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Year 5 Friday blog Friday 9th May 2025
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 3:44pm
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.
ought bought thought nought brought fought rough tough enough cough though although dough through thorough borough plough bough
Counting
Count out loud in:
8s up to 104 and back again 0,8,16,24…
60s from 240 to 720 and back again 240,300, 360 …
25s from 2125 backwards to 1925 2125, 2100, 2075…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Most of the class are learning square numbers for their test next week.
Sumdog
Maths practice based on fractions – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practice test on Sumdog.
Please also continue to use the fluency booster on Sumdog.
We have had another great learning week in Year 5.
We continued reading our new novel this week – The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. We wrote as Edward and blended action, feelings and description.
In Maths we learnt how to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers, as well as continuing to add and subtract fractions with mixed denominators. There has been a lot of great progress this week!
In RE we have continued to discuss and explore the meaning of confirmation and chrism, and how the Holy Spirit is linked to this. We also spent time learning about how the new pope would be chosen.
To celebrate VE day we all created our own Union Jack flags – it is trickier than you think!
The week ended with us discovering how the Maya civilisation lived. A great week of learning Year 5 – well done!
Golden stars this week
Ronnie – star of the week
Libby – marvellous mathematician
Sam – super learner - trying hard all week
Willow – superstar writer
Ebba – bookworm for lots of home reading
Holly P – special mention for super listening
Reception Blog - Friday 9th May 2025
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 11:45am
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
Mrs Robinson's group have been revisiting the ai and ee sounds.
Mrs Dixon's group have been focussing on the oi and ear sounds.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club we read the story, The Smeds and the Smoos.
We have drew the planet where they live and described it.
Maths
We have started to learn numbers beyond 10. This week it was the numbers 11,12 and 13.
RE
We listened to the story of Pentecost again and described how the disciples felt when the Holy Spirit came. Then we talked about the fire and made our own fire hats.
Expressive Art and Design
We continued with our Art project on Imagination lands.
Our task this week was to add the drawings to them! They all look fantastic.
Understanding the World
This week we explored how rockets work and we prepared our rocket mice, ready to launch them next week.
Forest School
In our session this week we did some cloud gazing on blankets using our senses to really experience being outside.
We also used different shades of green ribbon and tried to find something growing in the nature area which really matched our piece of ribbon.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 9th May 2025
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 8:59am
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Counting in tens.
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Counting - We have been making groups of objects this week (groups of twos, groups of fives and groups of tens). Please practise this at home and count in your patterns.
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 made a story map together and re-wrote the whole story in our books.
Phonics
Some of us have been recapping phase 4 clusters at the start and end of words.
Some of us have learning the different ar spellings: ar in car, al in palm and a in rather. We also had the discussion about the south of England's pronunciation of bath and path.
Maths
We continued to solve different multiplication problem questions, this time using arrays. We used the maths resources to make our own arrays for each question.
We also completed lots of arithmetic questions. Most of us even got onto some arithmetic ninja challenge questions!
R.E.
We learnt about Pentecost and how the Holy Spirit came to the disciples. We identified the five main symbols of the Holy Spirit and made some beautiful artwork for the classroom.
P.E.
We have continued to practise for sports day this week!
Computing
We learnt how to log onto our new website: code.org. We started to learn how to follow simple coding instructions using a drag and drop motion.
PSHE
We continued to learn about how to be healthy, focusing on daily hygiene.
Forest School
In our session this week we did some cloud gazing on blankets using our senses to really experience being outside.
We also had a go at making shelters, we found some mini beasts, and we noticed new flowers growing.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Bobby
Super Learner: Jaxon
Superstar Writer: Faisal, Joshua I and Rudy
Bookworm: Honey and Arianna
Marvellous Mathematician: Lara
Special Mentions - All of Mrs Sheen's multi-skills club for showing their super tennis skills!
Year 6 Friday Blog - Friday 9th May 2025
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 8:40am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
Year 6 have worked so hard on their SATs revision - we are all very proud of them! Please make sure that the children have a good rest this weekend so they are ready for their first tests on Monday. Good luck Year 6 - you will all be amazing next week!
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been working hard to revise for our SATs tests. We have practised past paper questions, made our own quizzes and even practised on Kahoot!
Maths
This week, we have learned how to solve problems involving algebra. We have revised shape, volume, Roman Numerals and co-ordinate grids.
RE
In RE, we have shared the story of Stephen and thought about whether we would stand up for what we believe in like he did. We also discussed and reflected on why the ressurection is so important to Christians.
Topic
In PSHE, we have completed our My Happy Mind topic called 'Be Your Best!'. We have learned how important sleep is and how to get ready before our tests on Monday!
In History, we finished our topic on Crime and Punishment. We thought carefully about how crime, punishment and the police have changed over time. We wrote some amazing reports on the changes we identified.
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 14/05/25.
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 -
There will be no spelling test this week, as the children will sit their SATs spelling test on Monday. The children should revise the statutory spellings for Y5/6 and Y3/4.
This week, there will be no set homework as the children have revised hard and are ready for their SATs next week!
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Zofia
Super Learner - Tom and Eleanor
Superstar Writer - Ava M
Bookworm - Amelia
Marvellous Mathematician - Elizabeth
Special Mentions - All of Y6 for working so hard on their revision!
Have a super weekend Year 6!
Year 3 Friday Blog 9th May 2025
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 2:52pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Continue to read regularly, 10-15 minutes every day.
