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Year 1 Blog- Friday 4th November 2022
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 10:01am
Welcome to your Friday blog.
It has been lovely to see the children back in school this week after half term.
English
We have been learning through the story of Aliens Love Underpants. It is a rhyming story and we enjoyed spotting all the rhyming words. We designed our own pants and read some fiction and non-fiction books about Space. We drew our own alien and wrote about it. We tried really hard to make our writing look beautiful on the page.
Phonics
We have been learning about split digraphs, o-e as in mole and u-e as in cube.
Maths
We have been learning about 2D and 3 D shapes. we have been using vocabulary such as vertices, sides and faces to describe them.
R.E.
We have been focusing on our 'Journey in Love' topic. We talked about how our families love us and how it is important to say 'please' and 'thank you' to them for looking after us. We wrote a lovely thank you prayer to a special person in our lives.
P.E.
We started our dance P.E. lessons this week! We are going to be performing a dance in small groups, pretending to be a robot. We did some robot dances together and heard the music that we are going to use for our final dance.
I.C.T.
We started learning about digital painting in computing - how we can paint, on a laptop. We used the paintz.app website again to paint portraits of ourselves.
Science
We started learning about animals and went outside to see if we could find any around school. We managed to find lots of worms, woodlice and birds. Some of us even used our imagination and found our plastic animals and identified them!
History
We learnt all about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. We talked about his reason why he made the plot and started learning the 'Remember, Remember the fifth of November' song.
Art
We made some amazing fireworks based on the Gunpowder Plot. We chose the medium that we wanted to use, either paint, pastels, pencil crayons or tissue paper.
Outdoor Learning
We go outside whatever the weather and we had to dodge a bit of rain this week! We don't mind though- it just makes us more resilient!
We went for a walk to look at the changes,much of the fungi we have spotted previously has gone. We collected leaves, berries and sticks on our walk. We used these to make a picture. Our pictures showed great imagination-there were flowers ,trees, faces, even a football shirt!
We also had a competition to see who could make the biggest leaf pile.
We went in the nature area. We chose to do different things. There was tree wrapping, bridge building, leaf threading and even zip wire making. We are showing that we can apply skills which we have learned in previous sessions.
French
We listened to a Halloween song. Then we did head, shoulders, knees and toes in French to revise words for parts of the body. We played some games involving skeletons to help us remember the words!
Sumdog challenges
Phonics - split digraph a_e OR th words
Maths - 2D and 3D shape
Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.
Please read every night for at least 10 minutes- it really makes all the difference!
Year 5 Blog Friday 4th November 2022
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 8:38am
HAPPY FRIDAY
We have had a wonderful first week back after Half Term.
We started our new novel in English. It is called Room 13 by Robert Swindells and we are absolutely loving it! This week we have been using different types of sentences to write a suspense story.
We started our new topic in DT. We were given our design brief, it is:
Design, make and evaluate a Greek snack for an athlete for after an ancient Olympic event.
We have researched traditional Greek food and ingredients. In future lessons we will be sampling some Greek food to find out what we like, learning about the ancient olympics, planning our own Greek snack, practising the techniques needed to make our snack, and then making and evaluating our snack.
In maths we have been learning different methods to add and subtract mentally. It is so important that we know our number facts to help us with this.
In French this week, we continued to learn to tell the time in French, learning how to say all the 5 past times. We are doing really well with this now! Tres bien, Y5!
Home Practice
Reading
Read at home every night for 20 minutes. Tell somebody what you know about verbs, nouns and adjectives. Try to identify them in your reading.
Spelling
Your spellings this week all have an apostrophe.
These spellings have an apostrophe for contraction. This means words have been put together and then a letter has been replaced by an apostrophe:
couldn't don't isn't you're won't haven't aren't didn't they're it's
These spellings have an apostrophe for possession. This means that something belongs or that something is connected to something else.
brothers' brother's children's child's women's
Counting
Count out loud:
Tenths from 1.6 to 2.6
1.6, 1.7, 1.8, ...
Hundreths from 12.57 to 12.67
1.57, 1.58, 1.59, ...
Ten thousands from 66,975 to 106,975
66,975 76,975 86,975 ...
Play on Hit the Button and practise number bonds. This will help you in our maths learning.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Sumdog
Complete the Sumdog challenges.
Next week we will start a Sumdog Club at play times, this is to help any of you who struggle to go on at home :)
In order to help you prepare for your DT project, look out for Greek food in supermarkets - see if you can try some or even go out for a meal at a Greek or Mediterranean restaurant.
We look forward to performing our friendship assembly to parents on Tuesday 8th November at 2.40pm.
Have a lovely weekend. If you are going to a bonfire or celebrating Bonfire Night, please be safe and careful.
Reception Blog - Thursday 20th October 2022
Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 4:01pm
We have had the most fantastic week this week!
We have been learning all about the story Kipper's Birthday. We have made our own party invitations, birthday cards, party hats and we have we have done our own shopping list for our own party.
In maths we have been looking at ordering numbers, lots of counting and finding missing numbers on a numberlne.
We went for our first trip to Longton Park. The children were very well behaved and had big smiles on their faces the whole time.
We went into Church and joined in with the Harvest Celebration.
We finished our half term looking at the Artist Wassily Kandinsky, the children loved making their own circle art drawings!
Have a lovely half term with lots of rest and we will see you on Monday 31st October for our spooky learning!
Year 6 Blog Friday 20th October 2022
Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 3:44pm
Welcome to Year 6 weekly blog.
On Monday, alongside the Juniors, Year 6 performed ‘Down in the Valley’ with recorders to our first live performance of the year.
On Tuesday, Mr Kimmins, a firefighter, came to be interviewed to help us understand our RE topic ‘Vocation and Commitment’ better. After school, the Athletics team showed excellent determination and teamwork and won the Indoor Athletics competition for our local area. We are looking forward to competing again in the South Ribble finals.
Wednesday saw the South Ribble Coaches deliver ‘Young Leaders’ training to the whole class. We split into groups to devise our own new activities, which will help the infants develop their fundamental skills during future lunch times.
Also, the football league concluded at Hutton this week. The A team and B team gave excellent performances with the best teamwork play we have seen so far this season. After a tough three weeks of games, the results are in.
Results for A team:
St Oswald’s A 3 – 0 Little Hoole A
Play Off game St Oswald’s A 1 – 0 Howick A
A team finished 1st. Congratulations A team!
Results for B Team:
St Oswald’s B 0 – 1 St Leonards
Play Off game St Oswald’s B 1 – 2 Ashbridge
B team finished 4th. An excellent effort everyone!
This week’s learning in Year 6:
- In Maths, we learnt how to explain the column addition and column subtraction method and discussed when to use it best.
