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Year 1 Friday Blog 12th November 2021

Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 9:53am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

We have started our brand new book in English: Man on the Moon: A Day in the Life of Bob. We have been looking really carefully at the pictures-Bob never sees the aliens! We have been drawing and labelling picnic lunches for Bob and his friends. We drew our own aliens and described them. We wrote some questions for Bob and interviwed him about his work on the Moon.

In Maths, we have moved on from measuring length and onto measuring mass (weight). We have experimented using balance scales and found out that we can compare the mass of different objects in the classroom. We have been using cubes in the scales as we learnt that we could easily count them in order to see how heavy/light an object is.

In R.E. we have spent the week exploring Judaism, focusing on Abraham and Moses in particular. We have learnt that they both made promises to God and showed a great deal of faith in Him. We drew our own pictures of Abraham and Moses and talked about how important it is to trust and believe in God.

French 

We learnt and recited a poem in French about Autumn leaves falling and Winter creeping in. We coloured some Autumn pictures.

We loved our P.E. lesson this week! We explored how a robot can travel using different levels (travelling low on the floor, high in the air and across the room).

In Science we went outside to look at the trees. We found deciduous and evergreen ones. We talked about the Seasons.

We have been very busy this week! Have a look at some of our pictures below.

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.

Practise measuring different items in your house. This could be by using a ruler, measuring scales or your body parts like last week.

We have also been counting.Have a go at counting forwards and backwards in 10s.

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - oi and oy

Maths - Count 10 more

Year 5 Sacramental Programme 8th November 2021

Date: 9th Nov 2021 @ 12:20pm

The children had another successful session in the church this week, once again they were thoughtful and respectful and showed enthusiasm throughout.

This week Father Michael asked the children about their names. He asked them to have a chat with their parents about why they have the name they have. Father Michael discussed that his family have a tradition of naming their children after a Saint that has their feast day in that month.  Father Michael was born in September and it is the feast of St Michael on 29th September. Have a chat with your child about how you chose their name, perhaps a family tradition, a family name or someone you admired. 

The children had a worksheet to complete in church. They also took part in treasure hunt this week looking at all the statues, memorials and paintings and learning about their significance. They also created an acrostic poem using their name and features/traits that they have.  Please have a look at the sheets that they brought home. There is an activity to complete together on the acrostic page and some discussions to have on the double page worksheet. 

We appreciate your time and support in helping your children understand the significance of the work they are completing as part of their Faith Journey.

Reception 05th November

Date: 5th Nov 2021 @ 4:22pm

What a great week back we have had! 

Supertato was delivered into our class on Monday morning with lots of vegetables for us to peel to make some potato and carrot soup. 

We have been busy making our own Supertatos and thinking of our own adventures, by drawing out the story maps. 

In maths, we have been counting out different amounts and ordering our numbers to 10. 

We have learned all about the Diwali festival in Art, making our own rangoli patterns using coloured rice and our own diya's. 

We have enjoyed our 'Tots on tyres' programme this week and trip to the park :) 

Year 4 Home Practice Friday 5th November 2021

Date: 5th Nov 2021 @ 4:05pm

Year 4

Home Practice 5^th November 2021

Welcome back to another busy half term and the run up to Christmas! Year 4 have had a fabulous week of learning and now need to get back into the swing of completing their weekly Home Practice.

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

In English, we wrote a letter from Lila (the main character in the book) to her father explaining her feelings about wanting to be a firework maker. We tried our best to include paragraphs and a rhetorical question.  In addition, we listened to the class novel, discussed new vocabulary and summarised the story.  During the grammar part of the lesson, we practised using co-ordinating conjunctions to extend sentences. We can now use a variety of these in our writing.

In Maths we used numberlines to help subtract numbers. Bridging 10 and 100 was involved and although many of us found this tricky, we have all made good progress. We also learnt more about tenths, especially pairs to 10 where decimal tenths are involved (eg 6.4 + 3.6 = 10).

In RE we explored how we are all unique and different. We understand that we should treat each other as we would like to be treated and wrote our own set of Golden Rules.

We also started our Roman’s topic in History. Initially, we discussed what we already knew, what we would like to know, where the Romans originated from and what the Roman Empire was.

In French we learnt about subject pronouns (I,  you, he. she. we, you, they) and the verb etre (to be) in the context of Remembrance Day. Next week, we will use this grammar to write about this special time.

In PE we started a dance unit called ‘Sparks Might Fly’ which complements our new science topic, Electricity. In addition, we learnt some new tag rugby skills.

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 (11^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 0.2’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

0   6   12    18  etc                     72   66    60   etc

Start at 36 and count up to 90 and down again

36    42     48   etc                   90    84     78    etc

Count in 0.2’s

Start at 0 and count up to 1.6 and back again

0.2    0.4    0.6   etc           1.6   1.4   1.2  etc

Start at 5.4 and count up to 7.0 and back again

5.4   5.6   5.8   etc             7.0   6.8   6.6    etc

Spellings

The spellings this week explore words ending with the ‘g’ sound spelt ‘-gue’. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (11^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’.

rogue           league          tongue         plague          intrigue

vague           fatigue        dialogue       epilogue       prologue

colleague      meringue      catalogue     synagogue    intrigued

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:

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

Knowing your number bonds to 10 is important and will help in many aspects of maths.  Please practise this at home using Daily 10

Click on the link above, then on Play Game.

