St Oswald's Catholic Primary School: Blog items
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 2:50pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
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We have had a great week in Year 3 with World book day and the arrival of our Japanese visitors
Home Practice
Keep reading every night with an adult or on your own. Talk about what you have read and explore new books, magazines and newspapers.
We have set two Sumdog challenges, one is practising your times tables and the other is on addition and subtraction. We have seen a big improvement in fluency with times tables this week. Keep up the good work!
Remember to access the fluency booster feature too!
Your spellings this week are the Year 3 /4 statutory words
minute, nature, naughty, notice, occasional, occasionally, opposite, ordinary, particular,
mention, notice, peculiar, potatoes, perhaps, popular, often, pressure, position
This week in Year 3
In RE we have been learning the last supper story and comparing it with the feeding of the 5000. We created some beautiful pop up pictures and had some lovely ideas.
We have loved having our Japanese visitors. Next week they will be teaching us a Japanese dance!
We are loving Toro, Toro! This week we read about Paco's escape and how Antonito rescued him. We have been learning how to use conjunctions to develop our ideas.
In maths we have been learning the tricky column method for addition and subtraction. We use this method when we have to exchange.
In PE we played some handball and touch rugby, practising our invasion games and fundamental skills. Well done Year 3!
Today in DT we learned how to make a new mechanism. Everyone showed great perseverance when constructing their designs. Have a look in our galleries.
Have a great weekend
The Year 3 Team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 7th March 2025
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 12:41pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Place value - tens and ones
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Counting - Count in tens from different numbers e.g. 19, 29, 39, 49
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We read our next Traditional Tale - The Princess and the Pea. We have produced some amazing writing this week. We focused on using 'I' and past tense verbs to write our own diary, pretending to be the princess.
We then learnt how to edit our writing using purple pens, dictionaries and thesauruses!
Phonics
Some of us have been learning different ai spellings and different ee spellings.
Some of us have also been exploring the different ai spellings: ay in play, ey in grey, a_e in shape and eigh in neigh.
Maths
We have been adding and taking away ten from numbers. We had the discussion about how the ones number does not change, only tens.
We used base ten to make numbers, making sure that we check each time.
R.E.
We read the story of Jesus arriving in Jerusalem. We made welcome posters for Jesus.
History
We learnt all about Florence Nightingale and why she was so important. We learnt that she strived to make hospitals a safer place to be, by cleaning and providing medicine.
Science
The chicks were delivered to the classroom on Monday! We were so excited to see them hatch out of their shells. On Thursday, we were able to hold them!
P.E.
We recapped how to throw a beanbag underarm, focusing on our aim and power. We tried throwing to a partner and into a hoop.
Please remember to have trainers in your PE kit. We are outside this half term!
World Book Day
We had a lot of fun going on an orienteering scavenger hunt outside to find questions about different books. We worked brilliantly together!
Year 4 Blog Friday 7th March 2025
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 10:02am
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Discuss what you have read with an adult. Can you summarise what you have already read and make a prediction about what you think will happen next?
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
yellow red purple green white
blue orange turquoise two three
four eight twelve eleven thirteen
thirty nineteen eighty
Counting
This week, please practise counting in tenths
For example, start at 1.8 and count to 3.5 and back again
1.8 1.9 2.0 etc 3.5 3.4 3.3 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
Please also practise your number facts.
You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
TTRockstars challenge
- A ‘girls v boys’ tournament
Sumdog challenges
- A spelling challenge based on the words above
- A maths challenge based on comparing decimal numbers
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.
In English, we wrote a dialogue between Wonka and Mrs Scrubitt using the rules we’d learnt about direct speech.
In Maths, we consolidated our knowledge about numbers to two decimal places in the context of money and then compared and ordered decimal numbers.
In RE, we listened to the parable of the sheep and the goats, and then expressed a view about who the sheep represented, and who the goats represented. We also wrote a Lenten promise and attended church on Ash Wednesday.
In Science, we compared ice and other frozen liquids and observed how they melt. We also recorded our observations of an ice cube melting – starting as a solid and finishing as a liquid. Finally, we prepared an investigation into how different liquids freeze. You can see some pictures in our gallery.
In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we learnt how to develop an ‘Attitude of Gratitude’ – learning how it feels to give and receive gratitude. We also learnt what the ‘Gratitude Domino Effect’ is.
In PE, we developed ways of travelling (for example, using our hands and feet to travel like a caterpillar, frog or monkey) and balancing (for example balancing on one leg for 10 seconds). We will attempt to incorporate some of these into a gymnastics sequence over the coming weeks. Take a look in our gallery.
