Year 1 Blog- Friday 8th March 2024

Date: 5th Mar 2024 @ 11:22am

Home Practice

Phonics - i_e words OR y (ee sound) words OR ow words

Maths - reading and writing words

Counting - Count in 10s starting at different numbers, 12,22,32 and so on.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

English

For the first part of the week we were rehearsing our Mother's Day assembly. We all tried so hard to speak clearly and confidently. Thank you for coming to see our assembly-we hope you enjoyed it.

Then, we started our new learning through the story of Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. We discussed the story and all the wonderful characters. We are going to write our own version and make it into a book which we will read to other children in school.

Phonics

Some of us have been revising ee as in sheep and learning y as in happy. We have also been learning how to pronounce the e as in equal and remind.

Some of us are revising the different igh spellings, we have focused on ie in tie, i_e in time and y in cry.

Maths

We have been learning about the properties of 3D shapes such as cubes, cuboids and spheres.

R.E.

We have been listening to the story of Jesus arriving in Bethlehem, otherwise known as Palm Sunday. We learnt that Jesus was welcomed by some people by them waving palm leaves, but He was not welcomed by everyone. There were some people who were angry and claimed that Jesus was not the king!

D.T.

We have been learning about how to eat healthily. We learnt about the Eat Well Plate and the different sections (protein, carbohydrates, fats, dairy, fruit and vegetables). We talked about how we need bits from each section but they need to be in proportion.

Forest School

We continued our learning about using tools safely. We used a hammer and a screwdriver. We learnt the difference between a nail and a screw.

Year 2 Blog - Friday 1st March

Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 4:07pm

Home Practice

Reading - Please try to read for 10 minutes every night.  

Spellings –Spelling quiz will be on MONDAY 4th March

Hiked      hiking     hiker     biked      biking     biker      shined     

Shining     shinier    shaking

Times Tables –  A times tables sheet will be sent home every Wednesday. Please learn these like the tables for a quiz on Wednesday 6^th March.

Counting - Practise counting in 5s from any given number.  Challenge – count in tens from 0 to 100. Challenge – now count from 100 to 0!

Sumdog Challenges Maths – x5 times tables practice and measure Challenge

Sumdog Challenge Spellings –  -ed     -er     -ing suffix 

Sumdog Competition for Year 2 – past tense

This week in Year 2

English

This week we have continued to learn through our book ‘The Lumberjack’s Beard’. The children wrote a character description for Lumberjack Jim and explored great vocabulary from the text.

Maths

This week we started the Measurement topic. The children ordered mass from heaviest to lightest, read numbers on different scales and compared different weights for objects.

RE

In our learning this week, we wrote about the journey of Lent. We also discussed what happens on St David’s Day.

ART

In Art this week, we observed patterns, colours and shapes when drawing tulips. We also used a fork to experiment with the effects we could achieve when dragging it through paint.

Click here to see some photos.

 Reminders

World Book Day is Thursday 7^th March. Please come into school dressed as your favourite character. There will also be an oppportunity to swap a book with someone from your class.

#LetGirlsPlay – all the girls who would like to have a go at playing football can do so on Friday 8^th March at Dinner Play!

PTFA Easter Bingo – Thursday 21^st March 6.30pm-7.30pm.

Have a lovely weekend.

Reception Blog - Friday 1st March 2024

Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 3:29pm

Phonics

This week we have been learning the ai and ee sounds.

Maths

We have been learning about one less than a number. We have been looking at number sentences and using beanbags to help us take an amount away.

Drawing Club

This week, we read the story; The Odd Egg.

We predicted what would be in the duck's egg. Then we designed our own machine to open the egg and drew how we would care for a baby crocodile.

R.E.

We continued talking about Lent and revisited our Lenten promises. We listened to a story all about being sorry and talked about what we can do to make people feel better.

Understanding the World

We continued our new topic about Africa. This week we looked at atlas', maps and globes to help us find Africa. We talked about what the different colours meant and what they could be. The children were fascinated with the animals that lived in certain parts of Africa. We then created our own maps of Africa.

Expressive Arts and Design

In Art, we have been painting pictures of daffodils.

PSED

We  learnt how to brush our teeth. We also watched a story song called The Pantosaurus by the NSPCC, which tells us how important it is to keep what is in our underpants private and to ourselves.

Year 4 Blog Friday 1st March 2024

Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 8:40am

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.

See if you can spot any adverbs when you’re reading. Adverbs are words which describe a verb eg. He ate his breakfast quickly. The word ‘quickly’ is an adverb.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

calf    calves          half    halves          knife  knives

leaf    leaves          shelf  shelves        thief thieves

yourself       yourselves    themselves

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 5s. 

