Back to School Online Safety

Date: 14th Sep 2021 @ 11:55am

With your children returning to school, it is a great time to review online safety in your homes and make sure we are all up to date with developments in the online world. At St Oswald's, all classes will be beginning their Online Saftety learning where they will learn all about safe practices online in the following areas. 

Self image and identitiy

Online relationships

Online bulllying

Health, Well-being and lifestyle

Online reputation

Managing online information

Copyright and ownership

We will blog regularly to keep you updated with developments in the online space, sharing platform guides and links to expert training for you to keep your children safe when exploring the internet. Below you will find a guide on some back to school online safety tips for children.

To access a huge range of information on the National Online Safety website click the link below and join our school online safety hub.You will get access to videos, training and guides to keep you informed of the best practices in keeping your children safe online.

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

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 9th July 2021

Date: 9th Jul 2021 @ 4:11pm

Welcome to our penultimate Year 6 blog. This week has been very busy:

 

• We completed filming our Leavers music video. Please see our YouTube channel, St OswaldsTV, later on today, to see it.
• Year 6 had a fantastic time performing the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory production for the infants, juniors and parents. You can see this video on our YouTube channel too.
• We were very lucky with the weather for our Sports Day, where everyone worked hard and supported each other throughout. This video is also available to watch on our YouTube channel, posted on Monday 5^th
• Furthermore, we have been started preparing for the Leavers assembly and discussing our time here over the past 7 years. We cannot wait to see the parents again next Wednesday 14^th July at 1.30pm.

 

As next week is the last week, these are the tasks to be completed:

 

• Reading
  • Finish your reading book from school as we are in the process of collecting them all.

 

Reminders

Monday 12^th July is the Borwick Hall trip. Do not forget to check the kit list of what you need, but the main things are:

 

Old clothes to wear for most of the day (as they may get wet or dirty)

A spare pair of clothes (as you will probably get wet and need to change)

Sun cream (in case it is hot)

Water bottle

Any medication you need.

 

Cannot wait to see you all on Monday and don’t forget that IT’S COMING HOME this Sunday!

 

 

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 2nd July 2021

Date: 2nd Jul 2021 @ 3:56pm

Welcome to our Year 6 blog. This week we have continued to practice the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory production adding in movements, songs and a percussion team – it’s starting to come together; just one more week to wait! This Friday was a welcomed return of the PTFAs ‘Tough Kidder’. With amazing weather, the whole school had a great time, especially the Year 6s who managed to drench any nearby teachers with their water guns (see the pictures in our Year 6 gallery).

 

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In Maths, we have continued our learning of algebra by forming expressions using numbers and letters.
• In English (and PSHE), our Wonder novel has taken us to Jack’s perspective who has got himself into trouble with the headteacher. We then used the author’s clever writing style to act the scene.   
• In PE, we have had our final practice for Sports Day and our class have divided into Sports Captain groups to help run each year’s Sports Day.
• In Music, we rehearsed the play, adding in the songs and a percussion team to accompany the production.
• For Science/PSHE/RSE, we learnt what happens physically, socially and emotionally as we grow into young adults.

 

These are the days when you can change your reading book:

Monday – Dodgems

Tuesday – Roller Coasters

Wednesday – Big Dippers / The Waltzers

 

These are the tasks to be completed:

 

• Reading – With only a few weeks left, please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day. Try to change your book, just one more time before we finish.

 

• Sumdog challenges:

 

• Mix times tables (200 correct answers needed):
  • Keep practicing these! They will help you massively in Year 7. 

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 25th June 2021

Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 3:51pm

Welcome to our Year 6 blog. This week Year 6 have worked incredibly hard during the rehearsals for the Charlie and the Chocolate factory production with plenty of excellent acting. Roll on next week where we will be adding in the songs and creating dances – very exciting!  

 

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In Maths, we have started to understand how algebra is used to represent number sequences and formulas.
• In English (and PSHE), we have continued to read/watch our novel Wonder and learnt more about the many characters in the story. We have discussed and written what it was like for Auggie on his first day at school.  
• In PE, we have completed the Cross County competition, using the whole school grounds. Even though it was tough for many, everyone pushed themselves to complete it.
• In Music, we had a super time gathering together (socially distanced of course) on the field to celebrate World Music Day as a school. Check out the video which is on our St Oswald’s YouTube channel.
• In French, we have been recapping our learning over the term and practicing a French song for the Leavers’ assembly.
• For Science, we used the periscopes created at home to investigate how they work and drew a ray diagram to explain it.
• Also, Year 6 had a visit from Miss Rebecca who gave us a Mindfulness session to help us understand our feelings better and how to deal with them, especially when we think about our first day at high school. Don’t forget R.A.P = recognise, accept, process. Thank you Miss Rebecca!

