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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!

Year 3 Home Practice 21st May 2021

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 12:55pm

We have had a very fun week in Year 3. We made beautiful pieces of ocean art after learning about the ocean and about how different creatures adapt to living in the deep sea. We also looked at the different oceans and seas in an atlas in Geography. We then squeezed in another Geography lesson; we couldn’t miss out on the Eurovision Song Contest. We had a lot of fun and laughter listening to the songs by some of the contestants, we rocked some of the dance moves (especially Iceland’s dance) and then we found out about the different countries by looking at maps.

In French we continued to practise reading and writing numbers and days and fruit vocabulary, ready to read The Hungry Caterpillar in French next week.

In Maths we have been focussing on multiplying a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number, we are getting very good at this. Knowing our times tables well helps a lot!

In English we have been focussing on splitting our writing into paragraphs and using good words to make our writing exciting.

Home Practice for 21^st May – 28^th May

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 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: 21^st May – 28^th May

Year 3 Competition: 21^st May – 28^th May

Spelling Challenge: 21^st May – 28^th May

Spellings

Your spellings this week are past tense verbs but they do not follow the same rules as the spellings from last week. They are irregular.

sent

heard

thought

did

went

caught

wrote

forgot

taught

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 27^th May. Make sure you practise every night.

Year 5 Home Practice 21st May 2021

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 11:14am

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 21^st May 2021

A great week Year 5, made even better with some lovely sunny days. In English, we have written letters about homesickness. Something that Boy (Roald Dahl) experienced at boarding school. The children used the text to say why he was homesick and how he could make it better. We have moved on to addition and subtraction in Maths, using near multiples of 10, 100 and 1000 to add and subtract mentally and did some tricky problem solving. In RE, we made a collage of all the things we learned about the Holy Spirit and transformation. There were some very creative/artistic pieces of work, well done Year 5.

Reading

Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book, look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find more information.

Y5 book changing day is Friday. Although, some children may change books at different times, so always bring your book bag into school every day. Remember to sign when you have finished a book, it makes it much easier to issue new books.

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 addition and subtraction problems/ division facts. We will have a division facts test on Friday.

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 (28.5.21): If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult.

We are investigating the Year 5/6 Spelling List.

accommodate     achieve              ancient           attached        awkward                        

accompany         aggressive         apparent         available        embarrass           

according           amateur            appreciate         average       exaggerate   

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Gravili

Year 1 Home Practice Friday 21st May

Date: 21st May 2021 @ 8:06am

Welcome to your Friday blog! 

This week we have been writing our own Lighthouse Keeper stories. We are going to read our stories to the children in Year 2 and Reception so we will have a real audience!

Some of our book titles are... The Lighthouse Keeper Lost his Glasses, The Lighthouse Keeper's New Cat, The Lighthouse Keeper Goes to Hospital!

In Maths we have been learning how to use our friends of 10 to solve tricky number problems and worked don explaining our working out. Super maths this week!

In between the showers, we got outside for P.E. and practised our Athletics skills. We are seeing some huge improvement from September so well done everybody.

On our round the world trip we stopped off in Nigeria exploring all the different places including cities, forests and desert. We also designed some African patterns in Art using repeating pattterns and contrasting colours.

In R.E .we had a quiet reflection to celebrate the end of our topic of Holidays and Holy Days. We used our fire-coloured streamers to represent the coming of the Holy Spirit. 

We started our new topic called Being Sorry and discussed making good choices,

In Science we started a new topic on materials by making a collection of objects and sorting them into groups and saying how we had sorted them. We began to discuss materials and their properties.

In French we continued to practise the vocabulary for clothes with games, songs and stories.

In Golden Assembly we celebated all our learners including our Daily Miler which this week was Ronnie!

Keep up all the reading at home, it all has an impact.

Keep an look out on Sumdog for new Spelling and Maths challenges. Well done to everyone who completed this week's learning.

Don't forget our fund raising Friday next week. Come to school dressed as a teacher!

Have a lovely weekend!

Reception 14th May 2021

Date: 17th May 2021 @ 3:46pm

We continued looking at Superworm this week. 

