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Reception Blog - Friday 2nd May 2025

Date: 2nd May 2025 @ 3:45pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

 Phonics

 Mrs Robinson's group recapped the ch, sh, th, ng and qu sounds and used them in our writing.

Mrs Dixon's group have been focussing on the ow and ur sounds.

Drawing Club

In Drawing Club we read the story, Zog and the Flying Doctors.

We designed our own dragon friend for Zog and we wrote about how the King felt when he was better.

Maths

We learnt about numbers in order within 0-10.

RE

We listened to the story of Pentecost.

We went outside to feel the wind and then made a whole class art interpretation of wind.

Expressive Art and Design

 We continued with our Art project on Imagination lands.

Our task was to cut and tear them to make our own Zog land!

Understanding the World

We listened to stories about the Royal Family, who they are and where they live.

Year 5 Blog Friday 2nd May 2025

Date: 2nd May 2025 @ 3:36pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

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

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

grief  brief  mischief  pierce  fierce  niece  pier  patient  deceive  conceive  receive  perceive 

ceiling  protein  seize  science  ancient  glacier 

Counting

Count out loud in:

6s up to 120 and back again                                               0,6,12,18…

40s from 240 to 840 and back again                              240,280,320 …

30s from 2130  backwards to 1920                                 2130,2100,2070 …

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables. Most of the class are on division targets for testing next week.   

Sumdog

Maths practise based on fractions – individual challenge.

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

Please continue to use the fluency booster too!

We have had another great learning week in Year 5.

We have started our new novel this week – The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. We have also enjoyed writing short, fictional stories this week.     

In Maths we have started to re-cap fractions, including mixed numbers, equivalent fractions and improper fractions. Well done everyone with this.

Following our talks about the Holy Spirit, we all enjoyed critically evaluating various famous paintings of the Holy Spirit before moving on to focus specifically on the sacrament of Confirmation and how the Holy Spirit is a fundamental part of this Sacrament.

In computing, we have started our computer science topic and we are using code.org to practise our programming skills. 

The week has ended with lots of atlas work as we learn about the continent of South America. A super week Year 5 – well done!

Golden stars this week

Holly W – star of the week

Luiza – marvellous mathematician

Cian – super learner for a super effort with writing

Joe – superstar writer

Maisie – bookworm for lots of home reading

Eddie – special mention for looking after our school

Tommy – special mention for kindness shown to others in class 

Year 1 Blog - Friday 2nd May 2025

Date: 1st May 2025 @ 4:47pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Doubles

Phonics - Sounds learnt this week

Counting - Practise counting in ones, twos, fives and tens.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We continued to read The Lumberjack's Beard. We found out that the lumberjack had been chopping down all of the animals' houses! We acted out how the bird was feeling and wrote an apology letter from Jim.

Phonics

Some of us have been focusing on our phase 5 tricky words.

Some of us have learnt the three ow spellings: ow in clown, ou in cloud and ough in drought. Then we compared the two oi spellings: oi in spoil and oy in toy.

Maths

We have been learning how to make equal groups of objects, leading onto calculating the doubles up to 10 (double 10 = 20).

Then, we solved multiplication problem questions which required us to make equal groups of objects.

R.E.

First, we listened to Jesus' journey to Emmaus. We wrote our own speech bubbles, showing how the apostles felt when they walked beside Jesus.

Then we read about His ascension. We made some beautiful cloud mobiles. We drew pictures of the event and decorated the classroom with them.

Forest School

This week we did some wild weaving. This is really good for developing our fine motor skills, creativity and imagination. We carefully put the rubber bands on the base and then used grasses, leaves and flowers in our piece of work. Usually we do not pick anything but today we could pick a few things. At the end of the session we had a reflection, we told whoever was next to us what we liked about their work. 

We also discussed the cotton tree seeds and how they are all being dispersed by the wind.

P.E.

We have been practising for sports day this week!

See our pictures here.

Geography

We identified features of a cold place, such as Antarctica. We spotted lots of ice, snow and animals, such as penguins.

Art

We sketched feathers and added detail using pen, pastel and charcoal.

See our pictures here.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Cara

Super Learner: Huxley

Superstar Writer: April

Bookworm: Seb

Marvellous Mathematician: Nelly

Special Mentions - Reuben for always helping his friends. Emma for always listening and working hard in class.

Year 4 Blog Friday 2nd May 2025

Date: 1st May 2025 @ 4:12pm

Welcome to your weekly 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.

Find a couple of words you don’t know the meaning of and look them up in a dictionary. Write them in your reading diary and use them in a sentence of your own.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

scheme        chorus         chemist       echo            character       chef            chalet          machine       ache            brochure

anchor         chaos           monarch       chute           mechanic      school          parachute    champagne

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 3’s

For example, start at 0 and count to 36 and back again

0   3   6   9   etc                        36   33   30 etc

Now try counting in 4’s

0   4   8   12    etc                     48   44   40 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

You can practise a similar Multiplication Tables Check on timestables.co.uk

If you practise for 5 minutes every night, you will see a big improvement in your tables fluency.

