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Year 4 Blog Friday 26th September 2025

Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 4:52pm

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. 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 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 50’s from 50 to 600 and back again

50   100    150    etc                  600   550    500

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 1, 10, 100 and 1000

Our Learning this Week

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

We then planned 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).

See the pictures in our gallery which demonstrate how we answered these using place value counters.

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

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

We also discussed and found definitions of the words - virtue, faith, hope and love.   

In P.S.H.E, we learnt how to calm our amygdala and practised our ‘happy breathing’.

Following this, we thought of a time when we could use ‘happy breathing’ to help our amygdala stay calm when the danger isn’t real.

In Science, we recapped the 5 animal groups (amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles) and gave examples for each group explaining our reasons why.

We then looked at how we could group plants and sorted plants into flowering or non-flowering categories.  

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Violet Ca

Super Learner: Oscar

Superstar Writer: Hunter

Bookworm: Oliver

Mathematician: Daisy

Special Mentions: Lottie for beautiful manners

Evelyn and Eliza for thoughtful RE work

If you are able, please bring a harvest donation in for the Harvest Festival next Friday

The Year 4 team

Year 1 Blog - Friday 26th September 2025

Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 4:23pm

Home Practice

Your child's Sumdog log in should now be in the front of their brown reading record book. Please try and log in this week.

Maths challange - Counting objects (larger numbers)

Phonics challenge - Reception revision 2

Counting - Please practise counting different objects around your house. Or even try to go for a walk and count how many leaves you can find!

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

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

We read the story 'Dogger' and we all felt really sorry for Dave who had lost his toy dog. We identified the characters, described Dogger using adjectives and sequenced the story.

Phonics

Some of us have started phase 5 and learnt the ay, ea, ie and oy sounds.

Some of us have been recapping phase 3 sounds, including ch and sh.

Some of us have been recapping phase 2 sounds.

Maths

We have been learning how to partition numbers into tens and ones using base ten, both visually and practically. We have been focusing on numbers to 20.

R.E.

We read the beginning of the Nicene Creed and talked about how God made things that are visible and invisible. 

In Prayer and Liturgy we spoke about the importance of the words in the Lord's Prayer. We also focused on being calm and compared this to Jesus calming the storm. 

Geography

Some of us went on a walk around our school grounds to spot different features. We will continue this next week.

Computing

We learnt how to log onto Sumdog using the QR code on our log in sheet. We all had a go at the Maths challenges and played the different games.

Art

We made pastel spirals on black paper so that the colour could stand out.

P.E.

We have learnt how to throw underarm with a beanbag and a ball.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Isla-May

Super Learner: Elsie

Superstar Writer: Ada C

Bookworm: Evie B

Marvellous Mathematician: Thomas

Special Mentions: Imogen and Noah H for always showing kindness to each other and to the whole class!

 

If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the team! Have a lovely weekend.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 26th September 2025

Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 8:01am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!

Thank you for all the Harvest donations that have been brought in this week! We are still collecting donations for the food bank next week. 

If you have any spare, small plastic bottles at home, please could these be bought into class for a Science investigation next week?

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have completed our work on the Nowhere Emporium. All of Year 6 have worked so hard on their amazing fantasy stories, including editing them into a final version. The children have also used their knowledge and skills from the topic to create their own independent stories about a new wonder - they definitely brought their imaginations to their work! 

Maths 

This week, we have learned about lots of strategies that we can use to solve addition and subtraction questions. We have worked hard on a range of number line strategies, such as compensation and bridging. Year 6 have also used a formal method to add and subtract whole numbers and decimals.

RE

In RE, we have shared Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ and thought carefully about what message he taught us in this letter. We have recognised that we are stewards of creation and that we need to look after our beautiful word. The children wrote some beautiful prayers inspired by this letter.  Year 6 have also worked hard to create some amazing posters to show how we should look after creation, making links to Laudato Si’ and the second story of creation.

Topic 

In French we celebrated the European day of languages and learned all about why it is important to speak different languages. 

In PE we are practising our netball skills. We have been learning how to shoot and use a chest pass to get into position. We have also been looking at how to defend our opponent from side on and attacking forward into a position. 

In Music we have been recapping the notes E,,B,D and F. We have also been learning how to play the Autumn song on the glockenspiel. 

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. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Spelling -  

Please practise the following spellings this week, which are from the Y5 and Y6 spelling list: 

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

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

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 work, please visit the 'Maths Training' section, where your child will be able to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them.

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

Star of the Week  - Ebba

Super Learner -  Holly W 

Superstar Writer - Casper 

Bookworm - Eliza W

Marvellous Mathematician - Henry 

Special Mentions - Bella - for being a good role model to others. 

