St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolOur blogs
Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 4:48pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Well done to everyone as they have worked so hard this term.
Our special mentions of the term are:
Casper
Oscar
Ronnie
Eliza M
Ebba
Eliza W
Reading
Please keep reading over the Easter holidays and remember to bring your favourite book in to school when we come back so we can share it with the class.
English
We have nearly completed ‘Varjak Paw’. We have been writing about the mysterious cat vanishings this week. Hopefully the mystery will be solved in the week we come back to school!
Maths
The term has ended with the children developing their skills in drawing, reflecting and translating shapes. Well done Year 5!
Science
This week the children have been learning about the life cycle of a plant and how they reproduce. A couple of the sunflower seeds we have planted have already germinated!
RE
Finally, we have spent the week giving a lot of thought to Jesus’ last days on earth before his crucifixion. The children turned into art critics as they examined and formed their own opinions on famous paintings depicting the sorrowful mysteries, such as when Jesus was crowned with thorns. They also debated what was meaningful to Christians about Jesus’ resurrection.
Once again, Year 5 have been amazing this half term - thank you to all of you!
We will see you back in school on Tuesday 22nd April 2025
Year 3 Friday Blog 4th April 2025
Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 4:20pm
Welcome to your Year 3 blog!
This week we have finished our brilliant story Ferdinand the bull. We wrote some great fact files and reports on bullfighting and a persuasive piece against bullfighting.
We also had a brilliant orienteering day and easter egg hunt on Thursday. We used our maps and solved all the puzzles.
We had a lovely celebration in Church on Thursday. Year 6 led a very thoughtful Easter liturgy and Year 3 joined in brilliantly with their singing.
On Friday we completed our forest school learning where we designed our own mini shelters using natural materials. Check out our gallery.
We have had a lovely half term and seen lots of progress in all areas of our curriculum.
We are looking forward to next term!
Have a lovely Easter break and keep reading!!
The Year 3 team.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 4th April 2025
Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 4:03pm
Welcome to your final Friday blog of the Spring term!
Home Practice
See Easter pack.
Counting - Practise counting in twos from 0 to 20.
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We explored the life cycle of a pea plant, from a seed to fully grown pea pods. We watched a video explaining what they need to grow and wrote a set of instructions. Then we planted our own seeds in a pot, which we each took home to grow outside.
Phonics
We have focused on reading and spelling our tricky words.
Maths
We counted in ones, twos and fives. We wrote the numbers in the sequence and spotted patterns with the numbers.
R.E.
We continued to read the Easter story and wrote a thank you prayer to Jesus for sacrificing himself on the cross.
Science
We filled in some more of our weather chart. It was cloudy on Monday, compared to the sunny weather that we had the week before.
Art
We sketched the new plants that have grown around our school grounds.
We also added more detail to our beach landscape painting.
DT
We made our smoothies! We followed our plan and evaluated them on Seesaw.
Golden Assembly special mentions for the Spring term
Amelia, Arianna, Luca, Joshua I, Freya and Genevieve.
Have a wonderful Easter break!
Reception Blog - Friday 4th April 2025
Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 10:58am
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
Mrs Robinson’s group have been learning the sounds ar and or. Mrs Dixon’s group have been recapping the tricky words and sounds we have learnt so far.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club we read the story of Tad.
We drew pictures of the beginning, middle and end of the story. We then wrote sentences about our pictures.
Maths
We used positional language to describe where items are.
RE
We continued to listen to stories about the events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Expressive Art and Design
We finished making our DT Easter cards.
Understanding the World
We learnt about frog lifecycles.
We have also been on a trip to our school pond!
Stay and Play
A big thank you to everyone who came to our stay and play this week!
Year 2 Blog- Friday 4th April 2025
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 11:55am
Home Practice
Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!
Spelling:
There will be no spellings to learn over the holiday.
Sumdog:
Counting:
Starting at zero, count in twos forwards and backwards to 100.
Play the 'follow me' game where one person says the multiple of two and the other person says the next multiple of two.
Continue like this, then try to go faster!
Remember when we multiply by 2 we double the number and when we divide by 2 we halve the number!
English
The children wrote some great Easter shape poems (bunnies, eggs and crosses) and tried to use alliteration and similes.
Maths
We learned how to add 2 digit numbers by exchanging, for example,26 + 37, the 7 and 6 can be exchanged for 1 ten and 3 ones, which makes the addition easier.
We are continuing to learn our 2,5 and 10 times tables.
R.E.
The children learnt about the Resurrection and wrote about finding Jesus' empty tomb from the perspective of Mary Magdalene, Joanna or Mary the mother of James.
D.T.
We had a great morning making our vehicles. We followed our plans and made a chassis, axles and wheels. We also evaluated our vehicles.