  

 

These are the days when you can change your reading book:

Monday – Dodgems

Tuesday – Roller Coasters

Wednesday – Big Dippers / The Waltzers

 

These are the tasks to be completed:

 

• Reading – With only a few weeks left, please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day. Try to change your book 2 more times before we finish.

 

• Sumdog challenges:

 

• Mix of all times tables (200 correct answers needed):
  • This will be great to continue to know these times tables fluently.

 

• Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
  • Recap of spellings words – part 1

(rhythm, system, physical, symbol, mystery, overtake, overwhelmed, overseas, overcoat, overcrowded, cycling, justify, qualify, recycle, apply)

 

 

 

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 18th June 2021

Date: 18th Jun 2021 @ 4:43pm

Welcome to another Year 6 blog. This week Year 6 have continued doing a great job buddying for the infants, creating their own games which have worked really well. Also this week, we have all been excited to take part in auditions for the Charlie and the Chocolate factory production and have read through the script a few times. 

 

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In Maths, we have been learning how to work out factors and prime numbers.
• In English (and PSHE), we have started a new novel, Wonder, which links to our transition programme for high school, where a young boy looking to fit in starts a new school.
• In PE, we have learnt more about the Sports Captain roles for each year’s Sports Day and had another practice to finalise groups.
• In Music, we are all ready for the World Music Day celebration as Year 6 will play the African drums at our festival.
• In French, we used an unfamiliar passage to work out what it meant. We held a conversation with a partner all about ourselves.
• For Science, we have started a short topic on ‘Light’ by proving that light travels in straight lines, explained what caused shadows and drew ray diagrams to show how we see objects.
• In Art, we were lucky enough to have Mr Hill, who is an experienced artist specialising in pottery. The children have created some amazing things which you can see on our Year 6 gallery page.

 

These are the days when you can change your reading book:

Monday – Dodgems

Tuesday – Roller Coasters

Wednesday – Big Dippers / The Waltzers

 

These are the tasks to be completed:

• You have been given a template to create a periscope. Follow the instructions on the sheet to make one (with a cereal box) and bring it into school by Wednesday 23^rd

 

• Reading – With only a few week left, please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day. Try to change your book 2 – 3 more times before we finish.

 

• Sumdog challenges:

 

• Mix of all times tables (100 correct answers needed):
  • This will be great to continue to know these times tables fluently.

 

• Multiples and Factors (100 correct answers needed for this week):
  • Work through these carefully as some will be represented as various pictures. The adding and subtracting should be with the same denominator but it is very good practise for next week.

 

• Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
  • Spellings with pattern, ce

(alphabet, apostrophe, autobiography, dolphin, elephant, graph, nephew, phone, photograph, physical, sphere, telephone, triumphant, pharmacist, catastrophe)

 

 

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 11th June 2021

Date: 11th Jun 2021 @ 4:53pm

Welcome to our first blog after the May half term. Year 6 have had a great time buddying with the infants at lunch times and coaching the Year 2’s with various games. Every single Year 6 has received a glowing report from the lunch time staff.

 

Reminders:

• Each child has come home with information about Borwick Hall. Please return the reply slip, the medical form and the photo consent form by Monday 14th June.

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In Maths, we have been recapping our knowledge of fractions, decimals and percentages and how they can relate to each other as equivalences.
• In English, our story of The Lost Magician has our main characters on different quests, where we discussed each character's dilemma and what they would do.
• In PE, we have completed our first practice of Year 6 Sports Day and learnt how to support the other classes when the Year 6’s become the ‘Sports Captains’ for each year group.
• In Music, we have now practiced every song for the production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and have also started learning new songs for our World Music Day, with African drums.
• In French, we have been practicing a new song for our Leavers Assembly.
• For Science (and PSHE), we continued our discussion of the effects and risks involved in taking legal (eg caffeine) and illegal drugs using guidance from the PSHE Association. Once again, we stressed the importance of talking to a trusted adult about any questions or worries the children have.
• In Computing, we have used the app, ‘Clips’, on the iPads where we created an video between an interviewer and an evacuee.
• Finally in History, we learnt about real life accounts from young evacuees and what happened to them. We then wrote a letter as an evacuee to our parents and published them on the new laptops.

 

Well done to everyone who is continually changing their book every week. Reading is the single most important thing we should do every day.

