Year 6 Friday Blog 16th October 2026

Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 5:13pm

This Week in Year 6

Home Practice

Please complete the following tasks by next Thursday: 

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. 

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: 

This week, practise counting in decimal steps of 0.01 and 0.02. 

Draw a line with some marks on it. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.

Start with different numbers and count up 10 numbers then back again in 0.01 and 0.02. 

Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!

Maths Task: This week's learning is to practise questions about division which will help Year 6 to apply their learning from class this week. 

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

Star of the Week  - Josh W (Chosen by Year 6)

Super Learner -  Louie

Superstar Writer - Milo

Bookworm - Sienna

Marvellous Mathematician - Tiffany

Special Mentions - All of Y6 for their amazing example to the younger children in school! 

This week in Year 6

Another busy week in Year 6 with lots of great learning across the curriculum!

In English, we have been focusing on formal writing as we began writing our own newspaper reports linked to The Nowhere Emporium. We explored the features of newspaper reporting and how we can adapt our language to suit a more formal style. We also looked at how we can use semicolons, brackets and dashes to add detail, organise our ideas and really level up our writing. It has been lovely to see the children becoming more confident in using these punctuation skills independently.

In Maths, we have been learning how to divide using the chunking method. The children have been applying their multiplication knowledge to help them tackle some tricky division calculations, thinking carefully about how to break numbers down into manageable chunks. There has been some excellent reasoning and problem-solving on show this week. Super maths!

In History, we learned all about evacuees during the Second World War. We explored why so many children had to leave their homes and families, what the evacuation process involved and how it might have felt to arrive somewhere completely unfamiliar. The children showed great empathy as we discussed the different experiences of evacuees and the challenges they faced during the war.

On Tuesday, we were delighted to welcome Christina Mitchell into Year 6 to work with the children on The Happy at School Project (THASP). We spent time exploring the importance of resilience and how we can respond positively when things become difficult. We revisited the project's five key aims: understanding our emotions, building resilience, learning from challenges, strengthening relationships and becoming our best selves. The children really enjoyed the session and shared some thoughtful ideas about how we can use these skills both in school and in our everyday lives. A big thank you to Christina for spending time with us!

In PE, we are nearing the end of our invasion games topic and have been putting all the skills we have learned into practice. Our focus this week has been on applying our attacking and defending skills in game situations, with a particular emphasis on teamwork and communication. It has been great to see how much the children have developed over the past few weeks, especially in the way they encourage one another and work together as a team.

Have a great weekend!

The Year 6 Team

Year 5 blog Friday 16th October 2026

Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 4:05pm

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.

people because different  achieve  bargain  category  dragged  completely  happily  peace  limitation  simply  limited  forgotten  information  various  said  knot

Counting

Count out loud in:

even numbers from 50 to 80 and back again             50, 52, 54, 56, …

60s from 0 to 600 and back again                                 0, 60,120, …

8s from 0 to 104 and back again                                  0,8,16,24, …

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day. Most children are practising mixed division this week as a target.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

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

We have had a super learning week in Year 5.

In English we have been writing diary entries as Edmund, a character from our class story. We are also reaching the climax of our Narnia novel where the queen and Aslan have finally met at the stone table.

In Maths we are continuing to practise addition and subtraction using the column method. We have started a new topic on statistics – reading time tables.  

Our topic in RE this week was all about loving God and loving all people. We worked in groups to discuss and formulate ideas on how we could help the vulnerable in our communities.

Finally, in Geography, we used atlases to look up the key cities of the UK and also marked on key mountain ranges.

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –  Jessica A (class vote)

Super Learner – William

Superstar Writer –   Francesca

Bookworm -   Georgie

Marvellous Mathematician -  Bobby

Special Mention -  Rory

Year 4 Blog Friday 16th October 2026

Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 3:52pm

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 predict what will happen next?

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

information            preparation           adoration     sensation               floatation

admiration             exaggeration         hibernation  propagation           imagination

concentration        moderation            education     differentiation      taxation

hesitation              litigation               isolation       invitation

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 4’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 48 and back again

0    4     8   etc                          48   44   40  etc

Now try counting in 100’s from 253 to 1753 and back again

253    353    453    etc              1753    1653    1553  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

We have been working hard on our basic number facts to help us calculate more quickly and efficiently.

To help with this, a number fact challenge has been created.

Our Learning this Week

In English, we performed the poem ‘The Dinner Lady Dance’ in class using lots of expression.

Following this, we wrote a poem of our own in the same style. 

We also continued reading the novel and wrote about Michael’s feelings at the end of a chapter.

In Maths, we drew bar charts to present data. We needed to look carefully at the scale given and draw the bars accurately.

Additionally, we interpreted data presented in bar charts.  

In RE, we listened to the story of Abraham and Isaac.

We then hotseated each of the characters to find out how they kept their faith, hope and love in God.

We also wrote a prayer to help us reflect on how the virtues of faith, hope and love help us to be a good neighbour.                    

In P.S.H.E, we discussed the Golden Rules and gave examples of what someone would do to ‘show’ that they are ‘golden’. 

We talked about how we will try to spot peers who are golden in and around school.

In Science, we recapped possible groupings for plants (flowering / non-flowering, trunks, no trunks, deciduous / evergreen etc).

We also investigated classification keys and how they work.

Following this, we created yes/no questions to help us create a classification key.  

In French, we continued learning the names for some pets.

We also learnt how to answer the question ‘As tu des animaux?’ (Have you got any pets?).

In Geography, we recapped our learning about the water cycle and looked at the mini water cycles we had created in our classroom.

Have a look at the pictures of our water cycles now they are fully established!  

We also wrote a definition of a river and discovered where it starts, where it ‘travels’ and where it ends.

In PE, we practised bouncing a ball 3 times then passing – this is a skill used in handball.

We then put this into practise in games.

You can see some pictures in our gallery.

In Art, we further explored pattern using lines and shapes in a ‘zentangle’.

There are some examples in our gallery.

This week, Year 2 also came to share their owl factfiles with us.

We were very impressed with their handwriting, facts and jokes!