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 – lets see if EVERYONE can log on and play this week!

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A comparing and ordering angles challenge

This week in Year 4

In English, we discussed the features of instructional writing.

Following this, we used our imagination to plan and write a recipe for our very own chocolate inspired by Willy Wonka.

We were very proud of our creations and think Wonka would be too!

In Maths, we learnt that an angle is a measure of a turn.

We then identified acute and obtuse angles, and also compared and ordered angles from smallest to the largest.

In RE, we explored the fact that St Peter was the first Pope and discussed what Peter’s life teaches Christians today.

In PSHE, we started our new topic – ‘relate’. Throughout the topic, we will learn to understand and celebrate our differences.

We began by learning what it means to ‘stop, understand and consider’.

In Science, we named the basic parts of the digestive system and described their functions.

We also found out how 'poo' is made in our digestive systems. Take a look at the pictures in our gallery.

In History, we studied different Greek pots with pictures on.

We considered what the people in the scene were doing and wearing and what we could see in the background.

From the pictures, we then inferred what life was like during Ancient Greek times.

In art, we finished our still life collages. Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Emma 

Super Learner - Joni

Superstar Writers - ALL of Year 4!

Bookworm - Josh M

Marvellous Mathematician - Tiffany

Special Mentions - Josh M, Josh W and Alana

The Year 4 team

Year 3 Friday blog 2nd May 2025

Date: 1st May 2025 @ 2:47pm

Welcome to your Friday update

It has been a lovely week in school with the fine weather allowing us to take lots of our learning outside.

Home Practice 

Keep up with the great reading at home. We can see a lot of children showing interest in some fab series of books including, Dogman, Harry Potter and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Lots of super future reading habits being formed!!

We have set some maths challenges on Sumdog. Please ensure these are completed as they will boost fluency in the key learning that will support your child in all their future maths learning.

Keep counting, a secure knowledge of the number system will also help secure new concepts and learning.

Practice counting in 2s, 4s, and 8s. Forwards and backwards. What patterns can you spot?

Here are your spellings. We are looking at the statutory words for Year 3 this week. To remember these spellings its useful to remember the tricky bits. 

fruit, grammar, group, guard, guide, heard, heart, height, history, imagine, increase, important, interest, island, knowledge,  learn, length, library

This week in Year 3

We have been enjoying our new RE topic, To the ends of the Earth. We have been reading the Road to Emmaus where Jesus appeared to his disciples. We retold the story in comic form, looked at some art inspired by the story and created our own pieces of art. Check out our gallery.

In English we have been reading about Bertie, the little boy from Africa and his home. We wrote some fantastic descriptions of the watering hole and all the animals that he could see from his compound. We have been learning about how we can edit our work and improve it through drafting. Have a look at some of our finished pieces.

In Maths we have been learning how to subtract 3 digit numbers using the column addition method. To understand this method and use it accurately, it is important that everyone knows their number facts to 10. One minute maths is a great app for practising these as well as your times tables. Click the image below to access or download the app.

In History we have been exploring the Ancient Egyptian timeline and comparing it to the Stone Age in Britain. We will be learning lots about Egyptian culture in the coming weeks. The children are very excited.

In PE we have been playing cricket and practising our striking, fielding and catching skills and on Friday we went outside for some orienteering. Everyone showed great teamwork to find all the stations!

Golden Assembly

Star of the week - Rudy

Super Learner - George

Writer of the week - Eliza

Marvellous Mathematician - Heidi

Bookworm - Isla

Special Mentions - Oscar, Eliza, Francesca and Alexander for keeping our playground tidy and litter free. Thank you! 

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 2 Blog Friday 2nd May 2025

Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:40am

Home Practice

Reading:

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

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

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

Spelling:

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (09.05.25):

dropped   hopped   chased   looked   danced

dried    cried     tried      placed    raced 

Sumdog:

Counting:

Starting at one quarter count forwards in quarters. For example, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 1, 1 and 1/4, 1 and 2/4, 1 and 3/4, 2, 2 and 1/4, 2 and 2/4, 2 and 3/4, 3.

We enjoyed doing this in class and the children started to spot the pattern.

You could try counting in halves too! 

Times Tables:

Great work on your division facts for 5 in order.

Next week, Thursday (08.05.25) we will quiz your knowledge of the division facts for 5, in a muddled order.

English

We wrote about something sad which has happened to us as this is something Lila has to think about in the story.

We learnt about rainsticks and made our own out of a cardboard tube.

We wrote instructions for how to make a rain maker and tested the instuctions on Miss Whiting.

SPaG

We learnt about the different rules for adding ed to the end of words.

dropped   hopped   chased   looked   danced

dried    cried     tried      placed    raced 

Maths

Our new topic is fractions.

We built on our knowledge of halves and worked on finding quarters of shapes.

