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Year 2 Blog Friday 29th September 2023

Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 3:45pm

Well done Year 2 – what a great week we have had. Thank you for all your harvest food collections, our box is almost full. The harvest festival is in church Friday 6^th October at 2.30pm. Just a small reminder to please label all clothes including coats – thank you.

Maths

In Maths, we have continued our learning of Place Value. We have looked at one more and one less, ten more and ten less. The children have also rounded to the nearest 10. In English our novel has been ‘Paddington’ by Michael Bond. The children have written bear descriptions, sequenced the story and focussed on using conjunctions in sentences and stories. In RE this week the children have written a lovely prayer thanking God for the new day. In Computing we looked at I.T in the world around us. It’s used for traffic lights, speed cameras and many other things. In P.E this week the children are playing games which involve throwing, catching and moving. In Art this week we have collected leaves from outside and carefully drawn them with handwriting pens including all the small details we could see. In Geography, the children have learnt the months of the year and seasons. We looked at which months were in each of the 4 seasons.

Forest School

In our first session we went into the nature area to find animals which have been woven out of willow. These animals were kindly bought by the parents of the Year 6 leavers. We looked carefully to see how the willow had been woven to make different patterns and shapes.

We then had a go at making our own. The first thing to master was how to twist the willow to make a circle as they can be joined together to make the body and head of different animals. We talked about how the younger, green willow is easier to work with as it contains more water than the brown willow.

Some of us made crowns, necklaces, fish and glasses. We really persevered.

For our second session we investigated spinning jennies, also known as helicopter seeds. We talked about how the seeds are dispersed by the wind. We went out to look for them and found plenty on our field. We then made dragonflies with the spinning jennies, pipe cleaners and beads. We made lots of other things as well-bracelets, worry dolls, forest eyes and butterflies.

Home Practice

Reading

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

You could look in a thesaurus and see what other words have the same meaning as the one you have found.

Please date, sign and leave a small comment when you have read with your child and make it clear that you have finished a book, then we know we can change it. For Example - 14.09.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or good sounding out of tricky words or struggled with the word – because/finished the book. MG.

Reading books are changed every MONDAY. You will receive 2-4 books depending on their length, they should last the week, if you read a little each night. However, if you need to change a book at any other time, we will change it as needed.

Spellings

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Wednesday (04.10.23). A sheet will go home every Wednesday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

Here are the spellings for this week:

me                       so

we                        by

she                       my

no                        here

go                        there

Maths

At home, can you count forwards and backwards in tens from any given number? Here are few you could start with; 22, 35, 71, 44.

Sumdog

You will have a more/less than number challenge and a spellings challenge to be completed by next week.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Our PE day is going to be FRIDAY.

Our BOOK change will be MONDAY.

You will get SPELLINGS on WEDNESDAYS and a quiz will be the following WEDNESDAY.

SumDog challenges will be set every FRIDAY.

Have a great weekend.

Reception Blog - Friday 29th September 2023

Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 10:35am

This week in Reception, we started our week doing Art. We collected a specific set of coloured items (Red, blue or yellow) we had to place them in a tray and then draw the items, afterwards we had to colour the items in the correct colours.

Our story this week has been The Three Little Pigs. We have focussed on the setting of the story, creating bad characters, sturdy houses and thinking of a new ending for the story. These were all fantastic!

In maths, we have been looking at the numbers one to five, making them in different ways, recognising them and putting two amounts together and counting how many how we have then.

In Phonics this week, we have learnt three new sounds; p, i and n. We have sent some words in your child's bag to have a go at reading. A video has been sent on seesaw for how you can help your child.

We have also been learning all about our senses this week. We have been smelling different things and saying what we thought they were. We have also been on a senses walk around the school to see what we can hear and see.

This week in our French lesson, we practised saying bonjour and au revoir to each other. We did this with our favourite game, with the pirates and with the ‘Deux Petite Oiseaux’ song from last week. We also used a teddy, Pierre to pass around the circle and saying bonjour to him and each other.

On fab Friday, we had yoga with Hannah or Forest School with Mrs Corbett. In Forest School we went on a leaf hunt and found leaves of different colours, shapes and sizes. We then used shape cutters to make shapes in the leaves. We stuck the shapes on lolly sticks so they didn't blow away.

We talked about what we could do if we felt worried about something and who we could tell, in PSHE. After this we all got to look at our baby photos that were sent in. We talked about how we are different now. We also had a little visit from Mrs Brown who brought in her little boy, Teddy, We all talked about how he was different to us.

Then in the afternoon we looked at the Creation Story for RE and how God created the Earth. We looked at how God created night and day, the sky, sea and land.

We are still collecting items for the Harvest Festival all next week.

Year 4 Blog Friday 29th September 2023

Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 8:25am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Year 4 have worked hard this week with many children getting on triple gold! What a super achievement!

Our learning this week:

In English, we planned and wrote a letter from Michael to his best friend Eddie.  We tried to ensure that our letters were friendly and chatty, included different sentences openers and our ideas followed on from each other.  We also extended our learning about co-ordinating conjunctions and practised using them in sentences.  In addition, we played 'spelling countdown' to practise our new spellings -  see us in action here!

In Maths, we used numberlines to add and subtract numbers when we needed to bridge 10 and 100.  In addition, we practised measuring and drawing lengths as properties of 2D shapes.

In RE, we learnt about the wisdom of Solomon and how the Book of Proverbs in the Bible is attributed to him. We then read some proverbs and considered how we could apply them to our everyday lives.

In Geography, we learnt about the importance of the water cycle. We then labelled a diagram to help with our understanding.

In Science, we started the lesson by describing an animal’s key features. In groups, we wrote down what we could see from a picture and then presented our thoughts to the class. We then decided which category the animal belonged to - mammal, fish, bird, reptile or amphibian / carnivore, herbivore or omnivore.

In French, we celebrated ‘European Day of Languages’. We shared any languages we knew, any which we have been learning and any which we would like to learn. We listened to a few languages being spoken, suggested which language it was and worked out what each word meant. We also watched some videos of children speaking in another language.

In PE this week, we continued with our netball skills. We focussed on our chest pass and teamwork skills, and played a game of 'Pepper Pot' which involved us taking turns to pass and receive the ball.

In PSHE, we identified positive things about ourselves and our achievements.  After talking to our partner, we walked around the class and shared what we thought our friends' personal achievements / attributes / strengths / skills are. Finally, we shared how this has made us feel and how it feels to be proud. 

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you discuss the story and the characters.  Find the meaning of any new words too.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding. 

Counting

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

For example, start at 256 and count up to 406 and back again (counting in 10's)

256   266   276      etc                      406   396   386   etc

Notice that the ones digit does not change

For example, start at 278 and down up to 1878 and back again (counting in 100's)

278    378    478           etc              1878   1778   1678   etc

Notice that the ones digit and the tens digit do not change

Times tables

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week on Wednesday.  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?

Remember you can also practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

Spellings

Your spellings this week are all homophones. You will be tested on them next Wednesday.  Please practise them every evening.

main             mane            piece           peace           fair             fare

plane            plain            there           their           they’re       

here            hear            heel             heal

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A times tables challenge based on the 3 times tables
• A maths challenge adding and subtracting 10, 100 and 1000 from 4 digit numbers

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  Little and often is the key to success!

The Year 4 Team

Year 6 Blog Friday 29th September 2023

Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 7:32pm

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

Having completed their first month, the Year 6s have been praised for their lunch duty roles: helping the infants with drinks, supporting them during their play times and even creating some games to play with them. Excellent work Year 6!