There are some pictures in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Lydia

Super Learner: Ellie

Superstar Writer: George

Bookworm: Harper

Marvellous Mathematician: Felicity

Special Mentions: Frankie – for being helpful around the classroom

Eliza – for a beautiful prayer based on the virtues of faith, hope and love

The Year 4 team

Reception Blog - Friday 16th October 2026

Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 12:59pm

Welcome to Reception 

Autumn 1 

Topic – Ourselves 

PSED 

We have been thinking about what makes a good friend this week. 

We sorted some pictures into kind and unkind choices that we make with our friends.  

We have also revisited what we can do if we have big feelings, we spoke about ways to help calm us back down.  

Drawing Club 

We have continued to read ‘Owl Babies’ this week. 

We had a go at retelling the story using a story map, the children were brilliant at using the images to help talk about what happens in the story. 

We then decided to create our own version of the story. 

Before the mummy owl came back the babies, the children made up their own unexpected event that happens. 

We had lots of great ideas.  

Phonics 

We have now learnt s a t p i n m d g o c k    

Please see the formation rhymes below 

We have also learnt the tricky words  

I the to no 

Maths 

This week in number land we have been exploring the number 4.  

We have been focusing on making 4 in different ways, such as 2 + 2, 3+1, 4+0 

RE 

This week role played a Baptism.  

The children enjoyed using the baby to role play and took turns being the parents and godparents.  

We looked at and spoke about the children's Baptism pictures that have been sent in. 

Art 

This week we collaged our own Autumn Leaves using our scissor skills.  

We also made an Autumn Tree painting using the skill of printing with our fingers and cotton buds.  

Understanding the World 

We began to explore the senses this week.  

We learnt that we have 5 different senses, taste, touch, sight, hearing and smelling. 

We then explored smelling further by smelling different herbs from our outdoor area.  

We used the magnifying glass and binoculars to make things bigger using our sight.  

The last exploration was touch; we used a feely bag with different objects inside to described to our friends' what the things felt like.  

Click here to listen to our senses song

Reminders 

We break up for half term next week on Thursday 22nd October at 3.15pm.  

We are back into school on Monday 2nd November :) 

Golden Assembly  

Golden Star - Gabriel & Lily (Chosen by the children this week) 

Super Learner - Theodore 

Superstar Writer - Lucy 

Mathematician – Cove 

Bookworm - Henry 

Special Mention - Erica and Joey 

Year 1 Blog Friday 16th October 2026

Date: 15th Oct 2026 @ 6:36pm

Home Practice

Reading: In Year 1, children should read for at least 10/15 minutes daily and talk about the book/new words they come across.

This will help them become more confident and fluent readers.

Book changing day is on a Monday each week.

Please remember to send book bags in every day as we will read with your children on a regular basis.

Spelling: This week's tricky words are: oh, their, could, because.

Please practise reading and spelling these words. We will have a quiz at the end of next week.

Sumdog: Complete the number bonds within 20

and spelling challenges (the four tricky words above).

Counting: Chant number bonds to 10 and try to learn them by heart.

You could write them down. For example, 0+10=10, 1+9=10, 2+8=10, 3+7=10 and so on. Talk about the patterns you see.

English

Our book this week was - The Secret Sky Garden by Linda Sarah and Fiona Lumbers

The children drew a picture and wrote a description of their very own secret sky garden, making sure they included things they could see, smell, taste, touch and hear.

They also wrote an information poster with facts about the bumble bees that lived in the sky garden and a fantastic simile poem that is on display in class.

Phonics/Handwriting

The children recapped phase 3/4 and learnt some more phase 5 phonics this week.

Building on the sounds they already knew, we looked at oi/oy, ur/ir, oo/ue and or/aw.

They have been neatly writing upper case and lower case letters on handwriting paper.

Maths

The children have started their addition and subtraction topic this week.

They have been learning the number bonds to 10 and recognising teen numbers are created by adding 10 and a 1 digit number for example, 10+5=15, 10+7=17.

We also learnt that adding can be done in any order but we put the largest number first when subtracting.

RE

The children watched a clip about our beautiful planet and all the creatures that God created.

Then they drew a picture to go with the Bible quote...'Let the Earth produce all kinds of animal life.'

Art/RE

'Let there be light.'

The children created either candles or the sun on the horizon as a mosaic using small pieces of coloured card. 

History

We are coming to the end of this topic. The children will be exploring old toys.

Science

We recapped animal categories.

We worked together in teams to make dens and nests to keep our animals dry. we collected natural materials and showed wonderful problem-solving and cooperation.

Forest School is on a  Wednesday - wellington boots are needed.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Rosie

Super Learner - Cameron

Superstar Writer - Teddy

Bookworm - Louie

Mathematician - Billy

Special Mention - Henry Blakeley for being so helpful and volunteering to help tidy up.

Year 2 Blog- Friday 16th October 2026

Date: 15th Oct 2026 @ 5:39pm

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.

MORE CHILDREN HAVE CHANGED THEIR BOOK THIS WEEK.

A FEW MINUTES OF READING EVERY NIGHT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE. THANKS.

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

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Thursday (22.10.26): 

pear      pair         mane      main          plain        plane       tale     tail       stare       stair

Sumdog: Complete the 'Measure' challenge.

Counting: 

At home, count in 5's forwards and backwards.

What do you notice about the numbers you are counting each time?

You may also like to practise the 10x, 5x, 2x and 3x table on Hit The Button. Doubling and halving is also good to practise

Follow the link below:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

English

We wrote our Barn Owl fact sheets this week. We practised writing sentences with different openings to make our writing more interesting for the reader.

We read our fact sheets to the children of Year 3 and 4.

Maths

We have been measuring length, height and mass, using rulers and balance scales.

We have also been learning about the properties of 2D shapes. We used the geo boards to investigate shapes.

RE

Next week, we will continue learning about Baptism. It would be great if you could talk to your child about their own Baptism and maybe send some photographs (not precious ones) into school.

We will use them to further discuss what happens at a Baptism and the importance of being part of the Church family.

History

We made a poster about everything we have learnt about the Great Fire of London.