Art

Our project this half term is stick people.

The children spent time in the nature area searching for the perfect stick to use for making their own stick people.

Back in class, they used their sketch books to explore and draw some of their great ideas.

Forest School

This week we did some wild weaving. This is really good for developing our fine motor skills, creativity and imagination. We carefully put the rubber bands on the base and then used grasses, leaves and flowers in our piece of work. Usually we do not pick anything but today we could pick a few things. At the end of the session we had a reflection, we told whoever was next to us what we liked about their work. 

We also discussed the cotton tree seeds and how they are all being dispersed by the wind.

Science

We planted beans to investigation the effects of different conditions on germination.

Geography

The children completed a quiz and looked more closely at the animals and geographical features of Nigeria.

History

Our new topic is Kings, Queens and Castles.

We thought about the Kings and Queens that we know already, including what information/facts we know about them or their reign.

R.E

The children retold and illustrated the story of the Ascension so well.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week- Devyn

Super Learner-Eliza

Superstar Writer- Elyse

Bookworm-George

Mathematician-Harper

Special Mentions-Felicity and Noah B. in Reception for super wild weaving in Forest School.

Amelia L. - Being a lovely friend to everyone.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 2nd May 2025

Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:21am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog. 

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have been working hard to revise word class, tense, formality and punctuation! We have completed lots of SATs practise and quizzes to help us consolidate our learning. 

Maths 

This week, we have learned how to solve problems for measures and time. We have revised how to convert between measures and use these conversions to solve problems. We have also revised how to find fractions of amounts and convert between fractions, decimals and percentages.

RE

In RE, we have contunied our new topic: 'To the ends of the earth'. We have created book covers for John's gospel by thinking carefully about the intention of the gospel writer and what he wanted us to learn about Jesus. We have also shared 1 Cor 15:45-49 and discussed how Jesus is 'the new Adam'. We thought carefully about the similarities and differences between Jesus and Adam and created a symbolic image to show Jesus as the new Adam. 

Topic 

In PSHE, we have been completing a My Happy Mind topic called 'Be Your Best!'. We have learned how to speak positively to ourselves and how important getting enough sleep is. This topic is helping us to get ready for SATs! 

In Art, we started our new topic all about chair design. We worked hard to take visual notes and be creative!

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 7/05/25. 

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. 

Spelling - 

Spellings this week are taken from the 2017 SATs Spelling test. 

We will have our test on the 9/05/25

It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.

SATS Revision: 

The children have been given a login for SATs bootcamp. This is a fantastic website, which will really help with the children's SATs revision: https://www.yearsix.co.uk/sats-boot-camp/. 

Please complete the following topics for next Thursday: 

Maths - Topic 15 Money 

English - Topic 25 Let’s have some fun!

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

Star of the Week  - Isla

Super Learner -  Isaac

Superstar Writer - Artie

Bookworm -  Eli

Marvellous Mathematician - Amelia and Walter 

Special Mentions - Theo M for doing an extra duty to help out KS1 staff!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Year 5 Friday blog 25.04.25

Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 4:03pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

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

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

co-ordinate  re-enter  co-operate  co-own  pre-existing  de-emphasise  ultra-ambitious  pre-recorded

re-edit  re-enact  co-worker  co-pilot  re-cover  re-educate  pre-date  pre-election  pre-print  re-form

Counting

Count out loud in:

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

50s from 250 to 850 and back again                              250, 300, 350 …

25s from 2125  backwards to 1675                                 2125, 2100, 2075 …

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables. It’s so important to be able to re-call them quickly for Year 5 maths.   

Sumdog

Maths practise based on measurement– individual challenge.

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

Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs.

We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus and times tables challenges. 

 We have had a great learning week in Year 5.

 Year 5 have finished Varjak Paw this week and practised a variety of writing styles, including book reviews, diary entries and re-telling the plot.    

In Maths they have been practising drawing, measuring and estimating angles. They will be moving on to fractions next week.   

This week in RE, the whole class has been focussing on the signs and symbols of the Holy Spirit and the mystery of the Trinity.  They have also spent some reflection and prayer time, following the death of Pope Francis.  

 Year 5 have also spent some time writing about what the earth means to them and how to protect it – a subject that was very close to Pope Francis’s heart. 

The week has ended with a yoga session and, in History, Year 5 have started a new topic about the ancient Maya civilisation. Thank you Year 5 for a great start to the summer term. 

This week's stars

William - star of the week

Dominic - marvellous mathematician

Tommy - superstar writer

Willow - bookworm

Freddie - super learner for his work in improving his writing

Maisie - special mention for trying so hard this week with tricky learning

Reception Blog - Friday 25th April 2025

Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 3:32pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

 Phonics

This week we have all been recapping the phase 2 and 3 sounds we have learnt so far.

Drawing Club

This week in Drawing Club we have read the story, Zog. We have been designing our own dragon friends for Zog and we have been writing sentences about what Zog can do.