In Geography, we learnt the names of the 4 different layers of the rainforest. We then found out about the different plants and animals which are found in each of the different layers due to their unique nature.
Enjoy your weekend!
The Year 4 team
Year 6 Blog - Friday 7th March 2025
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 7:53am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been revising how to use clauses, phrases and tenses in our writing. We were also inspired by the video 'Little Freak' to write our own dialogues from the perspective of Little Freak.
Maths
This week, we have been learning all about fractions. We have revised how to add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers. We have also learned how to multiply and divide fractions.
RE
In RE, we shared the gospel story of 'The Anointing at Bethany' and wrote some beautiful prayers about what this scripture revealed to us about Jesus. We also shared and discussed the gospel story where Jesus washes the feet of his disciples. We reflected on what this story teaches us and how we can live this message each day.
Topic
In My Happy Mind, we began our new topic called 'Appreciate'. We thought carefully about what we appreciated about ourselves, other people and experiences.
In Art, we started our new topic and made visual notes for exploring our identity. We were inspired by the photographs of Thandiwe Muriu.
For spelling, we revised the ou letter string, prefixes and the suffix -ation.
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday:
Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen.
Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Spelling -
Spellings this week are from the Y5/Y6 and the Y3/Y4 statutory spellings.
We will have our test on the 14/03/25
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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marvellous |
nuisance |
mention |
occasion |
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mischievous |
occupy |
minute |
occasionally |
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muscle |
occur |
natural |
often |
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necessary |
opportunity |
naughty |
opposite |
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neighbour |
parliament |
notice |
ordinary |
SATS Revision:
Today, 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 12: Area and Perimeter
English - Topic 14: Prepositions and Determiners
Have a super weekend Year 6!
Date: 4th Mar 2025 @ 10:01am
Welcome to your Friday Blog.
Home Practice
Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Spelling:
Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (14.03.25):
knight night bare bear flower flour hear here see sea
Sumdog:
Counting:
Starting at zero, count in fives forwards and backwards to 100.
Play the 'follow me' game where one person says the multiple of five and the other person says the next multiple of five. Continue like this, then try to go faster!
Times Tables:
Great work on your 10 Times Table.
Next week, Thursday (13.03.25) we will quiz your knowledge of the 10 division facts in order as seen below.
Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and do a bit more practise on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
English
We continued our learning through the story of Manfred the Baddie. We closely examined the picture of his hideout and discussed what features an effective hideout needs. We designed and labelled our own hideout.
Manfred has henchmen who work for him. We wrote in role as Manfred as he decided he needed to recruit some more henchmen and hench ladies!
We wrote great descriptions of all the attributes and skills these people would need.
SPaG
We learnt about contractions, I'm, there's, here's, doesn't.
Maths
We continued our learning about money. We found different ways to make amounts with coins. We used our knowledge to solve problems involving money.
R.E.
We had a lovely collective worship about the start of Lent.
We made our own Lenten promises which will be displayed in the hall.
My Happy Mind
We discussed all the experiences we are grateful for. We recognised how it is so important to take time to appreciate all the experiences we have.
Forest School
We had a great session in our nature area. We spotted all the flowers growing and how they have changed even from last week.
We had the den building equipment out and demnstrated some excellent teamwork.
World Book Day
Everyone looked brilliant in their costumes for World Book Day.
We read a lot of books and even had a parent come and read the end of day story (Zog) to us.
We also went outside and did a book scavenger hunt and designed our own book tokens.
Y2 really enjoyed the day!
We welcomed our visitors from Japan.
We are so lucky to have a student in Year 2. She is enjoying spending time with us and seeing how we learn.
Year 2 Team.
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 3:52pm
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. Don't forget to add them to your vocabulary book!
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week.
adorable enjoyable reliable applicable readable tolerable changeable noticeable dependable
reasonable comfortable understandable considerable reasonably considerably reliably
shoulder soldier
Counting
Count out loud in:
2s up to 46 and back again 0,2,4,6 …
60s from 540 to 900 and back again 540,600, 660 …
11s from 132 down to 0 132, 121, 110…
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables and division. There is a new task set up on TTRS for children to access.
Sumdog
Maths practise based on addition and subtraction – 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 another great learning week in Year 5.
In English, Year 5 had a fabulous week full of poetry – everyone wrote and performed some amazing poems. We have a lot of very talented poets! We also started reading our new novel - Varjak Paw.
In Maths we practised lots of different ways to complete addition and subtraction calculations. Well done Year 5!
