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Reception Blog - Friday 7th February 2025

Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 3:34pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

 Phonics

This week we recapped all the sounds we have learnt so far.

Drawing Club

In Drawing Club we read ‘Farmer Duck.’

We designed our own tractor for Farmer Duck to use.

Maths

We have been learning how to subtract two numbers, using the part whole model.

RE

We listened to the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand and recapped our learning from last week. Then we learnt the Glory Be.

Expressive Art and Design

This week we had a go at copying Chinese writing, using mud and water.

Understanding the World

This week a farmer came to visit us, he arrived on his tractor! He told us all about all the jobs that he does on his farm.

We have also continued to learn about China. This week we learnt about Chinese New Year. We listened to the story about the animals crossing the river, deciding who would be the animals for each year. This year is the year of the snake!

PE

This week we practised our throwing, bouncing and catching.

My Happy Mind

We finished our topic of celebrate.

To do this,we all designed a superhero cape for Charlie, using one of the character strengths as a theme.

Forest School

Year 1 Blog - Friday 7th February 2025

Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 3:29pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Hours, minutes and seconds

Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.

Counting - Count in twos from 0 to 20.

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

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We have been exploring different dragon poems this week. We used similes to describe a dragon, wrote our own dragon poems and then read them to years 3 and 5.

Phonics

Some of us have comparing the aw and au sounds.

Some of us have had one final recap week comparing the different 'ee' spellings. We've been spotting them in our books and reading longer passages of text with them in.

Maths

We have been continuing to learn about measuring time. We used the iPads again to count in seconds.

We have also been doing a lot of arithmetic practise!

R.E.

We read about Jesus performing one of his miracles by helping His disciples catch fish. We decorated our own fish for the RE display.

Then we read about Jesus teaching little children. We made our own banners to welcome Jesus, writing the word 'hello' in different languages.

Geography

We found the oceans and seas that surround the UK in the atlases. We sang the oceans song to help us remember their names. 

Science

We conducted an experiment to see whether objects were waterproof or not waterproof. We had lots of fun using pipettes to squirt water onto different materials!

Art

We made our medals! It was great to see so many different ideas and designs, showing each child's individual personalities.

See our pictures here.

Forest School

We were in our nature area this week. There was a lot of mud inspired learning! Great imagination and teamwork was shown.

Year 4 Blog Friday 7th February 2025

Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 12:54pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Can you spot any apostrophes when you are reading? If so, are they used for contractions (a letter or letters are missing) or to show possession?

Spellings

This week we have been learning how to use an apostrophe for singular possession therefore there are no spellings to learn. You will however be tested on the apostrophe spelling rule next Wednesday as we have been practising it in class.

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 100’s  

For example, start at 568 and count to 2068 and back again

568    668    768     etc                      2068    1968   1868  etc

Times tables and Number facts

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

You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

TTRockstars challenge

• A ‘Battle of the Bands’ session – boys v girls

Sumdog challenges

• A maths challenge based on negative numbers
• A maths challenge based on 10, 100 and 1000 more and less

In English, we learnt what an adverbial phase is and how to identify one in a sentence. Next week, we will be learning how to write and correctly punctuate sentences which include fronted adverbials.

In Maths, we returned to place value this week, starting by rounding 4 digit numbers to the nearest 1000.  In addition, we correctly placed numbers on a number line with multiples of 1000 marked, but not labelled, and labelled positive and negative numbers on a number line. 

In RE, we familiarised ourselves the religious vocabulary of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and ordered the different parts of the Sacrament. This week, we also learnt when the Sacrament of the Sick is used and explored how the Sacrament brings God’s strength to those who receive it.

In Science, we explored the properties of liquids. We considered how they:-

• change their shape
• flow and pour easily
• keep the same volume
• made a puddle, not a pile
• show a level surface

In addition, we discussed the meaning of the word viscous (how thick and sticky a liquid is) and planned a ‘liquid race’ which we will carry out next week.

In History, we continued creating our PowerPoints detailing some of the legacies left behind by the Romans. We included lots of information and some pictures. We will attempt to finish these next week.

It was Children’s Mental Health week this week, so our PSHE topic was ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’. First, we discussed the things that make us happy, activities we love doing and things that make us laugh. Then, we talked about the things that disgust us or make us feel fear. Following this, we understood that we have a variety of emotions and now know that it is OK to ask for support.

In PE, we added a transition to our ‘action word’ dance routine. Whilst doing this, we were able to demonstrate an unusual movement and keep in time with others, as well as work together to improve and rehearse our dance. Have a look at some pictures in our gallery.

In Art, we finished making our ‘plinths’ and prepared the pictures of ourselves, so that they stood up unaided.

