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Year 3 Friday Blog 10th July 2026
Date: 10th Jul 2026 @ 4:18pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
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We have had a brilliant week this week, with the year 6 production, some brilliant DT and a fantastic result in our Sumdog contest.
This afternoon we emailed out your child's report. On Monday, we will send out their attendance data in an envelope.
Home Practice
Continue with your fantastic home reading. Everyone is making amazing progress this year and this is down to your great home reading and regular practise!
This week we have set 2 challenges on Sumdog. Good Luck!
Make sure you also go on your fluency booster regularly to keep improving on those difficult skills.
No spellings this week but you can still practise past challenges on Sumdog!
This week in Year 3
This week in English, we have continued enjoying The Butterfly Lion. The children have written some brilliant pieces describing the watering hole, the little girl's house and a heartfelt letter from Bertie. It has been fantastic to see everyone remembering to use all of their Year 3 writing skills, including ambitious vocabulary, conjunctions, punctuation and paragraphing, to produce some of their best writing of the year. Well done, Year 3!
In Maths, we have been revisiting some of the trickier concepts we have met throughout the year. This week, we have focused on using division to solve a range of problems, applying the different strategies we have learned over the year. The children have shown great resilience and confidence as they tackled these challenges.
We also took part in the North West Sumdog Competition, competing against schools from across the region. We are delighted to have finished in an amazing 9th place. Super effort, Year 3! You should all be very proud of yourselves.
In PE, we enjoyed a fantastic week of sport, playing tennis and taking part in our own World Cup-inspired football tournament. It was wonderful to see such brilliant teamwork, determination and encouragement throughout the matches. Every child gave their best and showed excellent sportsmanship.
In DT, we created our recipe cards ready for our exciting food technology project. The children carefully planned their sandwiches, thinking about the ingredients they would need and how they would present their finished product. On Thursday, we will be transforming our classroom into a kitchen as the children create their sandwich creations ready for judging!
A reminder: Please send your child in with a bag containing the ingredients they will need for their sandwich. We will provide paper plates and all the utensils needed for the session.
Star of the week - Felicity
Super Learner - Florence
Writer of the week - Zack
Marvellous Mathematician - All of year 3 for their brilliant effort in the NW Sumdog Contest!
Bookworm - Jonah
Special Mentions -Jonah and Leo for for their super AI computinmg learning this week.
Have a lovely weekend,
The Year 3 Team
Year 6 Blog - Friday 11th July 2026
Date: 10th Jul 2026 @ 3:52pm
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
Grease
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!
RE
This week we learned all about Sikhism and how people of different faiths can work together to have a common goal. We made some beautiful posters to show our learning about the Sikh faith.
PSHE
We completed our transition units to get us ready for high school! We thought about how our character strengths will help us and about how we can overcome our worries.
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 5 blog Friday 10th July 2026
Date: 10th Jul 2026 @ 3:40pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please try to finish your current reading book and hand them in by Monday 13th July for summer.
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables.
Sumdog
Maths practise – individual challenge.
Year 5 have had a great week of learning and singing!
In English Year 5 have been writing adventure stories about Harry, Ron and Hermione from Harry Potter. There’s been some brilliant and imaginative ideas.
In Maths Year 5 have been re-capping equivalent fractions, including how to multiply fractions and convert them from mixed numbers to improper fractions.
In RE this week, Year 5 have reflected on all their learning this year and summarised what lessons they’ve learned for their own lives from all the scripture studied.
Year 5 were fantastic in the show ‘Grease’ and super supports to Year 6 with their enthusiastic singing and actions. Well done Year 5 – a proud moment!
Year 5 ended the week with a science experiment on irreversible changes in materials followed by calm meditation and wand making under the trees!
Golden stars this week
Star of the Week – Joni
Super Learners – Archie P
Superstar Writer – Evelyn
Bookworm - Emma
Marvellous Mathematician - Sidney
Special mention – all Year 5 for their super efforts in the show
Reception - Friday 10th July 2026
Date: 10th Jul 2026 @ 3:40pm
Welcome to Reception’s Blog
Drawing Club
We have been studying ‘Gigantosaurus’ by Jonny Duddle. We have drawn a cretaceous period landscape and labelled it. We created our own dinosaurs and described them.
