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Year 3 Friday blog - 3rd December

Date: 3rd Dec 2021 @ 8:48am

Welcome to your Friday blog

This week we have finished reading Mr Stink. We have loved reading it, some parts have made us laugh, some parts have made us cry, some parts have made us think about people who are less fortunate than us. The writing produced whilst reading Mr Stink has been wonderful, we have learnt lots of new exciting words. Well done Year 3!

In maths we learned a new method for subtraction. We used equipment and written methods to subtract two 2-digit numbers. Next week we will be moving on to 3-digit numbers. We have also continued practising our 4x tables. We know every word to the 4x tables song now, it is great to hear that so many of you have been listening at home. 

In French, we learnt how to say I have (J'ai...) and I have not (Je n'ai pas de ..) using pencil case items. Some of us are doing really well at recalling the vocabulary. Tres bien, year 3!

We had such a special treat on Thursday. We got to watch a pantomime in school! We loved watching Dick Whittington, we absolutely loved it. 

Home Practice 

1.Read out loud to somebody every night for 20 minutes. Predict what you think will happen next.

2. Go on Hit the Button to practise the following skills:

Times Tables, x4. 

Number Bonds, Subtraction within 20. 

3. Spellings:

This week your spellings do not follow a pattern or a rule. They are words you need to be able to spell by the end of Year 3:

            actual                  learn                  group                  heard                  arrive                                     circle                     often                   build

4. Sumdog. 

Well done to everyone who is accessing the Sumdog Learning platform. The training feature will be available from now on so continue to access this to practice those skills your child finds tricky.

You will be tested on your spellings and 4x tables on Tuesday 7th December. 

Reception 3rd December 2021

Date: 3rd Dec 2021 @ 8:18am

This week in Reception we have been on a frosty walk to our school pond, spotting all the different signs of Winter. We found lots of frozen icicles on the trees and we were drawing marks in the snow.  

We have been learning all about different materials in literacy, investigating which need recycling and which do not. We have enjoyed learning about different ways to help our planet. 

We had a special visitor on Tuesday, he was a bulider and we asked him lots of question about how he helps people around him.

Year 2 Home Practice 3rd December 2021

Date: 2nd Dec 2021 @ 2:57pm

We have had a great week of learning in Year 2. We have all been busy getting ready for our Nativity next week – lots of singing and super acting! In English, the children have looked at non-fiction writing about owls and are in the process of completing a non-chronological report. In Maths, we have continued looking at shapes and this week we have learnt about 3D shapes and their properties. The Big Draw for Art this week is drawing about our class story – the children drew some brilliant pictures of the night. In Science we have finished our topic on Habitats and the children drew a very detailed food chain. 

  Reading

In Year 2, children should read for at least 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an adult or older sibling. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

Please 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.

Reading books are changed every Monday and sent home on Tuesday. However, if you need to change a book another 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 love to read.

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 red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’

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

Spelling

Due to Nativity rehersals we have not managed to do this weeks spelling quiz. So please keep learning last weeks spellings for next Friday and these will be the last quiz before Christmas. 

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday. A sheet will go home every Tuesday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you. You will have a Sumdog challenge to complete by next Friday.

 Maths

At home, spend some time counting in 2s, 5s, 10s and 3s. Practise these times tables on a game called Hit the Button. Follow this link: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

You will have a number fact challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Friday.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Sumdog challenges:

Maths –

Properties of  2-D and 3-D shapes.

Problems using number facts.

Spellings – high frequency words.

Thank you for all your support. Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 team.

Year 1 Friday Blog 3rd December 2021

Date: 2nd Dec 2021 @ 10:07am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

This week in English, we have read the sequel to Traction Man - Traction Man meets Turbo Dog. We found out that Traction Man was really missing his friend Scrubbing Brush, he was worrying about him throughout the story. Scrubbing Brush was taken away by mum and dad because he was too dirty and was replaced by Turbo Dog! We wrote about our favourite part of the story, drew all of the characters in the dirty dustbin, created our own version of the story, practised our tricky words and our phase 5 split a_e digraph. 

In maths, we have moved onto subtraction. We have learnt different strategies to find the answer, but the most effective has been counting backwards from the greatest number. We have used lots of equipment too so that we could check our answers were correct. Some of us even put our subtraction number sentence into a part-whole model! 

We have been very busy in R.E. too. This week, we have learnt about the Liturgical Calendar and the Advent wreath. We talked about why it is important to wait in the build up to Christmas and how we show that we are waiting. Our two main examples of this were opening a door each day on our Advent calendar and lighting the candles each Sunday on the Advent wreath.

Our P.E. lesson was very exciting this week! Half of the class managed to practise and film their final robot dance. The other half are nearly there, we are hoping to be ready to film next week. All of year 1 have shown that they are super robots and they have fully understood how a robot moves.

In French, we learnt the vocabulary for parts of the face in French and enjoyed the story of Grand Monstre Vert. We're very good at head, shoulders, knees and toes in French!

We have also been very busy practising for our production. We have had a lot of songs to learn but we are now so confident and ready for next week.

Also on Thursday, we were really lucky to watch Dick Whittington in the hall. It was so much fun! We laughed a lot and ended up having poorly throats from shouting "he's behind you!"

Lastly, we completed our next Big Draw artwork today. We took 15 minutes out of our day to draw our favourite stories. It was lovely to be able to sit quietly and be free to draw whatever we like.

Have a look at the gallery to see all of our brilliant learning this week.

Have a great weekend!

Home Practice

Read for at least 10 minutes every night. This is so important. please sign the diary so we can change the books. Keep practicing reading the Tricky Words on sight. Please just write a note in the diary if you need the next set.

We have also been doing lots of counting. Please continue to do this at home too. Challenge yourself with bigger numbers. Then, try and work out some addition and subtraction problem questions (up to 20). Ask your adults to quiz you with some questions (e.g. what is 10 - 5?)

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - split digraph a_e words

Maths - subtraction within 20

Year 2 Home Practice 26th November 2021

Date: 26th Nov 2021 @ 4:20pm

A very busy week for Year 2, time is passing so quickly and the children are doing really well in all their learning. We lit the first Advent candle and spent some time preparing for our Nativity Play. It’s beginning to feel like Christmas, hopefully the children will be singing the songs at home and sharing all the excitement about what characters they are. In English, we read The Owl who was afraid of the Dark and answered comprehension questions. We also used library books to look for past and present tense verbs. We have started to work on shape in Maths, the children are very good at naming 2-D shapes and their properties. The Big Draw started this week, so we’ve been doing a lot of Art work. The children learnt about Miranda Lloyd and will be using her work to inspire their own. During PSHE, the children realised that it’s important to talk about our worries. They drew some super habitats and wrote facts about them in Science. In RE, we decorated boxes with all the things we do to prepare for Christmas. Well done everyone, keep up the great work!

