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Reception Blog - Friday 14th July 2023

Date: 14th Jul 2023 @ 8:31am

This week we have taken part in Super Learning Day. This is when all the teaching staff plan a range of activities that are different to our day to day learning. Reception have enjoyed doing seven different activities throughout the day which have included: building scarecrows, making worry dolls, doing summer circuits, bowling, tower building, natural art and games.

Year 5 Blog Friday 14th July 2023

Date: 14th Jul 2023 @ 8:19am

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a super week this week, lots of exciting things going on. 

On Monday and Tuesday we played instruments and joing in with singing song from the musical Oliver to support Year 6 with their performance. It was very hot and took a lot of practice but we did a great job! 

In maths we have been learning about Roman Numerals. 

We learnt what the different letters represent and how they are used. We followed 3 rules when writing roman numerals:

1. If a smaller numeral comes after a larger numeral, add the smaller number to the larger number.
2. If a smaller numeral comes before a larger numeral, subtract the smaller number from the larger number. 
3. Do not use the same symbol more than three times in a row. 

In English we have been practising identifying nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. We have also been using different sentence types and different punctuation to describe settings from Harry Potter. 

Noun - person, place, thing

Adjective - describes or modifies a noun or pronoun

Verb - words that show an action (sing), occurrence (develop), or state of being (exist)

Adverb - modifies or describes a verb, adjective or another adverb

On Friday we enjoyed Super Learning Day. We were split into two groups and moved around the school to take part in different exciting activities with different teachers. Here are some of the things we did:

Karaoke / festival 

Natural art using weaving

Worry dolls and bracelet making

See us in action here. 

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes

Spelling

Please continue to practise the Year 5 and 6 spellings. They are attached to this blog. 

Times Tables

Please practise your own tables target or the 7x tables. 

Sumdog

Spelling Challenge

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Competition 

Year 4 Blog Friday 14th July 2023

Date: 13th Jul 2023 @ 12:06pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

In English, we published our non-chronological reports. We are so proud of our finished reports which all look very professional. We then shared these with both Year 3 and Year 5! You can see us sharing our reports here.   

In Maths, we learnt how to find out the area of shapes when not all the shapes were whole. In addition, we used pictorial representations such as fraction walls to recognise were more than two fractions are equivalent.   

In RE, we learnt more about God’s People. We read the first letter of St John which encourages readers to follow God’s way and offers ideas about how we can become a bit more like God. In addition, we watched a video about the life of St Oswald and researched his life. We then made a collage in our books about the information.

In French, we learnt to play Rock, paper, scissors in French and then we played a hoop hop version outside. Great fun! We also talked about La Fete Nationale or Bastille Day on the 14th July - why and how this is celebrated in France.   Then we managed a quick visit to the Tour de France as well.

Mrs Quilliam also wanted to thank us for being such brilliant language learners. She said it has been a pleasure to teach us French and watch us gain confidence as French speakers.  We need to keep it up!

In Science, we learnt more about the digestive system. First, we consolidated our learning about the structure and function of each part of the digestive system. Then, we used food, water, orange juice, scissors, a plastic bag and a pair of tights to demonstrate how food is softened, changed, absorbed and finally expelled from the body! This was the best science lesson of the year!! Why not have a look at the pictures!

In Geography, we finished our PowerPoints about climate change and oceans. We are very pleased with our final presentations which are informative and include some hyperlinks and transitions.

In PE, we played a whole class game of cricket which practised our catching and team work skills. We then played a mini football tournament.

This week, we have also watched the Year 6 production of Oliver, been to the drumming showcase and watched Year 6’s sports day!  And on Friday, we tried out lots of new and interesting activities at Super Learning Day! What a brilliant week!

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes each evening. Discuss what you have read with an adult and predict what you think will happen next.

Spellings

Last week we were tested on all the Year 3/4 statutory spelling words.  This was the final test of this term. 

Over the summer, please try and look over the spelling rules we have learnt throughout the year. You will be able to find the spellings on the Year 4 blogs. In addition, and in preparation for Year 5, please have a look at, and try and learn some of the Year 5/6 statutory spelling words. These have been attached to this blog.   

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 25’s  

Start at 25 and count up to 325 and back again

25  50  75  100    etc                       325   300   275  etc

Times tables

This week was the last times tables test of this half term.  Please do your best to keep practising your tables over the summer holidays as it is very easy to forget them!  Challenge yourself to have a go at your division facts too.

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:

• A revision challenge based on finding multiples of 10, 100 and 1000 more or less than a number
• A times table challenge

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  Little and often is the key to success!

The Year 4 Team

Year 1 Blog- Friday 14th July 2023

Date: 12th Jul 2023 @ 8:56pm

Welcome to your Friday blog.

We loved watching Year 6 perform Oliver! - so much talent!

English

This week we learnt to how to make a mini book out of a sheet of A4 paper. We then wrote all kinds of things in our books - we have great imaginations!

Phonics

We have been revisiting all the sounds we have learnt this year.

Maths

We have recapped halves and quarters - what they mean and how to find a half/quarter of shapes and an amount. We have used the maths resources to physically see the process.

P.E.

We endured the rain and practised throwing and catching to each other. We used tactics to pretend to throw one way and then throw another.

We also had a very quick game of benchball to practise our throwing and catching.

R.E.

We learnt about another man who needed to say sorry for his actions - Zacchaeus. We found that that he was also a tax collector, just like Levi. We compared the two stories, focusing on the similarities between them both.

Science

We observed the weather and spoke about how we expect certain weather with each season. For example, we expect to see more sun in summer but this is not always the case! 

Geography

We learnt some new information about differing climates in the world. We read a lovely story about a girl called Ella who dreams about being nearer to the ocean as she does not like her hot climate.