Maths
In Maths this week we have been revisiting addition and subtraction up to ten and learning about inverse actions.
Understanding the World
This week we have investigated extinct animals and continued our investigations into fossils.
Stay and Play
This week we performed our assembly to our grown ups who joined us for the rest of the afternoon in our Stay and Play session finding out what we do all day in Reception. Thank you all for supporting us in this!!
Expressive Art and Design
In Art this week we decorated our volcanoes that we made last week. We then undertook our own eruptions making our volcanoes fizz and bubble.
PE
This week in PE we continued our Dinosaur theme by experiencing Yoga in Jurassic Park!
Golden Assembly
Star of the week – Henry W
Super Learner – Arabella
Superstar Writer – Jake
Bookworm - Amelie
Marvellous Mathematician – Caleb
Year 1 Blog - Friday 10th July 2026
Date: 10th Jul 2026 @ 3:38pm
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challenge - Days of the week
Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups
Counting – Can you count backwards in tens from 100 to 0?
Reading - Please try to read at least three times a week.
Please remember to bring book bags each day.
English
This time, we wrote about brown, grizzly bears and compared them to polar bears. We wrote more interesting facts, using connectives to make our writing more interesting.
Maths
We made o'clock and half past on a clock.
P.E.
We developed our throwing and catching skills to a partner and in a small group.
R.E.
We read Maria's story about a little girl who needed CAFOD's help to go to school and to drink clean water. We sorted objects into needs and wants and talked about why we need certain things.
DT
We planned our felt creation.
Science
We made a seasons tree using different colours of paint to show the changes in deciduous trees.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Evie B
Super Learner: Noah J
Superstar Writer: Judah
Bookworm: Rory
Marvellous Mathematician: Thomas
Special Mentions: Zara, Reo and Noah B for their sewing skills in DT.
We will be collecting all reading books in on Monday!
Year 2 Blog Friday 10th July 2026
Date: 10th Jul 2026 @ 1:35pm
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.
Spelling/Sumdog: There will be no more spelling quizzes or Sumdog challenges in Y2.
Counting: Count forwards and backwards in quarters like we did in class.
You could also work on your 2, 5, 10 or 3 times tables, telling the time and doubling and halving.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
English
Year 2 have been poets this week and thoroughly enjoyed it.
They have written summer shape poems and rainbow simile poems.
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Maths
The children have been doing very well in our fractions topic.
They can name, compare and place quarters and whole numbers on a number line.
PE
In PE, we played mini tennis and rounders games.
Year 6 Performance
We spent part of Wednesday morning watching the Year 6 dress rehearsal.
It was very exciting and entertaining.
D.T
The children had fun making and evaluating their moving vehicles.
PLEASE ENSURE ALL READING BOOKS ARE BROUGHT INTO SCHOOL ON WEDNESDAY SO THEY CAN BE COLLECTED IN.
THANK YOU
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week- April
Super Learner- Izzy
Superstar Writer- Gigi
Bookworm- Lara
Mathematician- Jesse f.
Special Mentions- Jessie and Amelia for being good friends to everyone and
Reuben for helping others when making our model vehicles.
Year 4 Blog Friday 10th July 2026
Date: 9th Jul 2026 @ 10:27am
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.
Spellings
There are no spellings to learn for next week
Counting
Keep counting ….
There are some 2, 4, 5 and 10 times tables counting songs on the link below.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/topics/cnep90jwjj7t
Have fun!
TTRockstars challenge
A ‘garage’ session
Sumdog challenges
A converting between different units of measure challenge
Our learning this week
English
We planned and wrote the beginning of the next chapter of the novel using our own ideas and relating it to what had happened in the story previously.
We also proof read and edited our work with our partner.
Maths
We consolidated our learning about converting from kg to g – we used the conversion 1kg = 1000g.
We discovered that we needed to multiply by 1000 to convert from kg to g.
We also converted measurements between litres and millilitres using the conversion 1l = 1000ml.
We discovered that we needed to multiply by 1000 to convert from l to ml.
RE
In RE, we learnt about Islamic art which is often based on geometric patterns.