Reading

In Year 2, children should read for at least 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an adult or older sibling. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

Please 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.

Reading books are changed every Monday and sent home on Tuesday. However, if you need to change a book another 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 love to read.

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 red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’

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

Spelling

Your child will know which group they are in for phonics. Please learn the correct set of spellings below.

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday. A sheet will go home every Tuesday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you. You will have a Sumdog challenge to complete by next Friday.

This week’s spellings are:

Miss Gravili’s Phonics Group ‘High frequency words’

children

wild

climb

most

only

both

old

cold

gold

hold

Miss Bennison’s Phonics Group ‘High frequency words’

your

they

be

he

me

she

we

no

go

so

 Maths

At home, spend some time counting in 2s, 5s, 10s and 3s. Practise these times tables on a game called Hit the Button. Follow this link: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

You will have a number fact challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Friday.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Sumdog challenges:

Maths –

Properties of 2-D shapes.

Problems using number facts.

Spellings – high frequency words.

Thank you for all your support. Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 team.

Year 4 Home Practice Friday 26th November 2021

Date: 26th Nov 2021 @ 3:54pm

Year 4

Home Practice 26^th November 2021

Welcome to this week’s blog. Here’s what we have been learning in school this week ….

In English, we enjoyed hearing the last chapter of ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’. Following this, we wrote a summary of the story in 100 words! It was quite tricky as we needed to think carefully about which words to use and stick to the facts of the story, rather than providing lots of description. We had to write and edit our work and are proud of what we achieved!

In Maths, we learnt how to create our own pictograms, and how to interpret data and use information presented in a pictogram. We also learnt more about the formal written method of addition. Initially, we revised the expanded method and used base 10 symbols to help with our learning. We then learnt how to use the compact method when adding 2-digit numbers. Additionally, we have been practising our tables and counting in 9’s and 25’s.

In RE, we have designed our own book called ‘Preparing for Jesus, God’s gift to the world’. The book describes and gives reasons for the actions of Christians during Advent. We have included signs and symbols of Advent, how a Christian family prepares for the coming of Jesus, as well as some Scripture. Year 4 should be very proud of their books which have all been beautifully presented.

In Science, we continued learning about electricity. We had pictures of circuits and had to predict whether they would work or not, then we tested them to see if we were correct. Then we tried to explain why they would not work and how to fix them.  There are definitely some budding electricians in Year 4!

In History, we learnt more about the Roman Empire and why the Roman Army was so successful. In addition, we marched across the playground keeping in time together!

In PE, we refined our freeze frames and linked some of them together with a transition.  Each of the freeze frames and transitions linked either to using an electrical device or the way in which it moves. In addition, as tag rugby was rained off this week, Year 4 played ‘Bench Ball’ inside!

During our French lesson, we used bi-lingual dictionaries to look up words that will help us understand a French cartoon next week. One of the words was malheureusement (unfortunately) - so they weren't the easiest to pronounce! Well done year 4 for having a great try!

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. 

Times tables

You have been given your own individual times table target.  Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables in preparation for your test next week, on Thursday (2^nd December 2021). 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’.   

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 9’s and 25’s – draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers down as you count up.  When you count down, cover the numbers up, say the number, then reveal what you have got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.

Count in 9’s

For example, start at 0 and count up to 108 and back again (this will help with your 9 times tables)

0   9   18   27  etc                     108   99    90   etc

Do this a few times to help you learn them!

Count in 25s

Start at 0 and count up to 325 and back again

0   25   50   75     etc           325   300   275  etc

Start at 500 and count up to 475 and back again

500   525   550      etc             475   450   425    etc

Spellings

The spellings this week explore words with the ‘s’ sound, spelt ‘sc’ which are Latin in origin. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (2^nd December 2021). We have discussed different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could also use ‘Look say cover write check’.

science        scientist      scene           scenery        scent

scissors       scientific     disciple        crescent      descend

ascend         scenic          scented       muscle         fascinated  

You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A times table challenge based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables

Please make sure you log on and have a go! Many of you are still not accessing Sumdog on a daily basis. Little and often is the key to success!

Number bonds

Please continue practising your number bonds / addition skills playing Hit the Button

The game you will play will help with your number bonds and quick addition skills. For example:

8 + 6               you could partition this into         8 + 2 + 4 = 14

This is because 8 + 2 is a pair to 10, then add the 4 to 10

Click on the link above, then on Play Game.

Click on Number bonds

On the left-hand side you will see the words ‘Up to 20’

Click on Addition within 20

See how many you can get correct in 1 minute. Then have another go and try and beat your score.

Maths and spelling training

This week we would like to introduce Maths and Spelling Training. As you know, we set weekly challenges that are linked to the learning that takes place in school. As an extra feature, the maths and spelling training sections will provide a tailored challenge for your child to practise skills, facts and words that they find difficult. Once your challenges have been completed, use this feature for challenge in both spelling and maths. Your tailored training is available in your tasks tab.

Spend some time training on Sumdog so the program can learn the skills your child needs to work on and practise.

Year 6 Friday 26th November 2021

Date: 26th Nov 2021 @ 3:34pm

For our fourth week back after half term. Year 6 have continued to work hard with their responsibilities, with things such as: the School Ambassador team leading collective worships and announcing the results of the house points to the school; the School Council preparing for their first school learning update, named ‘The Learning Times’; Science Ambassadors continue to lead science experiments during break times; the Sports Captains helping to lead sport, look after the equipment and help set up activities throughout the school, and our Reading Ambassadors will be starting a reading club with Reception next week.  

This week in Year 6:

• In Maths, we have been learning multiples, factors and new ways to divide large numbers.
• In our novel, ‘Private Peaceful’, we have been learning how to write an action scene, based on one of the main characters rescuing their captain. We have also learnt how life was like in the trenches of the First World War.
• In Geography, we completed our research of tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes and presented them to the class.
• In our topic in RE, Expectations, we have been using the hymn ‘Maranatha’ to help us understand what advent means to Christians.
• In PE, we focused our learning on invasion games, by working as a team to either invade the oppositions area (through the skills of tag rugby) and eliminating the other team (through the aiming and catching skills of Dodgeball).
• In Art, we continued our learning of tone and texture with the medium of a paintbrush with water. We first sketched in felt tips, then used a paintbrush (with water) to create different effects. Then using Lola Dupre’s letters, we designed our own artwork. See the gallery in Year 6 to see some of this amazing artwork.
• In Music, we worked hard to compose 8 bar blues, then performed them on the glocks for others to hear.
• In French, we used our learning of seasons, weather, conjunctions and adverbs of frequency to help us read and understand different texts.
• In Science, we finished collecting data for the shadows investigation that we started last week. We created graphs and worked together to interpret them. Finally, we used what we now know about light to explain why shadows are the same shape as the object causing it.

Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:

• Reading – Use your Home Reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be used for the title of the book and any reading challenge chosen.
  • The days when you can change your book:
    • Monday – Roller Coasters
    • Tuesday – Big Dippers
    • Wednesday – The Waltzers

• Spellings (-ent, -ence words)
  • Sumdog (-ent, -ence A2 wk 5)
    • persistent, persistence, violent, violence, intelligent, intelligence, inconvenient, inconvenience, obedient, obedience, conference, difference, conscience, reference, excitement

• Maths challenges:
  • Counting:
    • This week we have been counting in decimal steps of 50, 90 and 900 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 50s:

233, 283, 333, 383, 433, 483, 533, etc

and in 90s:

233, 323, 413, 503, 593, 683, 773, 863, etc               

Start at a different number and count up 10 numbers and down again but this time in 900s:

740, 1640, 2540, 3440, 4340, 5240, 6140, 7040, etc     

• Sumdog (Division of 7 – 12 times tables)
  • Each child has their own tables target which they should know. The Sumdog challenge may relate to their target but if not, you can always use Sumdog for extra Tables Practice. Every Tuesday there is a tables test.

• Sumdog (Multiples and Factors)

• To help you remember:

A multiple is a number that can be divided by another number a certain number of times without a remainder.

A factor is one of two or more numbers that divides a given number without a remainder.

Multiples and factors are best explained by using a number sentence such as the following:

5 x 4 = 20

5 and 4 are factors of 20.  20 is a multiple of 5 and 4.

Year 3 Blog Friday 26th November

Date: 26th Nov 2021 @ 1:04pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

This week in our English learning we have continued to investigate news reports and articles. We have created our own reports, making sure to include all the features and remembered to write like journalists. We have enjoyed reading lots of news articles and watching the news on Newsround. Next week will be finishing our Mr Stink story, looking at instuctional writing and using exciting vocabulary to improve our sentences.

In maths, we have been learning new strategies to add and when to use them. We discussed when we solve problems in our head, when we do jottings and when we have to use a written method. Everyone is enjoying their maths learning and having a go when it gets tricky. We have also started to learn the 4x tables. Please practise at home. In school, we are listening to a 4x tables song on YouTube. See below.

On Friday we started our Big Draw project. Every friday we will explore drawing and art through various media. This week we explored how sounds and music can inspire us to create beautiful art. Have a look at the link below.

The Big Draw  #1

We also started our new topics in Geography and Science. We used Digimaps on the latops to look at maps at different scales and to find our homes using our postcodes and addresses. We added labels to our maps and had some great ideas on how maps help us discover new places.

In Science we started our new topic on Light. We discusssed what we already knew and what we would like to find out. Here are some questions we came up with.

Where does light come from?

What is light?

Who invented light?

What does opaque mean?

Home Practice 

1. Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read.

2. Please practise the following skills for maths – even if you already know them, you need to be quick.

• Number Bonds, make 20.
• Times Tables, x4.

Hit the Button

3. Spellings

Click the file below to see your spellings. 

Sumdog

You will be tested on your spellings and 4x times tables on Tuesday 30th november. Make sure you practise every night.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Friday 26th November

Date: 26th Nov 2021 @ 8:07am

We have really enjoyed learning all about doctors and nurses this week. 

We had two special visitors this week!

A real life nurse and paramedic, came along to talk to the children all about the different ways they help people. We had lots of questions for them! 

We have also been counting out amounts using pennies and measuring how tall we are in maths. 

In Literacy we have been learning with Ninja-Nan. We have been practising different circus skills and predicting what we think would happen next in the story. :) 

Year 5 - Friday 26th November 2021

Date: 25th Nov 2021 @ 5:03pm

Welcome to this week’s Year 5 class blog

The children are working hard and developing their skills in many different areas.

This week in year 5

In Maths we have been focused on division.  We started using arrays to work out division problems and by the end of the week we had moved onto chunking.  Many children we able to move onto and solve division word problems.

In English we are very close to the end of the book.  Before we find out what happens we have made our own predictions and are in the process of writing our own final chapter of the book.  The suspense that the children are creating is great to see.  We are trying to make our work more interesting by using fronted adverbials in some of our sentences.

In RE the children completed their Life Choices topic with a calm Collective Worship, where many of them read beautifully.  We then moved onto our new topic of Hope, where we will discuss and explain reasons why we wait, and the most important time of waiting, during Advent.

In PE, the children completed one of two activities. Firstly all the children practised baton passing.  They learnt the techniques needed to make it as swift and smooth as possible.  The tag rugby session with Mrs Cookson started with a practise tag game, dodging the other team trying to get to the semi-circle without losing their tags. Afterwards they moved onto passing the ball along the line and then running back to the start. The dance session with Mrs Nuttall was another success.  The children split into teams and had to become tableaus of space related words e.g. a rocket, the Moon, a satellite.  Then they had to create a story, in their groups, by creating 4 tableaus with a movement in between.  They were extremely creative. We have the explosion of a star, a rocket going to Mars and the formation of Earth.  Photos have been added to the gallery.

In Geography we continued our work on longitude and latitude but focused on North America and the different states and how the lines of latitude affect the climate.  We looked at a number of states in detail and will use this information to complete more work on them, in future sessions.

In Art, the children are looking at the artist Jo Quigley from the UK.  They have looked at her artwork and that of her influences and made links between the two.  They will be planning and creating their own cityscape piece of artwork, inspired by Jo Quigley in the coming weeks.

The children have been sent home with a small 2 sided booklet about Reconciliation.  Please look through this, with your child to prepare them further for their sacrament on Monday. You are invited to join them in Church at 2.30pm on Monday.  Don’t forget the year 5 family mass on Sunday at Church, details in the newsletter.

Also don’t forget the rearranged trip on Tuesday to the Leyland Museum, all children will need a disposable lunch.

Home Practice all relates to this week's learning - These are the tasks to be completed.

Reading - You all have a Home Reading book for year 5 so reading every night for 15-20 mins is essential. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be completed and signed.

You can change your reading book on any school day (book bags to be left on Mrs Mulgrew's desk)

 Spellings words ending ious. We will look at these in more detail in school next week. They should be practised at home, ready for the test on Friday. 

Don’t forget the children have a big list of Common Exception words to learn, these can be practised each week to push your child further.

Some children have been told to complete a different number of spellings, please check with your child.

ambitious, cautious, curious, delicious glorious, obvious, previous, religious, various, mysterious, previously, furiously, seriously, victorious, vicious

Sumdog challenges

PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILDREN TO COMPLETE THE SUMDOG CHALLENGES, MANY CHILDREN ARE STILL NOT ACCESSING SUMDOG.