Click on the pink Select button and choose Level 1

Click on the purple Select button and choose Addition

Click on the green Select button and choose Bonds to make 10.

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

Remember to USE A NUMBERLINE to help you! We have been using these in class!

Year 6 Friday 5th November 2021

Date: 5th Nov 2021 @ 3:45pm

For our first week back after half term, Year 6 have come back working very hard, keeping to the golden rules and remembering to keep ourselves and each other safe so thank you.

Thank you also to everyone for completing their Home Practice on time and for changing your books. The days to change them are still between Monday and Wednesday.

This week in Year 6:

• In Maths, we have increased our understanding of multiples and learnt to use the grid method effectively.
• In English, we have begun our new novel, ‘Private Peaceful’, and used the skill of retrieval and inference to collect information about the characters, Mother and Charlie. We also wrote a very emotional piece from Mother to her late husband.
• In Geography, we learnt how the world is made up of different layers (inner core, outer core, mantle and crust) and how the crust is split into many parts called tectonic plates.
• For RE, we completed our ‘Vocation and Commitment’ by creating our own mission statement of what they are committed to.
• In PE, we have begun to learn the rules of dodgeball and what strategies to use to outwit the opposing team (always face the front, keep on your toes, and throw sideways).
• In Art, we have begun a new project by first investigating the work of Lola Dupre and imitating her style through sketching.
• In Music, we started learning and playing jazz on the glockenspiels.
• In French, we learnt about pronouns (I, you, he, she, we, you, they) and the verb ‘etre’ (to be) in the context of Remembrance Day. Next week we will use this grammar to write about this.
• In Science, we talked about the five different types of scientific enquiry. We then wrote some questions about light and tried to decide which approach would be the best way of finding the answer to our question.

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 (-sion / -ssion / -cian words)
  • Sumdog (-able, -ably A2 wk 2)
    • enjoyable, unavailable, changeable, noticeable, unbelievable, probably, considerable, unacceptable, comfortably, respectable, dependable, incapable, unachievable, uncomfortable, miserably

• Maths challenges:
  • Counting:
    • This week we have been counting in fraction steps of ¼ and 2/4 Try to do the same out loud or with paper.
    • Draw a line and 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 halves:

2 ¼ , 2 2/4, 2 ¾, 3, 3 ¼ , etc

and as improper numbers:

¾, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 8/4, etc               

Start at 13 and count up 10 numbers and down again:

13, 12 ¾, 12 2/4, 12 ¼, etc    

Now try in 2/4 with these numbers:

8 8 2/4, 9, 9 2/4, 10, 10 2/4, etc

• Sumdog (Times Tables x2, x3, x4, x5)

• Sumdog (Multiply and Divide numbers by 10, 100 and 1000)

Year 2 Home Practice 5th November 2021

Date: 5th Nov 2021 @ 1:11pm

We hope you all had a lovely half term. We have had a great first week back of learning. In English this week the children have read The Bear and the Piano and Five Little Fiends. They have done lots of writing, including character descriptions and sequencing the story. The children are working really hard to use their lead-ins in all their English lessons. In Maths, they have been learning all about measure. Our PSHE lesson was introducing this terms topic of ‘Managing our feelings’. In Computing, the children worked on coding and Sumdog. In French the children have made a wreath of hands as a symbol of peace and friendship. 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 out on Tuesday. However, if you need to change a book, 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 ‘oa and ee’ sound.

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Thursday. 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 Thursday.

This week’s spellings are:

Miss Gravili’s Phonics Group

show

throwing

ghost

also

alone

milestone

mangoes

flamingos

download

floated

Miss Bennison’s Phonics Group

teeth

agreed

swede

complete

monkey

donkey

equal

evil

beads

lead

Maths

At home count to 100 forwards and backwards. Count in twos, fives and tens from 0. Make it trickier by counting from any number in twos, fives and tens. What patterns can you see?

You will have a times table challenge and a measuring 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 – Measurement.

Spellings – words with the ‘ee and oa’ sounds.

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

The Year 2 team.

Year 5 Sacramental Programme - Session 1

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 5:30pm

After each session of the Sacramental Programme, we will inform you through our class page what the children have discussed and any points that can be further explored at home. The children who are completing the programme will bring home their 'Thank God for Mass!' books to help you understand what they have done and help with your discussions. 

This week the children started their sacramental journey at church with Father Michael, Catechists from St Oswald's, Mrs Mulgrew, Mrs Deighton and Mrs Nuttall.  The children were able to explore the church and find out about all the different sections and symbols. They stood on the sanctuary and spoke to Father Michael about the different things that are around the alter and their significance.  They spoke with school staff and the Catechists about the Baptismal font, the Reconciliation room and the Holy Oils used at different times in a Christian's life. The children also got the chance to walk around and look at the Stations of the Cross and the various statues and paintings within the church.  The children were very respectful and remained calm and inquisitive throughout. 

All the children, whether they are taking part in the Sacramental Programme or not, will take part in the sessions.  All the children will have a folder and a worksheet each week to bring home but only the children completing the sacrament will have the booklet. The children not completing the Sacramental Programme will learn about the Sacraments as part of the RE curriculum and support their friends on their faith Journey.

Points to discuss at home.

Father Michael spoke to the children about various things and asked the children who had undertaken the sacrement of Baptism, to go home and speak to their parents about it. Fr Michael spoke about how Baptism was the start of the children's Faith journey and they were now embarking upon the next stage. 