In literacy, we made our own plans to save superworm and wrote a letter to the minibeasts thanking them for helping. 

In Maths, we were practising our subtraction, using practical equipment. 

During our topic learning, we made nature pictures to celebrate mental health week and we made wormerys to explore what worms get up to underground. In RE, we did a postcard about our good news.

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 14th May

Date: 14th May 2021 @ 4:06pm

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 14^th May 2021

It was lovely to speak to all the parents this week and let them know how hard you have all been working. Keep up the good work Year 5! In Maths, we have been reading timetables, the 24 hour clock and working out time intervals. Also, recapping the properties of 3-D shapes and sorting/problem solving. The book, Boy is such a good read and we have learned so much about boarding schools and life back in the early 1900’s. The children did some lovely work about the fruits of the Holy Spirit and which one they would want to have and why. Their PowerPoints in science were great and really explained what Science is all about and the different types of Sciences like Biology, Physics etc.

Reading

Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book, look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find more information.

Y5 book changing day is Friday. Although, some children may change books at different times, so always bring your book bag into school every day. Remember to sign when you have finished a book, it makes it much easier to issue new books.

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 reading and interpreting tables/timetables and division facts. We will have a division facts test on Friday.

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 (21.5.21): If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult.

We are investigating the Year 5/6 Spelling List.

bargain         cemetery              community           conscious             correspond                 

bruise           committee             competition         controversy         criticise      

category       communicate          conscience          convenience         curiosity        

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Gravili

Year 2 Home Practice - 14th May 2021

Date: 14th May 2021 @ 3:54pm

Well done for all your hard work this week Year 2!

This week in English, we started our new story, Georges Marvellous Medicine. We have looked at George’s grizzly old grunion of a Grandma and we created some great character descriptions. We have also looked at poetry and rhyme. We attempted to create our own medicine poem. In Maths, we have looked at place value and placing numbers on different number lines. Our bean plants and cress are looking great and we have kept up with our diaries, carefully monitoring how they grow. In French this week, we started by trying to use our French phonics to spell numbers. We are getting better! Then we read the story Je m’habille et je te croque about a wolf who puts his clothes on before eating someone. We tried to learn the words for clothes by playing some games. During Mental Health Week we have made it a priority to get outside in the fresh air. We even managed to take part in some relaxing meditation sessions. This helped to focus our minds and let go of any worries we had.  

Well done to the 22 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 suffix ‘–es’.

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.

buses

kisses

horses

matches

churches

dishes

classes

glasses

boxes

foxes

Maths

This week we have looked at place value and putting numbers on a number line. The children have also been learning how to use information in tables to answer questions. The children continue to work hard to spot the key information to help us answer mathematical questions. In Maths we have had a big focus on talking through worded problems with our talk partner.

Please have a go at the challenges set on Sumdog.

Sumdog Challenges

Multiplication – x2, x5 x10 and x 3 tables

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

Spelling Quiz – suffix -es

Please practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.

We hope you have a relaxing weekend.

The Year 2 team

HOME PRACTICE 14th May 2021

Date: 14th May 2021 @ 3:42pm

Year 4

Home Practice 14^th May 2021

A busy week in Year 4! Well done for working hard.

We refined our compact method of addition and recapped and revised our 6, 9 and 7 times tables.  In English, we wrote our own Haiku’s and a character description of Grace, both of these were based on our class novel.  We completed our Science topic ‘Teeth and digestion’ by looking at and learning more about food chains.  We finished our Powerpoint quizzes about Italy and made sure that we included transitions, animations, and at least one hyperlink – we are so proud of what we achieved!

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 (19^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 ‘sion’.  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.  ‘Sion’ is usually used if the root word ends in ‘d’ (eg extend, extension) or ‘se’ (adverse, adversion).  These words will be tested on Thursday (20^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.

expansion     extension     tension        suspension   exclusion

explosion      collision        erosion        invasion        television

illusion         confusion     inclusion       intrusion      division       

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A multiplication tables check, similar to the check you completed in school this week
• A maths times table challenge (based on the 9 and 7 times table)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 14th May 2021

Date: 14th May 2021 @ 3:41pm

Welcome to the Year 6 blog. This week has been Mental Health Awareness Week where we discussed how to look after our mental health through: exercise, sleep, doing things they really enjoy, being kind to others and practicing gratitude. Also, we learnt about different medicines and how they can support our health and well-being.