Forest School

Super imagination and team work was on show when we made our obstacle courses. There were plenty of physical challenges and each team checked their course for safety.

One group had a bit of time in the lodge as it got a bit wet and windy! We did stick wrapping and read some nature stories and non fiction books.

Art

Mrs Robinson taught Art this week. We used pastels to make beautiful Autumn pictures.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Arianna

Super Learner - Judah

Superstar Writer - George

Bookworm - Rupert

Mathematician - Hartley

Special Mentions - Evie E, Lucas for putting 100% effort into all their learning and

Theo for a beautiful Autumn leaf picture.

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Year 3 Blog - Friday 16th October 2026

Date: 15th Oct 2026 @ 10:16am

Home Practice - Sumdog

Maths challenge - Charts

Spelling challenge - Week 7 spellings

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week (on Thursday) – please practise them.

Thursday          March         September          mystery        Friday

April      October        typical         answer        appear

arrive        gymnast          happier         nicest          patting

Egypt        gardener      limitation       writing          crypt

Counting – Can you count in twos? We have been using twos on our bar charts this week.

Reading - Please try to read at least three times a week.

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

We started our final book for this half term: Stone Age Boy. We had two focuses this week: character speech and setting descriptions (using expanded noun phrases). We found that one of our main characters didn't speak very much as she was from the Stone Age!

Maths

We added two-digit numbers together to make 100.

We also collated data and drew bar charts.

P.E.

We focused solely on backstroke.

R.E.

We read 'Laudato Si' and compares its teachings to Genesis. We wrote sentences describing how we can look after our world, and we drew some lovely pictures for our RE display.

Computing

We made our own bar charts on the iPads.

History

We compared the Bronze Age to Iron Age.

Art

We used the charcoal to make an open-ended piece of Art.

Forest School

 We remembered how to be safe around the fire. We used the Kelly Kettle to boil water and we had some delicious hot chocolate with marsh mallows.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Rhodes and Faisal

Super Learner: Jesse F

Superstar Writer: Harry

Bookworm: Cerys

Marvellous Mathematician: April

Special Mentions: Harry and Buzz for their amazing Stone Age learning and William for his beautiful manners.

Year 6 Friday Blog 9th October 2026

Date: 9th Oct 2026 @ 4:34pm

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

First of all, we had a brilliant day visiting All Hallows on Friday. The children had a great time exploring the school, meeting staff and discovering some of the exciting opportunities on offer. It was a lovely chance for everyone to get a feel for secondary school life and start thinking about the next stage of their education. A great day out!

Home Practice

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. 

 We will test your spellings and give out your next set on Monday

All spellings still are on Sumdog to practise. 

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: This week I would like you to practise counting in powers of 10 like we have done in class. 

Draw a line with some marks on it. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.

Start with different numbers and count up 10 numbers then back again in 10s, 100s, 1000s, 10,000s, 100,000s or 1,000,000s. 

Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!

This week in Year 6

In English, we have continued to enjoy The Nowhere Emporium. This week, we explored the character of Ellie and how her relationship with Daniel has developed throughout the story. We also looked at how authors create tension and suspense in their writing, using the dramatic performance of Vindictus Sharpe as our inspiration. The children produced some excellent descriptions, choosing powerful vocabulary and varied sentence structures to build tension and keep the reader interested. Some super writing, Year 6!

In Maths, we have been developing our multiplication skills by using the grid method to solve some trickier calculations. The children have been applying their place value knowledge to partition numbers and work through each stage of the method carefully. Everyone has shown great determination when tackling more challenging problems. Super maths!

In RE, we explored the links between Laudato Si', Pope Francis' letter about caring for our common home, and the second story of Creation in Genesis. We discussed how God entrusted humanity with the responsibility of caring for the Earth and considered what this means for us today. The children made some thoughtful connections between scripture and the importance of looking after our world.

In Art, we have been continuing our work on World War Two silhouettes, using our grid drawing skills to scale up our designs. Everyone worked carefully to keep their shapes and proportions accurate as we prepared our artwork for the next stage. Next week, we will be using these designs to create our card sculptures, bringing our 2D artwork into 3D!

In PE, we have been adapting our invasion games skills to handball. We focused on passing, moving into space and working together to create attacking opportunities. The children enjoyed applying the skills we have developed over the past few weeks to a new game, with some great teamwork and communication on show.

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year 6 Team

Reception Blog - Friday 9th October 2026

Date: 9th Oct 2026 @ 4:30pm

Welcome to Reception 

Autumn 1 

Topic – Ourselves 

PSED 

This week we have spoken about what makes us all different. 

We discussed that being different makes us special. 

We then drew our favourite things for our class book.  

Drawing Club 

We have read ‘Owl Babies’.  

This week we focused on the characters in the story and thought about where the owls lived.  

We created our own owl babies, and we drew what we thought their house might look like inside the hole in the tree.  

Phonics 

We have now learnt s a t p i n m d g   

Please see the formation rhymes below 

We have also learnt the tricky words  

I the 

Maths 

This week in number land we have been exploring the number 3.  

We created our number land for the number 3 and discussed amounts using the words fewer and more. 

RE 

This week we explored what a Baptism is.  

We thought about being welcomed into Gods Family.  

We used pictures to think about what happens at a Baptism. 

Shared Reading 

‘The Three Little Pigs’  

This week we created a story map and used it to help us retell the story. 

We had a go at being the teacher, reading the story out loud to our friends using the story map.  

Art 

We have continued to investigate colour mixing, using pipettes and coloured water. 

Understanding the World 

We learnt the names of the different items in our Autumn Tray.  

We have been sorting our Autumn treasures in lots of different ways,  

Forest School 

This week we played a class game of hide and seek in the forest. 

The children loved it.

Reminders 

We have the LEP photo being taken on Monday.  

Right Start is also on Monday in the afternoon; please make sure your slip has been returned into school.  