The children could perhaps look at photos of their Baptism, discuss who was there, who their Godparents are and their role in their Catholic journey and what happened at their Baptism. 

The children who have not undertaken Baptism were still involved in the conversations and activities and were able to listen to stories that the other children could recall and support their friends on the next stage of their journey in Faith.  

Year 5 Friday 5th November 2021

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 5:07pm

Welcome to this week’s Year 5 class blog

The children have settled back into school this week and been very grown up and respectful of one another during our RSE discussion sessions.

This week in year 5

In Maths we have been measuring perimeters. They have been investigating the different ways of calculating perimeters and practising using a ruler.  They have moved onto calculating perimeters with decimal places and perimeters of shapes that are not simply a quadrilateral.

In English we have moved onto our new book Room 13.  We have looked at the features of a suspense story, made predictions about what the story could be about and then we have made up our own nightmare story, trying to include features to create suspense.

In RE the children went over to visit the church, some children began their journey towards the sacrament of reconciliation and the children not undertaking the sacrament attended the session and supported their friends on their journey. The children were able to explore the church in a way that they are not usually allowed.  For more details please see the additional blog on the website (titled Year 5 Sacramental Programme - session 1)

In PE the children did one of two activities as they will swap next 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.  They were very creative.

In Science the children had their final classroom sessions on their Forces topic; the topic will conclude with the trip next week.  The children investigated simple machines, using pulleys and gears and learnt how machines can help change the amount of force needed for tasks.  The children also undertook a special session with Mrs Quilliam where they learnt about Sir Isaac Newton and how he discovered the force of gravity. They measured weight using Newton meters. Some of even managed to find a pattern between Newtons and Grams. One Newton = 100 grams. Well done Year 5!

In French the children have learnt about subject pronouns (I,  you, he, she, we, you, they) and the verb etre (to be) in the context of Remembrance Day. Next week, they will use this grammar to write about this special time.

The children also took part in a number of sessions for their Journey in Love (RSE programme). They learnt about the different life stages a person goes through, with particular attention to the puberty stage. We discussed the different stages both girls and boys go through and what will happen to their bodies at this time, but that this will happen at different times to one another. The children were very mature; we did have some giggles, but overall they were very considerate of others, listened and asked relevant questions.  

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 dis or mis). We will look at these in more detail in school next week, they should be practised at home, ready for the test on Thursday.  Now that we are back into the swing of things they have more than 10 spellings.

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

misinform, misguide, misplaced, misread, misspell, misunderstood, misjudge, disadvantage, disagree, disappear, discontinue, dishonest, dislike, disobey, displease. 

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

For Maths the children have been set activities relating to regular and irregular polygons and calculating perimeter

Spellings with the prefix dis or mis.

I have been really impressed with the children’s hard work and attitude this week.

Online Safety Update

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 12:31pm

Keeping our children safe in the online space is of ever growing importance. From phones to consoles, our children are exposed to more online risk than ever and it is important that we adults keep up to date to ensure our children are prepared for all they meet online. 

This term our classes have been learning about privacy and security as part of their Online Safety lessons. Below we have attached a guide for settting up new devices that your children may use. This incluses tips for security and password protection.

Please continue to access all information on the National Online Safety website. You will get access to all videos and guides by clicking the link below and joining free to our school online safety hub.

http://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primary-school-pr45eb

Year 3 Friday Blog 5th November 2021

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 11:33am

Happy Friday Everyone!

It has been lovely seeing you all back in school. Everyone has come back so grown up and ready to learn. Well done.

This week we have continued reading Mr Stink and looked at how he made a home in Chloe's shed. We wrote some super descriptions and looked carefully at our sentences, making sure they always make sense.

In our maths we have been learning statistics and how to draw accurate bar charts. We have all listened really well to our instructions and showed great understanding. We also introduced number bonds to 100. Keep an eye on Sumdog for new challenges and competitions. 

In Science we explored soil samples and discussed where we think rocks come from.

Click here for a sneak peak.

On the 1st and 2nd November there was a celebration in Mexico called Day of the Dead Festival. We took the opportunity to do some geography work. We located Mexico and different cities on a world map and on a map of Northern and Central America. We were really good at using an atlas. 

Mrs Winter was very impressed with our music learning this week. We have been exploring pulse and rhythm. 

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.

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

• Number facts, click on number bonds – make 100. 

• 3x table, click on Times tables – x3.

3. Spellings

The spellings this week all end with –il.

fossil          daffodil          pencil          gerbil          utensil          nostril          basil          stencil          April          pupil

4. Sumdog

You will be tested on your spellings and 3x times tables on Tuesday 9th November. Make sure you practise every night.

Year 1 Friday Blog 5th November 2021

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 9:55am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

It has been lovely to see the children settle straight back into school after the week off, we have had lots of fun this week!

We have been reading 'Aliens Love Underpants' in English, we have been laughing at how silly the aliens are! We have figured out why the aliens love underpants and have started to learn about the different planets in our solar system. It was lovely to see how excited the class were about the book and we have even read the additional stories that come with it: Dinosaurs Love Underpants and Pirates Love Underpants.

In Maths, we have started our new Measurement topic. We have been using our fingers, hands and feet to measure different objects in our classroom and learning new words such as tall, long, short, height, width and length. We have loved being able to work together with our friends to measure big objects!