The Reading Ambassadors have started their leadership role of reading with the infants. They made a great impression on the infant staff and are looking forward to more reading time in the coming weeks. The Science Ambassadors and School Councillors have also received their team from the votes in Year 3, 4 and 5.

On Thursday, the football team had their second week of games with the following results:

• A team lost against Little Hoole and drew against Ashbridge
• B team won against Little Hoole B and lost against Hoole St Michaels
• We only have one match left which will conclude on Thursday 12^th October. A letter will be sent out soon as a reminder.

Harvest Festival – please continue to bring in food items for the Harvest Festival which will be celebrated in Mass next Friday at 2:30pm.

This week’s learning in Year 6:

• In Maths, we have been learning how to recognise calculations that require mental partitioning e.g. 6, 584 – 2, 360 or 873 + 350 and how to use this strategy where appropriate.

• In English we began our new novel, ‘Clockwork’ by Phillip Pullman. We learnt about one of the characters, Karl, and used the text as evidence to describe his personality.

• In Geography, we learnt how to describe the 10 features of a mountain: summit, slope, face, tree line, snow line, outcrop, valley, ridge, foot and plateau.

• In PE, we began our new dance topic of ‘heroes’ by using our facial expressions and body tension to display our super powers. 

• In RE, we read a passage from Titus 3: 4-8, which was a letter from St Paul telling the people how powerful God’s love is. We replied with a thank you letter as Titus to St Paul.

• In Science, we learnt how to classify trees based on their specific characteristics: veins (netlike or parallel), shapes (hand-shapes, spear shaped, heart shaped or round), arrangement (simple of compound) and edges (smooth, toothed or lobed).

• In French, we celebrated ‘European Day of Languages’. The class shared any languages which they know, any which they have been learning or any which they would like to learn. Some children shared their favourite word in their language and discussed how they have learned that it. We then listened to a few languages being spoken, suggested which language it was and worked out what each word meant. We also watched some videos of children speaking in another language. We then spent some time answering quiz questions about European countries, including their outlines from a map, their iconic symbols and their traditional foods.

Home Practice

Please complete the following tasks by next Wednesday:

Reading – Use your Home Reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be used for the title of the book and any reading challenge chosen.

• You may change your book any day between Monday and Wednesday

Spellings (silent letters)

• Sumdog (Silent letters A1 wk 4)
• doubt, climb, guitar, whistle, knight, autumn, thistle, debt, solemn, science, hymn, wriggle, answer, island, dumb.

Maths challenges:

• Counting:
  • This week we have been counting in fraction steps of ¼ and 2/4 Try to do the same out loud or with paper.
  • Draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.
  • g. Start with different numbers and count up 10 numbers then back again in halves:

2 ¼ , 2 2/4, 2 ¾, 3, 3 ¼ , etc

and as improper fractions:

¾, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 8/4, etc

Start at 13 and count up 10 numbers and down again:

13, 12 ¾, 12 2/4, 12 ¼, etc

Now try in 2/4 with these numbers:

8 8 2/4, 9, 9 2/4, 10, 10 2/4, etc

• Sumdog (Times Tables A1 wk 4)
  • Each child has their own tables target which they should know. The Sumdog challenge may relate to their target but this week we have focused on 3s, 6s, which will be great practice for the future. (Every Tuesday there is a tables test).

• Sumdog (Decimals A1 wk 4)
  • This week’s learning is to make decimals into equivalent fractions e.g. 2/10 = 0.2, 4/10 = 0.4, 35 /100 = 0.35.
  • Also, the challenge will include rounding decimals to the nearest whole number.
  • For further maths work, please visit the ‘Maths Training’ section which you can find in the tasks box on the left of the main screen. This will enable your child to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them, following a recent diagnostic test.

Year 5 Blog Friday 29th September 2023

Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 3:51pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog. 

It has been a brilliant week in Year 5. 

In English we have read some more of our novel Goth Girl. The main character Ada has joined a club called the Attic Club and made some new friends. She has also met lots of strange creatures. We have looked at some character descriptions from Goth Girl and also from Fantastic Beasts. We have used these as a model to write our own description of a strange character. 

One of the things we focussed on was using sentences with a relative clause. 

Relative clauses add extra information, we used relative clauses starting with the relative pronoun which. 

Here are some examples we came up with:

Its wide mouth, which is filled with razor sharp teeth, is usually grinning. 

Its most distinctive feature is the purple horn in the centre of its forehead which flashes when it senses danger. 

In maths we have continued practising rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, and 10000. We have done lots of practice with number lines for this. We have also been finding 10, 100, 1000 and 10000 more or less than a number. We used place value counters and charts to help with this. 

We needed to know the value of each digit and that:

100,000 = ten 10,000s

You can see us rounding here. 

In art we used different pencils to make a strong drawing. We got some old maps and drew a picture on them. We used different pencils, marks, and shading to try to make our picture stand out. We were in competition with the maps. We won! They were amazing. 

In science we planned and carried out a fair test using paper aeroplanes. We spoke about what a fair test is and knew that we could only change one thing at a time. We then came up with a question we wanted to answer. Here are some of the questions we tested:

Which shape paper aeroplane goes the furthest?

Which material paper aeroplane goes the furthest?

Which type of throw makes the paper aeroplane go the furthest?

Which size paper aeroplane goes the furthest?

We had great fun testing out our paper aeroplanes outside and then recording our findings in a table, we were then able to answer our question. 

You can see us in action here. 

In RE we have been thinking about our qualities and talents, and talking about how we can use these to be a good role model. We came up with lots of ideas and Year 5 really are setting a great example to the younger children around school. 

In PE we came up with our own games to practise throwing and catching skills including shoulder pass, chest pass, bounce pass, ready position, and outwitting an opponent. Once we had practised our own game, we taught it to another group and gave feedback. It was amazing to see everybody work together as a team and use their patience and communication skills to teach another group. 

Home Practice

Art

Please bring in any of the following that you have at home to use in art next week:

Old maps

Old books

Old newspaper

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look at how speech is used, what punctuation do you notice?

Counting

Count out loud in:

1s from 701,999 to 702,020 and back again          701,999        702,000       702,001        ... 

1s from 324,999 to 325,020 and back again           324,999        325,000       325,001       ...

1s from 865,999 to 866,020 and back again           865,999        866,000        866,001       ...

Times Tables

Please practise your tables target every day.

Spelling

Here are your spelling this week, they all end in -able or -ible. 

horrible          terrible          possible          edible          reversible          invincible          adorable          forgivable          enjoyable          valuable          breakable          impossible          respectable  

Sumdog

Maths Competition - in teams

Times Tables Challenge

Spelling Challenge 

Have a weekend filled with smiles! 

Year 1 Blog - Friday 29th September 2023

Date: 26th Sep 2023 @ 11:10am

Welcome to your Friday blog.

English

We started to read the story Dogger, up until the point where Dave has realised that his toy dog Dogger is missing! We are so excited to finish the story next week. I wonder what will happen?

We predicted what was going to happen to Dogger, we wrote about how the characters were feeling, we made lost posters of Dogger and drew amazing pictures of the story so far.

Phonics

Some of us have been learning the trigraphs ure as in cure and air as in chair. Some of us have been learning the phase 5 digraph ue in both blue and argue, ir in girl and aw in claw.

Maths

This week we have been learning about representing numbers using tens and ones. We used practical equipment to make the numbers. We also learnt about one more .We have been singing many counting songs and practised starting at a number and counting forwards and backwards in 1s,2s,5s and 10s. We use the displays around our classroom to check our learning.