This week we would like to introduce Maths and Spelling Training.  As you know, we set weekly challenges that are linked to the learning that takes place in school.  As an extra feature, the maths and spelling training sections will provide a tailored challenge for your child to practise skills, facts and words they find difficult.  Once the diagnostic challenges have been completed Sumdog will set challenges to aid improvement and development in the appropriate areas for your child.  Once you have completed the class challenges, please use this feature for extra challenge in both maths and spelling. Your tailored training is available in your tasks tab.

Times tables have been set to reflect class targets

Maths the children have been set activities relating to multiplication and division.  They will need to use their multiplication and division knowledge and learnt this week, to work out the answers.  They may need to do jottings.

Spellings words ending ious.

The children have had another great week in school.

Year 1 Friday Blog 26th November 2021

Date: 25th Nov 2021 @ 9:50am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

In English, we have started our new book - Traction Man! Everyone has loved learning about Traction Man's exciting adventures and how he wears different outfits depending on what he is doing. For example, he wore a scuba suit to dive into the sink! We also have been writing thank you letters from the spoons, creating story maps, filling in speech bubbles, drawing all of Traction Man's outfits and predicting what would happen next in the story. We've been very busy.

We have done some super learning in maths - we have learnt how to use part whole models! These have helped us to understand addition as the two parts add together to make the whole. We then challenged ourselves to write the corresponding number sentences and even chose our own bigger numbers in blank part whole models.

In R.E. we have started our new topic of Waiting. Especially, in relation to Advent. We had a special box waiting for us in class, we waited to open it and inside was a cross to represent waiting for Jesus' birthday. We then drew our own pictures of us waiting. There were some brilliant pictures of waiting for a bus, to be chosen in class, for our birthdays and waiting for Christmas Day.

In P.E. we created and practiced our ideas for the paired section of our robot dance. We are nearly finished now! Next week we hope to be finished and ready to film...

In French, we learnt the French words for some body parts and for the parts of our face. We enjoyed singing tete, epaules, genoux, pieds (head, shoulders, knees and toes).

In P.S.H.E we have talked about our families and who is special to us. We quickly realised that our families are all different and that it is okay to choose different people to spend our time with.

Lastly, we started our Big Draw art event on Tuesday. We played some mindfulness music and drew whatever we wanted in our sketch books. It was lovely to see all of the children fully engaged in their learning and having fun.

Have a look at the gallery to see all of our brilliant learning this week.

Have a great weekend!

Home Practice

Read for at least 10 minutes every night. This is so important. please sign the diary so we can change the books. Keep practicing reading the Tricky Words on sight. Everyone has got a new set of words. Please just write a note in the diary if you need the next set.

We have also been doing lots of counting. Count on and back in 10s. Choose different numbers to start at. We have used a number square (to 100) to help with our counting as it allowed us to see the patterns visually.

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - Tricky words

Maths - Adding within 20

Year 4 Home Practice Friday 19th November 2021

Date: 19th Nov 2021 @ 4:44pm

Year 4

Home Practice 19^th November 2021

Year 4 have worked hard this week and shown a super attitude to their learning. Keep it up!

Here’s what we have been learning in school this week ….

In English we compared and contrasted 2 very different settings from the class novel, ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’. In addition, we wrote a diary account as Lila following her meeting with Razvani (the Fire-fiend). We tried to include ambitious vocabulary to describe our feelings and a variety of sentence openers.

In maths we have been interpreting data from bar charts, tables and pictograms. We have also been practising our tables, addition and subtraction strategies using a numberline, and counting in 9’s and 10’s.

This week we started our new topic in RE – ‘Gifts’. We listened to a story and discussed the qualities we look for in friends.  Following this, we wrote a recipe outlining the ‘Gifts of love and friendship’. In addition, as it was Anti-bullying week, we discussed how unkind words make people feel and the importance of ‘one kind word’, which was the theme this year. Following this we made an ‘anti-bullying’ poster in our PSHE books.

In Science we firstly identified all the components we would need to make circuits. Then we made circuits to light a bulb and make a motor and a buzzer work. After this, we tried to make components work without using wires. We had a great time exploring and investigating! Well done Y4.

In PE we practised our tag rugby in mini games. Year 4 were put into teams and had to run from one ‘safe place’ to another without having their ‘tags’ taken off. It was great fun and we all managed to score a try!

During our French lesson, we asked and answered the question Quelle est la date de ton anniversaire? (When is your birthday?). Then we practised writing lots of other dates to help us recall days, numbers and months.

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. 

Times tables

You have been given your own individual times table target.  Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables in preparation for your test next week, on Thursday (25^th November 2021). 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’.   

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 9’s and 10’s – draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers down as you count up.  When you count down, cover the numbers up, say the number, then reveal what you have got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.

Count in 9’s

For example, start at 0 and count up to 108 and back again (this will help with your 9 times tables)

0   9   18   27  etc                     108   99    90   etc

Do this a few times to help you learn them!

Count in 10s

Start at 74 and count up to 224 and back again

74   84    94   etc           224   214    204  etc

Start at 23.8 and count up to 153.8 and back again

23.8   33.8   43.8    etc             153.8   143.8   133.8    etc

Spellings

The spellings this week explore words ending with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch which are mostly French in origin. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (25^th November 2021). We have discussed different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could also use ‘Look say cover write check’.

chalet          chef            brochure      parachute    sachet

quiche          chaperone    chauffeur    moustache    crochet

chivalry        machine       charade       machinery    pistachio     

You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A times table challenge based on the 9 times tables

Please make sure you log on and have a go! Many of you are still not accessing Sumdog on a daily basis. Little and often is the key to success!

Number bonds

This week we have been practising adding numbers mentally. Please practise these skills using Hit the Button

Click on the link above, then on Play Game.

Click on Number bonds

On the left-hand side you will see the words ‘Up to 20’

Click on Addition within 20

See how many you can get correct in 1 minute. Then have another go and try and beat your score.

Practising these skills will help you in lots of topics in maths!

Year 6 Friday 19th November 2021

Date: 19th Nov 2021 @ 4:03pm

For our third week back after half term, Year 6 had taken part in an exciting football friendly match against Penwortham County Primary and performed brilliantly at Hutton for the indoor athletics finals. Congratulations to everyone who took part. We do not know the results for the athletics yet but hopefully we will find out by Monday.  This Friday, we celebrated Children in Need day with some amazing outfits, looking very spotty! Also, we have been using kind words this week to celebrate anti-bullying week, through kind messages to each other and acting out different scenarios when someone is upset. 

