Practice 16th October 2020
Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 3:49pm
Another fantastic week Year 5. We’ve moved on to comparing and measuring angles using a protractor in Maths. For English, we have looked at the different types of recounts and their key features. Our new topic in Science starts next week, Earth and Space and in RE we have been looking at friendship. French with Mrs Quilliam was great, you all counted in fives so well. This will come in handy for telling the time. Keep up the good work by doing all your home practice.
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 16th October 2020
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. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on angles and mixed times tables practice.
Spelling
There will be new spellings to learn each week on a Friday and a Sumdog spelling challenge linked to the spelling rule/pattern (spellings could be different from the ones below). If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (23.10.20):
We are investigating the silent letters n, p and u in words.
Autumn circuit psalm plague guillotine
rogue cupboard tongue condemn pneumonia
build hymn raspberry baguette plaque
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on antonyms and synonyms.
Have a great weekend. Miss Gravili
Home Practice Friday 16th October 2020
Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 3:48pm
Year 4
Home Practice 16th October 2020
Another busy week in Year 4!
This week we have dramatised the poem ‘The coming of the Iron Man’ during our English lesson. As part of our Celtic topic in history, we made a model of a roundhouse - see our models in the gallery. Following this, we wrote a set of instructions to help others make a roundhouse. In maths, we learnt how to compare and order numbers to 1 decimal place, round decimal numbers to the nearest whole number and double 2 and 3 digit numbers. In French we practised the days of the week and the months of the year. We now have the vocabulary to answer the question “Quelle est la date?”
Well done to all those who has been on Sumdog during the last week – practising these skills is the key to making progress, so keep up your fantastic efforts. Let’s see if everyone in Year 4 can log onto Sumdog next week and practise these skills!
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 Wednesday (21st October 2020). Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately? Well done to everyone who has been practising their tables during the past week – it is fantastic to see the progress you are making.
Spellings
The spellings this week explore the ‘g’ sound spelt gue, which is French in origin. Please practise your spellings each evening at home. You will be tested on them next Thursday (22nd October 2020). We have discussed in class different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could always use ‘Look say cover write check’.
rogue league tongue plague intrigue
vague fatigue dialogue epilogue prologue
colleague meringue catalogue synagogue morgue
Sumdog Challenges
You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:
- A multiplication challenge (x3 x4 x6 and x8)
- A grammar challenge (parts of speech, eg verbs, nouns, adverbs etc)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Year 3 Home Practice 16th October 2020
Date: 15th Oct 2020 @ 7:38pm
We have had a wonderful week in Year 3. We have finished reading The Twits – we really enjoyed it and are excited to find out what our next books will be (it is top secret for now)!
We have been using our imagination lots in our writing to write about astronauts, glowing keys, jungles and more. Our imagination is unbeatable – so many fantastic ideas. The stories everybody wrote at home with their spellings in were amazing!
We are still focussing on counting, times tables and number facts in Maths. We have also started to look at 2-D shapes and their properties.
We combined Art with RE this week and made beautiful collages all about ourselves – which groups we belong to and promises we have made. We were amazed to realise how many different groups and clubs we are actually part of.
In PE we have been perfecting our throwing and catching skills and using different techniques to beat a defender in a game. We are really good at working together as a team, encouraging and helping each other.
In French we had our first attempt at using phonic sounds to write French words.
Home Practice for 16th October – 23rd October
- Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read. Discuss the characters and what has happened to them. Predict what you think will happen next.
- Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
Spelling Challenge: 16th October – 23rd October - target 100 questions.
Number and Shape Challenge: 16th October – 23rd October - target 150 questions.
- Spellings:
The /l/ or /ul/ sound spelled –le at the end of words.
table, apple, bottle, little, middle, bubble, cable, uncle, ankle, circle
Use look, cover, write, check to practise.
Make a list of any other words you can think of which end with the /l/ or /l/ sound spelled -le.
Reception 9th October - Hello Yellow
Date: 9th Oct 2020 @ 4:14pm
We have had the best day celebrating 'Hello Yellow', thinking about happiness, hopes and wishes all day !
The Children have loved dancing to happy music, playing well-being bingo, telling funny jokes, making others smile and going to the photobooth!