We then created our own Islamic artwork.
PSHE
We celebrated the amazing things we have achieved this year and discussed how to prepare for the move to a new class.
We also explored more about change and understood that it is normal for people to feel differently about moving to a new class.
Science
We explored the relationship between distance and volume using string telephones.
We used cups of different sizes as well as different types of cups and different lengths of string.
Have a look in our gallery.
Geography
We learnt the difference between climate and weather, and why different parts of the world have different climates.
We then described the climate of Greece and compared it to the climate of the UK.
PE
We practised working as a team and problem solving this week.
We formed a circle and joined hands. We then passed the hoop around the group without breaking the circle.
We also focused on aim and accuracy during our tennis session.
There are some photos in our gallery.
DT
We created different ‘algorithms’ for a micro:bit.
Firstly, we created our names on the LED display.
Then we created a different algorithm which lit the LED lights up so that they looked like a beating heart.
Year 6 Production
On Wednesday morning, we watched the Year 6 dress rehearsal of Grease.
Wow – we thought it was brilliant and we loved the songs and acting.
Well done to Year 6 for an amazing production.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Jessica A
Super Learner: George
Superstar Writer: Georgie
Bookworm: Alice
Marvellous Mathematician: Eddie and Bobby
Special Mentions: Annie and Drew – for being super work partners
Francesca – for a beautiful Islamic art pattern
Daisy – for coming into school every day with a big smile on her face
The Year 4 team
Date: 3rd Jul 2026 @ 4:28pm
Welcome to your Friday blog.
We have had a jam packed week of learning!
Home Practice
Keep changing your books regularly and read for at least 15-20 minutes every night!
Well done to everyone who completed their Sumdog challenges. Two new challenges have been added today and we have been entered itno the North West competition. Remember, little and often every night will benefit your children with their learning in school. We have set a division challenge this week as we are learning all about division next week.
Try and do a little counting at home as well. This will promote number fluency and understanding. There are lots of counting games here at ictgames.com that we use in school. You will also find lots of counting songs on YouTube.
We have given out your home spellings to practice for next week's test. All our spellings this week end in the -ure and are revision of some spring learning.
This week in Year 3
This week in English, we have been enjoying The Butterfly Lion. We have been exploring how ambitious vocabulary choices can improve our writing and bring our descriptions to life. This week, we described the watering hole outside Bertie's compound and wrote about how he rescued the little lion cub. The children produced some fantastic descriptive writing, using powerful adjectives and expanded noun phrases to paint a picture for the reader.
In Maths, we have been continuing our work on decimals, learning how to compare and sort them. The children showed great confidence when explaining their reasoning and ordering decimals from smallest to largest using their place value knowledge.
In History, we revisited all of our learning from this half term with a class quiz. We have been so impressed with all of the sticky learning and just how much the children have remembered. They recalled key events, important people and fascinating facts from our Ancient Egypt topic. What brilliant historians!
In DT, we started the design process for our new food technology topic on sandwich making. The children created some super designs and produced colourful posters to showcase the ingredients they would like to use. Next week, we will be sending home recipe cards for the children to complete before our final cooking session.
A huge well done to all of our Rock Steady Rockers on their fantastic performance on Friday. We thoroughly enjoyed every song and were incredibly proud of the confidence and enthusiasm shown by all of the children.
In PE, we had a fantastic rounders session, working together in teams to develop our batting, fielding and teamwork skills. It was lovely to see everyone encouraging one another and giving their best effort throughout the lesson.
Star of the week - Harper
Super Learner - Amelia L
Writer of the week - Charlie
Marvellous Mathematician - Melodie
Bookworm - Amelia C
Special Mentions - Adam, Jonah and Orlaigh for making Year 3 a lovely place to be.
Have a lovely weekend,
The Year 3 Team
Year 5 blog Friday 3rd July 2026
Date: 3rd Jul 2026 @ 4:15pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes and try to use expression. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are Year 5 spellings for this week.
pour poor cheerful delightful there their they’re portable porter disgusted excited excitable merciful mercy sentimental courageous dangerous
Counting
Count out loud in:
5’s up to 180 and back again 0, 5,10 …
10’s from 16980 to 18010 and back again 16980, 16990, 17000…
50’s from 0 to 1250 and back again 0, 50, 100, 150…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Everyone has their own targets, which the children should have noted on the top of their spelling sheet.