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

0     5     10   etc                                 60     55     50   etc

Now have a go at counting in 50’s

Start at 0 and count up to 600 and back again

0     50     100       etc                                   600     550     500    etc

Times tables and Number facts

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week. 

You can practise your tables on 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.

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A times tables challenge based on the 6 and 12 times tables

Please also click on the link below and have a go at the tenths and hundredths quiz which will help consolidate our maths learning from this week.

https://www.iknowit.com/lessons/c-decimals-tenths-and-hundredths.html

In English, we experimented using adverbs / adverbial phrases in sentences and then moving them around to different places. This helped us understand how to use an adverb / adverbial phrase in our writing to make it more interesting, and we also became experts at recognising whether the sentence ‘sounded’ grammatically correct or not.

In Maths, we learnt that a tenth can be divided by 10 to create a hundredth.  Using pictorial representations to help with our learning, we learnt the equivalence of tenths, hundredths, common fractions and the decimal forms of these.

In RE, we learnt about the different parts of the Communion Rite.  We then wrote our own prayer for peace and unity. We also discussed ‘Living in Communion’ and what this means in daily life.

In PSHE, we recognised how people manage their feelings. In addition, we discussed how people show their feelings through their body language.

In PE, we practised our netball skills and then played a game. We also learnt some new ways to balance in our gymnastics lesson.

This week, we also took part in a brilliant dance session, a triathlon event and enjoyed the 'wear something bright' school disco. Have a look at our galleries.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 team

Year 3 Friday Blog 1st March 2024

Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 8:10am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

What a busy week full of dance, DT, art, disco and even a triathlon!

Home Practice

Continue with the great reading at home. See the guide added last week for top tips on home reading.

We have set a fractions and x8 challenge on Sumdog this week.

Your spellings all have the wh spelling pattern, see below. 

wheels    everywhere    wheelchair    whirlwind    meanwhile    whack    whistled    somewhere    whispered    whenever

This week in Year 3

In English this week we have been learning how to use persuasive language in our writing. Year 5 came and read their persuasive pieces to us on Monday and we wrote our own persuasive pieces about visiting South Africa. We then reorded our writing onto Apple Clips to make an advert. Super work Year 3!

In Maths, we learnt how to calculate fractions of shapes and numbers this week. We used our times tables and division facts to help us.

In art this week we explored mark making by different artists. Have a look in our galleries.

In Science this week we investigated reflections and how light sources and reflective objects differ. We had some great discussions and debates about how light works.

We also had lots of visitors this week. On Friday, TriKids come to school and set up a triathlon for us to complete. Everyone gave it their all and supported each other brilliantly. On Thursday, we had a dance session, learning new dance skills and moves to Dance the Night by Dua Lipa! Check out our gallery!

Have a great weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 5 Blog Friday 1st March 2024

Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 8:01am

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look at how speech is used. Try to use good expression when reading speech. Next week we will be writing a character description from our new book. If you have a character that you like, bring your book into school.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. They are words which have apostrophes for contraction. This means a word or group of words have been shortened. The apostrophe represents missing letters. It is important that you remember to put the apostrophe in the right place.

don’t          they’re          can’t          doesn’t          won’t          I’ve          I’ll          she’s          he’s          you’re          you’ve          couldn’t          wouldn’t          shouldn’t          persuade

Counting

Count out loud in:

5s from 0 to 60 and back again.                   5, 10, 15, …

Tenths from 0 to 2 and back again.             0.1, 0.2, 0.2, …

Halves (0.5) from 0 to 10 and back again.   0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, …

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day. You either have your own tables target or please practise dividing by 9.  

Telling the time

Visit the following website to practise telling the time.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock

Sumdog

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Competition – boys v girls

Spelling Challenge

We have had a wonderful week this week.

In English, we wrote two different adverts to persuade different audiences. The first was an advert to persuade children to go to the circus. The second was an advert to persuade an adult to donate money to a charity which helps animals. The language we used was very different in each advert as they had different audiences and different purposes. We also recorded our adverts and used our voices as an additional way to persuade our audience. We tested out our circus adverts on Years 2, 3 and 6 who gave us a star rating for how likely they were to go to the circus after hearing our advert. There were lots of 7/7 ratings.  

In Maths, we calculated the area of different shapes and also solved problems involving time. This included converting between 12-hour and 24-hour times and reading analogue and digital clocks. If you are not confident with reading the time, please practise at home this week.

In RE we made links between the Passover and the Last Supper. We discussed how Jesus would have celebrated the Passover each year to celebrate his people being freed from slavery. We also discussed how the Last Supper was a very special Passover feast as this was when Jesus knew he was going to die, and was the first time Jesus turned the wine into his blood and the bread into his body.