We then chose a picture and answered questions regarding it, such as 'would you want to live here?' and 'what animals could live here?'

Computing

We made the most of the brief warm weather and went outside for our computing lesson! We put all of our skills together and attempted the final coding activity. This lesson allowed us to have some free play, creating conversations and stories using the coded instructions. It was tricky but fun!

French

We played some typical French playground games. It was lovely to watch the children engage in these new games - they particularly enjoyed 1,2,3 soleil which is a version of Grandma's footsteps. 
Mrs Quilliam would like to thank the children for being such brilliant language learners. It has been a pleasure to introduce them to French. Just think how good they will be if they keep it up! 

Outdoor Learning and Forest School

We have been making hammocks. We have also been using fixed frames to learn about weaving. We used elastic bands and then weaved in leaves, flowers and grasses.

Super Learning Day

We had a great day on Friday and took part in lots of different activities.

Summer Fair

We hope to see you all at the Summer Fair on Saturday 15th July from 12 Noon.

Home Practice

Phonics - common exception words

Maths - halves

Year 2 Blog Friday 7th July 2023

Date: 7th Jul 2023 @ 4:10pm

Year 2 have had a creative and fun packed Art Week. The children were collectors and explorers, finding pieces of nature that they could use for their art. They had a go at doing continuous line drawings using pencils and pens in their sketch books. They also explored using touch, to draw pictures of how objects felt rather than what they looked like. In English, we started to read a bonus book, Jemima The Pig And The 127 Acorns, by Michel Morpurgo. We drew pictures of Jemima and wrote about what has happened in the story so far. In Maths, we learnt about thirds of a shape. It was the last Yoga session and the children were fantastic at listening and performing the poses. In Music, the children can perform a string of notes on their ocarinas and their singing voices are super. Year 2 also enjoyed two mornings with Mr Campbell in the junior building. They thoroughly enjoyed the activities and came back to class very happy and looking forward to Year 3 in September.

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.

Reading books are changed every Wednesday. You will receive 2-4 books depending on their length, they should last the week, if you read a little each night. However, if you need to change a book at any other time, we will change it as needed.

Reading resources:

Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read and really enjoy it.

If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’. You could also explore the rest of the site and read books from the Oxford Owl eBook library or listen to audio books.

Username: sto2

Password: 1234

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - https://www.literacyshedblog.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/ks1_reading_vipers.pdf

In addition to this, reading a good bed time story to your child is so worthwhile and really helps towards a lifelong love of reading.

Spelling

Year 2 have done so well at learning all their spellings this year. The children’s progress has been amazing, well done for working so hard at home and at school. There will be no more spelling quizzes this year.

Maths

Also, the children have been fantastic at learning their times tables and division facts. This will really help them when they move up to Year 3. There will be no more times tables/division fact quizzes this year.

Here are some links to other maths games/apps the children can play to help them learn their number facts.

Topmarks.co.uk also have and English section for phonics/spellings games. If you explore the site you will find lots of different games that are relevant to Year 2.

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

https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/1-minute-maths

(I believe this app is free to download.)

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/multiplication-and-division

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.

Year 4 Blog Friday 7th July 2023

Date: 7th Jul 2023 @ 1:05pm

Welcome to your Friday blog.

In English, we wrote, proof read and edited our non-chronological reports. We will be publishing these and sharing them with other classes next week,

In Maths, we consolidated our area learning by counting squares in groups.

As this week has been art week, we spent a considerable amount of time experimenting with different art styles which follow rules. We made our own rules and resolutions, and then chose a style we especially liked to create our final piece. These will be framed and sold at the summer fair! You can see us experimenting here.

In French, we concentrated on phonics - the sounds are different in French. We went on a treasure hunt to find words and grouped them according to the sounds in the words. We made sure we could read them all. Then we used bilingual dictionaries to find more words with the same sounds. The children's ability to pronounce unknown words correctly is really good - I am proud to be handing them on to the next French teacher! We also managed to watch a few highlights of the Tour de France.

In PE, we played a whole class game of cricket which practised our catching and team work skills.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes each evening. Discuss what you have read with an adult and predict what you think will happen next.

Spellings

This week we were tested on all the Year 3/4 statutory spelling words.  This was the final test of this term. 

Over the summer, please try and look over the spelling rules we have learnt throughout the year. You will be able to find the spellings on the Year 4 blogs. In addition, and in preparation for Year 5, please have a look at, and try and learn some of the Year 5/6 statutory spelling words. These have been attached to this blog.   

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 9’s  

Start at 9 and count up to 108 and back again

9   18   27    etc                       108   99   90  etc

Times tables

Next week will be the final tables test of this term. You should either practise your own individual target or division by 6. 

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:

• A challenge based on addition to 3 digit numbers
• A division challenge

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  Little and often is the key to success!

The Year 4 Team

Reception Blog - Friday 7th July 2023

Date: 7th Jul 2023 @ 12:52pm

This week we have had a whole week doing lots of Art and DT.

In Art we have been using our imaginations to make our own collage using paint and pens. To start we had to make our own patterned paper using paint, glue and mark making equipment. Once this was dry we then tore it and cut it to make our own imaginary scene. We then added more detail to our pictures using pens, before signing it like an Artist would. These will be framed and sold at the Summer Fayre in our very own Art Gallery!

In DT we have used the story of the King's Pants. We found the story very funny. All about a King who had different pattered pants for every occasion. We all designed our own pants, choosing the colours and what we would like to stick to them. Afterwards we all got to speak about what we liked about our pants to evaluate them.

In French this week, we played some traditional French playground games. We played one called Pecheurs et poissons - Fishermen and fish - which involved half the class being the net in a big circle and the other half weaving in and out of the linked hands, being the fish. At the end of the little rhyme, the arms come down and trap some fish in the net. They then join the net until a winner is left, still not caught by the net. On s'est bien amuse!