Have a wonderful weekend Year 6! 

Year 5 blog - Friday 19th September 2025

Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 4:00pm

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.

bruise  playing  finally  stopped   supported  bargain  dragged  attached  happily completely  achieve   available  average  speedily   stopping   played   ancient   category

Counting

Count out loud in:

7’s up to 105 and back again                                                      0,7,14,21…

40’s from 240 to 480  and back again                                       240, 280, 320…

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 worked so hard this week. The children have really put a lot of effort in which is great to see!

Year 5 continued to practise reading out loud in class from the novel this week in English – ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’. They have also been practising handwriting as well as using similes and direct speech. 

 In Maths the class have been looking at number lines up to one million and working out whether numbers round up or round down. Well done Year 5!

In RE, the theme this week has been about love and what Jesus said about loving God and each other. In contrast, we also discussed the meaning of sin. Year 5 also attended a welcome mass this week in church with Father Michael.

In Music, everyone enjoyed playing the ukuleles and learning about rhythm and notation.

 Finally, the week ended with their Anglo Saxon topic in History. They were able to identify why the Anglo Saxons came to Britain and decided to invade and then settle.

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week – Amelia

Super Learner – Teddy

Superstar Writer – Trudy

Bookworm - Edward

Marvellous Mathematician - Sidney

Special Mention - Lily

Year 4 Blog - Friday 19th September 2025

Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 12:51pm

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. See if you can spot any nouns – do they have capital letters or not? And if so, why?

Spellings

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

minute         natural         naughty        notice          occasion(ally)

opposite      ordinary       particular    peculiar       perhaps

material       possible       medicine      potatoes      popular

often           pressure      position       probably      possess(ion)

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 from 45 to 205 and back again

45   55   65    etc                       205   195   185   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 – please log on and have a go!

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A maths challenge based on ordering and comparing whole numbers

Our Learning This Week

In English, we wrote reasons for and against sailing around the world.

In addition, we collected words to describe Michael’s character.

The information could have been written down in the novel, or inferred – that is, we could work it out from the evidence.

We then wrote a detailed character description of Michael.

In Maths, we learnt more about place value. We learnt how to round numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.

In addition, we added and subtracted different powers of 10 to and from given numbers using place value charts and counters to help us.

Take a look in our gallery.

In RE, we started we retold the story of Abraham and Sarah on a story board.

We recapped the story in our own words ensuring we included some important vocabulary, eg covenant and faith. There are some pictures in our gallery.

In PSHE, we learnt what is real and perceived danger.

In conjunction with this, we learnt what triggers our amygdala ( our ‘alarm system’ which processes and responds to emotions like fear and stress).

In Science, we grouped animals in different ways according to whether they were vertebrates (animals with a backbone) – mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles, or invertebrates (animals without a backbone). 

In Art, we created our own scenes and then sketched them.

We also gave them a title.

Take a look at some of our art work in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Francesca

Super Learner: Emilia

Superstar Writer: Rory

Bookworm: Albie

Marvellous Mathematician: Annie

Special Mentions: Alice for making Y4 a lovely place to be, Violet Co for having beautiful manners

Thank you for coming to the Meet the Teacher Meeting on Tuesday. The slides from the presentation are attached below.

If you were unable to attend and have any questions, please contact the office and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

The Year 4 team

Year 3 Blog - Friday 19th September 2025

Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 12:00pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home Practice

Continue with your fantastic home reading. Everyone is making amazing progress this year and this is down to your great home reading and regular practise!

This week we have set 3 challenges on Sumdog. Good Luck!

Make sure you also go on your fluency booster regularly to keep improving on those difficult skills.

Your spellings this week are the Months of the year and Days of the week. We have set a sumdog challenge to help practice these.

This week in Year 3

We’ve had another busy and exciting week of learning.

In English, we described the Twits’ garden and home, making sure to use lots of different sentence openers to make our writing more interesting. The children came up with some wonderfully disgusting and imaginative descriptions!

In Maths, we began our new Geometry topic. We reminded ourselves about right angles and explored the properties of 2D shapes.

In Science, we learned all about the skeleton. The children labelled the different bones on a skeleton and were fascinated by how they work together to help us move and stay strong. Next week, we’ll be exploring muscles and their functions.

In RE, we continued looking at the creation story and discussed what it means to be made in the image of God. We talked about imago dei and how we can look after each other and creation to be more like God.

In PE, we worked on some tactics that can help us in invasion games, and we’ll be building on these skills in the coming weeks. Don’t forget that swimming will be back on as usual on Monday, kits at the ready!