The Year 4 team

Year 2 Blog- Friday 7th February

Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 11:31am

Home Practice

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

Spelling: 

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (14.02.25):

November    December   Monday   Tuesday   Wednesday  Thursday   Friday   Saturday   Sunday                 

Sumdog: Complete the 'Addition and Subtraction Problems' challenge. 

Counting: Play the two-digit target game below and work on your place value skills.

https://nrich.maths.org/problems/two-digit-targets 

Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and do a bit more practise on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.

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

Recently, the children explored some of the interactive games on top mark maths.

If they would like to play at home, follow the link below.

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

English

This week we started learning throught a new book, "The Magic Finger" by Roald Dahl.

We read and watched the first part of the story and wrote a prediction.

We also wrote some instructions about how to build a nest like the one the Gregg family built in the story.

We are trying so hard to make our writing look beautiful on the page.

SPaG

The children learned how to change an adjective into an adverb by adding 'ly'. For example, slow - slowly or helpful - helpfully.

Maths

We have completed the addition and subtraction topic and moved on to multiplication.

The children learnt how to find the difference between numbers.

We have also been learning about repeated addition, arrays and how these relate to multiplication.

PSHE

 We have been learning that there are times when people are trying to be kind to us and may touch us,

but we might not like or want this, e.g. when a friend gives us a hug but they squeeze us so tight that it hurts.

They might think it’s fun, but for us, it’s not - because it hurts. 

Science

We learnt about two inventors,John Dunlop and John McAdam.

Forest School

We planted the bulbs we looked at in our Science lesson last week. We also made a forest eye.

This is good for practising our knots and it also develops our fine motor skills.

P.E

Year 2 performed some excellent sequences on the large apparatus.

In their sequences they included a clear start, travel, balance, jump, roll and finish.

Geography

We discussed the weather and seasons and identified which clothes were appropriate for the different weather types.

The children also wrote about their favourite weather and explained why they liked it.

Year 3 Friday 31st January 2025

Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 3:48pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Hello and welcome to your Friday Blog

Everyone has been amazing this week! We have written some brilliant poems and acted out scenes from the Bible.

Home practice

Keep up with your brilliant reading at home. We've seen lots of book changes and children sharing their stories from home. Well done year 3!

Your spellings this week all have the ending -ure

measure, pleasure, treasure, enclosure, furniture, creature, furniture, cure, picture, nature, adventure, sure, capture, leisure, literature, manicure, departure, puncture, mixture, temperature

We have set 2 maths Sumdog challenges, one for your fractions learning and one for practising your times tables.

This week in Year 3

We have loved reading Orion and the Dark. This week we finished retelling our stories and read them to Year 4. 

They were very impressed! Check out our gallery!

We also listened to Michael Rosen's poem After Dark and used it to create some great poetry of our own,

In maths we have been learning to solve fraction problems involving amounts. We showed great understanding and applied our knowledge brilliantly.

In RE we have been learning about the parables Jesus told his followers. We created a comic, acted out some scenes and played a game of Ping Pong where we asked and answered eachother's questions.

In History we have been learning about how the Neolithic people created round houses using the wattle and daub technique. The children showed great interest and asked fantastic questions. You are all super historians!

In Geography we have been investigating the animals who are native to North America and looked at our new atlases and globe.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 5 Friday blog 31.01.25

Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 3:48pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

observant   hesitant    tolerance    substance   reliant   vacancy   observance   hesitancy  

assistant  reliance  defiant  vacant  expectant  tolerant  assistance  defiance  sustenance  infancy

Counting

Count out loud in:

10s up to 220 and back again                                         0,10,20,30 …

25s from 0 to 350 and back again                                  0,25, 50 …

12s from 144 down to 0                                                  144,132, 120…

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day.   All children (who weren’t sure about accessing this app) have been shown how to log on to TTRS so they can use it at home.

Sumdog

Maths practise based on timetables and time – individual challenge.

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

 We have had another great learning week in Year 5.

 In English, we have been learning how to blend all types of parentheses (brackets, dashes and commas) into our writing in a natural way. This is quite tricky to do and we have all tried so hard.

In Maths, we have been revising how to tell the time on an analogue clock before moving on to telling the time using the 24 hour clock. Some of us have found this hard, so we have practised this at home too.

This week in RE, we have all been learning about The Transfiguration. We all wrote a super witness statement as Peter, the disciple. We also all enjoyed examining how this event has been depicted in art by many artists from all over the world. We enjoyed comparing three art works from Russian, Italian and African artists.

What a fantastic week we have had in art this week. We have been creating stages made from boxes based on the workhouse from our Victorian novel, Street Child. The creativity has been amazing!

In PSHE, we have been talking about bullying and cyberbullying. We really engaged with this and showed a lot of sound knowledge on the subject. We have also been journalling about how we have used our character strengths this week.   

