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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.
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.
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!
Art
We went outside and sketched what we could see.
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!
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
Year 6 Friday Blog - 11th July 2025
Date: 10th Jul 2025 @ 9:27am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
All of Year 6 worked so hard on their amazing production - well done to everyone for their wonderful acting and singing. We hope you all enjoyed the performance!
History
In History we have continued with our WW2 topic. We have been learning about how the RAF were important in helping Britain win WW2. We also learned how WW2 came to an end by thinking about different causes and their impact.
Science
In Science we learned all about how fossils can show evolution. We revised how fossils are formed and we looked closely at how fossils of horses show a change over time!
No homework or spellings have been set for the last week.
Please can reading books be returned to school to be collected next week.
Golden Assembly
All of Year 6 received a special mention for their amazing effort in the school production. Well done Year 6!
Have super weekend Year 6!
Year 2 Blog Friday 11th July 2025
Date: 8th Jul 2025 @ 10:07am
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!
Sumdog:
Counting:
Spend time counting in 3's forwards and backwards to 60 or even 100. Look at how that links to the 3x table.
Times Tables:
Please keep learning the 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables (and division facts) ready for Y3.
Follow this link to play 'Hit the Button' and 'Tables-Teaser'.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/tables-teaser
English
Using books from our library, the children wrote interesting information texts about a topic of their choice.
They included facts and detailed diagrams.
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Maths
We learnt more about capacity and volume this week.
The children estimated how much liquid a container held and measured accurately using litres and millilitres.
They also solved tricky word problems related to capacity and volume.
RE
Our Bible story was The Good Samaritan.
We looked in more detail at who the characters were and how they interacted at the time.
PE
In PE, we had an orienteering competition.
The children displayed great map skills and team work and had a lot of fun.
Year 6 Performance
We spent Wednesday afternoon watching the Year 6 dress rehearsal.
It was very exciting and entertaining.
Art/Forest School
The children were very creative, using materials from nature to create their own art work.
Science
We made our boats and tested them to see if they floated and if they were waterproof. We came to some conclusions.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week-Henry P.
Super Learner-Adam
Superstar Writer-Orlaigh
Bookworm-Wilbur
Mathematician-Felicity
Special Mentions-Devyn for being a kind and caring friend.
Teddy for great listening.
Year 3 Friday Blog 4th July 2025
Date: 4th Jul 2025 @ 3:51pm
We’ve had another brilliant week of learning in Year 3!
Home Learning
Reading - Please read every night for at least 15 minutes. Don’t forget to record it in your reading diary!
Maths - We’ve set two challenges on Sumdog this week. They focus on number fluency and times tables.
Spellings - This week’s spellings are a recep of some of the words we've met this term
Counting – Keep counting too! Check out all our counting songs and videos on past blog posts to practise your 2s, 5s, 10s, 3s, 4s and 8s.
This week in Year 3
Our highlight this week was our fantastic trip to Bolton Museum! We saw a real Egyptian mummy, sketched some beautiful artwork, explored the exciting science displays and even visited the aquarium. The whole class was amazing – and the museum staff were extremely impressed with our knowledge of Ancient Egypt. Well done, Year 3! Check out our gallery!
In English, we have started our new novel, Journey to Jo’burg. We wrote a brilliant description of the main character, Naledi, and a powerful recount of her first hours on the road. The children are already hooked by the story and showing great empathy in their writing.
In Maths, we’ve been learning all about Roman numerals. We’ve been using number lines to help us identify missing numbers and have worked really hard to spot patterns and build our confidence.
In Science, we explored the roots of different plants from around our school grounds. We sketched and labelled our own diagrams and revisited the important role roots play in helping plants grow. Some super scientific thinking this week!
In PE, we’ve been practising our tennis skills, working on ball control and hand/eye co-ordination. We’ve spotted some future tennis stars in our class already!
Well done for all your hard work, Year 3. Have a lovely weekend – you’ve earned it!
