Friday 18th June 2021

Date: 18th Jun 2021 @ 3:43pm

This week we have had a special visitor with us. He has been showing us how to use clay. Our theme was the ocean and we all made our own clay tile with sea creatures. We are just waiting for it to dry, then we can paint it!

Year 3 Home Practice 18th June 2021

Date: 18th Jun 2021 @ 3:27pm

We have had such an amazing week in Year 3.

We loved starting our new book in English – Toro Toro. In Maths, we have been looking at money and tenths.

We have done some very exciting learning including making ocean animals out of clay, visiting the pond and taking inspiration for Art – just like Gaudi did, locating the host cities of Euro 2020 on a map of Europe, and we have also been practising for Sports Day.

Home Practice for 18^th June – 25^th June

The key to completing your home practice is to do a little bit every night.

Reading

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

Times Tables

Please practise the 4x tables on Hit the Button. Play 3 games every night. See how much quicker you can get each night.

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

Sumdog

Times Tables Challenge: 18^th June – 25^th June

Year 3 Competition: 18^th June – 25^th June

Spellings

Your spellings this week all have the prefix dis-. This is used to find the opposite of words and means does not, e.g. disobey means does not obey.

disappoint

disagree

disobey

disable

dislike

disappear

disadvantage

disapprove

dishonest

disallow

Say the words out loud, find the meaning of the words, write them out in different coloured chunks that you will remember, and write them out each night.

Tests

You will be tested on your spellings and times tables on Thursday 24^th June. Make sure you practise every night. Your times tables test will be the 4 times tables.

Year 2 Home Practice - 18th June 2021

Date: 18th Jun 2021 @ 1:07pm

We have had another fantastic week of sunshine and fun. We managed to visit our pond this week to look at the wonderful wildlife around our school. Mr Hill came in and did a pottery workshop with Year 2 and the whole school. We made some brilliant ocean and beach habitats. Please take a look at the pictures in the gallery section on the Year 2 page. We have continued working with Year 6, who are helping us to learn lots of new skills. We are having great fun! This week in English we continued our story, Esio Trot. We have looked at Mr Hoppy’s peculiar plan and we have improved our dictionary skills, we even manged to create a backwards animal chant. In Maths, we have consolidated previous learning and we have focused on division. We have practised using sharing and grouping strategies to help us answer a range of word problems. We are looking forward to doing lots of mapping work over the next few weeks as we find out about the countries in the Euros 2020. COME ON ENGLAND!

Reading

In Year 2 we aim to read for a minimum of 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an older sibling or adult to help deepen your knowledge.

Reading books are changed every Monday so please remember to bring in your book bag.

Here is a useful link for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS

Spelling

Next week’s spellings are all about contractions.

A spelling list will be sent out on a Monday with book bags and the spelling list will be available to practise on Sumdog. Please practise these spellings ready for your quiz on Friday.

can’t

didn’t

hasn’t

couldn’t

wouldn’t

shouldn’t

wasn’t

isn’t

doesn’t

aren’t  

Sumdog Challenges

Multiplication – x2, x5 x10 and x 3 tables

Maths – Division and Multiplication

Spelling Quiz – Contractions

Please practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.

We hope you have a fantastic weekend. IT'S COMING HOME!

The Year 2 team

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 18th June 2021

Date: 18th Jun 2021 @ 12:29pm

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 18^th June 2021

A great week year 5, the highlight was the Clay Workshop with Mr Hill. The ocean-themed clay scenes were amazing! You learned so many interesting clay techniques and skills. We also visited Fr Michael in Church to practise for your First Holy Communion, which you did respectfully and thoughtfully. I’m sure you are really looking forward to your special day. In Maths, we worked on written methods of division and we started our new topic in English, which is persuasive writing.

Reading

Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening.

Remember to complete your ‘Reading Journal’ task. At the front of the journal there are activities for you to do using your current book or one you have just finished. Choose an activity, complete it in your journal (best presentation and handwriting!) and colour/highlight the square to show you have done it. Complete one activity per week.