 In Hiistory, we explored how we know what happened in the Viking era and we learned about some of the Anglo Saxon and Viking kings. Finally, we ended our week by adding some special features to our powerpoint presentations about Vikings, including adding a hyperlink. Well done Year 5!

Reception Blog - Friday 31st January 2025

Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 1:03pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

 Phonics

We learnt the digraphs ng and th.

Drawing Club

In  Drawing Club we read the story ‘Cops and Robbers’

We drew the Police Officers.

Maths

This week we have been adding two numbers together, by using the part, part whole model.

RE

This week we listened to the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand.

We made our own baskets of food and retold the story to each other.

Understanding the World

A Police Officer came to visit our class in his Police car. He told us all about his job and how he helps us.

We also continued to learn more about China.

We have been looking at aerial views of China and how we can recognise parts like, the sea, rivers, mountains, deserts, grass etc…

We then made our own map of China.

Physical Development

We have been enjoying some of the sunshine and making our own obstace courses.

My Happy Mind

We continued our topic of celebrate.

We have been recapping the character strengths we have learnt so far, including, bravery and honesty, love and kindness.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 31st January 2025

Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 8:11am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have continued reading and learning about Macbeth. We shared the scene together where Lady Macbeth begins to sleepwalk and wrote a dialogue of this scene. We had to work hard to choose appropriate vocabulary and punctuation!

Maths 

This week, we have learned all about co-ordinates. We have learned how to find a missing co-ordinate to complete a shape and also how to find the co-ordinates of a shape where the axis are blank. Today, we have learned how to translate shapes across quadrants on a graph. 

RE

In RE, we have continued learning about the miracles that Jesus performed. We have shared the story of how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead and performed some drama of this miracle. 

Topic 

In PE, we continued with our dance unit, all about heroes and villains. We thought about heroic traits and showed these as a still frame.   

In Science, we learned about what is in our blood. We made 'blood' to help us understand what the jobs of different parts of our blood are - you can see our work on the galleries! 

For Art, we learned about moodboards and made our own on Seesaw, inspired by Rachel Parker.

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday: 

Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Spelling - 

Spellings this week are from the Y5/Y6 and the Y3/Y4 statutory spellings.

We will have our test on the 14/02/25, after Robin Wood. 

It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.

SATS Revision: 

Today, the children have been given a login for SATs bootcamp. This is a fantastic website, which will really help with the children's SATs revision: https://www.yearsix.co.uk/sats-boot-camp/. 

Please complete the following topics for next Thursday: 

Maths - Topic 4 Subtraction 

English - Topic 7 Adjectives

Have a great weekend Year 6!

Year 1 Blog - Friday 31st January 2025

Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 12:41pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Months of the year

Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.

Counting - Choose a number to start on. Count 10 more and 10 less in ones. For example: 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62. Then 52, 51, 50 etc.

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

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We continued to learn about Edgar the dragon this week.

We wrote a feelings timeline for Edgar, a list of reasons for how Edgar could be helpful and we re-wrote the story in our own words.

Phonics

Some of us have finished learning the split digraphs and learnt the 'wh' and 'ph' sounds.

Some of us have finished learning the different ways to spell the 'ee' sound, focusing on e in medium and y in penny. 

Maths

We have been learning how to measure time. We learnt that we measure time in lots of different ways: using seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years. We had lots of fun using the timer on the iPads to measure how quick or slow we can do an action.

See our pictures here.

We have also continued our learning for the months of the year, focusing on the order and special events that happen within them.

R.E.

We learnt about Jesus preaching and teaching in the Temple. We described how we could help others, like He taught us, and painted how the light guides us.

Geography

We labelled the countries that make up the United Kingdom. Then we identified their capital cities, major cities and flags.

Science

We conducted an experiment to see whether objects were transparent or opaque. Some of us even identified translucent objects! We used torches to see if the light passed through and our eyes to see if we could see through them.

See our pictures here.

P.E.

We learnt how to travel in different ways, including bear and crab walk. We also practised egg, tuck and pencil rolls.

Art

We planned our medal, identifying which materials we wanted to use and how we wanted it to look. We will start making them next week!

Forest School

This week we were in our log circle area. We noticed some damage to the trees that last week's storm had caused. We looked for mini beasts, played our own games, made some concoctions in the mud and made dens.

Year 2 Blog- Friday 31st January 2025

Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 11:31am

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Home Practice

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

Spelling: 

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (07.02.25):

January    February   March   April   May  June   July   August   September   October                

Sumdog: Complete the addition and subtraction challenge. 

Counting: play the 100 square jigsaw game below and practice counting confidently to 100.

https://nrich.maths.org/problems/100-square-jigsaw 

Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and do a bit more practise on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.

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

Recently, the children explored some of the interactive games on top mark maths.