Forest School
A great Easter egg hunt!
We worked in teams to find all the eggs.
Library Visit
We walked down to the library and Lorraine read three stories to us. We listened so well and contributed to the discussions.
We followed instructions to make a paper bunny.
We also explored the library and read some of the books.
Orienteering
We had a great session of orienteering. We worked in pairs and learnt how to orientate the map and use it to find the markers.
We collected clues. We showed excellent teamwork and it was great fun!
Golden Assembly
Special Mentions of the Term
Devyn, Amelia L.,Felicity,Adam, Henry P.,Charles.
Raffle Winners
Charlie, Jonah, Amelia F.,Harper
Happy Easter,
we hope you enjoy the holiday with your families and friends.
Year 2 Team.
Year 4 Blog - Friday 4th April 2025
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 8:30am
Welcome to the last blog of the Spring term
In English, we consolidated our learning about determiners by writing our own verse to a song.
In Maths, we practised the written method of division – chunking – both with and without remainders.
In RE, we retold the Holy Week story from St Peter’s perspective in a series of freeze frames. You can see some pictures in our gallery.
In Science, we completed our States of Matter topic by exploring the rate of evaporation.
During our French lesson, we completed the ‘school subjects’ topic by creating sentences using J’adore, J’aime, Je n’aime pas and Je deteste.
This week, we also took part in an orienteering session around the school grounds. Take a look at the pictures in our gallery.
GOLDEN ASSEMBLY
Special Mentions of the Term
Maisie
Josh W
Trudy
Edward
Brooke
Archie P
As it is the Easter holiday, we have not set any Home Practice / Sumdog challenges. However, please keep reading every day – this really is the key to unlocking your learning.
In addition, practising your tables frequently will also keep you to recall them accurately and fluently.
We look forward to seeing you all again on Tuesday 22nd April in your Summer uniforms.
Make sure you relax and enjoy spending time with your family and friends.
The Year 4 team
Y6 Blog - Friday 4th April 2025
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 7:57am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been revising punctuation. We have also been inspired by the prologue of 'Wild Boy' to write a description of the showman which includes setting, character and atmosphere.
Maths
This week, we have revised and reasoned with our key angles facts! We have also learned how to reason with 3D shape and how to calculate the internal angles of a regular polygon.
RE
In RE, we have shared the story of Jesus' crucifixion and thought carefully about what true discipleship means; how can we be a true disciple of Jesus? We have also reflected on what 'love your neighbour' means and discussed how we can show love for our neighbour at home, in school and in the community.
Topic
For Computing, we learned about how websites have links to pages within them and how to link to pages on our own websites.
We have also learned about Victorian prisons in our 'Crime and Punishment' unit. Did you know that inmates were made to do hard labour as a punishment?
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 23/04/25:
Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen.
Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Spelling -
Spellings this week are from the Y5/Y6 and the Y3/Y4 statutory spellings.
We will have our test on the 25/04/25
It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.
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vegetable |
various |
increase |
temperature |
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vehicle |
weight |
remember |
frequently |
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yacht |
woman |
knowledge |
government |
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thought |
women |
purpose |
profession |
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through |
library |
experiment |
leisure |
SATS Revision:
The children have brought home a pack of revision to complete over the Easter holidays. This pack should be returned to school on the first day back after the holidays.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our special mentions for the end of the term!
Artie - For excellent attitude to learning
Isla - For always trying hard and amazing resilience
Elizabeth - For effort in small group work and revision
Elliott - For working hard on using great vocabulary in his writing
Eleanor - For wonderful revision work in school and at home
Maizie - For living the golden rules every day
Have a lovely Easter everyone!
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 4:11pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week.
referring referred referral preferring preferred transferring transferred reference referee preference transference different suffering differing suffered conferring offered offering
Counting
Count out loud in:
9s up to 108 and back again 0,9,18,27…
60s from 300 to 840 and back again 300, 360, 420 …
15s from 850 backwards to 575 850, 825, 800 …
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables. Well done Year 5 with all the super effort to win last week’s TTRS competition. There is a new session set for this week.
Sumdog
Maths practise based on geometry– individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs.
We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus and times tables challenges.
Golden Assembly stars
Bella – star of the week
Agatha – Superstar writer
Leo H – special mention for his science knowledge in the STEM session
Florence, Eliza M, Zachary M – super learners for spelling
Xabier – bookworm
Leo W – marvellous mathematician
Year 5 have had another rich and varied learning week in school.
They have been working in teams to create newspaper front pages this week. Everyone had a specific job to do and they all enjoyed making news!
In Maths they have been investigating how to reflect shapes using grid sheets. The class have also been carrying on with extended times tables work ,as well as arithmetic.
