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Year 6 Blog - Friday 27th June
Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 8:22am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English, we have been inspired by the writing prompt: 'My Special Person'. We have written all about someone who is special to us, explained what makes them special to us and described their qualities. You can see our work on display on open morning!
Enterprise Project
This week we have made and decorated bird houses. We worked hard to create our products that will be on sale at the Summer Fair on Saturday!
Faith in Action
This week we had our fun day to celebrate achieving our pin badge for Faith in Action. We attended the celebration award ceremony and then had a fun day after. We all really enjoyed the inflatables!
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 3/07/25.
Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen.
Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Spellings - no spellings have been set this week
Homework -
Homework for this half term will be more topic based. Please complete one task from the topic homework sheet by next Thursday.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Kate
Super Learner - Ava M and Walter
Superstar Writer - Josh and Maizie
Bookworm - Max N
Marvellous Mathematician - Erin
Special Mentions - All Y6 for their Sports Day last Friday!
Eleanor - for encouraging others during the long distance race.
Have a super weekend Year 6!
Year 5 Friday blog 20th June 2025
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 3:39pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week.
led lead past passed stationary stationery steel steal whose who’s ascent assent cereal serial compliment complement bridle bridal
Counting
Count out loud in:
7s up to 105 and back again 0,7,14,21…
30s from 240 to 510 and back again 240, 270, 300, 330…
100s from 50100 backwards to 48700 50,100, 50,000, 49,900…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. There are several tests on them in the next few weeks.
Sumdog
Maths practise – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Please also continue to use the fluency booster on sumdog.
We have had another fantastic week of learning in Year 5.
In English this week, everyone has been trying very hard in their reading, spelling and grammar tests. We have now moved on to preparing a special piece of writing for a display in school.
In Maths, we have been revising place value, as well as completing arithmetic and reasoning tests.
In art, we painted our background colours for fashion clothing that we will be putting onto our figures.
Finally, Year 5 enjoyed their taster day at All Hallows – activities included dance, music on the computers, rounders and meditation.
A great week of learning where everyone gave 100% effort – well done!
Golden stars this week
Eddie – Star of the Week
Theo – Marvellous Mathematician
Zac O – Super Learner
Bella – Superstar Writer
Dominic – Bookworm
Eddie – Special Mention for being kind and helpful around school
Cian – for superb artwork for year 5 display board
Year 4 Blog Friday 20th June 2025
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 12:03pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
If you find any words you are unsure of, look them up in a dictionary and write them down in your reading diary. You can use them in your own writing then.
Spellings
These are your spellings for next week:
girls’ boys’ babies’ children’s people’s mens’
mice’s foxes’ rabbits’ parents’ dogs’ friends’
cats’ brothers’ sisters’ wolves’ books’ ladies’
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 8’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 96 and back again
0 8 16 etc 96 88 80 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
Please also practise your number facts.
You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
TTRockstars challenge
A ‘garage’ session
Sumdog challenges
A spelling challenge based on the words above
A tenths and hundredths challenge (to consolidate previous learning)
Our learning this week
English
In English, we started to plan a piece of writing about ‘someone special’.
We looked at an example, then planned and started to draft our own piece of writing.
Maths
In Maths, we have been busy completing end of year tests to demonstrate the brilliant progress we have made this year.
RE
In RE, we explored some artwork of Mary and expressed a point of view about it, listening carefully to the responses of others.
Following this, we created our own piece of work depicting Mary.
PSHE
In PSHE, we learnt how active listening can help us to relate to others.
Science
In Science, we learnt how sounds are made and associated this with something vibrating.
History
In History, we analysed and labelled the main type of Greek solider – hoplites.
In addition, we learnt about the Battle of Marathon and how a small Athenian army managed to overcome a larger Persian army!
Geography
In Geography, we created a poster in our books to explain why tourism is so popular in Greece and the Mediterranean.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Henry
Super Learner: Franco
Superstar Writer: Brooke
Bookworm: Henry
Marvellous Mathematician: Milo
Special Mentions: Edward, Alana, Willow and Amelia
The Year 4 team
Year 1 Blog - Friday 20th June 2025
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 8:37pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Please catch up on previous Sumdog challenges.
Counting - Practise the counting to 20 game with your family. Try and count backwards too!
Reading - We've had a drop in the number of children changing their reading books so please keep reading at home.
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We continued to read Paddington. We ordered the story using pictures and drawings and re-wrote the story neatly.
We also started to write about a special person in our life. We described them using adjectives and identified why they are special to us.
Phonics
Some of us have recapped the different oo spellings.
Some of us have been learning the five different ur spellings: ur in fur, ir in girl, er in feather, or in work and ear in heard.
Maths
We measured length, width and height using cubes and rulers.
R.E.
We learnt that there are Christians all over the world and that we should work together to make the world a better place.