- In English, we have learnt that three separate timelines are occurring in Clockwork and how the writer has combined them to create an exciting ending.
- In RE, we interviewed Mr Kimmins, a firefighter of over 23 years. The children’s questions gave some super responses and we now have a better understanding of why people commit to such a demanding job. Please see our Year 6 gallery where we pretended to be firefighters ourselves.
- In PE, we continued developing our evaluating skills with various activities in both athletics and rugby. Working in small groups, we discussed how we can give positive feedback to each other.
- In Music, we concluded our unit of recorders with a live performance in the Music Showcase, with the song ‘Down in the Valley’.
- In Science, we researched an invertebrate group and presented the information in the form of a poster, explaining the characteristics of a particular group.
Home Practice
As it is half term this week, I have just three activities for you to practice (if you have time).
Reading – Please read as much as possible over this period. Some of you have taken an extra book. I cannot stress enough how little and often reading can make a difference and, with 10 days off school, that could be 300 potential minutes of reading that would benefit you massively.
Spellings (Spellings of Autumn 1)
- Sumdog (A2 wk 1-tion, -sion, -ssion) Only 45 questions to answer (deadline is 04.11.22)
- direction, collection, addition, action, rotation, creation, punctuation, subtraction, division, television, discussion, session, mission, percussion, profession
Maths
- Sumdog (Times Tables wk 7) 150 questions to answer (as the deadline is 04.11.22)
- Each child has their own tables target which they should know. The Sumdog challenge may relate to their target but this week we have focused on a mixture of x4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9s.
Year 4 Blog Thursday 20th October 2022
Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 2:39pm
Year 4 Blog
Thursday 20th October 2022
Year 4 have had a great half term! They have worked hard and already made good progress in their learning. Being part of the Harvest celebration in church was also a highlight of the week.
Our learning this week:
In English, we used words to describe Kensuke’s personality. We then used these words in complex sentences to explain our thinking. We also wrote a message in a bottle as if we were the character Michael. As space was limited, we had to ensure we chose our words carefully.
In Maths, we drew bar charts. We needed to use a scale which was appropriate to the numbers involved and needed to accurately draw the bars on the chart. In addition, we interpreted data and solved one-step questions using information in a bar chart.
In RE, we read Mark 1: 14-20. This passage tells of Jesus calling his Apostles. We discussed how Andrew, Simon, James and John might have felt when Jesus called them and talked about the meaning of the Kingdom of God.
In French this week, we learned how to ask a question in French just by changing the intonation in our voices. We listened to, read and spoke sentences and questions, using the correct intonation. We practiced reading words with silent final consonants too.
In PE, we warmed up by running around the track. We then finished our invasion games unit by playing a netball tournament. It was fantastic to see the children putting into practice the skills they had learnt – brilliant Year 4!
In History, we learnt about the 4 main formations the Roman Army used. We learnt their names, how they were formed and what they were used for (eg fighting against cavalry or advancing against the enemy). We also got into groups to make the formations, using our history books as shields!
As it is half term, there is no Home Practice. However, please try and read every single day as this really helps unlock your learning.
We hope you have a peaceful and relaxing holiday and look forward to seeing you all again on Monday 31st October 2022.
The Year 4 Team
Year 3 Blog Thursday 20th October
Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 1:05pm
Happy Half term everyone!
Well done for completing your first half term in the Juniors. We have had a busy half term with lots of fantastic learning! We learned all about Stone Age Britain in History, texture and shade in Art, friendships in PSHE, health and nutirion in Science and so much more. We have been adding lots to our proud wall and made huge improvements in our handwriting and presentation.
Today we have braved the elements and taken our learning outside. We created some leaf animals using the vast selection of leaves around our school grounds. Have a look here.
We also have finished reading our Diary of a Killer Cat story and had a look at the wordless story Quest by Aaron Becker. The children wrote some fantastic words to go with the story. Super descriptions and action everyone! You can watch the story here.
In Science this week, we consolidated our learning about staying healthy by making a poster to show what we've learnt. Then we moved on to the start of the next topic on Skeletons and Muscles. We researched and labeled a human skeleton. Fascinating!
We also explored inside a computer monitor as we have been learning about digital devices this term. We opened it up and had a good look inside. We heard some fantastic vocabulary and ideas, have a look here. We have some future engineers in our class! Well done Year 3.
Have a great half term and well see you all next Monday!
Keep reading and training on Sumdog!
The Year 3 Team!
Year 1 Blog - Thursday 20th October
Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 10:03am
Welcome to the final blog of this half term. All the children have settled in so well and have definitely earned a rest!
English
This week our learning has been through a story about a witch called Winnie and her cat Wilbur. Winnie puts a few spells on Wilbur - some are more successful than others!
We wrote potion recipes, drew our own haunted houses, matched rhyming words together, wrote Halloween stories and read the other Winnie stories.
We will have one more day on this learning when we come back to school on Monday 31st October!
Phonics
This week we have been learning about oe as in toe,au as in launch and the split digraph a-e as in cake.
Sing Jake the Snake. Click here.
Maths
We have been learning about how to solve problem questions using addition and subtraction. There has been a lot of reading to do but we worked really hard!
We have also been singing lots of maths songs.
R.E.
We started to learn about the sacrament of baptism. We looked at who is present at a baptism and labelled them in a picture.
P.E.
We went outside for PE this week! We had 3 different activities - dribbling a football, throwing beanbags into hoops and jumping over hurdles. We ended the lesson with a relay race around the daily mile track!
Outdoor Learning
We have enjoyed the beautiful Autumn weather this week when we've been outside. We did some stick wrapping. We practised tying knots and carefully wrapping our wool around a stick. We are still finding different fungi and noticing changes every time we go for a walk.
All the children get involved so well. They show great team working skills as well as great communication and resilience.
Music
We were practising for our Harvest festival in music. We practised the songs ready for church and then played the glocks altogether.
Science
We learnt about a scientist called Linda Brown Buck who taught others about how we smell. We did our own smell tests and guessed what was in the pots. We had a lot of correct answers!
Computing
We learnt about being safe when using the laptops and iPads. We talked about how we look after them and then made our own 'how to be safe' posters.
PSHE
We had a lovely circle time talking about two separate topics - personal space and positive affirmations. We talked about when to give each other space and when we need to be close together (e.g. carpet time). We ended the lesson go round saying a positive 'I am...' sentence about ourselves. We had 'I am a good friend', 'I am a good listener' and 'I am a great tidier'. It was lovely!
We all sat really golden in church for our harvest celebration. We listened to the prayers which the Year 6 children read and joined in with all the singing. Thank you for all your kind donations.