This week in RE, the whole class wrote an acrostic prayer about heaven and had some super discussion about what heaven is! They also attended parish mass, along with stations of the cross.
BAE systems came to visit Year 5 this week and everyone was lucky enough to find out more about STEM, as well as experiment with programming robot vehicles.
Finally, the class enjoyed a trip to Judge’s Lodgings to discover more about life in Victorian times. They spent time in a Victorian schoolroom, learned how to set the table of a grand house as a servant and tried out some Victorian toys. Well done Year 5 on a very successful day!
Year 1 Blog - Friday 28th March 2025
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 3:46pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Shapes
Phonics - Tricky words
Counting - Keep counting in ones from 0 to 20 (and above if you can!) Have a go at the first to 20 game.
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We read the story 'Eat Your Peas' which is about a girl called Daisy who refuses to eat her peas. We described peas using adjectives, wrote reasoning sentences using 'because' and wrote a persuasive letter from Mum to Daisy, pleading with her to eat her peas!
Phonics
Some of us have been comparing the different au spellings: au in author and aw in yawn.
Some of us have been comparing the different oa spellings: oa in toast, ow in snow, oe in toe and o_e in stone.
Maths
We identified, compared and sorted 2D and 3D shapes.
R.E.
We started to read the Easter story, up until Jesus' crucifixion. We went outside to collect sticks and we made our own cross.
Science
We identified the different weather patterns in each season. We also started a weather diary to observe the weather.
Computing
We learnt how to record a voice over our Seesaw pictures so that we could provide more information. We explained why we made our crosses in R.E.
DT
We identified the differences between fruit and vegetables. Next week, we will be making our own smoothies.
Mother's Day assembly
A massive thank you to everyone who came to our Mother's Day assembly. We hope you enjoyed it!
Star of the Week: Amelia
Super Learner Award: Joshua I
Superstar Writer: Giovanna
Bookworm Award: Arianna
Marvellous Mathematician: Cerys
Special Mentions: Freya and Harry for their amazing singing in the Mother's Day assembly.
Reception Blog - Friday 28th March 2025
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 12:53pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week Mrs Robinson’s group have been learning the sounds long oo and short oo sounds. Mrs Dixon’s group have been recapping the tricky words and sounds we have learnt so far.
Drawing Club
This week in Drawing Club we have been learning through the story of Jasper’s Beanstalk. We drew pictures of the beginning, middle and end of stories. We then wrote sentences about our pictures. We also predicted what might happen when Jasper got to the top of his beanstalk. Would there be a giant there too? Lots of fabulous ideas!
Maths
This week we have been halving. We started with halving food and comparing sizes of them, then we shared amounts using the part whole model.
RE
This week we listened to stories about the events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Together, we went outdoors to find items to make an Easter Garden for our classroom.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we started to make our DT Easter cards.
Understanding the World
This week we sowed our own cress seeds – we hope the children have enjoyed watching them change at home.
We have also been on a mini beast hunt in our school grounds!
PE
This week we started sports day practise!
My Happy Mind
This week we have been discussing different things we can be grateful for; people and experiences.
PSHE
We have been listening to the Pantosaurus song.
We have talked about what is in our pants is only for us and who our trusted adults are.
Year 3 Friday Blog 28th March 2025
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 11:40am
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Thank you to everyone who supported the Easter Raffle and pop up Mother's Day Shop this week. Raffle tickets still availbe for the draw next Friday.
Home Practice
Continue with your daily reading. The children are really enjoying picking their own books and changing them lots. 10 minutes every night will make all the difference.
On Sumdog this week we have set a fluency competition and and addition and subtraction maths challenge to practise all our number learning for next week. A little practice with these every day will help your children become fluent in their number facts.
Continue to practise your counting. This week, try counting forwards and back in 4s.
Your home spellings this week all end with a /shun/ sound, spelled in different ways. We will test the children on these on Friday.
invention, injection, action, hesitation, completion, expression, discussion, confession, permission, admission, expansion, extension, comprehension, tension
This week in Year 3
We have had a brilliant week in Year 3 this week.
In RE we learned how we can live the Eucharist by living Jesus' message and being kind and loving. We created our own newsletters for the parish and looked at our live simply Parish newletter from St Oswald's church.
In English we have been reading the Traditional Spanish Tale of Ferdinand the Bull. We planned, drafted and wrote our own versions and read them to Year 2 and Year 5. We have sent these home for you to enjoy!
Our fractions learning this week has been brilliant. Everyone has shown great understanding of the addition and subtraction of fractions. Well done Year 3!
In Science this week we conducted our experiment on friction and ramps. Check out our gallery!