These are the days when you can change your reading book:

Monday – Dodgems

Tuesday – Roller Coasters

Wednesday – Big Dippers / The Waltzers

 

These are the tasks to be completed:

• Reading – Please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day.

Please complete the ‘Reading Challenges’ you have been given by answering them in your Reading Journals.

 

• Sumdog challenges:

 

• Mix of all times tables (100 correct answers needed):
  • This will be great to continue to know these times tables fluently.

 

• Fractions to Mixed numbers and reverse (100 correct answers needed for this week):
  • Use your times tables knowledge to convert fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa.

 

• Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
  • Spellings with the pattern, ce

(absence, advice, arrogance, balance, ceiling, cemetery, confidence, December, difference, influence, nuisance, produce, received, resemblance, sacrifice)

 

Online Safety - June 2021

Date: 9th Jun 2021 @ 2:25pm

 

Keeping our children safe in the online space is of ever growing importance. From phones to consoles, our children are exposed to more online risk than ever and it is important that we adults keep up to date to ensure our children are prepared for all they meet online. Here is an interesting article on Internet Security professionals teach their children about internet safety.

How do I keep my children safe online? What the security experts tell their kids

Below we have attached two guides on how to set up your child's phone for privacy. We teach the children not to share their information when online, however social platforms and games will take data from users unknowingly.

"If its free, you're paying with your information."

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

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

 

 

 

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 28th May 2021

Date: 28th May 2021 @ 4:01pm

This has been a great week for Year 6 as they have been biking every day, trying to complete their ‘Passport to Safer Cycling’ certificates for module 1, 2 and 3. They have learnt how to start and stop their bike, road positioning and signalling, turning left and right at junctions, emerging safely from junctions and traffic awareness. Everyone has worked really hard and should be proud of their progress (do not forget to look out for the pictures on our Year 6 gallery page).

 

Year 6 have completed the Cross Curricular Orienteering National Competition, where they had to navigate different maps and solve maths problems. They then became super sport leaders in organising, preparing and delivering it to Years 3, 4 and 5, which was highly praised by all the teachers. 

 

Also, the leavers’ hoodies arrived this Monday. Please check out all the pictures on the Year 6 gallery as they all look great on everyone.

 

As it is half term, I have just three tasks for you to complete:

• • Please keep this up for 30 minutes a day

 

• Sumdog – Times tables mixture
  • This activity is a mixture of many times tables with 200 correct answers as a target. This is to help you keep practising so you are ready for the fractions, decimals and percentages work we will cover in the first two weeks back.
• Bike ride – Use what you have learnt this week to go for a ride with someone you trust and remember to keep safe. I cannot wait to hear where you have been this half term.

 

We hope you have a great week off. Keep safe and be well rested for your last 6 weeks of primary school.

 

Happy half term!

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 21st May 2021

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 3:55pm

This week Year 6 had their ‘bike checks’ before our ‘Bike Proficiency’ and ‘Bikeability’ training which is happening throughout next week. We worked through the Safer Cycling booklet and discussed different scenarios to keep ourselves safe when riding on the road. 

 

Reminders:

• Do not forget to bring in your bike and helmet every day next week (Monday 24^th May – Friday 28^th May)

 

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In PSHE, we worked on strategies to deal with worry and anxiety, especially when dealing with tests.
• In Maths, we have worked through a few reasoning questions and improved our test technique of how to solve them.
• In English, we have continued the story of The Lost Magician, with the four main characters heading off in separate ways to conquer their own quests. We then analysed the evil robot character, Jana, and wrote an excellent speech to the Army of the Unreads.
• In PE, we learnt more about the rules of Quick Cricket and Tag Rugby for future intra-competitions.
• In RE, we have begun our new topic, Healing, where we discussed the important work that carers do in children’s hospices and qualities needed to work in a hospice.
• In Music, we have learnt more songs for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory production, ‘Oompa Loompa’.
• In French, we learnt what various countries in Europe are famous for and wrote sentences in French to describe them. We looked at the national symbols of France and compared them with the UK eg Britannia v Marianne, our lion v the French cockerel.
• For Science, having learnt about medicines last week, we moved on to learn about the effects and risks involved in taking legal (eg caffeine) and illegal drugs. We stressed the importance of talking to a trusted adult about any questions or worries the children have.
• Finally in History, each group presented their posters or powerpoints about the evacuees of World War II.

 

Well done to everyone who is changing their book every week. Reading is the single most important thing we should do every day.