R.E.

We have focused on God in our RE lessons. We watched some lovely videos showing the beautiful world that God created and wrote sentences about how we can look after God's world.

P.E.

This week, we focused on bouncing a ball. We learnt how to hold the ball correctly and how to bounce a ball with two hands. We then practised bouncing whilst moving in a straight line and bouncing to each other.

Science

This week, we learnt all about the five senses that humans have - sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch. We matched up the senses to the body part that we use for it. We then took it in turns to put our hand in Miss Fisher's feely bag. We weren't allowed to look but we used our touch to describe what we felt. Everyone else was able to guess what they were.

Geography

We used our knowledge of senses to go on a fieldwork walk around school. We went in the outdoor area, on the playground and in the nature area to see what we could hear, smell, touch and see.

Art

Since the weather was great on Friday, we went outside and drew spirals with chalk. We made a tripod out of sticks to see if we could make an even better circle!

French

 We celebrated ‘European Day of Languages’. We discussed what the day was about, who can participate, why we have the celebration and what ways we can celebrate other languages and why this is important. The class shared any languages which they know, any which they have been learning or any which they would like to learn. We then learned how to say hello and goodbye in French, German, Italian and Spanish.

P.S.H.E.

We started our online safety learning by learning about the word 'permission'. We talked about what it meant to give permission and how we need to ask to access online content when at home.

Computing

We learnt about the artist Henri Matisse and how he used shapes in his artwork. We used Paintz.app to recreate his artwork.

Forest School

In our first session we went into the nature area to find animals which have been woven out of willow. These animals were kindly bought by the parents of the Year 6 leavers. We looked carefully to see how the willow had been woven to make different patterns and shapes.

We then had a go at making our own. The first thing to master was how to twist the willow to make a circle as they can be joined together to make the body and head of different animals. We talked about how the younger, green willow is easier to work with as it contains more water than the brown willow.

Some of us made crowns, necklaces, fish and glasses. We really persevered.

For our second session we investigated spinning jennies, also known as helicopter seeds. We talked about how the seeds are dispersed by the wind. We went out to look for them and found plenty on our field. We then made dragonflies with the spinning jennies, pipe cleaners and beads. We made lots of other things as well-bracelets, worry dolls, forest eyes and butterflies.

Thank you for all of your Harvest donations, our box will be in class until Friday the 6th of October.

Home Practice (Sumdog)

We have only set a maths sumdog challenge this week. Please watch the phonics to practise your sounds.

Maths - One more and one less

Counting - Count in 1s and 10s forwards and backwards from different starting numbers. 

The log in for Sumdog is on a white laminated card in the reading book bag.

Please try to read every night, even just for five minutes!

Year 6 Blog Friday 22nd September 2023

Date: 22nd Sep 2023 @ 3:50pm

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week we have focused on our speaking and listening skills when having class discussions or working in groups. We also focused on presenting our work to be made as neatly as possible, with regular handwriting sessions to help.

On Thursday, Year 3 and Year 6 were fortunate to be invited to attend Mass for a Reception blessing.  

The 'Meet the Teacher' slides are attached to this blog, for anyone who missed the evening. 

This week’s learning in Year 6:

• We have learnt how to round numbers to the nearest tenth, whole number and a million, where we used number lines to represent our understanding. We then used counters to add or subtract any power of ten from any number.

• In English we learnt how to describe settings, using well chosen noun phrases with a mixture of prepositions and personification.

• In Geography, our topic of Mountains continued with research on one of the 6 following mountains: Mount Everest, Ben Nevis, Mount Fuji, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Ararat and K2. Each group then delivered a short presentation on their chosen mountain.

• In PE, we split into small teams to work on the 3 main strategies we have been focusing on: find a space, communication and simple pass.

• In Art, we continued our topic, ‘2D Drawing to 3D Making’, by sketching a silhouette of a dog, focusing on proportion. We will scale up on large sheets next week.

• In French, we used our review sheets to practise responding to key questions: ‘comment ?a va?’, ‘comment tu t’appelles’, ‘quel âge as-tu?’, ‘quelle est ta couleur préférée?’, ‘as-tu des frères et soeurs?’ and ‘tu as des animaux?’. We also recapped how to say the date and our birthdays, using a help sheet with the days of the week, numbers 1-31, the months and how to say the years.

• In Science, we developed our knowledge of classification by grouping animals using a classification key.

Home Practice

Please complete the following tasks by next Wednesday:

Reading – Use your Home Reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be used for the title of the book and any reading challenge chosen.

• You may change your book any day between Monday and Wednesday.

Spellings (ei / ie words)

• Sumdog (ie / ei wk 3)
• chief, shield, receipt, receive, friend, patient, weigh, weird, protein, deceive, belief, ancient, medieval, glacier, mischievous,

Maths challenges:

• Counting:
  • This week we have been counting in decimal steps of 100, 100 and 250 Try to do the same out loud or with paper.
  • Draw a line with some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.
  • Start with different numbers and count up 10 numbers then back again in 100:

645, 745, 845, 945, 1 045, 1 145, etc

and in 200:

645, 845, 1 045, 1 245, etc          

Start with different numbers and count up and back in 250s:

1 850, 2 100, 2 350, 2 600, etc    

• Sumdog (Times Tables - week 3)
  • Each child has their own tables target which they should know. The Sumdog challenge may relate to their target but this week we have focused on 3s, 4s and 5s, which will be great practice for the future. (Every Tuesday there is a tables test).

• Sumdog (Place Value - week 3)
  • This week’s learning is to round numbers to different powers of 10.
  • For further maths work, please visit the ‘Maths Training’ section which you can find in the tasks box on the left of the main screen. This will enable your child to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them, following a recent diagnostic test.

Year 3 Friday 22nd September 2023

Date: 22nd Sep 2023 @ 12:55pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had an amazing week of learning in Year 3. Everyone is showing a brilliant attitude to everything we do and we are very impressed! We are really improving our listening skills and independent learning. Keep up the hard work!

We have been looking at descriptive writing this week. We visited the Twit's home and garden and wrote some fantastic descriptions. Everyone has been trying to improve their handwriting and presentation, remembering to write on the lines and form our letters correctly. It makes a huge difference when our writing looks beautiful!  Amazing effort everyone!

In our maths learning this week we have been learning how to add and subtract 10s and 100s to three digit numbers. Next week we will be learning new strategies to add and subtract. Make sure you go on the Sumdog challenge as it is a warm up for the coming week's learning. 

In Science this week we explored the muscles in the arm and investigated how muscles can contract and relax and sometimes work in pairs.

Did you know there are over 600 muscles in the human body!

In Art we looked at chiaroscuro, which is an Italian art form exploring light and dark. We used our charcoal to create depth and form in our pieces. Check out our gallery.

In PE we practised our throwing and catching as well as feinting passes as part of our invasion games topic. We learned lob, chest and bounce passes and discussed when was best to use each. Have a look in our galleries.

In computing this week we explored different digital devices and what they can be used for. We debated whether it was best to use a digital or non digital devices in different scenarios.

Home Practice

Keep changing your books regularly and read for at least 15-20 minutes every night! 

Well done to everyone who completed their Sumdog challenges and even had some time to practise on the Sumdog Training. Three new challenges have been added today. Remember, little and often every night will benefit your children with their learning in school.

Try and do a little counting at home as well. This will promote number fluency and understanding. There are lots of counting games here at ictgames.com that we use in school. You will also find lots of counting songs on YouTube.