The Year 3 team
Date: 4th Jul 2025 @ 3:48pm
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.
identity immediately individual interfere interrupt language leisure lightning marvellous mischievous muscle necessary neighbour nuisance occupy occur opportunity parliament
Counting
Count out loud in:
5s up to 60 and back again 0,5,10,15…
70s from 350 to 770 and back again 350, 420, 490…
100s from 100,500 backwards to 98,500 100,500, 100,400, 100,300…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. There is a TTRS competition between Year 4 and Year 5 this week, starting tonight until next Friday. It is available from 3:15pm until 8pm every day.
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.
We have had another fantastic week of learning in Year 5.
In English this week, we have all enjoyed reading about Harry Potter’s potion class, where he makes the perfect potion and wins a bottle of liquid luck. Everyone wrote their own instructions for a potion and also wrote a short story about Harry, Ron and Hermione meeting a magical creature. The quality and length of writing was amazing.
In Maths we have been revisiting division. Well done Year 5!
In DT everyone designed and created a CAMS toy - there were some fantastic creations!
There has been lots of practising for our special production of ‘Joseph, next week. Everyone in the class has been given a book of lyrics to learn over the weekend.
Finally, Year 5 finished the week by all taking part in a rugby festival at school. We also made magic wands in outdoor learning, using natural resources.
Another great week where everyone tried their hardest – well done!
Reception Blog - Friday 4th July 2025
Date: 4th Jul 2025 @ 3:25pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
Mrs Robinson's group have been writing and reading words with the air and ure sounds in them.
Mrs Dixon's group have been focussing on CCVCC words.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club, we have been listening to the story 'Am I Yours?'
We predicted what would be in the egg and then drew and wrote about it.
Maths
We have been exploring patterns and sequencing.
RE
We have been talking about seeing Jesus through other people's eyes.
We talked about how different countries view Jesus. We listened to stories from Nigeria, Mexico, India and Australia.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we have designed our own under the sea animals to put in our matchboxes. See the photos here.
We have also been copying animal prints - we have loved this activity. See the photos here.
Understanding the World
We have been exploring maps of the world and thinking about the animals that lived in those countries.
We have also been comparing jungle animals and under the sea animals.
My Happy Mind
We have been talking about perseverance.
PE
We learnt invasion games today.
We loved playing cat and mouse and showed brilliant team work.
Year 4 Blog Friday 4th July 2025
Date: 4th Jul 2025 @ 2:38pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Can you spot any homophones when you are reading eg their, there and they’re.
Spellings
These are your spellings for next week:
brake break fair fare mane main
weather whether missed mist meat meet
to too two there their they’re
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 20’s
For example, start at 20 and count to 240 and back again
20 40 60 etc 240 220 200 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
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 ‘battle of the bands’ – Year 4 v Year 5
Sumdog challenges
A spelling challenge based on the words above
A multiplication and division challenge identifying unknowns
Our learning this week
English
In English, we used a dictionary to find out the definitions of new words.
We then wrote the word in a sentence of our own to show the word in context.
Maths
In Maths, we converted from m to cm using the conversion 1m = 100cm.
We discovered that we needed to multiply by 100 to convert from m to cm.
We also converted measurements between km and m using the conversion 1km = 1000m.
We discovered that we needed to multiply by 1000 to convert from km to m.
RE
In RE, we explored the mission and some of the writings of St Paul.
PSHE
In PSHE, we considered what ‘big dream goals’ are.
We also learnt why setting goals makes us feel good.
Science
In Science, we explored the relationship between distance and volume.
We discussed how the volume of the school bell might change depending on where we were stood – the further away from the source of the sound, the quieter it would be.
We then planned an experiment which we will carry out next week.
History
In History, we researched the 12 Olympian gods and goddesses.
We also identified key Ancient Greek gods and goddesses from historical sources which were pinned up in the playground.
You can see us in action in our gallery.
Following this, we created ‘top trump’ cards for our favourite 3 gods / goddesses.
