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Year 5 blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 4:14pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

said   with   went  people  children  asked   school  like    thought   through   because  friends  water  house   too   each   different   something

Counting

Count out loud in:

5’s up to 105 and back again                                                      0,5,10,15…

30's from 240 to 510  and back again                                       240, 270, 300, 330…

100's from 5100 backwards to 3900                                     5100, 5000, 4900…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables.  We will be practising the 7 times table in class next week.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.

Please also continue to use the fluency booster on Sumdog.

The class have had a very productive week of learning in Year 5 this week. The children have put 100% effort in which is great to see!

Year 5 continued to read the novel this week in English – ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and have been practising handwriting, using fronted adverbials, similes and expanded noun phrases.

 In Maths the class have been looking at place value of decimals as well as practising lots of arithmetic and times tables. Well done Year 5!

In RE, the children have developed their knowledge of Moses, as well as having spent time discussing the meaning of each of the ten commandments.

Everyone also enjoyed the typography art topic this week with some very creative interpretations of letter styles!

In PE, Year 5 have moved on to practising shoulder passes and shooting in netball. They also enjoyed playing bench ball and dodgeball this week.

Finally, the week ended with their new geography topic about the UK. They were able to identify the similarities and differences between the four countries of the UK.

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week – Henry

Super Learner – Evelyn

Superstar Writer – Tiffany Mason

Bookworm - Mark

Marvellous Mathematician - Bertie

Special Mention - Brooke

Finally - if you didn't get a chance to come to Meet the Teacher on Wednesday, then you can take a look at the file attached to see what the outline plans are for Year 5 in the year ahead. If you would like to clarify any of the information then please contact the office to make an appointment.

Year 1 Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 3:45pm

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Counting objects

Phonics - Reception revision 1

Don't worry if you can't access Sumdog yet (including log ins). We will be going through this at our Meet the Teacher on Thursday.

Counting - Please practise counting from 0 to 10.

Reading - Please try and read at least three times a week.

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We read a beautiful book called 'Find Your Happy'. We talked about who or what makes us happy and all had a go at writing a sentence to identify what makes us happy.

Maths

We have been learning how to use lots of different maths manipulatives: tens frames, counters and base ten. We practically made different numbers up to 20.

See our pictures here.

R.E.

We read the Creation Story in Genesis and talked about how God made our world a day at a time. We had a lot of fun making our own world using dabbers.

P.E.

We practised our underarm and overarm throwing.

Science

We went outside to spot signs of Autumn. We found orange leaves and lots of different minibeasts.

Geography

We talked about the differences between a rural and an urban place. 

Computing

We learnt how to use an iPad. We dragged and dropped objects using our new skills.

Art

We sketched our self-portraits using mirrors and our new sketching pencils.

See our pictures here.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Rupert

Super Learner: Lucas

Superstar Writer: Tommy

Bookworm: Ariana

Marvellous Mathematician: Thomas

Special Mentions: Grace for her beautiful manners and Eilish for doing extra learning at home by going on an Autumn walk.

If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the team! Have a lovely weekend.

Year 3 Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 2:21pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog 

Home Practice

Everyone has been given a reading book this week. Please try to read a little every night, around 10–15 minutes. The regular routines for home practice will set your children up well for all future learning they meet. Little and often is the key!

Sumdog

We have also set three Sumdog challenges — two maths and one spelling. Have a go at these across the week and try to do a little every night.Please keep up some counting practice at home too. A little counting every day makes a big impact on your child’s knowledge and understanding of the number system. This can be through fun games such as counting tennis (take turns to say 1, 2 or 3 numbers in sequence — the winner is the one who reaches the target number) or by singing some of our counting songs. Here is one we sang this week to practise our 2s, 5s and 10s.

Spellings

Your spellings have also been sent home, have a go at the activity sheet on the back and do a little practice every day This doesn’t need to be handed in.

This week’s spellings are:

house, glass, letter, skipped, puppet, door, duck, monkey, who, write, toy, tube, nurse, hair, eight, cakes, night, fruit, should, picture

This week in Year 3

English

In English this week we have started reading our class novel, The Twits by Roald Dahl. We read all about men with hairy faces, met Mr and Mrs Twit and read about the horrible tricks they play on each other. Everyone wrote some great pieces, describing the Twits and retelling their horrid pranks. We also acted out The Shrinks chapter and wrote some fantastic scripts. 

Maths

In Maths, we have been learning about the place value of three-digit numbers. Everyone showed good understanding and asked some brilliant questions in our lessons.