In art, we started our new topic about landscapes. Throughout the topic we will be using different media to create pictures of landscapes. These will include pencil, ink, paint, charcoal, pastels, etc. This week we used different sketching pencils. Everybody did such a fantastic job.

Year 1 Blog- Friday 1st March 2024

Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 6:20pm

Home Practice

Phonics - air words OR ch words (phase 3 recap) OR ai spellings (these are a bit trickier this week!)

Maths -  2D and 3D shape

Counting - Count in 10s starting at different numbers, 12,22,32 and so on.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

English

We have beeen preparing for our Mother's Day assembly which is on Wednesday 6th March at 2.40pm in the hall.

We read the story My Mum by Anthony Browne. We have been writing prayers and descriptions of our mums.

Phonics

Some of us have been revising ch as in cheese and learning ch as in echo and ch as in chef.

Some of us have been finishing our ai spellings. We looked at eigh in eight, a in acorn and ea in steak.

Maths

We have been recapping the various 2D and 3D shapes. We also recapped the mathematical vocabulary of vertices, edges, sides and faces.

Science

We started our weather topic. We watched videos of different weather patterns - sunny, rainy, cloudy and snowy. We then drew our own pictures of each type of weather.

History

We learnt all about Florence Nightingale and how she is significant. We learnt that Florence helped change the way that hospitals are run and how she taught nurses to prevent diseases from spreading.

Art

We made our Mother's Day cards. We sketched a rose using our spiral technique that we learnt in Autumn term, then painted them.

Forest School

We made soup using water boiled in the Kelly Kettle. We made full use of the new shelter on one of the days when it was raining hard! 

It has been great to talk to you all on the parents nights. Thank you for all your amazing support.

Year 6 Blog Friday 1st March 2024

Date: 27th Feb 2024 @ 2:58pm

A great week, well done Year 6.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for up to 30 minutes every night, this will improve the speed at which you read and your understanding of the text. If you come across any new words that you don’t understand, ask an adult or look it up in the dictionary. Building up your vocabulary knowledge is really beneficial.

Spelling

Please practise these spellings (Y5/6 Word List) for your test on Friday. A sheet will go home every Thursday/Friday with the spelling list on. 

Spellings (01.03.24 – 08.03.24):

marvellous                nuisance

mischievous              occupy

muscle                       occur

necessary                  opportunity

neighbour                  parliament

Maths

Counting/Number Games

https://nrich.maths.org/6402 

Have a go at this game!

Sumdog

You have a mixed times table/division facts challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 08.03.24.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

If you would like to do a bit more work on your times tables, Hit the Button is a great game to play.

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

Reminders

World Book Day is on Thursday 7th March. Get your costumes ready!

In English, we have started our new book Tuesday by David Weisner. The children became police detectives and investigated what happened on Tuesday. They chose witnesses to interview and wrote a list of questions designed to help the interviewee retell as much interesting detail as possible. We will use these to write a playscript and report next week.

In Maths, we have been working on coordinates and geometry. Year 6 described positions in four quadrants, used coordinates to complete shapes and worked out the coordinates on blank axes.

In RE, we finished writing our letters in the style of St Paul to the children in Y2. Hopefully we will be able to read them to Y2 next week.

In PE, we continued tag rugby skills and games. We also had a triathlon session which included swimming arms, riding bikes and running. Year 6 were really good at it, despite the rain!

In Music, the children played Guess the time! and Twinkle Twinkle on the recorders (new note F sharp).

Zentangle Art was fun and the patterns were very detailed.

In History, we learned about different crimes and punishments during the Tudor period and how that changed.

Year 6 Team.

Year 2 Blog - Friday 23rd February

Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 3:31pm

Home Practice

Reading - Please try to read for 10 minutes every night. 

Spellings –Spelling quiz will be on MONDAY 26th February.

Darkness      kindness        sadness      brightness       laziness       hopeful      

Wonderful       colourful        peaceful       beautiful

Times Tables –  A times tables sheet will be sent home every Wednesday. No times table quiz next week. 

Counting - Practise counting in 10s from any given number.  Challenge – count in tens from 10 to 100. Challenge – now count from 100 to 0!

Sumdog Challenges Maths – x10 times tables practice and place value Challenge.

Sumdog Challenge Spellings –  -ness   -ful   suffix 

Sumdog Competition for Year 2 - Capital Letters.

This week in Year 2

English

This week, we started our new book ‘The lumberjack’s beard’. We wrote a feelings bubble for how little blue bird is feeling and also acted it out with a partner.