PE
In PE, we paired up and practised underarm throws to our partner. Next, we played a game which required us to return the ball over the net. If the ball was caught, we were out!
DT
We learnt how to create a set of instructions (an algorithm) in code.
We then downloaded the algorithm to a micro:bit.
The infinite loop kept our name scrolling on the micro:bit’s LED display.
Some of us extended our learning to include other information on the micro:bit display.
Tag Rugby
We also had a fantastic tag rugby session on Friday afternoon with a South Ribble Sports Coach.
Take a look at our pictures in the gallery.
The Year 4 team
Year 2 Blog Friday 4th July 2025
Date: 4th Jul 2025 @ 10:35am
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!
Sumdog:
Counting:
Spend time counting in 3's forwards and backwards to 60 or even 100.
Times Tables:
Please keep learning the 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables (and division facts) ready for Y3.
Follow this link to play 'Hit the Button' and 'Tables-Teaser'.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/tables-teaser
English
Year 2 are really enjoying our new book, Harry And The Jaggedy Daggers by Jan Fearnley.
We have made predictions about the characters, setting, storyline and ending and produced great story maps.
Maths
Using part whole models has really helped everyone solve missing number problems this week.
RE
Our Bible story was The Good Samaritan.
The children retold the story on story fans and beautifully illustrated them.
PE
In PE, we made our small games of rounders into two bigger games with more fielders and batters.
The rules changed slightly to make it more challenging, but everyone had a lot of fun. Some of the teachers joined in too!
Science
We planned an investigation to make a boat to carry Harry across Bottlenose Bay after his own boat has been smashed to smithereens.
We are going to make and test our boats next week. We discussed which materials would be best as the boat has to float, be waterproof and strong.
NSPCC
We had a visit from a lady from the NSPCC. She talked to us about keeping safe and who we could talk to if we had a problem.
Tag Rugby
We had a great session with our South Ribble coach. He taught us how to hold the ball, score a try, do a swing pass and pick up the ball without stopping.
We then had a game.
Moving Up Morning
We had our second moving up morning in Year 3. Mr Campbell was impressed with out listening.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 4th July 2025
Date: 3rd Jul 2025 @ 7:01pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Missing number questions
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 read a story about another polar bear called Leaf who, like Lars in The Little Polar Bear, was lost and wanted to return home. We role-played how Leaf was feeling, wrote sentences using exclamation marks and question marks, and researched facts about polar bears on the iPads.
Phonics
Some of us have been applying our phonics sounds when reading.
Some of us have continued to identify the different ear spellings, focusing on the ear sound in here.
Maths
We have continued to complete addition and subtraction number sentences. We furthered our learning by understanding how to calculate missing number questions, using our fact family knowledge.
R.E.
We had a Collective Worship with Miss Gravili. We talked about how to be helpful.
P.E.
We went outside and completed a fitness orienteering session.
We also had a fantastic rugby session with Dave.
Science
We observed the change in temperature using thermometers. We identified how to read the scales together then compared the temperature in shaded areas to sunny areas.
PSHE
We discovered that we have three places that we go to depending on how we are feeling: a busy place, a middle place and a happy place. We want to stay in our happy place as much as possible but sometimes our brains go to our busy place. We recognised that we can use different techniques, such as happy breathing, to move between our places.
D.T.
We explored different joining techniques - gluing, stapling and using split pins.
Moving up morning
We had a great time in our new classroom. We made our new peg names ready for the next year.
Over summer, please complete the book that your child has been given!
Date: 3rd Jul 2025 @ 8:42am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
All of Year 6 really enjoyed participating in the rugby festival today!
This week in Year 6
History
In History we have continued with our WW2 topic. We have been learning about how the lives of civilians changed during WW1 in Britain. We researched rationing, the role of children and evacuees and wrote some amazing fact sheets based on our research.
Computing
To start our new coding topic, we discussed what is acceptable and not acceptable to say online. We explored how words could be interpreted and discussed how we should conduct ourselves online.