We have given out your home spellings to practice for next week's test. In our spelling lessons this week we have been revisiting our spelling strategies. We have been breaking our words into syllables to help us spell more accurately and using what we already know to spell new words.

Here are your spellings for this week.

Have an amazing weekend!

The Year 3 Team

Reception Blog - Friday 22nd September 2023

Date: 22nd Sep 2023 @ 12:54pm

We started our week doing drawings of some autumn treasures the children have been bringing in to class, for our Art topic; 'what can we see?' Whilst doing these drawings we talked about how the conkers felt and how different the shells were.

In phonics this week, we have been doing the s, a and t sounds. We have been learning the songs that go with the sounds, the rhymes to write them and having a go at writing them ourselves.

The Drawing Club has been lots of fun this week. We have been doing the story of the Little Red Hen. One of our challenges was to design our own disgusting bread and the other was to create a bad character to come and steal the bread. The children loved creating these and did some fantastic codes to go with their drawings.

In Maths we have focussed on a different number each day, from 1-5. What that number looks like and how to make it. Together we made posters for each number, for our wall in class.

Miss Whiting came in for French this week and we recapped bonjour and learnt our new word, au revior for goodbye. The children have loved saying this to each other every day. In Music with Mrs Winter we were using the maracas to find a beat. The children loved finding the beat whilst singing the name song. They even performed it to each other at the end, fantastic!

We have also had PE and did lots of throwing and catching.

In RE we have been talking about how special we are. We used a treasure box to see our reflection, talk about how God loves us and how we are special. We then made our own faces out of material for our worship table.

To finish our week it was Fab Friday. Each child took part in either Yoga or Forest School. We also had PSHE where we talked about missing people when we are at school. The children had lots of ideas on how to make themselves feel better about this. These included playing with our friends and painting. We then looked at our Understanding the World past and present topic, Ourselves. We shared the book 'Once There Were Giants.' The children loved seeing the young girl growing up throughout the story, relating some of the scenarios to themselves. We then watched a video of Mrs Robinson's and Mrs Stone's children and how they have grown since they were babies.

Another fantastic week Reception, well done!

Year 2 Blog Friday 22nd September 2023

Date: 21st Sep 2023 @ 4:24pm

We have had a brilliant week of learning in Year 2 this week. Thank you to everyone who came to ‘Meet the Teachers’ on Tuesday evening, it was great to see so many of you. Our harvest box has arrived in class, thank you if you have already brought something in for the harvest festival. You still have a few weeks – Harvest festival is Friday 6^th October.

In Maths, we have continued our learning of Place Value. We have looked at partitioning one and two digit numbers. We have also learnt how to exchange using tens and ones. In English the children have written super poems all about autumn. The children came up with great ideas about what autumn is like, used talk partners to share their ideas and focused on beautiful handwriting in their presentation.  In RE this week the children have written lovely Psalms and created a beautiful picture to go with them. In History the children have compared London today and London in 1666. They looked at the similarities and differences and wrote what they found. In Computing we discussed what we thought about the use of I.T around our school. The topic for Science this half term is Living things and their Habitats. For Science this week, the children have compared things that are alive, not alive and never been alive. 

Forest School

In our first session we read a story about Firey Fox which explained how we need to behave around a fire.  We watched the fire being lit then collected apples which had fallen off the trees in the nature area. We cored them and cut them into segments. We dipped them in sugar and cinnamon and then toasted them of the fire. Yummy! We were sheltered from the rain in our new fire pit area.

Some of us had a go at starting a fire using a flint and steel.

The weather was beautiful for our second session. We went on a leaf hunt and found as many different leaves as we could. We used shape cutters to make holes in the leaves. We had many ideas about how to develop our learning by glueing, colouring, sewing and investigating pattern.

Home Practice

Reading

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

You could look in a thesaurus and see what other words have the same meaning as the one you have found.

Please date, sign and leave a small comment when you have read with your child and make it clear that you have finished a book, then we know we can change it. For Example - 14.09.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or good sounding out of tricky words or struggled with the word – because/finished the book. MG.

Reading books are changed every MONDAY. You will receive 2-4 books depending on their length, they should last the week, if you read a little each night. However, if you need to change a book at any other time, we will change it as needed.

Spellings

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Wednesday (27.09.23). A sheet will go home every Wednesday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

Here are the spellings for this week:

I                  has

is                was

be                you

he                your

his              they

Maths

At home, can you count forwards and backwards in twos? Start at 0 and count up to 24. Challenge yourself and go to 36!

Sumdog

You will have a place value and spellings challenge to be completed by next week.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Our PE day is going to be FRIDAY.

Our BOOK change will be MONDAY.

You will get SPELLINGS on WEDNESDAYS and a quiz will be the following WEDNESDAY.

SumDog challenges will be set every FRIDAY.

If you haven't already brought wellies in for Forest School, please bring them in next week.

Have a good weekend.

Year 2 Team

Year 1 Blog Friday 22nd September 2023

Date: 21st Sep 2023 @ 3:35pm

Welcome to your Friday blog.

English

We continued to learn about the Large Family through the story 'A Piece of Cake'.

The Large Family were struggling to stay healthy as they were tempted by a cake given to them by Granny! We drew our own cakes, sorted healthy and unhealthy food, wrote about what the characters were saying, read the Large Family books and wrote sentences about how they were being healthy.

Click here to watch some Large Family videos.

Phonics

Some of us have been recapping phase 3 oi in coin and ear in dear and some of us have learnt phase 5 ea in leaf and oy in toy.

Click here to sing the oi song.

Click here to sing the oy song.

Maths

We learnt about how numbers are made up of tens and ones. We made numbers using bundles of straws, base ten and ten frames. we had a go at marking our own work as this helps us to understand the learning.

We practised counting in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s.

R.E.

We learnt all about being a part of God's family. We wrote about how God takes care of us and drew some lovely pictures of Him watching over us.

P.E.

We practised running fast and skipping. This was quite tricky but we persevered. We learnt that it isn't always the girls who are better at skipping, the boys are too.

Science

We learnt all about the human body and our different body parts, such as leg, arm, foot, knee and elbow. We drew around our bodies and labelled each body part. We even played a game of 'Miss Fisher says' (SImon says!) and sang head, shoulders, knees and toes.

Art

We continued learning about the spiral pattern and focused on snails. We drew our own snail shell and used oil pastels to emphasise the colour. They looked great!

P.S.H.E.

We have been celebrating our similarities and differences this week! We read a lovely story together called 'The same but different too'. Listen to the story here.

We played a game, similar to 'Guess Who' where we had to describe someone in our class using 'This person has...' sentences. It was a lot of fun!

Geography

We learnt all about school's address this week and what an address tells us. We found school on Google Maps and answered some questions such as 'how do you get to school?'

Computing

We used the iPads to practise digital painting on Paintz. This time, we made our own version of Piet Mondrian's abstract art. We used the straight line and fill tools to do this.

Forest School

In our first session we read a story about Firey Fox which explained how we need to behave around a fire.  We watched the fire being lit then collected apples which had fallen off the trees in the nature area. We cored them and cut them into segments. We dipped them in sugar and cinnamon and then toasted them of the fire. Yummy! We were sheltered from the rain in our new fire pit area.

Some of us had a go at starting a fire using a flint and steel.

The weather was beautiful for our second session. We went on a leaf hunt and found as many different leaves as we could. We used shape cutters to make holes in the leaves. We had many ideas about how to develop our learning by glueing, colouring, sewing and investigating pattern.