Maths

This week, we started the place value topic. We placed numbers on number lines and measuring cylinders.

PSHE

In PSHE we discussed different feelings we could have. we then designed our own feeling monsters.

RE

This week, we wrote our Lenten Promise. We thought about how we could be a better person in the short time of Lent.

Forest School

We learnt how to use hammers safely. We used them to knock nails in to wood.

We also went in the very muddy nature area. The child-initiated learning was briliant-floating and sinking, mixing up mud and water, making a stream, cooking and building dams.

We also explored our new shelters.

Reminders

Please remember to sign up to parents evening. The folders are outside the office for you to sign up.

Spring disco is Thursday 29th February – wear bright clothes. 

PTFA Easter Bingo – Thursday 21^st March 6.30pm-7.30pm.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 5 Blog Friday 23rd February 2024

Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 3:27pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Discuss the characters and what you know about them.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. These are some of the words you need to know by the end of Year 5. Some of the spellings have the suffix -ly.

competition          definite          definitely          immediate          immediately          special          especially          sincere          sincerely          frequent          frequently          desperate          desperately

Counting

Count out loud in:

6s from 0 to 72 and back again.

7s from 0 to 84 and back again.

12s from 0 to 144 and back again.

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day. You either have your own tables target or you can practise square numbers.

Sumdog

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Challenge

Spelling Challenge

We have had a wonderful week this week.

In English, we finished reading our class novel Street Child. We wrote a persuasive radio advert to persuade children to go to the circus, this was after reading about the circus that the main character Jim visited. The focus was on using vocabulary and sentences that would persuade a child.

In Maths, we have been solving problems involving multiplication. We used different strategies including doubling and halving, and drawing bar models.

In RE, we watched videos about the Jewish festival Passover. We then wrote a diary entry as if we were one of the slaves freed from Egypt. We focused on what life had been like and how Passover would be remembered in the future. We also made our Lenten promises, we spoke about saying sorry for the things we have done wrong and turning over a new leaf. We all decided something we would do during the season of Lent to become a better person. 

We had a sporty day on Thursday with a dance session from South Ribble and our PE lesson. We loved learning a new dance and in PE we did some tag rugby and gymnastics. Everybody was amazing!

Have a happy weekend

Year 1 Blog- Friday 23rd February 2024

Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 12:32pm

Home Practice

Phonics - split digraph a_e OR ie (ee sound) OR ur words

Maths -  Measurement

Counting - Count in 10s starting at different numbers, 12,22,32 and so on.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

English

We have been learning through the story of Scaredy Squirrel. He is scared of everything outside his nut tree. We drew pictures of what he is scared of and we labelled them. We wrote his new and improved daily routine. We also wrote an exit plan for him. We are trying so hard to write in full sentences.

Phonics

Some of us have been revising ie as in tie and learning ie as in chief.

Some of us have been learning some of the different ai spellings - ai, ay, ey and a_e.

Maths

We have been focusing on using the balance scales to measure mass. We used cubes and 10g weights to weigh different classroom objects.

R.E.

First we read the story of Zacchaeus. We talked about how meeting Jesus changed his life and how he decided to give back what he had taken.

Then we read the story of Jesus being tempted in the desert. We talked about how Jesus did not listen to the Devil and how he did not eat for 40 days. Miss Fisher tempted us with marshmallows but nobody gave in!

We also wrote our Lenten promises.

Art

We had so much fun making our own medals! We used our plan to see what we would need and then chose how to decorate it.

See some of our pictures here.

D.T.

We have started to think about the flavour smoothie that we are going to make. We talked about the differences between fruit and vegetables and sorted lots of different objects.

See some of our pictures here.

Forest School

We learnt how to use hammers safely. We used them to knock nails in to wood.

We also went intp the very muddy nature area. The child-initiated learning was briliant-floating and sinking, mixing up mud and water, making a stream, cooking and building dams.

We also explored our new shelters.

Reception Blog - Friday 23rd February 2024

Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 10:43am

Phonics

This week we have been revisiting all of the sounds we have learnt so far.

Maths

We have been learning about one more than a number and playing bingo to find one more.

Drawing Club

This week, we read the story; Oliver's Vegetables.

We discussed what happens in the beginning, middle and end of the story. Then we designed our own character to come and steal some vegetables in the night.

R.E.

We started our week learning all about Lent. We listened to the bible story about Jesus in the desert. We then talked about what we would promise to do in Lent.

We learnt about the Great Commandment, Loving God. We discussed how we show love to one another.

Understanding the World

We have explored different fruits and vegetables.

We started our new topic about Africa. To begin this we listened to the story Handa's Surprise. We looked at a map to find Africa and talked about its size compared to England.