This week in RE, we explored symbols relating to Ash Wednesday and thought about the meaning of Lent, which starts next week.
In PSHE we talked about different medicines and drugs, especially the contents of cigarettes and vapes. The children were very knowledgeable about this and we had lots of conversation about the negative effect they can have on physical health.
In Science, we started our new topic about animals and human life cycles. We compared an average human life span to that of other mammals.
Well done Year 5 - a super week with lots of learning!
Year 3 Friday blog 28th February 2025
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 3:47pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
It was lovely seeing you all on parents' evening and the children were very proud to show off all their learning!
Home Practice
Continue with your amazing reading at home. Everyone has made great progress in their reading this year so far.
Your home spellings are all a recap 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.
On Sumdog we have set the usual challenges. Everyone has a individual times table target now and this will be set in their times tables challenge. We will review these every week.
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 3:37pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week we learnt the 'ee' and 'ai' sounds and practised all of our tricky words.
Drawing Club
This week in Drawing Club we read the story ‘Oliver's Fruit Salad’ and designed our own fruit dessert.
Maths
This week we have been spotting patterns and finding similarities and differences.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we made stories using cut outs from magazines.
Understanding the World
We started our new growing topic by exploring and tasting lots of fruits and vegetables.
We loved the mango and pomegranate.
Have a lovely weekend!
The Reception Team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 28th February 2025
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 3:32pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Place value - tens and ones
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Sumdog update: 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.
Counting - We have continued to count in ones this week, especially when crossing boundaries (e.g. 19 to 20). Practise counting on from different numbers.
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We have started learning about fairy tales, focusing on the story of The Three Little Pigs. We read this story in Reception so we were really good at repeating the words together.
We made a change to the story. We changed the wolf to our own bad character and re-wrote the story.
Phonics
Some of us have been recapping the phase 5 sounds.
Some of us have started to compare the different oo spellings. We have recapped oo in moon, ew in chew, u_e in flute and ue in glue.
Maths
We have continued to learn about place value and how numbers are made of tens and ones. We have been counting in ones to check that we know which numbers come next. We have also used the base ten to make different numbers.
R.E.
We learnt about Jesus being tempted in the desert. We talked about the word 'temptation' and how it can be tricky to do the right thing. We linked the story to Lent and we wrote a Lenten promise each.
History
We started our new History topic all about hospitals. We looked at pictures of hospitals from the past and compared them to present-day hospitals. We learnt that hospitals in the past were very dirty and dangerous!
Science
We started to learn about the weather, which will lead onto seasonal change later in the half term. We observed the weather and talked about different weather patterns.
P.E.
We started our underarm throwing unit. We learnt how to set our bodies up correctly, focusing on aiming our throw with our spare hand.
Art
We explored watercolour paints, creating our own design.
Music
We had a lot of fun experimenting with Chrome Lab (a free website that can be accessed at home) to create our own sounds. We will be using this website to make some high and low pitched sounds over the coming weeks.
Golden Assembly
Star - Buzz for always trying his best in his learning.
Bookworm - Arianna for excellent reading all week.
Super Learner - Harry for working extremely hard on his listening skills.
Writer - Huxley for an amazing description of his new character in The Three Little Pigs.
Mathematician - Kamali for making numbers using base ten.
Special Mentions - Reuben and Rudy for their kindness. Izzy and Hannah for their amazing French!
Year 2 Blog Friday 28th February 2025
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 1:01pm
Welcome back after our half term break.
It was great to see everyone at Parent's Evening and
share/celebrate Year 2's learning and progress so far.
Home Practice
Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Spelling:
Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (07.03.25):
there their they're who what why when where which how
Sumdog:
Counting:
Starting at zero, count in tens forwards and backwards. Then choose a different one-digit number to start on. For example, 3, 13, 23, 33 or 9, 19, 29, 39.
Times Tables:
Our first times tables quiz went really well.
Next week, Thursday (06.03.25) we will quiz your knowledge of the 10x table in a muddled up order.
Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and do a bit more practise on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
English
We read our new story, Manfred the Baddie by John Fardell.
The children drew the character and talked about different words (adjectives) they would use to describe him.
They learnt to write expanded noun phrases, which they will use for a character description next week.
Maths
The children have been solving muliplication and division word problems.
They found out that sometimes they need to share, group or draw pictures to work out the answers.
Science
We went outside to observe and draw the crocuses, daffodils and snowdrops which are growing.
R.E.
Year 2 wrote some beautiful prayers for our new prayer tree display next to the library.