In R.E. we have learnt about how our families love us. We have talked about how to show someone that you love them and we have written a thank you note to someone special in our life. In our Collective Worships, we have started to learn about Remembrance Day and how to look after our friends. This also linked to our French lesson where we looked at the similarities and differences between the ways in which England and France celebrate Remembrance Day. We even made our own poppy!

We have started our new dance topic in P.E. this week. We loved learning about how robots move and how we could travel across the room like a robot. In a few weeks, we will be creating our own robot dances with our friends.

We enjoyed getting the instruments out in Music and singing about Little Red Riding Hood with Mrs Winter. 

We have been very busy this week! Have a look at some of our pictures below.

Our Golden Stars this week are: Joni, Alfie, Caleb, Evelyn, Trudy, Spencer and Jenson.

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.

Practise using parts of your body to measure objects around your home. Can you use your finger width, your finger length and your hand span?

We have also been counting in 2s to 20 and 10s to 100. Count forwards and backwards from different starting numbers. 

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - ow and ou words

Maths - counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. This is a bit trickier this week so have a go!

Reception 21st October 2021

Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 4:25pm

What a great end to the half term. 

We have been bakng and decorating cakes for 'Kippers Birthday'.

Making numberlines outside and jumping forward and backwards to find one more or less than a given number. 

We have been practising our fundamental skills in PE and learning all about a baptism in RE. 

We ended the week we a super halloween day and Year 4 read us some lovely kindness stories to finish the day! 

Year 2 Home Practice Friday 15th October 2021

Date: 15th Oct 2021 @ 4:15pm

Well done Year 2, we have had another great week of learning. The story Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown was fun to read and the children responded well during class discussion. They have done lots of writing, including a poem about Flat Stanley using interesting adjectives and a description of themselves, as if they had become flat! Some of their illustrations were fabulous! In Maths, they have been comparing numbers and rounding to the nearest ten. We will be moving on to measuring length and mass next week. Our PSHE lesson (circle time) was spent discussing friendship and kindness. In Computing, the children worked on coding and Sumdog. The paintings they did in Art are going to look creative and colourful on our display. 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 out on Tuesday. However, if you need to change a book, 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 ‘igh’ sound.

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Thursday. 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 Thursday.

This week’s spellings are:

Miss Gravili’s Phonics Group

midnight

knight

fried

cried

my

spy

unkind

prize

behind

white

Miss Bennison’s Phonics Group

light

flight

sky

why

kite

shine

tie

lie

find

mind

 Mrs Whitworth’s Phonics Group

train

rain

sheep

bee

goat

coat

moon

book

broom

blood

Maths

At home count to 100 forwards and backwards. Count in twos, fives and tens from 0. Make it trickier by counting from any number in twos, fives and tens. What patterns can you see?

You will have a times table challenge and a comparing numbers 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 – Read and write numbers to 100 and compare and order numbers.

Spellings – words with the ‘igh’ sounds.

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

The Year 2 team.

Year 6 Blog Friday 15th October 2021

Date: 15th Oct 2021 @ 3:38pm

Welcome to the last blog before the October half term holiday, as next Friday will be our INSET day. Year 6 have been brilliant these past 6 – 7 weeks: working hard, respecting the rules and routines we have in place, and completing the Home Practice in time.

This week we chose a tag rugby team to take part in the South Ribble Tag Rugby competition for next Tuesday 19^th October. Congratulations to those who were chosen. Our aim this year is for every Year 6 to represent the school in a sporting competition, something we have not been able to do since 2019.

We have had another week of excellent effort with 97% changing their books and completing their Home Practice on time. Every Year 6 is showing themselves to be great role models for the other children, especially during lunch time where they have worked extremely hard as ‘Buddies’.

This week in Year 6:

• In Maths, we have practised the 7 times tables, rounding numbers to 1, added decimals mentally and used the written method effectively.
• In English, we completed the novel, ‘Clockwork’, discussed what we thought about the story and the ending, and then created some of our own.
• In our topic of Mountains, in Geography, we worked as teams to learn about the main 10 features (slope, face, foot, valley, outcrop, slope, ridge, summit, tree line, snow line )
• For RE, we continued our topic of ‘Vocation and Commitment’, and retold the story of the Baptism of the Lord, as John the Baptist.
• In PE, many of us have learnt a new skill/sport as Year 6 have all become super tag rugby players. Positioning, speed and defence were the main objectives this week.
• In PSHE, our topic has been about mental health and as this week is Mental Health week, we put all our learning together to create a ‘self-care plan’ for others to follow.
• In Music, boomwhackers have been our focus to create our own unique beats and we continued perfecting ‘Hot Cross Buns’ on the recorders.
• In French, we used a weather map of France to describe the weather in different places. Some of us made the sentences more complex by adding conjunctions and adjectives.
• In Science, we researched and presented our findings on a specific invertebrate group, e.g. arachnids, molluscs, etc.

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 (-sion / -ssion / -cian words)
  • Sumdog (-cian, -sion, -ssion wk 7)
  • We will be learning the -sion, -ssion spellings again, along with -cian words, which will be looked in detail from Monday:
    • politician, magician, electrician, optician, musician, technician, Egyptian, vision, session, decision, permission, compassion, expression, progression, impression

• Maths challenges:
  • Counting
    • This week we have counting in fraction steps of ½, ¼ and 1½ . Try to do the same out loud or with paper.
    • Draw a line and 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 halves:

2½, 3, 3½, 4, etc               

Start at 27 and count up 10 numbers and down again:

27, 27½, 28, 28½, etc          

Now try in ¼ with these numbers:

6, 6¼, 6 2/4, 6¾, 7, 7¼, etc

Finally keep trying to count forward and back in 1½ steps:

8, 9½, 11, 12½, 14, 15½, 17, etc   

• Sumdog (Times Tables x12)

• Sumdog (Rounding decimals and comparing to fractions)

Do not forget that next week, our last day is Thursday 21^st October.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Reception 15th October 2021

Date: 15th Oct 2021 @ 3:33pm

This week we have been learning all about our families. 