Golden Assembly  

Golden Star - Joey 

Super Learner - Martha.S 

Superstar Writer - Oscar 

Mathematician – George 

Bookworm - Gabriel 

Special Mention - Summer 

Year 5 blog Friday 9th October 2026

Date: 9th Oct 2026 @ 4:10pm

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. They are homophones so the children need to understand the meanings of each type of spelling.

accept, except, ball, bawl, berry, bury, grate, great, groan, grown, knot, not, medal, meddle, peace, piece, scene, seen

Counting

Count out loud in:

9’s up to 189 and back again                                                      0,9,18 …

40’s from 160 to 520 and back again                                       160, 200, 240…

100’s from 3200 backwards to 1600                                    3200, 3100, 3000…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables.  Everyone has their own targets.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

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

Please also continue to use the fluency booster on Sumdog.

Year 5 have had another great week of learning and have tried very hard – well done!

In English the class have been learning about relative clauses and sub-ordinating conjunctions to upscale their writing. The children enjoyed writing an imaginative short story, using new joining words.

 In Maths Year 5 have continued to practise addition and subtraction on number lines, using partitioning and compensation strategies, as well as re-visiting column addition. Well done Year 5!

Year 5  have been talking about the significance of the rosary this week, as well as creating beautiful prayers based on virtues for our classroom.   

 In Science, the class have been designing aerodynamic paper planes and testing them to see how far they would fly.

Year 5 have also been applying their typography and design skills in Art this week, as they have started to create their own 3D maps of Narnia.

Finally, in History this week, Year 5 have been discovering how historical sources work and debating how accurate they could be.

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –  Albie

Super Learner – Noah

Superstar Writer –   Emilia

Bookworm – Violet Ca

Marvellous Mathematician -  Hunter

Special Mention -  Lewis

Year 4 Blog Friday 9th October 2026

Date: 9th Oct 2026 @ 4:07pm

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.

Write down the meaning of any words you don’t know.

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

young           touch           double          trouble        country

courage        colour          couple          southern      encourage

cousins         enough         nourish        countries     rough

cousin          doubling       touched       youngster    troubling

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 3’s  

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

0    3   6   9      etc                    36   33   30  etc

Now try counting in 10’s from 146 to 326 and back again

146   156    166    etc                326    316    306  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 perimeter

Our Learning this Week

In English, we read about Michael’s first encounter with Kensuke on the island.

We then planned and wrote a diary account from Kensuke’s point of view.

We tried to ensure we included lots of thoughts and feelings and made it entertaining for the reader.

In Maths, we consolidated our learning that perimeter is the measure of length or distance around the boundary of a shape.

We then applied our understanding to help us calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes when there were some missing measurements.

In RE, we listened to the story of the three visitors who came and told Abraham that he would have a son. 

We drew a picture and wrote a sentence to show our understanding of the story.

In addition, we described the covenant between God and Abraham which included what each promised.

In P.S.H.E, we discussed friendship. We looked at a picture of a group of friends and considered how we could tell they had a positive friendship.

We then discussed what they might like about each other, what they might do together and reasons they might be friends.

In Science, we discussed what we know about living things and identified what they need to survive.

We discovered different features of plants and how we could group them.

We then learnt the difference between deciduous (shed leaves annually) and evergreen plants (keep leaves and needles all year round.

In Art, we continued with our topic ‘exploring pattern’. You can see some of our artwork in our gallery.

In History, we learnt who was in charge of the Roman Empire and designed ‘Top Trump’ cards to show the strengths and powers of the leaders of Rome – Octavian and Agrippa, and Mark Antony and Cleopatra.

In PE, we learnt how to move with the ball and pass in handball. We then put our skills into games.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Lydia

Super Learner:  Isaac

Superstar Writer:   Dylan

Bookworm:  Devyn

Marvellous Mathematician: Adam

Special Mentions: Wilbur for being a good friend

Sam for excellent history, beautifully presented

The Year 4 team

Year 2 Blog-Friday 9th October 2026

Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 5:43pm

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.

MORE CHILDREN HAVE CHANGED THEIR READING BOOKS THIS WEEK.BRILLIANT!!!

A FEW MINUTES OF READING EVERY NIGHT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE. THANKS.

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

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (16.10.26): 

beech       beach       see     sea      meet      meat      steel        steal      week     weak   

We have been learning about homophones.

The children need to learn the correct spelling and meaning.

Sumdog: Complete the 'Adding 1-digit numbers' challenge.

Counting: 

At home, count in 10's forwards and backwards but start on a 1-digit number.

For example, 2, 12, 22, 32, 42, 52 or 7, 17, 27, 37, 47, 57 or 8, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58, 68. 

What do you notice about the numbers you are counting each time?

You may also like to practise the 10x, 5x and 2x table on Hit The Button. Follow the link below:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

English

This week we have become owl experts. We read pieces of non-fiction writing about owls and wrote down all the facts we could find.

We learnt about the features of a non-chronological report and wrote a plan for our own reports.

We also used non-fiction books from the library to write a book report.

Phonics

We have been revising igh as in light, i-e as in kite, ie as in tie.

Maths

The children have been adding/subtracting 2 digit numbers, 26+32 or 49-33 using tens and ones apparatus, lines and dots and by mental partitioning methods. We have also continued our work on number bonds to 10, 20 and 100. This came in useful when we were adding three 1-digit numbers together. For example, 3+5+7=15. The children calculated 3+7=10 first, then added the five to make 15.

RE

This week, we have revisited the sacrament of Baptism.

The children thought about the signs and symbols of Baptism (white garment, water, Baptismal Candle, oils) and what happens in Church when a baby is Baptised.

History

We leant all about what happened after the Great Fire of London. We compared before and after pictures to discover what had stayed the same and what had changed.

Forest School

We found and identified many creatures. We did some fantastic den building and showed great co-operation.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Oscar

Super Learner - Noah J.

Superstar Writer - Isla-May

Bookworm - Stanley

Mathematician - Louie

Special Mentions -Noah B. for being a good friend, Lucas for changing his books often and Evie E. for being a kind friend.

Year 1 Blog Friday 9th October 2026

Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 1:27pm

Home Practice

Reading: In Year 1, children should read for at least 10/15 minutes daily and talk about the book/new words they come across.

This will help them become more confident and fluent readers.

Book changing day is on a Monday each week.