If they would like to play at home, follow the link below.

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

English

We finished our learning through the story of 'The Barnabus Project'. We wrote a thought bubble as Baranbus as he imagined what the world outside the lab might be like. We wrote a postcard from Barnabus to Pip thanking him for helping with his escape. We also wrote about the different jobs that the Green Rubber Suits do in the lab.

Maths

This week we have been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and recognising the patterns in the numbers.

We have been adding and sutracting numbers where we have to cross the tens barrier, for example, 25 - 17 or 32 + 11.

We have used Base 10 equipment and lines and dots to help us with this. Some children have been mentally partitioning the numbers to work out the answers. Great effort from everyone, we are so impressed with the hard work we have seen in class.

Science

We went outside to look at our bulbs which are growing.

We closely examined some bulbs and drew them carefully. We will plant them next week.

PSHE

We continued to learn about being safe. we discussed different scenarios and what we could do,

for instance - tell, say no, say yes or ask.

Geography

We discussed the seasons of the year and the signs to look out for.

For example, Autumn - the leaves turn brown/orange/red/yellow and fall from the trees.

We learnt which months of the year are in each season.

R.E.

The children watched a short video clip of Jesus' Baptism and through their own artwork retold the story.

They included, the River Jordan, John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, a dove which represented the Holy Spirit and light shining through the clouds which represented God. some children included what God said to Jesus.

Year 4 Blog Friday 31st January 2025

Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 10:01am

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  If you are unsure about the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary and write out the meaning in your reading diary.

Spellings

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

their           there           they’re        because       does

doesn’t         too              to                two              its

it’s               off              of                where          were

when            went            with             our              are

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 7’s  

For example, start at 12 and count to 144 and back again

0    7    14  etc                          84    77    70  etc

Times tables and Number facts

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

You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

TTRockstars challenge

• A ‘Garage’ session

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A maths challenge based on 3D shapes

In English, we learnt more about adverbs and how they can be used in different places in a sentence. We now know that adverbs can go at the beginning of a sentence, but need a comma after them. For example – Quickly, the boy finished his dinner. We put into practise what we had learnt by retelling some of the class novel.

In Maths, we continued with our 3D shape topic by identifying and naming different pyramids according to their properties. In addition, we consolidated our ability to identify and describe the properties of lots of different 3D shapes (eg a cone, a sphere, a cylinder and a prism).

In RE, we familiarised ourselves with Matthew 11 1-15 (Jesus’ speech to John the Baptist) when John’s disciples asked Jesus if he was the Messiah.  In addition, we listened to the story of Jesus walking on water and considered why Jesus might have worked miracles.

In Science, we recapped the properties of solids, liquids and gases. Following this, we discussed some common household materials, sorting them into solids and liquids according to their properties. Some we found quite tricky to classify.

In History, we learnt about some of the things that the Roman’s brought to Britain, for example, cats, cement and bricks, coins, and new ways of reading and counting. Following this, we started to make a PowerPoint which gave more information about some of the legacies the Romans left behind.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we learnt how we can grow our strengths and how neuroplasticity can help us.  

In Art, we continued with our topic ‘the art of display’. We continued making our ‘plinths’ and took pictures of ourselves in different poses.

The Year 4 team

Year 5 blog - 24th January 2025

Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 4:09pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

controversy  convenience   correspond   criticise  curiosity   definite   desperate  determined  develop  dictionary  disastrous  embarrass  environment  equipment  especially  exaggerate  equipped  special

Counting

Count out loud in:

5s up to 125 and back again                                            0,5,10,15 …

70s from 0 to 490 and back again                                  0,70,140 …

9s from 99 to 142 and back again                                  99,108,117…

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day.   All children have been encouraged to practise on this week’s ‘gig’ that has been set on ‘Times Tables Rock Stars’ app.

Sumdog

Maths practise based on multiplication – individual challenge.

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

 We have had another great learning week in Year 5.

 In English, we wrote a letter as the character Jim, from our novel. We also practised where to put commas in sentences in order to clarify meaning.

In Maths, we explored various different ways of multiplying using different numbers, but still arriving at the same answer. Secure knowledge of all times tables is critical to this, so well done to everyone who has completed extra practise this week to help achieve this. 

This week in RE, we retold the story of The Good Samaritan and discussed how the parable shows virtues of love, hope and charity.   

In computing, we continued with our powerpoint presentations about The Vikings. We learnt new skills such as creating text boxes over images and altering the artistic effects of a picture.

We developed our charcoal art skills this week and produced two pieces of work for display in the classroom. Fantastic work Year 5!

In PE, we developed dance sequences - there were some extremely creative interpretations of various scenarios! We ended the session by practising our happy breathing.

This linked to our Happy Mind session, when we also self-reviewed our character traits and journalled about how we could strengthen some of them.