These are the days when you can change your reading book:

Monday – Dodgems

Tuesday – Roller Coasters

Wednesday – Big Dippers / The Waltzers

 

These are the tasks to be completed:

• Reading – Please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day.

Please complete the ‘Reading Challenges’ you have been given by answering them in your Reading Journals.

 

• Sumdog challenges:

 

• Times tables x8, x9, x11 (100 correct answers needed):
  • Keep learning these to know your times tables fluently.

 

• Adding, subtracting and finding common fractions (150 correct answers needed for this week):
  • Work through these carefully as some will be represented as various pictures. The adding and subtracting should be with the same denominator but it is very good practice for next week.

 

• Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
  • Spellings with –er, -or, -ar ending

(computer, superior, customer, soldier, shoulder, sailor, calendar, popular, particular, radiator, jeweller, professor, prisoner, inspector, accelerator)

 

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 14th May 2021

Date: 14th May 2021 @ 3:41pm

Welcome to the Year 6 blog. This week has been Mental Health Awareness Week where we discussed how to look after our mental health through: exercise, sleep, doing things they really enjoy, being kind to others and practicing gratitude. Also, we learnt about different medicines and how they can support our health and well-being.

We were lucky to have an online meeting with a hospital pharmacist who explained the job of a pharmacist and the training needed. She answered Y6’s questions about her job role and medicines in general. She was very impressed with the quality and range of the children’s questions. Well done Y6 and thank you to Rachel for her time.

 

Reminders:

• Do not forget to bring in your cycling booklet, ‘Passport to Safer Cycling’, which we would like to be completed and brought back into school by next Monday 17^th
• Do not forget that your bike and helmet need to be in school on Monday 17^th May for the bike check.

 

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In PSHE, we have chosen to focus on one thing that helps our mental health this week and learnt about ways to reduce worry and anxiety.
• In Maths, we have strengthened our knowledge of fractions: how to compare them, add and subtract proper, improper and mixed numbers.
• In English, we have connected the story of The Lost Magician to ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ and how they both relate very closely. We have also been improving our prediction skill using evidence from the text and how to use commas more effectively.
• In PE, we started to learn the correct rules for ‘Quick Cricket’ and ‘Tag Rugby’.
• In RE, we have completed the topic of Witness by working in teams to write all the things we do for ourselves, our school and the community as we act as witnesses of God.
• For our Art lesson, we continued our PSHE discussion of ways to reduce worries, one of which was to ‘settle our thoughts’. Then we were inspired by the artists Bruce Gray and Wassily Kandinsky for our art work for drawing, colouring and pattern making to help us settle.
• In Music, we have learnt how to increase and decrease our tempo using the Boomwhackers and glocks.
• In French, we conjugated and used the verb jouer – to play in sentences about playing sports or musical instruments. Then we learnt that if a sport involves a ball, the verb ‘jouer’ is used but if we don’t ‘play’ other sports, we do them so we need the verb ‘faire’.
• For Science, we have practised our data handling skills and drawn excellent graphs of the results of our crisp burning experiment last week. We used them to try and find a pattern between how much energy they produced when burnt and the nutritional information on the packet. There seemed to be a link with the fat content, but not in all cases so scientists would repeat the test to delve deeper into this.
• Finally in History, we researched and presented information about the evacuees of World War II.

 

Well done to 95% of you for changing your book this week. Remember that reading is STILL your number one priority every day.

These are the days when you can change your reading book:

Monday – Dodgems

Tuesday – Roller Coasters

Wednesday – Big Dippers / The Waltzers

 

These are the tasks to be completed:

• Reading – Please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day.

Please complete the ‘Reading Challenges’ you have been given by answering them in your Reading Journals.

 

• Sumdog challenges:

 

•     Times tables x7, x8, x9 (100 correct answers needed):
  • This will be great to continue to know these times tables fluently.

 

•      Multiply and divide numbers mentally using known facts (100 correct answers         needed):
  • Use your place value knowledge to quickly multiply and divide the numbers you see in the questions.
•      Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
  • Spellings with /acc/ pattern (part 3)

(accidentally, accept, acceptance, accessory, accident, accommodate, according, account, accessible, unacceptable, accuse, vaccinate, accelerate, accent, access)

 

Online Safety - 13th May 2021

Date: 13th May 2021 @ 9:28pm

This week is Mental Health Awareness week and a great opportunity to remind us to be kind to ourselves as well as others.

Below you will find two guides from National Online Safety on how to promote wellbeing both online and offline and how to be kind when using the internet.

 

Join us at our Online Safety Hub at National Online Safety and gain free access to a huge range of videos, resources and support.