Maths

This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on multiplying and dividing mentally. We will have a division facts test on Monday (21.6.21).

Spelling

There will be no Sumdog spelling challenge this week, so please spend extra time learning the spellings below.

Please learn these spellings for Friday (25.6.21): If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult.

We are investigating the most misspelt words.

acceptance       humorous           coarse           resistant            significance                        

persistent       colleague             bizarre           irresistible        intelligence            

curiosity          basically             noticeable        obligatory        foreseeable       

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG)

This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on relative pronouns and adverbs. Although we have not spent time on them this week, we have done this in Year 5. I’m sure you will remember!

Have a lovely weekend Year 5.

Miss Gravili

HOME PRACTICE 18th June 2021

Date: 18th Jun 2021 @ 8:53am

Year 4

Home Practice 18^th June 2021

Well done for working so hard this week Year 4!  In Maths, we revised mental strategies and formal written methods for addition, subtraction and multiplication!  In English, we used dictionaries to find out the meaning of new words and then used them in sentences to show our understanding.  We also used evidence from the text to sketch and label a picture of the playground and who was doing what in it! To extend our knowledge of Europe, we have been keeping a wall chart of results from the Euro 2020 matches and located the 11 host cities on a map.  On Thursday afternoon we learnt about modelling with clay and made some amazing sea sculptures – please have a look in our gallery!

Remember to bring something in to make your musical instrument on Monday – please DO NOT make it at home as we will be doing this in school.  

Keep up the good work Year 4 and thank you for a lovely week!

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 Wednesday (23^rd June 2021).  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?  

You can also practise your tables playing ‘Hit the button’.  Select the times tables or division button and then the table that you want to practise.  This is an excellent way to practise your tables.  Either type in ‘hit the button’ (the game is on Top Marks) or use the link below:

Hit the Button  

Spellings

The spellings this week all have the prefix ‘il’ or ‘im’.  A prefix is a group of letters that are added to the beginning of a word, and change the meaning or make a new word.  ‘Il’ and ‘im’ both mean not.  Therefore, when they are added to the beginning of a word, they form words with the opposite meaning.  For example illegal means not legal and impatient means not patient.  The spellings are on Sumdog this week.

illegal           illegible                 illiterate      illogical        illegally

improper      imperfect              improbable   impatient     immature

immobile      immortal                impractical   impossible    implausible

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A maths challenge finding fractions of amounts (unit and non-unit)
• A maths times table challenge (based on all the times tables)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

Year 1 Home Practice Friday 18th June

Date: 16th Jun 2021 @ 12:45pm

Welcome to your Friday blog. We have had another fabulous week of learning.

We continued with The Enormous Crocodile. We found out about his secret plans and clever tricks. 

In Maths we have been learning about telling the time and what happens at different times of the day. 

On Tuesday we had a clay workshop. We all learned about different techniques to make an under the sea piece of art.

As part of our outdoor learning we went to the pond on a Minibeast hunt. We looked really carefully and saw many creatures which we drew.

In R.E. we finished off our learning about "Being Sorry". We made a speech bubble with 'thank you' on one side and 'sorry' on the other. We put this under our pillow so at bedtime we can thing about what we can say thank you for and what we may be sorry about.

We have been learning about the countries taking part in the Euros. We have been using an atlas to find information.

We made some signs in French for our Sports Day!

We enjoyed going to the Father's Day pop-up shop and making a special card!

Have a lovely weekend. Keep reading and doing your Sumdog challenges!

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 11th June 2021

Date: 11th Jun 2021 @ 4:53pm

Welcome to our first blog after the May half term. Year 6 have had a great time buddying with the infants at lunch times and coaching the Year 2’s with various games. Every single Year 6 has received a glowing report from the lunch time staff.

Reminders:

• Each child has come home with information about Borwick Hall. Please return the reply slip, the medical form and the photo consent form by Monday 14th June.