We have been drawing the family members that live in our house and looking at differnet types of houses and homes. Some of us had a go at constructing houses using the lego and duplo. 

We have been on our first trip to Longton library this week too, the children were all amazing and enjoyed listening to the stories that Tom read to us. 

In Understanding the World, we have been sorting toys that we used to play with as a baby to toys that we play with now. Thinking about the similiarities and differences we can spot. 

In Art, we have been looking at Kandinsky's artwork and trying to make our own circle patterns with pastels and cutting out coloured paper. 

We have nearly finished our first half term at St Oswald's! We would like to say a huge 'Well Done' to all of Reception, who have settled into school life really well.

Year 4 HOME PRACTICE Friday 15th October 2021

Date: 15th Oct 2021 @ 1:13pm

Year 4

Home Practice 15^th October 2021

An amazing week in Year 4 – lots of learning and lots of creativity! Well done to everyone who has been on Sumdog during the last week to practise their tables and spellings.  The more you practise, the more confident you will become.

In English, we started our new novel ‘The Firework-Makers Daughter’. We predicted the setting and what we thought would happen in the story by looking at the pictures on the front cover and reading the blurb carefully. In Maths, we have been counting in tenths and multiples of 4. We also used numberlines to help add and subtract 3 digit numbers which were multiples of 10 and consolidated our learning about sequences. In History, we finished our Celtic Roundhouse models and made a small hill fort near the stage. We are extremely proud of our models – please look at our pictures below! We now know days, numbers and months of the year, so we can write the date in French.  We have been practising these skills in our weekly French lessons. In PE, we used all our netball skills in a mini tournament – well done Year 4.

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 (21^st October 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 4’s and 0.1’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’ve got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.

Count in 4’s

For example, start at 0 and count to 48 and back again

0   4   8   12  etc                     48   44   40   etc

Start at 20 and count up to 68 and down again

20   24   28       etc              68   64   60    etc

Count in 0.1’s

Start at 2.4 and count to 3.6 and back again

2.4   2.5   2.6   etc           3.6   3.5   3.4     etc

Start at 9.7 and count to 11.2 and back again

9.7   9.8   9.9     etc                11.2   11.1   11.0       etc

Spellings

The spellings this week explore words which have the ‘i’ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of words. For example, the word ‘myth’ sounds like it should be spelt ‘mith’; the word ‘gym’ sounds as if it should be spelt ‘gim’. In each case, the ‘i’ sound is spelt with a ‘y’. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (21^st October 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’.

gym             myth            Egypt          pyramid       mystery

symbol         synonym       lyrics           system         gymnastics

hymn            typical         cylinder       physical       oxygen

Sumdog Challenges

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 4 times tables

Number bonds

This week, please practise your number bonds using Hit the Button.

Please complete

• Addition within 10
• Addition within 20

How many can you get right in a minute?

Can you improve your score?

Can you challenge yourself and have a go at ‘Addition within 100 (tens)’

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

PLEASE NOTE – As we break up next Thursday at 3.15pm, there will be no blog or Home Practice uploaded on Friday afternoon.  However, please read and practise your tables every day during half term.   

Year 5 - Friday 15th October 2021

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 4:12pm

 Welcome to this week’s Year 5 class blog

The children have had another fabulous week.  They are remaining keen, enthusiastic and eager to learn.  This week we have been investigating levers, creating mythical beasts and had a netball tournament. 

This week in year 5

We have been using protractors and investigating different angles this week, which is a tricky task.  The children have persevered and shown great skills. If you have protractors at home, allow your children to continue to practise using them and looking at angles smaller than a right angle (acute angles) and angles bigger than a right angle (obtuse angles).  They really enjoyed estimating angles and seeing how close they could get. There is a game called Alien Attack on the Topmarks Maths website that they can use at home.

In English we have been reading the Greek Myth of Perseus and the Gorgon.  They have been fascinated by the story.  They have created their own hero, setting and mythical beast that will be used to create their own Myth next week.

In History we focused on the Olympic Games and how the Ancient Greek Olympic games have influenced the Olympic Games we now hold.  The children made 'Fact Files' showing the similarities and differences between the two games.

In PSHE this week the children looked at stereotyping and how we should not judge people on what we see.  We will be examining this further next week and looking at challenging stereotypes and why this is important.

In RE the children have been exploring friendships and what it means to be a good friend.

In PE the children had a spirited netball tournament, where they were able to showcase all the great defending, passing and shooting skills they have been developing this half term.  They have shown real improvement in their technique.

In Science the children investigated levers and how levers can be used to magnify force and help us use little force but achieve greater force.  They used a range of levers including wheelbarrows, dog ball throwing aids, scissors and tin openers.

Don't forget to check in the gallery for photos.

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 (homophones and near homophones). We will look at these in more detail in school next week, they should be practised at home, ready for the test on Thursday.  Now that we are back into the swing of things they have more than 10 spellings.