Home Practice (Sumdog)

Phonics - ff, ll, ss, zz sounds OR oi words OR oy words

Maths - Count blocks and objects (within 10)

Counting - Count in 1s forwards and backwards from different starting numbers. Try to go beyond 20.

The log in for Sumdog is on a white laminated card in the reading book bag.

Please try to read every night, even just for five minutes!

Thank you to everyone who came to the meet the teacher. Our PowerPoint presentation is below.

Year 5 Blog Friday 22nd September 2023

Date: 21st Sep 2023 @ 3:33pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog. 

Thank you to everybody who came to Meet the Teacher last week, if you couldn't make it don't worry, the slideshow is attached to this blog with all of the information you need. 

It has been another amazing week, we didn't let then rain dampen our spirits. 

In maths we have been looking at rounding numbers to the neartest 10, 100, 1000 and 10000. We did this by placing numbers on a number line and identifying what they were closer to. Everybody did an amazing job! 

In English we have been describing a setting to intrigue the reader. We wanted the reader to read our setting description and ask themselves questions like:

What is behind the door?

What was the noise?

Why is it so dark?

What is at the end of the corridor?

We also learned some new vocabulary to include in our writing. See us in action here. 

Everybody did a really great job! 

In computing we have been looking at different types of systems. We identified that a system is a set of things working together to make something happen. All systems have inputs, processes and outputs. We thought about how computer systems work such a sensors in traffic lights, Amazon lockers, washing machines, etc. 

In PE we have been mastering our throwing and catching skills including chest pass, bounce pass, and shoulder pass. We have also been thinking about how to outwit an opponent and how to communicate effectively with our team. We put these skills to practise playing various netball games, it was great fun and everybody was a great team player. 

This week in French we used our review sheets to practise responding to key questions: ‘comment ?a va?’, ‘comment tu t’appelles’, ‘quel âge as-tu?’ and ‘quelle est ta couleur préférée?’. The children did very well to remember some of these. We also started to look at how to say the name of family members and whether we have any brothers or sisters. We listened to ‘Ma Famille’ song to help us.

In geography we were looking at key facts about the UK. We then used an atlas to label the capital cities, seas and oceans of the UK.  We found this quite tricky but we will keep practising. 

You can learn more about the UK and other places on this website, everybody has a login. 

Click on:

Explore the world

Places

Europe

United Kingdom 

https://www.oddizzi.com/teachers/explore-the-world/places/europe/united-kingdom/

You can see what we have been up to in art in our gallery here. 

Home Practice

Geography

Go onto this website, everybody has been given a login. Read more about the UK and also have an explore of the website, what else can you find out?

To find out about the UK click on:

Explore the world

Places

Europe

United Kingdom

https://www.oddizzi.com/teachers/explore-the-world/places/europe/united-kingdom/

Reading

Read out loud to an adult every day for 20 minutes. Talk about whether it is written in the present tense or the past tense and how you know. 

Present tense: an action that is happening right now or in the current moment e.g. she is running, he is ready, they listen, I like it.

Past tense:  an action that has already happened or used to happen e.g. she was running, she ran to the shop, he was ready, they listened well, I used to like it. 

Counting

Count out loud in:

0.1s from 5.12 to 7.12                               5.12     5.22     5.32

0.01s from 76.23 to 76.43                         76.23     76.24     76.25 

100,000s from 135, 609 to 935, 609         135,609     235,609     335,609 

Times Tables

Please practise your own target every day. 

Spelling

Your spellings this week all have a silent letter. Please practise every day, play close attention to the silent letters, how can you remember them? 

doubt          island          lamb          solemn          thistle          knight          thumb          numb          autumn          whistle          muscle          build          February

Sumdog

Maths Competition - individually this time instead of teams

Times Tables Challenge

Spelling Challenge 

Have a happy and fun weekend 

Year 4 Blog Friday 22nd September 2023

Date: 21st Sep 2023 @ 8:54am

Welcome to your Friday blog. We have had a very busy week in Year 4! Here’s what we have been learning:

In English, we continued reading our class novel ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’.  We discussed Michael’s personality and then wrote a character description, attempting to use different sentence openers. In addition, we looked at the features of an informal letter. Next week we will be planning and writing our own letter from Michael to his best friend Eddie Dodds.

In Maths, we practised rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. We also investigated adding and subtracting 1, 10, 100 and 1000 from 4 digit numbers. This was especially tricky when we needed to bridge the tens and hundreds.

In RE, we heard the story of Esau and Jacob. We discussed their differences and how Jacob managed to get God’s blessing!

In Computing, we refined our symmetrical patterns by accurately rotating, resizing and recolouring different shapes.

In PSHE, we recapped our ground rules and then discussed what we thought ‘self-esteem' meant. After watching a video, we shared and wrote down our ideas about how we can boost our self-esteem. Some suggestions were: be confident in the things you do, keep practising, believe in yourself, be positive, try to achieve new things and don't give up.

In Science, we continued our topic Living Things and their Habitats and learnt how we can group animals in different ways. We recapped the five animal groups and their features: Fish, Mammals, Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds.

In PE, we continued with our netball skills, practising a chest pass and thinking about our footwork. We then applied these skills in a match.

This week in French we used our review sheets to practise responding to key questions: ‘comment ?a va?’, ‘comment tu t’appelles’, ‘comment ?a s’écrit?’, ‘quel âge as-tu?’ and ‘quelle est ta couleur préférée?’. We also started to learn how to say names of family members, for example, brother and sister.

In Art, we had a brief look at the work of Shaun Tan. We also made our own 'scene' and gave it a title. Following this, we practised sketching our scene carefully in our sketch books. Over the coming weeks, we will be exploring how we can create sequenced imagery to share and tell stories.  Have a look at us hard at work sketching in the gallery.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you discuss the story and the characters.  Find the meaning of any new words too.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding. 

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 100’s – draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers down as you count up.  When you count down, cover the numbers up, say the number, then reveal what you have got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.

Count in 100’s

For example, start at 0 and count up to 1500 and back again 

0   100   200   etc                      1500   1400   1300   etc

For example, start at 278 and down up to 1878 and back again

278    378    478           etc              1878   1778   1678   etc

Times tables

You should have been given your times table target this week. Please therefore practise your times table in preparation for your test next week.  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?

Remember you can also practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Another app for practising tables and number facts is One Minute Maths from White Rose.  It is free to download from the AppStore and PlayStore. There are lots of excellent games you can play which will help you brush up your mental maths skills.  Please do your best to access this fabulous free resource!  Knowing your tables and number facts off by heart is crucial and will help you in many different areas of maths.

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

Spellings

Next week, our spellings will involve revisiting and revising the possessive apostrophe with singular proper nouns. Therefore, there will be no spellings to learn. Instead, we will practise this spelling rule each day in class. You will be tested on this rule next Wednesday.  

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:

• A maths challenge adding and subtracting numbers mentally
• A times tables challenge based on the 5 and 10 times tables

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  Little and often is the key to success!

Have a fabulous weekend

The Year 4 Team

Year 5 Blog Friday 15th September

Date: 15th Sep 2023 @ 3:57pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog. 

It has been our first full week in Year 5 and it has been fantastic. 

We loved our well earned Golden Time on Friday. 

Golden Time Gallery. 

In English we have been reading our class novel Goth Girl. We studied the main character Ada and then described our own character. 

We have also been looking at proper nouns and common nouns. 

A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place or thing, it usually has a capital letter. 