Sumdog
Maths practise – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Year 5 have had a great week of learning– well done Year 5! They have also worked hard to practise the songs for next week's show.
In English Year 5 have been reading excerpts from Harry Potter and concocting magic potions.
In Maths Year 5 have been re-capping equivalent fractions and counting and adding thousandths.
In RE this week, Year 5 have practised reading scripture using the method of Lectio Divina, where you read, think, pray and rest in scripture to give you a deeper understanding of the Word.
The whole class enjoyed a mindful movement session this week and played tennis in PE.
Year 5 ended the week with learning about the various buildings that were constructed in the time of the Maya civilisation. They then enjoyed working in groups to create 3D Maya cities.
Golden stars this week
Star of the Week – Amelia
Super Learners – Tiffany
Superstar Writer – Franco
Bookworm - Milo
Marvellous Mathematician - Madelaina
Special mention – Ada-May, Brooke and Amelia
Reception - Friday 3rd July 2026
Date: 3rd Jul 2026 @ 3:48pm
Welcome to Reception’s Blog
Writing
Following our ‘Understanding the World’ lesson about the coldest places on the planet, we wrote some sentences about some of the animals that live in these places
Maths
In Maths this week we began to learn about the concept of time. We have been learning the days of the week and learning which order they are in (using our Phonics knowledge to help recognise the days too!). We have also been discovering the concept of Faster/Slower by watching our friends undertake a task and seeing who finishes fastest.
Understanding the World – Science
This week we discovered the differences and similarities between the Arctic and the Antarctic. We learnt that the Arctic is at the North Pole and that the Antarctic is at the South Pole. We learnt that Polar Bears only live in the North and that Penguins only live in the South – as it is a long way between the two – the two animals that live in the coldest places on Earth do not meet!
Open Morning
This week we welcomed some visitors into our classroom to see what sort of things we get up to – we had lots of dinosaur inspired learning such as hunt the dinosaur bones for Phonics, we had a pre-historic dinosaur land in our outside area. We also had a very special visitor on Wednesday afternoon when Mrs Robinson visited us with her new baby boy!
Transition Morning
On Thursday we had our first taste of being in Year 1. We went into our new classroom and met the Year 1 team. We learnt a bit about all of the staff and we also were shown where the important things are going to be such as our pegs and which doors we are going to use. We are all looking forward to going into Year 1 – it’s going to be a great adventure!
Expressive Art and Design
In Art this week we made clay volcanoes which we are going to decorate next week. We also watched an experiment in which we made our own volcanic explosion.
PE
This week in PE we played parachute games and concentrated on working as a team.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week – Ava-Grace
Super Learner – Elise
Superstar Writer – Phoebe
Bookworm - Joey
Marvellous Mathematician – Teddy
Special Mention – Billy
Year 2 Blog Friday 3rd July 2026
Date: 3rd Jul 2026 @ 2:38pm
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.
Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (10.07.26):
action nation position station fiction caution option fraction potion motion
Sumdog: Complete the fractions and spelling challenges.
Counting: Count forwards and backwards in 11's. What do you notice?
You could also work on your 2, 5, 10 or 3 times tables, telling the time and doubling and halving.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
English
Year 2 are really enjoying our new book, Harry And The Jaggedy Daggers by Jan Fearnley.
We wrote about how the Jaggedy Daggers destroyed Harry's boat and designed our own tea cup boats.
Maths
The children have been working on fractions this week.
RE
Our Bible story was The Good Samaritan.
We thought about the qualities the Samaritan had, and made our own medical kits to help us use similar qualities in our daily lives.
PE
The children played mini-rounders games in groups of 4.
We have got some excellent throwers, catchers and batters in Year 2.
Computing
The children have been working through their coding lessons.
They are thoroughly enjoying it and learning useful computing skills.
D.T
We will be having our D.T day next week. The children will be making vehicles just like the one above.