We were lucky to have an online meeting with a hospital pharmacist who explained the job of a pharmacist and the training needed. She answered Y6’s questions about her job role and medicines in general. She was very impressed with the quality and range of the children’s questions. Well done Y6 and thank you to Rachel for her time.

Reminders:

• Do not forget to bring in your cycling booklet, ‘Passport to Safer Cycling’, which we would like to be completed and brought back into school by next Monday 17^th
• Do not forget that your bike and helmet need to be in school on Monday 17^th May for the bike check.

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

• In PSHE, we have chosen to focus on one thing that helps our mental health this week and learnt about ways to reduce worry and anxiety.
• In Maths, we have strengthened our knowledge of fractions: how to compare them, add and subtract proper, improper and mixed numbers.
• In English, we have connected the story of The Lost Magician to ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ and how they both relate very closely. We have also been improving our prediction skill using evidence from the text and how to use commas more effectively.
• In PE, we started to learn the correct rules for ‘Quick Cricket’ and ‘Tag Rugby’.
• In RE, we have completed the topic of Witness by working in teams to write all the things we do for ourselves, our school and the community as we act as witnesses of God.
• For our Art lesson, we continued our PSHE discussion of ways to reduce worries, one of which was to ‘settle our thoughts’. Then we were inspired by the artists Bruce Gray and Wassily Kandinsky for our art work for drawing, colouring and pattern making to help us settle.
• In Music, we have learnt how to increase and decrease our tempo using the Boomwhackers and glocks.
• In French, we conjugated and used the verb jouer – to play in sentences about playing sports or musical instruments. Then we learnt that if a sport involves a ball, the verb ‘jouer’ is used but if we don’t ‘play’ other sports, we do them so we need the verb ‘faire’.
• For Science, we have practised our data handling skills and drawn excellent graphs of the results of our crisp burning experiment last week. We used them to try and find a pattern between how much energy they produced when burnt and the nutritional information on the packet. There seemed to be a link with the fat content, but not in all cases so scientists would repeat the test to delve deeper into this.
• Finally in History, we researched and presented information about the evacuees of World War II.

Well done to 95% of you for changing your book this week. Remember that reading is STILL your number one priority 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 x7, x8, x9 (100 correct answers needed):
  • This will be great to continue to know these times tables fluently.

•      Multiply and divide numbers mentally using known facts (100 correct answers         needed):
  • Use your place value knowledge to quickly multiply and divide the numbers you see in the questions.
•      Spellings (45 correct answers needed):
  • Spellings with /acc/ pattern (part 3)

(accidentally, accept, acceptance, accessory, accident, accommodate, according, account, accessible, unacceptable, accuse, vaccinate, accelerate, accent, access)

Year 3 Home Practice 14th May

Date: 14th May 2021 @ 12:46pm

We have had a very messy and fun week in Year 3.

We have made our own Ancient Egyptian mummies out of clay and tissue paper, we have experimented with celery and food colouring to find out about the function of different plant parts, and we have made gums and teeth out of salt dough in our PSHE lesson all about keeping our teeth healthy. We have worked so well as a team in all of these lessons and have been very respectful of the classroom by tidying and cleaning up after ourselves.

In Maths we have been looking at subtracting big numbers by using a written method and have been practising dividing by 5.

In English we have been focussing on using exciting words to describe – we might spot some good words to describe when we are reading at home.

Home Practice for 14^th May – 21^st May

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

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

Sumdog

Times Tables Challenge: 14^th May – 21^st May

Year 3 Competition: 14^th May – 21^st May

Spelling Challenge: 14^th May – 21^st May

Spellings

Your spellings this week are past tense verbs. Pay attention to double letters, can you figure out why some have the last letter doubled before adding -ed, and others just have -ed added?

ask: asked,

answer: answered

talk: talked

jump: jumped

walk: walked

look: looked

allow: allowed

slip: slipped

skip: skipped

admit: admitted

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 20^th May. Make sure you practise every night.