This week in Year 6:

• In Maths, we have been learning how to solve many problems using the bar model, how use the written subtraction method effectively and how to use different strategies to divide various numbers.
• In our novel, ‘Private Peaceful’, we have focussed on using exciting vocabulary to write as one of the characters to recount the missing scene of Big Joe, and we wrote a persuasive speech as a sergeant major to convince more people to join the war.
• In Geography, we researched information about tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes to find out what they are, how they happen and any historical events that affected the world greatly.
• For RE, we completed our topic of ‘Vocation and Commitment’ with a lovely collective worship and began our topic of ‘Expectations’, looking at different expectations that people have on us.
• In PE, we continued our learning of athletic skills through track and field events such as sprints, team sprints, speed bounce, javelin, basketball throw, vertical jump, long jump and triple jump. This week we completed the indoor athletics competition at Hutton.
• In Art, we learnt how to use tone and texture with the medium of charcoal to create our own Lola Dupre letter. See the gallery in Year 6 to see some of the super artwork.
• In Music, we have been learning how to play ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ on the glocks, as well as ‘Winter Wonderland’ with the boomwhackers.
• In French, we revised the weather phrases and looked at some grammar points by finding the odd one out of some words/phrases. We also finished our French pop song and gave out opinion on it.
• In Science, we continued our light topic by modelling how we see objects using string to represent the light rays. We then planned an investigation into shadows.

Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:

• Reading – Use your Home Reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be used for the title of the book and any reading challenge chosen.
  • The days when you can change your book:
    • Monday – Roller Coasters
    • Tuesday – Big Dippers
    • Wednesday – The Waltzers

• Spellings (-ant, -ance words)
  • Sumdog (-ant, -ance A2 wk 4)
    • assistant, assistance, arrogant, relevant, important, importance, appearance, extravagant, hesitant, reluctant, nuisance, hindrance, ignorance, resistance, restaurant

• 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 (Multiplication and Division of 3, 4, 5)

• Sumdog (Related facts quick division)

• In this challenge, there are questions with missing numbers, all relating to the multiplication facts we discuss in class often. If you practice with these, you will find next week’s division week easier to understand.

Friday 19th November 2021

Date: 19th Nov 2021 @ 3:53pm

This week we had a special Zoom call with PSDA Vets. We turned our role play into a vets and we have been looking after lots of different animals. 

We have been looking at measuring how long and short our hands and bodies are in Maths and having a go at simple addition. 

Year 3 Friday Blog 19th November 2021

Date: 19th Nov 2021 @ 1:10pm

Welcome to your Friday blog. We have enjoyed wearing spots today to support Children in Need. We have uploaded a class photo at the end of this blog. 

This week we have continued to enjoy reading Mr Stink. He finally met the Crumb family and appeared on Question Time! We looked at how to write news articles and created our own using brilliant ideas, quotations and facts.

In our maths learning, we introduced column addition and looked and exchanging hundreds, tens and ones. Everyone applied what they already knew about addition and subtraction to help them with their learning and now have a new method to practise.

This week we also finished our Stone Age learning. On Monday we used what we already knew about people in the Stone Age to tell stories through cave art. We used charcoal and sand paper so it really felt like we were living in the Stone Age. Click below to find the gallery of all our amazing creations. 

Stone Age cave pictures

On Thursday, we created some videos to explain what we have learned about the Stone Age on Apple Clips. As a class, we voted fo the videos that tell us the most about the Stone Age, and posted them to St Oswald'sTV on YouTube. Have a look by clicking on the link below.

StOswald'sTV

In PE, we have continued our new dance topic. The focus in our dance lessons is to use our imagination, be creative, be brave and enjoy ourselves. We have been working in smalls groups to come up with travels, gestures, jumps and turns - all as superheros. 

We also started our new RE topic on Visitors. The children came up with some lovely ideas on how we prepare for visitors and what it is like to be a visitor in someone’s home.

Home Practice

    1. Continue to read for at least 20 minutes every night. We know you are all enjoying your reading so make sure you are reading lots of different books by different authors.

2. Please practise the following skills for maths – even if you already know them, you need to be quick.

• Number facts, click on Doubles – Doubles to 10.
• 3x table, click on Times tables – x3.

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

3. You will be tested on your spellings and 3x times tables on Tuesday 23rd November. Make sure you practise every night. See your splling sheet for top tips for practice! (Also attached below)

4. Spellings

The spellings this week are plurals. Each word ends with a y in the singular form. To make the word plural, we change the y to an i and add es. 

                          ladies          babies          parties          cries          spies                         

                     flies          fries          poppies          lorries          lollies     

5. Sumdog - Keep and eye out for new challenges. Maths and Spelling Training is also available to practise less fluent skills.

HAVE A SUPER AND HAPPY WEEKEND!! 

Year 2 Home Practice Friday 19th November

Date: 18th Nov 2021 @ 5:10pm

Year 2 have had a great week of learning. In English, we have read The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Flat Rabbit. We have explored great vocabulary and interesting words which we can then use in our own writing. In Maths we have continued learning about subtraction and addition. In History, we started our topic on ‘The Great Fire of London’ and explored the timeline of events that took place. Science was very interesting; the children explored microhabitats. In PSHE we had a lovely circle time talking about Anti-Bullying and the focus this year is ‘One kind Word’. The children have worked hard this week to say lots of kind things to each other. In French, the children have recited a poem ‘Petit Escargot’ and made some cards to show their understanding. Bon Effort!

Reading

In Year 2, children should read for at least 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an adult or older sibling. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

Please 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.

Reading books are changed every Monday and sent home on Tuesday. However, if you need to change a book another 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 love to read.

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 red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’

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

Spelling

Your child will know which group they are in for phonics. Please learn the correct set of spellings below.

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday. A sheet will go home every Tuesday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you. You will have a Sumdog challenge to complete by next Friday.

This week’s spellings are:

Miss Gravili’s Phonics Group ‘High frequency words’

where

door

poor

floor

because

find

kind

mind

behind

child

Miss Bennison’s Phonics Group ‘High frequency words’

today

of

said

says

are

were

was

his

has

you

 Maths

At home play the ‘follow me’ game. One person starts by saying one, the other person says two, and so on. You could start at any number and count forwards or backwards. You could count in twos, threes, fives or tens. As you get better you could speed up.

You will have a times table and 10 more/10 less challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Friday.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Sumdog challenges:

Multiplication – x3, x5 and x10 tables mixed.

Maths – 10 more and 10 less.

Spellings – high frequency words

Thank you for all your support. Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 team.

Year 5 - Friday 19th November 2021

Date: 18th Nov 2021 @ 4:58pm

 Welcome to this week’s Year 5 class blog

The children have had a good week in school, working hard and trying their best.

This week in year 5

In Maths, we have been looking at multiplication and division.  We have focused a lot on factors and factor pairs but also investigated prime numbers and how to find them.  It was a tricky start to the week but with hard work and perseverance the children were able to grasp the concept and ended up enjoying the topic.