Geography
In Geography we explored our local area. We investigated how Longton has regional, national and global links!
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 9/07/25.
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.
Spellings - no spellings have been set this week
Homework -
Homework for this half term will be more topic based. Please complete one task from the topic homework sheet by next Thursday.
Have great weekend Year 6!
Date: 2nd Jul 2025 @ 11:12am
Little Owls Week 5
Little Owls, we cannot believe that we only have one more session left.
This week we have been learning each others names using circle games.
We loved playing the game 'duck, duck, goose.'
We then went into the provision to explore our classroom some more.
We had carrot for snack today.
Please note, that our final session, 9th July will be a stay and play!
See you next week for the final session!
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 4:54pm
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.
there they’re their where wear we’re hair hare hear here it’s its to two too behaviour environment library
Counting
Count out loud in:
3s up to 60 and back again 0,3,6,9…
30s from 240 to 510 and back again 240, 270, 300, 330…
100s from 50100 backwards to 48700 50,100, 50,000, 49,900…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. There are several tests on them in the next few weeks.
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.
We have had another fantastic week of learning in Year 5.
In English this week, everyone has been trying very hard to make their writing about their someone special perfect. They will be on display when open morning is on next week.
In Maths we have been revisiting number lines and bridging boundaries. Well done Year 5!
In RE we’ve been having lots of lively conversations about what is factual truth in the bible and what is spiritual truth or a message on how God wants us to live our lives.
In Art, we’ve been busy painting windchimes for the summer fair and creating patterns on our painted clothes, ready to cut them into clothes next week.
Finally, Year 5 enjoyed watching all the Rock Steady bands perform. So many of Year 5 participated and they were fantastic.
A great week of learning where everyone gave 100% effort – well done!
Golden stars this week
Leo H – star of the week
Oscar – marvellous mathematician
Holly W – super learner for listening and being golden
Alfie G – superstar writer
Maisie – bookworm for reading lots of poems at home
Zac M – special mention for being kind and helpful
Year 3 Friday Blog 27th June 2025
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 2:52pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
It’s been another busy and brilliant week in Year 3!
Home Learning
Reading – Please read every night for at least 15 minutes. Don’t forget to record it in your reading diary!
Maths – We’ve set two challenges on Sumdog this week. They focus on multiplication, division, and times tables, perfect for reinforcing the learning we’ve met in class.
Spellings – This week’s spellings all revision of Key Stage 1 Common exception words.
This week in Year 3
We’ve had a fantastic week in Year 3 – full of creativity, hard work and fun!
This week, we’ve been busy with our Enterprise Week project and have made some brilliant wooden pencil cases. The children worked so hard and showed great teamwork and creativity. These will be on sale at the Summer Fair for £3 each or two for £5. Come along and support our budding entrepreneurs!
In English, we’ve been finishing off our Special Person writing. These wonderful pieces will be on display during Open Morning for everyone to enjoy. Check out our gallery to read some of our amazing work. We are so proud of the children’s thoughtful and heartfelt writing.
In Maths, we’ve been learning all about 3D shape and working hard to use our new vocabulary accurately. The children have been brilliant at recognising and describing shapes. Well done, Year 3!
We also enjoyed the Rock Steady concerts on Friday. A huge well done to all our Year 3 rock stars, you were fantastic on stage!
In History, we learned all about Ramses II, the longest ruling Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. We explored some of the incredible monuments built during his reign, including the breathtaking Abu Simbel temple. Super history learning all round!
Golden Assembly
Star of the week - Jessica
Super Learner - Emilia
Writer of the week - Rowan
Marvellous Mathematician - William
Bookworm - Marvin
Special Mentions - Violet, Eliza nd Violet. For their kindness to everyone in class this week!
Well done for another brilliant week, Year 3!
Year 4 Blog Friday 27th June 2025
Date: 27th Jun 2025 @ 12:14pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Try and add lots of expression when you are reading and use the punctuation to add pauses.