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

past passed aisle isle allowed aloud affect effect witch which where were wear there their they’re

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

Maths the children have been set compare and order different angles

Spellings homophones and near homophones

Year 1 Friday Blog 15th October 2021

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 10:00am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

We have had another great week of learning. We are constantly amazed by the children's positive attitide towards everything they do!

We have been learning through the story of Percy the Park Keeper. We talked about how he helps his animals and takes care of the park. We did some writing and drawing about what jobs we might like to do when we are older. We have been practicing our letter formation and trying hard to learn to write some Tricky Words. We talk about how these words try to trick us! when, what, was, went, said, have, come, some, like, of.

In Phonics we have been looking at igh as in night and fight and ie as in tie and lie.

Next week our story is about a witch! Do you know her name? Don't forget to get your costume ready for Thursday!

In Maths we have been looking at how to make numbers from 20 to 29. We have used straws, Base 10, ten frames and cubes. We make groups of 10 and some 1s. We have been doing some great number challenges which really make us think and explain. We have been trying to write our numbers correctly and we are getting really good at checking. We have been counting in 1s, 10s and also 5s when someone suggested this as a way of working out a challenge!

All our collective worships this week have been about Mental Health Awareness. We read a book called The Huge Bag of Worries and talked about anything that might be worrying us. In R.E. we have been talking about our families.

We had French with Mrs Quilliam. In Music with Mrs Winter we got the instruments out! In P.E we have been jumping and rolling in the hall. We got the benches out and had a great time practising our skills!

Look at the Year 1 gallery to see our Golden Stars 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.

Practise counting in 1s. Take particular care when crossing the ten boundary, 29 to 30, 39 to 40 and so on. Ensure that your child is saying the numbers correctly too, twenTY not tweNY!

Start at different numbers, count forwards and backwards. Miss a number out, can your child tell you which number you have missed? How do they know?

We have also been counting in 10s to 100. Use 2 hands to show 10 fingers. Count forwards and backwards from different starting numbers. How many hands would you need for 30? How do you know?

Sumdog challenges

Phonics-ee and ea

Maths-Reading and writing numbers to 20.

Year 3 Friday 15th October 2021

Date: 13th Oct 2021 @ 9:12am

Year 3 Friday Blog

This week we have chosen our School Councillors, Digital Leaders and Eco Team. Henry and Eleanor will represent our class on the School Council, Zofia and Elliott will be our Digital leaders for this term and our Eco Team is made up of Tom, Daenerys and Joshua. Well done and thank you to everyone who showed an interest.

In our English we have continued reading Mr Stink and used the text to create some fantastic pieces of writing. We also explored techniques in poetry and wrote some amazing poems.

In our maths learning we have been learning geometry, length and measurement. We met some new vocabulary and had a good go at accurately drawing a range of shapes and measuring. 

millimetre    centimetre   metre     right angle     quadrilateral     height       width

In science, we excavated our bones and examined the fossils left behind. We discussed how they were formed and similarities and differences with real fossils.

On Friday we explored our grounds in our woodland learning. We created some leave prints and used natural materials to create our own contructions, making links to our Stone Age learning.

Home Practice

First of all we'd like to say a huge well done to everyone for all their practising last week. We are seeing huge improvements in both our spellings and times tables and increasing numbers on our Sumdog challenges. Continue to access your challenges and look out for rewards in your Sumdog bank.

We are also seeing great progress in all our reading groups. You are clearly reading lots at home. Keep it up!

Below we have added some question stems we use in school to promote reading comprehension.

Continue to access the challenges and competitions on Sumdog. Do a little everyday to build up number and spelling accuracy. 

The spelling pattern we are learning this week is the -el ending.

tunnel

squirrel

travel

towel

tinsel

hazel

vowel

angel

jewel

parallel

Your Sumdog spelling challenge will include words with both -le and -el endings. 

Our maths focus this week has been on shape and measure. You have two competitions this week. One on the x2 and x5 times tables and one on shape and measure. Over 70% of the class have practised on Sumdog for over an hour. Well done!

An hour a week = less than 10 minutes a day!

Play Hit the Button to improve speed and fluency in times tables and number facts.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 team

Year 4 Home Practice Friday 8th October 2021

Date: 8th Oct 2021 @ 4:22pm

Year 4

Home Practice 8^th October 2021

You have worked hard this week Year 4 and shown a brilliant attitude to your learning! Well done to everyone who has been on Sumdog during the last week to practise their tables and spellings.  The more you practise, the more confident you will become.

In English, we finished reading ‘How the Whale Became and Other Stories’.  We then wrote our own story in the same style and edited it with a partner. At present, we are trying to build up our stamina, and improve our sentence openers and vocabulary when we are writing.   In maths we have continued rounding to the nearest 10 and 100 – many of us found this tricky but we persevered, and all made great progress.  We also learnt mental strategies for adding and subtracting 1, 10, 100 and 1000. In History, we sketched and labelled a roundhouse and then started to make our own roundhouse out of clay and lolly sticks.  In PE we continued practising our bounce and chest passes and enjoyed playing mini games of netball.  In Science, we discovered how to classify different animals. We learnt that there are lots of different ways to group animals.

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 (14^th October 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 3’s and 100’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’ve got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.