In English, things are really getting exciting with Room 13.  The children are making fantastic links between things that happen at the beginning of the book, pictures they have looked at on various editions of front covers and what is happening as we read on.  We have recapped 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd person when writing and completed a diary enter for the main character Fliss on her first night at the Crow’s Nest Hotel.

In RE, the children had another visit to church and discussed our relationship with God and different types of prayer. In school we have studied the sacrament of Marriage and the symbols associated with that.

In PE, again, the children did one of two activities. The tag rugby session with Mrs Cookson was a muddy one!  The children started with a practise tag game, dodging the other team trying to get to the semi-circle without losing their tags.  Afterwards they moved onto the field for a game of tag rugby; they had a great time.  The dance session with Mrs Nuttall went very well.  The children split into teams and had to become tableaus of space related words e.g. a rocket, the Moon, a satellite.  Then they had to create a story, in their groups, by creating 4 tableaus with a movement in between.  They were extremely creative. We have the birth of the sun, rocks connecting to form a planet and a rocket moving through the solar system.  Photos have been added to the gallery.

In Geography, we learnt about lines of longitude and latitude, including the equator, tropic of Cancer and Capricorn and Greenwich Meriden. They learnt a song to help them understand that the invisible lines help us find where on the globe a location is.  They then had to plot different places on a World map using longitude and latitude coordinates.

Finally, on Friday we took part in Children in Need in our spotty outfits and we discussed bullying as part of anti-bullying week.  We discussed how one kind word, the theme this year, can make a big different to others.

Home Practice all relates to this week's learning - These are the tasks to be completed.

Reading - You all have a Home Reading book for year 5 so reading every night for 15-20 mins is essential. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be completed and signed.

You can change your reading book on any school day (book bags to be left on Mrs Mulgrew's desk)

Spellings words containing over. We will look at these in more detail in school next week, they should be practised at home, ready for the test on Friday. 

Don’t forget the children have a big list of Common Exception words to learn, these can be practised each week to push your child further.

Some children have been told to complete a different number of spellings, please check with your child.

covered, discover, government, undercover, overnight, uncover, overjoyed, recovery, overcome, overheat, overreacting, uncovered, overheard, recover, discoveries

Sumdog challenges

PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILDREN TO COMPLETE THE SUMDOG CHALLENGES, MANY CHILDREN ARE STILL NOT ACCESSING SUMDOG.

Times tables have been set to reflect class targets.  If the children complete the challenges they can push themselves by accessing multiplication challenges on Sumdog.

Maths the children have been set activities relating to factors and factor pairs.  They will need to use their multiplication knowledge and the knowledge learnt this week to work out the answers.  They may need to do jottings.

Spellings words containing over.

The children have had another great week in school.

Year 1 Friday Blog 19th November 2021

Date: 18th Nov 2021 @ 10:00am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

In English, we read our new book called Bob's Best Ever Friend. Bob was very lonely and wanted to find someone to spend his time with. He eventually found Barry - an alien dog! We wrote about our own best friends, drew some funny alien pets, learnt all about space, and made some puppets of the characters in the story. We then acted out the story with our friends.

In Maths, we have started our Addition and Subtraction topic and have reintroduced using a tens frame to add two numbers together. We then took it one step further and created 2 addition numbers sentences, as we learnt that we can swap the numbers around! For example, 6 + 4 = 10 but 4 + 6 also equals 10. We have worked well with each other to add bigger numbers together, using our superb mathematical reasoning skills!

In R.E. we have learnt all about Jesus' baptism in the River Jordan. We talked about why Jesus wanted to be baptised and how The Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove. We talked about our own baptisms and how our experiences differed from Jesus'.

We loved our P.E. lesson again this week! We learnt a group dance to our 'I am a robot' song and began thinking about our paired dance. We were so proud of all the children's creative ideas and robot movements.

In French, we have recited a new poem called Petit Escargot and added some actions to it. We then drew pictures about the poem to show that we understood the French.

In History, we began learning about Neil Armstrong and how he was the first man on the moon. This linked perfectly to our Bob story in English and we were so excited to find out more! We drew some pictures of Neil in our books and watched the historic moment together.

In P.S.H.E we have been focusing on being a good friend and how one kind word can make a big difference. We loved acting out different scenarios in groups, we definitely have some potential actors in the making!

Everyone looked great in their spotty outfits to support Children in need.

Have a look at the gallery section to see all of our brilliant learning this week.

Home Practice

Read for at least 10 minutes every night. This is so important. please sign the diary so we can change the books. Keep practicing reading the Tricky Words on sight. Everyone has got a new set of words. Please just write a note in the diary if you need the next set.

Practice writing simple number sentences (for example 5 + 5 = 10) so that we can be confident when using the addition and equals symbols. Make sure they are in the correct place and the number sentence makes sense.

We have also been doing lots of counting. We have used a number square (to 100) to help with our counting as it allowed us to see the patterns visually.

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - Ew and oo words

Maths - Add within 20

Friday 12th November

Date: 16th Nov 2021 @ 4:21pm

This week we have finally caught Evil Pea. We had a video call from the Police to write wanted posters describing to them what he looked like. Our Dinner lady Mrs Speight found him hiding in the flour and froze him for the children to see. 

We have also celebrated Judaism this week, we have watched videos of how they celebrate Hanukkah and we made our own Potato Latkes to try. We have also been outside making our own 'Stars of David'. 

Have a look at some of our busy learning this week

Year 5 Sacramental Programme15th November 2021

Date: 15th Nov 2021 @ 5:04pm

The children have had another lovely session in church to help in preparation for their Sacrament or to support their friends on their journey.

This week Father discussed with them their relationship with God. He discussed the different types of prayer that there are e.g. speaking, singing, thinking and the different things that we can pray for - in November we pray for those that have died in conflict.

The children discussed with Father where they personally pray, what they pray for, when they pray and if they pray together as a family.

Father explained to them that prayer strengthens their relationship with God and that praying together can help bring families togther to celebrate things they are thankful for or share worries they need help with.

There is a Gospel reading from St Luke on the children's worksheet that we encourage you to read together, about the disciples asking Jesus to teach them to pray. In church Father asked the children if they could think of a prayer it reminded them of and the children made links to the Our Father. Father then went on to discuss the Our Father with the children and broke it down into separate parts so that the children could have a greater understanding.of the words they are saying to God when they use it during prayer times.

The children then went on to discuss how Mass is the most perfect form of prayer and they talked about the different parts of the service and the order in which they come.  The children have been given some Mass sheets from Father from this weekend to discuss with you at home.

On the final page of the worksheet is an activity to carry out at home, where the children can write a prayer of choice. In church they were shown how they can use each finger of their hand to pray for different people and they completed a sheet with their hand drawn on with five prayer suggestions to help them.