Spellings
These are your spellings for next week:
accept except ball bawl berry bury
grate great groan grown knot not
mail male peace piece scene seen
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 9’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 108 and back again
0 9 18 etc 108 99 90 etc
Now have a go at counting in 9’s from 14 to 113
14 23 32 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
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
An addition and subtraction challenge using units of measure
Our learning this week
English
In English, we completed our writing about ‘someone special’.
Following our draft, proof-read and edit, we published our writing ready for Open Morning.
We hope you enjoy reading these next Tuesday.
Maths
In Maths, we measured, drew and compared the length of different objects including numbers to two decimal places.
You can see us practising this skill in our gallery.
RE
In RE, we learnt about St Paul’s conversion and compared his life to before and after this event on the road to Damascus.
In addition, we considered why St Paul is a significant figure for Christians.
PSHE
In PSHE, we learnt that ‘engage’ means to get involved, concentrate and try our best when completing different activities.
Science
In Science, we recapped our learning about sound being made when an object vibrates.
When the vibrations enter our ears, we hear them as sounds because the ear drum vibrates and sends a signal to our brain.
We also investigated whether or not sounds can travel through different mediums (solids, liquids and gases).
Take a look at the photos in our gallery.
History
In History, we acted out the story of Alexander the Great and discussed why he was such a significant figure in Ancient Greek history.
PE
In PE, we practised an under-arm throw and tapping it back to our partner with a tennis racket.
Following this, we practised balancing a tennis ball on our racket without dropping it.
Finally, we played a game in 2 groups which involved hitting the ball over net and trying not to be caught out.
Have a look at the picture in our gallery.
This week, we also took part in Dance from the Heart!
We loved dancing with the whole school and the South Ribble Dance Leaders.
Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Evangeline
Super Learner: Jack
Superstar Writer: Maisie and Teddy
Bookworm: Joni
Marvellous Mathematician: Caleb
Special Mentions: Evelyn and Spencer
We look forward to seeing you at the Summer Fair on Saturday
The Year 4 team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 27th June 2025
Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 5:05pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Add within 20
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week
Counting - Practise the counting to 20 game with your family. Try and count backwards too!
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 read our new book Little Polar Bear, which is about a polar bear called Lars who floats away from his father whilst he's asleep! We described the North Pole, wrote speech bubbles for the characters and wrote sentences explaining what we would do if we were Lars.
We also finished our special person writing. They will up on display during our open morning!
Phonics
Some of us have compared different u spellings.
Some of us have been comparing ear in hear and eer in deer.
Maths
We have been adding and subtracting numbers to 20 using part-whole models and tens frames. We have also been focusing on using known number sentences to form fact families.
R.E.
We listened to different types of music, such as Gospel music, and discussed which was our favourite and why. We all loved 'My Lighthouse' by Rend Collective!
PSHE
We talked about times that we show different emotions and how it's okay to feel sad, confused and angry sometimes.
Art
We made our final minibeast collage using painted card. We made ladybirds, wasps, caterpillars and butterflies.
Moving up morning
We had so much fun in Year 2! Mrs Corbett and Miss Gravili learnt all about us.
Dance from the Heart
We performed brilliantly on Wednesday! A big thank you to everyone who came to watch us.
Rock Steady
A big well done to Harry, Lara, Zac, Jesse and Rudy for being amazing rockstars!
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Genevieve
Super Learner: Cara
Superstar Writer: Luca
Bookworm: Hannah
Marvellous Mathematician: Freya
Special Mentions: Lara for believing in herself!
Year 2 Blog Friday 27th June 2025
Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 4:04pm
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!
Sumdog:
Counting:
Spend time counting to 100 forwards and backwards.
Then challenge yourself and go beyond 100. How far can you count?
Times Tables:
As we are so close to the end of term, there will be no more times tables quizzes in class.
However, please keep learning the 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables (and division facts) ready for Y3.
Follow this link to play 'Hit the Button' and 'Tables-Teaser'.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/tables-teaser
English
The whole school have been busy writing about a special person in their lives.