Count in 3’s

For example, start at 0 and count to 36 and back again

0   3  6  9  etc                     36  33  30   etc

Start at 30 and count up to 48 and down again

30   33    36       etc              48   45   42    etc

Count in 100’s

Start at 234 and count to 1334 and back again

234   334   434    etc           1334   1234   1134  etc

Start at 3520 and count to 4720 and back again

3520    3620   3720   etc                4720    4620   4520    etc

Spellings

The spellings this week explore words which have an ‘aw’ sound which is spelt ‘a’. For example, the word ‘ball’ sounds as if it should be spelt ‘bawl’ using an ‘aw’ instead of an ‘a’. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (14^th October 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’.

ball              wall              bald             walk             chalk

stalk            small            called           fall              sleepwalking

tall              baseball       stall             talk             call

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A times table challenge based on the 2 and 3 times tables
• A maths challenge, rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

Year 6 blog and Home Practice Friday 8th October 2021

Date: 8th Oct 2021 @ 4:13pm

Well done to everyone for completing their Home Practice. We have had an amazing 100% changing their Home Reading books this week – let’s keep this up as reading is the key to all knowledge.

Once again, just to remind you, here are the days when you can change your book:

Monday – Roller Coasters

Tuesday – Big Dippers

Wednesday – The Waltzers

This week in Year 6:

• In Maths, we have practised the 9 times tables, rounding numbers to 10 000 and 100 000 and how to use the bridging addition strategy efficiently.
• In English, we continued our novel, ‘Clockwork’, and have worked hard to create a play script, a scene with dialogue (with the correct speech punctuation) and analysed suspense writing and written our own.
• In our topic of Mountains, in Geography, we researched some of the largest mountains in the world and created an informative poster for others to learn from.
• For RE, we have begun our new topic, ‘Vocation and Commitment’, with some excellent debates on what makes a vocation. We also created some questions to interview someone next week who is committed to their role.
• In PE, we continued our learning of the sport of tag rugby, focussing on teamwork through encouragement and feedback.
• In PSHE, we have been learning more about mental health and ways we can manage emotions: things that we can daily and the people we know who can help.
• In Music, we used recorders to learn how to play ‘Hot Cross Buns’ and we learnt a new Harvest song for the Harvest assembly.
• In French, we learnt how to say weather phrases and practiced our phonics.
• In Science, we learnt about the Linnaen system of classification of plants and animals, then attempted to use it to classify many different types. 

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.

• Spellings (-tion / -sion / -ssion / words)
  • We will be learning the -tion, -sion, -ssion spelling, which will look in detail at from Monday:
    • direction, collection, addition, action, rotation, creation, punctuation, subtraction, division, television, discussion, session, mission, percussion, profession 

• Sumdog challenges:
  • Times Tables x9
  • Adding and subtracting numbers mentally
  • Spellings (-tion / -sion / -ssion, words)
    • I suggest to first write these out on a piece of paper, then play the games. We will look at these spellings in more detail from Monday so the spelling of these words will be easier after we have investigated them.

Reception 8th October 2021

Date: 8th Oct 2021 @ 3:46pm

We have had a great week learning about Autumn in our investigation station. We have drawn pictures and had a go at writing the sounds we could hear. We listened to the story 'You and Me Little Bear' by Martin Waddell. 

In Maths, we have been on a number hunt around our outdoor area and made numbers to 5 in different ways. 

In RE, we have started our new topic 'Welcome' - we thought about how we greet people and make them feel welcome. We have continued investigating colour mixing in art using skittles this week and making our own class rainbow. 

Our woodland session this week was all about team games and listening skills. We also had a go at hitting the leaves with different objects to see what patterns they would make on our materials. 

Have a look at some of our amazing learning!

Year 2 Home Practice Friday 8th October 2021

Date: 8th Oct 2021 @ 3:38pm

Another fantastic week in Year 2, the children are really enjoying their learning and trying so hard to follow the Golden Rules. Some of the work that has been produced this week has been amazing and a few children have been doing extra writing at home! We enjoyed reading their stories and looking at their illustrations, a big well done. The story, Burglar Bill is very popular, the children have role-played parts of the story with burglar masks and their Wanted Posters were excellent. In Maths, we have used a lot of maths equipment to solve problems, and class discussion shows the children are gaining a deeper knowledge of place value. In RE, they wrote beautiful poems about all the things they wonder about God and the illustrations were lovely. It was good to go outside for Geography and look at the human and physical features around the school grounds. The children missed Forest School last week due to the bad weather, so it was great to have another session making wands from sticks and leaves, it is always Year 2’s favourite thing to do.

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 out on Tuesday. However, if you need to change a book, 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 ‘ai’ sound.

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

Spain

strain

spray

eight

weight

grey

prey

they

flame

flake

Miss Bennison’s Phonics Group

rain

spray

brain

day

train

Sunday

cake

bake

was

when

 Mrs Whitworth’s Phonics Group

 was

when

string

long

chin

rich

kick

back

buzz

puff

Maths

At home count to 100 forwards and backwards. The children always find counting backwards trickier! Stop on a number and ask your child, what is one more/greater than___? What is one less/fewer than ___? You could do the same for 10 more or 10 less.

You will have a times table challenge and a place value challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Friday.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Sumdog challenges:

Multiplication – x2 tables

Maths – Place value, partitioning numbers and one more/less than.

Spellings – ai, ay, ey, eigh, a-e

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

The Year 2 team.

Year 3 Friday 8th October 2021

Date: 8th Oct 2021 @ 1:14pm

Welcome to your Friday catch up.