Home Practice
We would like you to read, read and then read a bit more !
Have a great half term break! Thank you for all your brilliant support.
Year 2 Blog Thursday 20th October 2022
Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 1:59pm
Year 2 have had a really fantastic first half term, I am very pleased with how hard everyone has worked and how much progress has been made already. In English, the children researched facts and wrote their own Pet Information Sheet. They also focused on sentence structure and handwriting. In Maths, we continued our work on addition and subtraction with a focus on number bonds and their related facts and we added two, two-digit numbers. In R.E we looked at what happens at a Baptism. Celebrating Harvest in Church was a real highlight this week. The children produced colourful line art and sang beautifully during Music. I hope you all enjoy the Halloween Disco and have a lovely half term holiday. I’ll look forward to seeing you when we get back to school.
Reading
In Year 2, children should read for at least 15 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
You could look in a thesaurus and see what other words have the same meaning as the one you have found.
Please date, sign and leave a small comment when you have read with your child and make it clear that you have finished a book, then we know we can change it. For Example - 14.09.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or good sounding out of tricky words or struggled with the word – because/finished the book. MG.
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 (04.11.22). A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.
It will really help your children’s writing if they can spell the common words they use frequently in class. Attached are the Year 1 and 2 common exception words. Knowing sounds (phonics) will not help with these words, they just need to know them by memory/sight. Learning five or six of these words at a time will really help. Write them down and pin them up on the fridge or wall. We work on these in class as well and the children are tested (quiz) on them before Christmas.
You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by Friday 04.11.22.
This week’s spellings:
music shield
human head
snow bread
grow laughed
field because
Maths
At home, play the ‘follow me’ counting game. We have played this in class! Count to a hundred forwards or backwards taking it in turns to say each number. As you get better try to go faster. You could play the game counting in 2’s, 5’s, 10’s or 3’s.
You will have a 2x, 5x and 10x tables and a subtraction challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 04.11.22.
Sumdog
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Thanks for bringing wellies in for Forest School. After Half Term, It would be great if they can be left in school as the children will be doing it at different times in the week come rain or shine!!
Have a lovely Half Term break.
Year 2 Team.
Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 1:52pm
Welcome to your latest Online Safety Update
At St Oswald's, we regularly discuss online safety with the children to find out what they are experiencing in their online spaces. We find out what new games and platforms are trending and if any of our children have worries or concerns about what they experience online. A lot of children continue to access YouTube so we have added a refresher guide on the platform.
In the guide, you'll find tips on a number of potential risks such as connecting with strangers, inappropriate content and high visibility.
We have also spotted that some children have the new FIFA 23 football game for the PlayStation and XBox. Gaming has changed massively in the past few years with social connection now becoming an integral part of the gaming experience. We have added the latest guide for this game also.
Below you will find a link to join the National Online Safety platform and gain free access to a huge range of videos, resources and support.
http://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primar-school-pr45eb
Year 4 Blog Friday 14th October 2022
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 4:35pm
Year 4 Blog
Friday 14th October 2022
Year 4 have had such a busy week! Lots of learning, a trip to Lancaster City Museum and we also attended Mass at church on Friday morning.
In English, we investigated subordinating conjunctions and used these to write sentences about Kensuke. In addition, we wrote Michael’s thoughts and feelings at the start and end of a chapter.
In Maths, we calculated the perimeter of rectilinear shapes when we had to work out missing sides using known dimensions. Following this, we started a new unit - statistics. The topic began by calculating addition facts to 10 when numbers to one decimal place were involved (eg 4.7 + 5.3 = 10).
In RE, we started our new topic ‘Called’. We considered our feelings when we are chosen to do something as well as recalling times we have been chosen.
In PE, we warmed up with a train run. We then practised our dodgeball skills again in preparation for the tournament which is coming up soon.
In Art, we drew our own mosaic designs following on from our investigation last week. We experimented with different colours and different designs, which ranged from pictures of specific things (eg a flower) to patterns which we found appealing.
In History, we learnt what Roman Legionaries wore and what equipment they carried. We also looked at these items in the classroom. Have a look at our pictures in the gallery.
During our trip to Lancaster City Museum, we met Marcus, a Roman Legionary, and found out much more about the life of a Roman Soldier. Year 4 had a fantastic day and learnt a lot of interesting facts about the Romans. The children’s behaviour was superb too – they were excellent ambassadors for the school. You can see lots of pictures of our trip in the gallery.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Make sure you discuss the story and the characters. Find the meaning of any new words too. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 4’s and 40’s.
For example, start at 0 and count up to 48 and back again
0 4 8 12 etc 48 44 40 etc
For example, start at 0 and down up to 480 and back again
0 40 80 120 etc 480 440 400 etc
Times tables
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week on Thursday (20th October 2022). Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?
Remember you can also practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
Spellings
Your spellings next week all have the i sound spelt y. You have also brought a paper copy home with you, so that you can practise these during the week. Please remember to use neat joined up writing and check them very carefully once you have written them! We will be practising these spellings in class too. Your test will be on Thursday 20th October 2022.
gym myth pyramid symbol synonym
mystery Egypt system lyrics hymn
gymnastics typical cylinder physical oxygen
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
- A times tables challenge based on the 2 and 4 times tables
- A challenge based on calculating the perimeter of rectilinear shapes – this is repeated from last week as it consolidates this tricky area of maths
Please make sure you log on and have a go! Little and often is the key to success!
Thank you to everyone who came along to Parent’s Evening this week. It was lovely to see you and we hope you enjoyed looking at your child’s work.
Have a great weekend
The Year 4 Team
Year 2 Blog Friday 14th October 2022
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 4:13pm
A fantastic week in Year 2, well done to everyone for working so hard and enjoying their learning. In English, we looked at the key features of information texts. We are almost ready to plan and write our own pet information sheets. The children are enjoying our new topic in Maths, addition and subtraction. They were working out missing numbers and we had a chance to play some maths games. In Science, we carried out a survey on how many creatures we found under a log/rock and coloured in a bar chart to show our findings. We learnt about the five oceans of the world in Geography. See how many you can remember! Year 2 have been singing their harvest songs so well in preparation for Tuesday’s celebration in Church. The words to one of them is above. I’m sure you could sing it to someone at home!
Reading
In Year 2, children should read for at least 15 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
You could look in a thesaurus and see what other words have the same meaning as the one you have found while reading.
Please date, sign and leave a small comment when you have read with your child and make it clear that you have finished a book, then we know we can change it. For Example - 14.09.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or good sounding out of tricky words or struggled with the word – because/finished the book. MG.
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 Thursday (20.10.22). A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.