Maths

This week we have been sequencing events in the day.

RE

This week we have been listening to the story of Pentecost.

Expressive Art and Design

This week we have started an Art project on Imagination lands.

This week’s task was to make our own painted paper. We each painted different coloured papers and mark made patterns onto them and next week we will use them to make our pictures.

Understanding the World

This week we have started our space topic. We compared the size of the sun, moon and earth.

Year 3 Friday Blog 25th April 2025

Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 1:53pm

Welcome to the Summer term

Home Practice

Continue with your amazing reading at home and remember to change your school reading books regularly, we have lots of great books to choose from.

Your home spellings are all a recap some of the common words from Key Stage 1. Some of these can be decoded with phonics but it will also help to learn them by sight. Lots of regular practise will help this.

We will give out copies of the spellings on Monday but they are availbale to practise on Sumdog.

On Sumdog we have set the usual maths challenges covering the learning well meet will meet next week. We have also set a fluency competition which will practise the key skills and number facts your child needs to work on.

What a brilliant first week back we’ve had in Year 3! It’s been lovely to see everyone looking so smart and ready to learn in their summer uniforms – a great start to the new term.

In English, we’ve been reading the beautiful book Dear Earth as part of our preparations for our Wonderful World assembly. We were inspired by the heartfelt letters in the story and decided to write our own letters to Earth, sharing our hopes, promises and appreciation for our planet. We then published them with care – have a look in our gallery to see some of our lovely finished pieces!

In Maths, we’ve been revisiting column addition and doing some clever thinking around missing numbers. The children have shown great perseverance and are becoming more confident each day with explaining their reasoning.

Our History learning is now taking us back to the fascinating world of Ancient Egypt. This week, we explored an Ancient Egyptian timeline and began to learn about some of the key events and people we’ll be discovering this term. We’ve added a fact file below. This includes some of the learning well meet this term.

On Friday, we had a fantastic yoga session with Katie. The children showed brilliant strength and balance as they moved through different poses. It was such a calm and focused way to finish our week.

In RE, we’ve begun our new topic: To the Ends of the Earth, which will take us on a journey through Pentecost and the early Church. We started by looking at the different types of writing found in the Bible and spent some time exploring the books of the New Testament.

As part of our My Happy Mind learning, we focused on the importance of considering other people’s opinions – part of our ‘Relate’ topic. There have been lots of thoughtful discussions, and the children are already making brilliant links to real-life situations. Don’t forget, you can follow along with what we’re learning through the Happy Mind Parent App.

Well done on a wonderful start to the Summer term, Year 3. We’re really proud of you all.

Have a lovely weekend!

The Year 3 Team

Year 1 Blog - Friday 25th April 2025

Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 9:00am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Recognising coins

Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.

Counting - Practise counting in tens from 0 to 100, forwards and backwards.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We started to read our new book - Lumberjack's Beard. We described the setting of the story and explained how the bird was feeling using a speech bubble. The bird was very angry that the lumberjack chopped down his tree!

Phonics

Some of us have been focusing on trigraphs, focusing on air in chair and ear in clear.

Some of us have continued to explore the different oa spellings, focusing on ol in cold and oul in shoulder. 

Maths

We continued our counting lesson from before half term, this time, focusing on counting in tens. We spotted the pattern on a number square and filled in missing numbers.

Then, we recapped the different coins and notes that we use.

R.E.

We started our new topic - To the ends of the Earth. We ordered Jesus' life events together from His birth to His death. We made a board game and played it in pairs.

Science

We took pictures of plants that are in our outdoor areas at the moment. In a few months, we will do the same again and make a comparison to see if anything has changed!

Geography

We started our new topic - hot and cold places in the world. We learnt about the equator and how the countries that are close to it have a hot climate. Then we identified hot and cold places on a world map.

Art

We started our new topic - birds. We sketched pictures of different birds in our sketchbooks, focusing on their different features.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Arianna

Super Learner: Emma

Superstar Writer: Lara

Bookworm: Luca

Marvellous Mathematician: Izzy

Special Mentions - Zac and Rudy for always helping in the class and Genevieve for her amazing use of scientific vocabulary whilst spotting similarities and differences.

Year 4 Blog Friday 25th April 2025

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 3:51pm

Welcome to the first blog of the Summer term

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.

See if you can spot any expanded noun phrases when you are reading. Expanded noun phrases will include the determiner, any adjectives and a noun.    

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

consider       continue       decide         describe      different

difficult       disappear     early            earth           eight

eighth          enough         exercise      experience   experiment

extreme      forward       forwards

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 10’s bridging 100’s

For example, start at 86 and count to 236 and back again

86   96   106   etc                     236   226   216 etc

Now try from 321 to 571 and back again

321   331   341    etc                           571   561   551 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

You can practise a similar Multiplication Tables Check on timestables.co.uk

If you practise for just 5 minutes every night, you will see a big improvement in your tables fluency.