This week in PE we have been learning how to use our invasion games tactics in touch rugby. Everyone joined in and had a good go, showing great teamwork and effort.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Rowan
Super Learner Award: Violet
Superstar Writer: Marvin
Bookworm Award: Oscar
Marvellous Mathematician: Hunter
Special Mentions: Mia, Daisy and Lewis for setting a fantastic example to others on the playground
Have a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all the mums and grannies!
The Year 3 Team
Year 4 Blog Friday 28th March 2025
Date: 27th Mar 2025 @ 4:17pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. If you find any words you are unsure of, look them up in a dictionary or ask an adult.
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
crystal pyramid bicycle gym symbol
cymbals hymn syrup cylinder mystery
typical gymnast myth Egypt gymnastics
oxygen crypt lyrics
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 10’s
For example, start at 25 and count to 225 and back again
25 35 45 etc 225 215 205 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 multiplication and division challenge using place value and known facts
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 this week, we learnt about different types of determiners and how they can alter the meaning of a sentence.
We learnt that they are found before nouns and that they have different jobs to do in a sentence.
In Maths, we consolidated our learning about halving 4 digit numbers.
In addition, we divided numbers using a mental strategy of partitioning. We found this tricky, however, having a secure knowledge of our tables helped with this.
In RE, we listened to the story of Jesus’ arrest, betrayal by Peter, and trial. We then sequenced the story using pictures.
Following this, we reflected on Jesus’ crucifixion and death and wrote a beautiful acrostic poem to sum up the events of Good Friday and what they mean to us today.
In Science, we explored boiling and evaporation. We discussed the main points to compare the two and thought about how liquids change state during both of these processes.
We also considered different variables that would affect how long evaporation takes.
In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we completed our ‘appreciate’ module.
The main focus of the session was how to appreciate ourselves and how our character strengths can help us to appreciate ourselves.
In Geography, we continued creating our double page spreads about rainforests.
We were all very proud of our achievements and enjoyed including lots of detail and pictures.
This week, we were also visited by Harriet and Paul from BAE Systems who provided a STEM workshop.
During the session, we learnt about cyber security, encryption, and teamwork. We then put these elements together to help us navigate a 'Roving Robots' challenge.
Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Jack
Super Learner Award: Caleb
Superstar Writer: Amelia
Bookworm Award: Edward
Marvellous Mathematician: Brooke
Special Mentions: Sienna and Emma - for beautiful artwork, and Sam - for putting his heart and soul into everything that he does
The Year 4 team
Year 6 Blog - Friday 28th March 2025
Date: 26th Mar 2025 @ 9:47am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been revising adverbs and adjectives. We have also edited our reports on the history of the circus and written our own, independent, reports on Highwaymen.
Maths
This week, we have learned about the different parts of a circle. We have also revised how to reason with statistics and angles - we have worked hard to remember all of our angle facts!
RE
In RE, we have been learning how the stations of the cross are prayed all around the world. We have researched how the stations are prayed in Lourdes and Rome and made some amazing leaflets!
Topic
In Art, we continued our portrait topic and completed our layered portraits inspired by Mike Barrett. We had to layer paper and paint to create our backgrounds and assemble our final piece!
For Science we were visited by UCLAN and completed an amazing Science workshop all about robots!
We have also learned about Highwaymen in History. We researched all about Highway men and thought about whether they were heroic or villainous characters!
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 4/04/25
It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.
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soldier |
system |
separate |
suppose |
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stomach |
temperature |
special |
surprise |
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sufficient |
thorough |
straight |
therefore |
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suggest |
twelfth |
strange |
though |
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symbol |
variety |
strength |
although |
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 10 Equivalence
English - Topic 19 Reading Skills
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Amelia
Super Learner - Eleanor
Superstar Writer - Theo M
Bookworm - Phoebe
Marvellous Mathematician - Elizabeth
Special Mentions - Freya: For being a great buddy at lunchtimes.
Have a happy weekend Year 6!
Year 2 Blog- Friday 28th March
Date: 25th Mar 2025 @ 9:50am
Home Practice
Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark!
Spelling:
Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (04.04.25):
sword castle ghost gnome knit write thumb by bye buy
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 5 Times Tables.
Next week, Thursday (03.04.25) we will quiz your knowledge of the 5 times table in a muddled up order.
English
We continued our learning through the story of Rosie Revere Engineer. We discussed cause and effect and answered questions about the story.
We also read about another inventor, Marvelous Mattie. The children wrote at length about her life and inventions.
SPaG
We learnt about silent letters in knight and sword. We also discussed another homophone, by, bye and buy.
Maths
We continued our learning about measuring. We used rulers, metre sticks and a trundle wheel to measure lengths. We discussed when it's appropriate to use the different equipment.
We have been practicing our 2,5 and 10 times tables.