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In Maths, we have been recapping our knowledge of fractions, decimals and percentages and how they can relate to each other as equivalences.
• In English, our story of The Lost Magician has our main characters on different quests, where we discussed each character's dilemma and what they would do.
• In PE, we have completed our first practice of Year 6 Sports Day and learnt how to support the other classes when the Year 6’s become the ‘Sports Captains’ for each year group.
• In Music, we have now practiced every song for the production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and have also started learning new songs for our World Music Day, with African drums.
• In French, we have been practicing a new song for our Leavers Assembly.
• For Science (and PSHE), we continued our discussion of the effects and risks involved in taking legal (eg caffeine) and illegal drugs using guidance from the PSHE Association. Once again, we stressed the importance of talking to a trusted adult about any questions or worries the children have.
• In Computing, we have used the app, ‘Clips’, on the iPads where we created an video between an interviewer and an evacuee.
• Finally in History, we learnt about real life accounts from young evacuees and what happened to them. We then wrote a letter as an evacuee to our parents and published them on the new laptops.

Well done to everyone who is continually changing their book every week. Reading is the single most important thing we should do every day.

These are the days when you can change your reading book:

Monday – Dodgems

Tuesday – Roller Coasters

Wednesday – Big Dippers / The Waltzers

These are the tasks to be completed:

• Reading – Please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day.

Please complete the ‘Reading Challenges’ you have been given by answering them in your Reading Journals.

• Sumdog challenges:

• Mix of all times tables (100 correct answers needed):
  • This will be great to continue to know these times tables fluently.

• Fractions to Mixed numbers and reverse (100 correct answers needed for this week):
  • Use your times tables knowledge to convert fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa.

• Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
  • Spellings with the pattern, ce

(absence, advice, arrogance, balance, ceiling, cemetery, confidence, December, difference, influence, nuisance, produce, received, resemblance, sacrifice)

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 11th June 2021

Date: 11th Jun 2021 @ 3:58pm

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 11^th June 2021

A very busy week for Year 5, and we really enjoyed being outside in the lovely sunshine for outdoor learning (pond visit) and PE (Sports Day Practice).  We finished our novel, Boy by Roald Dahl and learnt about the old game he used to play called ‘Fives’. I think some of the children would like to learn how to play it! A big well done for working so hard on your spellings, it’s great to see such a massive improvement. In Maths, we worked on percentages, fractions and decimals. The posters in RE about, ‘Being one of God’s people’ were so thoughtful and interesting as were our modern-day Beatitudes. Well done everyone, keep up the excellent work.

Reading

Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening.

Remember to complete your ‘Reading Journal’ task. At the front of the journal there are activities for you to do using your current book or one you have just finished. Choose an activity, complete it in your journal (best presentation and handwriting!) and colour/highlight the square to show you have done it. Complete one activity per week.

Maths

This week’s challenges on Sumdog are based on percentages, fractions and decimals, and division facts. We will have a division facts test on Friday (18.6.21).

Spelling

There will be no Sumdog spelling challenge this week, so please spend extra time learning the spellings below.

Please learn these spellings for Friday (18.6.21): If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult.

We are investigating nouns and verbs.

interest     reason            transport          damage        charge                        

object        silence           challenge           function       balance           

scratch       surprise        influence            produce       broadcast       

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG)

This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on prepositions. Although we have not spent time on them this week, I’d like you to have a go. I know you will be able to do it!

Have a lovely weekend Year 5 and enjoy the nice weather, see you on Monday.

Miss Gravili

HOME PRACTICE 11th June 2021

Date: 11th Jun 2021 @ 3:55pm

Year 4

Home Practice 11^th June 2021

A fantastic week back after half term – and hasn’t the weather been wonderful too!  In Maths, we learnt more about fractions. We found fractions of amounts and started to find out more about equivalent fractions using different manipulatives, such as paper plates! In English, we started our new novel, Bill’s New Frock. We made predictions about the story and then wrote a diary account as if we were Bill. We enjoyed going on a nature trail to the pond and spotting the wildlife down there – we even saw a frog and some damsel flies.  We started our new History topic, Anglo-Saxons and found out more about where these invaders came from and why they settled in Britain.