Have a look at some of our fab pictures. :)
Year 6 Home Practice - 8th October 2020
Date: 9th Oct 2020 @ 3:51pm
Well done to everyone for completing their Home Practice. We have had 96% changing their Home Reading books this week – let’s keep aiming for 100%. Once again, just to remind you, here are the days when you can change your book:
Monday – Roller Coasters
Tuesday – Big Dippers
Wednesday – The Waltzers
This year we are using Sumdog as a great way to practice our learning that has been taught in school that week. We will always have a maths, spelling and grammar challenge to practice all week from Friday to the next Friday. We have had another brilliant response with 90% completing all the challenges by Wednesday – keep this up everyone, as little and often will help our learning for the following week.
Our learning in Year 6 this week:
- In Maths, we have been using different strategies to add large numbers together and how to effectively use the written method.
- In our novel, ‘Private Peaceful’, we have developed our understanding of the characters, Tommo, Charlie and Mother and explored the themes that might run through this story.
- In Geography, we learnt how the world consists of tectonic plates (part of the Earth’s crust) and that they move at an incredibly slow pace – around 100mm a year!
- For RE, we have begun our new topic, ‘Vocation and Commitment’, with some excellent debates on what makes a vocation. We also created some questions and interviewed a firefighter via zoom to understand their commitment to their role.
- In music, boomwhackers have been our focus to create our own unique beats.
- In French, we used the bilingual dictionaries to further understand, ‘le, la and les’.
- In Science, we have continued our research into non-flowering plants with mosses, ferns and conifers, and deciding how to present our research.
- Finally, this Friday, we celebrated our ‘Hello Yellow’ day which helped us to understand resilience and what ‘powers’ we have to improve our resilience.
Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:
- Reading – Please keep reading for a minimum of 20 minutes every day.
Most of you are using your Reading Journals really well – just remember to add in any thoughts, vocabulary or any opinions you have of the book at any time, not just after finishing it.
As you may know, we have access to Oxford Owl ebooks where you can read a whole range of books from their library. If you would like to use this great resource, the username is ‘sto56’ with the password ‘1234’.
- Spellings (-sion / -ssion / -cian words)
- We will be learning the -sion, -ssion spellings again, along with -cian words, which will be looked in detail from Monday:
- division, television, discussion, session, mission, percussion, profession, politician, magician, electrician, optician, musician, technician, Egyptian, dalmatian
- We will be learning the -sion, -ssion spellings again, along with -cian words, which will be looked in detail from Monday:
- Sumdog challenges:
- x2, x5, x10, x4, x8
- SPAG – More verbs
- Spellings (-sion / -ssion, -cian words)
- Once again, I suggest to first write these out on a piece of paper, then play the games. We will look at these spellings in more detail from Monday so the spelling of these words will be easier after we have investigated them.
Home Practice Friday 9th October 2020
Date: 9th Oct 2020 @ 3:44pm
Year 4
Home Practice 9th October 2020
This week we have planned and written our own story in the style of the stories from ‘How the Whale became’ by Ted Hughes. In maths we have been counting in different steps, including 100’s and tenths. We have also explored tenths in more detail and found the effect of multiplying and dividing a one or 2 digit number by 10. In history, we discovered the type of houses the Celts lived in – we prefer living in our own homes, ask us why! In French we practised the days of the week and talked about what activities we carried out on which day.
Well done to everyone who has been on Sumdog during the last week – practising these skills is the key to making progress, so keep up your fantastic efforts.
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 Wednesday (14th October 2020). Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately? Well done to everyone who has been practising their tables during the past week – it is fantastic to see the progress you are making.