It will really help your children’s writing if they can spell the common words they use frequently in class. Attached are the Year 1 and 2 common exception words. Knowing sounds (phonics) will not help with these words, they just need to know them by memory/sight. Learning five or six of these words at a time will really help. Write them down and pin them up on the fridge or wall. We work on these in class as well and the children are tested (quiz) on them before Christmas.
You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by next Friday 20.10.22.
This week’s spellings:
mind front
find rice
only face
open many
other work
Maths
At home, count forwards in threes. Start at 0 and count up to 36. Write them down and spot any patterns.
You will have a 2x, 5x and 10x tables and an addition/subtraction challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Thursday 20.10.22.
Sumdog
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Thank you for all the harvest donations.
Have a lovely weekend.
Year 2 Team.
Year 3 Friday Blog 14th October 2022
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 3:54pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
It was lovely meeting you all this week and talking about how well everyone has settled into Year 3. We have seen huge progress in everyone's attitude and good learning behaviours. Well done Year 3!
This we week have continued reading the Diary of a Killer Cat and wrote some fantastic diary entries. We also explored caves and wrote some fantastic stories about a dramatic cave rescue. The children have used some fantastic vocabulary in their writing this week. Well done!
We have also seen massive improvements in everyone's presentation and handwriting. We had to show this off to all our visitors, so here is a peak at our Proud Wall.
In our maths learing we have been learning how and when to use the formal written method for addition and subtraction. Everyone found this at little tricky at first but with some super listening and concentration we cracked it. We will continue to practise this next week.
In our Science learning we have been exploring the health benefits of regular and varied exercise. The children made some super posters to link their learning this week with their work on a varied diet and nutrition so far. We will publish these next week!
In French, the children have been learning how to say he and she (il and elle) and how to prounce some new words. Tres bien Year 3! Our language leaders have also been fantastic asking their French questions to the children every morning and to the adults on Monday and Tuesday. Be ready to show off your French next week!
On Friday we visited Fr Michael for morning mass. The children were fantastic and sat beautifully throughout their first mass in the juniors.
We also continued to explore texture in our Art learning this week. We looked at 3 natural materials nad had a go at rectreating them in our sketch books. Great effort!
Home Practice
This week we have set a high frequency/common words spelling challenge on Sumdog. This is to further embed these words and increase spelling accuracy when writing at length.
The children will still be tested on the oo, ue, ew, u_e words on Friday.
used refused rulers loose moose rescue glued cruel grew screw
It was lovely to hear about all the great reading that is going on at home. 20 minutes a night will make a huge difference to your child's learning journey at St Oswald's and beyond. Keep it up!
We have sent home a x3 spelling sheet for practice as well as the sumdog challenges. These are optional but a good way to improve number fluency.
Please also practise counting regularly to build up number fluency.
Count forwards and backwards in 3s, 30s, 5s, 50s.
Have a fantastic weekend
The Year 3 Team
Year 6 Blog Friday 14th October 2022
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 1:43pm
Welcome to Year 6 weekly blog.
This week, Year 6 had a super time on their taster day at All Hallows’ school. They enjoyed burning crisps in Science, playing a handball tournament in PE and designing a moving robot in Computing. Please view our pictures in the Year 6 gallery.
Also, the football league continued at Hutton this week. The A team played really well with a great win and draw, which has set them up for a tense last week as we head towards the play offs. As for the B team, they are working incredibly well together and managed to win one and lose one. Please do not forget that the last week of football is at Hutton, Wednesday 19th October at 3.45pm – 5pm.
Results for A team:
St Oswald’s A 1 – 1 Howick A
St Oswald’s A 4 – 1 Whitefield B
Results for B Team:
St Oswald’s B 4 – 2 Cop Lane B
St Oswald’s B 0 – 2 Middleforth
This week’s learning in Year 6:
- In Maths, we have continued investigating different strategies for addition and subtraction using ‘compensation’ and ‘finding the difference’ to then decide on which strategy is the appropriate for different questions.
- In English, an evil character (Dr Kalmenius) has dramatically entered our novel, ‘Clockwork’. We then described this character and attempted different ways of entering him into a story. We then created a play script to practise our spoken language skills in front of the class.
- In RE, we started our new topic of ‘Vocation and Commitment’ by discussing the jobs that require these values. We then created questions for a firefighter that we will be interviewing next week.
- Our ‘Mountains’ topic in geography continued with a look into how mountains were formed and are still forming. We learnt that the tectonic plates that surround the Earth have moved to create various mountains over millions of years.
- In PE, we focused on developing the children’s evaluation skills. We discussed what to look out for (e.g. various tactics to outwit an opponent) and whether these were successful. If they were not, we changed them and tried again.
- In Music, we practised with recorders this week as we prepared for our ‘Music Showcase’, which is at 2.45pm in the hall, Monday 17th October 2022.
- In French, we recapped the months of the year and learnt the vocabulary for the four seasons.
- In Science, we created an interview with Carl Linnaeus, the ‘father’ of classification, and we sorted the characteristics of different classes of vertebrates and invertebrates.
Home Practice
Please try to complete the following tasks by next Wednesday:
Reading – Use your Home Reading to read every night for up to 30 minutes. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be used for the title of the book and any reading challenge chosen.
- You may change your book any day between Monday and Wednesday
Spellings (Spellings of Autumn 1)
- Sumdog (Autumn 1 mixed spellings wk 6)
- discussed, usually, happiness, unavailable, changeable, comfortably, dependable, horrible, impossible, incredible, possible, difference, preferred, reference, transfer
Maths challenges:
- Counting:
- This week we have been counting in decimal steps of 8, 80 and 800 Try to do the same out loud or with paper.
- Draw a line with some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.
- g. Start with different numbers and count up 10 times then back again in 8s:
5, 13, 21, 29, 37, 45, 53, 61, etc
and in 80s:
13, 93, 173, 253, 333, 413, etc
Start at a different number and count up 10 numbers and down again but this time in 800s:
456, 1256, 2056, 2856, 3656, 4456 etc
- Sumdog (Times Tables wk 6)
- Each child has their own tables target which they should know. The Sumdog challenge may relate to their target but this week we have focused on a mixture of x4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9s.
- (Every Tuesday there is a tables test).
- Sumdog (Estimating addition / subtraction)
- These questions will focus on rounding, which we have done these past few weeks. The questions will eventually seem quite simple once you realise that you do not need the exact answer, just the estimate. This practice will help with next week’s learning.
Maths Training
For further maths work, please visit the ‘Maths Training’ section which you can find in the tasks box on the left of the main screen. This will enable your child to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them, following the diagnostic test, which they completed in the first week of school.