PSHE
We talked about how sometimes reaching our goals might take a long time, but if we persevere we can achieve them. We wrote about a goal that might be hard to achieve and how we can ask for help getting there.
We also started to talk about different emotions.
Art
We used different materials to collage minibeasts.
PE
We continued to develop our overarm throwing skills. We threw to a partner and played noughts and crosses.
We also had a great tennis session. We worked brilliantly in our teams!
Computing
We learnt how to use two instructions inside the loop block to shorten our instructions.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Dean
Super Learner: Luca
Superstar Writer: Harry and Zac
Bookworm: Seb
Marvellous Mathematician: Arianna
Special Mentions: Faisal, Lilly-Mae and Izzy for their amazing tennis skills.
Year 2 Blog Friday 20th June 2025
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 4:59pm
Home Practice
Reading:
In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book.
This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!
Spelling:
Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (27.06.25):
January February March April May June July August September October
Sumdog:
Counting:
Follow the link below to play the 100 square couting/ordering game.
https://nrich.maths.org/problems/100-square-jigsaw
Times Tables:
We will quiz your knowledge of the division facts for 2 in order on Thursday (26.06.25).
English/Maths
This week, we have been doing reading, maths and SPaG quizzes.
The children were fantastic at working hard and doing their best, well done Y2.
R.E.
The children learnt about the fruits of the spirit and how we can show these in our everyday lives.
Science
We observed our flowers which are growing outside our classroom.
Geography
We had great fun decorating African masks.
P.E
In PE, a visiting coach from South Ribble Tennis Centre taught tennis skills and games.
Year 2 were amazing, they displayed great listening, balance, catching and hitting skills.
Art
During our lesson, the children created beautiful pastel pictures of nature for our class assembly - God's Wonderful World.
They also coloured and decorated the letters for our banner - live wisely, think deeply, love generously.
Parent Assembly
The children really were fabulous in their class assembly - God's Wonderful World.
They read clearly, sang beautifully, danced greacefully and their art work was fantastic.
Well done Year 2.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week- Henry Y.
Super Learner- Zack W.
Superstar Writer- Amelia L.
Bookworm- James
Mathematician- Henry P.
Special Mentions- All of Year 2 for their fabulous assembly.
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 4:06pm
Little Owls Week 3
Little Owls, you are amazing at coming into your new school each week!
This week we went on a little walk around our new school.
We went into some of the classes, met the kitchen ladies who will make our lunches and even went to see Mrs Wood and Mrs Rothwell in their offices.
We then went for a play on the tyre park and learnt some games like duck, duck, goose with the Year 5 helpers.
We read the story 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' and sang lots of different nursery ryhmes.
The children had tomatoes for snack today.
Reminders: If you have not returned your 'All About Me' poster please send it in next week, along with your permission slips for photos, the website and the pond.
We will be showing the posters to our friends and teachers next Wednesday (25th June 2025)
We can't wait to see everyone agian for week 4!
Reception Blog - Friday 20th June 2025
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 3:59pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
Mrs Robinson's group have been writing and reading words with the ur and ow sounds in them.
Mrs Dixon's group have been focussing on CCVC words.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club, we have been writing about a special person in our lives. We have also been checking our work and writing them up ready for a display.
Maths
We have been exploring sharing different amounts this week.
RE
We have been learning that being a Christian means belonging to part of a community of faith.
Expressive Art and Design
We have been looking at facts about Volcanoes and making our own!
Understanding the World
We went on our class trip to Blackpool Zoo and What a day we had!
All of the children were brilliant and showed how St Oswald’s behave.
We used our knowledge of maps to find our way round and talked about the habitats the animals lived in.
PE
We went to a tennis session with South Ribble Tennis Centre.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week – Louie
Super Learner – Roman
Superstar Writer – Eilish
Bookworm – Darragh
Mathematician – Stanley
Special Mentions - Isabelle for brilliant talking all about the trees.
Special Mentions - All of Reception for their fantastic behaviour at the Zoo!
Year 3 Friday Blog 20th June 2025
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 2:01pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
We’ve had another fantastic week of learning in Year 3!
Home Practice
Continue with your amazing reading at home and remember to change your school reading books regularly, we have lots of great books to choose from.
Your home spellings are all homophones and near homophones. Lots of regular practise will help with these.
On Sumdog we have set two maths challenges covering the learning well meet will meet next week. We have also set a fluency competition which will practise the key skills and number facts your child needs to work on.
This week in Year 3
In English, we’ve been writing a lovely piece about our special person for our Open Morning. Everyone shared such thoughtful ideas about what makes their special person so special to them. We’re really proud of the beautiful writing.
In Maths, we’ve been continuing our brilliant work on decimals. The children have shown great understanding and have been asking some super questions during our lessons. Keep it up, Year 3!