Spellings
The spellings this week explore the ‘o’ sound spelt ‘a’ after w and qu. Please practise your spellings each evening at home. You will be tested on them next Thursday (15th October 2020). We have discussed in class different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could always use ‘Look say cover write check’.
what quality quantity squash squad
squabble squander squadron wanted swallow
quad swap swapped wallow wasp
Sumdog Challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A counting challenge (counting in multiples of 4, 5 and 8)
- A maths challenge (recognising tenths)
- A spelling challenge (based on the sound ‘o’ sound spelt a, after w and qu)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Year 2 Home Practice 9th October 2020
Date: 9th Oct 2020 @ 3:37pm
Year 2 have had a fantastic week. Well done to everyone who has gone onto Sumdog and had a go at the challenges. This week we have focused on ‘being a great friend’ and Year 2 have enjoyed celebrating #HelloYellow day. In English this week we have looked at non-fiction writing and the children have researched all about Longton to write a leaflet. They all look great! For Maths we have continued to focus on number and place value. This week we have looked at finding different ways to make a number and exchanging using base ten. In French this week the children have learnt colours through the story ‘Pop le dinosaure mange toutes les couleurs’. They created their own colourful dinosaur using French colours – they look brilliant. In Geography we explored key features on a map and how we use them. We make sure we continue to take part in the daily mile to stay active at school.
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.
Reading resources:
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’
Username: sto2
Password: 1234
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading
Spelling
This week we have been learning how to spell words with the ‘oa’ sound.
Please complete practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.
This week’s spellings are:
loaf
go
toes
float
note
pole
glow
show
break
beautiful
Maths
This week we have been looking at place value and number. We are working hard at writing the words for all of our numbers up to 100. Please have a go at using the resources and work set on Sumdog.
Sumdog
A Sumdog Contest starts today and finishes at 8pm on the 15th October. Here are some key things to keep in mind whilst having a go at the Contest:
- Children can play at any time.
- For the score to count, the Lancashire Maths Contest activity must be showing in the green panel on the left of the students screen when they click to start each game.
- Their scores are based on correct answers.
- A class score is the average of scores from all the children from that class who take part.
- To appear on the leader board, at least 5 children from your class need to play.
- As some children have limited computer access, every child is limited to 1000 Contest questions.
Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.
Log in at www.sumdog.com.
Additionally students can access Sumdog via the app, which is free to download and play.
In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2 x10 tables
Maths – Place value
Spellings – oa o_e oe, o, ow
Thank you for all your continued support,
The Year 2 team
Year 5 Home Practice 9th October 2020
Date: 9th Oct 2020 @ 11:25am
The weeks are flying by in Year 5 due to all the learning we are doing. Well done to everyone for working with interest and positivity. The diary recounts about an alien adventure were excellent. I really enjoyed reading them. We have learnt some new things in Maths – factors, multiples, square numbers, prime numbers and prime factors! In French, the children have learnt to read unknown words using the sounds an/en/am and em. Amazing pronunciation Year 5! #Hello Yellow Day for Young Minds was really fun. We did a lot of talking and some great activities.
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 9th October 2020
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. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story.
If you would like to find even more books to read, please look on Oxford Owl ebooks. You will find the link on the website - Year 5, Home Learning and there is a password for you.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on multiples, factors, prime numbers and mixed times tables practice. There is also a Lancashire Maths Contest on Sumdog. Look out for this on the green panel on the left of the screen when you start your games. It must be there for your scores to count!
Spelling
There will be new spellings to learn each week on a Friday and a Sumdog spelling challenge linked to the spelling rule/pattern (spellings could be different from the ones below). If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (16.10.20):
We are investigating the silent letters b, h and t in words.
whistle ghoul rhythm subtle comb
thistle ghastly rhinocerous Christmas debt
ghost rhyme nestle doubt climb
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on verbs.
Have a great weekend. Miss Gravili
Year 3 Home Practice 9th October 2020
Date: 8th Oct 2020 @ 6:33pm
Thank you for all of your amazing rock posters. We have put them up on display in our classroom and they look great. I have learnt lots of new things.
We have done a lot of hands on learning this week. We used charcoal and sand to create Stone Age cave paintings (we worked so well as a team to clean the classroom afterwards). We also did an investigation in Science where we looked at different qualities of rocks to choose which would be best for a Stone Age cutting stone (again great team work and sharing).
In Maths we have been using number lines to find missing numbers and to add numbers together. In English we have been hearing all about the monkeys and the Roly-Poly Bird in The Twits.
Friday was ‘Let’s Brighten Up a School Day.’ We focussed on all of the positive things – things we are good at and things we have in our lives that we are grateful for. It was really nice to hear how proud we all of ourselves and each other.
Home Practice for 9th October – 16th October
- Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes.
- Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
Number Challenge: 9th October – 16th October - target 100 questions.
X2 and x5 tables challenge: 9th October – 16th October – target 100 questions.
- If you are confident enough, teach somebody at home how to use a number line to find numbers which total 100.
- Spellings:
These are words that have an /s/ sound spelled with a ‘c’, they have an ‘e’, ‘i’ or ‘y’ after the /s/ sound.
race, ice, cell, city, fancy, lace, space, circle, circus, rice
Make up a story using all of your spellings words. It can be as silly as you like. I would love to see when you have finished.
Year 1 Home Practice 9th October 2020
Date: 8th Oct 2020 @ 4:21pm
Year 1 Home Practice 9th October 2020
This week we have read Dogger by Shirley Hughes. The children have really enjoyed the story and created some fantastic pieces of work from it. Next week we are reading Black Dog by Levi Pinfold, a beautiful picture book about facing fears and overcoming worry.
In our Science this week we explored the science of smell and how we use our sense of smell to keep us safe. We have also started our new RE topic on Belonging and Baptism. The children have had some lovely ideas on belonging and family.
Home Practice
Reading
Keep reading for at least 10 minutes every night. It is also important to reread your books to boost confidence and fluency. We have also sent home some words for everyone to practice reading and writing. You can request a new set through the reading diary.
Sounds / Phonics
We have been learning the long e sound this week. ee, ea and y Have a go at our Sumdog Sounds challenge where we look at these words.
treat, seat, please, dream, tree, teeth, street, greet, happy, funny, jelly, runny
Maths
This week we have been learning new addition strategies and our number facts to 20. Have a go at completing the Sumdog challenges and keep a eye out for new challenges during the week. The practice you do at home is key to improving accuracy and speed with taught number skills. Well done, keep it up!
Thank you for your continued support
The Year 1 team
Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 4:03pm
This week in Reception we have been learning all about Autumn. We brought in our Autumn Treasures from home and we have been reading Autumn Stories. In literacy, we have read the story 'You & Me, Little Bear and Home after Dark'. We have been busy mixing colours, counting amounts to 10, sequencing what we do in a day, learning about nurses and making a collage of ourselves in RE and so much more! Well done Reception :)
Our Golden Stars this week, we have really been trying to follow the Golden Rules are,
Joni - Star of the Week
Madelaina - Super Writer
Sidney - Bookworm
Evangeline - Mathematician
Joseph - Super Learner
Evelyn & Trudy - Special Mentions for being lovely friends to others
Year 2 Home Practice - 2nd October 2020
Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 3:43pm
We have had another brilliant week in Year 2. We would like to say a big thank you to everyone has who logged onto Sumdog to have a go at the challenges. This consolidation of learning will really help the children to make excellent progress throughout the year. We are really starting to settle into the routines for school and our effort in class has been superb. The children have loved reading our class novel and this week we have produced some wonderful pieces of writing. We have also taken part in National Poetry Day. We wrote our own poem about Flat Stanley. In Maths we have continued to focus on number and place value. In French we have produced a poem based on the colours of the rainbow. We have created some great paintings in RE and we have continued to take part in the Daily Mile. We love staying healthy and active!
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.
Reading resources:
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’
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
Spelling
This week we have been learning how to spell words with the ‘igh’ sound.
Please complete practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.
This week’s spellings are:
light
night
fight
pie
tie
time
ride
kite
behind
both
Maths
This week we have been looking at place value and number. Please have a go at using the resources and work set on Sumdog.
Sumdog
Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x10 tables
Maths – Place value
Grammar – Capital letters and punctuation
Spellings – igh y and i_e
Thank you for all your continued support,
The Year 2 team
Home Practice Friday 2nd October 2020
Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 3:32pm
Year 4
Home Practice 2nd October 2020
This week we have read ‘How the Hare became’ and performed a role play between Hare and another character in the story. Following this, we learnt how to punctuate speech correctly. We also wrote a class poem and performed it together for National Poetry Day. In French we practised numbers to 31 and the days of the week.
Well done to everyone who has been on Sumdog during the last week – practising these skills is the key to making progress, so keep up your fantastic efforts.
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 Thursday (8th October 2020). Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately? Well done to everyone who has been practising their tables during the past week – it is fantastic to see the progress you are making.