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

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 7th May 2021

Date: 7th May 2021 @ 1:01pm

Welcome to the Year 6 blog. After a very wet Bank Holiday Monday, Year 6 have had a super week learning more songs for the production, burning crisps in Science and heading out into the nature area to take artistic pictures to sketch. 

We were also treated to a visit by Mrs Washington and Miss Hall from All Hallows

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 30th April 2021

Date: 30th Apr 2021 @ 4:02pm

Welcome to another Year 6 blog. This week we have welcomed back our Sports Clubs which include Football training on Tuesdays, Tennis on Wednesdays and Hockey on Thursdays. The new

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 23rd April 2021

Date: 23rd Apr 2021 @ 3:51pm

Welcome back to our first blog of the summer term. It has been great to see everyone again and on a week with amazing weather too! Year 6 have come back well rested and have worked hard, earning them extra time on the field at Friday lunch time. This week we have enjoyed celebrating St George

Online Safety - 21st April 2021

Date: 21st Apr 2021 @ 1:29pm

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

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

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

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

Year 6 - Happy Easter

Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 2:55pm

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

 

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

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

 

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

 

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

READ!

Have a super Easter Break!

Online Safety - 31st March 2021

Date: 31st Mar 2021 @ 1:11pm

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

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

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

 

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

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Friday 26th March 2021

Date: 26th Mar 2021 @ 12:32pm

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

 

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

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

 

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

These are the new days when you can change your reading book:

Monday – Dodgems

Tuesday – Roller Coasters

Wednesday – Big Dippers / The Waltzers

 

These are the tasks to be completed:

• Reading – Please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day.

Please complete the ‘Reading Challenges’ you have been given by answering them in your Reading Journals.

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

Online Safety - 24th March

Date: 24th Mar 2021 @ 12:22pm

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

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

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

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

 

 

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 19th March 2021

Date: 19th Mar 2021 @ 3:38pm

Welcome back to our first Home Practice blog since the full return back to school. It has been great for everyone to see their friends and get back into a routine. On Friday we celebrated Red Nose Day wearing red, which you can see the pictures of on our Year 6 gallery page.

 

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• Since our return, we have been learning about mental health through PSHE on how to keep ourselves in a more positive mind-set. Along with PSHE, we have an Online Safety blog on each class page which explains how we have teamed up with the National Online Safety which provides many resources for children, staff and parents. You can follow this link, Online Safety to explore.
• In Maths, we have been learning how to plot and translate coordinates outside and working on some of our subtraction strategies to help us solve questions quickly.
• In English, we have begun our new novel, Skellig, by investigating the main characters (Michael, Mina and the Creature). We have also analysed David Almond’s writing style and mixed it with our own in creating the next part of the story.
• In RE, we created our own Lenten prayer which explains the meaning behind the ashes and how Lent can be a time to start trying new things.
• In Art we have looked closely at Mayan patterns, and created our own with pencil, charcoal and pastels.
• In PE, we have been preparing for the Year 5/6 Athletics Intra competition that will be held in school, during school time. We have also been working together on creating paired gymnastic routines.
• In Music, we have been continuing our practise of Boomwhackers and how to play the recorder.
• In French, we have explored compass directions and a map of France, spoken and written about the location of towns, rivers and mountains.
• Finally, for Science, we have investigated a lamb’s heart and physically modelled how the circulatory system works.

 

Well done to 80% of you for changing your book this week. Remember that reading should be your number one priority every day.

These are the new days when you can change your reading book:

Monday – Dodgems

Tuesday – Roller Coasters

Wednesday – Big Dippers / The Waltzers

 

These are the tasks to be completed:

• Reading – Please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day.

Please complete the ‘Reading Challenges’ you have been given by answering them in your Reading Journals.

 

• Sumdog challenges:
  • x3, x4, x8 Times tables(100 correct answers needed):
    • There will be times and divide questions of the 3, 4 and 8 times tables.
  • Coordinates (100 correct answers needed):
    • Some of these questions have coordinates in all four quadrants, which is something we will look at in more detail on Monday.

 

• • Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
    • This week is a recap of prefix learning of dis-, un- and im- words

(disadvantage, disappear, disappoint, discovered, dishonest, unacceptable, unachievable, unbelievable, uncomfortable, unforgivable, immature, impatient, impolite, impartial, impossible)

 

Online Safety

Date: 10th Mar 2021 @ 2:44pm

Online Safety is an important part of keeping children safe at St Oswald's.

Here you will find a range of resources to keep your child safe online.

We have teamed up with National Online Safety to provide resoures, guides and training for all our staff and parents.