In Computing, we started our new topic on digital devices. We explored inputs, processes, and outputs, before designing our own brilliant (and very creative!) devices.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Henry P

Super Learner – Noah 

Superstar Writer – Henry Y

Bookworm – Rose

Marvellous Mathematician – Florence

Special Mentions – Felicity for being a good friend to everyone in Year 3

Have a lovely weekend!

The Year 3 Team

Reception Blog - Friday 19th September 2025

Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 10:04am

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

We have been taking part in circle times to get to know our friends more.

We have also been building jigsaws to practice our sharing with others.

RE

We have been exploring our prayer table and looking at the items on it.

We talked about the Bible and what it is.

We then listened to the creation story.

Expressive Art and Design

 We have started our new topic: Colour.

We did the skittle experiment. We made predications about what we thought might happen when we added water to them, then discussed what we saw.

See the photos here.

Understanding the World

We have focussed on families this week and who lives with us.

We drew our families and explained who each person was.

We have also been looking for signs of Autumn and collecting autumn treasures – afterwards we did some autumn art.

See the photos here.

PE

We did our first PE lesson!

We all got changed really well, a big well done.

Then we balanced on different parts of our bodies.

Forest School

We explored our nature area. We climbed trees, balanced on the tyres, found apples and ran up and down the hill.

We had a lovely review time at the end of the session.

We have also put our Meet the Teacher presentation on our class page. You can find it here.

Year 1 Blog - Friday 19th September 2025

Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 7:16pm

Home Practice

Sumdog log ins will be sent home next week! We will go through logging in with the class in Computing.

Counting - Please practise counting from 0 to 10. Can you count backwards too?

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

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

We read 'Five Minutes Peace' by Jill Murphy. We identified the main characters in the story, sequenced the events and wrote simple sentences about the story.

Phonics

We started our phonics groups this week! We have been so impressed!

See our pictures here.

Maths

We started our Place Value unit. This week's focus has been counting objects and writing the corresponding number. 

We have been playing a lot of Topmarks counting games in class. If you would like to play these at home, here is the website link: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting 

R.E.

We re-read the Creation Story and sequenced the events together.

In Prayer and Liturgy we focused on being kind, both to God's wonderful world and the people around us.

Geography

We sorted urban and rural places.

P.S.H.E.

We talked about how our brains change when we practise a skill. We drew a picture of a time we learnt a new skill.

Computing

We learnt about the different parts of a computer and a laptop - the screen, keyboard, mouse and trackpad. We then had a go at using a website that we will use in future computing lessons - paintz.app.

See our pictures here.

Art

We made our own spirals on big pieces of paper. We focused on different sizes and using different medium. Then we went outside and drew spirals with chalk.

See our pictures here.

Forest School

What a lot of great child initated learning. We collected apples, used leaf cutters to make shapes, climbed trees, balanced on the tyres and watched how water travelled down the hill. Some of the boys decorated  an old Christmas tree. Lovely imagination, problem solving, friendship and teamwork was on display.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Noah J

Super Learner: Elsie

Superstar Writer: George

Bookworm: Ada C

Marvellous Mathematician: Noah B

Special Mentions: Felicity, Amelie and Elsie (again!) for their amazing spirals in Art.

If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the team! Have a lovely weekend.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 19th September 2025

Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 2:59pm

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!

We have had individual and sibling pictures taken today, with everyone looking very smart in their autumn uniforms. They should take a couple of weeks to come back to us, if you would like to order any.

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have continued with our work on  'The Nowhere Emporium' by Ross Mackenzie. We read the story 'The Wonder' in class to inspire us to think of our own wonders that we could use in our own stories and we generated some amazing vocabulary! We have also begun writing our own stories. We have thought carefully about building a sense of anticipation for the reader through our writing techniques. 

Maths 

This week we have begun our new topic about the four operations, starting with addition and subtraction. We have been learning about the mental that we can use to help us add and subtract numbers, such as partitioning using a number line. 

RE

We have continued with our 'Creation and Covenant' topic in RE this week and have been learning about the meaning of the second story of creation. We shared the next part of the story together, where Adam and Eve are tempted to eat from the tree of knowledge, and used watercolours to paint our favourite part of the story! We also learned all about Georges Lemaître, and how he contributed to our understanding of the universe, but also had faith.

Topic 

For Science this week, we have learned how to classify leaves. Together, we gathered leaves from our forest school area and investigated how to classify them like Scientists. We enjoyed gathering our samples and sketching them in our Science books!  You can see us working hard on our galleries.  