Art

We also started our art topic on exploring charcoal. The children created some imaginative pieces and really enjoyed experimenting with different effects. See our gallery to have a look at our work.

Science

In our new Science topic we are exploring skeletons in animals and humans. We looked at a human skeleton and learned the scientific names for some of the bones in our body. We also learned that the human body has 206 bones, but a newborn baby has more than 300! Here is some of the vocabulary we will meet in the coming weeks.

Swimming

This week we also started our swimming lessons. Everyone gave it their best effort and showed real determination in the pool. The swim coaches were very impressed with the children’s positive attitude and how supportive they were of each other. Well done, Year 3! Remember, no Swimming this week due to refurbishments being made at the swimming pool.

Thank you to all who attended the Meet the Teacher meeting on Thursday. You will find the slides from the presentation attached below. If you were unable to attend, don't hesitate to contact us to discuss any questions you may have about this year.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Rose

Super Learner – Jonah

Superstar Writer – Devyn

Bookworm – Felicity

Marvellous Mathematician – Henry Y

Special Mentions – Zack W for being a good friend to everyone in Year 3

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year 3 Team

Year 4 Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 12:13pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Discuss what you have read with an adult.

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

Monday        Tuesday       Wednesday  Thursday     Friday

Saturday      Sunday         January       February     March

April            May             June            July             August

September  October      November    December    month

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 10’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 120 and back again

0   10     20    etc                      120    110     100 etc

Times tables and Number facts

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week. 

You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

TTRockstars is an app which you can download, or you can use the website by following this link https://ttrockstars.com/ and logging in. Your login details are in the front of your Reading Diary.

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

TTRockstars challenge

A ‘garage’ session

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A maths challenge based on recognising place value in 4 digit numbers

Our learning this week

In English, we used the front cover of the class novel – Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo – to make predictions about the story.

We also met the main characters and read the blurb on the back cover to see if our predictions were correct.

In Maths, we learnt the meaning of ‘place value’.

We used part whole diagrams and partitioning and recombining numbers to help with our understanding of what each digit in a number represents

In RE, we started our new topic ‘Creation and Covenant’.

We listened to the story of Abraham when God asked him to leave Haran and travel to Canaan,

We considered the sort of person Abraham must have been, and how his faith, hope and love gave him the strength to do as the Lord had asked.

In Science, we recapped the 7 life processes using the acronym MRS GREN (movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition).

In addition, we grouped animals according to whether they were a fish, mammal, reptile, amphibian or bird.

In PSHE, we started our topic ‘Meet your brain’.

We learnt how we can train our mind and how our brain can grow, as well as what the different parts of our brains are called.

In Art, we learnt about the work of Laura Carlin and Shaun Tan.

We then practised our shading skills which we will be using over the coming weeks.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Lottie

Super Learner: Eliza

Superstar Writer: Alice

Bookworm Award: Rudy

Marvellous Mathematician: George

Special Mentions: Mia, Evelyn and Noah – for thoughtful and beautifully presented RE work, and Alexander for beautiful manners

The Year 4 team

Year 2 Blog Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 8:40am

Home Practice

Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book.

This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (19.09.25):

said, are, the, was, his, today, is, were, has and you.

Sumdog: Complete the 'Place Value - Tens and Ones' challenge.

English

We have been learning through the story of Burglar Bill.

We wrote him a letter telling him all about ourselves. We also made a poster.

In handwriting we have been learning how to form our letters with lead-ins.

Phonics 

We have been revisiting ee as in tree, ea as in leaf, e-e as in Steve and y as in happy.

Maths

Place value - we have been learning how to represent 10s and 1s using different equipment. We have used Base 10, straws ,counters and cards.

R.E

Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed reading the story of Noah's Ark. Using pictures and sentences they retold the story brilliantly.

Computing

It was interesting to learn and understand what Information Technology (IT) is.

The children identified items/objects that were IT and were not IT. They drew pictures and labelled them so well.

Golden Assembly

Star-Arianna

Bookworm-Zac

Super Learner-Nelly

Mathematician-Joshua I.

Writer-Isabella

Special Mentions-Emma and Rhodes

Reception Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 8:36am

Welcome to the Reception Friday Blog!

We have done our second week in school and WOW, what a week. A big well done to everyone.

This week we have been listening to the story 'The Colour Monster,' each day we have focussed on a different emotion and we have spoken about a time we have felt that way.

We have had yoga with Hannah, Forest School with Mrs Corbett and Music with Mrs Campbell.