Spain, Primark, KitKat, Lucy. 

A common noun is the name for a type of person, place or thing. 

country, shop, chocolate, girl. 

In maths we have been using place value to order and compare numbers with hundreds of thousands and thousandths. 

We started our new science topic on forces. We investigated to answer the question, What is a force?

We used playdough, toy cars, ramps, and magnets to answer this question. 

We found that a force is a push or pull that can:

Make something move, speed something up, slow something down, change the shape of something, or change the direction of something. 

You can see us in action here. 

In RE we spoke all about our qualities and how we were made to be like God. 

We came up with some qualities like:

I am honest

I am humble

I am positive

I am passionate

I am thoughtful. 

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Try to identify proper nouns and common nouns. 

Spelling

All of your spellings have the letter string -ough. They make a different sound in different words. Please practise in different ways every day. 

bough          cough          dough          enough          bought          plough          though          thought          through          thorough          rough          although          brought 

Counting

Count out loud in:

6s from 0 to 72 and back again          0, 6, 12, ...

7s from 0 to 84 and back again          0, 7, 14, ...

12s from 0 to 144 and back again       0, 12, 24, ...

Times tables

Please practise your tables target every day. 

Sumdog

Times Tables Challenge

Spelling Challenge

Maths competition

Have an amazing weekend! 

Year 6 Blog Friday 15th September 2023

Date: 15th Sep 2023 @ 3:41pm

Welcome to a Year 6 weekly blog.

We have had individual and sibling pictures taken this week with everyone looking super smart in their autumn uniforms. They should take a couple of weeks to come back to us, if you are thinking of ordering any.

Our leadership roles have been announced this week. Congratulations to everyone for receiving a leadership role, whether that be as the house point team, sports captains, eco team, reading ambassadors, school council, science ambassador, golden team or digital leaders.

On Thursday, St Oswald’s football A and B teams began their leagues. The A team came away with a win and a loss, with the B team winning both games. The pupils did themselves proud and gave a super effort as a team.

This week’s learning in Year 6:

• We have continued our place value knowledge in Maths through comparing, ordering and rounding whole numbers and numbers with three decimal places.

• In English we worked hard to describe the character, The Moor, from our Aladdin story. We discussed how evil he is, gathering great vocabulary from each other. We then analysed a character description from another story to understand how we can portray the evilness in our own character description. The results can be seen in our Year 6 gallery.

• In RE, we read passages from Isaiah who spoke about the power of God’s love. We used these quotes to make links to our lives and how it makes us feel.

• In Geography, we introduced our topic, Mountains, and used atlases to search for the largest mountains ranges in the world and where they are located.

• In PE, we focused on using tactics in small teams against single opponents, including ‘finding a space’, ‘communication’ and ‘pick the easy pass’.

• In Art, we began our topic, ‘2D Drawing to 3D Making’ by exploring the artist Lubaina Himid, who is a professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire and has artwork displayed at the Tate Museum in Liverpool. Our project will explore the idea that our 2-dimensional illustrations can be transformed onto surfaces which can be manipulated into a 3-dimensional object.

• In PSHE, we explored how to be respectful to others when online. We discussed the word ‘boundaries’ and watched a video on how we can respect other people’s boundaries with different scenarios. We then created a ‘respect charter’ for young people to follow.

• In Science, we developed our knowledge of classification by grouping various animals into a range of categories.

This is the first week of our Home Practice. Please complete the following tasks by next Wednesday:

Reading – Use your Home Reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be used for the title of the book and any reading challenge chosen.

• You may change your book any day between Monday and Wednesday

Spellings (-ible / -able words)

• Sumdog (-ible / able wk 2)
• edible, horrible, possible, impossible, invisible, sensible, terrible, incredible, comfortable, considerable, enjoyable, miserable, reasonable, respectable, unacceptable.

Maths challenges:

• Counting:
  • This week we have been counting in decimal steps of 0.1, 0.2 and 0.25 Try to do the same out loud or with paper.
  • Draw a line with some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.
  • g. Start with different numbers and count up 10 numbers then back again in 0.1:

5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, etc

and in 0.2:

6.5, 6.7, 6.9, 7.1, 7.3, 7.5, 7.7, etc          

Start at a number with two decimal places like 8.12 and count up 10 numbers and down again:

8.12, 8.32, 8.52, 8.72, 8.92, 9.12, etc        

Now try to count in 0.25 from 7 and 23 and 54:

7, 7.25, 7.50, 7.75, 8, 8.25, etc

• Sumdog (Times Tables - week 2)
  • Each child has their own tables target which they should know. The Sumdog challenge may relate to their target but this week we have focused on 3s and 4s, which will be great practice for the future. (Every Tuesday there is a tables test).

• Sumdog (Place Value - week 2)
  • This week’s learning is to practice questions on the value of each place and be able to compare numbers up to 1 000 000.
  • For further maths work, please visit the ‘Maths Training’ section which you can find in the tasks box on the left of the main screen. This will enable your child to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them, following a recent diagnostic test.

Year 3 Friday 15th September 2023

Date: 15th Sep 2023 @ 12:51pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

This week we have been working hard in all our subjects and are continuing to shine as juniors!

We have been enjoying The Twits and have been looking at speech in the story. This has helped us to write in full sentences, remembering to write one idea at a time. The children acted some scenes out and even wrote their own scripts. 

In maths we have been learning how add and take away 10s and 100s. We have also been working hard on our place value and explainging our ideas. This has been tricky but everyone has worked hard and made super progress with their learning this week. 

In our PE we have been learning some new tactics and strategies to pass the ball in a game of netball. We explored bounce, chest and lob passes as well as working as a team.

In our Geography learning we have been finding out about the counties of England and describing where they are located using our geography vocabulary. Here is a knowledge organiser showing the learning we will be meeting in the coming weeks.

In our Science we planned an investigation asking if longer arms resulted in longer throwing distances. We deecided to meassure our arms and see if the longest arms threw the furthest. After taking our experiment outside we found out that arm length and throw length we not linked. We then talked about what we could test next. Super Science Year 3! Check out our gallery.

This week in French our lesson was all about ‘La France’. We looked through some photos and information about France, discussing each point and sharing what we already knew. This included: the French flag, the French Speaking World, the location of France, the capital city of Paris, La Tour Eiffel, Le Sacré Coeur, Notre Dame, Les Champs Élysées, Le Louvre, La Siene, Disneyland, the Euro currency and some typical French food. The children then designed their first page in their books to show everything they knew about ‘La France’.

Home Practice

Reading

Read every night for at least 20 minutes. Regular reading is a great habit to get into. It will make all the difference as your children move through the juniors, allowing them to access more and more of our curriculum.

Spellings

Your children will have brought home a spelling card with their spellings to practise.

We have been learning to apply our phonics knowledge to our spellings and finding patterns. 

We have also added some ideas on how to practise these at home. They are also available on Sumdog, practising little and often is the key!

Maths

We have set two maths challenges this week on Sumdog. Please practise the three times tables to improve accuracy and recall speed. We have also set a challenge on reading and counting three digit numbers.

Please also practise counting regularly to build up number fluency.

Count forwards and backwards in 10s from any 3 digit number. 

Eg. 157, 167, 177,187, 197, 207

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 4 Blog Friday 15th September 2023

Date: 15th Sep 2023 @ 11:17am

Welcome to your Friday blog. We’ve had a great week in Year 4.  We’ve been settling in to our new routines and been working extremely hard.