This week in History, we learned about how Hitler rose to power. We evaluated historical sources and thought about what they taught us. 

In Computing, we learned about respecting boundaries online. We created respect charters to remind us how to treat others with respect and how to have self respect ourselves.  

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. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Spelling -  

Please practise the following spellings this week, which are homophones and other words that are often confused: 

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

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: Try to count in powers of 10 (1000, 10,000, 100,000 etc). You could do this out loud or write it on a piece of paper.

You could draw a numberline to help you. Can you count up and down in powers of ten? How far can you go?  Challenge yourself by choosing different starting numbers and practising your exchanging. 

Times Tables: This week there are 100 questions to answer on Sumdog! 

Place Value: This week's learning is to practise questions on addition and subtraction. For further Maths work, please visit the 'Maths Training' section, where your child will be able to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them.

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

Star of the Week  - Darcey

Super Learner -  Xabier

Superstar Writer - Dominic 

Bookworm - Milana

Marvellous Mathematician -  Theo C

Special Mentions - Eliza M - for great enthusiasm in her writing this week!

Eddie - for being kind and looking after a Reception child. 

Have a wonderful weekend Year 6! 

Year 2 Blog Friday 19th September 2025

Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 2:18pm

Year 2 have had another fantastic week, filled with lots of interesting and enjoyable learning. 

Home Practice

Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

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

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (26.09.25):

says   your    they      by     here      there     where   love      come      some    

Sumdog: Complete the 'one more/less than' challenge.

Counting: Count forwards and backwards to one hundred.

Stop at random numbers. What is one more/less than that number? What is ten more/less than that number?

English

This week we all received a letter from Bakery Bill. He answered our qustions and told us how he's geting on. We wrote some instructions about how to look after a baby. We planned and wrote an alternative ending to his story. We also created and descibed a sweet item for his bakery.

Maths

The children have been learning how to work out one more/less than and ten more/less than a given number.

We have also been comparing two numbers and deciding which is the greatest or which is the least.

R.E

We re-read the story of Noah's Ark, focusing on the rainbow being a sign of God's promise (covenant) - never to send another flood again.

The children made their own rainbows and could write/draw the most important parts of the story.

History

Year 2 are thoroughly enjoying learning about The Great Fire of London. We learnt where the fire started and how it spread so quickly (causes).

Forest School

We all chose our own learning this week. There was leaf cooking, leaf identifying, stick wrapping, bug hunting and apple finding. Great imagination, co-operation and teamwork was shown.

Science

We learnt about different habitats around the world and the animals that live in them.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Gigi

Super Learner - Ella and Reuben

Superstar Writer - Genieveve

Bookworm - Amelia

Mathematician - April

Special Mentions - Joshua Wright for bring a caring friend and Kamali for showing resilience in his learning.

Year 5 blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 4:14pm

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.

said   with   went  people  children  asked   school  like    thought   through   because  friends  water  house   too   each   different   something

Counting

Count out loud in:

5’s up to 105 and back again                                                      0,5,10,15…

30's from 240 to 510  and back again                                       240, 270, 300, 330…

100's from 5100 backwards to 3900                                     5100, 5000, 4900…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables.  We will be practising the 7 times table in class next week.

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.

The class have had a very productive week of learning in Year 5 this week. The children have put 100% effort in which is great to see!

Year 5 continued to read the novel this week in English – ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and have been practising handwriting, using fronted adverbials, similes and expanded noun phrases.

 In Maths the class have been looking at place value of decimals as well as practising lots of arithmetic and times tables. Well done Year 5!

In RE, the children have developed their knowledge of Moses, as well as having spent time discussing the meaning of each of the ten commandments.

Everyone also enjoyed the typography art topic this week with some very creative interpretations of letter styles!

In PE, Year 5 have moved on to practising shoulder passes and shooting in netball. They also enjoyed playing bench ball and dodgeball this week.

Finally, the week ended with their new geography topic about the UK. They were able to identify the similarities and differences between the four countries of the UK.

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week – Henry

Super Learner – Evelyn

Superstar Writer – Tiffany Mason

Bookworm - Mark

Marvellous Mathematician - Bertie

Special Mention - Brooke

Finally - if you didn't get a chance to come to Meet the Teacher on Wednesday, then you can take a look at the file attached to see what the outline plans are for Year 5 in the year ahead. If you would like to clarify any of the information then please contact the office to make an appointment.

Year 1 Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 3:45pm

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Counting objects

Phonics - Reception revision 1

Don't worry if you can't access Sumdog yet (including log ins). We will be going through this at our Meet the Teacher on Thursday.