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 adding and subtracting fractions challenge

This week in Year 4

In English, we wrote a humorous piece about the first day back after the Easter holiday and how everything had changed!  In addition, we learnt what an expanded noun phrase is and practised building our own phrases.

In Maths, we learnt how to add and subtract using a number line. First, we used a number line to help us bridge though a multiple of 10 efficiently. Then, we used a mental compensating strategy when the number we were adding or subtracting had a 9 in the ones place.

 This week, we also practised finding fractions of amount using counters and pictorial representations. Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.    

In RE, we started our new topic – To the ends of the Earth – during which we will learn about the spread of the Gospel and the mission of the Church. We began the topic by listening to John 20:1-10 which tells of the resurrection of Jesus. We then retold the story in pictures and words. You can see some pictures in our gallery.

In addition, we explored Peter’s interactions with Jesus by examining various Bible passages and then reflected on the highs and lows of Peter’s faith journey.

In Computing, we continued our ‘audio production’ topic by recording sound and then editing it effectively. We recorded ourselves speaking and them trimmed, moved and deleted parts of the recording to make it more effective.

In Geography, we started our new topic – Greece. We began by using an atlas to identify the 7 continents. We then named different countries within Europe, including Greece.

In History, we began our new topic – Ancient Greeks. We discovered who they were, where they came from and when. We also created a timeline of key events during this historical period.

On Friday, we took part in a yoga session. During the session, we learnt some different breathing techniques - for relaxation and for energy - as well as practising some strength poses.

 Take a look in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Alfie

Super Learner: Teddy

Superstar Writer: Evelyn

Bookworm: Sienna

Marvellous Mathematician: Archie S

Special Mentions: Joni and Caleb

The Year 4 team

Year 2 Blog- Friday 25th April

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 10:21am

It's great to have everyone back in class after the Easter holiday and you all look so smart in your summer uniforms!

Home Practice

Reading:

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

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

Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark!

Spelling:

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (02.05.25):

which     witch      peace      piece      through      threw    stair      stare      male     mail

Sumdog:

Counting:

Starting at 100 or 50, count back in fives.

Continue like this, then try to go faster!

Times Tables:

Great work on your 5 Times Tables.

Next week, Thursday (01.05.25) we will quiz your knowledge of division facts for 5 in order.

English

We started our new learning through a book called "Lila and the Secret of Rain".

Lila lives in a Kenyan village where it hasn't rained for a long time. We wrote predictions from the front cover and we wrote in role as Lila.

Maths

We have been subtracting 2-digit numbers from 2-digit numbers with exchange. We have used Base 10 equipment and represented the 10s and 1s by drawing lines and dots.

Art

The children used nature and objects from around the classroom to create seed, root and shoot sculptutres.

They were very creative and explored manipulating the materials by folding, twisting or bending.

Forest School

We noticed many changes in the nature area. Bluebells and forget-me-knots are growing and the daffodils have died away.

Geography

The children learnt a lot of facts about Nigeria and created super fact files.

History

Our new topic is Kings, Queens and Castles.

We found out about the different parts of a castle and labelled our own.

R.E

We read Luke's Gospel story of the Ascension and thought about how the disciples felt. We will retell the story in our own words next week.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week- Leo

Super Learner-Jonah

Superstar Writer- Amelia F.

Bookworm-Zach D.

Mathematician-Charles

Special Mentions-James for being a super member of Year 2

                                                                                     - Joshua W.(Year 4) for beautiful manners.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 25th April 2025

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 8:50am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog. 

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have been working hard to revise tense, punctuation, word class and formality! We have been learning how to use test techniques to check our answers and practising past paper questions. 

Maths 

This week, we have learned how to find the area of compound shapes made up of triangles, rectangles and parallelograms. We have also learned how to find the volume of a shape. In revision, we have recapped on our formal methods and four operations with fractions. 

RE

In RE, we have started our new topic: 'To the ends of the earth'. We have shared the story of the empty tomb together and created comic strips to retell the story. We have also written a diary entry in role as 'doubting Thomas'. 

Topic 

For Computing, we continued our learning on websites and completed our websites! We learned how to add subpages and links. 

We have also completed our Science topic on electricity by investigating our own question on the variation of components in a circuit. 

In History, we learned all about how the police force were created! 

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 30/04/25. 

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. 

Spelling - 

Spellings this week are revising the following rules: 

Statutory word list and adding prefixes and suffixes to these
where appropriate.
• Revision Prefixes dis-, mis-, in-
• Revision Prefixes inter-, super-, anti-, auto-
• Revision More prefixes im-, ir-, re-, sub-
• Endings which sound like /ʃəs/ spelt –cious or – tious
• Endings which sound like /ʃəl/

We will have our test on the 25/04/25

It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.

SATS Revision: 

The children have been given a login for SATs bootcamp. This is a fantastic website, which will really help with the children's SATs revision: https://www.yearsix.co.uk/sats-boot-camp/. 