Finally, we ended our week by learning more about volcanoes and where the tectonic plate boundaries are in the world.

Reception Blog - Friday 24th January 2025

Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 12:49pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

 Phonics

This week we have been learning the digraphs qu, ch and sh.

Drawing Club

This week in Drawing Club we have been read the story ‘You can’t call and elephant to an emergency’

We have been discussing our own animals to go to an emergency and designing a special place for them to go on holiday!

Maths

This week we have been partitioning numbers between 2.

RE

This week we have been listening to the scripture about Jesus blessing the children.

Expressive Art and Design

This week, we have been doing still life drawings of fruit.

Understanding the World

This week we have had a Fireman come to visit our class. He told us all about his job and all the amazing things they do aswell as fighting fires.

We have also continued to look at our topic of China. This week we have been looking at their buildings and how different they are.

We spotted that they are very colourful and have very different shapes to us.

PSHE

 We have been learning about healthy eating and making our own fruit kebabs. They were delicious!

PE

This week we have been moving like a caterpillar and practising balancing on different body parts.

My Happy Mind

This week we have continued our topic of celebrate.

We have looked at a new character strength, bravery.

We have discussed times when we have been brave and haven’t given up, even when it has got tricky.

Year 1 Blog - Friday 24th January 2025

Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 10:21am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Money and Time

Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.

Counting - Count in fives up to the biggest number that you can. See if you can use 5p coins to help you!

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

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We watched the Edgar the dragon advert and read the story that comes with it. We learnt that Edgar was just a dragon who wanted to join in with everyone but he kept melting all of the snow!

We described Edgar, wrote a speech bubble for him, wrote a diary entry and a response. 

Phonics

Some of us have been learning the different split digraph sounds: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e and u_e.

Some of us have been recapping ways to make the 'ee' sound. We have focused on ea in team, e_e in Pete, ie in chief and ey in key.

Maths

This week we have been using the prepositions before and after. For example, I get dressed before I go to school. Then we started to learn the days of the week and the months of the year.

R.E.

We read Luke (2:41-52) which describes Jesus' time in the Temple when He was a 12 year old boy. We talked about the word 'obedience' and how Jesus promised to be obedient. We also recognised how Mary and Joseph might have felt when Jesus was lost.

Science

We described the properties of different materials using adjectives such as bendy, stiff, soft, hard, rough and smooth.

P.E.

We learnt how to travel around the room using the caterpillar walk, frog jump and bunny hop.

We also learnt how to do a star, pencil and tuck jump.

Art

We were able to be creative and make different sculptures in our Art lesson. We used the materials available to make houses, people, rockets and practise medals.

See our pictures here.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 24th January 2025

Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 8:46am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

If you have any large plastic bottles at home, that you would be recycling, please could the children bring them into class for Wednesday next week? This is to help with a Science investigation in class! 

The slides from the SATs meeting can be found at the bottom of the blog. 

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have continued reading and learning about Macbeth. We have explored the scene in the play where Macbeth returns to the witches and they tell him more prophecies. We wrote some amazing diary entries in role as Macbeth recounting this scene. 

Maths 

This week, we have learned all about negative numbers. We have practised how to add and subtract negative numbers and learned how to find the difference between negative and positive numbers. 

RE

In RE, we have continued learning about the miracles that Jesus performed. We have shared the story of how Jesus walked on water and how he healed a blind man. We created some wonderful artwork of Jesus walking on water! 

Topic 

In French, we continued working on our physical description. We completed a listening exercise to figure out a character's physical description and used sentence stems to explain a character's physical description to a partner.  

In Science, we learned all about how exercise can affect our heart rate. You can see our investigation on the galleries!

For History, we explored what crime and punishment was like in Roman times and learned about their rules, which were called the twelve tables. 

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday: 

Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Spelling - 

Spellings this week are from the Y5/Y6 and the Y3/Y4 statutory spellings. 

It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.

SATS Revision: 

Today, the children have been given a login for SATs bootcamp. This is a fantastic website, which will really help with the children's SATs revision: https://www.yearsix.co.uk/sats-boot-camp/. 

Please complete the following topics for next Thursday: 

Maths - Topic 3: Multiplication  

English - Topic 6: Nouns and Pronouns  

Have a great weekend Year 6!

Year 4 Blog Friday 24th January 2025

Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 3:45pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Remember to include lots of expression when you are reading.

Spellings

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

measure       enclosure     picture        capture        departure

future         treasure      creature      nature         leisure

puncture      cure             pleasure       furniture     adventure

literature    mixture       sure

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 7’s  

For example, start at 12 and count to 144 and back again

0    7    14  etc                          84    77    70  etc

Times tables and Number facts

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

You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

TTRockstars challenge

• A ‘Garage’ session

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A maths challenge based on perpendicular and parallel lines

In English, we wrote a postcard from an evacuee, called Barry, to his mother. We had to think carefully about every word we wrote and tried to include vocabulary from the novel. In addition, we investigated and used verbs and adverbs in sentences. We needed to ensure our adverb was appropriate for the verb we were using.