SUMDOG NEWS-Year 2 came 245th out of 4000 schools in the Spring competition.
Melodie came 43rd out of 36,000 pupils.
What fabulous achievements!
R.E.
The children learnt about the Sacarment of Reconciliation in more detail. They found out that there are five stages to this
sacrament and wrote/decorated some beautiful sorry hearts.
P.E.
The children played some traditional playground games and worked on their ball skills.
Forest School
We worked in our garden, thinning out our seedlings and planting them in bigger pots. We also closely observed wild flower seeds using magnifying glasses.
We also had time for some chid-initiated learning in our nature area.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week-Harrison
Super Learner-Jonah
Superstar Writer-Melodie
Bookworm-George
Marvellous Mathematician-Zach D.
Special Mentions-Frankie-Lovely art work in R.E.
Florence in Year 5 for holding the door open and using her beautiful manners.
Reading Trail Award
Well done to Isaac who has completed the Lancashire Reading Trail. He read and reviewed 50 books. What a fabulous achievement!
Katie from Kingsfold Library visited our class to present Isaac with his award and a book signed by the author.
Please could your child bring a small card board box (no bigger than a shoe box) into school by
Tuesday 1st April for our D.T day.
Thank you for supporting the Mother's Day pop-up shop.
We hope you all have a lovely day.
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 3:35pm
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.
develop dictionary determined disastrous embarrass environment equipped especially exaggerate excellent existence explanation familiar foreign forty frequently government harass
Counting
Count out loud in:
4s up to 104 and back again 0,4,8,12…
50s from 250 to 850 and back again 250, 300, 350 …
20s from 2120 backwards to 1680 2120, 2100, 2080 …
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables. There is a competition on between Year 4 and year 5. Good luck Year 5 – the more people that join in the better chance we have of winning!
Sumdog
Maths practise based on measurement– individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs.
We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus and times tables challenges.
We have had a great learning week in Year 5.
Year 5 have been focussing on writing about characters from the novel this week and have done a great job of comparing and contrasting two characters from our Varjak Paw novel. They have also done an outstanding job in this week’s spelling tests with everyone showing a significant improvement. Well done!
In Maths, we have been examining and applying different methods in multiplication and division. Year 5 are now moving on to recollecting knowledge on measurement facts.
This week in RE, the whole class has been focussing on prayer in Lent and they have discussed and debated what it is to follow your conscience, as well as writing some beautiful personal prayers of thanks.
In music, Miss Campbell has been most impressed with the raps that have been created by the class. There is clearly a lot of musical talent!
Year 5 have also been getting interactive with databases and learning to sort records, using search fields.
Finally, the class were lucky enough to all enjoy a silent disco this week and show off their dancing skills! Well done Year 5!
Reception Blog - Friday 21st March 2025
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 3:27pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week Mrs Robinson’s group have been learning the sounds oa and igh and Mrs Dixon’s group have been learning the sounds or and ar.
Drawing Club
This week in Drawing Club we labelled a spring picture. We wrote sentences about it.
Maths
This week continued to learn about addition and subtraction using ten frames.
RE
This week we have been listening to stories about the events of Holy Week.
We designed and built our own obstacle course. Then we each had a turn at seeing how difficult it was – understanding how difficult it was for Jesus to carry the cross such a long way.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we have been painting pictures of daffodils.
Understanding the World
This week we have been discussing the parts of a plant.
PE
This week we have been taking part in yoga!
My Happy Mind
This week we continued with our new topic of Appreciate.
We have talked about ways to show appreciation to others, these included hugs, high fives and saying thank you. We have set a challenged to say thank you to as many people as we can!
Trip to Bring Yer Wellies
We had the best time on our class trip. We planted lavender, did some den building and even took part in a boat race.
We were even spotted by the Bring Yer Wellies team for super manners and behaviour!
Year 3 Friday Blog 21st March 2025
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 2:17pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home Practice
Continue with your fantastic home reading. Everyone has made amazing progress this year and this is down to your great home reading and regular practise!
This week we have entered Year 3 into a National maths challenge. We will be competing against hundreds of other classes from all over England, Scotland and Wales. Lets aim for the top!
Make sure you also go on your fluency booster regularly to keep improving on those difficult skills.
Your spellings this week all begin with tele-, sub- and re-. We have set a sumdog challenge to help practice these.
redo, refresh, return, reappear, redecorate, subdivide, subheading, submarine, submerge, telephone, television, recount,
rearrange, reassure, reassess, subdivide, subconscious, telescope
Counting Practice - Have a sing-a-long with our counting songs below
This week in Year 3
This week we finished our Toro Toro story, with an emotional ending where Paco and Antonito were reunited. We have written some brilliant pieces this week including our very own book reviews.