We were very lucky to be the first class chosen and wrote prayers asking God to help Pope Francis get better soon.
P.E.
Our new focus this half term is games/fundamental skills.
The children thoroughly enjoyed learning and playing some 20th century playground games.
History
We found out about Tim Berners-Lee who was famous for inventing the World Wide Web.
Music
Year 2 have had great fun experimenting with Chrome Music Lab (a free website they may wish to visit at home) to create their own sounds.
We will be looking at this website to make some high and low pitched sounds over the coming weeks.
Year 2 Team.
Year 6 Blog - Friday 28th February 2025
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 1:53pm
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been revising how to use parenthesis, commas and inverted commas. We created our own quizzes for the class to complete! We also created persuasive posters to encourage someone to come and see the greatest show on earth, inspired by 'The Greatest Showman'.
Maths
This week, we have been learning all about long division and practising being able to divide when there is a remainder. We also thought about how to choose an appropriate strategy to multiply and divide.
RE
In RE, we have started our new topic 'desert to garden'. We made some beautiful title pages!
Topic
In PHSE, we thought about why it is important to 'think before you click' when posting things online.
In Science, we started our new topic on electricity. We learned how to use symbols to represent the components in a circuit.
For Art, we completed our topic on colour by designing our own colourful space!
In Music, Year 6 have used Flocabulary to listen to a rap about climate change. We have begun to write the lyrics to our own raps, and will use Garage Band to create our own drum loops to go with our raps over the next few weeks.
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday:
Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen.
Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Spelling -
Spellings this week are from the Y5/Y6 and the Y3/Y4 statutory spellings.
We will have our test on the 7/03/25
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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hindrance |
interfere
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increase
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learn
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identity
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interrupt
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important |
length
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immediate
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language
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interest
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library
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immediately
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leisure
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island
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material
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individual
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lightning |
knowledge
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medicine |
SATS Revision:
Today, 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 16: Shapes
English - Topic 10: Reading skills, vocabulary and language
Have a great weekend Year 6!
Year 4 Blog Friday 28th February 2025
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 10:10am
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Discuss what you have read with an adult. Can you see any speech marks when you are reading – what do you notice about the punctuation?
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
accident accidentally actual actually address
answer appear arrive believe bicycle
breath breathe build busy business
calendar caught centre century certain
Counting
This week, please practise counting in negative numbers
For example, start at -10 and count to 10 and back again
-10 -9 -8 etc 10 9 8 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
Please also practise your number facts.
You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
TTRockstars challenge
- A ‘garage’ session
Sumdog challenges
- A spelling challenge based on the words above
- A maths challenge based on tenths and hundredths
In English, we started our new novel – Wonka by Sibeal Pounder. We began by using evidence from the first few chapters to describe Wonka and Scrubitt’s characters – they are both very different! This week, we also revised the rules for dialogue.
In Maths, we consolidated our knowledge of the equivalence of tenths, hundredths, common fractions and decimal form. We now know that ¼ = 25/100 = 0.25 and ¾ = 75/100 = 0.75). In addition, we learnt about numbers to two decimal places in the context of money. You can see us exploring money in our gallery.
In RE, we started our new topic – Desert to Garden. We read the parable of the Prodigal Son and then retold it to show our understanding. Have a look in our gallery for some examples of our work.
In Geography, we explored an atlas to find out where rainforests are usually located around the world. We discovered that rainforests are usually found close to the equator.
In Music, we listened to a song about Dragons and then used YuStudio (on Charanga) to write our own music - our own music was based on the Dragons song we had listened to.
In Computing, we continued our photo editing topic by learning how to clone and retouch images. Following this, we planned an image we wanted to create, took a photograph, and then used the photo editing skills we’d learnt to attempt to create this image. Have a look at our finished projects in our gallery.
In Art, we started a new topic – Exploring still life. We began by looking at the art work of Paul Cezanne. Then we used the ‘Four Colour Gestural Drawing Exercise’. This involved using only 4 colours to help us appreciate how seeing simple shapes can help improve drawing skills.
The Year 4 team
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 4:17pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Reading
Please keep reading over the half term holidays!
English
We have finally completed our ‘Street Child’ novel and everyone really enjoyed our last piece of writing; an advert encouraging people to visit the Victorian circus.
Maths
The children tried really hard with their bridging addition and subtraction. To be continued after half term!
Science
We have now completed our topic on space and our solar system. This week we learned lots of facts about the moon and why it changes its appearance.
Art
Year 5 ended their art unit on set building. There was so much detail in everyone’s recreated workhouses – it was fantastic to see!