In Maths, we started our shape topic by investigating 2D shapes – their names and properties. In addition, we defined parallel and perpendicular lines. We then learnt how to identify and name different prisms according to their properties.

In RE, we continued we read through and discussed the Nicene Creed. Following this, we chose our favourite phrase and explained what it means to us. 

In Science, we started our new topic – States of Matter. We began by creating a mind-map about what we already know. Following this, we discussed some key vocabulary and learnt the difference between each state (solid, liquids and gases). Finally, we shared some examples of each state and sorted them into each category.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we recapped the 5 main character strengths, learnt why it is important to recognise and use our character strengths, and learnt how we can use our character strengths in lots of different ways.

In Art, we started our topic ‘the art of display’. We began by questioning the role of a ‘plinth’ in sculpture. We then discussed how to make a ‘pocket gallery’ and took some pictures of ourselves in various poses.

We continued our new topic ‘photo editing’ in Computing. We practised editing pictures and then learnt how to recolour pictures.

The Year 4 team

Year 3 Friday Blog 24th January 2025

Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:24pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog.

Home Practice 

Continue with your daily reading. The children are really enjoying picking their own books and changing them lots. 10 minutes every night will make all the difference.

On Sumdog this week we have set a times table and bumper maths challenge to practise all our number learning so far. A little practice with these every day will help your children become fluent in their number facts.

Continue to practise your counting. This week, try counting forwards and backwards in 8s.

Your home spellings this week all end with -ly. We will test the children on these on Friday.

comically dramatically frantically loudly crossly quickly kindly sleepily happily angrily simply slowly quietly gently humbly

This week in Year 3

This week in our Galilee to Jerusalem branch we have been learning about the Epiphany and how Jesus revealed himself. We read the scripture from Matthew about the Baptism of Jesus and learned about other times Jesus revealed himself to us.

In English we have been retelling the story of Orion and the Dark, planning the story and using sentence openers to move the story forwards. The children have been working extra hard on their presentation this week, making their writing look beautiful on the page. Well done Year 3!

In Maths this week we have been revisiting the grid method for multiplication and solving word problems. It is important that we all know our times tables fluently. Practise these on Sumdog. We have changed the answering system from multiple choice to typed answers. Have a go.

In Geography this week we explored North America and its physical and Human features. We revisited the definitions of these and learned lots of new facts.

In History this week we were learning the differences between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. We found out that bronze was an alloy made from tin and copper and was much stronger than Stone Age weaponry.

In Science we have been looking at reflections and how these differ from sources of light. We also found out that light travels in straight lines.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 2 Blog- Friday 24th January 2025

Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 11:38am

Welcome to your Friday Blog!

Home Practice

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

Spelling: 

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (31.01.25):

braver      bravest     ruder   rudest      larger     largest      riper     ripest   cuter   cutest                

Sumdog: Complete the number/place value challenge. 

Counting: Count in tens forwards and backwards.

Start from zero but also from a different one-digit number. For example, 3, 13, 23, 33 etc.

See how far you can get!

Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and do a bit more practise on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.

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

English

We continued to learn through the story of  'The Barnabus Project'.

We used the text to find out more about Barnabus' character and why he is a failed project.

We wrote a description of the lab where Barbabus is trapped.

We also created our own word bank which helps us to spell our words correctly and reminds us what we are writing about.

We are all trying so hard to make our writing look beautiful on the page.

SPaG

We have been learning the rules for adding er and est to words ending in e,

for example brave ,braver ,bravest and large, larger and largest.

Maths

This week we have been completing asessments.

We started our new leaning about place value and counting on and back in 10s.

We have also been investigating and discussing the patterns in the 2,5 and 10 times tables.

Science

We discussed last week's investigation about the properties of materials.

As a class we drew conclusions and recognised why materials had different uses according to their properties.

PSHE

We discussed feeling safe by answering these key questions:

• When do you feel safe?
• Where do you feel safe?
• Who makes you feel safe?
•  
• We discussed the special people whose job it is to help us feel safe. 
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• 

RE

The children created a brilliant fact file about John the Baptist, his life and mission.

P.E

During gymnastics sessions, the children have been performing jumps, balances, rolls and travelling. They have made up their own sequences with a clear start/finish and smooth movements between.