We have been matched up with our Year 6 buddies and we have had a buddy play.

Have a restful weekend and we will see you all next week, for week 3!

Please note our Meet the Teacher on Wednesday 17th September at 3.30pm - we look forward to seeing you all there.

Do not worry if you cannot make it - the presentation will be available on the website.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 10:18am

Welcome to the Year 6 Blog.

Year 6 have all enjoyed their first Friday play with their Reception buddies this week - well done Year 6 for being such amazing role models! 

This week in Year 6

English

For English, we have continued to be inspired by 'The Nowhere Emporium'. This week, we have been thinking about the character of Daniel and what we can infer about his thoughts and feelings. All of Year 6 wrote some amazing diary entries in role and worked hard to edit their writing. We also debated if the character of Lucien Silver would be good or evil using evidence that we could find in chapters 5 and 6. 

Maths 

This week we have continued to improve our place value knowledge in Maths. We have learned how to round whole numbers up to 10,000,00 and decimals with up to three decimal places. We have also learned how to find powers of 10 more than and less than a given number. 

RE

In RE we have continued to focus on the second story of creation. Together, we have explored the symbolic meaning of the story and understood what important message it teaches us. We have learned that this story teaches us that we need to live in a community with each other. We also discussed what original sin is and how we can sometimes be tempted by things! 

Topic 

In Year 6, we are really enjoying our new WW2 topic! This week we compared Germany in 1937 to Germany today. We also learned about the differences between a democracy and a dictatorship and investigated which countries in Europe were dictatorships and which were democratic in 1937.

We have continued our Science topic, which is all about classification. We have learned about classification keys and how these can be used to categorise different animals. 

In French, we have been reviewing our prior learning on greetings, numbers 0-50, age and colours. 

Home practice

As mentioned in meet the teacher, homework has been set for this week. Please complete the following tasks by next Thursday: 

Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Spelling -  

Please practise the following spellings this week from the Y5/6 spelling list: 

All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test next Friday. 

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: This week we have had to count in tenths to complete our rounding work. Try to count in decimal steps of 0.1, 0.2 or 0.5. You could do this out loud or write it on a piece of paper.

You could draw a numberline, like we have done in class this week. Can you count up and down in decimal tenths? How far can you go?

Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to answer on Sumdog! 

Place Value: This week's learning is to practise questions on place value. For further Maths work, please visit the 'Maths Training' section, where your child will be able to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them.

Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week! 

Star of the Week  - Ebba

Super Learner -  Imogen

Superstar Writer - Bella

Bookworm - Leo H

Marvellous Mathematician -  Maisie

Special Mentions - All of Y6 for being amazing buddies! 

Thank you to everyone who came to Meet the Teacher on Tuesday. The presentation is attached at the bottom of the blog. If you were unable to attend, please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions regarding the slides. 

Have a great weekend Year 6! 

Year 3 Friday Blog 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 5:23pm

Welcome to your first blog of Year 3!

We have had a super week settling in and getting used to the new classroom! It has been lovely seeing everyone back after the summer holidays looking smart in their Summer uniforms.

This week in Year 3

English

In English this week we have read Stickman by Julia Donaldson. We wrote some fantastic descriptions and even created our own version! 

Maths

In Maths, we started revisiting place value and number. Everyone has shown great knowledge and asked some great questions in class.

RE

We started our RE topic – ‘Creation and Covenant’.

This week we read the creation story from Genesis and created some lovey artwork. 

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Noa

Super Learner – Rowan

Superstar Writer – Melodie

Bookworm – Elyse

Marvellous Mathematician – Amelia L

Special Mentions – All of Year 3 for settling in so well to the Juniors!

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 5 Blog Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 4:41pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a fantastic start in Year 5 and all the children have tried so hard with their learning. Well done to the new Year 5!

The usual weekly home practise will start next week but it would be great if the children enjoy their reading this weekend.

We have started our novel this week in English – ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and Year 5 have already done some impressive writing using expanded noun phrases.

 In Maths we have been looking at large numbers, how to say and write them and we have also been revising how to exchange.

Well done Year 5!

Our first piece of scripture in RE was from Exodus and was all about Moses and the burning bush in the desert, where God spoke to him and gave him an important task. The children enjoyed re-telling the story.

In PE, Year 5 have been practising their throwing skills in netball and they all tried their best playing in teams.

Finally, we all enjoyed getting outside for an autumn nature walk and collecting ‘treasures’ for our class display.