In Maths this week we have been learning all about equivalent fractions. This was tricky but everyone showed great understanding and resilience with this.
In RE we have been learning about the Litugy of the Eucharist and Holy Communion. We interviewed Year 4 and asked them lots of great questions about the sacramental programme.
On Friday we had a great yoga session with the South Ribble team. We focused on showing gratitude which fit in brillianty with our My Happy Mind topic.
We also had a great time at StarKidz silent disco on Wednesday. Everyone showed amazing moves and played along with all the games.
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team
Year 4 Blog Friday 21st March 2025
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 8:50am
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Can you retell some of the story in your own words?
Spellings
These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them
invention injection action hesitation completion
expression discussion confession permission admission
expansion extension comprehension tension musician
electrician magician politician
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 2’s
For example, start at 86 and count to 128 and back again
86 88 90 etc 128 126 124 etc
Now have a go at counting in 0.2’s
For example, start at 0.8 and count to 3.2 and back again
0.8 1.0 1.2 etc 3.2 3.0 2.8 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.
Halving challenge
- Follow the link below and play any of the halving games – this will help to consolidate our learning this week.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
TTRockstars challenge
- A ‘garage’ session
Sumdog challenges
- A spelling challenge based on the words above
English
In English, we consolidated our learning about pronouns. We selected and effectively used pronouns in the place of nouns which enabled us to reflect on how useful they can be in our writing.
In addition, we rewrote a chapter of the novel in our own words and included pronouns effectively, and direct speech, to enhance our writing.
Maths
In Maths, we consolidated our knowledge of the written method of multiplication – the grid method. We were quite successful at this, but found the column addition a little more tricky!
Additionally, we learnt how to halve 4 digits numbers where all the digits are even (eg 2864), and where some were odd (eg 3296).
RE
In RE, we learnt about the vocation of Dr Ruth Pfau. Dr Pfau devoted more than 55 years of her life to fight leprosy in Pakistan. She is an incredible example of living out the Corporal Works of Mercy.
In addition, we watched a video based on Luke 19 verses 22-44 about Palm Sunday, and read Matthew 26 verses 36-46 which describes Jesus praying in Gethsemane.
We then compared the joy of Palm Sunday with the agony in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Science
In Science, we carried out an investigation to find out which type of chocolate melted the fastest – white chocolate, milk chocolate or dark chocolate.
We placed a tin foil tray containing the 3 different types of chocolate on a tub of hot water and then recorded the time it took each to melt.
Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.
My Happy Mind
In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we recapped our learning about ‘attitude of gratitude’ and thought about something we are grateful for.
We also journaled someone who helps us a lot and wrote a plan about how we can show them appreciation.
Art
In Art, we practised sketching gerberas. We also practised tints and shades of a colour and then painted gerberas in our books.
Have a look at some examples in our gallery.
Silent Disco
This week, we also took part in our very own Silent Disco provided by Starkidz. We had lots of fun dancing with our headphones on.
Yoga and Mindfulness Festival
On Friday morning, we were treated to a yoga and mindfulness session. During the session, we learnt some breathing and practised calming movements. Take a look at the pictures in our gallery.
The Year 4 Team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 21st March 2025
Date: 20th Mar 2025 @ 12:59pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Heavier and lighter
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Counting - We learnt a new counting game this week. See if you can play it at home!
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We have produced some amazing writing about our mums, ready for our Mother's Day assembly next week. We described our mums using similes, wrote prayers to God thanking Him for our mums and practised reading them aloud.
Phonics
Some of us have been comparing the different oa spellings: oa in goat, o in both and o_e in stone.
Some of us have been comparing the different igh spellings: ie in pie, i_e in slime, y in cry and i in wild.
Maths
We investigated the masses of different objects using the balance scales. We used the words 'heavier' and 'lighter'.
Then we sorted shapes into groups of circles, triangles, square rectangles and oblong rectangles.
R.E.
We role played two different stories this week: The widow's mite and The Last Supper. We talked about the words said in both Bible stories, then we acted out each scene in groups.
Science
We sorted clothing into each season. We had a great discussion about how spring and autumn clothing is very similar, but summer and winter clothes are easy to identify.
P.E.
We practised throwing and catching in larger groups. We worked as a team and threw the ball gently to each other.
Art
We sketched and painted roses on our Mother's Day cards. They look absolutely beautiful, we can't wait for you to see them!
We also used the watercolours to paint the background of an ocean scene.
Fairtrade
We watched a video about how bananas are made and transported to our country. We ordered the journey on iPads.
Silent Disco
We had so much fun in the silent disco! We danced to Bluey, Danny Go and Frozen!
Yoga
We loved our Friday morning yoga session. We learnt how to make affirmation poses.