Year 2 have all done a great piece of writing, including fantastic punctuation, spelling and handwriting.
Maths
The children have been working on number sequences.
They really enjoyed spotting patterns and continuing the sequences themselves.
Skipton Castle
We had an excellent day and the children's manners and behaviour was golden.
They remembered a lot of information from our lessons, but also learnt new/interesting facts about castles and life at the time.
Year 2 are great dancers and the energy and enthusiasm they displayed was wonderful.
Art - Flowerpot Project
The children have painted, made and decorated wooden flowerpots which will be sold at the Summer Fair.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week-Noah
Super Learner-Elyse
Superstar Writer-Jonah
Bookworm-Noa
Mathematician-Eliza
Special Mentions-Rose for being a caring friend and all the children in Year 2 for their excellent behaviour and great questions at Skipton Castle.
Hopefully see you at the Summer Fair on Saturday 12.00-2.30
Reception Blog - Friday 27th June 2025
Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 1:03pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
Mrs Robinson's group have been writing and reading words with the ear and ow sounds in them.
Mrs Dixon's group have been focussing on CCVCC words.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club, we have continued writing about a special person in our lives.
We have also been checking our work and writing them up ready for a display.
Maths
We have been exploring positional language using lots of different equipment.
RE
We have been learning about who helps in church and making them thank you cards.
We have also thought of questions to ask them.
Expressive Art and Design
We have started our new art project. This week we have made an under the sea back ground using sand, paint and tissue paper.
Understanding the World
We have been discovering extinct animals.
We compared a sabre-tooth tiger with a tiger and a wooly mammoth with an elephant. We thought of some amazing comparisions!
We used our knowledge of maps to draw a map of the school.
PE
We performed our Dance from the Heart!
We have also been loving our outdoor provision the past few weeks. See the photos here.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week – Judah
Super Learner – Noah B
Superstar Writer – Rory
Bookworm – Grace
Mathematician – Isla
Special Mention - Jack - for being a brilliant example to others.
Special Mention - Darragh - for great dancing at the Dance from the Heart.
Special Mention - Isla- being spotted by members of staff for helping aorund school.
Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 12:52pm
Little Owls Week 4
Little Owls, you have made some beautiful all about me posters!
This week we shared our 'All About Me' posters in small groups.
We did lots of talking about what we like to do, what we like to eat and who is in our family. They were all beautiful.
We took turns and really impressed the adults with how confident we were.
We watched the whole school take part in Dance from the Heart from our classroom. We even joined in with some of the actions.
We also read the story 'This is how we make Friends.'
We had cucumber for snack today.
Please note, that our final session, 7th July will be a stay and play!
We can't wait to see everyone again for week 5!
If you didn't return the All About Me poster, please don't worry, just send it in for the next session.
Year 6 Blog - Friday 27th June
Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 8:22am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English, we have been inspired by the writing prompt: 'My Special Person'. We have written all about someone who is special to us, explained what makes them special to us and described their qualities. You can see our work on display on open morning!
Enterprise Project
This week we have made and decorated bird houses. We worked hard to create our products that will be on sale at the Summer Fair on Saturday!
Faith in Action
This week we had our fun day to celebrate achieving our pin badge for Faith in Action. We attended the celebration award ceremony and then had a fun day after. We all really enjoyed the inflatables!
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 3/07/25.
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.
Spellings - no spellings have been set this week
Homework -
Homework for this half term will be more topic based. Please complete one task from the topic homework sheet by next Thursday.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Kate
Super Learner - Ava M and Walter
Superstar Writer - Josh and Maizie
Bookworm - Max N
Marvellous Mathematician - Erin
Special Mentions - All Y6 for their Sports Day last Friday!
Eleanor - for encouraging others during the long distance race.
Have a super weekend Year 6!
Year 5 Friday blog 20th June 2025
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 3:39pm
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.
led lead past passed stationary stationery steel steal whose who’s ascent assent cereal serial compliment complement bridle bridal
Counting
Count out loud in:
7s up to 105 and back again 0,7,14,21…
30s from 240 to 510 and back again 240, 270, 300, 330…
100s from 50100 backwards to 48700 50,100, 50,000, 49,900…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. There are several tests on them in the next few weeks.