Counting - Please practise counting from 0 to 10.

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

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We read a beautiful book called 'Find Your Happy'. We talked about who or what makes us happy and all had a go at writing a sentence to identify what makes us happy.

Maths

We have been learning how to use lots of different maths manipulatives: tens frames, counters and base ten. We practically made different numbers up to 20.

See our pictures here.

R.E.

We read the Creation Story in Genesis and talked about how God made our world a day at a time. We had a lot of fun making our own world using dabbers.

P.E.

We practised our underarm and overarm throwing.

Science

We went outside to spot signs of Autumn. We found orange leaves and lots of different minibeasts.

Geography

We talked about the differences between a rural and an urban place. 

Computing

We learnt how to use an iPad. We dragged and dropped objects using our new skills.

Art

We sketched our self-portraits using mirrors and our new sketching pencils.

See our pictures here.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Rupert

Super Learner: Lucas

Superstar Writer: Tommy

Bookworm: Ariana

Marvellous Mathematician: Thomas

Special Mentions: Grace for her beautiful manners and Eilish for doing extra learning at home by going on an Autumn walk.

If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the team! Have a lovely weekend.

Year 3 Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 2:21pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog 

Home Practice

Everyone has been given a reading book this week. Please try to read a little every night, around 10–15 minutes. The regular routines for home practice will set your children up well for all future learning they meet. Little and often is the key!

Sumdog

We have also set three Sumdog challenges — two maths and one spelling. Have a go at these across the week and try to do a little every night.Please keep up some counting practice at home too. A little counting every day makes a big impact on your child’s knowledge and understanding of the number system. This can be through fun games such as counting tennis (take turns to say 1, 2 or 3 numbers in sequence — the winner is the one who reaches the target number) or by singing some of our counting songs. Here is one we sang this week to practise our 2s, 5s and 10s.

Spellings

Your spellings have also been sent home, have a go at the activity sheet on the back and do a little practice every day This doesn’t need to be handed in.

This week’s spellings are:

house, glass, letter, skipped, puppet, door, duck, monkey, who, write, toy, tube, nurse, hair, eight, cakes, night, fruit, should, picture

This week in Year 3

English

In English this week we have started reading our class novel, The Twits by Roald Dahl. We read all about men with hairy faces, met Mr and Mrs Twit and read about the horrible tricks they play on each other. Everyone wrote some great pieces, describing the Twits and retelling their horrid pranks. We also acted out The Shrinks chapter and wrote some fantastic scripts. 

Maths

In Maths, we have been learning about the place value of three-digit numbers. Everyone showed good understanding and asked some brilliant questions in our lessons.

Art

We also started our art topic on exploring charcoal. The children created some imaginative pieces and really enjoyed experimenting with different effects. See our gallery to have a look at our work.

Science

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

Swimming

This week we also started our swimming lessons. Everyone gave it their best effort and showed real determination in the pool. The swim coaches were very impressed with the children’s positive attitude and how supportive they were of each other. Well done, Year 3! Remember, no Swimming this week due to refurbishments being made at the swimming pool.

Thank you to all who attended the Meet the Teacher meeting on Thursday. You will find the slides from the presentation attached below. If you were unable to attend, don't hesitate to contact us to discuss any questions you may have about this year.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Rose

Super Learner – Jonah

Superstar Writer – Devyn

Bookworm – Felicity

Marvellous Mathematician – Henry Y

Special Mentions – Zack W for being a good friend to everyone in Year 3

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year 3 Team

Year 4 Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 12:13pm

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.

Spellings

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

Monday        Tuesday       Wednesday  Thursday     Friday

Saturday      Sunday         January       February     March

April            May             June            July             August

September  October      November    December    month

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

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

TTRockstars is an app which you can download, or you can use the website by following this link https://ttrockstars.com/ and logging in. Your login details are in the front of your Reading Diary.

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 recognising place value in 4 digit numbers

Our learning this week

In English, we used the front cover of the class novel – Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo – to make predictions about the story.

We also met the main characters and read the blurb on the back cover to see if our predictions were correct.

In Maths, we learnt the meaning of ‘place value’.

We used part whole diagrams and partitioning and recombining numbers to help with our understanding of what each digit in a number represents

In RE, we started our new topic ‘Creation and Covenant’.

We listened to the story of Abraham when God asked him to leave Haran and travel to Canaan,

We considered the sort of person Abraham must have been, and how his faith, hope and love gave him the strength to do as the Lord had asked.

In Science, we recapped the 7 life processes using the acronym MRS GREN (movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition).