In English, we listed ideas for and against Michael and his family sailing around the world. We then wrote a balanced argument explaining in more detail arguments for and against the sailing adventure. We tried our best to give detail and use paragraphs.  

In Maths, we learnt more about place value to 10 000 using part whole diagrams, and partitioning and recombing numbers.  In addition, we built on our learning of decimal tenths and used place value counters to help with our understanding. We also compared whole and decimal numbers using the greater than and less than symbols.   

In RE, we learnt about Jesus’ human family and discussed the names we recognised from the Bible. In addition, we read the story of Abraham, the father of a great nation, who trusted God and discussed the reasons for his actions.

In History, we started our Romans topic.  We learnt where the Roman Empire started and when. 

In Computing, we explored Publisher. We used different shapes to try and make a symmetrical pattern, including rotating, resizing and adding colour to the shapes.

In PSHE, we discussed what makes a person happy. We shared our ideas and then wrote words and illustrated our thoughts in our books. We came up with some lovely ideas including family, friends, compliments, smiles, sports and hobbies. We also discussed as a class what our ground rules should be during the PSHE lessons. 

In Science, we started the topic Living Things and their Habitats. The first lesson was learning about the 7 Life Processes: Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion and Nutrition. We used the acronym MRS GREN to help us remember what these were and explain what each one means.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you discuss the story and the characters.  Find the meaning of any new words too.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding. 

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 10’s – draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers down as you count up.  When you count down, cover the numbers up, say the number, then reveal what you have got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.

Count in 10’s

For example, start at 0 and count up to 120 and back again 

0   10  20   etc                      120   110   100   etc

For example, start at 157 and count up to 207 and back again

157   167   177        etc              207   197   187   etc

Times tables

You should have been given your times table target this week. Please therefore practise this times table in preparation for your test next week, on Wednesday (20^th September 2023).  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?

Remember you can also practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Another app for practising tables and number facts is One Minute Maths from White Rose.  It is free to download from the AppStore and PlayStore. There are lots of excellent games you can play which will help you brush up your mental maths skills.  Please do your best to access this fabulous free resource!  Knowing your tables and number facts off by heart is crucial and will help you in many different areas of maths.

Spellings

Here are this week’s spellings. You will be tested on these words next Wednesday.

treasure      measure       pleasure       enclosure    closure

displeasure  composure    leisure         exposure      disclosure

address       appear         breadth       answer         accidentally 

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A maths challenge to recognise the place value of each digit in a 4 digit number
• A times tables challenge based on the 2 and 10 times tables
• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  Little and often is the key to success!

Thank you for attending our Meet the Teacher meeting on Thursday evening.  We have attached the PowerPoint below.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 Team

Year 2 Blog Friday 15th September

Date: 14th Sep 2023 @ 4:08pm

We have had a great week of learning in Year 2 this week. We are becoming more confident in our new routines and becoming part of Year 2. Our focus this week has been ‘Super Listening’.

In Maths, we have continued our learning of Place Value. We have looked at tens and ones, both with the equipment and drawing lines and dots.

In English we have read ‘The Bear and the Piano’. The children have also written sentences about different WOW pictures from Pobble. The children are continuing their focus on sentence structure.

In RE this week the children have listened to the creative story. The children have drawn what they ‘Wonder’ about the beauty around them.

In Art, our topic is Draw and Explore. We have explored the outdoor environment to create our very own pictures of nature. The children created brilliant nature pictures including; butterflies, boats, faces and fire-pits.

In computing this week the children have explored ‘what I.T is’ and what we use computers for.

Forest School

In our first session we played a game around the log circle and talked about we are looking foward to.

We went for a walk to see what is growing. We also heard bird song. We sat around our new fire pit - we can't wait to use it!

It was all about team-work in our second session. We worked together to build an obstacle course using logs and branches.We tested the courses to make sure they were safe and we had a go on each others. Some of them had quite challenging balancing and jumping elements.

Thanks for sending in wellies.

Home Practice

Reading

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

You could look in a thesaurus and see what other words have the same meaning as the one you have found.

Please date, sign and leave a small comment when you have read with your child and make it clear that you have finished a book, then we know we can change it. For Example - 14.09.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or good sounding out of tricky words or struggled with the word – because/finished the book. MG.

Reading books are changed every MONDAY. You will receive 2-4 books depending on their length, they should last the week, if you read a little each night. However, if you need to change a book at any other time, we will change it as needed.

Spellings

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Wednesday (20.09.23). A sheet will go home every Wednesday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

Here are the spellings for this week:

a                     are

do                   said

to                    says

of                   were

the                  today

Maths

At home, can you count forwards and backwards in ones? Start at 0 and count up to 30. Challenge yourself and go to 50!

Can you notice numbers around your home and outside on a walk?

Sumdog

You will have a place value and 2x table challenge to be completed by next week.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Next week we will send home Sumdog codes in case the children have forgotten these from last year.

Our PE day is going to be FRIDAY.

Our BOOK change will be MONDAY.

You will get SPELLINGS on WEDNESDAYS and a quiz will be the following WEDNESDAY.

SumDog challenges will be set every FRIDAY.

We have our harvest festival in a couple of weeks. Please send in any spare tins and packets for our class collection. Thank you.

Have a great weekend.

Year 2 Team :) 

Year 1 Blog - Friday 15th September 2023

Date: 13th Sep 2023 @ 5:15pm

Welcome to your Friday blog. We were all more comfortable in the cooler weather.

English

This week, we have been reading '5 Minutes Peace' by Jill Murphy. We learnt all about a mum who just wants some peace and quiet from her children! We learnt the names of the characters and labelled pictures of them, we have ordered the story, made puppets, wrote our own independent sentences about the story and wrote about how the characters are feeling. (Furious was one word that was mentioned!)

If you have any of the Large Family books at home, please read them together!

Phonics

Some of us have been recapping phase 3 igh in sigh and ear and dear and some of us have started phase 5 and learnt ay in day and ou in shout.

Click here to sing the igh song.

Click here to sing the ay song.

Maths

We learnt about making numbers from 10 to 20 using a 10 and some 1s, "one 10 and 6 ones is 16'. We used ten frames and counters, straws and blocks to represent the numbers. 

In our counting we sang songs which practised counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. 

R.E.

We started our 'families' topic this week and learnt all about different families. We found that lots of people can be in a family! We drew a picture of our family and labelled them.

P.E.

We focused on our hopping and jumping skills this week. We are so good at this already!

Art

We had an amazing art lesson! We started our 'spirals' topic. We watched a video on how to draw a spiral and then made two of our own - one on a big piece of paper and one in our sketchbook.

P.S.H.E.

This week, we talked about likes, dislikes and how we are all unique. We learnt what unique means and put our finger print into our class PSHE because, we have unique finger prints!

Geography

We continued to learn about Longton, focusing on our school and our classroom. We learnt about aerial plans and photographs, and drew our own birds eye view map of our classroom.

Science

We started our animals including humans learning this week. We compared different animals by how they look. We learnt that humans are mammals and how we are similar/different to other animals.

Forest School

In our first session we played a game around the log circle and talked about we are looking foward to.

We went for a walk to see what is growing. We also heard bird song. We sat around our new fire pit - we can't wait to use it!

It was all about team-work in our second session. We worked together to build an obstacle course using logs and branches.We tested the courses to make sure they were safe and we had a go on each others. Some of them had quite challenging balancing and jumping elements.

Thanks for sending in wellies.

Home Practice (Sumdog)

Phonics - ay (day) OR ear (dear) OR revision words

Maths - Numbers to 20

Counting- Count in 1s forwards and backwards from different starting numbers. Try to go beyond 20.