Below you will find a link to enrol to at National Online Safety and gain free access to a huge range of videos, resources and support.

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

We will also regularly post guides for social media and gaming platforms as they become more commonly used by your children.

This week you will find guides on Children's Mental Health, TikTok and Gaming Streamers and Influencers

Year 6 Home Learning - Friday 5th March 2021

Date: 4th Mar 2021 @ 8:20am

It’s Fabulous Friday 5^th March 2021!

 

We have all made it! Our last remote learning Friday (hopefully).

As you know, Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!

 

Read

 

For a minimum of 30 minutes.

 

Spelling Quiz

 

Don’t forget to have a spelling quiz today. Try to you can get someone to quiz you on the 15 spellings, in random order.

 

Complete the number activity – Maths, Paper Scissors

 

See the attached document at the bottom of the blog, Maths, Paper, Scissors for how to play

 

 

Finish anything off

 

If there is anything you need to complete, you can do that today and upload to Seesaw for any help or feedback.

 

 

Do not forget to see the Friday Catch Up video which has been sent through Seesaw.

 

Get some rest before Monday. We all cannot wait to see you.

Have a great weekend!

Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 4th March 2021

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 10:25am

Thursday 4^th March 2021

 

Good morning everyone. It’s World Book Day 2021!

 

As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, I just want to remind you that you can send in a picture of you (dressed up or not) holding up one of your favourite books. If you do, please send in a message with your photo of why it is your favourite – the best message will receive a £10 voucher from Moving Works!

Today is potentially your last day of Home Learning so I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has helped to keep your learning moving forward.

Here are your final tasks:

 

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.

Reading activity for today:

• Draw a cartoon strip of the main events from the book.

 

English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on seasons through the year. This week focus on forming each letter correctly, which we have done before but this is something we will do in detail next week when you are all back so practising this is a going to help.

The Visitor

Cold fingers clawed the face of earth,

Bold winter strutted round,

Bare branches trembled in the wind,

Their leaves mulching the ground.

Dancing snowflakes chuckled in the

Prancing north-east breeze,

Algid river stood still, crippled,

Aged women coughed and wheezed.

Sheep shivered in the snow-bound wasteland,

Steep and icy were the paths.

In the houses, people huddled,

Skin slowly cooking round the hearths.

Then it happened, one clear morning,

When the bite of cold was sore,

That there came a gently knocking

At the weatherman’s cottage door.

He got up and shambled out to

See, his heart began to sing,

By the door, a young girl smiling,

‘Hi,’ she said. ‘My name is Spring.’

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, long ‘y’ sound

• Make a pyramid with each word to really focus on every letter.
• e.g.                

c

cy

cyc

cycl

cycli

cyclin

cycling

 

Writing task

Can I create my own mini story called, The Library Adventure?

 

Today is World Book Day where we can all dress up and celebrate some of the best loved characters. How many can you mention in just one minute?

Any of those your favourites?

If you had to choose one, who would it be?

This character you have chosen could be the start of a new story. 

Look at the Pobble picture called, The Greatest Library, at the bottom of the blog.

Here is a library, but not just any old library, the books in this library are the most interesting as once opened, they come alive, creating new stories to be opened and read and experienced.

Think what your favourite types of books are. If you could choose one of your books to come alive, which one would it be and why?

If you could be a character in a book, who would you like to be?

Here is a story starter for you to continue:

 

The books had minds of their own…

 

This was no ordinary library.

 

Books about knights and castles would gallop all over the library, bravely and boldly ordering the other books around. The books about thieves would sneak around, lurking behind bookshelves in the shadows. Books about wild animals would occasionally roar and bite other books. The ones containing stories set in the winter would often shiver, covering their neighbours with snow and frost.

 

Lucy loved this place like no other. Reading was the most exciting thing in the world here: everything she read seemed to come alive out of the pages…

 

Your task is to create a story following any of these prompts:

• You or any other character can be the one in the ‘greatest library’ about to read a book
• Introduction = The book comes alive with you (or the character) being sucked into that book’s story.
• Main = The adventure begins
• Ending = This part is completely up to you but it could be:
  • main character is now stuck in the book forever
  • main character saves the day
  • main character solves a quest and returns home
  • main character decides to stay in this world forever

 

Maths – Division Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward and back in steps of 250 and 750

7 000 , 15 000 , 5 400 , 64 000 , 97 200

2.  Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I follow the success criteria of long division?
      1. Write out the times tables of the divisor
      2. Look at the first two digits and take the largest chunk possible
      3. Take that away from the answer
      4. Continue taking large chunks in multiples of 10 or 100
      5. Make sure you finish at zero
      6. Add up the chunks to find the answer

There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson which will help in answering ‘Long Division’ sheet.