Practise your number facts regularly. Knowing these inside out will help your children succeed in their future maths learning. We have been using the White Rose Maths - 1 minute maths app in class this week. You can download this from the Appstore or the Google Playstore.
Please also practise counting in 3s's from 3 to 36 and back again.
Next week we will be looking at the /ch/ spelling pattern. Here are your home spellings for this week
chorus, chemist, echo, character, chef, chalet, machine, brochure, ache, anchor, chaos, monarch, mechanic, school, parachute, chute, champagne
On Sumdog you will find 3 challenges. Times tables, Multiplication and division and your spellings. Good luck!
This week in Year 3
In English we retold the lion cub rescue by Bertie. We looked at using good description to describe movement and recorded our ideas onto Seesaw.
In maths we have been learning about how to use different strategies to add and subtract. We looked at using our number facts, consolodation, partitioning and bridging through 10s. Everyone showed good understanding of when was best to use each method and explain why. Super maths Year 3!
In history we learned all about the roles ancient Egtptians had in society. We explred some wall art and created some fantasic reports.
In DT this week we used all our prior learning to make our own mechanisms for our moving picture in our new art topic. We planned our designs, thinking about what output we'd need in our pieces.
In RE we looked at the story of the Road to Emmaus and how this story is mirrored in the mass. We discussed the links and had some lovely ideas. We also wrote some lovely prayers to place on our prayer tree. See our gallery.
Have a lovely weekend in the sun
The Year 3 team
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 11:43am
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 (16.05.25):
hopping dancing looking clapping waving
walking drying crying sitting dropping
Sumdog:
Counting:
Starting at 0, count in fives forwards and backwards to 100.
Times Tables:
We repeated the division facts for 5 (in order) this week in our quiz.
Next week, Thursday (15.05.25) we will quiz your knowledge of the division facts for 5, in a muddled order.
English
We learnt through the book, "The Ugly Five". It's a rhyming story about animals in Africa.
We used it as inspration to write our own poem about one of the animals featured in the book.
We had a writing workshop where we discussed our ideas and helped each other out with rhyming words.
We then wrote a rough draft of our poem and finally published our poem in our English book.
We read our poems to the children in Year 3.
SPaG
We revisited the rules for adding ing to a word.
Maths
We continued to learn about fractions of amounts using bar models.
We also learned about fractions when describing a turn.
R.E.
Exciting news about our new Pope Leo XIV
P.E.
We have been preparing for Sports Day (19.05.25).
It's been great fun using the track and improving our athletics skills.
Science
We closely observed the beans which we planted last week and noted down any changes.
Forest School
We have a new lodge. When the children went in for the first time they described it as "AMAZING", "FANTASTIC" and "BRILLIANT".
In our session this week we did some cloud gazing on blankets using our senses to really experience being outside.
Computing
The children are working so well on code.org and have been progressing through the lesson so proficienly.
Art
The children made their stick people, using thread, string and ribbon. They looked fantastic.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week- Isaac
Super Learner- Rose
Superstar Writer- Dylan
Bookworm- Ellie
Mathematician- Florence
Special Mentions- Lydia and Charlie for being really kind and helpful
Orlaigh-Superb listening and participation in Yoga
Year 4 Blog Friday 9th May 2025
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 10:05am
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.
Can you summarise what you have read – including the most important details. Then, predict what you think will happen next.
Spellings
These are your spellings for next week:
league tongue antique unique mosque fatigue
cheque rogue vague intrigue dialogue analogue
argue plague epilogue plaque torque barbeque
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 8’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 96 and back again
0 8 16 24 etc 96 88 80 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
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 – let’s see if EVERYONE can log on and play this week!
Sumdog challenges
- A spelling challenge based on the words above
- A symmetry challenge
Our learning this week
In English, we have been busy writing parts and learning them for our Parent Assembly next week.
In addition, we listened to the class novel and compared it to the film ‘Wonka’.
In Maths, we learnt how to identify vertical or horizontal lines of symmetry in a shape.
We then extended this learning by completing simple symmetrical figures.
In RE, we learnt the terms ‘apostle’ and ‘apostolic’. We tried our best to explain these words in simple terms.
During our yoga session, we worked with a partner to help us balance. You can see some pictures in our gallery.
In computing, we started coding. We began by practising sequencing and debugging skills in maze puzzles.
In Art, we created some beautiful artwork for our Parent Assembly.
We look forward to seeing you at our Parent Assembly on Friday 16th May 2025 at 2.40pm.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week - Madelaina
Super Learner - Archie P
Superstar writer - Edward
Bookworm - Milo
Marvellous Mathematician - Willow
Special Mentions - Emma and Franco for beautiful artwork
Brooke for being a good friend
The Year 4 team
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!
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.
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.
|
likely |
straight |
sensation |
nervous |
|
crumb |
probable |
inspiring |
substance |
|
operation |
toughest |
bruise |
sensibly |
|
violence |
disobeyed |
through |
monarch |
|
sympathetic |
originally |
percussion |
coarse |
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!
Golden Assembly
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!
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
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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.
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conscience
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interrelated |
inactive
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illegible
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conscious
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irrelevant |
infectious |
antisocial
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official
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interact |
refresh |
subheading
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disappoint
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impatient |
curiosity |
unable |
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misbehave
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misunderstood |
vicious |
autograph |
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
Golden Assembly
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!
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 22nd 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.
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.
DT
We made our smoothies! We followed our plan and evaluated them on Seesaw.
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!