In History, we’ve been learning all about the invasions that Ancient Egypt endured during its long dynasty. We found out about the Hyksos and the Nubians, discovering how and why Egypt lost some of its lands – and how Ahmose I defeated these invaders to reunite the Ancient Kingdom. Fascinating stuff!
In Art, we’ve been designing our own moving pictures. Using planet Earth as our inspiration, we chose animals to match our fabric paintings and explored how we might animate them as part of our final project.
In RE, we have been learning all about Passover and the Seder plate. We watched some very interesting videos and had some thoughtful class discussions as we shared our reflections.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week - Lottie
Super Learner - Edward
Writer of the week - Jessica
Marvellous Mathematician - Oliver
Bookworm - Albert
Special Mentions - Emillie-May, Lewis, Francesca for their amazing playtimes.
Well done, Year 3 – a brilliant week of learning once again!
Year 6 Blog - Friday 20th June
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 7:43am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
Well done to all of Year 6 for their amazing Sport's Day this afternoon!
This week in Year 6
English
In English, we have been inspired by different videos this week to create narratives with suspense. We created a blend of action, dialogue and description based on the videos 'Francis' and 'Alma' and utilised our skills as writers to build tension into our narratives. We also wrote a leaflet to persuade someone to visit Longton!
RE
In RE, we have learned all about Sikhism. We researched and created some amazing leaflets to explain all about the values and symbols of Sikhism! We also compared a Catholic and Sikh charity to understand about the similarities and differences. This week, we also learned about what a world view is and thought about what factors impacted upon our own worldviews.
Topic
In Science, we have continued our topic on evolution. We learned all about peppered moths and how the species is a greate example for how natural selection may lead to evolution.
In History, we learned about how Britain reacted to the start of WW2. We listened to the radio broadcast from Neville Chamberlin announcing the start of the war and created our own propaganda poster based a real example.
In French, we have been learning the names of French snacks as part of our cafe topic.
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 25/06/25.
Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen.
Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Spelling -
Please learn these words ready for our test on Friday.
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adorable
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changeable |
reasonable |
reliably
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applicable
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noticeable |
moveable
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considerable |
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readable |
tolerably
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comfortable |
adorably |
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considerably |
dependable |
understandable |
applicably |
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tolerable |
enjoyable |
reliable |
comfortably |
Homework -
Homework for this half term will be more topic based. Please complete one task from the topic homework sheet by next Thursday.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Zofia
Super Learner - Isabella
Superstar Writer - Freya
Bookworm - Elliott
Marvellous Mathematician - Charlie
Special Mentions - Luke M - for always being helpful around the classroom.
Have a great weekend Year 6!
Year 5 Friday Blog 13th June 2025
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 3:59pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week.
doubt island lamb knight solemn thistle badge bomb ghost butcher knee answer comb Christmas honest knife sword crumb
Counting
Count out loud in:
6s up to 102 and back again 0,6,12,24…
40s from 240 to 880 and back again 240,280, 320…
90s from 3600 backwards to 2700 3600, 3510, 3420…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Most of the class are practising divisions of tables that are 10x/100x larger.
Sumdog
Maths practise – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Please also continue to use the fluency booster on sumdog.
We have had another fantastic week of learning in Year 5.
In English this week, everyone created a fact report about swallows as well as writing as Hero, our character from the novel, describing his migratory journey from England to Africa. Year 5 worked incredibly hard on this, showing off their writing skills.
In Maths we have been learning about the median, mode and range. Next week, we will be returning to place value and number topics.
In RE we have continued to explore the bible and its many books and discussed how different people can help us interpret the messages within them.
We also had a fantastic sports day - everyone gave it their all and tried hard. Thank you to everyone that came to watch and joined in the parent’s race!
The week has ended with a science experiment where we learned about reversible and irreversible changes to materials. A great week of learning Year 5 – well done!
Golden stars this week
Eliza W – star of the week
Xabier – marvellous mathematician
Ebba – super learner for listening and being golden
Leo W – superstar writer
Luiza – bookworm for her reading
Darcey – special mention for being kind and helpful
Year 3 Friday Blog 13th June 2025
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 3:57pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
This week in Year 3, we’ve been busy diving into lots of exciting learning!
Home Practice
Reading: Please read every night at home. Remember to change your school books regularly, we have an amazing selection to choose from!
Spellings: The first 20 Year 3/4 statutory words. Look for the tricky bits in these words. If you remember the tricky bits you will remember more spellings!
Maths: Challenges are set on Sumdog. They are on 2D Shape and all your times tables.
This week in Year 3
In English, we started our new novel The Deathwood Letters and wrote some brilliant character descriptions. Everyone worked hard to include interesting vocabulary and detail.
In Maths, we’ve been learning about decimals – a tricky topic, but the children have shown great focus and enthusiasm!
