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Year 1 Home Practice 7th May 2021
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 12:42pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
We have really enjoyed reading all the Katie Morag stories. This week we read a story about a wedding on the Isle of Struay. We made some beautiful invitations. We have been carefully checking our writing and looking for ways to make it even better.
Next week we will be learning through the story of The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch.
In Maths we have been practising our 10 more and 10 less learning and looked at adding 1 and subtracting 1 to any 2 digit number. Everyone has really tried hard in their number lessons and never given up when our learning got tricky!
Mrs Quilliam showed us some flowers and we have explored them using magnifying glasses. We had a great time with Mrs Winter in our Music session this week playing our boomwhackers to some Red Riding Hood songs.
We had some special visitors in our Golden Assembly from The Players. We did some acting and some singing! Look out for a flyer and contact the office if your child wants to sign up. The sessions run on Fridays after school.
Home Learning
Continue to read every night. Your children are developing a love of reading and story and they are loving all the new texts we have added to our library.
Books will be changed on a Friday or a Monday. It is important to re-read the books we send home and ask lots of questions about what they remember from previous reads. Re-reading will improve comprehension as well as fluency.
We will extend the Sumdog maths challenges to give everyone a chance to complete them. If you have, look at the maths training and all new challenges will appear on the site.
This week we have been looking at the or, aw, au, al, or and ore sounds. Have a go at the spelling Challenge on Sumdog.
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 7th May
Date: 6th May 2021 @ 4:43pm
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 7th May 2021
Year 5 have had a busy four days this week. Well done for all your hard work and enthusiasm. In Maths, we have moved on to fractions, writing improper fractions as whole numbers and vice versa. We have also found fractions of amounts and looked at time intervals. In English, the children have learnt about autobiographies and biographies. They have thought about events in their own lives, ready to write an autobiography in chronological order and written some great wanted posters for a young Roald Dahl. In French, they carried out a survey, asking other children their opinions of various sports. It was wonderful to plant our wild flowers in the nature area. Fingers crossed they will grow and bloom.
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
Date: 30th Apr 2021 @ 4:43pm
Year 4
Home Practice 30th April 2021
Another super week in Year 4 with lots of learning, enthusiasm and laughs along the way!
In Maths we learnt more about hundredths, ordering and comparing numbers to 2 decimal places. We also practised our counting skills and mental addition. In English, we wrote a poem about what we are thankful for, based on a poem by Kelly Roper. In addition, we started our new novel Journey to Jo
Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 30th April 2021
Date: 30th Apr 2021 @ 4:02pm
Welcome to another Year 6 blog. This week we have welcomed back our Sports Clubs which include Football training on Tuesdays, Tennis on Wednesdays and Hockey on Thursdays. The new
Year 3 Home Practice 30th April 2021
Date: 30th Apr 2021 @ 3:39pm
We have had a wonderful week in Year 3.
We have been writing newspaper reports in English and in Maths we have been looking at different ways to add numbers together.
In PSHE we talked about keeping safe in our community and online, we discussed the importance of only speaking to people we know online and to tell a trusted adult if something worries us. We also thought about keeping healthy and looking after our teeth, we all agreed that it is important to brush our teeth in the morning and at night and to eat healthy food.
We had to dash inside in our PE lesson on Thursday due to the rain, but we loved playing bench ball and dodge ball and worked so well as a team.
Home Practice for 30th
Year 2 Home Practice - 30th April 2021
Date: 30th Apr 2021 @ 3:33pm
We have had another fantastic week in year 2. We have enjoyed the weather at the start of the week and we loved getting out on the field! At dinner time, we have really enjoyed taking part in sports with Mrs Cookson. This week in English, we have continued with our story, The Tin Forest by Helen Ward. In Maths, we have continued to consolidate previous learning and we looked at partitioning numbers in different ways. Today, in Science, we carried out a hydroponics experiment where we grew broad beans without using soil. We hope to investigate and find out how they grow in different environments. In French this week, we have been using phonics to spell colour words and we have also learnt how to say weather phrases. We have started a new topic in PSHE
Date: 30th Apr 2021 @ 12:48pm
This week we have been continuing our learning for
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 30th April 2021
Date: 29th Apr 2021 @ 4:48pm
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 30th April 2021
A great week Year 5, you have been working very hard in all subjects. In Maths, we have moved on to coordinates and translations. We have completed our novel Room 13 by Robert Swindells and will move on to our next novel, Boy by Roald Dahl. I know a lot of you are looking forward to that. During outdoor learning, it was lovely to be outside in the sunshine, blossom spotting and our wild flowers are growing very quickly now. In Science, the investigation on bottle flipping was a success and the results and recording were very interesting. The storyboards you designed in RE were great and explained what happened on the road to Emmaus. You also used a lot of quotes from the scripture reading. The after school clubs have been a success, it
Year 1 Home Practice 30th April 2021
Date: 28th Apr 2021 @ 2:21pm
Welcome to your Friday blog.