Golden stars this week

Jenson – star of the week

Mark – marvellous mathematician

Milo – super learner for contributing great ideas

Willow  – superstar writer

Madelaina – bookworm for reading lots  

Alfie B – special mention for being so helpful in class 

Reception Blog - Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 3:53pm

Hello and welcome to the Reception Friday Blog!

All the children had an amazing first week at school!

We are amazed at how quickly they have settled into our routines, exploring their new classroom, making new friends and joining in with our prayers.

We drew self portraits and decorated our names for our classroom door.

We had buddy play with Year 6, we will be paired up with our own buddy next week.

We have been to explore the Forest School areas with Mrs Corbett. She read us a story in the lodge. It was called 'The Leaf Thief'.We will have Forest School every Thursday.

Lunchtimes are a big hit, with many empty plates.

At the end of Friday, we asked the children if they would come back next week and they all said yes, excitedly.

Have a restful weekend and we will see you all next week!

Year 1 Blog - Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 12:52pm

We are so proud of how well everyone has settled into Year 1!

Reading - Your child has new books in their book bag. Please try and read at least three times each week.

Please remember to bring book bags in each day. Books will be changed every Friday (or more often if wanted!)

English

We have read two lovely stories this week: A Letter From Your Teacher and Our Class is a Family.

We have been talking about how we might be feeling different emotions surrounding starting a new school year, and how this is okay! We also drew and labelled our families.

Phonics

We have been joining in with our phonics songs. We have also been reading real and nonsense words.

Maths

We have been counting in ones and practising our number formation. We have also been spotting patterns and making groups of numbers.

R.E.

We looked at different Bibles and recognised that they are special books which contain special stories. We talked about Jesus and God and recited our prayers.

P.E.

We went onto the playground and practised rolling, throwing and catching different sized balls.

P.S.H.E.

We learnt all about our brain in My Happy Mind. We drew pictures of our brains in our journal.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Judah and Evie E

Super Learner: Reo

Superstar Writer: Ada G

Bookworm: Imogen

Marvellous Mathematician: Louie

Special Mentions: Thomas for helping the Reception children into class and Isla-May for always keeping the classroom tidy!

If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the team! Have a lovely weekend.

Year 4 Blog Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 12:45pm

Welcome to our first blog of this school year!

We have had a super week! We have put lots of effort into our lessons and settled well into the new routines in Year 4.

We were proud of our Summer scrapbooks and enjoyed sharing them with our friends and teachers. They enjoyed finding out what we got up to over the Summer holiday.

This week in Year 4

English

In English, we read the poem The Magic Box by Kit Wright.

We used the poem as inspiration for writing our own verses, explaining what we would put in our own ‘magic box’.

Maths

In Maths, we started exploring place value.

We considered that the position of the digit in a number is important, and that 10 hundreds and 1 thousand have the same value.

RE

We started our RE topic – ‘Creation and Covenant’.

We focussed on the story of Abraham and his covenant with God, and showed an understanding of the historical context of Abraham.

History

In History, we started our Romans topic.

We discussed what we already knew, and where when and how the Roman Empire began.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Heidi

Super Learner – William

Superstar Writer – Bella

Bookworm – Georgie

Marvellous Mathematician – Jessica

Special Mentions – Albie and Oliver

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 Team

Year 2 Blog Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 11:47am

The children have had a great week back and settled into Year 2 really well.

We are looking forward to a fantastic year of learning together.

Thank you for completing your holiday books. We have enjoyed reading them together.

English

We role played being Burglar Bill and wrote some questions for him when he was in the hot seat. We wrote sentences about what information we knew about him. 

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Maths

We have been working on place value this week.

The children used base ten to make two-digit numbers.

They also did a lot of counting and recapped adding and taking 1 and 10 from a number.

RE

We spent time looking at the Bible and discussing any stories we had already heard.

The children learnt that their are two parts - The Old Testament and The New Testament.

They even started to recognise whether a story was written in The Old or New Testament.

Geography

Our new topic is Continents and Oceans.

The children labelled a world map with all seven continents.

History

The Great Fire of London - we watched a video clip about how the fire started.

The children drew a scene from the fire labelling it with things they had learned.

PE

The children have revisited the fundamental skills of underam throwing and catching.

They played mini-games and displayed fantastic team work.

Art

We discussed the work of Andy Goldsworthy. We then went outside and chose different things to sketch. We looked very closely at what we were drawing.

Forest School

We had a look at all the fruit growing on our trees. We tidied up the nature area by working together to collect all the rubbish which has appeared over the holiday. We reminded ouselves about keeing safe at Forest School. We chose our own learning and demonstrated superb problem solving, teamwork and resilience.