Reception Blog Friday 14th October
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 12:32pm
This week we have been doing the story The Three Little Pigs. We have listened to different versions of the story and talked about how they have been different, we have retold the story using puppets, drawn story maps, made pig biscuits, written instructions and made our own roleplay masks. Whilst we have been choosing in our areas we have been building lots of different houses.
In maths we have been looking at the numbers 5,6 and 7. We have counted and made the numbers in different ways using numicon.
In PE we have been doing lots of throwing and catching.
In PSHE we made our own friendship bracelets and chose to give them to our friends in class. We also have started looking at Baptisms in our RE.
When we have been looking at Autumn we have been sorting the different coloured leaves and talking about how they have changed even more.
What a busy week! Next week our story is Kipper's Birthday!
Year 1 Blog- Friday 14th October 2022
Date: 13th Oct 2022 @ 9:56am
Welcome to your Friday blog.
It was lovely to see all of you at parents' evening. Thank you for coming.
English
This week we have been learning through the story of Percy the Park Keeper. He had a big job to do when all the animals lost their homes after the storm.
We designed parks, wrote about what jobs we'd like to do when we grow up and imagined what we'd be able to see, smell, touch and feel during a storm. We are getting really good at sharing our learning and talking about it.
Phonics
We have been learning ph as in phew, wh as in whistle and ew as in stew.
Maths
We have been learning about subtraction using the part whole model. We have been writing the number sentences in different ways. We have also been singing some number songs. We have also looked at all the ways to make 10.
Play a subtraction game. Click here.
R.E.
We talked about Jesus and how he shows love to other people.
Geography
We looked at pictures of Longton in the past and we wrote about how it has changed.
P.S.H.E.
We compared ourselves to our friends in terms of what we look like, what we like to do and what we like to eat.
French
Everyone made either a green leaf or an orange leaf and used it to join in with a leaf poem.
Music
We practised our songs for our Harvest celebration. We played some of the instruments.
Art
We sketched half a leaf and then did a handprint which formed the leaves on a tree.
P.E.
We were running fast between cones.
We did some rolling in gymnastics
Outdoor Learning
This week we have been building obstacle courses. Our ideas were really imaginative and our team work was superb. We had to test our course to make sure it was safe and we demonstrated our couse to everyone-then we all had a go! There was balancing, jumping, and even some limbo! Some of the courses even had a name!
Our other session was about making a stick person. We talked about finding forked sticks and we went into our nature area to see what we could find. We used elastic bands, string and pipe cleaners to attach the sticks together. Some of us leart a technique called lashing to securely fasten the sticks.
Home Practice
Sumdog Challenges
Phonics-ph words
Maths- Number bonds to 20
Please read for at least 10 minutes every night.
Next week we will change the reading books on Thursday so please make sure they are in school.
Please use your new Sumdog password to log in.
Year 5 Blog Friday 14th October
Date: 12th Oct 2022 @ 9:34am
Happy Friday everybody.
It was lovely to see everybody for parent's evening this week. The children felt so proud to show off their work, they really have been working very hard.
We have had a lovely week in Year 5. We painted our Jo Quigley style cityscapes on Monday and have displayed them proudly in our classroom. You can see us working on our masterpieces in our gallery here.
We have started our new topic in RE. It is called Life Choices. So far we have thought about how to maintain friendships and what our mission is in life. Everybody produced some beautiful work.
In PSHE we spoke about stereotypes. We found it interesting to talk about gender stereotypes and came up with sentences to break those stereotypes. Here are some examples we came up with:
Boys and girls can play football.
Boys and girls can be vets.
Boys and girls can be good at English.
In English we have finished reading our novel Goth Girl. We absolutely loved it and produced excellent work from it. We ended our learning about Goth Girl by writing an epilogue. We chose some of our favourite characters and wrote about what they would be doing in the future. There were lots of fantastic ideas. We will be starting our new novel on Monday...
We have been practising different strategies in maths for adding and subtracting. We have been focussing on using mental methods and some jottings like number lines. It is really important that we know our number bonds to 100 as we progress with our learning. For example:
51 + 49 = 100
100 = 33 + 67
100 - 22 = 78
69 = 100 - 31
Also, the football league continued at Hutton this week. The A team played really well with a great win and draw, which has set them up for a tense last week as we head towards the play offs. As for the B team, they are working incredibly well as a team and managed to win one and lose one. Please do not forget that the last week of football is at Hutton, Wednesday 19th October at 3.45pm – 5pm.
Results for A team:
St Oswald’s A 1 – 1 Howick A
St Oswald’s A 4 – 1 Whitefield B
Results for B Team:
St Oswald’s B 4 – 2 Cop Lane B
St Oswald’s B 0 – 2 Middleforth
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody at home for 20 minutes every night. Look out for new words, discuss their meaning, try to use them in sentences.
Counting
Count out loud in:
10s from 123,456 to 123, 556
123,456 123,466 123,476
0.1s from 6.78 to 7.78
6.78 6.88 6.98
100s from 457,812 to 458,812
457,812 457,912 458,012
Times Tables
You will be given a new times tables target next week. Practise every night using a variety of methods.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for next week. You will be tested on the plural spelling of the words so you need to know whether to add -s, -es, or -ies. We will be practising in class too. Try to spot patterns and rules. See if you can think of other words which follow the same patterns and rules.
bus - buses
balloon - balloons
party - parties
worry - worries
school - schools
potato - potatoes
cup - cups
box - boxes
patch - patches
try - tries
lunch - lunches
meal - meals
baby - babies
hiss - hisses
city - cities
Sumdog
Complete the Sumdog challenges:
Times tables challenge
Maths challenge
Spelling challenge
Have a great weekend.
Year 2 Blog Friday 7th October 2022
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 3:59pm
Year 2 have been great this week, full of enthusiasm and joy for learning. They really are becoming super learners! In English, we have moved on to non-fiction writing. We are looking at information texts and letters. The children wrote sentences that were made-up (fiction) and fact (non-fiction). They are trying hard to always sit their letters on the line and do neat handwriting with lead-ins. We will be writing our own letters and information texts about pets. In Maths, the children have been measuring length and weight (mass). They learnt about metres and centimetres, measuring objects/lines with rulers, some of them even got the trundle wheels out to measure the playground. Everyone enjoyed using the balance scales to measure objects around the classroom. In Art, we used collage to create Pablo Picasso style portraits. In Geography the children located the seven continents on a map and learned facts about each one. We love to sing the continents song! We looked at microhabitats during our Science lesson. Outdoor learning has been very popular. Year 2 will be doing this every week so please could your child always have a coat and a pair of wellies that can be kept in school.