We have had an amazing week in Year 3. We have seen everyone make a huge effort and on Friday the whole class got to GOLD! Mrs Wood even dropped by to award us a gold award. Well done Year 3!

We have started reading our new class novel in English. We are reading Mr Stink by David Walliams. We are really enjoying it so far and have been picking up some good vocabulary and writing techniques. We have loved creating our own character and writing our own story in the style of David Walliams. 

In our maths we have been using our number lines to add two 2-digit numbers and bridging through the next 10. It was a new strategy but everyone has enjoyed the challenge and made great progress!

All our counting practice has really helped the children with their maths learning this week.

Remember to practise counting often at home.

Counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s.

Counting forwards and backwards in 10s from any number.

We will add a counting challenge on Sumdog this week as well. Do as much as you can. Every little helps.

In PSHE we have been talking about how to be a good friend to everybody and also about persevering with our learning when things get tricky.

We learned that when things are tricky and we make mistakes, the neurons in our brain get stronger and make connections. We love a challenge.

We have finished our RE topic on Homes. We celebrated our learning by reflecting on the work we have done and thinking about our family and our homes. Some of the children did a fantastic job at planning this celebration. 

In our science we created our own fossils and talked about how fossils are formed over thousands of years. We had some fantastic questions. Super science Year 3!

We have loved seeing you bring in your books on Rocks and the Stone Age and showing such enthusiam for your learning. This week we were lucky enough to receive a library loan of books on our history and science topics. We can't wait to read them all! We are going to read these books during quiet reading time after lunch every day next week. We love our quiet reading time, everybody is loving their book and it is a nice relaxing time. 

Home Practice

Reading

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

Maths

Please practise the following skills for Maths – even if you already know them, you need to be quick. Hit The Button

• Number facts, click on Doubles – Doubles to 10.
• 5x table, click on Times tables – x5.

On Sumdog we have set 3 maths competitions this week.

Number Facts

Counting

Addition and Subtraction

There is no limit on the amount of questions. Do as many you can on each challenge.

Spellings

The spellings this week all have the /ul/ sound spelled –le at the end of words.

Words ending in ‘le’ are usually pronounced /ul/ following a consonant.

This is the most common spelling of this sound at the end of words.

table     apple     bottle     little     middle   

bubble     uncle     horrible     possible     impossible

You will be tested on your spellings and 5x times tables on Tuesday 12th October. Make sure you practise every night.

Our spelling and tables tests are a check on how well the children are learning their spellings. It is still important to keep practising every night, even after the tests on Tuesday. It is wonderful when we use the spellings we have been learning in our writing. 

Have a great weekend!

The Year 3 team.

Year 5 Friday 8th October 2021

Date: 7th Oct 2021 @ 5:57pm

 Welcome to the Year 5 class blog

What a week we have had!  The children have remained hard working and enthusiastic throughout the week, impressing me with their dedication.  They have carried out a water resistance experiment, written an exciting newspaper article and worked so hard on subtraction in Maths.

This week in year 5

We have looked closely at subtraction this week.  The children have used various methods including number lines, partitioning and column method to subtract whole numbers and numbers with up to 2 decimal places.  Their enthusiasm to complete different sums has been amazing.

In English the children have completed a newspaper report relating to the last chapter in Goth Girl.  They have identified the different feature of a newspaper report and then planned and completed their own.  We have had some snappy headlines and even some puns.

In History we have been researching Greek Myths and different Greek Gods and Goddesses.  The children have read different myths and read about different Gods and Goddesses and chosen their favourite to write about.  We will be looking at myths in more detail in English leading up to half term.

In DT we have finalised our Greek feast plans and look forward to preparing and eating it on the last week.  More details of our Greek day will follow.

In RE the children led a lovely Collective Worship to celebrate all we had learnt in the first topic and we have begun to explore our new topic ‘Life Choices’. The children were able to reflect on our first topic and really thought about the ways they could make a difference.

In PE the children continued to develop skills in netball.  They learnt techniques for effective shooting into the net and began to understand the importance of marking players on the opposite team in order to try and intercept the ball.  The children are really starting to show increasing control and looking for opportunities to outwit the other team.

In Science we had a great time learning about water resistance.  The children carried out an experiment with salted and unsalted water to see which would provide buoyancy for the greatest weight and they made tinfoil boats and tested which shape of boat created the least water resistance.  They were very sensible given the excitement of water in the classroom!

Don't forget to look our photos in the class gallery.

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 with ible, ibly, able and ably). We will look at these in more detail in school next week, they should be practised at home, ready for the test on Friday.

comfortable,  enjoyable, sensible, terrible, horribly, impossibly, reasonably, valuable, possibly, understandably

Counting - the children are really enjoying the counting challenges in class, why not set them challenges at home.  This week give them a number and ask them to count forwards by 9 or backwards by 9 for the next 6 numbers.  We have been practising this by adding 10 and then taking away 1 or if completing subtraction, subtracting 10 and adding 1 more.  Example 32, 41, 50, 59, 68, 77, 86 or 137, 128, 119, 110, 101, 92, 83. 

Sumdog challenges

Please ensure your child logs onto Sumdog and completes these challenges, all log ins and passwords have been sent home.  If lost send in a note and i can re-print them.

• Times tables have been set to reflect class targets

• Maths - the children have been set a number of addition and subtraction calculations using 4 digit numbers

• Spellings - able, ible, ably and ibly

The children have worked really hard this week and have been trying their best to be good friends to one another.