Spellings
The spellings this week explore the ‘i’ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of a word. Please practise your spellings each evening at home. You will be tested on them next Thursday (8th October 2020). We have discussed in class different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could always use ‘Look say cover write check’.
gym myth Egypt pyramid mystery
symbol synonym lyrics system gymnastics
hymn typical cylinder physical oxygen
Sumdog Challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A multiplication challenge (Mixed tables 2’s 5’s 10’s 3’s 4’s and 8’s)
- A grammar challenge (speech marks / inverted commas)
- A spelling challenge (based on the sound ‘i’ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of a word)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Year 5 Home Practice 2nd October 2020
Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 3:28pm
Year 5 have worked so hard this week. They have finished their Concertina Story Books which look fantastic. There is a sample of them on the website, Year 5 - Gallery. National Poetry Day was a great success, we wrote some amazing poems. In Maths, we have worked on multiples, factors, multiplication/division and using facts we already know to work out trickier questions mentally. Our daily runs are going well and in RE the children have written and illustrated some lovely prayers.
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 2nd October 2020
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. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on related facts for multiplication and division and times tables practice.
Spelling
There will be new spellings to learn each week on a Friday and a Sumdog spelling challenge linked to the spelling rule/pattern (spellings could be different from the ones below). If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (9.10.20):
We are investigating the silent letters g, k and w in words.
know gnome knitting wren wriggle
knee gnat wrapper knuckle sword
write gnash answer resign wrong
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on question words and types of sentences.
Have a lovely weekend, see you on Monday.
Miss Gravili
Year 6 Home Practice - 2nd October 2020
Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 1:11pm
Another super week of learning from Year 6. We have started our ‘Daily Mile’ exercise and already we have seen an improvement in our fitness levels. Well done to 90% of you for changing your Home Reading books this week – let’s aim for 100% next week! As another reminder, these groups can change their books on the following days:
Monday – Roller Coasters
Tuesday – Big Dippers
Wednesday – The Waltzers
This year we are using Sumdog as a great way to practice our learning that has been taught in school that week. We will always have a maths, spelling and grammar challenge to practice all week from Friday to the next Friday. We have had a brilliant response from Year 6 with 85% completing all the challenges by Wednesday – keep this up everyone, as little and often will help our learning for the following week.
Our learning in Year 6 this week:
- In Maths, we are using our place value knowledge to add large and decimal numbers mentally.
- We have begun our new novel, ‘Private Peaceful’ and investigated themes and predictions from the cover, blurb and first chapter.
- In Geography, we enjoyed a game of ‘Search, Find and Recover’ where groups had to search for information for the features of mountains and create their own mountain map – check out the pictures on our Year 6 gallery page.
- For RE, we have completed our topic of ‘Unconditional Love’ through creating our own Beatitudes to help make our school a better place.
- In Art, we continued to use Keynote to cleverly focus on one part of our face (eye, mouth, etc) like a ‘view finder’ and then practiced techniques to sketch those in our Sketch book.
- In French, we have been developing our dictionary skills, looking up new words and understanding the abbreviations n/f/s = noun, feminine, singular.
- Also, in Science, we researched non-flowering plants found on the school grounds and investigated the question, how do they reproduce without flowers?
Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:
- Reading – In Year 6, we read for a minimum of 20 minutes every day. You still have your new Reading Journal so any opinions, thoughts, discussions or vocabulary you come across, write them in there. We can then discuss these when you bring it into school.
- Spellings (-tion / -sion / -ssion words) which will be looked in detail from Monday:
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- direction, collection, addition, action, rotation, creation, punctuation, subtraction, division, television, discussion, session, mission, percussion, profession
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- Sumdog challenges:
- Addition – whole numbers
- SPAG – Verbs
- Spellings (-tion / -sion / -ssion words)
- Once again, I suggest to first write these out on a piece of paper, then play the games. We will look at these spellings in more detail from Monday so the spelling of these words will be easier after we have investigated them.
Year 3 Home Practice 2nd October 2020
Date: 1st Oct 2020 @ 9:01pm
We have had a very creative and exciting week in Year 3.