In addition, we grouped animals according to whether they were a fish, mammal, reptile, amphibian or bird.

In PSHE, we started our topic ‘Meet your brain’.

We learnt how we can train our mind and how our brain can grow, as well as what the different parts of our brains are called.

In Art, we learnt about the work of Laura Carlin and Shaun Tan.

We then practised our shading skills which we will be using over the coming weeks.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Lottie

Super Learner: Eliza

Superstar Writer: Alice

Bookworm Award: Rudy

Marvellous Mathematician: George

Special Mentions: Mia, Evelyn and Noah – for thoughtful and beautifully presented RE work, and Alexander for beautiful manners

The Year 4 team

Year 2 Blog Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 8:40am

Home Practice

Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book.

This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

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

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (19.09.25):

said, are, the, was, his, today, is, were, has and you.

Sumdog: Complete the 'Place Value - Tens and Ones' challenge.

English

We have been learning through the story of Burglar Bill.

We wrote him a letter telling him all about ourselves. We also made a poster.

In handwriting we have been learning how to form our letters with lead-ins.

Phonics 

We have been revisiting ee as in tree, ea as in leaf, e-e as in Steve and y as in happy.

Maths

Place value - we have been learning how to represent 10s and 1s using different equipment. We have used Base 10, straws ,counters and cards.

R.E

Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed reading the story of Noah's Ark. Using pictures and sentences they retold the story brilliantly.

Computing

It was interesting to learn and understand what Information Technology (IT) is.

The children identified items/objects that were IT and were not IT. They drew pictures and labelled them so well.

Golden Assembly

Star-Arianna

Bookworm-Zac

Super Learner-Nelly

Mathematician-Joshua I.

Writer-Isabella

Special Mentions-Emma and Rhodes

Reception Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 8:36am

Welcome to the Reception Friday Blog!

We have done our second week in school and WOW, what a week. A big well done to everyone.

This week we have been listening to the story 'The Colour Monster,' each day we have focussed on a different emotion and we have spoken about a time we have felt that way.

We have had yoga with Hannah, Forest School with Mrs Corbett and Music with Mrs Campbell.

We have been matched up with our Year 6 buddies and we have had a buddy play.

Have a restful weekend and we will see you all next week, for week 3!

Please note our Meet the Teacher on Wednesday 17th September at 3.30pm - we look forward to seeing you all there.

Do not worry if you cannot make it - the presentation will be available on the website.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 10:18am

Welcome to the Year 6 Blog.

Year 6 have all enjoyed their first Friday play with their Reception buddies this week - well done Year 6 for being such amazing role models! 

This week in Year 6

English

For English, we have continued to be inspired by 'The Nowhere Emporium'. This week, we have been thinking about the character of Daniel and what we can infer about his thoughts and feelings. All of Year 6 wrote some amazing diary entries in role and worked hard to edit their writing. We also debated if the character of Lucien Silver would be good or evil using evidence that we could find in chapters 5 and 6. 

Maths 

This week we have continued to improve our place value knowledge in Maths. We have learned how to round whole numbers up to 10,000,00 and decimals with up to three decimal places. We have also learned how to find powers of 10 more than and less than a given number. 

RE

In RE we have continued to focus on the second story of creation. Together, we have explored the symbolic meaning of the story and understood what important message it teaches us. We have learned that this story teaches us that we need to live in a community with each other. We also discussed what original sin is and how we can sometimes be tempted by things! 

Topic 

In Year 6, we are really enjoying our new WW2 topic! This week we compared Germany in 1937 to Germany today. We also learned about the differences between a democracy and a dictatorship and investigated which countries in Europe were dictatorships and which were democratic in 1937.

We have continued our Science topic, which is all about classification. We have learned about classification keys and how these can be used to categorise different animals. 

In French, we have been reviewing our prior learning on greetings, numbers 0-50, age and colours. 

Home practice

As mentioned in meet the teacher, homework has been set for this week. 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. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Spelling -  

Please practise the following spellings this week from the Y5/6 spelling list: 

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

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: This week we have had to count in tenths to complete our rounding work. Try to count in decimal steps of 0.1, 0.2 or 0.5. You could do this out loud or write it on a piece of paper.

You could draw a numberline, like we have done in class this week. Can you count up and down in decimal tenths? How far can you go?

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

Place Value: This week's learning is to practise questions on place value. For further Maths work, please visit the 'Maths Training' section, where your child will be able to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them.

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

Star of the Week  - Ebba

Super Learner -  Imogen

Superstar Writer - Bella

Bookworm - Leo H

Marvellous Mathematician -  Maisie

Special Mentions - All of Y6 for being amazing buddies! 