The log in for Sumdog is on a white laminated card in the reading book bag.

Please try to read every night, even just for five minutes!

Reception Blog - Friday 15th September 2023

Date: 13th Sep 2023 @ 8:16am

Our first full week in School has been fantastic!

All of the children have remembered our school routines for the new week; coming through the gate by themselves, finding their peg and their carpet places, fantastic!

This week this children have continued to learn everyones names, how to choose in our classroom nicely and how to tidy our choosing areas the correct way.

We have done a drawing of who is in our family, started the Drawing Club, which is all about the Story of the colour Monster, had our first PE lesson and learnt all about circles in Art.

On Friday (we will call this Fab Friday) we had our first Yoga and Forest school sessions with Hannah and Mrs Corbett, whilst Mrs Robinson was in class and we learnt all about how families grow and change, we also talked about how God loves us.

To finish our fantastic week, we all went to our very first Golden Assembly with the rest of the school. We were so good that all of the staff throughout the school have said how fantastic we did!

Big well done to Reception!

Year 6 Blog Friday 8th September 2023

Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 6:46pm

Welcome to the first of Year 6s weekly blogs.

Well done to all the pupils for completing the first week of Year 6. They have all been exceptional in transitioning into the routines and getting used to the expectations of this new year.

Thank you to everyone who has worked hard to complete their summer holiday autobiographies. They read really well, which has created a super display. Next week, we hope to hear about everyone's life story next week.

This week in Year 6:

• We have improved our place value knowledge in Maths through identifying, comparing and partitioning whole numbers and numbers up to 10 million.

• In English we are reading ‘Aladdin’ by Phillip Pullman. The children have used clues to predict what this edition may be about and have written well as the new version of Aladdin.

• In Geography, our first lesson focused on using atlases to search for various cities around the world, and using coordinates to help others identify them.

• For RE, we have also begun our first topic of ‘Loving’ and what the class believe unconditional love means to them.

• In PE, ‘Invasion Games’ is our theme for the next few weeks, focusing on improving our throwing and catching skills and starting to develop advanced tactics to give an advantage for the attacking team. We have used the sport of netball and handball to explore this through.

• In PSHE, we have started our topic, ‘Online Safety’ by discussing scenarios of the impact on sharing online content.

• In Science, our new topic is called Classification. We recapped our learning to help us group animals into various categories (fish, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds / carnivore, herbivore and omnivore / vertebrates and invertebrates).

Home Practice

This week we will keep Home Practice simple until we meet at ‘Meet The Teacher’ on Tuesday 12^th September at 6:30pm, where I will explain what is expected from the children in more detail.

Reading

Please read the book you have received from school and swap it for a new one on Monday.

Spellings

You have come home with a spelling sheet. Please complete it throughout the week to help with next week’s spelling test – Friday 15^th September.

Suffixes:

hopped, hopping, playing, played, jumping, jumped, reading, readable, discussing, discussed, helpful, helpless, happiness, happier, usually.

Have a great weekend Year 6!

Year 3 Friday 8th September 2023

Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 4:32pm

Welcome to your Year 3 Blog

We have had a great first week in Year 3! We have been very impressed with how everyone has settled into the juniors and remembered all our new routines.

In English this week we have started reading our class novel, The Twits by Roald Dahl. We read all about men with hairy faces, met Mr and Mrs Twit and read all about how they play pranks on eachother. Everyone wrote some great pieces, describing the Twits and retelling their horrid tricks.

In maths we have been looking at the place value of three digit numbers. Everyone showed good understanding and asked great questions in our lessons. 

On Friday Fr Michael came to visit and welcomed us back to school. We told him all about our new RE topic, Homes, and what we will be learinng about.

We also started our Art learning this week. We explored shape and space using charcoal and met Laura Mc Kendry who showed us how she used gestures and charcoal to draw dogs. Have a look in our gallery to see some of our creations.

In our new Science topic we are exploring skeletons in animals and humans. We looked at a human skeleton and learned the scientific names for some of the bones in our body. We also learned that the human body has 206 bones and a newborn baby has more than 300! Here is some of the vocabulary we will meet in the coming weeks. 

Home Practice will begin from next Friday. Sumdog is still available and continue reading your new books!

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 5 Blog Friday 8th September 2023

Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 3:42pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.

We have had such an amazing week in Year 5. Everybody has settled in brilliantly and have really shown they are grown up and ready for Year 5. 

In maths we have been looking at 5 and 6-digit numbers and solving problems involving these. Everybody did such a good job. 

We started reading our first year 5 class novel called Goth Girl. We have been looking at other films and stories of the same genre and identifying what they have in common. We then did a character study of the main character Ada Goth and started to think about a character we would include in a gothic novel. 

We LOVED sharing our summer scrap books and talking about what we have been doing over the summer holidays. We used a world map to locate some of the different places people have been to. 

We earned lots of golden token for being such good role models around school and for working hard and listening. We really enjoyed a sunny golden time on Friday afternoon - it was very well deserved! 

Happy Friday and have an amazing weekend. 

Reception Blog - Friday 8th September 2023

Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 3:35pm

What a brilliant first week in School we have had in Reception!

We have been getting to know our new classroom and our Golden Rules very well. We have started to learn our routines and know where our pegs and carpet places are.

We have all been playing together in the areas in class, getting to know our new friends and doing lots of name games.

Throughout the week we have drawn and painted a picture of ourselves and had a go at writing our names.

We can't wait to see you for week 2 Reception! Have a lovely restful weekend!

Just a little note, we will be doing PE on Thursdays and Forest School on a Friday. Please send in a labelled PE kit and labelled wellies for your child to use :)

Year 2 Blog Friday 8th September 2023

Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 1:16pm

Welcome to our first blog in Year 2!

We hope you all had a lovely summer holiday. We have had a great first week back in Year 2. The children have all settled really well and are enjoying their new routines.

Our PE day is going to be FRIDAY.

Our BOOK change will be MONDAY.

You will get SPELLINGS on WEDNESDAYS and a quiz will be the following WEDNESDAY.

SumDog challenges will be set every FRIDAY.

This week we have started our Maths with Place Value. We have looked at tens and ones, used lots of equipment and compared the values of numbers.

In English we have read ‘Find your Happy’ by Emily Coxhead. The children have created pictures of things that make them happy and written sentences to match their drawings. Our focus will be sentence structure for the first few weeks of Year 2.

We have started our PE for the Autumn Term with our topic of ‘Games and Fundamental Skills’.

Father Michael has visited each class this morning and shared prayers for the new term. Our topic for RE this half term is Beginnings. The children have created hearts and drawn who they love.

In Art, our topic is Draw and Explore. We have looked at different types of artists and explored how they use the world around them to create their art.

Forest School

Your child will be starting Forest School sessions next week with Mrs Corbett, who is a Level 3 qualified Forest School leader. The groups will be made up of around 17 Year 1 and 2 children.

We are blessed with amazing outside spaces and facilities and it is a privilege to be able to use them in this way.

Your child will develop many skills such as communication, team-building, problem-solving and risk-taking.

They will also learn about nature in a holistic way and the approach encourages child-initiated learning. There will be opportunities to experience fires and to learn how to use tools in a safe way.

They will have 2 sessions per week lasting an hour each, for the whole year. Please ensure your child has a pair of named wellies in school at all times.

Home Practice will start next Friday 15^th September.

Hope you all have a weekend.

Thanks Year 2 Team