3. Arithmetic 19 – 36. See the Arithmetic video for guidance on some of the questions.

 

History

Can I illustrate and label Pakal the Great?

Follow this link to the BBC website to find information on Pakal the Great, who reigned as King for 68 years.

• Using any of the illustrations from the website, draw Pakal the Great in your book (think middle of the page so you can label him).
• Label him with facts that you have learnt. These questions may help
  • Where did he live?
  • How long did he rule for?
  • When did he die?
  • What did he accomplish?
  • What did Ruz, the Mexican archaeologist, find in the sarcophagus?
  • Any interesting facts?
• Send it to me via Seesaw

 

Fairtrade

 

Watch the video sent through Seesaw which explains the Climate Crisis PowerPoint at the bottom of the blog and the task to complete.

Your task:

You are in charge of your own cocoa farm. Your farm is about to be struck by one of the climate challenges from the PowerPoint. Try to answer the following questions:

• What is your challenge?
• How will this challenge affect your farm?
• Will this challenge affect your basic needs?

(You can use a computer to conduct further research if you prefer)

 

Sumdog – Three challenges

 

1. 1. Division of 2/3 digit numbers                          (200 target)
   2. Fluency with division facts                      (200 target)
   3. Spellings ‘long /y/ sound’                         (45 target)

 

Excellent work Year 6. Congratulations. Make sure you celebrate in some way for all the effort you have put in. 

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 2:41pm

Wednesday 3^rd March 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to our last remote Wednesday. Half way through the week is always good to check in on how you are organising yourself this week. Ask yourselves these questions today:

• Have you been reading every day?
• Have you started or even finished any Sumdog challenge?
• Are you going to tick everything off by Thursday or spread it out to Friday?

(Knowing how well you have been doing enables you to plan out the rest of the week)

Do not forget that Reading, English, Maths, French, Music and RE are on the blog today so spreads these activities out or do what you can.

REMINDER – WORLD BOOK DAY 2021

Tomorrow is World Book day where you can dress up at home in one of your favourite characters. Whether you dress up or not, please send in a picture of you holding your favourite book with a message of why it is your favourite. I will be doing the same and I will send my picture to you in the morning.

Here are today’s tasks:

 

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.

Reading activity for today:

• Draw a picture of your favourite part of the book. Write what is happening in the picture and why you chose this.

 

English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on seasons through the year. This week focus on forming each letter correctly, which we have done before but this is something we will do in detail next week when you are all back so practising this is a going to help.

Chips

Out of the paper bag

Comes the hot breath of the chips

And I shall blow on them

To stop them burning my lips.

 

Before I leave the counter

The woman shakes

Raindrops of vinegar on them

And salty snowflakes.

 

Outside, the frosty pavements

Are slippery as a slide

But the chips and I

Are warm inside.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, long ‘y’ sound

• Today, create another mini story with the spellings words.
  • e.g. There was once a cycling hyena who absolutely loved to multiply numbers. He would identify figures in the street and rhyme whilst doing it. One day, the hyena qualified for the Cyclone Cup, a prestigious award once occupied by a python.

 

 

Writing task

Can I use a variety of nouns, verbs and adjectives to describe an evil character’s appearance and actions?

 

Read pages 44 – 50, which are on one of the videos I have sent through Seesaw. 

Watch the main video sent through on Seesaw which explains how to complete today’s objective.

The example of descriptions for an evil character are attached at the bottom of the blog.

Also, the picture I used to describe my evil character is at the bottom of the blog under 'Wanderer picture for introducing evil character'.

 

Maths – Division Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward and back in steps of 25 and 75

200.  , 400 , 1 400 , 170  ,  630

2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I explain and use long division?

There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson as well a White Rose video here, Long Division , which explains how to solve the sheet, White Rose Maths Division. Please watch the Seesaw video first.

 

Music

Today we are continuing the topic of ‘Pulse and Metre’. Follow this link, Exploring 4 beats and 2 beats in a bar, to Oak National Academy for today’s lesson.

 

French

Bonjour! Let’s recap the weather phrases once more. You should be getting good at these by now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Ju6XS3tRs

Confession time – in school last week, we didn’t finish all the work so we’re going to do the second half of the sheet this week. If you didn’t manage it all either, click here and download lesson 5 with audio.

http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y6_French/Yr6AutumnFr.php

We’re going to do the left hand side of slide 3 in school, writing our own sentences using seasons, weather and expressions of frequency. If you’ve already done this, well done to you! You could take a piece of paper, fold it into 4 sections and copy one of your sentences into each section and add a picture to illustrate it.  If you upload the photo, I will print it off and add it to our display.