We have also had Year 5 come and visit us this week to do an investigation on their DT project. They had to design a house for the Three Little pigs and Reception had to try and blow them down using fans, hairdryers and blowing them. Reception loved this investigation as they already knew the story.

The Reception Team would also like to say how amazing Reception did in their first ever School assembly. The children worked so hard and we are very proud of each and every one of them!

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you all on Monday.

Year 1 Blog - Friday 7th July 2023

Date: 7th Jul 2023 @ 11:07am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

We really enjoyed visiting out new classroom and meeting our new teachers. We shared our favourite books with Miss Gravili.

We are looking forward to Year 6 performing Oliver! for us next week and also Super Learning Day on Friday.

English

We have been learning through a new book this week. It's about a girl called Matilda and her dad as they go on a journey and discover all kinds of treasure. We drew and labelled what they found and we then wrote descriptions of the treasure. We took great care with our letter formation, spelling and punctuation.

Phonics

We have been revising some of the sounds we have learnt this year.

Maths

We have been learning about addition and subtraction strategies. We have been using the number facts we already know to partition number.We have been trying really hard to explain our thinking using correct mathematical vocabulary.

RE

We read a story that was all about a man called Levi. We found out that he was a tax collector who made some wrong choices. We talked about how he changed and wrote a postcard to Jesus, pretending to be Levi, saying sorry for his actions.

PSHE

Since we have spent some time in year 2, we talked about change and the transition into a new classroom. We discussed our worries and set ourselves targets for the new year.

D.T.

We used the plans we made to finish making clothes for a teddy. First, we cut the fabric. Then, we carefully sewed the pieces of fabric together. We learnt how to fasten off the sewing so it didn't come undone. We evaluated how well we achieved our plan. We showed great perseverance.

Art Week

It's Art Week for everyone in our school this week. We have produced different pieces through the week and these have culminated in a final piece which will be displayed in a gallery at the summer fair on Saturday 15th July.

Yoga

We had our final Yoga session with Katie. We have really enjoyed these sessions and learnt a lot.

Forest School and Outdoor Learning

We had another go at nail art using the hammers safely. We used what we have already learned and made more complicated designs.

Some of us made hammocks which we loved swinging in! We will make them again next week and try to improve the design.

Home Practice

Phonics - kn words OR ai/ay

Maths - addition and subtraction

Year 3 Friday 7th July 2023

Date: 7th Jul 2023 @ 8:16am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

This week we have had a great week of learning. We have had our final yoga session with Katie and enjoyed exploring outdoor Art in our Art week. We also had two moving up mornings in Year 4. Mrs Tipping commented on how well behaved and eager Year 3 were in finding out about their new class! Well done Year 3!

Today we have sent out your end of year reports. You will find a QR code at the bottom to get access to your child's seesaw account. Just download the seesaw app, create an account and scan the code. We will keep this live until the end of the school year. Enjoy seeing a little more of what we've been learning this year.

In our class novel we have reached Little Witchery, the mysterious witch kingdom in the sky. We found out what the S.M.I was, (the Society of Magical Investigation) and Toby had a few difficult decisions to make. 

In Maths we have finished our Decimals topic, and learned how to count forwards and backwards in tenths. Everyone showed great understanding with this.

In Art we met Frances Hatch and looked at her landscape pictures and how she used natural materials to create her pieces. We also made some colour palettes and visual drawings. Check out our gallery.

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

The Year 3 Team!

Year 6 Blog Friday 7th July 2023

Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 3:33pm

Welcome to this week’s Year 6 blog.

Our final week of rehearsals for Oliver consisted of perfecting the stage directions, dance routines, lights and use of props. Next Monday will be a dress rehearsal for the school, with Tuesday being the big day of performances. Year 6 are looking forward to showing you all their fanstastic production. 

This week is Art week with our topic focusing on Activism. We used the artist Shepard Fairey and discussed how his art can help influence people’s thoughts and feelings towards different topics. We discussed the question, ‘What is your message to the world?’ We then used our learning from Romero Britto’s artwork and merged the two ideas together to create our final bright activism piece of art, which will be displayed at the summer fair.

In French, we used bilingual dictionaries to find words associated with the future - hope, peace, friendship, dreams etc and we turned them into graffiti. You'll see why next week. Then we enjoyed a celebration French breakfast.

In Science, we learnt the standard symbols used to draw electric circuits and we investigated how to change the brightness of a bulb or the loudness of a buzzer. 

Home Practice

Please continue with your ‘Numeracy Skills booklet’ from All Hallows.

• Work through all 20 questions as best as you can.
• Any you do not understand, we will go through them next WEDNESDAY
• This week have a go at completing the sheet 56.6

Year 5 Blog Friday 7th July 2023

Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 8:15am

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog. 

We have had a great week this week. It has been art week and in Year 5 our topic was fashion design. 

First we looked at 3 different fashion designers, we thought about how they were inspired and what patterns and colours they used. 

The designers we looked at were:

Alice Fox

Rahul Mishra

Pyer Moss

Next we decided on our design brief, it was to design any type of clothing with a link to China. So we looked at traditional Chinese patterns, symbols, colours and pictues. Then we practised drawing and colouring some of these designs. 

For our final piece we painted some backgrounds, added patterns onto these, and then cut out our clothing from these different designs. We were so pleased with the results! 

We finished our DT project on frame structures. We tested out how sturdy they were with Reception by reading them the story of The Three Little Pigs. We then asked the children in Reception to see if they could blow down our frame structures with their mouth, a hand fan, or a hairdryer! Some of our frame structures survived all 3, some didn't survive the hairdryer! 

You can see us with Reception in our gallery here. 