Please could your child bring a cardboard box into school on Monday and any other useful items like toilet/kitchen roll tubes.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week- Seb
Super Learner- Rudy
Superstar Writer- Dean
Bookworm- Jaxon
Mathematician- Cerys
Special Mentions- Rhodes and William for being kind and thoughtful friends and
Faisal for completing another reading bookmark.
Year 4 Blog Friday 3rd July 2026
Date: 3rd Jul 2026 @ 1:27pm
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
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.
In addition, we planned and wrote an informal letter from one of the Snargets to his friend.
Maths
We converted between kg and g using the conversion 1kg = 1000g.
We discovered that we needed to multiply by 1000 to convert from kg to g.
Additionally, we converted between l and ml using the conversion 1l = 1000ml.
RE
In RE, we learnt about the 5 pillars of Islam which are core beliefs and practices that shape Muslim life.
They are:
Shahada – the declaration of faith
Salah – ritual prayer
Zakat – almsgiving
Sawm – fasting during Ramadan
Hajj – the pilgrimage to Mecca
PSHE
We explored different jobs people can have and what skills are important for these jobs.
We also considered what jobs we might want to do when we are older and which character strengths will help us.
Science
We explored the relationship between distance and volume.
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.
PE
We practised our tennis skills and then played mini games to put them into action.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Alice
Super Learner: Rowan
Superstar Writer: Albert
Bookworm: Heidi
Marvellous Mathematician: Violet Ca
Special Mentions: Isla and Lottie
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 4 team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 3rd July 2026
Date: 2nd Jul 2026 @ 4:18pm
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challenge - Adding on
Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups
Counting – Can you count backwards in fives from 50 to 0?
Reading - Please try to read at least three times a week.
Please remember to bring book bags each day.
English
We gathered facts about polar bears on the iPads and wrote a non-chronological report.
Maths
We solved different addition and subtraction questions using part-whole models and ten frames.
R.E.
We listened to three pieces of Christian music from three different Christian communities. We chose our favourite and talked about how the music made us feel.
Art
We made our minibeast collage!
DT
We practised using a running stitch on a piece of foam.
Science
We measured and recorded the temperature of each season.
History
We constructed a timeline of different key explorers.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Ada C
Super Learner: Rory
Superstar Writer: Zara
Bookworm: Evie E
Marvellous Mathematician: Noah H
Special Mentions: Theo for his amazing minibeast and Amelie for showing resilience.
Date: 2nd Jul 2026 @ 7:50am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
RE
In RE, we learned what a worldview is. We thought about what influenced our own world views and created some great artwork to express this.
Rehearsals!
All of Year 6 have been working so hard on rehearsals for our production of Grease! We have had our first practice in costume and we can't wait to perform for everyone next week!
Computing
In our coding topic, we explored how to design a sprite and coded them to say some text.
Geography
In Geography we explored our local area. We investigated what was within different mile radiuses of our area, using online maps, to see how our local area fits into a wider area.
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 8/07/26.
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.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Special Mentions - Bella, Ebba, Darcey, Libby, Xabier and Zach M - for being part of the Live Simply team to speak to the assessor, helping us to achieve our award!
All of Y6 for their hard work practising the show!
Have great weekend Year 6!
Little Owls Wednesday 1st July
Date: 1st Jul 2026 @ 12:05pm
Little Owls Session 5
This week was all about feelings.
We spoke about how we might be feeling about starting school.
We discussed different feelings and that all feeling are okay.
We sang 'If your happy and you know it'
We made up lots of different actions for different feelings.
This week we all decorated our names for our classroom door.
We also had lots of dinosaur activities to have a go at in the classroom. The children loved using the pasta to make the dinosaur skeletons.
We read the story:
Snack today was Oranges
Just a reminder:
The final session on Wednesday 8th July - 9.15 till 10.30, this is a stay and play session for parents to attend with your child :)
There will be a quick information meeting with Mrs Stone for the adults before joining your children in class.
Please drop your child at the gate as normal Mrs Cliffe will settle the children first before we join them.