Computing
There’s been some fantastic powerpoints created on the Vikings. This week everyone finished them off and added transitions and animations! Well done Year 5!
RE
Finally, we have spent the week giving a lot of thought as to how we could make the village of Longton a more loving place to live in, as part of our theme of mission. There were some fantastic ideas, including friendship clubs, fund raising ideas and ways to help the environment and protect the world God has given us.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 14th February 2025
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 3:50pm
Welcome to your final Friday blog of this half term!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Counting within 20
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Counting - We have been working hard on counting in ones this week, especially when crossing boundaries (e.g. 19 to 20). Practise counting on from different numbers.
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We read our last dragon book called 'The Boy Who Dreamed Dragons'. We met a little boy called Albie who had a great imagination. He dreamed dragons!
We described dragons using adjectives, compared different dragons, ordered the story and chose an animal that we would dream about.
Phonics
Some of us have comparing the igh and i spellings, also the oa and o spellings.
Some of us have been focusing on high frequency words and tricky words. We are becoming super tricky word spotters, recognising them more in our reading books.
Maths
We have been recapping how to distinguish between tens and ones in numbers. We have compared numbers using 'more than' and 'less than' but also giving our reason why. For example: 20 is more than 10 because it has two tens and 10 only has one ten.
R.E.
We read about a man called Zacchaeus who was a tax collector. He was not a nice man but he changed when he met Jesus. We wrote some super sentences describing how Zacchaeus changed.
Geography
We compared physical and human geographical features.
Science
We conducted another experiment to see if materials were absorbent. We quickly realised that we were looking for the opposite results to last week as we now wanted the water to soak into the materials. We chose the best absorbent material out of paper, blue paper towel, cling film and a cotton cloth.
Art
We made Valentine's Day cards for someone special at home. Do not worry if you left your card at school, we will keep it safe!
Forest School
We were in our nature area this week. There was a lot of mud inspired learning! Great imagination and teamwork was shown.
Thank you for all of your hard work. We're looking forward to seeing you at Parents' Evening after half term.
Reception Blog - Friday 14th February 2025
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 3:44pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week we have been recapping all of the sounds we have learnt so far.
Drawing Club
This week in Drawing Club we read the story ‘Superworm.’
We designed our own base and a vehicle for him to escape in.
Maths
This week we have been measuring length, height, width, mass and volume.
RE
We continued to learn the Glory Be and recapped the stories from this half term.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we made Valentines cards.
Understanding the World
We finished our learning about China with a Chinese New Year celebration, trying some chinese food!
Have a lovely, safe half term everyone!
The Reception Team
Year 3 Friday Blog 14th February 2025
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 12:02pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
As it is the half term holiday, there is no home practice set. However, please keep reading every day as this really does help to unlock your learning. Sumdog is also still available for maths and spelling training!
This week in Year 3
We have loved reading Toro Toro. We met Paco the baby bull this week and wrote some fantastic recounts of his birth. Everyone continues to improve their handwriting and presentation. Well done Year 3!
In maths we met a tricky strategy for our division. We looked at repeated addition and grouping and division with remainders. We will meet this again but everyone made a great start!
In RE we finished our Galilee to Jerusalem where we learned about the Gospel of Matthew and the parables of Jesus. It has been lovely listening to everyone's questions and responses to the learning.
In geography we also wrapped up our topic on North America. We investigated the eruption of Mount St Helens and explored the site on Google maps.
In History we completed our learning on the Stone Age to the Iron Age. This has been a popular topic and everyone showed great knowledge in all our Kahoot quizzes! Brilliant History Year 3!
Have a lovely half term break
The Year 3 team
Year 4 Blog Friday 14th February 2025
Date: 13th Feb 2025 @ 10:00am
Welcome to your Friday Blog
As it is the half term holiday, there is no home practice set. However, please keep reading every day as this really does help to unlock your learning. You could also practise your tables using TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
In English, we learnt how to write and punctuate sentences which included fronted adverbials. You can see some photos of our ‘human sentences’ in our gallery. We also finished our class novel The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips – a book we have thoroughly enjoyed reading – and we wrote a book review of the novel to recommend it to other readers.
In Maths, we built on our understanding of the number system extending it further into hundredths. We learnt how hundredths are represented as a fraction and as a decimal (for example 0.01 = 1/100) and the equivalence of tenths, hundredths, fractions and decimals.
In RE, we watched a film about the life of St Damien of Molokai. Following this, we gave examples of how St Damien showed the virtues of faith, hope and love throughout his lifetime. In our final lesson of this topic, we created a poster to show how Jesus loved and ways that we could show love in our everyday lives.