In maths we have been looking at tables and graphs to find out information and to answer questions such as how many altogther, how many more, how many less, what is the difference. 

In English we have read some more of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. We wrote a formal letter to Harry from Professor McGonnagall and also described Diagon Alley using exciting words and different punctuation. 

Next week we are going be finding out about some of the Fantastic Beasts. 

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read.

Spelling

In order to prepare for Year 6, over the next couple of weeks please practise the Year 5 and 6 spellings. These are attached to the blog. 

Times Tables

Please practise your own individual target or the 6x tables and related division facts. 

Sumdog

Spelling Challenge

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Competition 

Reception Blog - Friday 30th June 2023

Date: 30th Jun 2023 @ 1:42pm

We have had a fanastic week learning all about the Queen's Handbag.

We have been retelling the story using story maps and actions. We have been learning all about London and the different buildings and places to visit. Together we made a collage of the London skyline using different paper, we then drew our favourite London landmark and added it to the collage.

Year 4 Blog Friday 30th June 2023

Date: 30th Jun 2023 @ 12:48pm

Welcome to your Friday blog.

On Monday, we had a visit from Ian Bland who is a children’s poet from Lancashire. Following a workshop, we all wrote a ‘Kenning’ – Kennings were first used in Anglo-Saxon and Norse poetry.  We performed the Kennings to our class and some of us also performed them in the whole school assembly at the end of the day. We had a brilliant day and enjoyed both writing and performing our poetry. 

In other English lessons this week, we looked in detail at different non-chronological reports and identified the features of these. We then chose our own topics and planned our own non-chronological reports using a spider diagram. We have started to write our reports and will finish these next week!  

In Maths, we learnt how to convert between metres and kilometres. In addition, we learnt how to find area by counting squares in groups (making a connection between multiplication and arrays).

In RE, we completed our topic about ‘Building Bridges’ with a beautiful class collective worship led by some of the children. We also learnt about Islam and the importance of the Qur’an.

In French, we learnt how to ask for an ice cream in a shop. Then we described some aliens, remembering to put the words in the right order and make the adjectives agree with their noun.  

In Science, we learnt about the structure and function of each part of the digestive system and tried to draw a life size version of our own. You can see some of us modelling our digestive systems here - there were some interesting variations!

In Art, we created a sensory picture using pencils and needles. Have a look at some of our designs!

In PE, we practised our net and wall skills during a tennis session, and our throwing and catching skills in a game of rounders. Unfortunately, we were rained off after about 45 minutes!

On Thursday afternoon, we also attended church for St Peter and Paul’s Feast Day Mass.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes each evening. Look at all the different types of punctuation you can find.

Spellings

Next week we will be tested on the Year 3/4 statutory spelling words.  We will be practising a few of these each day in class. The words have also been attached, so that you can have a practise at home!

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 7’s  

Start at 7 and count up to 84 and back again

7   14   21    etc                       84   77   70  etc

Times tables

You will be tested on all your times tables next week. Please therefore keep practising your times tables, especially those which you find tricky!

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on some of the spellings Year 3/4 spellings
• A challenge based on area of rectilinear shapes
• A times tables challenge based on all the times tables

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  Little and often is the key to success!

The Year 4 Team

Year 2 Blog Friday 30th June 2023

Date: 30th Jun 2023 @ 11:46am

Year 2 have had a lovely week, the highlight was our trip to Skipton Castle. The children thoroughly enjoyed the tour around the castle and found the dungeons and long drop very interesting. They were all really well-mannered and a credit to the school. We also had a visiting poet in school (Ian Bland) who inspired the children to write some fantastic animal poems using alliteration. He did amazing performance poetry, which was incredibly entertaining. In English, we started the Magic finger by Roald Dahl. It was interesting to read about what the children would do if they had a magic finger themselves. They used exciting adjectives, paragraphs and beautifully joined handwriting. In Maths, we worked on addition and subtraction word problems, it was important to remember to circle the key bits in the question and decide if we had to add or subtract. In P.E we did racket skills and played mini-tennis games. Year 2 are really improving in Music and playing the ocarinas. In French, we practised saying ice cream flavours and played a game to reinforce the vocabulary. Then we talked about the Tour de France which starts this Saturday.    

Outdoor Learning and Forest School

This week we used hammered nails into tree stumps to make a shape. We then wrapped wool around the nails to make a piece of art. We had to persevere as the wool came undone if we didn't secure it well enough. We all had our own ideas about what to make. We know how to use a hammer safely.

In our other session we made friendship bracelets.  We used our knot-tying skills and made some colourful bracelets.

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.

Reading books are changed every Wednesday. You will receive 2-4 books depending on their length, they should last the week, if you read a little each night. However, if you need to change a book at any other time, we will change it as needed.

Reading resources:

Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read and really enjoy it.

If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’. You could also explore the rest of the site and read books from the Oxford Owl eBook library or listen to audio books.

Username: sto2

Password: 1234

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - https://www.literacyshedblog.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/ks1_reading_vipers.pdf

In addition to this, reading a good bed time story to your child is so worthwhile and really helps towards a lifelong love of reading.

Spelling

Please practise these spellings for our last quiz on Friday (07.07.23). A sheet will go home with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by Friday 07.07.23.

This week’s spellings:

Year 1/2 spelling list.

Mrs               money

half               clothes

busy               parents

water              people

again              everybody

Maths

Next week for our last times tables quiz (Friday 07.07.23) we will be learning the division facts for the 3x table in a random order.

Count in 3’s forwards and backwards, see how quickly you can go, but it must still be accurate. Chant/sing the division facts for the x3 table. Ask an adult to quiz you on them in a random order. Try playing ‘Hit The Button’ game from the maths games listed below.

You will have a multiplication and division by 3 challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 07.07.23.