Please remember to send book bags in every day as we will read with your children on a regular basis.

Spelling: This week's tricky words are: looked, called, asked, saw.

Please practise reading and spelling these words. We will have a quiz at the end of next week.

Sumdog: Complete the measure challenge

and spelling challenge (the four tricky words above).

Sumdog is up and running correctly again!

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in 1's to 50. Play the follow me game we played in class - take turns to count the numbers.

You might want to have a go at this number challenge.

https://nrich.maths.org/problems/writing-digits 

English

Our book this week was - Peace at Last by Julie Murphy.

The children wrote some instructions on how to make a cup of tea for Mr Bear (using time connectives - first, next then, finally).

They also gave advice on things Mr Bear could do to get to sleep.

Phonics/Handwriting

The children learnt some new phase 5 phonics this week, building on the sounds they already knew. We looked at ai/ay, ow/ou, igh/ie and ee/ea.

They have been neatly writing upper case and lower case letters on handwriting paper.

Maths

The children have been learning to measure length using cubes and paper clips. They have used the maths vocab - longer, shorter, taller or longest, shortest, tallest.

We also looked at comparing weight using balance scales, deciding if objects were equal weight, heavier or lighter.

RE

During worship time, the children learnt more about praying the Rosary.

Art

Year 1 used paint and leaf stampers to create beautiful Autumn trees.

Forest School is on a  Wednesday - wellington boots are needed.

A fantastic session. The children always show brilliant consideration to each other, great teamwork and problem solving. We built dens, found and identified creatures, did some stick wrapping and made some muddy creations.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Hugh

Super Learner - Nola

Superstar Writer - Lucie, Rosie and Arabella

Bookworm - Erin

Mathematician - Amelie

Special Mention - Chester, Vinnie, Ivy, Elijah and Maisie (Red Table).

Super team work and organisation.

Year 3 Blog - Friday 9th October 2026

Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 10:05am

Home Practice - Sumdog

Maths challenge - Measuring perimeter

Spelling challenge - Week 6 spellings

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them.

crystal          pyramid         bicycle           oxygen        gym

symbol        Egypt        crypt         hymn        syrup

cylinder        lyrics          mystery         typical            gymnastics

myth

Counting – Can you count in tens? If you can, use a ruler to help you then convert the numbers into cm numbers!

Reading - Please try to read at least three times a week.

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

Our new mammoth book is called 'Mammoth: Big Beast, Big City, Big Trouble'. We predicted what could happen in the story, wrote expanded noun phrase sentences, used thought bubbles to infer feelings and wrote a diary entry in role of the mammoth.

We also wrote our own stories about some children who were on the moon!

Maths

We measured lines using both centimetres and millimetres. We also measured the perimeter of shapes.

P.E.

We practised turning from our front to our back.

R.E.

We highlighted key parts of Psalm 8 and we wrote our own canticle of creation.

Science

We started to make a prototype of our arm muscles.

Computing

We identified where the networks are in our classroom and our school.

History

We persuaded people to use bronze tools instead of stone tools.

Art

We used torches and sketching pencils to sketch objects.

Forest School

We demonstrated excellent teamwork skills making our shelters. It was really windy, which added to the challenge! There were great know tying skills on display, as well as problem solving, resilience and imaginative solutions.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Amelia

Super Learner: Lara and Rudy

Superstar Writer: Zac

Bookworm: Cerys

Marvellous Mathematician: Gigi

Special Mentions: Faisal for completing extra Science learning at home,

Year 6 Friday Blog 2nd October 2026

Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 4:41pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Please complete the following tasks by next Thursday: 

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. 

Please practise the following spellings this week, 

All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test next Friday. 

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: Practise counting in your multiples! 

Choose a times table. How far can you count in multiples of that number? Can you count backwards as well as forwards?

Times Tables: This week we're practising our x6 times tables.

Number: This week's learning is to practise questions multiples and factors, which will help Year 6 with their multiplication work in class. 

This week in Year 6

First of all, a massive well done to Year 6, who were amazing in church presenting our Harvest Assembly to our school community. Everyone spoke clearly, sang beautifully and did a great job of reminding us all about the importance of Harvest, being thankful for what we have and looking after our common home. We were very proud of the way the children led the celebration and represented Year 6. Well done everyone!

In English, we have continued to love reading The Nowhere Emporium. This week, our focus has been on speech and how we can incorporate dialogue effectively into our narrative writing. We practised using split speech sentences, choosing interesting alternatives to ‘said’ and adding actions and description to show the reader how a character is speaking. We are really starting to see some ambitious vocabulary and varied sentence structures appearing in our writing now. Keep it up, Year 6!

In Maths, we have been exploring some new mental maths strategies, thinking carefully about how we can manipulate numbers to make calculations quicker and easier. We also started our next topic on multiplication and division, using what we already know about number facts to tackle some trickier calculations and problems. 

In RE, we stepped into the shoes of Fr Georges Lemaître, the Catholic priest and scientist who first proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory. We wrote letters responding to questions from our parishioners, thinking carefully about how science and faith can work alongside one another when we explore the beginnings of our universe. The children produced some thoughtful responses and used everything they have learned over the past few weeks to explain some quite complex ideas clearly.

In Art, we used our grid drawing skills to scale up our dog drawings to A3. Everyone had great success with this and showed real concentration when transferring each section of their original drawing onto a much larger scale. The finished pieces look fantastic and show just how effective the grid method can be. Next, we will use this learning as we move towards creating our 3D sculptures.

In PE, we extended our invasion games learning by playing 3v5 attack versus defence games. This gave us a real challenge as we had to think carefully about creating space, communicating with teammates and making quick decisions when attacking. Our defenders also had to work together to close down space and make it difficult for the attacking team. Some great teamwork on show!

Golden Assembly

Star of the week - Archie S

Super Learner - Henry

Writer of the week - Jenson

Bookworm - Mark

Marvellous Mathematician - Lily

Special Mentions - All of Year 6 for their brilliant Harvest celebration in church

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year 6 Team

Year 4 Blog Friday 2nd October 2026

Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 4:22pm

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 spot any coordinating conjunctions (for and nor but or yet so).