Science

We started our new learning about Living Things. We sorted pictures of objects into groups ,living and dead. We then added another group which was things which have never been alive. We sang a great song about our learning which included the life processes which living things have.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Faisal

Super Learner - Reuben

Superstar Writer - Zac

Bookworm - Harry

Mathematician - Ella

Special Mentions - Cerys for her beautiful manners and Hannah for being a caring friend.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 5th September

Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 12:12pm

Welcome to our first blog of the year! 

Year 6 have all worked so hard during their first week of school! They have put great effort into their lessons, been amazing role models and applied for their school 'jobs'. I would like to congratulate each of the children for their brilliant letters of application for responsibilities around school; we are looking forward to seeing all of our Year 6 working hard to support the school as ambassadors, eco team members, school councillers, sports captains, housepoint team members and much more! 

Thank you to everyone who completed a summer holiday challenge, it was lovely to see the children enjoying the outdoors this summer! 

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have begun reading 'The Nowhere Emporium' by Ross Mckenzie. This week, we have explored the prolouge and created our own descriptions of a magical shop, inspired by Ross Mackenzie. We have also created a setting description for the interior of The Nowhere Emporium and written in role as Daniel when he first encounters the shop. 

Maths 

This week we have explored our place value topic. We have learned how to represent numbers up to 10,000,000 on a place value chart and challenged ourselves with our deeper learning tasks!  

RE

We have started our new RE topic this week, with a focus on the second story of creation. We have shared the story together and created storyboards to help us remember the key parts of the scripture.  

Topic 

This week, we started our Science topic, which is all about classification. We have learned about how animals are classified into different groups and made posters to show our learning. 

We have also begun our new Art topic, which is all about making a 2D drawing into a 3D drawing. We have explored the work of artist Lubaina Hamid and shared our opinions on their work! 

Homework will be handed out next week after meet the teacher. 

Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week! 

Star of the Week  - Leo H

Super Learner -  Cian

Superstar Writer - Freddie

Bookworm - Darcey

Marvellous Mathematician -  Libby 

Special Mentions - Eddie - for looking after the new Reception children

Have a great weekend Year 6! 

Final Year 3 Friday Blog 18th July 2023

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 3:17pm

Well done everyone on completing Year 3!

We have had an amazing week of celebrations and fun learning.

It has been a pleasure to teach every one of you this year and we are so proud of how far you have all come!

Enjoy your Summer holidays! You deserve a rest!

Thank you so much for all your kind messages and gifts. We are all so grateful.

Have an amazing summer and we are already looking forward to seeing you all in September!

The Year 3 Team

Year 5 Friday Blog Friday 18th July 2025

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 2:09pm

Thank you Year 5 for an amazing year. It has been a privilege to teach you. We wish you all the best for Year 6 !

Thank you also to all the parents for our thoughtful and generous gifts!

Special mentions - Imogen, Freddie, Maisie and Tommy

See you in September!   

Mrs Whitworth and Mrs Dexter

Year 1 Blog - Friday 18th July 2025

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 2:08pm

A big thank you to you all from all of us for your hard work and lovely gifts.

We are so proud of how far the class have come this year! 

We will miss everyone so much!

Have a lovely summer and we will see you in September.

Special Mentions of the Term:

Huxley

Reuben

Nelly

Jaxon

Reception Blog - Friday 18th July 2025

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 11:52am

A big thank you to you all from all of us.

Thank you for your amazing support and your very generous gifts.

Have a great summer and make lots of memories.

See you on Tuesday 2nd September.

The Foundation Stage Team.

Mrs Robinson, Mrs Dixon and Mrs Cliffe.

Special Mentions of the Term:

Noah J

Imogen

Darragh

Louie

Year 2 Blog- Friday 18th July

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 9:33am

Thank you from all of us for your amazing support and your very generous gifts.

Have a great summer.

See you on Tuesday 2nd September.

Mrs Corbett, Miss Gravili, Mrs Deighton & Mrs Tiley

Special Mentions of the Term

Florence, Wilbur, Jonah,Amelia C.

Year 4 Blog - Friday 18th July 2025

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 8:56am

Welcome to your final blog of the year

The Year 4 team would like to thank each and every one of you for the lovely cards and gifts - they are very thoughtful and we appreciate your kindness and generosity.

Thank you also for being the most amazing Year 4! We have loved teaching you and seeing you grow over the past year.