Here are some links to other maths games/apps the children can play to help them learn their number facts.

Topmarks.co.uk also have and English section for phonics/spellings games. If you explore the site you will find lots of different games that are relevant to Year 2.

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

https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/1-minute-maths

(I believe this app is free to download.)

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/multiplication-and-division

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.

Year 6 Blog Friday 30th June 2023

Date: 30th Jun 2023 @ 11:44am

Welcome to this week’s Year 6 blog.

This has been a huge week of rehearsals, creating new lines, choreography and plenty of movement around the stage.

On Monday, St Oswald’s had a Poetry Day with Ian Bland, who inspired us all to be poets. Year 6 created and performed a super poem in groups, with some performing to the school.

On Tuesday, Year 6 Sports Captains led the Year 3 sports day brilliantly once again. Only one to go – Year 6’s on Monday 3^rdJuly at 2:15pm.

On Thursday, Year 6 did a great job of leading St Peter and St Paul's Feast Day in church.

On Friday, the majority of Year 6 headed for a transition day at All Hallows high school. There, they met their form tutor and lots of new people from different primary schools.  

Also, Year 6’s learning this week:

• In History, we continued the use of the library loan by investigating real posters from World War II and how propaganda had an effect on the people of Britain.

• In French, the children practised their cafe dialogues written last week and made some props for their cafe. They then filmed their little sketches - well done everyone!  

• In science, we leant about Inheritance (scientifically speaking!) and variation. There was a lot of discussion and interesting questions. The children then drew what the offspring of Mr Men and Little Miss characters might look like.  That concludes this topic on Evolution and Inheritance. We moved on to a quick recap of Electricity by making lots of different circuits. 

Home Practice

Please continue with your ‘Numeracy Skills booklet’ from All Hallows.

• Work through all 20 questions as best as you can.
• Any you do not understand, we will go through them next WEDNESDAY
• This week have a go at completing the sheet 54.5

Year 3 Friday 30th June 2023

Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 2:01pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog!

We have had a fun filled week of learning in Year 3 this week. On Monday we were visitied by the brilliant poet. Ian Bland. He taught us how to write Kennings and read us some of his hilarious poems.

In English we have really enjoyed our new story. We have met some new witches and learned a lot more about the mysterious S.M.I. We focused on descriptive writing this week and are using some great openers to our sentences.

In Maths this week we have been learning about decimals and how they are related to fractions. We have been partitioning mixed numbers and comparing our decimals.

In Art this week we have glazed our canonic jars ready for going home. They look great! Next week is Art week and our class will be using natural materials to make images.

This week we did our yoga session outside with Kate. We learned some positive affirmations and balance poses. Have a look at our gallery.

We also had a fabulous Sports Day on Tuesday. Everyone outperformed their personal bests and showed great attitudes and teamwork. Aidan came out victorious but every house was amazing.

 

 

Continue to read every night. We have been talking this week about how reading can help with so many areas of learning, including spelling and sentence writing.

 

 

 

We have set 3 Sumdog challenges this week on fraction, times tables and on your spellings. This week we have been looking at using phonics to spell and reading our words to check our spelling.

 

Here are your spellings 

 

completely

bravely

slowly

quickly

unusually

carefully

finally

totally

weekly

vividly

truthfully

successfully

Have a great weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 1 Blog - Friday 30th June 2023

Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 10:16am

Welcome to your Friday blog, the final one for June!

We are looking forward to visiting Year 2 next week.

 English

We started our week in a very special way. We had a visitor in school all day. He is called Ian Bland and he's a poet. He performed some of his poems for us all in a whole school assembly. We then had a workshop with him and we all came back together at the end of the day to perform the poems we had written. Mr Bland had such amazing energy and we all laughed so much. We learnt a lot too!

Click here to go to his website.

We read some more stories about Mr and Mrs Grinling and Hamish, their cat. As we were so inspired by Mr Bland we wrote our own call and response poem called, "Hamish is a Cat". We performed them to each other.

We also planned and wrote our own story-we had really imaginative ideas about what might happen!

Phonics

Some of us have been learning about split sounds, o-e as in stone, a-e in cake, e-e in concrete, u-e as in cube and rude, i-e as in pike.  Some of us have been learning about s in treasure and si in vision.

Maths

We have been learning about partitioning numbers in order to solve addition number sentence questions. We know that the number 12 is made up of one ten and two ones and used this knowledge to solve problems, for example 12 + 5 = ?

R.E.

We started a new topic - 'being sorry'. We talked about what it means to be sorry and why we should be sorry if we made a wrong choice. We then drew a picture of a time that we have been sorry.

Computing

We learnt how to use two new blocks - draw and jump. We had a lot of freeplay levels this week, which allowed us to draw whatever we liked using coded instructions. It was so much fun!

Science

We started learning about the weather. We focused on the UK and how we have different types of weather depending on the season we are in. We also touched upon climate change and how our weather is drastically changing! We then drew pictures of the typical weather that we see in each season, for example we associate winter with snow.

Geography

We read the story 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers and talked about how the penguin lives in a cold climate. We discussed the term 'climate' and how we have hot, cold and warm climates in the world. We then coloured these in on a world map.

We also discussed the difference between 'weather' and 'climate' as our learning linked perfectly to our science lesson!

P.S.H.E.

This week, we learnt about the word 'responsibility'. We watched a clip from Rugrats where Angelica mentions that she has more "sponsibilities" now that she is older. We talked about our responsibilities in school and at home and how they change as we grow up.

French

We practised saying ice cream flavours and played a game to reinforce the vocabulary. Then we talked about the Tour de France which starts this Saturday.

Outdoor Learning and Forest School

This week we used hammered nails into tree stumps to make a shape. We then wrapped wool around the nails to make a piece of art. We had to persevere as the wool came undone if we didn't secure it well enough. We all had our own ideas about what to make. We know how to use a hammer safely.