In Science, we recapped the meaning of ‘viscosity’. We then carried out our ‘viscosity’ experiment. We made predictions about which liquid we thought would be the most / least viscous and then raced liquids against each other, recording our results in a table. You can see some photos in our gallery.
In History, we finished our PowerPoints detailing some of the legacies left behind by the Romans. We made sure that they included lots of information and some pictures, as well as a hyperlink and some animations.
In PSHE we discussed ‘keeping safe’. We considered how we can decide if something is risky and what signs to look out for. In addition, we were presented with different situations and discussed whether they were low, medium or high risk, and how we could reduce or remove the risk.
In PE, we added a transition to our ‘action word’ dance routine. Whilst doing this, we were able to demonstrate an unusual movement and keep in time with others, as well as work together to improve and rehearse our dance. Have a look at some pictures in our gallery.
In Art, we created our ‘pocket gallery’. We used the boxes we had made as plinths and placed objects/artwork on them. Then, we placed the figures we had created in our gallery and made it look as though they were inspecting the artwork. Have a look at our gallery to see our finished creations.
The Year 4 team
Year 6 Blog - Friday 14th February 2025
Date: 13th Feb 2025 @ 9:22am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
The children have all received a special certificate this week for their hard work at Robin Wood - well done Year 6!
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have shared the book 'Inside the Villains' together. We have worked hard to make our own page for the book about Macbeth, using all of our learning from our Shakespeare topic.
Maths
This week, we have been learning about the four operations. We have learned how to choose an appropriate strategy for a calculation and also how to multiply decimals by whole numbers.
RE
In RE, we have continued to learn about the seven sacraments. We have thought carefully about why some sacraments are celebrated more frequently than others. We have also discussed how the seven signs in John's gospel have a literal and spiritual meaning.
Topic
We learned about the story of Saint Valentine and created our own books to retell the story in our own words.
In Science, we learned about how to keep our bodies healthy. We created a quiz to test our knowlege of how to keep healthy!
Please complete the following tasks by the first Monday back:
Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen.
Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Spelling -
Spellings this week are from the Y5/Y6 and the Y3/Y4 statutory spellings.
We will have our test on the 28/02/25.
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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excellent
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forty
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fruit
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heard
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existence
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frequently
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grammar
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heart
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explanation
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government
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group
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height
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familiar
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guarantee
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guard
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history
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foreign
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harass |
guide
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imagine |
SATS Revision:
Today, 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:
Maths - Topic 6 Roman Numerals
English - Topic 8 Verbs
Year 6 have also been set some revision to complete over the half term holiday, to be handed in for the 24/02/25.
Have a brilliant half term Year 6!
Year 2 Blog- Friday 14th February
Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 9:52am
Wow! This half term has flown by!
Well done to everyone in Y2 for working so hard and doing great learning over the last few weeks.
Home Practice
Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (28.02.25):
could should would called about friends other favourite altogether again
Sumdog: Complete the 'Multiplication/Division' challenge.
Counting: Play the monster game below and work on your number and problem solving skills.
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/robot-monsters
Times Tables: After half term, Y2 will be doing times tables quizzes just like their spelling quiz.
The first times table quiz will be on a Thursday (27.02.25) and it will be the 10x table in order. For example, 1x10 = 10, 2x10 = 20 etc.
A 10x times table poster was sent home to help with this.
Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and do a bit more practise on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
English
We planned and wrote our own story book based on The Magic Finger and tried to use eveything we had learnt from the story so far.
SPaG
We spent time learning about the different ways to spell to, too and two. Then we learnt the differences between their, there and they're.
Maths
During Maths lessons, we have been learning a lot about multiplication and division.
The children have used arrays, repeated addition and times tables to solve problems and looked at sharing and grouping to help them answer division questions.
Forest School
This week we discussed how to be safe around the fire.
We toasted marshmallows.
We also had plenty of time for our own learning and exploring.
R.E.
The children learnt that when we want to say sorry to God, we can go to Church and have the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
The children wrote out the special prayer (Act of Contrition) that is said with the Priest and decorated it beautifully. They also thought about how we can put things right by doing good things (Act of Penance).
Art
The children were architects and moved from drawing buildings to making model structures using art straws, card, paper, lolly sticks and pipe cleaners.
Have a great Half Term Holiday with your family and friends.
Year 2 Team.