Y6 Blog - Friday 21st March 2025
Date: 19th Mar 2025 @ 9:19am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been revising word classes, and in particular how to use determiners in a sentence. We also researched all about the history of the circus, so that we could write our own reports.
Maths
This week, we have continued our learning on ratio; we have learned how to share in a given ratio and use our ratio knowledge to solve problems. We have also revised how to convert between fractions, decimals and percentages and how to find fractions of amounts.
RE
In RE, we have been reflecting on the stations of the cross. We prayed the stations of the cross together and reflected on one of the stations that spoke to us. We created some beautiful artwork and poetry to express our thoughts and feelings.
Topic
In Art, we continued our portrait topic by creating layered portraits inspired by Mike Barrett. We had to layer pencil, biro and watercolour to create a self portrait.
For Science we planned our own electricity investigation. We had to think carefully how to make a fair test and we are looking forward to completing our investigations next week!
We have also learned all about Fair Trade this week by playing the 'banana split' game from CAFOD.
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 28/03/25
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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relevant |
secretary |
probably |
recent |
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restaurant |
shoulder |
promise |
regular |
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rhyme |
signature |
purpose |
reign |
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rhythm |
sincere |
quarter |
remember |
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sacrifice |
sincerely |
question |
sentence |
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 8 Percentages
English - Topic 18: Standard English
Have a fantatsic weekend Year 6!
Date: 18th Mar 2025 @ 10:09am
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.
Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark!
Spelling:
Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (28.03.25):
careful harmful graceful helpful useful thoughtful cheerful joyful grateful beautiful
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 Division Facts.
Next week, Thursday (27.03.25) we will quiz your knowledge of the 5 times table in order.
English
This week we started learning through a book called Rosie Revere Engineer. Rosie makes all sorts of gadgets and gizmos from things which she finds. She really perseveres and inspires her friends.
We wrote some predictions about the story from looking at the front cover. We answered questions about the story and we learnt how to use part of the question in our answer.
SPaG
We learnt how to use the suffix ful, care becomes careful, harm becomes harmful. We also discussed grateful and beautiful.
Maths
We finished our learning about measuring mass and capacity. We completed assessments about our recent learning.
We also learnt how to use a ruler to measure lengths and we played a game where we had to estimate and then measure lengths
Forest School
We worked in our nature area. Some of us used drainpipes and worked together to investigate how water travels through them. We showed excellent problem solving skills.
Science
We learnt about the life cycles of hens and frogs.
We observed our seeds again and recorded their progress in our diaries.
P.E.
We practised our ball skills through playing some old fashioned games. We were throwing, rolling, aiming and also counting up our scores. We were all great team members.
Silent Disco
This was brilliant fun! We all wore the headphones and danced away. The hall was transformed into a real disco-it was dark with flashing lights.
Yoga and Mindfulness Festival
We had a great session with our South Ribble coach. We learnt some yoga poses.
Fairtrade
We learnt about the journey of a banana from where it is grown to our supermarket shelf. We role played the journey with real Fairtrade bananas and used atlases to find places in the world where Fairtrade products come from.
R.E
The children learnt more about Holy Week by exploring religious art. They chose their favourite painting and explained why they liked it.
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 4:11pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week.
doubt island lamb solemn thistle knight badge bomb butcher ghost knee answer comb
Christmas honest knife sword crumb
Counting
Count out loud in:
7s up to 105 and back again 0,7, 14, 21 …
30s from 390 to 840 and back again 390, 420, 450 …
10s from 2110 backwards to 1790 2110, 2100, 2090 …
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables. There is a new task set up on TTRS for children to access.
Sumdog
Maths practise based on prime numbers and multiplication – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs.
We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus and times tables challenges.
We have had a great learning week in Year 5.
Year 5 have been creating reports about Russian Blue cats and discovering about the strange vanishings in our novel Varjak Paw. We also enjoyed a visit from the Japanese students who taught us how to write our names in Japanese!
In Maths we have been identifying prime numbers and also practising our grid method for multiplication, using 2 digit numbers x 3 digit numbers.
This week in RE, we have been acting out real life scenarios where we could choose to sin or follow one of God’s commandments.
In history we are all working hard to create informative reports about Victorian life in Lancashire! We learned about the Industrial Revolution and how much life changed at this time.
PE was varied this week – a mixture of Freddy Fit, Tag Rugby and handball. Well done Year 5 for giving everything a go!
Finally, it was British science week so Year 5 spent time looking at lifecycles as well as trying to create static using our whiteboards. It was lots of fun!
Reception Blog - Friday 14th March 2025
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 3:20pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
This week Mrs Robinson’s group have been learning the sounds ai and ee and Mrs Dixon’s group have been learning the sound oo (long and short).
