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Date: 29th Jun 2021 @ 6:55pm
Today it was our Year 1 Sports day. Everyone had a great time and took part in every race with a huge smile. Enjoy watching everyone giving it their all in our video below. Amazing effort everyone!
HOME PRACTICE Year 4 25th June 2021
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 4:29pm
Year 4
Home Practice 25th June 2021
Another busy week in Year 4! The whole school took part in World Music Day outside - it was great fun and we all played a musical instrument as we sang ‘Celebrate’. In addition, as a cross curricular activity, we made our own musical instruments. We planned and designed our instruments, played them and then evaluated them to consider what we were most proud of and what we would change if we were to make them again. This developed our design and technology learning as well as our Science learning about ‘sound’. On Wednesday, we had a ‘Mindfulness’ session during which we learnt some techniques for relaxing and breathing when we are feeling anxious, happy, excited or even angry. We also had a Zoom chat with an audiologist on Friday morning which was very interesting and helped us understand more about ‘sound’ and how we hear!
Please bring in a ‘string telephone’ next Thursday for our Science lesson. You were given an instruction sheet on Friday 25th June 2021.
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 (30th 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:
Spellings
The spellings this week all have the prefix ‘in’ or ‘ir’. 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. ‘In’ and ‘ir’ 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.
inaccurate incomplete inactive incorrect inconvenient
inexpensive inefficient inedible irregular irresponsible
irrelevant irreversible irresistible irrational irreplaceable
Sumdog Challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
- A maths challenge adding and subtracting
- A maths challenge multiplying and dividing mentally
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 25th June 2021
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 4:22pm
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 25th June 2021
Year 5 have worked extremely hard this week and proved what great learners they are. I was so impressed with how resilient and positive they were whilst doing their end of year tests, well done Year 5!! World Music Day was a success, the children sang and played the glocks really well and it was lovely to be out on the field with the rest of the school. On Tuesday, we enjoyed a mindfulness workshop with Miss Rebecca. The children were very mature when taking part in the meditation activity and designed and coloured some fabulous leaves. We painted the ocean-themed pottery and they look amazing, despite one or two pieces falling off! In Maths, the children have continued working on written methods of division. Mrs wilson has been helping Year 5 prepare for their First Holy Communion, everyone is looking forward to their special day tomorrow.
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across.
You may change your book any day.
Remember to complete one Reading Journal task each week.
Spelling
This week we are investigating words with hyphens. Please learn these spellings for Friday (02.07.21). If you don’t know what a word means ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary.
co-operate re-enter ex-convict re-form pre-war
co-ordinate re-elect re-cover re-bound sub-aquatic
co-own re-educate mid-Atlantic anti-aircraft semi-conscious
Sumdog Challenges
Maths - Identifying Multiples and Factors.
Have a lovely weekend Year 5. Miss Gravili
Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 25th June 2021
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 3:51pm
Welcome to our Year 6 blog. This week Year 6 have worked incredibly hard during the rehearsals for the Charlie and the Chocolate factory production with plenty of excellent acting. Roll on next week where we will be adding in the songs and creating dances – very exciting!
Our learning in Year 6 this week:
- In Maths, we have started to understand how algebra is used to represent number sequences and formulas.
- In English (and PSHE), we have continued to read/watch our novel Wonder and learnt more about the many characters in the story. We have discussed and written what it was like for Auggie on his first day at school.
- In PE, we have completed the Cross County competition, using the whole school grounds. Even though it was tough for many, everyone pushed themselves to complete it.
- In Music, we had a super time gathering together (socially distanced of course) on the field to celebrate World Music Day as a school. Check out the video which is on our St Oswald’s YouTube channel.
- In French, we have been recapping our learning over the term and practicing a French song for the Leavers’ assembly.
- For Science, we used the periscopes created at home to investigate how they work and drew a ray diagram to explain it.
- Also, Year 6 had a visit from Miss Rebecca who gave us a Mindfulness session to help us understand our feelings better and how to deal with them, especially when we think about our first day at high school. Don’t forget R.A.P = recognise, accept, process. Thank you Miss Rebecca!
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 – With only a few weeks left, please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day. Try to change your book 2 more times before we finish.
- Sumdog challenges:
- Mix of all times tables (200 correct answers needed):
- This will be great to continue to know these times tables fluently.
- Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
- Recap of spellings words – part 1
(rhythm, system, physical, symbol, mystery, overtake, overwhelmed, overseas, overcoat, overcrowded, cycling, justify, qualify, recycle, apply)
Year 2 Home Practice - 25th June 2021
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 3:41pm
PLEASE COULD ALL CHILDREN REMEMBER TO BRING PE KITS FOR MONDAY. WE WILL BE TAKING PART IN SPORTS DAY IN THE AFTERNOON.
Many thanks!
We have had a super week of learning in Year 2. We had a wonderful meditation session from Miss Rebecca where we relaxed our bodies and minds. Mrs Winter helped us put on a fabulous performance for World Music Day and we had a fantastic whole school celebration. Our video is in the class gallery, please take a look on our Year 2 page. We have had a great week in PE. We have practised our events for Sports Day on Monday and we took part in a cross country race around school. We all pushed ourselves and it was a brilliant effort from everyone. In Maths, we have learnt all about fractions. We now know how to find a half and quarter of a number. We also managed to study an artist called Georgia O'Keeffe. We loved the way she zoomed in on flowers and we managed to replicate her style using watercolour paint. What an amazing week from Year 2.
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 prefix un- and dis-.