Please complete the following topics for next Thursday: 

Maths - Topic 13 Capacity, Mass and Volume 

English - Topic 21 Synonyms and Antonyms

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

Star of the Week  - Erin

Super Learner -  Max N

Superstar Writer - Maizie

Bookworm -  Eleanor

Marvellous Mathematician - Ava Y

Special Mentions - Issac: for always working hard on drinks duty

Josh: for revising at home to help with his SATs work

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Year 5 Friday blog 04.04.25

Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 4:48pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Well done to everyone as they have worked so hard this term.

Our special mentions of the term are:

Casper

Oscar

Ronnie

Eliza M

Ebba

Eliza W

Reading

Please keep reading over the Easter holidays and remember to bring your favourite book in to school when we come back so we can share it with the class.

English

 We have nearly completed ‘Varjak Paw’. We have been writing about the mysterious cat vanishings this week. Hopefully the mystery will be solved in the week we come back to school!

Maths

The term has ended with the children developing their skills in drawing, reflecting and translating shapes. Well done Year 5!

Science

This week the children have been learning about the life cycle of a plant and how they reproduce. A couple of the sunflower seeds we have planted have already germinated!

RE

Finally, we have spent the week giving a lot of thought to Jesus’ last days on earth before his crucifixion. The children turned into art critics as they examined and formed their own opinions on famous paintings depicting the sorrowful mysteries, such as when Jesus was crowned with thorns. They also debated what was meaningful to Christians about Jesus’ resurrection.

Once again, Year 5 have been amazing this half term - thank you to all of you!
We will see you back in school on Tuesday 22^nd April 2025

Year 3 Friday Blog 4th April 2025

Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 4:20pm

Welcome to your Year 3 blog!

This week we have finished our brilliant story Ferdinand the bull. We wrote some great fact files and reports on bullfighting and a persuasive piece against bullfighting. 

We also had a brilliant orienteering day and easter egg hunt on Thursday. We used our maps and solved all the puzzles.

We had a lovely celebration in Church on Thursday. Year 6 led a very thoughtful Easter liturgy and Year 3 joined in brilliantly with their singing.

On Friday we completed our forest school learning where we designed our own mini shelters using natural materials. Check out our gallery.

We have had a lovely half term and seen lots of progress in all areas of our curriculum.

We are looking forward to next term!

Have a lovely Easter break and keep reading!!

The Year 3 team.

Year 1 Blog - Friday 4th April 2025

Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 4:03pm

Welcome to your final Friday blog of the Spring term!

Home Practice

See Easter pack.

Counting - Practise counting in twos from 0 to 20.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We explored the life cycle of a pea plant, from a seed to fully grown pea pods. We watched a video explaining what they need to grow and wrote a set of instructions. Then we planted our own seeds in a pot, which we each took home to grow outside.

See our pictures here.

Phonics

We have focused on reading and spelling our tricky words.

Maths

We counted in ones, twos and fives. We wrote the numbers in the sequence and spotted patterns with the numbers.

R.E.

We continued to read the Easter story and wrote a thank you prayer to Jesus for sacrificing himself on the cross.

Science

We filled in some more of our weather chart. It was cloudy on Monday, compared to the sunny weather that we had the week before.

Art

We sketched the new plants that have grown around our school grounds.

We also added more detail to our beach landscape painting.

See our pictures here.

DT

We made our smoothies! We followed our plan and evaluated them on Seesaw.

See our pictures here.

Golden Assembly special mentions for the Spring term

Amelia, Arianna, Luca, Joshua I, Freya and Genevieve.

Have a wonderful Easter break! 

Reception Blog - Friday 4th April 2025

Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 10:58am

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

 Phonics

 Mrs Robinson’s group have been learning the sounds ar and or. Mrs Dixon’s group have been recapping the tricky words and sounds we have learnt so far.

Drawing Club

In Drawing Club we read the story of Tad.

We drew pictures of the beginning, middle and end of the story. We then wrote sentences about our pictures.

Maths

We used positional language to describe where items are.

RE

We continued to listen to stories about the events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

Expressive Art and Design

We finished making our DT Easter cards.

Understanding the World

We learnt about frog lifecycles.

We have also been on a trip to our school pond!

Stay and Play

A big thank you to everyone who came to our stay and play this week!

Year 2 Blog- Friday 4th April 2025

Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 11:55am

Home Practice

Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

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

Spelling:

There will be no spellings to learn over the holiday.

Sumdog:

Counting:

Starting at zero, count in twos forwards and backwards to 100.

Play the 'follow me' game where one person says the multiple of two and the other person says the next multiple of two.

Continue like this, then try to go faster!

Remember when we multiply by 2 we double the number and when we divide by 2 we halve the number!

English

The children wrote some great Easter shape poems (bunnies, eggs and crosses) and tried to use alliteration and similes. 

Maths

We learned how to add 2 digit numbers by exchanging, for example,26 + 37, the 7 and 6 can be exchanged for 1 ten and 3 ones, which makes the addition easier.