Drawing Club
This week in Drawing Club we have been doing some non-fiction writing all about chicks, using our sounds to write labels.
Maths
This week we used the part whole model to find one more and one less.
RE
This week we talked about Lent and what it is. We then listened to other children and how they celebrate Lent in their countries.
We discussed the Stations of the Cross and how Jesus felt.
Expressive Art and Design
This week we made our own paper flowers.
Understanding the World
This week we enjoyed bird spotting outside using binoculars.
PE
This week we have had a visit from Freddy Fit. We had so much fun in teams, racing to build a hula den.
My Happy Mind
This week we continued our new topic of Appreciate.
We listened to the story of Arabella and her friends at the seaside and talked about her feelings at different parts of the story.
Japanese Lesson
This week had a Japanese lesson with Yuichi and his students. It focussed on Japanese Festivals. The children took part in 4 different Japanese Festival games.
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 2:39pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
We’ve had another fantastic week in Year 3! The children have been working so hard and showing great enthusiasm for their learning.
Home Practice
Keep up with regular reading at home and remember to change books when needed. Practising little and often makes such a big difference!
In maths, we have been applying our written methods to statistics questions. This has been a great challenge, and the children have shown brilliant problem-solving skills. We have set some Sumdog challenges to reinforce this learning and improve our number fluency.
Counting Practice - Next week we will be learning about fractions. Practise counting forwards and backwards in thirds, quarters, fifths, eighths and tenths.
Spellings have been sent home today—keep practising a little each night to help improve accuracy and confidence.
This Week in Year 3
English
This week, we focused on recount writing, using Toro! Toro! as inspiration. The children wrote powerful pieces retelling the bombing of Sauceda. Their use of description and emotion was excellent—well done, everyone!
Maths
We continued developing our written methods and applied them to statistics questions. The children worked hard to interpret data in tables and charts, showing great resilience when tackling tricky problems.
RE
We learned about the Offertory and the Liturgy of the Eucharist. The children reflected on why these parts of the Mass are so important and learned a new song to help deepen our understanding.
Freddie Fit Visit
On Wednesday, we had a fantastic visit from Freddy Fit! The children loved getting active and learning about keeping fit and healthy. It was brilliant to see so much energy and enthusiasm throughout the session—check out our gallery for some action shots!
Computing
We have been looking at how to design magazine covers using placeholders for text and images. This week, we created some fantastic templates using our brilliant Whizz, Pop, Bang magazines as inspiration. The children showed great creativity and attention to detail in their designs!
Music
This week, we used our iPads to create some amazing pieces of music. The children experimented with different sounds, rhythms, and melodies, producing some really impressive compositions. Well done, everyone!
Science
As part of Science week we had some baby chicks visit our class. We looked at them in detail and discussed the function of all their features. We then created some fantastic scientific sketches.
A great week of learning all around! Have a lovely weekend, everyone.
The Year 3 Team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 14th March 2025
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 12:44pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
We've had a very busy week this week!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Number line to 20
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.
Counting - We have been practising counting from 0 to 40, forwards and backwards. Please practise this at home!
Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We read a different version of The Princess and the Pea - The Princess and the Greedy Pea! We predicted what could happen in the story, made a menu for the greedy pea, explored different rhyming words and wrote our own poem, deciding what the greedy pea could eat next!
Phonics
Some of us have been comparing the oa sounds: oa in oak, o_e in stone, ow in grow and oe in toe.
Some of us have continued to learn the different ai spellings: a in acorn and ea in great.
Maths
We have been counting in twos and fives and placing missing numbers on a number line.
R.E.
We recapped the story of Jesus entering Jersusalem. We ordered the story and recorded videos of ourselves saying the story.
History
We learnt about a different nurse this week, who like Florence Nightingale, changed hospitals for the better. We read about Edith Cavell and how she helped soldiers in the war. We wrote some amazing facts about her and compared her to Florence.
Science
We went on a Spring walk around school. We spotted new flowers and wildlife.
P.E.
We challenged ourselves to throw and catch through hoops this week. We had to listen to our partner in order to make the throwing easier or harder.
Art
We painted watercolour pictures ready for our Mother's Day assembly.
Forest School
We worked in the nature area. We had a go at building shelters using tarps, ropes, pegs and mats. Great teamwork and co-operation was shown. We are noticing all the changes in our nature area, new leaves, new buds, and it's warmer!
Freddy Fit
We had so much fun with Freddy on Wednesday! We worked brilliantly in our teams.
Library
We walked down to the library and listened to three Easter stories. We also made our own bunnies to take home.
Japanese students
A big thank you to Haruka and Yuichi who have been with us for two weeks. The Japanese students set up Japanese games for us to play in the classroom.