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.
unhappy
unlucky
unseen
unusual
unwell
dislike
disagree
dishonest
distrust
disown
Sumdog Challenges
Multiplication – x2, x5 x10 and x 3 tables
Maths – Fractions
Spelling Quiz – Prefix dis- and un-
Please practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.
We hope you have a lovely weekend.
The Year 2 team
Year 3 Home Practice 25th June 2021
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 3:31pm
We have had a very busy week in Year 3.
We celebrated World Ocean Day on Tuesday by doing some painting of the sea and creatures that live in it.
We did our first ever cross country competition in PE, it was so fun to use the beautiful school grounds. Everybody tried so hard and had a really good go at running.
We have been practising our times tables in Maths, and also looking at right angles in shapes and roman numerals on clocks.
We are still loving our novel Toro Toro. On Friday we wrote poems about bullfighting, the poems are amazing!
Home Practice for 25th June – 2nd July
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 keep practising the 4x tables on Hit the Button. Play 3 games every night. See how much quicker you can get each night.
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge: 25th June – 2nd July
Year 3 Competition: 25th June – 2nd July
Spellings
This week, I would like you to keep practising the spellings from last week.
They 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 1st July. Make sure you practise every night. Your times tables test will be the 4 times tables.
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 12:45pm
We have had a busy week this week in Reception, starting with our performance for World Music Day. Then we had a mindfulness session, where we learnt different animal breathing techniques and created our own leaves.
We have written lists about different animals from our story, Hattie Peck and we have written about what animal we would be. From this we have started to investigate different bird feathers, sorting them by size and pattern. We have had some peacock feathers in class, so we sketched them too. We also got to decorate our own eggs!
In RE we have started our new topic of our wonderful world and we went for a walk around our school to see what we could, see. hear, smell and touch.
We have looked at the country France and we built our own Eiffel Towers and decorated our own flags.
We have also had another sports day practice, fingers crossed the weather is much better next week!
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Year 1 Home Practice Friday 25th June 2021
Date: 23rd Jun 2021 @ 2:27pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
We have missed everyone who has not been able to be in school this week but look forward to being back together next week.
This week we further explored the story of The Enormous Crocodile and we did some great writing. We have been taking great care with our handwriting so that our writing looks beautiful on the page. We have also recorded our own version of the story which we will post next week.
In Maths we have been using our number facts to solve challenges.
On Monday it was World Music Day. Everyone in the whole school went out on to the field to play their instruments and sing the celebration song. Watch the video by clicking on the link in our class page. The energy was amazing!
On Tuesday we had a Mindfulness Workshop with Miss Rebecca. We learned about different breathing techniques. Miss Rebecca was really impressed with our listening.
We have been shopping in French with Mrs Quilliam and playing instruments with Mrs Winter.
On Friday we dug up our potatoes and washed them to take home. We hope you enjoy your tea tonight!
Please keep reading every single day and keep having a go at the Sumdog challenges.
Next week we will have our Sports day and post the video to our website.
Have a lovely weekend
From the Year 1 Team
Date: 21st Jun 2021 @ 10:13pm
One of Roald Dahl's masterpieces, Year 1 are currently learning from The Enormous Crocodile. Find the story below and some video clips and read-a-longs.
Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 18th June 2021
Date: 18th Jun 2021 @ 4:43pm
Welcome to another Year 6 blog. This week Year 6 have continued doing a great job buddying for the infants, creating their own games which have worked really well. Also this week, we have all been excited to take part in auditions for the Charlie and the Chocolate factory production and have read through the script a few times.
Our learning in Year 6 this week:
- In Maths, we have been learning how to work out factors and prime numbers.
- In English (and PSHE), we have started a new novel, Wonder, which links to our transition programme for high school, where a young boy looking to fit in starts a new school.
- In PE, we have learnt more about the Sports Captain roles for each year’s Sports Day and had another practice to finalise groups.
- In Music, we are all ready for the World Music Day celebration as Year 6 will play the African drums at our festival.
- In French, we used an unfamiliar passage to work out what it meant. We held a conversation with a partner all about ourselves.
- For Science, we have started a short topic on ‘Light’ by proving that light travels in straight lines, explained what caused shadows and drew ray diagrams to show how we see objects.
- In Art, we were lucky enough to have Mr Hill, who is an experienced artist specialising in pottery. The children have created some amazing things which you can see on our Year 6 gallery page.
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:
- You have been given a template to create a periscope. Follow the instructions on the sheet to make one (with a cereal box) and bring it into school by Wednesday 23rd
- Reading – With only a few week left, please keep reading for a minimum of 30 minutes every day. Try to change your book 2 – 3 more times before we finish.
- Sumdog challenges:
- Mix of all times tables (100 correct answers needed):
- This will be great to continue to know these times tables fluently.
- Multiples and Factors (100 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 practise for next week.
- Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
- Spellings with pattern, ce
(alphabet, apostrophe, autobiography, dolphin, elephant, graph, nephew, phone, photograph, physical, sphere, telephone, triumphant, pharmacist, catastrophe)
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 18th June – 25th 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.
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge: 18th June – 25th June
Year 3 Competition: 18th June – 25th 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 24th 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 18th 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
Date: 18th Jun 2021 @ 8:53am
Year 4
Home Practice 18th 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 (23rd 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:
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 11th 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
Date: 11th Jun 2021 @ 3:55pm
Year 4
Home Practice 11th 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 (16th 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:
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!
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 11th June – 18th 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.
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge: 11th June – 18th June
Year 3 Competition: 11th June – 18th 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 17th 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.
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