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

crystal         gym             hymn            mystery       myth

pyramid       symbol         syrup           typical         Egypt

bicycle         cymbals        cylinder       gymnast       gymnastics

oxygen         crypt           lyrics

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 5’s

For example, start at 0 and count to 60 and back again

0    5     10    etc                       60    55     50  etc

Now try counting in 10’s from 268 to 428 and back again

268     278    288    etc             428    418    408  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 perimeter

Our learning this week

In English, we learnt the acronym FANBOYS to help us remember the 7 co-ordinating conjunctions.

The conjunctions are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So. We then practised using them in sentences.

We also wrote a class poem for National Poetry Day on Thursday.

In Maths, we learnt how to measure and draw lengths as properties of 2D shapes, as well as how to measure in centimetres and millimetres.

In addition, learnt that perimeter is the measure of length or distance around the boundary of a shape.

We then applied our understanding to help us calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes.

In RE, we again consolidated our learning of the words - virtue, faith, hope and love.

We then read St John Henry Newman’s ‘Mission of my Life’, underlined our favourite line and explained why we liked it and how we could relate it to our everyday lives. 

In P.S.H.E, we demonstrated our strategies for working on a collaborative task.

This involved choosing a challenge card and creating a human machine with our group.

We all had to work together to achieve the task.

In Science, we recapped the 5 vertebrate groups (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals).

Following this, we discussed the definition of invertebrates and how they can be grouped.

In Geography, we learnt about the water cycle and how water travels from the ground to the sky and back again, over and over.

We learnt the words evaporation, condensation, precipitation and ground water and created our own mini water cycle.

There are a couple of pictures in the gallery.

In French, we recapped animals (un chien, un char, un lapin, une souris, une tortue).

We then sang a song to help remember the animals and played a matching game to show our understanding.

This week, we also attended the Harvest Mass in church on Friday afternoon.

Thank you for your harvest gifts – these will be donated to a local food bank.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week: Devyn

Super Learner: Rose

Superstar writer: Ellie

Bookworm: Isaac

Marvellous Mathematician: Henry P

Special Mentions: Harrison for excellent team work in netball

Amelia C for always being positive and coming into class with a big smile on her face

The Year 4 team

Year 5 blog - Friday 2nd October 2026

Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 4:18pm

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.

Information,  adoration,  sensation,  preparation,  admiration,  poisonous,  dangerous,  mountainous,  famous,  various,  tremendous,  enormous,  jealous,  humorous,  glamorous,  vigorous,  courageous,   serious

Counting

Count out loud in:

12’s up to 168 and back again                                                      0,12,24…

70’s from 210 to 840 and back again                                       210, 280, 350…

200’s from 4200 backwards to 2800                                     4200, 4000, 3800…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables.  Everyone has their own targets.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

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

Please also continue to use the fluency booster on Sumdog.

Year 5 have had a fantastic week of learning and have put in 100% effort – well done!

In English the class have been practising blending action, dialogue and speech, writing as Lucy lost in the woods. Everyone also enjoyed creating and performing poems about Autumn for poetry week. The class also really enjoyed walking down to the library to meet Jen Carney the children’s author. They heard readings from her book and took part in some fun games and activities.

 In Maths Year 5 have started their new topic, practising adding and subtracting on a number line and using partitioning. Well done Year 5!

Year 5 have continued to explore the theological and cardinal virtues in RE this week and have been discussing how to apply them in practical habits every day. They all enjoyed creating role play scenarios about this and acting them out.   

In computing, the class have been developing their knowledge about search engine optimisation and algorithms used to decide what search engines show us in results.

Finally, the whole school celebrated harvest together in the church – great singing Year 5 and thank you to everyone that donated food.

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –  Oscar

Super Learner – Eddie

Superstar Writer –   Daisy

Bookworm -   Jessica A

Marvellous Mathematician -  Heidi

Special Mention -  Oliver

Year 1 Blog Friday 2nd October 2026

Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 1:01pm

Home Practice

Reading: In Year 1, children should read for at least 10/15 minutes daily and talk about the book/new words they come across.

This will help them become more confident and fluent readers.

Book changing day is on a Monday each week.

Please remember to send book bags in every day as we will read with your children on a regular basis.

Spelling: This week's tricky words are: Mr, Mrs, people, and.

Please practise reading and spelling these words. We will have a quiz at the end of next week.

Sumdog: Complete the number challenge (one more/one less)

and spelling challenge (the four tricky words above).

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in 1's to 100.

English

Our book this week was - Stanley's Stick by John Hegley

The children predicted what stanley would use his stick for, learnt about time connectives and retold the story.

Phonics/Handwriting

The children have revisited phase 2/3/4 phonics. Next week we will be learning phase 5 phonics.

They have been neatly writing upper case and lower case letters on handwriting paper.

Maths

We have finished our Place Value topic this week.

The children worked on saying one more than or one fewer than a given number.

They also compared numbers by deciding which was more, less or equal to.

RE

The children sequenced The Creation Story in their books and thought more about what was created on each day.

Science

 The children took part in a senses investigation.

Art

Year 1 used continuous line drawings to create pebbles and stones in their sketch books.

Then they used watercolours to paint vibrant shells.

PE

The children had a great session working on their fundamental skills.

PE day has moved to a Thursday.

Computing

We learnt the different parts of a computer/laptop.

This week we had a leaf challenge. We found as many different leaves as we could. Some of us made them into crowns. We crowned ourselves the kings and queens of Autumn!

Forest School is on a  Wednesday - wellington boots are needed.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Arabella

Super Learner - Ella

Superstar Writer - Alice

Bookworm - Jenson

Mathematician - Joey and Jake

Special Mention - Vinnie and Finlay for thinking of others and Lucie for her generosity.

Reception Blog - Friday 2nd October 2026

Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 12:53pm

Welcome to Reception

Autumn 1

Topic – Ourselves

PSED

This week we have been sharing our favourite things with are friends, noticing how everyone likes different things and that is okay.

 We shared the story “Our Class Family”

We thought about being a family at school.