This week we have been finding out even more about Katie Morag. We wrote some instructions for her to help her to tidy her bedroom. We met her big boy cousins who got up to mischief!
In Maths we have been reading, writing and drawing numbers. We have been making numbers up to 100 with Numicon and looking at comparing and ordering 2 digit numbers. Super learning everyone!
We have been learning about the different continents and looking at an atlas. We heard lots of good questions and even renamed our tables.
In P.E. we continued with our Athletics skills with bean bag races - we were very competitive and showed great encouragement to eachother!
PE kits - We have been sending everyone home in their PE kits on Tuesdays so to get the full 2 hours of PE and not lose any learning time getting changed at the end of the day. However we would like everyone to have their kits in school everyday as we will be doing lots of sports in the Summer term.
Every day we run our daily mile, well done to Willow who was awarded the daily mile trophy in Golden Assembly this morning.
Home Learning
Read, read and read some more. Children who read regularly make huge progress in their fluency and understanding. Embedding good reading habits at this stage will create a love of reading and set your children up to succeed.
We will change the reading books on Tuesday. Please make sure all books have been read and diaries signed.
We have also set up some spelling and number challenges on Sumdog. Regular practise of spelling and number facts will prepare the children for any new learning they meet at school. Well done to everyone is including regular skills practise into their daily routines.
Spelling - Words beginning with consonant blends
Maths - Shape challenge and Number skills
Have a lovely long weekend and we will see you all next week.
Year 6 Home Practice - Friday 23rd April 2021
Date: 23rd Apr 2021 @ 3:51pm
Welcome back to our first blog of the summer term. It has been great to see everyone again and on a week with amazing weather too! Year 6 have come back well rested and have worked hard, earning them extra time on the field at Friday lunch time. This week we have enjoyed celebrating St George
Date: 23rd Apr 2021 @ 3:47pm
What a great first week back!
We have been doing the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and have done some fantastic writing and art work to go with this.
In maths we have made a garden shop and we are doing lots of work with money.
We are thinking about growing this half term and have planted sunflower seeds. Also, we have decided to do an experiment with a bean in a bag. We want to see what changes we notice each day. We are curious to see if a beanstalk will grow!
Here are some pictures from our week.
Year 2 Home Practice - 23rd April 2021
Date: 23rd Apr 2021 @ 3:32pm
The children returned to school this week with smiling faces and a great enthusiasm for learning. The weather has been fantastic and we have made it a priority to enjoy the outdoors whenever possible. This week we have been focusing on a new story in English called The Tin Forest by Helen Ward. This book has generated plenty of discussion and we have produced some wonderful pieces of work. We are all looking forward to continuing the story next week. In Maths we have continued to consolidate previous learning and looked at estimating where a number should be placed on a number line. In RE we have started our new topic, discussing how Jesus has risen and brings us new life. We wrote a diary about the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb. In Science we have started our new topic
Date: 23rd Apr 2021 @ 1:32pm
Year 4
Home Practice 23rd April 2021
A fabulous first week back - well done for working so hard Year 4. You all looked very smart in your summer uniforms too.
We have had a busy week in Year 4. We
Year 3 Home Practice 23rd April 2021
Date: 23rd Apr 2021 @ 12:21pm
We have had a lovely week in Year 3. We all came back ready to learn and looking even more grown up than before.
This week we have made the most of the sunshine with outdoor English lessons, playing on the field, 5 minutes of running every afternoon, PE, and planting seeds. In PE we have started to practise striking and fielding skills. This week we were playing throwing a catching games with a tennis ball. If you have a tennis ball or a small ball at home, it would be great to practise with somebody.