Online Safety - 13th May 2021

Date: 13th May 2021 @ 9:28pm

This week is Mental Health Awareness week and a great opportunity to remind us to be kind to ourselves as well as others.

Below you will find two guides from National Online Safety on how to promote wellbeing both online and offline and how to be kind when using the internet.

Join us at our Online Safety Hub at National Online Safety and gain free access to a huge range of videos, resources and support.

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

Year 1 Home Practice 14th May 2021

Date: 12th May 2021 @ 2:20pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

This week we have met Mr Grinling the lighthouse keeper and his wife. They have a cat called Hamish. We have done some super writing about their adventures. We will  be finding out more about what they get up to next week.

In Maths we have been learning about addition and subtraction. We have also been checking that we are writing our numbers correctly.

Well done who completed their Sumdog challlenges this week. You have all received a bonus 200 coins. 

We have been finding out about South America in our Geography, visiting Rio and the Amazon Rainforest. We heard some fantastic questions and even looked at some photos of an explorer from Year 1!

 In Collective Worship we have been hearing about May being the month of Mary.

In Science, Mrs Quilliam showed us lots of different leaves and we learned some great new vocabulary. Serrated, deciduous and evergreen.

We have enjoyed catching up with you all this week with the phone calls and thank you for all your continued support.

Keep reading every day, this is the key to success. 

Spelling and Number practice has been uploaded to Sumdog. 

Have a lovely and relaxing weekend.

The Year 1 Team 

HOME PRACTICE 7th May 2021

Date: 7th May 2021 @ 4:24pm

Year 4

Home Practice 7th May 2021

Another wonderful week in Year 4!

In English, we explained what we would take on a long journey and why, and wrote a diary entry as a character from our novel Journey to Jo

Year 2 Home Practice - 7th May 2021

Date: 7th May 2021 @ 3:45pm

We have had another wonderful week in Year 2. We have loved being outdoors and staying active by completing the Daily Mile every day. This week in English, we have continued with our story The Tin Forest by Helen Ward. We have created some brilliant riddles for Mr Ingram to solve. In Maths, we have looked at statistics and we have answered questions about pictograms, bar charts and tallies. Today, in science we filled out our bean diary. They are just beginning to sprout! We have now planted some cress seeds and we will monitor them over the coming weeks. In French this week, we have been using phonics to spell numbers and we have also learnt how to say weather phrases. In RE we have continued to focus on the Pentecost. We have learnt how the Holy Spirit can help Christians. We have been learning how to make safe choices in PSHE. 

Well done to the 15 children who have had a go at the SumDog challenges this week. Those children will receive dojos for going on and completing the SumDog challenges. 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

Year 3 Home Practice 7th May

Date: 7th May 2021 @ 3:38pm

We have had an excellent week in Year 3. Everybody has worked hard and been a good friend. 

We have been looking at different methods to subtract and recapping on the 3x tables in Maths. In English we have been trying to include speech marks in our writing. We are getting very good at it. 

In French we have been using French phonics to spell numbers and to write sentences. 

We have been enjoying our new Science topic which is plants, we have been looking at different parts of a plant and their jobs. We have also been looking after our poppy seeds by making sure they are watered every day and are kept somewhere in the sunlight. 

In History, we looked at the different beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians. One of their beliefs was that after they died, they had an afterlife. This was why they spent so much time on mummification and building tombs. We learnt about the stages of mummification, we were disgusted by some of them

Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 7th May 2021

Date: 7th May 2021 @ 1:01pm

Welcome to the Year 6 blog. After a very wet Bank Holiday Monday, Year 6 have had a super week learning more songs for the production, burning crisps in Science and heading out into the nature area to take artistic pictures to sketch. 

We were also treated to a visit by Mrs Washington and Miss Hall from All Hallows