Year 2 Home Practice Friday 12th November 2021

Date: 12th Nov 2021 @ 4:27pm

Year 2 have been working so hard this week and it really shows in the excellent pieces of work they have produced. In English, we have read Hansel and Gretel and The Little Story That Didn’t Want to Be Told.  The focus has been on using great adjectives and conjunctions to make sentences longer and more interesting. Our new topic in Maths is addition and subtraction. The children have been looking at partitioning a number into tens and ones to help with calculations. In History, we learnt about Remembrance Day and made poppies. Science was very interesting; the children explored microhabitats. We learnt all about Judaism in RE, with a focus on Shabbat. Keep up the great work everyone.

Reading

In Year 2, children should read for at least 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an adult or older sibling. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

Please 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.

Reading books are changed every Monday and sent home on Tuesday. However, if you need to change a book another 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 love to read.

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 red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’

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

Spelling

Your child will know which group they are in for phonics. Please learn the correct set of spellings below.

This week we have been learning how to spell words with the ‘ow’ and ‘or’ sounds.

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday. A sheet will go home every Tuesday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you. You will have a Sumdog challenge to complete by next Friday.

This week’s spellings are:

Miss Gravili’s Phonics Group ‘ow’

proud

about

shouted

clouds

clowns

towel

owl

cows

plough

bough

Miss Bennison’s Phonics Group ‘or’

for

cord

fork

sort

lawn

yawn

dawn

drawn

August

Autumn

 Maths

At home play the ‘follow me’ game. One person starts by saying one, the other person says two, and so on. You could start at any number and count forwards or backwards. You could count in twos, fives or tens. As you get better you could speed up.

You will have a times table and addition/subtraction challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Friday.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Sumdog challenges:

Multiplication – x2, x5 and x10 tables mixed.

Maths – Addition and Subtraction.

Spellings – words with the ‘ow’ and ‘or’ sounds.

Thank you for all your support. Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 team.

Year 6 Friday 12th November 2021

Date: 12th Nov 2021 @ 3:49pm

Year 6 have had a great week, celebrating Go Green Day this Friday (where we reduced electrics for the full day) and being respectful on Remembrance Day with a minute silence. Thanks to the School Ambassadors and School Council who have led the ‘poppy stall’ all this week, taking time out during break to oversee the money. They will be counting it up and are excited to see the school’s final amount.

This week in Year 6:

• In Maths, we have been learning different strategies to subtract mentally and practising ways to multiply large numbers quickly.
• In our novel, ‘Private Peaceful’, we have looked more deeply at the relationships between the main characters: Tommo, Charlie and Molly, as well as writing a persuasive letter from Mother to the Colonel.
• For Remembrance Day, Year 6 created their own lovely poems based on Rudyard Kipling’s poem, ‘My Boy Jack’. They wrote really well as Jack back to their father. Some of Year 6 were even lucky enough to read theirs out loud at Golden Assembly.
• In Geography, following our learning from last week, we learnt how tectonic plates can move in different directions (very slowly) causing many things to happen, including volcanoes, tsunamis and earthquakes.
• For RE and Judaism week, we learnt about Rosh Hashanah (the New Year celebration for Jewish people) and created our own fact file about it.
• In PE, we worked on our athletic skills through track and field events such as sprints, team sprints, speed bounce, javelin, basketball throw, vertical jump, long jump and triple jump. Congratulations to those chosen to be part of the athletics team for our indoor athletics competition next week.
• In Art, we learnt about different ways of shading through hatching, cross hatching and contour hatching.
• In Music, we have continued our learning of the glockenspiels, along with beginning to learn carols for Christmas.
• In French, we read sentences about le Jour du Souvenir (Remembrance Day), finished a French pop song and gave our opinions in French.
• In Science, we discussed more about the 5 types of scientific enquiry and looked back through our books to find examples of each. Then we investigated whether light travels in a straight line.

Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:

• Reading – Use your Home Reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be used for the title of the book and any reading challenge chosen.
  • The days when you can change your book:
    • Monday – Roller Coasters
    • Tuesday – Big Dippers
    • Wednesday – The Waltzers

• Spellings (-ible / -ibly words)
  • Sumdog (-ible, -ibly A2 wk 3)
    • horrible, horribly, illegible, illegibly, impossible, impossibly, incredible, incredibly, possible, sensibly, terribly, visible, invincible, indestructible, edible

• 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 x6, x7, x8)

• Sumdog (Multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000)

Year 4 Home Practice Friday 12th November 2021

Date: 12th Nov 2021 @ 3:47pm

Year 4

Home Practice 12^th November 2021

Well done for settling back into school Year 4. Some of you are now started to push yourselves by listening more attentively and producing work you are really proud of. Keep it up!

Here’s what we have been learning in school this week ….

In English we wrote our own description of the Ceremony and the Full Moon. We used what we had learnt about the Ceremony from the book and expanded the image by including our own ideas and descriptive language. In addition, we predicted what we thought would happen now that Lila had reached the Grotto of the Fire-Fiend. Some of Year 4 have fantastic imaginations – well done!

In maths we have been drawing and interpreting bar charts. We had to number the axis appropriately and use a sharp pencil and a ruler to draw the bars accurately. We have also been practising our tables, addition strategies and counting in 6’s and 25’s.

This week we have been exploring Judaism in RE. We learnt lots of information about the Torah, including where it is kept, what language it is written in and how many letters there are in it!  We also designed our own Bar Mitzvah card for a Jewish friend.

In Science we started our new topic, Electricity. We found out about the dangers of electricity and we wrote some safety rules. Then we used a gadget called an Energy Stick to demonstrate that electricity needs a complete circuit to flow. We loved this and raised lots of questions to test. Well done, year 4! We're ready to make circuits next week!

In PE we continued our dance unit, ‘Sparks Might Fly’. Year 4 created their own freeze frames and transition movements; these all related to using an electrical device or the way in which it moves. The freeze frames and transitions were then linked together and performed to the class. In our tag rugby session we practised our throwing and passing skills and tried to score a try!

In our French lesson we read a text in French about Le Jour du Souvenir (Remembrance Day) and chose the right words to fill in the blanks so that it made sense. Then we read it aloud in French.

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. 

Times tables

You have been given your own individual times table target.  Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables in preparation for your test next week, on Thursday (18^th November 2021). 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’.   

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 6’s and 25’s – draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers down as you count up.  When you count down, cover the numbers up, say the number, then reveal what you have got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.