Thursday was National Poetry Day so we read some poems with actions and lots of expression. We chose our favourite which was ‘How to Turn Your Teacher Purple’ by James Carter. We performed this poem together and made a video – this is on the school website.
On Monday we travelled back in time and did some Stone Age art (pictures to follow when we have finished). We realised how talented people were in the Stone Age using what they could find to survive and communicate.
In Maths we have been using equipment to add hundreds, tens and units, in English we are still enjoying reading The Twits and in French we have been counting to 20 focussing on the different sounds of the letters.
Home Practice for 2nd October – 9th October
- Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes.
- Practise the x2 tables –
- Play ‘Hit the button’ https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- Ask somebody to test you on the way to and on the way back from school every day. You need to know them quickly without counting on.
- Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenge:
Number Challenge: 2nd October – 9th October – target 100 questions.
- Spellings:
gem, gym, giant, magic, giraffe, energy, digit, engine, religion, gentle
Make a word search with your spellings in, ask somebody at home to find the spellings.
- Research and then create a poster about different types of rocks.
Visit - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9bbkqt
There are 4 learner guides and 7 class clips which you can look at.
The three types of rock you need to include are:
Igneous rock
Metamorphic rock
Sedimentary rock
Make your poster easy to read and colourful. See if you can find some really interesting facts to share with the class.
Year 1 Home Practice 2nd October 2020
Date: 30th Sep 2020 @ 2:14pm
Home Practice 2nd October 2020
Well done everyone for their response to the home practice we have set on Sumdog over the past weeks. Almost everyone has gone on and practised their learning at home and this has shown in the progress the children have made since returning to school.
We have added a few extra challenges this week but are keeping the number of questions in these to a managable level so all children can complete the tasks. Little and often is the key to home practice so keep up the great work.
Keep reading for 10 minutes every night. We have added an extra day for book changing on Mondays incase you forget on a Friday. We will still give out three books a week so please limit your change to one a week. We have also signed up to a huge library of ebooks on Oxford owl, tailored for our youngest children. Click here for access and sign in using our class login - sto1, password -1234. Choose books from phase 3 or 4 to practice taught sounds. This practice will benefit all readers in Year 1.
Sumdog
We have added 4 new challenges this week.
2 x Maths, 1 x Spelling and 1x Reading.
Try to do a little every night and keep up the great learning at home.
Keep checking our class page for new galleries to see what we have been learning in the week.
The Year One team.
Date: 25th Sep 2020 @ 4:04pm
We have had a wonderful week learning all about Elmer. We have spoken about all the things that make us special and learning it is ok to be different. We have made our own patterns and experimented with colour mixing.
We have began to learn our phonics sounds - s, a, t and our humpty words too!
It was very tricky to choose our superstars this week for golden assesmbly because everyone is trying so hard all the time. But have a look at the picture to find out who has been spotted.
The home challenge this week is to go on an Autumn walk and find lots of treasures to share with us next week :)
Home Practice Friday 25th September 2020
Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 5:23pm
Year 4
Home Practice 25th September 2020
Another busy week in Year 4 – we’ve nearly worked our socks off!
In English we read ‘How the Tortoise became’ and created our own blurb and book cover for the story. In Maths we have been rounding numbers to 10, 100 and 1000 and using symbols to compare numbers. In French, we read and wrote classroom instructions and learnt more about the Tour de France - we know the winner this year was Pogacar. Friday was European Sports Day and we learnt how to play handball! Well done Year 4.
This week's Home Practice can be found below. The purpose of Home Practice is to ensure the basic skills of reading, spelling and number are practised on a regular basis at home - the tasks consolidate classroom learning. Practising these skills little and often will ensure firm foundations for learning throughout the year.
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 Thursday (1st October 2020). Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?
Spellings
The spellings this week explore different letter patterns for the same ‘ei’ sound. Please practise your spellings each evening at home. You will be tested on them next Thursday (1st October 2020). We have discussed in class different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could always use ‘Look say cover write check’.
prey wait bait afraid grey
eight weight sleigh neighbour freight
paint eighteen eighty reign vein
Sumdog Challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A multiplication challenge (Related facts for x3 x4 and x8)
- A maths challenge (Rounding and place value to 10 000)
- A spelling challenge (based on the sound ‘ei’ spelt different ways)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!