Have a fantastic summer.

We look forward to seeing you again on Tuesday 2nd September 2025.

The Year 4 Team - Mrs Tipping, Mrs Mulgrew, Miss Dineen and Miss Whiting

Special Mentions:

Bertie

Madelaina

Sam

Amelia

Evangeline

Year 6 Blog - Friday 18th July 2025

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 8:00am

Welcome to the final Year 6 weekly blog!

All of Year 6 have had a fantastic year! They have all challenged themselves, shown resilience and are now ready for a new adventure at High School next year. We hope that all of Year 6 have enjoyed their time at St Oswald's and have many happy memories from their time at Primary School. 

Good Luck and best wishes for High School Year 6 - from everyone at St Oswald's! 

Have an amazing summer holidays Year 6! 

Year 5 blog - Friday 11th July 2025

Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 5:24pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.

Spelling

There are no spellings for this week.

 Counting

Count out loud in:

5s up to 60 and back again                                                      0,5,10,15…

50s from 350 to 750  and back again                                      350, 400, 450…

200s from 100,400 backwards to 98,200                              100,400, 100,200, 100,000…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables.  TTRS and Hit the Button are great resources for this.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

We have had another great week of learning in Year 5.

We have been writing poems in English and sharing our ideas and performance styles.

 In Maths we have been continuing with revising methods for division.  

There have been many rehearsals followed by three performances of our special production of ‘Joseph.’ The class have shown real determination and enthusiasm with this – a great job Year 5!

In History, we have continued to learn about the Maya civilisation, including how they created calendars, using glyphs.

Finally, Year 5 finished the week by creating their own unique fashion design clothing in Art.

 Another super week Year 5 – well done!

Star of the week - Ebba

Marvellous mathematician - Agatha

Superstar writer - Willow

Super learner - Milana

Super learner - Joe

Special mention - Zachary O

              Bookworm - Theo                  

Reception Blog - Friday 11th July 2025

Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 3:33pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

 Phonics

We have all been recapping our sounds and tricky words from this year.

Drawing Club

In Drawing Club, we have been writing clues for animals and reading them to our friends for them to guess the animal.

See the photos here.

Maths

We have been taking part in memory games (I went to the shop and bought ...)

We have also been comparing base 10 and multilink cubes and talking about the similarities and differences. See the photos here.

RE

We have continued talking about seeing Jesus through other people's eyes.

We talked about how different countries view Jesus, specifically Nigeria.

Understanding the World

We have also been comparing arctic animals and woodland animals.

My Happy Mind

We have been talking about perseverance.

PE

We have taken part in orienteering.

Also have a look at our choosing time this week here!

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Connall

Super Learner – Tommy

Superstar Writer – Harriet

Bookworm – Zara

Mathematician – Reo

Special Mention - Imogen - for always taking great care in the creative area.

Year 1 Blog - Friday 11th July 2025

Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 8:45am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Positional language

Phonics - Sounds learnt this week

Counting - Please practise counting from 0 to 20, forwards and backwards. 

Reading - We've had a drop in the number of children changing their reading books so please keep reading at home.

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We have been writing non-chronological reports about bears. We used the facts that we gathered on Friday and drew fantastic pictures.

See our pictures here.

We have also been writing beautiful messages for Mrs Wood's card.

Phonics

Some of us have been practising spotting our sounds in our reading books.

Some of us have started to identify the different air spellings: air in chair, ear in bear and are in care.

Maths

We have been comparing turns (full and half turns) and using positional language (forwards, backwards, left and right).

Science

We made the most of the weather and drew around our shadows!

See our pictures here.

Art

We went outside and sketched what we could see.

See our pictures here.

D.T.

We learnt how to complete a simple running stitch. 

Year 6 production

A big thank you to Year 6 for letting us watch their production!

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Joshua Wright

Super Learner: Jaxon

Superstar Writer: Ella

Bookworm: Seb

Marvellous Mathematician: Joshua I and Luca

Special Mentions: Lara for her super answers in Maths.

Please could all reading books be returned next week, Mrs Anderson will be collecting them in!

Little Owls - Week 6

Date: 11th Jul 2025 @ 8:35am

Little Owls - Week 6

Thank you so much for all your support over the last six weeks, we have loved getting to know everyone and we cannot wait for September! 

Don't forget to make your 'Treasure Box' over the holidays and bring it with you during the first week of school. 

We would like to say a big 'thank you' to everyone who came along to our stay and play this week!

Have a great summer holidays and we will see you in September 

The Reception Team