We are continuing to learn our 2,5 and 10 times tables.

R.E.

The children learnt about the Resurrection and wrote about finding Jesus' empty tomb from the perspective of Mary Magdalene, Joanna or Mary the mother of James.

D.T.

We had a great morning making our vehicles. We followed our plans and made a chassis, axles and wheels. We also evaluated our vehicles.

Forest School

A great Easter egg hunt!

We worked in teams to find all the eggs.

Library Visit

We walked down to the library and Lorraine read three stories to us. We listened so well and contributed to the discussions.

We followed instructions to make a paper bunny.

We also explored the library and read some of the books.

Orienteering

We had a great session of orienteering. We worked in pairs and learnt how to orientate the map and use it to find the markers.

We collected clues. We showed excellent teamwork and it was great fun!

Golden Assembly

Special Mentions of the Term

Devyn, Amelia L.,Felicity,Adam, Henry P.,Charles.

Raffle Winners

Charlie, Jonah, Amelia F.,Harper

Happy Easter,

we hope you enjoy the holiday with your families and friends.

Year 2 Team.

Year 4 Blog Friday 4th April 2025

Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 8:30am

Welcome to the last blog of the Spring term

In English, we consolidated our learning about determiners by writing our own verse to a song.

In Maths, we practised the written method of division – chunking – both with and without remainders.

In RE, we retold the Holy Week story from St Peter’s perspective in a series of freeze frames. You can see some pictures in our gallery.

In Science, we completed our States of Matter topic by exploring the rate of evaporation.

During our French lesson, we completed the ‘school subjects’ topic by creating sentences using J’adore, J’aime, Je n’aime pas and Je deteste.

This week, we also took part in an orienteering session around the school grounds. Take a look at the pictures in our gallery.

GOLDEN ASSEMBLY

Special Mentions of the Term

Maisie 

Josh W

Trudy

Edward

Brooke

Archie P

As it is the Easter holiday, we have not set any Home Practice / Sumdog challenges. However, please keep reading every day – this really is the key to unlocking your learning.

In addition, practising your tables frequently will also keep you to recall them accurately and fluently.

We look forward to seeing you all again on Tuesday 22^nd April in your Summer uniforms.

Make sure you relax and enjoy spending time with your family and friends.

The Year 4 team

Year 6 Blog - Friday 4th April 2025

Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 7:57am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have been revising punctuation. We have also been inspired by the prologue of 'Wild Boy' to write a description of the showman which includes setting, character and atmosphere. 

Maths 

This week, we have revised and reasoned with our key angles facts! We have also learned how to reason with 3D shape and how to calculate the internal angles of a regular polygon. 

RE

In RE, we have shared the story of Jesus' crucifixion and thought carefully about what true discipleship means; how can we be a true disciple of Jesus? We have also reflected on what 'love your neighbour' means and discussed how we can show love for our neighbour at home, in school and in the community. 

Topic 

For Computing, we learned about how websites have links to pages within them and how to link to pages on our own websites. 

We have also learned about Victorian prisons in our 'Crime and Punishment' unit. Did you know that inmates were made to do hard labour as a punishment?

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 23/04/25: 

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. 

Spelling - 

Spellings this week are from the Y5/Y6 and the Y3/Y4 statutory spellings.

We will have our test on the 25/04/25

It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.

SATS Revision: 

The children have brought home a pack of revision to complete over the Easter holidays. This pack should be returned to school on the first day back after the holidays. 

Have a lovely Easter everyone!

Year 5 Friday blog 28.03.25

Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 4:11pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

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

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

referring  referred   referral  preferring  preferred   transferring  transferred  reference  referee  preference   transference   different   suffering  differing  suffered  conferring  offered  offering

Counting

Count out loud in:

9s up to 108 and back again                                               0,9,18,27…

60s from 300 to 840 and back again                              300, 360, 420 …

15s from 850  backwards to 575                                  850, 825, 800 …

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables.  Well done Year 5 with all the super effort to win last week’s TTRS competition. There is a new session set for this week.  

Sumdog

Maths practise based on geometry– individual challenge.

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

Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs.

We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus and times tables challenges. 

Golden Assembly stars

Bella  – star of the week

Agatha  – Superstar writer

Leo H – special mention for his science knowledge in the STEM session

Florence, Eliza M, Zachary M – super learners for spelling

Xabier  – bookworm

Leo W – marvellous mathematician

Year 5 have had another rich and varied learning week in school.

 They have been working in teams to create newspaper front pages this week. Everyone had a specific job to do and they all enjoyed making news!

In Maths they have been investigating how to reflect shapes using grid sheets. The class have also been carrying on with extended times tables work ,as well as arithmetic.

This week in RE, the whole class wrote an acrostic prayer about heaven and had some super discussion about what heaven is! They also attended parish mass, along with stations of the cross.