Reading
In Year 2, children should read for at least 15 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
You could find the meaning of new words by looking them up in a dictionary. A great skill for your child to learn. We will be doing this in class soon.
Please date, sign and leave a small comment when you have read with your child and make it clear that you have finished a book, then we know we can change it. For Example - 14.09.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or good sounding out of tricky words or struggled with the word – because/finished the book. MG.
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 (14.10.22). A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.
It will really help your children’s writing if they can spell the common words they use frequently in class. Attached are the Year 1 and 2 common exception words. Knowing sounds (phonics) will not help with these words, they just need to know them by memory/sight. Learning five or six of these words at a time will really help. Write them down and pin them up on the fridge or wall. We work on these in class as well and the children are tested (quiz) on them before Christmas.
You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by next Friday 14.10.22.
This week’s spellings:
ride flute
white cube
stone cute
home again
rule thought
Maths
At home, count to 100 forwards and backwards. Ask questions like, what is one/two/five or ten more/less than_? The blank _ could be any number up to 50 or 100. This will help with next week’s learning on addition and subtraction.
You will have a 5x and 10x tables, and another measure challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Friday 14.10.22.
Sumdog
Log in at www.sumdog.com
It's our Harvest celebration next week and we would appreciate some tins or packets of food for our collection, which will be donated to the Penwortham foodbank.
Have a lovely weekend.
Year 2 Team.
Year 3 Friday 7th October 2022
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 3:51pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Happy World Smile Day!
We have had a great week in Year 3! Everyone has been woring hard on their listening skills and their independent learning. We have had some outdoor learning in between the showers and been practising our dodgeball skills with Mrs Cookson.
In our English we have been reading The Diary of a Killer Cat. The children have enjoyed hearing about Tuffy's antcis and what he thinks about everything. We have had some great writing about the story. We wrote letters to an animal shelter to take Tuffy off our hand and we learned about speech sentences and speech marks.
In Maths we have been learning about bar graphs and pictograms. The children have been very good at showing their information on bar graphs and using them to answer questions. A huge well dont everyone who entered the Sumdog Lacashire competition. Our class finished 4th in Lancashire with a score of 251! Amazing effort Year 3!
In our Art learning this week we have been exploring texture in our outdoor area. Have a look at some of our work here.
On Thursday we celebrated National Poetry Day. As we are learning about friendship in our PSHE learning. We read lots of friendship poems and used our learning so far to write our own poems. We then performed them to eachother in our outdoor theatre. Have a look here.
This week we have been learning about how computers are connected. We learned about servers, network switches and wireless access points. Once we had looked at how networks pass information around we had a go ourselves and shared messages and sound files through Seesaw. We thought about where the messages went before they came onto our iPads. Super learning Year 3!
Home Practice
This week we have noticed most children in the class could improve their recall speed of number facts to 10 and 20. We have been using the number bonds to 10 to solve trickier problems and to be fluent, the children have to be quick and accurate. We have sent home a sheet to practise these number facts. Have a go.
Hit the button is a great game for practising number facts and times tables. Click the picture below to access the game.
We have also set a number fact Sumdog challenge and a statistics challenge to help embed the learning from this week.
This week in our spelling we have been focussing on how we can use our phonics knowledge to help spell words. The children have been revisiting their vowel sounds and looking carefully to make sure all our letters are in the right places. Here are your words for this week.
light might flight cried spied dried chime spike stride compile
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team!
Year 6 Blog Friday 7th October 2022
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 3:45pm
Welcome to Year 6 weekly blog.
This week, Year 6 attended church to celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Thank you to Father Michael for inviting us.
Also, the football league began with pupils from Year 5 and 6 competing against schools from the local area. Both teams represented the school brilliantly, with superb hat-tricks from Finley (Year 6) and Morgan (Year 5). Everyone worked really well as a team – we are looking forward to seeing what we can achieve in the next two weeks.
Results for A team:
St Oswald’s A 3 – 0 Whitefield A
St Oswald’s A 4 – 0 New Longton A
Results for B Team:
St Oswald’s B 4 – 1 Ashbridge
St Oswald’s B 1 – 2 Howick B
This week’s learning in Year 6:
- In Maths, we have learnt how to use the partitioning and bridging strategies for both addition and subtraction. Next week, we will learn a few more before deciding which strategies are most appropriate for different questions.
- In English, we began our new novel, ‘Clockwork’ and have improved the reading skills of retrieval and inference to help find evidence that explains the impressions we have on the two main characters.
- In Art, we used Lola Dupre’s artwork to inspire us further with the mediums of sketch pencils and charcoal. We focused on the skill of shading.
- In RE, the school ambassadors led a lovely collective worship to complete our topic on ‘Unconditional Love’, before learning how people choose jobs that become a vocation and are extremely committed to.
- Our ‘Mountains’ topic in geography continued with a closer look on what features are in a mountain range. We worked as groups to gather the information before making a presentation to the class.
- In PE, the children learnt how to improve their running skills by evaluating their arm and leg movements. They also developed their swing pass, dodging and tackling through the sport of rugby.
- In PSHE, we learnt that any situation can have hopes and challenges. We discussed a scenario of moving to high school and the hopes and challenges we might face. We then wrote to ourselves to give advice for how we might overcome some of these challenges.
- In French, we recapped the months of the year and question words - Qui? Quand? Ou? Comment? Qu'est-ce que...? etc We translated some sentences from French to English, understanding that we had to translate the sense, not the exact words. We also chose the first pair of Language Leaders who will be helping everyone to answer questions in French about themselves.
- In Science, we learnt about the work of Carl Linnaeus, known as the father of Classification. We discussed how science is constantly evolving as we develop new technology and understanding so some of his ideas are no longer valid. Then we researched some animals to find their classification and scientific names. Finally, we looked for evidence to answer the question: Are humans primates?
Home Practice
Please try to complete the following tasks by next Wednesday:
Reading – Use your Home Reading to read every night for up to 30 minutes. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be used for the title of the book and any reading challenge chosen.
- You may change your book any day between Monday and Wednesday
Spellings (-fer words)
- Sumdog (-ious wk 5)
- Cautious, various, precious, vicious, conscious, conscientious, gracious, suspicious, perilous, hazardous, marvellous, adventurous, dangerous, glamorous, famous
Maths challenges:
- Counting:
- This week we have been counting in decimal steps of 0.1, 0.2 and 0.25 Try to do the same out loud or with paper.
- Draw a line with some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.