In our other session we made friendship bracelets.  We used our knot-tying skills and made some colourful bracelets.

Home Practice

Phonics - s and si words OR u_e

Maths - Number bonds

Year 5 Blog Friday 30th June

Date: 28th Jun 2023 @ 9:47am

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.

We have had a very exciting week this week, especially because we have read some of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone :)

In English we have read parts of the first Harry Potter novel. We then created our own magical character which we described, we used JK Rowling's description of Dumbledore as inspiration. We also found out our own witch or wizard names here: Harry Potter name generator

We had an amazing poetry day on Monday when the very funny poet Ian Bland visited us. We loved some of his poems like the Dinnerlady Dance. We wrote our own poems with Ian called If I were a ... We really enjoyed hearing poems, writing our own, and performing them. It was a great day! 

In maths we have been calcuating the area and perimeter of shapes and have been converting between measures. 

1cm = 10mm

1l = 1,000ml

1m = 100cm 

In geography we started our new topic on China. We located China on a map and found out about its location including bordering countries and oceans. Throughout the topic we will be learning about the impact humans have had on China and the impact China has on other countries. Try to look out for products at home that were made in China. 

In French, we practised giving our opinion of different ice cream flavours and asked others their opinion. We played a game to reinforce the vocabulary.  The children were able to write a sentence from memory using a conjuction - fantastique! Then we learnt how to ask for an ice cream in a shop and held a conversation in role with a partner. 

Home Practice

Geography

Make a list of any products you find at home or in the shops that were made in China. 

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes to an adult. Talk about what you have read. 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. They all have the suffix -ful. 

cheerful          delightful          faithful          beautiful          graceful          harmful          painful          thoughtful         

doubtful          forgetful          respectful            meaningful          disgraceful          colourful          stressful          

Counting

Count out loud in:

6s from 0 to 72 and back again.           0, 6, 12, ...

7s from 0 to 84 and back again.            0, 7, 14, ...

12s from 0 to 144 and back again.            0, 12, 24, ...

Times Tables

Please practise your own individual target or the 12x tables. 

Sumdog

Amazing effort from some of you in the competition this week. Well done! 

Spelling Challenge

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Challenge 

Don't forget to practise the songs for Oliver. The words are attached to this blog. 

Year 6 Blog Friday 23rd June 2023

Date: 23rd Jun 2023 @ 4:36pm

Welcome to our Year 6 blog.

This week we have continued with rehearsals, memorising lines and adapting the drama scenes, even during some very hot days.

On Wednesday, the Year 6 Sports Captains led the Year 4 sports day brilliantly, their fifth one so far – only 2 to go.

On Thursday, as part of our history topic, World War II, year 6 had a zoom workshop with Mark Mckenzie (from WW2homefront.org) to learn about the blackout, blitz, wardens, gas masks and even bomb handling.

On Friday, the Year 6s organised and led the infamous ‘Tough Kidder’ event which went down a treat with everyone having a super time.

Also, Year 6’s learning this week:

• In Maths, we reminded ourselves about the various addition strategies that we have learnt throughout the year to answer tricky problem-solving questions.
• In English, we continued with our novel, ‘1000-year-old boy’, learning about Alfie’s 1000-year-old past.

• In PE, the class were divided into four sections to test their teamwork skills of communicating and evaluating with the following sports: netball, handball, hockey and cricket.
• In History, we used a library loan of historical artefacts from the World War II era to learn about what life was like then. We had a great discussion about air raid wardens, gas masks and what life was like for children during this time.

• In Music, we have been rehearsing the songs for ‘Oliver’ and preparing for the Leaver’s Assembly.

• In French, we continued to learn the words for our leavers' song. Then we practised some phonic sounds from the cafe menu and translated a cafe dialogue. We're ready to write our own dialogue next week. The children have earned the exciting bit - some food tasting! 
• In Science, we continued to learn about Charles Darwin and his theories of Natural Selection and Evolution. We learnt about Darwin's Finches and how they evolved different beak shapes according to the food available on their specific Galapagos Island. We modelled 'eating' different foods with different 'beaks' to see which beak was best adapted to each food. We looked at the results and predicted what would happen with different food, then tested that to check our predictions. 

Home Practice

For the rest of this half term, All Hallows’ have kindly given you a ‘Numeracy Skills booklet’, which is very similar to the ones they use. This is a great transition homework for you to get used to. I have explained how to complete this in class but to remind you:

• Work through all 20 questions as best as you can.
• Any you do not understand, we will go through them on WEDNESDAY
• This week have a go at completing the sheet 53.4

Reception Blog - 23rd June 2023

Date: 23rd Jun 2023 @ 3:28pm

What an end to our school week! We had a fantastic time taking part in our first Tough Kidder!

A big well done to Reception!

Year 4 Blog Friday 23rd June 2023

Date: 23rd Jun 2023 @ 1:25pm

Welcome to your Friday blog.  

In English, we planned and wrote a letter from Ashley (the main character) to his father, following Ashley’s departure from the village.  Following this, we proof read and edited our work in pairs. We enjoyed doing this outside - you can see some pictures here. 

In Maths, we learnt how to accurately measure and draw lengths, converting between cm and mm. We then extended this learning to measure and draw lengths which included numbers up to 2 decimal places (converting between metres and centimetres). You can see some pictures of us measuring accurately outside here.

In RE, we wrote prayers to the Holy Spirit asking for help when we feel we have broken a bridge of friendship. We also read part of Paul’s letter to the Colossians and explained how his words can help us to build bridges in our everyday lives.