We celebrated Earth Day on Thursday with some geography and art work. We talked about how important it is to look after our earth every day so that future generations can enjoy it. We came up with some ideas including using less plastic, recycling, walking or cycling to school, using less electricity, and eating less meat.
Home Practice for 23rd April
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 23rd April 2021
Date: 22nd Apr 2021 @ 4:16pm
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 23rd April 2021
What a great start to the Summer Term Year 5! You all look very smart in your summer uniforms and have come back enthusiastic and ready to learn. It was lovely to be outside doing cricket and tennis in the sunshine during our PE lesson. I was impressed with your throwing, catching and racket/bat skills. In English, we are continuing our work on the novel, Room 13 by Robert Swindells and you wrote some creepy descriptions of what you think was inside room 13. The poems for Earth Day were also very good with fantastic vocabulary choices. In Maths, we worked on adding multiples of 10 to 6-digit numbers, partitioning 7-digit numbers and decimals. For Outdoor Learning, we planted some wild flower seeds which will look great on the school grounds when fully grown.
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.
I have introduced a
Online Safety - 21st April 2021
Date: 21st Apr 2021 @ 1:29pm
Using social media websites is among the most common activity of today's children and adolescents. Any website that allows social interaction is considered a social media site, including social networking sites such as Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter; gaming sites and virtual worlds such as Club Penguin, Second Life, and the Sims; video sites such as YouTube; and blogs. Such sites offer today's youth a portal for entertainment and communication and have grown exponentially in recent years. For this reason, it is important that parents become aware of the nature of social media sites, given that not all of them are healthy environments for children and adolescents. - From the American Academy of Pediatrics
Below you will find two guides. One for Snapchat and one for Sadfishing.
For more guides and explainer videos, join us at National Online Safety and explore the range of resources to keep updated with developments in social media and much more.
https://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primary-school-pr45eb
Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 4:47pm
Year 4
Home Practice 1st April 2021
Well done everyone for working so hard since we all came back to school on 8th March,
We have had a great week in Year 4, learning more about Holy Week and how we can be more like Jesus, as well as creating bright and colourful Easter cards for our families.
Have a wonderful Easter and relaxing half term! Enjoy the break and spending time with your families.
We look forward to seeing you all again on Monday 19th April in your summer uniform. Let’s hope that the weather is lovely and sunny so we can enjoy some learning outside in our wonderful grounds.
Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 3:52pm
A fabulous end to our spring term!
We have watched frogspawn all week for any changes, made our Easter cards, baskets and cakes.
Silly hair day was a hit too.
Have a great Easter break and here are some photos for you to look at.
From the Reception Team
Thursday 1st April Happy Easter
Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 3:30pm
Thursday 1st April 2021 Happy Easter
A great final week of the Spring Term Year 5. A huge well done to you all for working so hard and with such enthusiasm. We have been very busy doing our D.T project. The children have made some amazing Easter themed toys with cams mechanisms that move. We have also been outside enjoying the sun in PE, the children are getting really skilled at playing in attack and defensive positions. In RE, we have discussed and produced some thoughtful work on the Easter Triduum and Mrs Wood did a lovely session all about ‘The Stations of the Cross’. Have a lovely Easter Holiday with your family and friends.
I hope you get lots of chocolate Easter Eggs!!
Miss Gravili.
Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 3:30pm
What a wonderful 4 weeks we have had back together. It has been lovely to see our friends and make each other smile every day.
We have had a lovely week in Year 3. We have been thinking a lot about Jesus during Holy Week and how we can make ourselves better people.
The sunshine has been wonderful so we have been enjoying lots of time outside.
We are very proud of all of the hard work we put into our rainforest projects, they all look amazing!
Well done Year 3 for all of your hard work and thank you for being so kind and caring all of the time. Have a lovely Easter and a wonderful Half Term. You definitely deserve a rest J
HAPPY HALF TERM
Year 2 Home Practice - 1st April 2021
Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 3:27pm
What a brilliant final week of the spring term! We have celebrated Holy Week, enjoyed an Easter egg raffle and we have had plenty of fun in the sun. This term, the effort from the children has been incredible and they have worked very hard. There will be no work set on Sumdog over the next 2 weeks but keep reading every day.
We have been thrilled to welcome everyone back to school this half term and we have enjoyed every second of being back together.
We hope you have a relaxing and peaceful Easter holiday and we look forward to seeing you when we all return. Please return in your summer uniform J
Happy Easter!
From the Year 2 team
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