Keep up the good work 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 Wednesday (16^th June 2021).  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?  

You can also practise your tables playing ‘Hit the button’.  Select the times tables or division button and then the table that you want to practise.  This is an excellent way to practise your tables.  Either type in ‘hit the button’ (the game is on Top Marks) or use the link below:

Hit the Button  

Spellings

This week we are learning how to use an apostrophe correctly when it shows possession, therefore there are no words to learn.  We have however learnt the rules for using apostrophes, depending on whether the noun is singular or plural.  A grammar challenge relating to apostrophes and plurals is on Sumdog to help you practise this rule.

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A grammar challenge based on plurals and apostrophes
• A maths competition based on tenths and hundredths
• A maths times table challenge (based on all the times tables)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

Friday 11th June

Date: 11th Jun 2021 @ 3:49pm

We have had a great week back in school and the sun has been shining!

Our story this week has been We're going on a Bear Hunt. We have sequenced the story, written sentences about the adventures and retold it to a song.

In maths we have been ordering random numbers to 20, careful counting and matching the amounts to the number.

We have been building homes for bears, been on a bear hunt finding a hidden sentence, done self portraits, started sports day races and in French we found France on a map and travelled there on different transports.

Year 2 Home Practice - 11th June 2021

Date: 11th Jun 2021 @ 12:58pm

We have had a lovely return to school. We have enjoyed the glorious weather, making sure to utilise play time on the field. Year 2 have had a great time working with Year 6 at lunch time. Year 6 have been coaching the children, showing them lots of enjoyable games. Thanks Year 6! This week in English we started a new story, Esio Trot. The children produced some great pieces of work and we can’t wait to find out what happens next week. In Maths, we have consolidated previous learning and we have focused on multiplication. We have practised using arrays and we understand that multiplication is the same as repeated addition. We are beginning our new topic in PE – Athletics. We practised some throwing skills and even managed to have a go at a few Sports Day events. We are all looking forward to an exciting final summer term!

We have set some new Sum Dog challenges. Please login in and have a go. You will receive dojos for going on and completing the work set.

Reading

In Year 2 we aim to read for a minimum of 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an older sibling or adult to help deepen your knowledge.

Reading books are changed every Monday so please remember to bring in your book bag.

Reading resources:

Here is a useful link for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS

Spelling

Next week’s spellings are all about the double the consonant and add -ing.

A spelling list will be sent out on a Monday with book bags and the spelling list will be available to practise on Sumdog. Please practise these spellings ready for your quiz on Friday.

chatting

clapping

swimming

winning

cutting

planning

dragging

flapping

nodding

putting

Sumdog Challenges

Multiplication – x2, x5 x10 and x 3 tables

Maths – Mutiplication.

Spelling Quiz – double the consonant add -ing

Please practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.

We hope you have a lovely brilliant weekend in the sunshine.

The Year 2 team

Year 1 Home Practice Friday 11th June 2021

Date: 11th Jun 2021 @ 12:32pm

Welcome to your Friday blog. Everyone came in on Monday full of smiles to start the final half term of learning in Year 1.

We started a new story, The Enormous Crocodile. We have read the first part of the story and will be continuing it next week. We have retold the story so far as a class by recording our voices. We have also written a letter to the crocodile asking him not to eat children! We have also been painting pictures from the story and we made our own enormous crocodile with a moving jaw.

In Maths we have been finding halves of shapes and amounts. We have used counters and other equipment to support our understanding.

In P.E. we had a go at some of the races we will be taking part in at our Sports Day on Tuesday 22nd June. We had great fun!

In R.E. we had another story about Zacchaeus the Tax Collector. We talked about making the right choices.

Please keep reading every night.

We have seen huge progress in all your reading. This is down to all your regular home reading throughout the year.