In French, we learnt how to say 6 ice cream flavours and give our opinion of them - either I love, I like, I don't like or I hate.... We looked at the phonic sounds in 'vanille' and 'menthe' and added actions to help us remember how to pronounce these words. Then we revised the position of adjectives relative to the noun and how to make them match their noun eg blue eyes = les yeux bleus.  We're ready to have a go at describing an alien next week!

In Science, we looked at the results of the investigation we set up last week – eggs had been left to soak in different liquids. We carefully examined any damage which had been done to the egg and then described how the egg shell had changed.  We then decided which liquid had done the most damage to the egg shell and which had done the least!  We were shocked by the results!

In PSHE, we finished our living in the wider world topic by writing a pledge which outlined a change we could make in our everyday lives, and demonstrated how we care and have concern for others.

In Outdoor Learning, we built our very own dens. You can see how creative we were here!

This week we also took part in our 3^rd Yoga session on Monday morning and Tough Kidder on Friday afternoon.  In addition, we had a fantastic sports day on Wednesday afternoon - many thanks to everyone who came and supported us!

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes each evening.  Discuss what you have read with someone at home.

Spellings

Here are this week’s spellings. You will be tested on these words next Friday (30^th June 2023).

happily         prettily       easily           sleepily        greedily

clumsily        angrily         lazily            gently          simply

humbly         nobly            basically       frantically    dramatically

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 5’s  

Start at 5 and count up to 150 and back again

5   10   15    etc                       150   145   140  etc

Start at 29 and count 134 and back again

29   34   39                               134   129   124   etc

Times tables

You will be tested on your tables target next Wednesday (28^th June 2023). Please practise every day. Remember you can practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A challenge to revise place value in 4 digit numbers
• A times tables challenge based on all the times tables

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  Little and often is the key to success!

Another app for practising tables and number facts is One Minute Maths from White Rose.  It is free to download from the AppStore and PlayStore. There are lots of excellent games you can play which will help you brush up your mental maths skills.  Please do your best to access this fabulous free resource!  Knowing your tables and number facts off by heart is crucial and will help you in many different areas of maths.

The Year 4 Team

Year 2 Blog Friday 23.06.23

Date: 23rd Jun 2023 @ 11:54am

Wow, year 2 had so much fun at the ‘Tough Kidda’ event this afternoon. Thank you to everyone who brought sponsorship money into school. Don’t worry if you forgot, it is still possible to bring it in next week. In English, the children wrote some amazing adventure stories, using paragraphs. Their handwriting was also extremely neat and well presented. Mrs Wood loved reading them and seeing how much everyone has progressed since the beginning of the year. In Maths, we did addition and subtraction with exchange using lines and dots as tens and ones. In Re, we learnt about Islam and how Muslims pray. The children drew some beautiful prayer mats. During History, we labelled the parts of a castle. This will help when we go on our trip to Skipton Castle next Thursday. In Computing, we worked on coding and had the opportunity to play some of the games the Year 3 class made themselves. In French, we continued our French phonics by looking at the numbers 6 to 10. Then we learnt how to say some ice cream flavours. We will reinforce this new vocabulary next week. Music was especially exciting as the children have been given their own ocarina to learn to play.

Outdoor Learning and Forest School

For our first session we used lots of techniques, skills and knowledge which we have learned over the year to make a butterfly. We joined sticks or lolly sticks together using pipe cleaners, wire or tape. We then attached pipe cleaners and beads to create the antenna and body of the butterfly. Then we chose our wool to make the wings. Great perseverance was shown. Some of us also made different animals, forest eyes and bracelets-lovely creativity and imagination.

For our second session we went into the nature area. We built dens, always trying hard to improve on our previous attempts. There was more equipment in the mud kitchen so some of us used that. We also played on the rope swings from last week.

Thanks for the questionairres which have been returned this week.

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.

Reading books are changed every Wednesday. You will receive 2-4 books depending on their length, they should last the week, if you read a little each night. However, if you need to change a book at any other time, we will change it as needed.

Reading resources:

Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read and really enjoy it.

If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’. You could also explore the rest of the site and read books from the Oxford Owl eBook library or listen to audio books.

Username: sto2

Password: 1234

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - https://www.literacyshedblog.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/ks1_reading_vipers.pdf

In addition to this, reading a good bed time story to your child is so worthwhile and really helps towards a lifelong love of reading.

Spelling

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (30.06.23). A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by Friday 30.06.23.

This week’s spellings:

Words ending ‘– tion’. Including two words from the Year 1/2 spelling list.

nation               section

motion              fraction

lotion                position

action               any

fiction              many

Maths

Next week for our times tables quiz (Friday 30.06.23) we will be learning the division facts for the 3x table in order.

Count in 3’s forwards and backwards, see how quickly you can go, but it must still be accurate. Chant/sing the division facts for the x3 table. Ask an adult to quiz you on them in order. Try playing ‘Hit The Button’ game from the maths games listed below.

You will have a multiplication and division by 3 challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 30.06.23.

Here are some links to other maths games/apps the children can play to help them learn their number facts.

Topmarks.co.uk also have and English section for phonics/spellings games. If you explore the site you will find lots of different games that are relevant to Year 2.

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

https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/1-minute-maths

(I believe this app is free to download.)

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/multiplication-and-division

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.

Year 3 Friday Blog 23rd June 2023

Date: 23rd Jun 2023 @ 11:15am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

This week we have loved reading deeper into our new novel, Toby and the Silver Blood Witches. It has been very mysterious and we're still not sure what is going to happen.

In maths we have finished our multiplication and division learning. We talked about our strategies for division and why we use certain methods. We had lots of good ideas and explanations on why we chose our methods. Next week we are introducing decimals and have set a fractions challenge to prepare for this learning on Sumdog.

In yoga we learned some paired yoga poses and worked hard on our team work. It was great fun!