- g. Start with different numbers and count up 10 numbers then back again in 0.1:
5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, etc
and in 0.2:
6.5, 6.7, 6.9, 7.1, 7.3, 7.5, 7.7, etc
Start at a number with two decimal places like 8.12 and count up 10 numbers and down again:
8.12, 8.32, 8.52, 8.72, 8.92, 9.12, etc
Now try to count in 0.25 from 7 and 23 and 54:
7, 7.25, 7.50, 7.75, 8, 8.25, etc
- Sumdog (Times Tables wk 5)
- Each child has their own tables target which they should know. The Sumdog challenge may relate to their target but this week we have focused on 4s, 6s and 8s.
- (Every Tuesday there is a tables test).
- Sumdog (Add / Subtract numbers mentally)
- This week, these questions vary from two to three-digit numbers with both adding and subtracting. This will be great practice for the future as I hope you will continue to answer questions like these without the use of a formal written method.
Maths Training
For further maths work, please visit the ‘Maths Training’ section which you can find in the tasks box on the left of the main screen. This will enable your child to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them, following the diagnostic test, which they completed in the first week of school.
Year 5 Blog Friday 7th October
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 3:35pm
Happy Friday everybody
This week has been the best week yet in Year 5. Everybody has been so kind and we earned all of our golden tokens, we also got our first special token which will go towards an extra special golden time. Mrs Wood visited our classroom on Friday, she said that she has noticed how much everybody has grown up since the start of the year and she said that Year 5 is a happy and lovely place to be.
We had a special visitor on Thursday afternoon. Mrs Stone came to visit with her new baby girl Tilly. We loved asking questions to Mrs Stone and she loved how calm and quiet we were. Click here to see some photos.
We celebrated World Smile Day on Friday. We spent the day smiling (even more than we usually do) and thought about things we can do to make other people smile.
We also attended Mass at church on Friday morning. We were calm, quiet and still and listened really carefully to Father Michael.
In French, we practised reading words with the vowel sounds in then we learnt question words - Qui? Quand? Comment? etc and how to pronounce them correctly. We also chose the first pair of Language Leaders who will be helping everyone to answer questions in French about themselves.
This week, the football league began with pupils from Year 5 and 6 competing against schools from the local area. Both teams represented the school brilliantly, with superb hat-tricks from Finley and Morgan. Everyone worked really well as a team – we are looking forward to seeing what we can achieve in the next two weeks.
Results for A team:
St Oswald’s A 3 – 0 Whitefield A
St Oswald’s A 4 – 0 New Longton A
Results for B Team:
St Oswald’s B 4 – 1 Ashbridge
St Oswald’s B 1 – 2 Howick B
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody at home for 20 minutes every night. Tell them what has happened in your own words and make predictions about what you think will happen next.
Counting
Count out loud in:
10s from 186,357 to 186,457
100s from 276,988 to 277,988
1000s from 341,512 to 351,512
Times Tables
Everybody has been given their new times tables target. Please practise every night. Listen to songs, write them out, play on Hit the Button, say them out loud in the car, etc. Targets will be reassessed each week.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for next week. They are some of the words you need to know by the end of Year 5.
believe decide describe different enough favourite important interest surprise remember question restaurant queue immediately definite
Sumdog
Complete the Sumdog challenges:
Times tables challenge
Maths challenge
Spelling challenge
Have a great weekend.
Year 4 Blog - Friday 7th October 2022
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 2:56pm
Year 4 Blog
Friday 7th October 2022
Year 4 have had a fabulous week and have shown an excellent attitude to their learning. You are all superstars!
Here’s what we have been learning:
In English, we wrote sentences using co-ordinating conjunctions to make them more interesting. We also wrote a diary account from Kensuke’s point of view and listed words to describe Michael’s thoughts and feelings. During the week, we have also been practising our spellings in preparation for our weekly test – have a look at our gallery to see us playing Spelling Countdown!
In Maths, we measured lengths in centimetres and millimetres, including cm as decimals with 1 decimal place. In addition, we measured and calculated the perimeter of rectilinear shapes where all the side lengths are given.
In RE, we finished our ‘Families’ topic. Four children gave a lovely ‘Respond’ to remind the class of their learning – this was beautifully presented and very respectful. Please see the pictures in our gallery.
In Science, we created our own classification keys using a computer program called Flexitree.
In French, we practised reading words with the vowel sounds in then we looked at classroom instructions such as asseyez-vous, ecrivez, dessinez and looked at the sound ‘ay’ spelt ‘ez’. We also chose the first pair of Language Leaders who will be helping everyone to answer questions in French about themselves.
In PE, we warmed up with a train run. We are definitely getting better at baton changes and building our stamina with these relay races. In addition, we played dodgeball in preparation for a tournament in a couple of weeks time. You can see some pictures of our PE lesson in the gallery.
In Art, we found out what Roman mosaics were made of. We looked at lots of examples and discussed what made them effective, which ones appealed to us and what especially stood out to us. Following this, we selected different examples and stuck them in our Art Jotters – we also explained what we liked about them. We will use these to help us design our own mosaic in the coming weeks. Have a look at us exploring mosaics in the gallery.
In PSHE, as part of World Smile Day, we discussed what makes us happy and brings a smile to our faces. In addition, we thought of acts of kindness we could do to bring a smile to the faces of others.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Make sure you discuss the story and the characters. Find the meaning of any new words too. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 3’s
For example, start at 0 and count up to 36 and back again
0 3 6 9 etc 36 33 30 etc
For example, start at 42 and down up to 66 and back again
42 45 48 etc 66 63 60 etc
Times tables
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week on Friday (14th October 2022). Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?
Remember you can also practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
Spellings
Your spellings next week all have the k sound spelt ch. You have also brought a paper copy home with you, so that you can practise these during the week. Please remember to use neat joined up writing and check them very carefully once you have written them! We will be practising these spellings in class too. Your test will be on Friday 14th October 2022.
ache anchor Christmas school choir
echo scheme chorus chemist chemistry
chemical chaos character chameleon chasm
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
- A times tables challenge based on the 2 and 3 times tables
- A challenge based on calculating the perimeter of rectilinear shapes
Please make sure you log on and have a go! Little and often is the key to success!
Have a great weekend
The Year 4 Team
Reception Friday 7th October 2022
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 12:18pm
This week we have been doing the story of Elmer. We have retold the story, made our own Elmer puppets and have been talking about what Elmer said. We loved looking at his patchwork colours.
In Maths we have been looking at the numbers 3,4 and 5. we have counted and drawn pictures to respresent the numbers.
Mrs Stone came in to visit us with her baby, which was lovely. All of the children sat so beautifully and quiet and even sang 'twinkl twinkl little star to her!' We have been learning about growing from a baby to a grown up the last few weeks, so seeing how it starts was great!
In PE we did climbing, balancing and moving in different ways.