Year 5 Friday blog - 26th June 2026
Date: 26th Jun 2026 @ 4:04pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes and try to use expression. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are Year 5 spellings for this week.
grief brief mischief pierce fierce niece pier patient deceive conceive receive perceive ceiling protein seize science ancient glacier
Counting
Count out loud in:
7’s up to 140 and back again 0, 7, 14…
250’s from 17000 to 23500 and back again 17000, 17250…
25’s from 1500 to 2250 and back again 1500, 1525, 1550, 1575…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Everyone has their own targets, which the children should have noted on the top of their spelling sheet.
Sumdog
Maths practise – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Year 5 have had a great week of learning– well done Year 5!
In English Year 5 been drafting, editing and publishing a short story, using all the skills they have learnt over the year such as parenthesis, relative clauses, direct speech and complex sentences.
In Maths Year 5 have been re-capping place value of both large and small decimal numbers. They have also been converting measure from metric to imperial.
In RE this week, Year 5 have studied psalm 23 and discussed what spiritual truths lie within the psalm.
The whole class enjoyed the Dance From the Heart session and put on a great performance.
Year 5 ended the week with researching Manaus, a city in the Amazon in geography. Well done Year 5 on surviving the warm weather and trying so hard despite the heat!
Golden stars this week
Star of the Week – Josh W
Super Learners – Willow
Superstar Writer – Archie S
Bookworm - Spencer
Marvellous Mathematician - Mark
Special mention - Milo
Reception - Friday 26th June 2026
Date: 26th Jun 2026 @ 3:53pm
Welcome to Reception’s Blog
Animal Club Visit
On Tuesday we had a visit from the Animal Club and we learned about lots of new and different animals. We were taught how to hold and stroke them and learned lots of animal facts about a ferret, geckos, stick insects, sun beetles, a blue tongued skink and a snake. We were all very brave when we held the animals and insects.
RE
The week we revisited the song we learnt last week and we looked at images of Jesus in Mexico and Australia. We discussed how they were different to images of Jesus in England.
Maths
In Maths this week we have begun to learn about the concept of time. We have been looking at ordinal numbers (numbers that are specifically used to show position or order). We have also developed our use of sequencing language such as first, then, next by using the story of The Three Little Pigs.
Understanding the World – Science
This week studied the differences and similarities of a zoo and a farm habitat. We learnt that although both a zoo and a farm need somebody to feed the animals, the types of animals are not the same in both types of habitats. In the zoo we learnt that animals tend to come from far away or exotic places and that animals in a farm are more familiar to us.
Expressive Art and Design
In Art this week we created our own fossils using pebbles from the beach and chalk pens.
PE
This week in PE we shared the whole school experience of Dance From The Heart – we had been practising very hard for this event and our practice was shown to our parents.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week – Henry B
Super Learner – Hugh
Superstar Writer – Raeni
Bookworm - Maeve
Marvellous Mathematician – Elijah
Special Mention – Ivy, Finlay and Vinnie
Year 3 Friday Blog 26th June 2026
Date: 26th Jun 2026 @ 2:11pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
It’s been a hot and humid week in Year 3 but children have been fantastic in all their learning.
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 shape and the 4 and 8 times tables, perfect for reinforcing the learning we’ve met in class.
Spellings – This week’s spellings all revision of ei and ey words
This week in year 3
In English, we started our new book focus, The Butterfly Lion. The children wrote brilliant letters from the little boy, thanking the old lady for her kindness and help during his escape from boarding school. We explored expanded noun phrases and created a class word bank of adjectives to use when writing descriptions in our letters.
In Maths, we continued our work on tenths, converting fractions to decimals. Year 3 worked brilliantly when dividing by 10 and counting in tenths.
In RE, we reflected on the meaning of Eucharist in our own lives and created thank you cards about the things we are thankful for.
In Geography, we continued our work on South America. We located Rio on the map and used images to imagine and discuss what life is like there.
Star of the week - Orlaigh
Super Learner - Noa B
Writer of the week - Melodie
Marvellous Mathematician - Leo and Zack W
Bookworm - George and Eliza
Special Mentions - Lydia, Frankie, Charles, Zach D, and Ellie for their brilliant effort in Tennis during our PE lesson this week
Year 2 Blog Friday 26th June 2026
Date: 26th Jun 2026 @ 1:25pm
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.
Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (03.07.26):
petal equal capital metal pedal medal royal special canal final
Sumdog: Complete the multiplication/division and spelling challenges.