Year 5 blog - Friday 17th January 2025

Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 4:11pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

infectious   subheading    conscience   official    conscious    interact   impatient   irrelevant   refresh

disappoint  misbehave  interrelated  inactive  illegible  antisocial   unable   autograph   vicious

Counting

Count out loud in:

4s up to 108 and back again                                            0,4,8,12 …

25s from 0 to 425 and back again                                  0,25,50 …

7s from 49 to 147 and back again                                  49,56,63…

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day.  Please access Times Tables Rockstars to practise. 

Sumdog

Maths practise based on fractions – individual challenge.

Spelling Challenge

 We have had a super learning week in Year 5.

 In English, Year 5 have been writing about the kind of lives children faced in Victorian times. We have also been practising using exciting and descriptive sentence openers.  

In Maths we have been continuing to learn about fractions and how to simplify them and how to write thousandths as fractions. Well done to everyone who also completed extra maths revision sheets at home. 

This week in RE, we have been spending time discussing how we could live out Jesus’s greatest commandment: to love God with all our hearts, our souls and our minds. Everyone wrote a personal letter to God to explain how they were going to live their lives for God and there were some fantastic ideas. Amazing!  

In computing we have started to create powerpoint presentations about The Vikings, linking in with our current history topic.

We have also started to use charcoal in art, practising skills that could be scaled up for set design

Finally, we have been learning more about our solar system and how the earth orbits the sun. Great work Year 5!

Year 3 Friday 17th January 2025

Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 3:47pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a jam packed week of learning!

Home Practice

Keep changing your books regularly and read for at least 15-20 minutes every night! 

Well done to everyone who completed their Sumdog challenges and even had some time to practise on the Sumdog Training. Three new challenges have been added today. Remember, little and often every night will benefit your children with their learning in school.

Try and do a little counting at home as well. This will promote number fluency and understanding. There are lots of counting games here at ictgames.com that we use in school. You will also find lots of counting songs on YouTube.

We have given out your home spellings to practice for next week's test. In our spelling lessons this week we have been revisiting our spelling strategies. We have been breaking our words into syllables to help us spell more accurately and using what we already know to spell new words.

Your Spellings this week are from the year 3/4 statutory spelling list.

fruit, grammar, guide, guard, heart, height, imagine, increase, interest, length, group, heard, history, important, knowledge, library

This week in year 3

In RE we are really enjoying learning about the three wise men and what happened to them on their journey to visit the baby Jesus. We made some puppets and recreated the story.

We have loved reading Orion and the Dark. This week we focused on non-fiction writing, looking at darkness and light and created some fantastic non-fiction reports on the dark. We explored our Whizz Pop Bang magazine to see how non-fiction reports are laid out and then shared our work with Year 2. Check out our gallery!

In Maths we have been learning how to use x10 to help us solve tricky problems. We have also revisited our partitioning model to multiply 2 digit numbers. Well done Year 3!

In Geography we conucted a map study of all the countries in North America and then recreated their some of their designs. We talked about the importance countries place on their flags and what the colours and pictures represent. Next week we will look at the human and physical geography of the continent. See our gallery!

In PE we started our Superheroes dance topic. We learned how to put emotion into our dances and showed fantastic teamwork to create our performamces. Super dancing!

Have a restful weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 1 Blog - Friday 17th January 2025

Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 12:58pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Recognising coins

Phonics - Sounds learnt this week

Counting - Count in twos up to the biggest number that you can.

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

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We continued to read 'Dragon Post'. We designed our own dragons and wrote letters explaining what they got up to!

Phonics

Some of us have been comparing the or and aw sounds and the ue and ew sounds.

Some of us have been learning that a 'y' can make the igh sound in cry and an ee sound teddy. Also, that 'ou' can make an u sound in touch and an oo sound in soup.

Maths

This week we have been using various coins to make amounts. We focused on using the 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and 20p coins and how we can add them together to make amounts. For example to make 4p, we could use two 2ps.

The children enjoyed playing the 'Toy Shop Money Game' on Topmarks. If you would like to play it at home, here is the link: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money 

R.E.

We sang two songs this week: Shine Jesus Shine and This Little Light of Mine. We talked about how both of these songs are showing that Jesus is the light of the world.

We then designed our own candles in preparation for Candlemas.

Art

We explored different materials and identified their pros and cons. We decided that felt would be a perfect material to use when making our medal.

Geography

We started to learn about the four countries that make up the United Kingdom.

Forest School

Year 4 Blog Friday 17th January 2025

Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 8:22am

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Can you summarise what has already happened and predict what you think will happen next?