If you’re ready to move on, have a go at slide 4. I’ll be very impressed if you can do sections B and C!

Très bon travail. Merci beaucoup. A la semaine prochaine!

 

RE

Can I explain how people can live out the Our Father prayer in our daily lives?

 

Watch the Seesaw video named ‘RE. Our Father prayer’. There is a copy of the Our father at the bottom of this blog for you to print or copy and paste electronically.

 

 

Sumdog – Three challenges

 

1. 1. Division of 2/3 digit numbers                  (200 target)
   2. Fluency with division facts                      (200 target)
   3. Spellings ‘long /y/ sound’                         (45 target)

 

Congratulations as we are now half way through the week!

Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 2:36pm

Tuesday 2^nd March 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Tuesday.

Well done to those who have started this week’s Sumdog challenges and posted some work through Seesaw. Remember, as always, do not hesitate to contact me about anything regarding learning. So many of you did yesterday as I am here to help during your final week of remote learning.

 

Here are today’s tasks:

 

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.

Reading activity for today:

• How does/did the book make you feel? Explain.

 

English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on seasons through the year. This week focus on forming each letter correctly, which we have done before but this is something we will do in detail next week when you are all back so practising this is a going to help.

Still Winter

Ambushing snowdrops,

Beheading buds,

Drowning daisies

In sudden floods,

 

Old Mr Winter

Won’t let go,

Arthritic fingers

Dipped in snow.

 

Grey mist clinging

Like old news,

Badger talking

One more snooze.

 

Blackbird singing

In freezing rain,

Screech Owl calling;

Night again.

 

Cold rat feasting

On the scrap-heap,

Frosty paw-prints,

Earth half-asleep.

 

All things hoping

Spring comes soon,

Snuggle under

Frosty moon.

 

Spellings

• The spellings for this week, long ‘y’ sound
  • Play the Window Game that I explained in a video before half term. Just to remind you:
    • top left = copy neatly x3
    • top right = say each letter out loud x3
    • bottom left = non-dominant hand x3
    • bottom right = blind writing x3

 

Writing task

Can I use a dictionary to investigate new vocabulary from Aladdin?

 

Read pages 37 - 43

Watch the video sent through on Seesaw where I explain how to describe Aladdin’s personality.

 

The New Vocabulary to Define sheet is attached to the bottom of this blog.

 

 

 

Maths – Division Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward and back in steps of 200 and 400

1 600,    4 700,   16 000,  145 000,   876 700

2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I use chunking to solve large division questions?

See the video on Seesaw which explain how we use the division chunking method to help you complete the Chunking Method sheet.

3. Maths challenge Division with Digit Cards – See the Seesaw video for an explanation of the challenge with the attached sheet at the bottom of this blog.

 

 

Science

Today we are going to start a topic called Exercise, Health and the Circulatory system.

Download the Powerpoint and work through it. There is a choice of two tasks on the last slide.

Your poster can be done on a computer or in your book. There is a choice of  cartoon strip templates in the resources.

Enjoy!

 

Fairtrade

This lesson focuses on the difference between wants and needs, and to identify what all humans need to live a decent life.

Task 1:

Think of these questions and note down any of your responses:

• What do you need to happy and healthy?
• Of those things, what are the most important?
• Of those things, what are the least important?

There is a difference to wants and needs. A need is something a person needs to survive and a want is something that is nice to have.

Task 2:

Use the ’12 Wants and Needs cards’ at the bottom of the blog to divide into two categories: needs and wants.

From your two lists, are there some that we can live without?

Task 3:

Select the needs cards that you might need to pay for e.g. healthy food, medicine.

Not all people in the world have enough money to meet their basic needs. Without enough money, it can be difficult to lead a healthy and happy life. Many of the farmers who grow cocoa for our chocolate are not paid enough money to meet their basic needs, even though they work hard.

Read Theresa’s story, on the PowerPoint, which shows how Fairtrade can help farmers and workers to meet their basic needs.

Then think about what can be done to ensure that all farmers and workers get their basic needs met.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges

 

1. 1. Division of 2/3 digit numbers                  (200 target)
   2. Fluency with division facts                      (200 target)
   3. Spellings ‘long /y/ sound’                         (45 target)

 

Well done. Another day completed!