Expressive Arts and Design

In Art, we have been using foods to make face pictures.

Forest School

We went into our very muddy nature area. Our learning was brilliant, we cooked, mixed up the mud, investigated the puddles, looked at the flowers and played games.

We also enjoyed exploring our new shelters.

Year 3 Friday 23rd February 2024

Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 8:02am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a lovely time in Year 3 this week starting lots of new topics and making our Lenten promises.

Home Practice

It has been lovely catching up with you all on parents evening and hearing about all the great reading at home. Keep it up. We've added some top tips below to help you support your child at home.

We have set 3 challenges on Sumdog for you to complete. You can also access the training to improve number and spelling fluency.

Your spellings this week come from the statuatory spelling list for year 3. 

actually   strange    forward     promise     possess     favourite      women     minute     straight    special     breathe     guard

This week in Year 3

We are loving our new novel Journey to Jo'burg! We have been looking carefully at our presentation this week as well as using vocabulary to up level our writing.  Have a look in our galleries for some of your writing. We will be sharing more in the coming weeks.

In maths we have learnt how to use the compensation strategy to multiply by 19. We also solved word problems using the grid method. Super maths this week Year 3!

In Art we started our new topic of Cloth, Thread and Paint by exploring the work of the artist Alice Kettle. We watched her create some pieces and sketchbooked some ideas of our own. Check out our gallery! We have also added a gallery showing our clay models. Click the picture to learn more about Alice Kettle and her fabulous artwork!

In Science we started a new topic about Light. We sorted light sources and discussed what we already knew about the topic. Check out our posters below to see what we will be covering in this topic.

Have a great weekend

The Year 3 team

Year 4 Blog Friday 23rd February 2024

Date: 22nd Feb 2024 @ 1:18pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.

See if you can spot any apostrophes when you are reading. Why are they used? Is it because the word is a contraction / has missing letters (eg didn’t / I’m / couldn’t), or because the apostrophe shows possession?

Spellings

The spellings you will be tested on next week all involve the possessive apostrophe with plural nouns. Therefore, there will be no spellings to learn. Instead, we will practise this spelling rule each day in class. You will be tested on this rule next Wednesday. 

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 1000’s. 

For example, start at 0 and count up to 10 000 and back again

0     1 000   2 000   etc                                 10 000    9 000   etc

Start at 694 and count up to 10 694 and back again

694    1 694       etc                                     10 694     9 694    etc

Times tables and Number facts

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week. 

You can practise your tables on 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.

Sumdog challenges

• A counting in hundredths challenge
• A times tables challenge based on the 3, 4 and 8 times tables
• A negative numbers challenge

In English, we learnt how to use an apostrophe when a noun is plural. In addition, we learnt what an adverbial phrase is and how to identify one in a sentence. We then learnt how to write and correctly punctuate sentences which included fronted adverbials.

In Maths, we correctly placed numbers on a number line with multiples of 1000 marked but not labelled. We also labelled positive and negative numbers on a number line and counted backwards through zero. Our learning this week also included building on our understanding of the number system, extending it further into hundredths.

In RE, we wrote our Lenten Promise which we are going to try and do our best to keep. In addition, we learnt what happens at the gathering of the Eucharist and during the Introductory Rite. We wrote our own verse to a hymn and explained how we could apply the words of Matthew 5: 45-48 in our daily lives.

In History, we started our new topic – Ancient Greeks. We learnt where and when the Ancient Greeks lived.

In Computing, we continued our photo editing topic by learning how to clone and retouch images.

In Art, we started a new topic – Exploring still life. We began by looking at the art work of Paul Cezanne. Then we used the ‘Four Colour Gestural Drawing Exercise’. This involved using only 4 colours to help us appreciate how seeing simple shapes can help improve drawing skills.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 team

Year 6 Friday 23rd February 2024

Date: 20th Feb 2024 @ 8:16am

A great week back, well done Year 6.

Fabulous effort at completing your home practice over half term.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for up to 30 minutes every night, this will improve the speed at which you read and your understanding of the text. If you come across any new words that you don’t understand, ask an adult or look it up in the dictionary. Building up your vocabulary knowledge is really beneficial.

Spelling

Please practise these spellings (Y5/6 Word List) for your test on Friday. A sheet will go home every Thursday/Friday with the spelling list on. 

Spellings (23.02.24 – 01.03.24):

hindrance                 interfere

identity                      interrupt

immediate                 language

immediately              leisure

individual                  lightning

Maths

Counting/Number Games

https://nrich.maths.org/5865 

Have a go at this interactive game!