In Geography we explored Antarctica in more detail and used a report to learn more and create our own fact files.

Next Tuesday is our sports  day. We are looking forward to it and have practised lots to make sure we are at our best on the day!

We no longer need shorts and t-shirts for swimming. Normal swimming kits from now on. 

Well done to you all on an amazing Tough Kidder. Keep an eye out for our galleries!

Home Practice

Keep reading your school books for at least 15 minutes a night. 

In maths practice counting forwards and backwards. See our previous blog posts. Everyone is showing great improvements with their knowledge of the number system. Keep it up!

On Sumdog, have a go at the challenges. We have set a Times tables and a fractions challenge.

Your spellings this week are...

oatmeal

broach

loaves

loathe

bloats

croaky

growth

meadow

mellow

billow

oboe

toecap

toenail

explode

envelope

antelope

We will send out the spelling cards on Monday

Have a great weekend

From the Year 3 Team!

Year 1 Blog - Friday 23rd June 2023

Date: 21st Jun 2023 @ 5:11pm

Welcome to your Friday blog.

We have really enjoyed having two Year 10 sudents from All Hallows in our class this week, Miss Lee and Mr Rickson.They have been really enthusiastic helpers and they have enjoyed visiting their primary school again afer 4 years away!

 English

We read two of the stories about the lighthouse keeper, Mr Grinling. We learnt about his job and his family. We designed our own contraption for getting his lunch from his cottage to the lighthouse - it kept being eaten by seagulls on the way! We then designed our own menu for the Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch.

Phonics

Some of us have been learning alternative spellings of the same sound as in these words, toad, stone, toe. Some of us have been learning le in apple and al in metal.

Maths

We have been learning about ten more and ten fewer. We used 100 squares and learnt that we only need to look at the number above or below. Then we learnt how to decode tricky problem questions and write either addition or subtraction number sentences about them.

R.E.

This week was other faiths week and we focused on Islam. We learnt all about the Prophet Muhammad and used adjectives to describe him.

P.E.

This week, we focused on our rolling skills. We started with big balls, then tennis balls and even rolled quoits! We also continued to underarm throw throw hoops and at targets.

Computing

We found the learning to be quite tricky this week! We had to use loops (repeats) to finish the code. We also had to collect gems along the way. We persevered and worked hard!

Science

We continued to learn about seasons and focused on the changes that we see as we go from spring to summer. We talked about the June Soltice and identified the signs of summer that we could see, hear, smell and feel.

Geography

We learnt all about the continents and oceans of the world. We listens to the continents song and used atlases to find the continents of different countries.

P.S.H.E.

This week, we talked about kindess and how we have different choices to make in scenarios. We watched a video about a young boy who had two choices - be kind or unkind. We then identified kind choices.

French

We recapped the summer vocabulary that we learnt last week and then learnt how to say some ice cream flavours. We played a game to reinforce this new vocabulary. Then the children were able to say whether they liked or didn't like various ice cream flavours. We finished with some summer stories and songs. 

Outdoor Learning and Forest School

For our first session we used lots of techniques, skills and knowledge which we have learned over the year to make a butterfly. We joined sticks or lolly sticks together using pipe cleaners, wire or tape. We then attached pipe cleaners and beads to create the antenna and body of the butterfly. Then we chose our wool to make the wings. Great perseverance was shown. Some of us also made different animals, forest eyes and bracelets-lovely creativity and imagination.

For our second session we went into the nature area. We built dens, always trying hard to improve on our previous attempts. There was more equipment in the mud kitchen so some of us used that. We also played on the rope swings from last week.

Thanks for the questionairres which have been returned this week.

Tough Kidder

We had a really fun time doing tough kidder!

Home Practice

Phonics - oa words OR homophones

Maths - problem questions

Year 5 Blog Friday 21st June 2023

Date: 21st Jun 2023 @ 9:20am

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog. 

We have had a lovely week in Year 5 this week. 

On Tuesday we had our taster day at All Hallows which we absolutely loved. We got to meet some of the teachers, find out facts about the school in a scavenger hunt, visit the sports hall to play some cricket and rounders, spend some time with the chaplain to talk about friendship and write down prayers, and have a dance off in groups in performing arts. Not to forget we got to try an All Hallows school dinner yum! 

Here is a gallery to see us on our taster day. 

In English we finished reading Varjak Paw. We loved it and are now excited to read parts of the Harry Potter books, Fantastic Beasts, and also the playscript the Cursed Child. 

In maths we have been learning about properties of shapes. Here are some of the words we have been using this week:

Polygon - a 2d shape with straight sides

Regular - has equal sides and angles

Irregular - does not have equal sides and/or angles

Perimeter - a measure of the outside of a shape

Angle - a turn between two lines measured in degrees

In French, we learnt how to say 6 ice cream flavours and give our opinion of them - either I love, I like, I don't like or I hate.... We looked at the phonic sounds in 'vanille' and 'menthe' and added actions to help us remember how to pronounce these words. Then we wrote a poster or 'lift the flap' quiz questions describing various sports without naming the sport. These are on display in the corridor - I'm very proud of Y5's French! Fantastique.

On Friday afternoon we took part in Tough Kidder. It was amazing to see everybody work together, supports each other, and have so much fun! 

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look at how commas are used. 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. They contain the prefixes dis-   re-   de-   mis-   un-   

Prefixes go onto the beginning of  root word to change the meaning.

disappeared          reappeared          misbehaved          decode          dishonest          disability          misplace          unhappy          unemployed          defrost          unknown          undo          redo          misjudge          disbelief 

Times Tables

Please practise times tables every day, they help with so much of the learning we do in maths!

Either practise your own tables target or practise dividing by 7. 

Sumdog

Spelling Challenge

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Competition 

Have a happy weekend! 

Please find attached the song words for Oliver.