Year 5 Friday Blog Friday 7th February 2025
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 4:16pm
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.
innocent innocence obedient decent decency frequent frequency confident confidence intelligent independent independence obedience transparent transparency client parent accomplishment
Counting
Count out loud in:
5s up to 120 and back again 0,5,10,15 …
80s from 0 to 480 and back again 0,80,160 …
11s from 132 down to 0 132, 121, 110…
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables every day. There is a new task set up on TTRS for children to access.
Sumdog
Maths practise based on number value – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
We have had another great learning week in Year 5.
In English, Year 5 have been learning how to use skills, such as using relative clauses and metaphors in a coherent way. Everyone is enjoying reading about Jim and his adventures in Victorian London.
In Maths we have been busy practising lots of arithmetic and reasoning, as well as starting our new topic on place value.
This week in RE, we have all enjoyed trying to decipher the true meaning of The Lord’s Prayer. We created new scripts for the prayer, to break it down into modern language and we spent time thinking about why we call God a father.
We practised using Google Earth maps in geography this week. Everyone worked in pairs to locate famous volcanoes around the world and label a world map with all their names. Well done Year 5!
In PSHE we have been talking about respect, as well as identifying our character traits and how we can strengthen them. The children made fabulous respect posters and we also practised our mindful breathing by completing a mini meditation.
In computing, there has been some really amazing effort put into the Vikings powerpoint presentations with most of the class adding hyperlinks, 3 D shapes , importing pictures with special effects and using various animation and background effects. Super job Year 5!
Year 3 Friday Blog 7th February 2025
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 3:58pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
We have had another brillinat week in Year 3 with clay models, shadow experiments and brass instruments.
Home Practice
Continue with all your brilliant home reading. Everyone has made excellent progress with their reading this year and this is down to reading regularly at home. Keep it up!
Practise counting in 8's from 0 to 96 and back again.
Your Sumdog challenges and competitions are on all your times tables, division and your home spellings. This week we have been remembering to use syllables to spell independently in our writing.
Your home spellings all end in -ous.
poisonous, famous, enormous, glamorous, outrageous, dangerous, various, jealous, vigorous,serious, mountainous, tremendous, humourous, courageous, obvious, curious, hideous, spontaneous
This week in Year 3
We have been enjoying our new class novel, Toro, Toro by Michael Morpurgo. We have written a fantastic description of Anontito's farm and surrounding area and retold the chapter on Paco's birth.
In Maths we have started to learn how to divide using repeated subtraction. Everyone showed great understanding with this and asked some great questions!
In Art this week we made our clay models or our Roald Dahl characters. We will paint these and set the scenes next week! Check out our gallery.
In Science we investigated shadows and how they are formed. Everyone had great explanations, using the learning from last week on how light travels!
On Friday Year 1 came to visit with their fantastic Dragon writing. Year 3 gave some super feedback. Well done Year 3!
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team
Reception Blog - Friday 7th February 2025
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 3:34pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week we recapped all the sounds we have learnt so far.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club we read ‘Farmer Duck.’
We designed our own tractor for Farmer Duck to use.
Maths
We have been learning how to subtract two numbers, using the part whole model.
RE
We listened to the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand and recapped our learning from last week. Then we learnt the Glory Be.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we had a go at copying Chinese writing, using mud and water.
Understanding the World
This week a farmer came to visit us, he arrived on his tractor! He told us all about all the jobs that he does on his farm.
We have also continued to learn about China. This week we learnt about Chinese New Year. We listened to the story about the animals crossing the river, deciding who would be the animals for each year. This year is the year of the snake!
PE
This week we practised our throwing, bouncing and catching.
My Happy Mind
We finished our topic of celebrate.
To do this,we all designed a superhero cape for Charlie, using one of the character strengths as a theme.
Forest School
Year 1 Blog - Friday 7th February 2025
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 3:29pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Hours, minutes and seconds
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Counting - Count 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 have been exploring different dragon poems this week. We used similes to describe a dragon, wrote our own dragon poems and then read them to years 3 and 5.
Phonics
Some of us have comparing the aw and au sounds.
Some of us have had one final recap week comparing the different 'ee' spellings. We've been spotting them in our books and reading longer passages of text with them in.
Maths
We have been continuing to learn about measuring time. We used the iPads again to count in seconds.
We have also been doing a lot of arithmetic practise!
R.E.
We read about Jesus performing one of his miracles by helping His disciples catch fish. We decorated our own fish for the RE display.
Then we read about Jesus teaching little children. We made our own banners to welcome Jesus, writing the word 'hello' in different languages.