We have set a couple of challenges on Sumdog. Continue to have a go at these. We have seen a drop in participation lately with the good weather but 10 minutes a night will make a huge difference to maths and spelling fluency.

Maths - x2 and Halving Challenges

Spelling - 2 syllable words

Have a great weekend in the sun!

The Year 1 Team.

Year 3 Home Practice 11th June 2021

Date: 10th Jun 2021 @ 4:52pm

It has been a wonderful week back in school after Half Term. Everybody has come back ready to learn and work hard. 

We have been very excited to find out what our next class novel is – Toro Toro by Michael Morpurgo. This week we have been finding out about Spain, bullfighting and the Spanish Civil War in preparation for reading the book next week. We have been writing non-fiction reports with all of the information we have learnt.

In Maths we have been learning about tenths and we have been practising the 8 times tables.

We are looking forward to doing lots of map work over the next few weeks as we find out about the countries in the Euro 2020.

Home Practice for 11^th June – 18^th June

The key to completing your home practice is to do a little bit every night.

Reading

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

Times Tables

Please practise the 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8x tables on Hit the Button. Play 3 games every night. See how much quicker you can get each night.

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

Sumdog

Times Tables Challenge: 11^th June – 18^th June

Year 3 Competition: 11^th June – 18^th June

Spellings

Your spellings this week are plural words. Your spellings are words which end with a y in the singular form. When making the word plural, the y is replaced with an i and then es is added.

city – cities

ability – abilities

baby – babies

butterfly – butterflies

century – centuries

cherry – cherries

party – parties

enemy – enemies

fairy – fairies

library - libraries

Say the words out loud, find the meaning of the words, write them out in different coloured chunks that you will remember, and write them out each night.

Tests

You will be tested on your spellings and times tables on Thursday 17^th June. Make sure you practise every night. Your times tables test will be a mixture of 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8 times tables.

Online Safety - June 2021

Date: 9th Jun 2021 @ 2:25pm

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. Here is an interesting article on Internet Security professionals teach their children about internet safety.

How do I keep my children safe online? What the security experts tell their kids

Below we have attached two guides on how to set up your child's phone for privacy. We teach the children not to share their information when online, however social platforms and games will take data from users unknowingly.

"If its free, you're paying with your information."

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 2 Home Practice - 28th May 2021

Date: 28th May 2021 @ 4:17pm

What a brilliant summer term we have had so far. You all deserve a well-earned break. Let’s hope for some lovely weather. This week in English we have finished Georges Marvellous Medicine. We have created a newspaper report about the events on the farm and we have retold the story using images as prompts. In Maths, we focused on number patterns and statistics. We looked at questions like ‘How many more children like bananas than grapes?’. These questions can be tricky but we all did an excellent job. We have now finished our striking and fielding unit in PE and the children have had great fun playing a striking game on the yard. Teamwork was key and they did a great job catching and fielding. We had a lovely visit from Year 1 this week. They produced some amazing stories and read them out to their Year 2 buddies. Great listening and encouragement from everyone. We read a book in French about people who wear different hats for their jobs. Then we made a paper hat and decorated it in the style of a job of our choice. We then wore our hats and said a sentence about who we were in french eg Je suis un contructeur - I am a builder. We have also enjoyed taking part in Orienteering Week. The children had a map of the school and had to find a series of letters that spelt out a secret word. What a brilliant half term, full of learning, laughter and fun.

You all looked fantastic as teachers!

We hope you have a relaxing half term. Enjoy the sun and stay safe.

The Year 2 team

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 28th May 2021

Date: 28th May 2021 @ 4:01pm

This has been a great week for Year 6 as they have been biking every day, trying to complete their ‘Passport to Safer Cycling’ certificates for module 1, 2 and 3. They have learnt how to start and stop their bike, road positioning and signalling, turning left and right at junctions, emerging safely from junctions and traffic awareness. Everyone has worked really hard and should be proud of their progress (do not forget to look out for the pictures on our Year 6 gallery page).