 BAE systems came to visit Year 5 this week and everyone was lucky enough to find out more about STEM, as well as experiment with programming robot vehicles.

Finally, the class enjoyed a trip to Judge’s Lodgings to discover more about life in Victorian times. They spent time in a Victorian schoolroom, learned how to set the table of a grand house as a servant and tried out some Victorian toys. Well done Year 5 on a very successful day!

Year 1 Blog - Friday 28th March 2025

Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 3:46pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Shapes

Phonics - Tricky words

Counting - Keep counting in ones from 0 to 20 (and above if you can!) Have a go at the first to 20 game.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We read the story 'Eat Your Peas' which is about a girl called Daisy who refuses to eat her peas. We described peas using adjectives, wrote reasoning sentences using 'because' and wrote a persuasive letter from Mum to Daisy, pleading with her to eat her peas!

Phonics

Some of us have been comparing the different au spellings: au in author and aw in yawn.

Some of us have been comparing the different oa spellings: oa in toast, ow in snow, oe in toe and o_e in stone.

Maths

We identified, compared and sorted 2D and 3D shapes.

R.E.

We started to read the Easter story, up until Jesus' crucifixion. We went outside to collect sticks and we made our own cross.

See our pictures here.

Science

We identified the different weather patterns in each season. We also started a weather diary to observe the weather.

Computing

We learnt how to record a voice over our Seesaw pictures so that we could provide more information. We explained why we made our crosses in R.E.

DT

We identified the differences between fruit and vegetables. Next week, we will be making our own smoothies.

Mother's Day assembly

A massive thank you to everyone who came to our Mother's Day assembly. We hope you enjoyed it!

Star of the Week: Amelia

Super Learner Award: Joshua I

Superstar Writer: Giovanna

Bookworm Award: Arianna

Marvellous Mathematician: Cerys

Special Mentions: Freya and Harry for their amazing singing in the Mother's Day assembly.

Reception Blog - Friday 28th March 2025

Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 12:53pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

 Phonics

This week Mrs Robinson’s group have been learning the sounds long oo and short oo sounds. Mrs Dixon’s group have been recapping the tricky words and sounds we have learnt so far.

Drawing Club

This week in Drawing Club we have been learning through the story of Jasper’s Beanstalk. We drew pictures of the beginning, middle and end of stories. We then wrote sentences about our pictures. We also predicted what might happen when Jasper got to the top of his beanstalk. Would there be a giant there too? Lots of fabulous ideas!

Maths

This week we have been halving. We started with halving food and comparing sizes of them, then we shared amounts using the part whole model.

RE

This week we listened to stories about the events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

Together, we went outdoors to find items to make an Easter Garden for our classroom.

Expressive Art and Design

This week we started to make our DT Easter cards.

Understanding the World

This week we sowed our own cress seeds – we hope the children have enjoyed watching them change at home.

We have also been on a mini beast hunt in our school grounds!

PE

This week we started sports day practise!

My Happy Mind

This week we have been discussing different things we can be grateful for; people and experiences.

PSHE

We have been listening to the Pantosaurus song.

We have talked about what is in our pants is only for us and who our trusted adults are.

Year 3 Friday Blog 28th March 2025

Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 11:40am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Thank you to everyone who supported the Easter Raffle and pop up Mother's Day Shop this week. Raffle tickets still availbe for the draw next Friday.

Home Practice

Continue with your daily reading. The children are really enjoying picking their own books and changing them lots. 10 minutes every night will make all the difference.

On Sumdog this week we have set a fluency competition and and addition and subtraction maths challenge to practise all our number learning for next week. A little practice with these every day will help your children become fluent in their number facts.

Continue to practise your counting. This week, try counting forwards and back in 4s.

Your home spellings this week all end with a /shun/ sound, spelled in different ways. We will test the children on these on Friday.

invention, injection, action, hesitation, completion, expression, discussion, confession, permission, admission, expansion, extension, comprehension, tension

This week in Year 3

We have had a brilliant week in Year 3 this week.

In RE we learned how we can live the Eucharist by living Jesus' message and being kind and loving. We created our own newsletters for the parish and looked at our live simply Parish newletter from St Oswald's church.

In English we have been reading the Traditional Spanish Tale of Ferdinand the Bull. We planned, drafted and wrote our own versions and read them to Year 2 and Year 5. We have sent these home for you to enjoy!

Our fractions learning this week has been brilliant. Everyone has shown great understanding of the addition and subtraction of fractions. Well done Year 3!

In Science this week we conducted our experiment on friction and ramps. Check out our gallery!

This week in PE we have been learning how to use our invasion games tactics in touch rugby. Everyone joined in and had a good go, showing great teamwork and effort.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Rowan

Super Learner Award: Violet 

Superstar Writer: Marvin

Bookworm Award: Oscar

Marvellous Mathematician: Hunter

Special Mentions: Mia, Daisy and Lewis for setting a fantastic example to others on the playground

Have a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all the mums and grannies!

The Year 3 Team