Sumdog

You have a mixed times table/division facts challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 01.03.24.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

If you would like to do a bit more work on your times tables, Hit the Button is a great game to play.

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

Reminders

Remember to sign up for Parents' Evening on Tuesday 27th February.

World Book Day is on Thursday 7th March. Get your costumes ready!

In English, we have written for different audiences and purposes. We rewrote a piece in third person about a young boy receiving a present. We tried to include excellent description and some dialogue. We also wrote a first person flashback in the role of Jacqueline Auriol, the first european woman to break the sound barrier in 1953. In addition, we reported on high diving giraffes and wrote a beautiful poem based on a poem by Peter Vacz, using personification.

In Maths, we have been comparing, ordering, adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers and finding differences.

In RE, we wrote letters in the style of St Paul for the children in Y2. This advised the Year 2 children how to grow up as members of our school community.

In PE, we worked on our tag rugby skills and played mini games.

In French, we learned a range of clothing vocabulary.

Year 6 Team.

Year 3 Thursday 8th February 2024

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 4:35pm

Welcome to your final blog of this half term

We have had a brilliant 5 weeks.

Please continue to read every night over half term. The Sumdog training features and all games will still be open over the holidays.

This week we started our new novel, Journey to Jo'burg by Beverly Naidoo. We met the main characters and learnt a little about South Africa in the process.

In maths this week we learnt to tell the time to 5 minutes. We will revisit this after half term.

If your child can't accurately tell time to 5 minutes, there is a great app on the AppStore called 'What's the time Mr Wolf' that they can use to practise time.

We finished our story telling art topic this week by painting our clay models - these models showed scenes from our favourite Roald Dahl books. They look great!

We also completed our history topic about The Stone Age to the Iron Age. We thoroughly enjoyed this topic and learnt lots about Stone Age Britain. We will test our knowledge with a Kahoot Quiz next Monday! Next half term we will begin our geography topic about North America.

Have a brilliant half term with your families and we will see you all soon

The Year 3 Team.

Year 2 Blog Thursday 8th February

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 3:50pm

Happy Half Term!

Home practice

Please read when you can during the holiday even if it's just for 5 minutes each day.

There is a SUMDOG maths and spelling challenge.

Spelling Quiz will be on Monday 19th February.

butterfly      cry      dry       try     baby      stories     bunnies      strawberries      spies     berries

This week in Year 2

English

 We performed some emotional writing and wrote our own speech bubble about the Snowman and how he felt.

Math

We continued to learn about time. 

Art

In art this week we finished our architect project to build a structure which could stand up. 

PSHE

This week has been 'Children's Mental Health week' and the focus has been 'my voice matters'. We have discussed how we can use our voice to get our opinions and worries across. We also learned the importance of sharing our thoughts and feelings with a trusted adult.

Reminders

Please remember to sign up to parents evening which is after half term. The folders are outside the office.

Have a happy Half Term.

Year 5 Blog Thursday 8th February 2024

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 3:27pm

Happy Half Term and welcome to your weekly blog

Please spend this half term:

Resting

Relaxing

Having fun

Spending time with loved ones

Try to keep up with the reading – you can do all of the above whilst reading.

If you would like to go on Sumdog, there will be challenges available to practise times tables and the Year 5 and 6 spellings.

We have had a wonderful week this week.

On Monday, we finished our set designs for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They all look amazing! Take a look at our gallery to see us in action and our finished pieces.

This week has been Children’s Mental Health Week. The theme this year is My Voice Matters. This theme was chosen to help us develop the skills we need to express our opinions, beliefs, values and feelings. We spoke about ways we can express ourselves including:

• Making choices
• Talking to a trusted adult
• Writing a letter or note to ourself or somebody else
• Voting on decisions
• Drawing a picture
• Creating a journal or diary
• Writing a song
• Having a check in system with somebody

We also celebrated our achievements and spoke about these proudly. We then came up with some positive affirmations all about My Voice Matters.

• I have important contributions to make
• When I speak, people listen
• I take time to listen and learn from others
• I feel empowered when I share my thoughts and feelings
• MY VOICE MATTERS

Have a happy Half Term.

Year 4 Blog Thursday 8th February 2024

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 2:39pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

As it’s half term, there is no home practice. However, please keep reading every day as it really is the key to unlocking your learning.

Please also try and practise your times tables - either your target or something you find tricky. This will help you in many areas of maths.

In English, we retold an extract of the novel and attempted to use different openers for our sentences. We found this tricky, but made a brilliant attempt.

In Maths, we started our new topic – place value. We started by revising rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. We then extended this learning to rounding numbers to the nearest 1000. 