Spellings

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

quarter        question       recent         though         regular

reign           remember    thought       sentence      separate

special         through       straight       strange        strength

various         suppose       woman          women          therefore

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 12’s  

For example, start at 12 and count to 144 and back again

0    12   24  etc                         144    132    120  etc

Times tables and Number facts

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

You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

TTRockstars challenge

• A ‘Battle of the Bands’ tournament – Boys v Girls

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A maths challenge based reading, writing and converting time

In English, we wrote a formal letter to Mr Tregenza (grandfather in the novel) to persuade him to leave his home in Slapton Sands. We tried our best to use vocabulary which was both formal and persuasive, and enjoyed using our ‘posh’ voice to rehearse our sentences as we were writing as Lord Somethingorother!

In Maths, we learnt how to read the time and write it to the nearest minute. We also learnt how to tell, write and match analogue and digital times. Please try and practise telling the time at home with an adult as this is an invaluable life skill.

In RE, we continued with our Galilee to Jerusalem topic and learnt about the Christian belief of incarnation. We discussed ‘God like’ and ‘human’ traits and then produced a piece of work to show our understanding that Jesus was fully God and fully Human.

In Science, we consolidated our electricity learning with a Kahoot quiz.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we discussed character strengths and how we can recognise these in others, and in different situations.

In History, we learnt why the Roman Army was so powerful and successful, and produced a poster to try and drum up some new recruits! You can see some photos in our gallery.

The Year 4 team

Reception Blog - Friday 17th January 2025

Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 3:54pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

 Phonics

This week we learnt the sounds x, y, z and zz.

Drawing Club

This week in Drawing Club we read Supertato, Run, Veggies, Run.

We drew our own robot vegetable and drawn our own sports day race.

Maths

This week we used the language fewer and more to describe different amounts.

RE

This week we discussed how we welcome and show love to everyone in our words and actions, just as Jesus does.

Expressive Art and Design

This week, we created our own Supertato using real potatoes, play doh and other materials.

Understanding the World

This week we learnt about hospitals, doctors and nurses.

An Occupational Therapist and a Surgeon came to talk to us about their jobs.

We started to learn about China. We found it on a map and learnt about the Dragon Festival.

My Happy Mind

We continued with our topic, celebrate.

We discussed how we can show love and kindness to one another.

Forest School

This week we worked in our log circle area. We played a game of 'Duck, Duck, Goose' to get us warmed up and paying attention.

We then explored the logs, we found many mini-beasts. We also had a go at making obstacle courses.

We spotted some snowdrops growing and had a discussion about them.

Year 2 Blog Friday 17th January 2025

Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 12:50pm

Home Practice

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

Spelling: 

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (24.01.25):

having   making     using    shining   taking        hoping        loving      moving       living     coming         

Sumdog: Complete the measure challenge. 

Counting: Count in twos forwards and backwards. See how far you can get!

Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and do a bit more practise on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.

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

English

Maths 

The children have been learning about capacity and volume this week and they know that the units we measure these in are called

millilitres (ml) and litres (l). They have also been reading different scales on measuring containers

and solving problems involving capacity/volume.

Science

We carried out an investigation to find out about properties of materials.

R.E

We read the story of John the Baptist (Luke 3:2-6, 10-17).

The children produced some beautifully illustrated storyboards retelling how John Baptised Jesus at the river Jordon.

Art

Our new topic is all about architecture and during our first lesson we explored how to draw/design buildings.

The children drew the Taj Mahal and were very proud of their finished products.

Forest School

We used the digging tools safely in our nature area. We were very careful to not step on the daffodils and crocuses which have started growing.

Geography

This term we will be learning about the weather, climate and seasons.

We discussed the seasons and recapped ordering the months of the year correctly.

Practise the months of the year at home and make sure your child knows the date of their birthday and any other significant dates.

Year 6 Blog - Friday 17th January 2025

Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 10:45am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have continued with our learning on Macbeth. We have written a letter in role as Lady Macbeth and as the ghost of King Duncan! The children all worked hard to use Shakespearian vocabulary and get into role as each character. 

Maths 

This week, we have learned all about statistics. We have worked hard to calculate the value of different segments on a pie chart and reason with our answers. 

RE

In RE, we have continued learning about the miracles that Jesus performed. We appraised different artworks of the healing at the pool and created a miracle mind map all about the feeding of the 5000. 

Topic 

In Computing, we investigated what makes a good website in preparation for creating our own web pages. 

In Science, we learned all about how our hearts work and found out what the different parts of the heart are called. 

For Art, we started our new topic all about colour. We created some beautiful responses to our focus artist's work in our sketchbooks!

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday: 

Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Spelling - 

Spellings this week are from the Y5/Y6 and the Y3/Y4 statutory spellings. 

It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.

SATS Revision: 

Today, the children have been given a login for SATs bootcamp. This is a fantastic website, which will really help with the children's SATs revision: https://www.yearsix.co.uk/sats-boot-camp/. 

Please complete the following topics for next Thursday: 

Maths - Topic 2: Subtraction  

English - Topic 5: Other Punctuation 

Have a great weekend Year 6!