Counting: Count forwards and backwards in 4's. What do you notice?
You could also work on your 2, 5, 10 or 3 times tables, telling the time and doubling and halving.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
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.
The children also wrote a description of Harry and wrote in role as one of the jaggedy daggers.
Maths
The children have been completing arithmetic and reasoning quizzes this week.
RE
Our Bible story was The Good Samaritan.
The children retold the story on story fans and beautifully illustrated them.
We also looked closely at understanding the scripture and how we can use it in our daily lives.
PE
Dance from the Heart was a huge success.
The children did so well and really enjoyed the music and dancing.
Computing
The children have been working through their coding lessons.
They are thoroughly enjoying it and learning a useful computing skiills.
Forest School
We learnt about what the Summer Solstice is and how it was the longest day last Sunday. To celebrate this we made a summer crown using willow. We even had a dance .
We learnt about what the Summer Solstice is and how it was the longest day last Sunday. To celebrate this we made a summer crown using willow. We even had a dance ,
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week- Joshua W.
Super Learner- Arthur
Superstar Writer- Amelia
Bookworm- Faisal
Mathematician- Lilly-Mae
Special Mentions- Emma and Freya for being kind and thoughtful friends.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 26th June 2026
Date: 25th Jun 2026 @ 8:30pm
Home Practice - Sumdog
Maths challenge - Quarter of a shape
Phonics challenge - Dependent on phonics groups
Counting – Can you count backwards in twos from 20 to 0?
Reading - Please try to read at least three times a week.
Please remember to bring book bags each day.
English
We read our new book 'Leaf', which is about a lonely bear who scares other animals just because he's a polar bear. We described how Leaf was feeling, used the days of the week to write a diary entry, wrote a sorry letter from the animals and wrote our own Leaf story.
Maths
We halved larger numbers, quartered numbers, and identified a quarter of a shape.
R.E.
We based our RE on the Wednesday Word as it tied into our current learning. We read a passage about Jesus naming Peter as one of His disciples, and trusting him with spreading the Good News.
P.E.
We used netballs to develop our bouncing skills. Some of us even tried bouncing the ball with one hand!
We also took part in Dance From the Heart.
Art
We used pastels to add detail to our minibeasts.
We also made the most of the glorious weather and went outside to sketch what we could see.
Computing
We created our most complicated code to date! We instructed our sprite to talk and move.
Science
We used pastels to create an Autumn picture.
History
We pretended to be different explorers. We asked them questions about their lives.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Ariana
Super Learner: Jack
Superstar Writer: Felicity
Bookworm: Judah
Marvellous Mathematician: Louie and Darragh
Special Mentions: Grace and Oscar and Roman and Elsie for being the best partners in PE.
Year 4 Blog Friday 26th June 2026
Date: 25th Jun 2026 @ 1:25pm
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
We revised different types of sentence (statements, questions, commands and exclamations).
We then wrote our own questions about a chapter using a variety of sentence openers).
We also wrote a diary extract as Barney from the novel which included lots of thoughts and feelings.
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
We learnt about the Byzantine Catholic Church.
We discovered more about Byzantine Icons and Byzantine music and expressed our opinions about these.
PSHE
We discussed why people choose to save or spend money differently and the reasons which may influence them.
We also considered how our choices can affect others and our environment.
Science
We explored how sound vibrations travel through a medium to our ear.
We focussed on the difference between a sound travelling through the air and then a solid.
Have a look at some photos in our gallery.
History
We labelled a hoplite (an ancient Greek Soldier who fought on land) and tried to use the correct historical vocabulary for their armour and weapons.
We also learnt about the Battle of Marathon and wrote a letter from an Athenian army general to the Spartans asking for help!
PE
In our gymnastics session, we practised the arch and dish balances.
We also explored quarter, half and full turns and created a sequence with our partner to perform.
On Wednesday morning, 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: Oliver
Super Learner: Rudy
Superstar Writer: Violet Co
Bookworm: Alexander
Marvellous Mathematician: Drew
Special Mentions: Bella and Emilia for being great work partners
Eddie for his beautiful manners
The Year 4 team
Year 6 Blog - Friday 26th June 2026
Date: 25th Jun 2026 @ 8:42am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English we wrote letters to a resident of a Nugent care home as part of the Good Shepherd appeal. Our letters will be posted to Nugent care and we hope that the recipients enjoy our writing!