We started a new topic in RE – Giving and receiving. We listened to ‘The Sharing Song' by Jack Johnson and then discussed both the joys and demands of giving and receiving.

We hope you all have a brilliant half term holiday and look forward to seeing you all on Monday 19^th February.

The Year 4 Team

Year 1 Blog - Thursday 8th February 2024

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 12:44pm

Home Practice

Phonics - ue words OR ow (grow) words OR high-frequency words

Maths - read and write numbers

Counting - Count in 10s starting at different numbers, 12,22,32 and so on.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

English

We continued to read both the traditional Jack and the Beanstalk and the twisted version of Jack and the Baked Beanstalk.

We talked about what can grow tall into the sky and came up with answers such as a sunflower, a fruit tree, and a palm tree. We then planned and wrote our version of Jack and the Beanstalk with a different object being planted.

Phonics

Some of us have been revising ie in tie and chief and ow in grow and brown.

Some of us have been learning the different oo spellings - oo, ew, u_e, and ue.

Maths

We have been learning to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. We have practically made the numbers and then positioned them on a number line.

R.E.

We read the story of The Call of the Disciples. We made a fish collage and acted out being in the boat with Jesus.

Science

We tested different objects to see if they were absorbent. This was tricky as we had to see if the water soaked into the material or not.

Thank you to everyone who came to our phonics meeting. The PowerPoint is attached below for those who could not make it.

Have a lovely half term!

Year 6 Blog Thursday 8th February 2024

Date: 7th Feb 2024 @ 3:33pm

A great week of learning, well done Year 6.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for up to 30 minutes every night, this will improve the speed at which you read and your understanding of the text. If you come across any new words that you don’t understand, ask an adult or look it up in the dictionary. Building up your vocabulary knowledge is really beneficial.

Spelling

We managed to do the spelling test today, fantastic effort everyone. This means we can take new spellings home for the half term holiday. Please practise these spellings (Y5/6 Word List) for your test on the first Friday back after half term. A sheet will go home every Thursday/Friday with the spelling list on. 

Spellings (08.02.24 – 23.02.24):

excellent                      forty

existence                     frequently

explanation                  government

familiar                         guarantee

foreign                          harass

Maths

Counting

Which of these numbers would you come to when counting in sixes from zero?
How do you know?

Would you get to some of these numbers if you were counting in sevens from zero? Which ones?
Can you explain how you arrived at your answers?

Could some of these numbers be reached if you were counting in nines from zero? Which ones?
Again, how do you know?

Would your answers be the same if you counted in the same step sizes but down from 350 in each case?
How do you know?

Looking at the image above and this time counting in 25s from zero, which numbers will you land on?  
If you were counting in 25s from 10, which numbers would you land on this time?  How can you work this out without actually counting?

Sumdog

You have a mixed times table/division facts challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 23.02.24.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

If you would like to do a bit more work on your times tables, Hit the Button is a great game to play.

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

Reminders

Remember to sign up for Parents' Evening on Tuesday 20th February or Tuesday 27th February.

World Book Day is on Thursday 7th March. Get your costumes ready!

Year 6 have been given a revision pack to work through over the half term holiday. 

In English, we continued typing up our stories and spent valuable time proof-reading and editing our work. We also enjoyed reading a few of the stories out loud to the class.  Another great session by Gareth from Literacy Kicks about live blogging. Unfortunately, it was the last session, but Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed being sports journalists and their writing has been fantastic!

In Maths, we worked hard on arithmetic and place value. We learnt about partitioning large numbers up to 10 000 000 and numbers with up to three decimal places. We also practised rounding whole numbers and decimal numbers. Other maths work included: solving calculation problems, simplifying and ordering fractions and adding/subtracting fractions.

In RE, we researched and prepared a presentation about The Dead Sea Scrolls and The Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem.

In PE, we worked on our hockey skills and played mini games.

In French, we described ourselves and a friend using the correct french vocabulary for height, age, hair/eye colour and accessories.

In Music, KS2 had a lovely afternoon sharing all the things they had been learning in a special Music Showcase.

Year 6 Team.

Reception Blog - Thursday 8th February 2024

Date: 7th Feb 2024 @ 1:00pm

Phonics

This week Mrs Stone's group have been learning the ng and th sounds. Mrs Robinson's group have revised all of the digraphs we have learned this half term.

Maths

We have been learning about weight, using the vocabulary heavy and light.

We have also been learning about teen numbers using tens and ones.

Drawing Club

This week, we read the story; The Paper Dolls.

We designed our own paper dolls and created an adventure for them to go on.

R.E.

We continued our discussions about people around the world not having enough food and drink and how they might feel. We talked about what others can do to help them.