Count in 6’s

For example, start at 0 and count up to 72 and back again (this will help with your 6 times tables)

0   6   12    18  etc                     72   66    60   etc

Start at 54 and count up to 102 and down again

54  60   66   etc                   102   96   90    etc

Count in 25’s

Start at 0 and count up to 325 and back again

25  50  75   etc           325   300   275  etc

Start at 450 and count up to 775 and back again

450  475   500   etc             775   750   725    etc

Spellings

The spellings this week explore words ending with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘-que’ which is French in origin. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (18^th November 2021). We have discussed in class different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could always use ‘Look say cover write check’.

antique        mosque         opaque         unique          cheque

boutique      oblique         conquer        critique       grotesque

croquet        plaque          technique     mystique      picturesque

You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A times table challenge based on the 3 and 6 times tables

Please make sure you log on and have a go! Many of you are still not accessing Sumdog on a daily basis. Little and often is the key to success!

Number bonds

This week we have been practising adding numbers mentally. Please practise this using Daily 10.    Remember to partition numbers and use a numberline to help.

Eg 15 + 7 = 22            

The number 7 can be partitioned into 5 and 2 to make this easier to calculate

eg 15 + 5 = 20                 20 + 2 = 22

Click on the link above, then on Play Game.

Click on the pink Select button and choose Level 2

Click on the purple Select button and choose Addition

Click on the green Select button and choose Upto 25.

Choose your time interval or ‘manual’ if you want to move on when you are ready.

Year 3 Friday Blog 12th November 2021

Date: 12th Nov 2021 @ 12:47pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had an amazing week of learning in Year 3. Everyone is showing a brilliant attitude to their learning and we have been very impressed! 

In our English learning we have been looking at vocabulary to improve our ideas. Everyone created some fantastic descrtiptions of Mr Stink's mystery photo, using some fabulous words. Here are some of our favourite sentences.

The man in the photo looked handsome in his bow tie and best suit.

The lady next to him looked beautiful and elegant. She looked like a movie star!

The seats were immaculately perfect and comfortable.

In our Maths learning we have been exploring pictograms and bar charts. We found this new learning tricky to start with but we have been very impressed with everyone's resilience. Well done Year 3!

On Friday we had our Go Green Day. We switched off our lights and worked by candlelight. We thought about how we could be more green and came up with some fantastic ideas on how we as a class could look after our environment.

As a class we came up with some pledges.

We are going to try and use less electricity, eat less meat and pick up litter.

In our Science we have finished our topic on Rocks. Everyone showed amazing knowledge and applied this to find out what rock would be best for a new paved area in school. Super science!

Next week we will be starting our new topic investigating light. 

On Thursday we marked Rembrance day with a moment of silence. We also wrote some thoughful poems and created videos to present them. Click the links below to listen.

Remember the Dead 

Remember me

Poppy Day

Home Practice

Reading

Read to somebody for 20 minutes every night and talk about what you have read.

Spelling

This week we have been revisiting our il,le el and al spellings and explored homophones,(eg, to, too, two). We have seen a lot of improvement in everyone's spellings. Keep up the regular practice.

Your Sumdog spellings will go on tonight. There is also a spelling training feature which will challenge everyone with words they aren't as accurate on. Use this for practice once you have learned your spellings.

foxes       churches      animals          basketballs           glasses          

capitals         ladybirds         envelopes         washes            bushes

Maths

For your maths challenges this week we will be practising times tables and statistics.

Make sure you complete these challenges before Thursday. Good Luck! 

Practise the following skills for Maths – even if you already know them, you need to be quick. Click the links below to access the games. We will have a tables test on Tuesday.

Number facts 

3x tables 

Have a lovely weekend!

Year 5 - Friday 12th November 2021

Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 3:43pm

 Welcome to this week’s Year 5 class blog

The children have worked well this week despite the disappointment of the cancelled trip.  As soon as a new date is confirmed we will let you know.

This week in year 5

In Maths we have completed perimeter for this half term, and moved onto statistics.  The children have worked really hard trying to read and interpret data from a graph.  It has been a tricky skill and they have concentrated and shown determination in gaining the skills needed.

In English we have continued with Room 13.  There is a lot of gasping as the children make links between things mentioned at the start of the book and things that transpire as we read on.  We have looked at letter writing and the features of a letter this week, alongside using our inference and retrieval skills to find evidence in the book to support answers to questions set.

In RE the children had their second visit to church and learnt about the different statues and paintings around the church and their significance.  They also discussed the meaning and significance of their name.  Finally in school we have studied Judaism and the festival of Passover.  We read the story of Moses, the 10 plagues and how he helped set the Israelites free.  We also discussed the Seder Plate and the significance of different foods during the Passover meal.

In PE the children did one of two activities, the opposite one from last week.  Half of the class took part in a tag rugby session with Mrs Cookson.  They worked really hard on throwing and passing the ball and trying to score a try.  The other half of the class started the dance unit called ‘Earthlings!’ with Mrs Nuttall.  They created their own movements for 16 counts that expressed who they were and then collaborated with a partner and performed for the class.  They then went on to create a 16 count dance to represent one of the planets in the solar system.  Again, they were very creative.

We read, understood and performed a poem called Braves Soldats in French. We came up with actions to fit the text to make our performance more exciting. Well done, year 5. 

The children started their Geography topic on North America this week.  We started by recapping some of the foundations including the continents and the oceans.  We examined the use of a compass and used the cardinal directions, alongside an atlas, to describe the locations of the oceans in relation to the continents.  This again was a tricky concept and they worked really hard to understand it. Finally we used an atlas to examine the equator and discuss which continents were in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Finally on Friday we took part in the school’s ‘Go Green Day’.  We spent the day using as little electricity as possible, we discussed Climate Change and how we can help the planet.  The children made posters to show what they want for our world and how they could help make it happen.

Home Practice all relates to this week's learning - These are the tasks to be completed.

Reading - You all have a Home Reading book for year 5 so reading every night for 15-20 mins is essential. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be completed and signed.

You can change your reading book on any school day (book bags to be left on Mrs Mulgrew's desk)

Spellings prefix re or pre. We will look at these in more detail in school next week, they should be practised at home, ready for the test on Thursday. 

Don’t forget the children have a big list of Common Exception words to learn, these can be practised each week to push your child further.

Some children have been told to complete a different number of spellings, please check with your child.

readjust, reaffirm, reappear, rearrangement, redecorate, reinvent, reload, repayment, prejudice, premature, preoccupied, prefix, preposition, prefer, preparation

Sumdog challenges

PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILDREN TO COMPLETE THE SUMDOG CHALLENGES, MANY CHILDREN ARE STILL NOT ACCESSING SUMDOG. ONCE YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE SET CHALLENGES, ACCESS THE MATHS TRAINING WHERE CHALLENGES WILL BE TAILORED FOR EVERY CHILD.

Times tables have been set to reflect class targets

Maths the children have been set activities relating to reading and interpreting graphs.  Some children found this very difficult so may need support with this.  If they have spent time with you trying to work it out and cannot complete all the questions, this is ok.  They just need to have a chance to practise outside of the class time to help embed these skills.

Spellings with the prefix re or pre.

The children have had another great week in school.