Year 6 have completed the Cross Curricular Orienteering National Competition, where they had to navigate different maps and solve maths problems. They then became super sport leaders in organising, preparing and delivering it to Years 3, 4 and 5, which was highly praised by all the teachers. 

Also, the leavers’ hoodies arrived this Monday. Please check out all the pictures on the Year 6 gallery as they all look great on everyone.

As it is half term, I have just three tasks for you to complete:

• • Please keep this up for 30 minutes a day

• Sumdog – Times tables mixture
  • This activity is a mixture of many times tables with 200 correct answers as a target. This is to help you keep practising so you are ready for the fractions, decimals and percentages work we will cover in the first two weeks back.
• Bike ride – Use what you have learnt this week to go for a ride with someone you trust and remember to keep safe. I cannot wait to hear where you have been this half term.

We hope you have a great week off. Keep safe and be well rested for your last 6 weeks of primary school.

Happy half term!

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 28th May 2021

Date: 28th May 2021 @ 3:53pm

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 28^th May 2021

Year 5 looked great today in their teacher outfits, George looked like my double!!!

We have had a great half term with lots of learning. The children deserve a good rest and a huge well done for working so hard and so enthusiastically. Enjoy your Half Term Holiday and see you in June!

Reading

Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening.

Remember to complete your ‘Reading Journal’ task. At the front of the journal there are activities for you to do using your current book or one you have just finished. Choose an activity, complete it in your journal (best presentation and handwriting!) and colour/highlight the square to show you have done it. Complete one activity per week.

Maths

This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on division facts. We will have a division facts test on Friday (11.6.21).

Spelling

Please spend extra time learning the spellings below. I will re-test you on these after half term.

Year 5/6 Spelling List (documents below)

Have a lovely Half Term Holiday!

Miss Gravili

Friday 28th May 2021

Date: 28th May 2021 @ 3:35pm

What a fabulous week we have had!

We have been doing about the story sharing a shell and have been writing letters to the characters telling them how to be a good friend.

In maths we have done all about shape, we looked at the propertoes of 2d shapes, sorted them and made our own 3d shapes out of playdough.

We have also learnt about hermit crabs and went fact hunting around our classroom. After this made some beautiful under the sea rockpool art.

We have enjoyed some outdoor learning this week and went pond dipping and orienterring!

Year 3 Half Term Message - 28th May

Date: 28th May 2021 @ 3:28pm

We have had an amazing half term in Year 3. Everybody has worked their socks off, been great friends and had lots of fun!

Everything we have been practising throughout Year 3 at home and in school has really started to pay off now – our spellings, times tables, number facts, handwriting, it is all getting better and helping us to learn more.

Everybody looked fantastic dressed as teachers, I see some future teachers among you.

Enjoy your week off in the sunshine woohoo!

Thank you for being absolutely amazing children and for making myself and Ms Hodson smile and laugh every day. We absolutely love coming into school and seeing all of you.

After Half Term, don’t forget Ms Hodson will be called Mrs Dexter – her wedding is on Sunday 30^th May 

HAPPY HALF TERM YOU WONDERFUL PEOPLE!!!!!

HOME PRACTICE 28th May 2021

Date: 28th May 2021 @ 8:11am

Year 4

Home Practice 28^th May 2021

We’ve had a busy last week of this half term!  In maths, we learnt what fractions are and how to find fractions of amounts.  We also wrote the beginning of the next chapter of the novel, predicting what we thought would happen, and a book review.  In addition, we had our class photo taken, went orienteering, and managed to practise for sports day. 

Have a well deserved rest and fantastic half term Year 4. We are looking forward to seeing you all back on Monday 7^th June. 

Mrs Tipping and Mrs Whitworth

Year 1 Friday May 28th

Date: 25th May 2021 @ 12:53pm

Welcome to your last blog of this half term!

We had some new arrivals outside our classroom this week. A nest of chicks has been tweeting and listening to all our fantastic learning. So exciting!

We finished off our Lighthouse Keeper stories and read them to the Year 2 children. They were really impressed and listened very well.