“We are all different, we all belong, and we look after one another.”

We created a list of lovely things that we can do to make sure we look after our class family.

Drawing Club

We continued to read ‘Super Duper You’.

We spoke about everybody being unique and special.  

This week we created a special place for our ‘Super-Duper’ character to live.

Phonics

We have now learnt s a t p i n m d g

We know the tricky words

I the 

Please see the formation rhymes below

Maths

This week in number land we have been exploring the number 2.

We investigated different ways of making 2, with cubes, ten frames, dominos.

We have also been looking at repeating patterns and practising our touch counting.

RE

We continued to learn the story about God creating the world.

Light, sky, earth, sea and land, the sun and moon, animals and humans.

We looked at ourselves in the mirror and talked about how we are Gods greatest creation.  

Shared Reading

 Our traditional tale story is ‘The Three Little Pigs’

We discussed the different characters in the story and the setting.

We listened to the story and joined in the repeated phrases.

Art

We explore mixing the primary colours, we painted our hands two different primary colours and mixed them together to see what new colour we could make.

We learnt the new colours we made are the secondary colours.

Click here to sing our primary colours song.

Understanding the World

We began to learn about the season on Autumn.

We explored our autumn treasure tray of what the children found on their own autumn walks.

We then decided to be leaf detectives and see what different leaves we could find in our outdoor areas. We used them to create leaf rubbing pictures using the autumn colours.

Forest School

We had a story about Firey Fox who learns how to be safe around a fire. We discussed whst is needed for a fire to light. We practised moving safely around the fire circle. we watched Mrs Corbett light the fire and talked about what we could cook on a fire. Fantastic listening from everyone.

Reminders

We look forward to seeing you at the phonics workshops next week 😊

Golden Assembly

Golden Star - Iris

Super Learner - Bella

Superstar Writer - Richard

Mathematician – Marnie-Mae

Bookworm - Theo

Special Mention - Alex

Year 2 Blog-Friday 2nd October 2026

Date: 1st Oct 2026 @ 6:27pm

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.

WE HAVE NOTICED THAT SOME CHILDREN HAVE NOT CHANGED THEIR BOOKS RECENTLY.

A FEW MINUTES OF READING EVERY NIGHT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE. THANKS.

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

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (19.10.25):

wait     weight        ate      eight        break      brake      sail           sale         pain     pane

We have been learning about homophones.

The children need to learn the correct spelling and meaning.

Sumdog: Addition challenge

Counting: At home, count in 2's, 5's and 10's forwards and backwards.

You may also like to practise the 10x, 5x and 2x table on Hit The Button. Follow the link below:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

English

We listened to some more chapters from the book. We wrote our own version of the story.

It was National Poetry Day this week and we wrote a poem about the dark.

Phonics

We have been revising the long a sound, ai as in train, ay as in tray, eigh as in eight.

SPaG

We have been learning about contracted forms of words such as I'll, won't,didn't, can't. The children are trying to use them as often as possible in their own writing.

Maths

The children have been adding/subtracting a multiple of 10 to/from a 2 digit number, 26+20 or 41-30. We have also worked on number bonds to 10 and 100.

Geography

The children know the seven continents and five oceans so well now. During our lesson, we looked at the continent of Europe in more detail. 

Forest School 

We were in our nature area this week. Some of us thought thought we had found a fresh mouse hole and spent a lot of time exploring it .

There was also stick wrapping, bug hunting and climbing.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Zara

Super Learner - Harriet

Superstar Writer - Elish

Bookworm - Grace

Mathematician - Noah H.

Special Mentions -Oscar for being a kind and thoughtful friend and

George and Indie for creative natural pictures in R.E.

Thank you for all your generous Harvest gifts.

The children enjoyed the Harvest service this afternoon and sang beautifully.

Year 3 Blog - Friday 2nd October 2026

Date: 1st Oct 2026 @ 9:56am

Home Practice - Sumdog

Maths challenge - 2D shape

Spelling challenge - Week 5 spellings

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them.

forget           forgetting         forgotten           begin      beginning

beginner         prefer         preferred         gardening        gardener

limited         limiting          limitation         cleaning            cleaner

reader       reading         writer           writing             footballer

Counting – We have been choosing different numbers to count up in 10s (as noted in the blog last week). Can you do the same for counting in 5s? For example: 3, 8, 13, 18, 23...

Reading - Please try to read at least three times a week.

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

Our new book for this week was called 'How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth'. We discussed the features of instructions, found the features in a text, created a bank of adverbs and wrote our own set of instructions.

We also celebrated National Poetry Day. We wrote an acrostic poem about Autumn.

Maths

We made 2D shapes on geoboards which had certain requirements (such as: make a pentagon with one right-angle). We also recapped how to measure length using a ruler and how to convert centimetres into metres.

P.E.

We practised the front and back strokes, focusing on the correct arm movements.

R.E.

We compared four different saints of creation: St Mother Théodore Guérin, St Francis of Assisi, St Martin de Porres and St Kateri Tekakwitha.

Science

We practised contracting and relaxing our arm muscles.

History

We identified Neolithic tools.

Forest School

We remembered how to be safe around the fire. Mr Corbett lit the fire and we were invited to toast marshmallows.

Some of us had a go at lighting our own fire with the flint and steel.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Hannah

Super Learner: Cara

Superstar Writer (poet of the week): Seb

Bookworm: Lara

Marvellous Mathematician: Jessie

Special Mentions: Harry and Freya for confidently explaining their science experiment results. Joshua W for never giving up!

Year 5 blog Friday 25th September 2026

Date: 25th Sep 2026 @ 3:58pm

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.

beginning  beginner  gardening  gardener  limiting  limited  limitation  finally comically  happily  angrily  gently  simply  humbly  dramatically  forgotten  forgetting  basically

Counting

Count out loud in:

8’s up to 104 and back again                                                      0,8,16,24…

60’s from 240 to 660 and back again                                       240, 300, 360…

300’s from 4200 backwards to 2800                                     4200, 3900, 3600…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables.  Everyone has their own targets.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

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

Please also continue to use the fluency booster on Sumdog.