Geography
We found the oceans and seas that surround the UK in the atlases. We sang the oceans song to help us remember their names.
Science
We conducted an experiment to see whether objects were waterproof or not waterproof. We had lots of fun using pipettes to squirt water onto different materials!
Art
We made our medals! It was great to see so many different ideas and designs, showing each child's individual personalities.
Forest School
We were in our nature area this week. There was a lot of mud inspired learning! Great imagination and teamwork was shown.
Year 4 Blog Friday 7th February 2025
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 12:54pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Can you spot any apostrophes when you are reading? If so, are they used for contractions (a letter or letters are missing) or to show possession?
Spellings
This week we have been learning how to use an apostrophe for singular possession therefore there are no spellings to learn. You will however be tested on the apostrophe spelling rule next Wednesday as we have been practising it in class.
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 100’s
For example, start at 568 and count to 2068 and back again
568 668 768 etc 2068 1968 1868 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
Please also practise your number facts.
You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
TTRockstars challenge
- A ‘Battle of the Bands’ session – boys v girls
Sumdog challenges
- A maths challenge based on negative numbers
- A maths challenge based on 10, 100 and 1000 more and less
In English, we learnt what an adverbial phase is and how to identify one in a sentence. Next week, we will be learning how to write and correctly punctuate sentences which include fronted adverbials.
In Maths, we returned to place value this week, starting by rounding 4 digit numbers to the nearest 1000. In addition, we correctly placed numbers on a number line with multiples of 1000 marked, but not labelled, and labelled positive and negative numbers on a number line.
In RE, we familiarised ourselves the religious vocabulary of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and ordered the different parts of the Sacrament. This week, we also learnt when the Sacrament of the Sick is used and explored how the Sacrament brings God’s strength to those who receive it.
In Science, we explored the properties of liquids. We considered how they:-
- change their shape
- flow and pour easily
- keep the same volume
- made a puddle, not a pile
- show a level surface
In addition, we discussed the meaning of the word viscous (how thick and sticky a liquid is) and planned a ‘liquid race’ which we will carry out next week.
In History, we continued creating our PowerPoints detailing some of the legacies left behind by the Romans. We included lots of information and some pictures. We will attempt to finish these next week.
It was Children’s Mental Health week this week, so our PSHE topic was ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’. First, we discussed the things that make us happy, activities we love doing and things that make us laugh. Then, we talked about the things that disgust us or make us feel fear. Following this, we understood that we have a variety of emotions and now know that it is OK to ask for support.
In PE, we added a transition to our ‘action word’ dance routine. Whilst doing this, we were able to demonstrate an unusual movement and keep in time with others, as well as work together to improve and rehearse our dance. Have a look at some pictures in our gallery.
In Art, we finished making our ‘plinths’ and prepared the pictures of ourselves, so that they stood up unaided.
The Year 4 team
Year 2 Blog- Friday 7th February
Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 11:31am
Home Practice
Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Spelling:
Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (14.02.25):
November December Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Sumdog: Complete the 'Addition and Subtraction Problems' challenge.
Counting: Play the two-digit target game below and work on your place value skills.
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/two-digit-targets
Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and do a bit more practise on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Recently, the children explored some of the interactive games on top mark maths.
If they would like to play at home, follow the link below.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
English
This week we started learning throught a new book, "The Magic Finger" by Roald Dahl.
We read and watched the first part of the story and wrote a prediction.
We also wrote some instructions about how to build a nest like the one the Gregg family built in the story.
We are trying so hard to make our writing look beautiful on the page.
SPaG
The children learned how to change an adjective into an adverb by adding 'ly'. For example, slow - slowly or helpful - helpfully.
Maths
We have completed the addition and subtraction topic and moved on to multiplication.
The children learnt how to find the difference between numbers.
We have also been learning about repeated addition, arrays and how these relate to multiplication.
PSHE
We have been learning that there are times when people are trying to be kind to us and may touch us,
but we might not like or want this, e.g. when a friend gives us a hug but they squeeze us so tight that it hurts.
They might think it’s fun, but for us, it’s not - because it hurts.
Science
We learnt about two inventors,John Dunlop and John McAdam.
Forest School
We planted the bulbs we looked at in our Science lesson last week. We also made a forest eye.
This is good for practising our knots and it also develops our fine motor skills.
P.E
Year 2 performed some excellent sequences on the large apparatus.
In their sequences they included a clear start, travel, balance, jump, roll and finish.
Geography
We discussed the weather and seasons and identified which clothes were appropriate for the different weather types.
The children also wrote about their favourite weather and explained why they liked it.