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.
We have had another fantastic week of learning in Year 5.
In English this week, everyone has been trying very hard in their reading, spelling and grammar tests. We have now moved on to preparing a special piece of writing for a display in school.
In Maths, we have been revising place value, as well as completing arithmetic and reasoning tests.
In art, we painted our background colours for fashion clothing that we will be putting onto our figures.
Finally, Year 5 enjoyed their taster day at All Hallows – activities included dance, music on the computers, rounders and meditation.
A great week of learning where everyone gave 100% effort – well done!
Golden stars this week
Eddie – Star of the Week
Theo – Marvellous Mathematician
Zac O – Super Learner
Bella – Superstar Writer
Dominic – Bookworm
Eddie – Special Mention for being kind and helpful around school
Cian – for superb artwork for year 5 display board
Year 4 Blog Friday 20th June 2025
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 12:03pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
If you find any words you are unsure of, look them up in a dictionary and write them down in your reading diary. You can use them in your own writing then.
Spellings
These are your spellings for next week:
girls’ boys’ babies’ children’s people’s mens’
mice’s foxes’ rabbits’ parents’ dogs’ friends’
cats’ brothers’ sisters’ wolves’ books’ ladies’
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 8’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 96 and back again
0 8 16 etc 96 88 80 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
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 tenths and hundredths challenge (to consolidate previous learning)
Our learning this week
English
In English, we started to plan a piece of writing about ‘someone special’.
We looked at an example, then planned and started to draft our own piece of writing.
Maths
In Maths, we have been busy completing end of year tests to demonstrate the brilliant progress we have made this year.
RE
In RE, we explored some artwork of Mary and expressed a point of view about it, listening carefully to the responses of others.
Following this, we created our own piece of work depicting Mary.
PSHE
In PSHE, we learnt how active listening can help us to relate to others.
Science
In Science, we learnt how sounds are made and associated this with something vibrating.
History
In History, we analysed and labelled the main type of Greek solider – hoplites.
In addition, we learnt about the Battle of Marathon and how a small Athenian army managed to overcome a larger Persian army!
Geography
In Geography, we created a poster in our books to explain why tourism is so popular in Greece and the Mediterranean.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Henry
Super Learner: Franco
Superstar Writer: Brooke
Bookworm: Henry
Marvellous Mathematician: Milo
Special Mentions: Edward, Alana, Willow and Amelia
The Year 4 team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 20th June 2025
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 8:37pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Please catch up on previous Sumdog challenges.
Counting - Practise the counting to 20 game with your family. Try and count backwards too!
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 continued to read Paddington. We ordered the story using pictures and drawings and re-wrote the story neatly.
We also started to write about a special person in our life. We described them using adjectives and identified why they are special to us.
Phonics
Some of us have recapped the different oo spellings.
Some of us have been learning the five different ur spellings: ur in fur, ir in girl, er in feather, or in work and ear in heard.
Maths
We measured length, width and height using cubes and rulers.
R.E.
We learnt that there are Christians all over the world and that we should work together to make the world a better place.
PSHE
We talked about how sometimes reaching our goals might take a long time, but if we persevere we can achieve them. We wrote about a goal that might be hard to achieve and how we can ask for help getting there.
We also started to talk about different emotions.
Art
We used different materials to collage minibeasts.
PE
We continued to develop our overarm throwing skills. We threw to a partner and played noughts and crosses.
We also had a great tennis session. We worked brilliantly in our teams!
Computing
We learnt how to use two instructions inside the loop block to shorten our instructions.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Dean
Super Learner: Luca
Superstar Writer: Harry and Zac
Bookworm: Seb
Marvellous Mathematician: Arianna
Special Mentions: Faisal, Lilly-Mae and Izzy for their amazing tennis skills.