Thank you to everyone who came to Meet the Teacher on Tuesday. The presentation is attached at the bottom of the blog. If you were unable to attend, please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions regarding the slides. 

Have a great weekend Year 6! 

Year 3 Friday Blog 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 5:23pm

Welcome to your first blog of Year 3!

We have had a super week settling in and getting used to the new classroom! It has been lovely seeing everyone back after the summer holidays looking smart in their Summer uniforms.

This week in Year 3

English

In English this week we have read Stickman by Julia Donaldson. We wrote some fantastic descriptions and even created our own version! 

Maths

In Maths, we started revisiting place value and number. Everyone has shown great knowledge and asked some great questions in class.

RE

We started our RE topic – ‘Creation and Covenant’.

This week we read the creation story from Genesis and created some lovey artwork. 

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Noa

Super Learner – Rowan

Superstar Writer – Melodie

Bookworm – Elyse

Marvellous Mathematician – Amelia L

Special Mentions – All of Year 3 for settling in so well to the Juniors!

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 5 Blog Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 4:41pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a fantastic start in Year 5 and all the children have tried so hard with their learning. Well done to the new Year 5!

The usual weekly home practise will start next week but it would be great if the children enjoy their reading this weekend.

We have started our novel this week in English – ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and Year 5 have already done some impressive writing using expanded noun phrases.

 In Maths we have been looking at large numbers, how to say and write them and we have also been revising how to exchange.

Well done Year 5!

Our first piece of scripture in RE was from Exodus and was all about Moses and the burning bush in the desert, where God spoke to him and gave him an important task. The children enjoyed re-telling the story.

In PE, Year 5 have been practising their throwing skills in netball and they all tried their best playing in teams.

Finally, we all enjoyed getting outside for an autumn nature walk and collecting ‘treasures’ for our class display.

Golden stars this week

Jenson – star of the week

Mark – marvellous mathematician

Milo – super learner for contributing great ideas

Willow  – superstar writer

Madelaina – bookworm for reading lots  

Alfie B – special mention for being so helpful in class 

Reception Blog - Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 3:53pm

Hello and welcome to the Reception Friday Blog!

All the children had an amazing first week at school!

We are amazed at how quickly they have settled into our routines, exploring their new classroom, making new friends and joining in with our prayers.

We drew self portraits and decorated our names for our classroom door.

We had buddy play with Year 6, we will be paired up with our own buddy next week.

We have been to explore the Forest School areas with Mrs Corbett. She read us a story in the lodge. It was called 'The Leaf Thief'.We will have Forest School every Thursday.

Lunchtimes are a big hit, with many empty plates.

At the end of Friday, we asked the children if they would come back next week and they all said yes, excitedly.

Have a restful weekend and we will see you all next week!

Year 1 Blog - Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 12:52pm

We are so proud of how well everyone has settled into Year 1!

Reading - Your child has new books in their book bag. Please try and read at least three times each week.

Please remember to bring book bags in each day. Books will be changed every Friday (or more often if wanted!)

English

We have read two lovely stories this week: A Letter From Your Teacher and Our Class is a Family.

We have been talking about how we might be feeling different emotions surrounding starting a new school year, and how this is okay! We also drew and labelled our families.

Phonics

We have been joining in with our phonics songs. We have also been reading real and nonsense words.

Maths

We have been counting in ones and practising our number formation. We have also been spotting patterns and making groups of numbers.

R.E.

We looked at different Bibles and recognised that they are special books which contain special stories. We talked about Jesus and God and recited our prayers.

P.E.

We went onto the playground and practised rolling, throwing and catching different sized balls.

P.S.H.E.

We learnt all about our brain in My Happy Mind. We drew pictures of our brains in our journal.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Judah and Evie E

Super Learner: Reo

Superstar Writer: Ada G

Bookworm: Imogen

Marvellous Mathematician: Louie

Special Mentions: Thomas for helping the Reception children into class and Isla-May for always keeping the classroom tidy!

If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the team! Have a lovely weekend.

Year 4 Blog Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 12:45pm

Welcome to our first blog of this school year!

We have had a super week! We have put lots of effort into our lessons and settled well into the new routines in Year 4.

We were proud of our Summer scrapbooks and enjoyed sharing them with our friends and teachers. They enjoyed finding out what we got up to over the Summer holiday.

This week in Year 4

English

In English, we read the poem The Magic Box by Kit Wright.

We used the poem as inspiration for writing our own verses, explaining what we would put in our own ‘magic box’.

Maths

In Maths, we started exploring place value.