Our new story this week was called Flotsam. It is an unusual book as it only has pictures so we had to look carefully to tell the story ourselves. We have been tryng really hard to form our letters correctly and to spell even more Tricky Words. 

In Maths we have been learning how to Multiply numbers and looked at how counting groups can help us. We have been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

Well done to Alfie G for his Sumdog award this week! 

In R.E. we listened to the story of Levi, the tax collector and talked about the choices he made.

Our P.E. skills are really improving and we enjoyed our outdoor lesson. We practised running in different directions with our honeybee game.

We used our map reading skills in our Orienteering learning. We found clues to make spell out the name of our school and nobody got lost! Great team-work!

Our Daily Mile Award goes to Eddie this week. Great effort.

We have all drawn our pictures for the PTFA tea towel. We can't wait to see the finish product!

Everyone looked brilliant today dressed up as teachers! Some very inventive costumes! 

Have a brilliant time next week whatever you are up to...hopefully the weather will be kind! We look forward to seeing you all on Monday 7th June.

HOME PRACTICE 21st May 2021

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 4:03pm

Year 4

Home Practice 21^st May 2021

Keep up the good work Year 4!

In maths this week, we have revisited mental strategies for subtraction and learnt the compact written method.  In English we wrote an informal letter to our friend Poleng and practised using inverted commas (speech marks).  Some children gave a lovely class worship to finish our RE topic about Pentecost and New Life. This was based on the life of St Paul.  In PE, we showed off our cricket skills by taking part in a mini tournament. Our new Science topic is Sound.  In order to investigate what makes sound, we carried out different activities – why not ask us what we did to see what we remember! In our French lesson, we drew an abstract face, Picasso style, then described it in French. We did very well!

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 Wednesday (26^th May 2021).  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?  

You can also practise your tables playing ‘Hit the button’.  Select the times tables or division button and then the table that you want to practise.  This is an excellent way to practise your tables.  Either type in ‘hit the button’ (the game is on Top Marks) or use the link below:

Hit the Button  

Some of you have asked if you can practise your times tables on the ‘Multiplication check’ program we used this week.  Unfortunately, you cannot use exactly the same program at home.  You can however play something very similar by clicking on the link below.  You will be given 6 seconds to answer the question and there will be a gap of 3 seconds between each question.

Multiplication tables check

Spellings

The spellings this week all have the suffix ‘tion’.  A suffix is a group of letters that are added to the end of the word, and which change the meaning or make a new word.  ‘Tion’ is usually used if the root word ends in ‘t’ (eg invent, invention) or ‘te’ (create, creation).  These words will be tested on Thursday (27^th May 2021).  We have discussed different strategies to learn spellings in class, or you can always use ‘Look say cover write check’.  The spellings are on Sumdog this week.

action          fraction       creation       election       evaluation

subtraction  invention      injection      illustration   demonstration

completion   hesitation    narration     section        digestion    

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A maths challenge based on mental addition and subtraction
• A maths times table challenge (based on the 9 and 11 times table)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 21st May 2021

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 3:55pm

This week Year 6 had their ‘bike checks’ before our ‘Bike Proficiency’ and ‘Bikeability’ training which is happening throughout next week. We worked through the Safer Cycling booklet and discussed different scenarios to keep ourselves safe when riding on the road. 

Reminders:

• Do not forget to bring in your bike and helmet every day next week (Monday 24^th May – Friday 28^th May)