Understanding the World

We finished our topic about China. This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year. Then we celebrated with our own China themed afternoon!

Expressive Arts and Design

In Art, we have been making lots of crafts for valentines day!

We also made our own chinese lanterns.

Year 2 Blog Friday 2nd February

Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 3:48pm

Home Practice

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference! 

Spellings – .Spelling quiz will be on MONDAY 5th February.

pencil      fossil     nostril     evil      April      pedal      local     animal      hospital      medal

Times Tables –  A times tables sheet will be sent home every Wednesday. Please learn these like the spellings for a quiz on Wednesday 7th February.

Counting - Practise counting in 5s from any given number.  Challenge – count in fives from 10 to 100. 

Sumdog Challenges Maths – x2 times tables practice and Time Challenge

Sumdog Challenge Spellings –  il     al 

This week in Year 2

English

This week we have been writing in the past tense. We used the book 'Five Little Fiends' by Sarah Dyer to help us with ideas.

Maths

This week we have been telling the time to an hour, half past, quarter past and quarter to. 

Geography

In geography this week we researched the location of the continents compared to the oceans. We enjoyed singing the continents and ocean songs.

Art

In art this week we started our architect project which requires building a structure that can stand up.

Forest School

We discussed the changes we have noticed as we reach the end of January. We looked at a birds nest and talked about the materials it was made from. We had a go at making a nest.

Reminders

Please remember to sign up to parents evening which is after half term. The folders are outside the office for you to sign up.

Valentines disco is Thursday 8th February. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 5 Blog Friday 2nd February 2024

Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 1:19pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Talk to somebody at home about the punctuation used in speech and look out for it when you are reading.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. Most of the words have double letters, try to remember where the double letters are. These are tricky spellings; you will need to practise every day.

accommodate          attached          apparent          appreciate          community          communicate          especially          exaggerate          conscience          conscious          government          environment          equipped          according          excellent

Shape Practice

Next week in maths we will be learning about perimeter and area. Visit the following websites to recap your learning from Year 4.

Perimeter

Area

Times Tables

Please practise a mixture of times tables including squared and cubed numbers.

Sumdog

Maths Competition: Boys v Girls

Times Tables Challenge

Spelling Challenge

This week in maths we ordered and simplified fractions. This was tricky but everybody embraced the challenge and did an amazing job!

In English we wrote stories all about time travel. Everybody decided where in time their character would travel to and decided how to make their stories interesting to the reader.

In RE we spoke about different Christian communities. We discussed some of the differences between the different denominations, but we focussed on the similarities, especially that we all share Jesus’ mission. Christians believe that we should love one another.

In art we started our set design for the chocolate room in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was amazing to see everybody use their imagination. We can’t wait to see the finished pieces!

Have a happy weekend. 

Year 4 Blog Friday 2nd February 2024

Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 1:14pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.

See if you can spot any adverbs when you are reading. An adverb is a word which modifies the verb – it tells us how, where or when it was done.

Spellings

The spellings this week are all homophones

scene           seen            mail             male             bawl

ball              waist           waste          guest           guessed

new              knew            to                too              two

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 10’s. 

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

0     10     20   etc                               120     110      100   etc

Start at 57 and count up to 237 and back again

57    67    77    etc                             237   227    217    etc

Times tables and Number facts

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week. 

You can practise your tables on 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.

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge
• A times tables challenge based on the 2, 5 and 10 times tables
• A 3D shape challenge

In English, we have been learning about verbs and adverbs this week. We tried to include adverbs in our writing and made sure that they were appropriate to the verb they were describing.

We learnt that adverbs:

• describe or modify verbs
• can come before or after a verb
• can be used at the beginning of a sentence
• can tell us how, when or where the verb was done

HOW – Barry tiptoed silently. (silently is the adverb)

WHERE – Jane ran downstairs. (downstairs is the adverb)

WHEN – Tom played football yesterday. (yesterday is the adverb)

In Maths, we finished our 3D shape topic. We identified and described 3D shapes, researching carefully their properties.

In RE, we continued our topic, Community. We read St Paul’s letter to the Romans 12:8-11 and discussed the words. We then chose our favourite sentence and explained how we would live this out in action in our daily lives. 

In Art we finished making our boxes for our ‘pocket gallery’ and mounting our pictures on to card. Then we created our ‘pocket gallery’ ensuring that our mounted figures were looking at our artwork. Have a look at our creations in the gallery.  

In History, we learnt how and why Britain became part of the Roman Empire. In addition, we learnt about the legacies left behind by the Romans. We then made either a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation to explain our learning.

This week, we also enjoyed yoga. Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.   

The Year 4 Team