Year 5 have had a fantastic week of learning and have worked incredibly hard – well done!

In English everyone has been drafting, editing and publishing a persuasive letter from the Queen of Narnia, using ambitious vocabulary. Everyone has also been working hard to present their work beautifully.

 In Maths the class have been working out how to describe and extend number sequences involving decimals. Well done Year 5!

In RE, the topic this week has been about the theological and cardinal virtues and how to practise the habit of doing good things in life.

 Finally, the week ended with their UK topic in Geography. They were able to identify and interpret various ordnance survey symbols.

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week – Isla

Super Learner – Jessica M

Superstar Writer –  Violet C

Bookworm -  Alexander

Marvellous Mathematician - Drew

Special Mention -  Bella

Year 4 Blog Friday 25th September 2026

Date: 25th Sep 2026 @ 3:39pm

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. Look up any words you are unsure of in a dictionary.

 

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

kindly           slowly           loudly           comically      crossly

quietly         angrily         happily         sleepily        hesitantly

gently          simply          humbly         nobly            sarcastically

basically       quickly         dramatically           frantically             worryingly

 

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 10’s  

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

0     10     20        etc                 120   110   100  etc

Now try counting in 10’s from 158 to 238 and back again

158   168   178    etc                 238   228   218

                  

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 ‘studio’ session – please log on and have a go! This will help you to build up your Rock Star status

Why not challenge someone else in Year 4 to a ‘Rock Slam’. This is a competition and you can set a score for them to beat. You don’t need to be online at the same time.

 

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A maths challenge based on adding and subtracting numbers within 100.

This will help with basic maths skills of quickly adding and subtracting numbers mentally.

In English, we analysed the features of an informal letter.

We then planned and wrote our own letter from Michael to his best friend Eddie, which outlined the countries we had visited and the adventures we had had during our sailing trip around the world.

 

In Maths, we added and subtracted multiples of 10 to 3 digit numbers (eg 342 + 250 and 528 – 340).

In addition, we used counters and a number line to solve addition or subtraction calculations which required mental partitioning.

Take a look in our gallery for some examples.

 

In RE, we talked about how Abraham is a model of prayer and how we can use prayer in our everyday lives.

There are some examples of our work in our gallery.

 

In Science, we recapped the 5 animal groups (amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles) and then used observable features to group and classify vertebrates.  

 

In History, we became ‘archaeologists’.

We looked at various Roman artefacts and considered what they are, what they may have been made of, who might have used them and what they tell us about the Romans.

We had a very interesting discussion.

 

In PE, we continued to practise our bounce and chest passes during mini games of 4 attackers v 2 defenders using only a third of the netball court.

We then concentrated on both the throws, and how to be an effective attacker or defender, in full court games.

 

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Harrison

Super Learner: Adam

Superstar Writer: Sam

Bookworm: Melodie

Mathematician: Rowan

Special Mentions: Elyse and Henry for great observations about the Romans when looking at artefacts

Florence for great teamwork in PE

 

The Year 4 team

Year 6 Friday blog 25th September 2026

Date: 25th Sep 2026 @ 12:02pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Please complete the following tasks by next week: 

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. Lots have changed their book this week so well done on reading more this week!

All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test next Friday. 

Maths Challenges: 

Counting: Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?

Which is quicker, counting up to 40 in ones or counting up to 4,000 in hundreds?

Which is quicker, counting up to 10 in ones or counting up to 1,000,000 in hundred-thousands?

Which is quicker, counting up to 20 in ones or counting up to 140 in sevens?

Which is quicker, counting up to 25 in French or in English?

Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!

Maths Practise: This week's learning is to continue to practise questions on addition and subtraction. For further Maths practise, enter the flluency competition which will focus on skills Sumdog has given them.

Year 1 Blog Friday 25th September 2026

Date: 25th Sep 2026 @ 11:30am

Home Practice

Reading: In Year 1, children should read for at least 10/15 minutes daily and talk about the book/new words they come across.

This will help them become more confident and fluent readers.

Book changing day is on a Monday each week.

Please remember to send book bags in every day as we will read with your children on a regular basis.

Spelling: This week's tricky words are: out, what, it's and she.

Please practise reading and spelling these words. We will have a quiz at the end of next week.

Sumdog: Complete the number challenge (1-20 Numbers and Words)

and spelling challenge (the four tricky words above).

Counting: Count forwards and backwards in 10's to 100.

You could write the numbers down and spot any patterns.

English

Our book this week was - The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr.

Year 1 wrote a description of the tiger, designed a tin of tiger food and sequenced the story using pictures.

Phonics/Handwriting

The children have revisited phase 2/3/4 phonics.

They played phonics games such as, Bingo, Phonics Aerobics, Popcorn and Cross the River.  

They have been neatly writing number words from one to twenty on handwriting paper.

Maths

We have continued counting objects and making sure we are correctly forming our numbers this week.

We also learnt more about numbers to thirty. The children could see that 16 is one ten and six ones and 24 is two groups of ten and four ones.

They enjoyed making these numbers with a variety of equipment - tens and ones, bundles of straws and counters/tens frames.

RE

After reading The Creation Story, the children thought about their favourite thing that God created.

They wrote what it was and drew lovely pictures.

Science

 The children created their own animals with special features such as beaks, fur, feathers, gills, scales or wings.

Art

Year 1 enjoyed watching a video clip that explored different spiral patterns in nature.

They used these ideas to help them draw some of their own versions in their sketch books.

Computing

We learnt about things that are technology and things that are not technology.

We had a go at stick wrapping. This is really good for our fine motor skills. We showed great perseverance and creativity.

We all worked together to move a huge log, amazing teamwork!

Someone found a shield bug and said, "It's a walking leaf".

There was some imaginative cooking, many insects were discovered and identified and there were also great climbing skills on show.

Forest School is on a  Wednesday - wellington boots are needed.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Luca

Super Learner - Maisie

Superstar Writer - Hugh and Lucie

Bookworm - Ava-Grace

Mathematician - Henry Blakeley

Special Mention - Caleb for his resilience and Harry for his lovely manners.