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In PSHE, we worked on strategies to deal with worry and anxiety, especially when dealing with tests.
• In Maths, we have worked through a few reasoning questions and improved our test technique of how to solve them.
• In English, we have continued the story of The Lost Magician, with the four main characters heading off in separate ways to conquer their own quests. We then analysed the evil robot character, Jana, and wrote an excellent speech to the Army of the Unreads.
• In PE, we learnt more about the rules of Quick Cricket and Tag Rugby for future intra-competitions.
• In RE, we have begun our new topic, Healing, where we discussed the important work that carers do in children’s hospices and qualities needed to work in a hospice.
• In Music, we have learnt more songs for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory production, ‘Oompa Loompa’.
• In French, we learnt what various countries in Europe are famous for and wrote sentences in French to describe them. We looked at the national symbols of France and compared them with the UK eg Britannia v Marianne, our lion v the French cockerel.
• For Science, having learnt about medicines last week, we moved on to learn about the effects and risks involved in taking legal (eg caffeine) and illegal drugs. We stressed the importance of talking to a trusted adult about any questions or worries the children have.
• Finally in History, each group presented their posters or powerpoints about the evacuees of World War II.

Well done to everyone who is changing their book every week. Reading is the single most important thing we should do every day.

These are the days when you can change your reading book:

Monday – Dodgems

Tuesday – Roller Coasters

Wednesday – Big Dippers / The Waltzers

These are the tasks to be completed:

• Reading – Please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day.

Please complete the ‘Reading Challenges’ you have been given by answering them in your Reading Journals.

• Sumdog challenges:

• Times tables x8, x9, x11 (100 correct answers needed):
  • Keep learning these to know your times tables fluently.

• Adding, subtracting and finding common fractions (150 correct answers needed for this week):
  • Work through these carefully as some will be represented as various pictures. The adding and subtracting should be with the same denominator but it is very good practice for next week.

• Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
  • Spellings with –er, -or, -ar ending

(computer, superior, customer, soldier, shoulder, sailor, calendar, popular, particular, radiator, jeweller, professor, prisoner, inspector, accelerator)

Year 2 Home Practice - 21st May 2021

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 3:36pm

We have had a great week in Year 2. This week in English we continued our story, Georges Marvellous Medicine. We wrote some instructions for making our own marvellous concoction and we used alliteration and similes in our writing. We managed to get up to the chapter 7 - Grandma gets the medicine. The children are having a great time reading the story. In Maths, we have consolidated previous learning and we have tackled some tricky addition and subtraction questions. We answered these questions by drawing base 10 and exchanging. In French this week, we continued to practise the vocabulary for clothes with games, songs and stories. We tried to record our own version of a story with clothes in it! We are approaching the end of our striking and fielding unit in PE and we have really enjoyed practising our over arm throw and striking skills. We really enjoyed playing our strike out game on the field. In Re we have looked at what it takes to be one of God’s Saints. We generated some really thoughtful discussions as a class. A brilliant week Year 2, well done!

Well done to the 21 children who have had a go at the SumDog challenges this week. Those children will receive dojos for going on and completing the work set. There will be a prize for the child with the most individual dojo points this week.

Reading

In Year 2 we aim to read for a minimum of 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an older sibling or adult to help deepen your knowledge.

Reading books are changed every Monday so please remember to bring in your book bag.

Reading resources:

Here is a useful link for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS

Spelling

Next week’s spellings are all about the adding the suffix –ies to words ending in y.

A spelling list will be sent out on a Monday with book bags and the spelling list will be available to practise on Sumdog. Please practise these spellings ready for your quiz on Friday:

babies

flies

teddies

spies

parties

tries

ladies

lorries

families

cities

Sumdog Challenges

Multiplication – x2, x5 x10 and x 3 tables

Maths – adding numbers to a number line, more and less than symbols.

Spelling Quiz – add the suffix –es to words ending in y

Please practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.

We hope you have a brilliant weekend.

The Year 2 team

Friday 21st May 2021

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 12:57pm

This week we have been doing the story of the Hungry Caterpillar. We have written a diary about what he ate and made our own fruit kebabs, which we enjoyed for our snack.

In art, we made our own caterpillars with repeating patterns and had a look at making symmetrical butterflies by painting one side and folding it in half.

We have also been looking at sharing different amounts, playing bingo and making our own butterfly lifecycles.

We started our new topic in RE, which is all about friends. We have spoken about what makes a good friend, made friendship cards and friendship bracelets. 

Such a busy week! well done everyone!