RE
This week we learned all about what dialogue means when we are thinking about faith. We created some amazing books about St Katherine Drexel and how she dedicated her life to bringing education to different communities in America.
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!
In Art this week we completed our chair topic by designing and creating our own chairs. You can see our designs on our galleries.
In Geography we have learned how our local area fits into the wider world.
We have also been working hard to rehearse for our production of Grease, practicing our songs and lines.
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.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Zach M
Super Learner - Libby
Superstar Writer - Imogen
Bookworm - Bella
Marvellous Mathematician - Milana
Special Mentions - All Y6 for their Sports Day last Friday!
Leo H - for 3D printing a scooter stand for our Leaver's Show
Have a super weekend Year 6!
Little Owls - Wednesday 24th June 2026
Date: 24th Jun 2026 @ 12:39pm
Little Owls Session 4
This week was all about making new friends
We sang our 'Hello Song' to learn everyones name in the class.
We then played roll the ball and practised saying all of our new friends names.
We also shared our 'All About Me' posters with our friends and learnt lots about our likes and dislikes.
We sang our friendship song together thinking about what makes a good friend.
Click Here to sing it at home.
We then read the story 'My friends and me' and spoke about how everyone is different
Snack today was apples
Next week (Wendesday 1st July) is the last full session of 'Little Owls' 9.15-11.30
The final session on Wednesday 8th July - 9.15 till 10.30, this is a stay and play session for parents to attend with your child :)
There will be a quick information meeting with Mrs Stone for the adults before joining your children in class.
Please drop your child at the gate as normal.
Reception Blog - Friday 19th June 2026
Date: 19th Jun 2026 @ 4:16pm
Writing
This week we had a go at writing a simple sentence independently.
RE
This week we learned that Jesus came for everyone, all around the world and we learned a new song to show what we learnt.
Maths
In Maths this week we have been learning about and making repeating patterns.
Understanding the World – Science
This week we investigated jungle and rainforest habitats and discovered the different areas in which animals live such as the canopy or the jungle floor. We discussed what a habitat is and how they can be different for different animals. We sang our Seasons Song and watched a video all about the season of Summer. We then split into groups and created a poster showing our understanding of Summer.
Expressive Art and Design
In Art this week we added our animals to our watery world backdrops which we created last week.
PE
In PE we focussed again, on our fundament skills of throwing and catching, running, hopping and skipping.
PSHE
During our PSHE session this week, we revisited keeping hands kind and looking after our friends.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week - Ella
Super Learner – Lucie
Superstar Writer – Elsi
Bookworm - Louie
Marvellous Mathematician – Vinnie
Year 3 Friday blog 19th June 2026
Date: 19th Jun 2026 @ 3:46pm
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 number and place value 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 have had a brilliant week in Year 3! Well done to everyone for your effort at Sports Day, it was a great afternoon and there were big smiles from all of the children. Thank you for all of your support!
In English, we have finished our focus on The BFG and the children have used speech to describe the events at the end of the book. They worked hard to ensure that all the speech punctuation was correct and we explored lots of different synonyms for 'said' to make our writing more exciting.
In Maths, we have completed some brilliant work on our number facts, arithmetic and problem solving skills. The children worked really hard to solve some tricky problems!
In History, we reflected on our trip to Bolton Musuem and discussed everything we learnt whilst we were there. We moved on to one of our last lessons of our Ancient Egypt topic, looking at the end of the Egyptian Empire. We were introduced to Alexander the Great and Cleopatra and we explored how Egypt lost it's power.
In RE, we understood that the Eucharist is linked to the Jewish celebration of the Passover. We reflected on artwork of the Last Supper, considering what we could see, think and wonder about the image. We then matched scripture quotes to information about the two events.
Star of the week - Florence
Super Learner - Lydia
Writer of the week - Dylan
Marvellous Mathematician -Wilbur and Eliza
Bookworm - Adam
Special Mentions - All of year 3 for their brilliant sports day!
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team