With Mrs Winter in Music, we all had a go playing the claves and in French we learnt a new song with the numbers 1 to 10, then we did our colour words with a song, game and a story. Tres bon effort, tous! Well done everyone!
Have a lovely weekend and we will see you Monday!
Year 1 Blog - Friday 7th October 2022
Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 10:05am
Welcome to your first October blog!
We have had a super week of learning with all the children putting in so much effort to produce their best work!
English
We continued with the story of Dogger - fortunately it had a happy ending and Dogger was found!
Ask your child to talk about what's happening in each of these pictures from the story.
Phonics
We have been learning ue as in glue, ir as in girl and oy as in boy.
Maths
This week we have been learning about addition using a part whole model. We have also used 10 frames and been counting on from 10 to find a teen number.
We have also been learning all the pairs of numbers which make 10. We need to be able to recall these quickly.
Friends of 10 song. Click here.
R.E.
We wrote some super sentences about people who care and love for us. It was lovely to see how lucky we are to have so many people in our lives.
Science
We did an investigation to find out if children who have bigger hands have bigger feet. We drew some interesting conclusions!
Geography
We used our Computing skills to research facts about our school on the laptops and iPads. We answered some very tricky what, when, how and where questions.
P.E.
We focused on hitting targets this week. We practised rolling a ball through a target and kicking a ball to knock a target over.
Art
We looked at leaves this week ready to learn about our new artist - Miranda Lloyd. We felt the texture of the leaves and created leaf rubbings. They turned out really well!
PSHE
We focused on sorting ourselves into groups. We looked at how we might have a different hair colour, eye colour, gender and even interests to other people in our class. We then put our name in the group that applied to us.
Outdoor Learning
We have now joined with Year 2 to do our outdoor learning in small groups. We always start our sessions with a game- one of our favourites is called IF......If you have a pet hamster swap places now........the children now come up with their own statements!
We have been looking for fungi in our meadow, making log paths and mazes and also making fairy /elf houses using natural materials.Some of us harvested beans which we will save to plant next year. We showed great resilience, teamwork, problem solving and communication skills as well as super imaginations! We persevered when it was raining and just carried on!
Please make sure your child has a pair of named wellies in school.
We had a very special visitor! Mrs Stone came to see us with baby Matilda-she's so lovely and we asked some great questions.
We are looking forward to meeting you all next week on either Wednesday or Thursday.
Sumdog challenges
Phonics - oi and oy words
Maths - add within 20
We will soon be introducing counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. This week, please focus on counting in 10s from 0 to 100. If this is too easy, start at a different number, such as 22, and count in 10s - 22, 32, 42, 52...
Please read every night for at least 10 minutes- it really makes all the difference!
Year 4 Blog - Friday 30th September 2022
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 3:56pm
Year 4 Blog
Friday 30th September 2022
Year 4 have worked hard this week with many children getting on triple and quadruple gold! What a super achievement!
Here’s what we have been learning:
In English, we used our senses to complete a piece of writing which contained descriptive and expressive language. We found this tricky as we were explaining what we could see, hear, smell etc, without using the words I could see…. I could hear… I could smell…. etc. However, we were extremely proud with our finished pieces of writing and some of the descriptive language we used. We also wrote some super poems called What’s the difference between … eg dogs and deckchairs? There were some great ideas and some were very amusing!
In Maths, we continued using numberlines to add and subtract numbers. We also practised measuring and drawing lengths as properties of 2D shapes. In addition, we put our measuring skills into practise as we collected leaves and then tried to accurately measure them in cm and mm!
In RE, we listened to the story of Ruth and then hot-seated her. We also learnt about the wisdom of Solomon and how the Book of Proverbs in the Bible is attributed to him.
In History, we learnt where the Romans came from, when Rome was founded, how the Roman Empire grew, and listened to the story of Romulus and Remus.
In Science, we learnt how to use a classification key to identify living things. We then played Guess Who to practise asking yes / no questions ready to create our own classification key next week.
In French, we had a taste of Polish and German as well as French this week. We talked about similarities and differences between the sound of the languages and how the skills acquired when learning one language can really help learn another.
Many thanks to everyone who came to the ‘Open Morning’ on Tuesday - we hope you enjoyed seeing the school in action.
We would also like to thank Mrs Nowak and Mr Hawryluk who read stories in Polish to us on European Languages Day.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Make sure you discuss the story and the characters. Find the meaning of any new words too. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 1000’s
For example, start at 0 and count up to 12 000 and back again
0 1000 2000 etc 12 000 11 000 10 000 etc
For example, start at 452 and down up to 10 452 and back again
452 1452 2452 etc 10 452 9452 8452 etc
Times tables
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week on Thursday (6th October 2022). Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?
Remember you can also practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
Measuring
If you can, please draw some lines on a piece of paper and practise measuring them with a ruler like we have done in class. You may also want to use your ruler to measure things around your home, for example, a book, an envelope, a CD cover. You could even go outside and collect leaves or other items to measure like you did in school. Think carefully about the measurements in cm and mm and try and be as accurate as you can.
Spellings
Your spellings next week are all from the Year 3 / 4 Statutory Spelling list. You have also brought a paper copy home with you, so that you can practise these during the week. Please remember to use neat joined up writing and check them very carefully once you have written them! We will be practising these spellings in class too. Your test will be on Friday 7th October 2022.
appear continue grammar material possible
suppose breadth different group medicine
accident century February pressure surprise
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:
- A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
- A times tables challenge based on the 3 times tables
Please make sure you log on and have a go! Little and often is the key to success!
Have a great weekend
The Year 4 Team
Reception Blog Friday 30th September
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 3:42pm
We have had a fantastic week in Reception!
For Literacy this week we have done the book My Family. We have drawn who lives with us and we have hunted for our name and practiced writing it. We also made faces using different materials.
We had Music with Mrs Winter singing the song 'Crunching through the leaves.' In French with Mrs Quilliam we began to learn colours as well as recapping all the language we have learnt so far. Mrs Quilliam loves that all the children say ‘Bonjour’ when they see her around school – well done everyone! A big thank you to Mrs Nowak who came in to read a story in Polish for European Day of Languages Dzi?kuj?!
We have also done lots of smelling this week, as we've been focussing on the sense of smell. The garlic was very strong, but we recognised the ginger as gingerbread men!
On Friday afternoon we did lots of learning about the primary colours. We also experimented about what happens when you mix them up! we used paint and food colouring.
Have a look at the pictures to see all the fun we have had this week!
If you can, please send a pair of wellies in next week with your child (labelled) as the weather has changed we will need them for going outdoors.
Have a lovely weekend everyone and we will see you on Monday!