We considered that the position of the digit in a number is important, and that 10 hundreds and 1 thousand have the same value.

RE

We started our RE topic – ‘Creation and Covenant’.

We focussed on the story of Abraham and his covenant with God, and showed an understanding of the historical context of Abraham.

History

In History, we started our Romans topic.

We discussed what we already knew, and where when and how the Roman Empire began.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week – Heidi

Super Learner – William

Superstar Writer – Bella

Bookworm – Georgie

Marvellous Mathematician – Jessica

Special Mentions – Albie and Oliver

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 Team

Year 2 Blog Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 5th Sep 2025 @ 11:47am

The children have had a great week back and settled into Year 2 really well.

We are looking forward to a fantastic year of learning together.

Thank you for completing your holiday books. We have enjoyed reading them together.

English

We role played being Burglar Bill and wrote some questions for him when he was in the hot seat. We wrote sentences about what information we knew about him. 

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Maths

We have been working on place value this week.

The children used base ten to make two-digit numbers.

They also did a lot of counting and recapped adding and taking 1 and 10 from a number.

RE

We spent time looking at the Bible and discussing any stories we had already heard.

The children learnt that their are two parts - The Old Testament and The New Testament.

They even started to recognise whether a story was written in The Old or New Testament.

Geography

Our new topic is Continents and Oceans.

The children labelled a world map with all seven continents.

History

The Great Fire of London - we watched a video clip about how the fire started.

The children drew a scene from the fire labelling it with things they had learned.

PE

The children have revisited the fundamental skills of underam throwing and catching.

They played mini-games and displayed fantastic team work.

Art

We discussed the work of Andy Goldsworthy. We then went outside and chose different things to sketch. We looked very closely at what we were drawing.

Forest School

We had a look at all the fruit growing on our trees. We tidied up the nature area by working together to collect all the rubbish which has appeared over the holiday. We reminded ouselves about keeing safe at Forest School. We chose our own learning and demonstrated superb problem solving, teamwork and resilience.

Science

We started our new learning about Living Things. We sorted pictures of objects into groups ,living and dead. We then added another group which was things which have never been alive. We sang a great song about our learning which included the life processes which living things have.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Faisal

Super Learner - Reuben

Superstar Writer - Zac

Bookworm - Harry

Mathematician - Ella

Special Mentions - Cerys for her beautiful manners and Hannah for being a caring friend.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 5th September 2025

Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 12:12pm

Welcome to our first blog of the year! 

Year 6 have all worked so hard during their first week of school! They have put great effort into their lessons, been amazing role models and applied for their school 'jobs'. I would like to congratulate each of the children for their brilliant letters of application for responsibilities around school; we are looking forward to seeing all of our Year 6 working hard to support the school as ambassadors, eco team members, school councillers, sports captains, housepoint team members and much more! 

Thank you to everyone who completed a summer holiday challenge, it was lovely to see the children enjoying the outdoors this summer! 

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have begun reading 'The Nowhere Emporium' by Ross Mckenzie. This week, we have explored the prolouge and created our own descriptions of a magical shop, inspired by Ross Mackenzie. We have also created a setting description for the interior of The Nowhere Emporium and written in role as Daniel when he first encounters the shop. 

Maths 

This week we have explored our place value topic. We have learned how to represent numbers up to 10,000,000 on a place value chart and challenged ourselves with our deeper learning tasks!  

RE

We have started our new RE topic this week, with a focus on the second story of creation. We have shared the story together and created storyboards to help us remember the key parts of the scripture.  

Topic 

This week, we started our Science topic, which is all about classification. We have learned about how animals are classified into different groups and made posters to show our learning. 

We have also begun our new Art topic, which is all about making a 2D drawing into a 3D drawing. We have explored the work of artist Lubaina Hamid and shared our opinions on their work! 

Homework will be handed out next week after meet the teacher. 

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

Star of the Week  - Leo H

Super Learner -  Cian

Superstar Writer - Freddie

Bookworm - Darcey

Marvellous Mathematician -  Libby 

Special Mentions - Eddie - for looking after the new Reception children

Have a great weekend Year 6! 

Final Year 3 Friday Blog 18th July 2023

Date: 18th Jul 2025 @ 3:17pm

Well done everyone on completing Year 3!

We have had an amazing week of celebrations and fun learning.

It has been a pleasure to teach every one of you this year and we are so proud of how far you have all come!

Enjoy your Summer holidays! You deserve a rest!

Thank you so much for all your kind messages and gifts. We are all so grateful.

Have an amazing summer and we are already looking forward to seeing you all in September!

The Year 3 Team