In RE, we began our new branch Discover and Encounter. We learned about the Jewish escape from Egypt in the Book of Exodus and enjoyed listening to some powerful music to help us reflect.
In History, we investigated the pyramids! We used evidence and different interpretations to explore theories on how they were built. Super historical thinking and discussion from everyone – well done!
In Art, we created our fabric landscapes and have started planning how to add detail to them next week using thread. These will become the backgrounds for our moving pictures in our next art topic. Exciting stuff ahead!
Star of the week - William
Super Learner - Emilia
Writer of the week - Marvin
Marvellous Mathematician - Rory
Bookworm - Annie
Special Mentions - Bella, Bobby and Drew for their fabulous fabric Art learning!
Have a lovely weekend!
The Year 3 Team
Reception Blog - Friday 13th June 2025
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 12:55pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Phonics
Mrs Robinson's group have been revisiting tricky words and using them in sentences.
Mrs Dixon's group have been learning CVCC words.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club, we have been watching clips of polar bears in their habitats.
We have written about what the animals were doing in their caves and how they hunted for their food.
Maths
We have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes this week, making pictures and statues from them.
RE
We have been listening to stories about Jesus’ friends; St Peter and St Paul.
We learnt about what St Peter and St Paul were good at and played follow the leader.
Expressive Art and Design
We have been listening to scientists talk about how they find out information about dinosaurs.
We saw them excavating a dinosaur site and finding the fossils. We then made our own dinosaur fossil pictures. See the photos here.
Understanding the World
We have been planning our trip to Blackpool Zoo using maps. We have been using the map to find different parts of the zoo, including trees, water, different animals and the toilets! See the pictures here.
We have also been finding facts out about different under the sea animals.
PE
We began our games unit. This week we have been working in teams to race against another.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week – Noah J
Super Learner – Lucas
Superstar Writer – Oscar
Bookworm – Hartley
Mathematician – Thomas and Ada G
Special Mentions – Rupert and Noah B – for making our classroom a happy place to be.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 13th June 2025
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 9:30am
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Measuring length
Phonics - High frequency words
Counting - Measure different items around your house however you can and count in either twos, fives or tens to find the answer.
Reading - We've had a drop in the number of children changing their reading books so please keep reading at home.
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We started to read our new book - Paddington! We wrote some super sentences about Paddington, wrote our own sentences for making a marmalade sandwich and then made our own sandwich following the instructions.
Phonics
All of us have been practising putting sound buttons on our words ready for our phonics screening.
Maths
We measured mass using the balance scales and measured height and length using cubes.
R.E.
We learnt two new words this week - parish and community. We thought about all of the different people that make up the Church parish and wrote questions for people like Father Michael and Mrs Wilson, who are a part of our parish.
Science
We used our senses to identify any signs of summer.
PSHE
We learnt how to set a goal that we can achieve as a class. We decided to set a goal of using lead-ins in our handwriting.
We also talked about how change can be tricky to overcome. We drew pictures of ways that we can make ourselves feel better if change gets too much for us.
Art
We sketched minibeasts and then used pastels to add detail and colour.
We also made Father's Day cards for our Dads.
PE
This week, we learnt how to throw overarm. We threw beanbags as far as we could and practised throwing into hoops.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Jesse
Super Learner: Rhodes
Superstar Writer: Hannah and Giovanna
Bookworm: Bobby
Marvellous Mathematician: Buzz
Special Mentions: Seb and Genevieve for always making good choices in challenge time and Freya and Arianna for amazing phonics with Mrs Sheen.
Year 2 Blog Friday 13th June 2025
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 8:37am
Home Practice
Reading:
In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book.
This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!
Spelling:
Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (20.06.25):
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Sumdog:
Counting:
Count in 2s, 5s and 10s forwards and backwards to 100. See how fast and accurate you can get.
Look at how they relate to the 2s, 5s and 10 times tables.
Times Tables:
We were busy doing our assembly rehearsals so did not do our quiz this week.
We will quiz your knowledge of the 2 times tables in a muddled order on Thursday (19.06.25)
English
During our lessons this week, we have been working on our comprehension skills and recapping things we learnt about in spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Our current topic is Place Value.
The children have been learning to partition numbers in different ways. We also learnt to use the greater than >, less than < and equals signs = in number sentences.
R.E.
We have spent a lot of time this week preparing for our assembly about God's wonderful world. The children have been writing prayers, designing posters, singing and dancing.
Next week we will be learning about the Fruits of the Holy Spirit.
P.E
We have been busy learning the dance moves for this years 'Dance from the Heart' celebration.
Year 2 have picked up the moves very quickly and bring so much energy to the dance.
Art
After drawing music inspired sketches last week, the children used these to paint larger pieces of abstract art. The results were fabulous!
We studied the artist - Wassily Kandinsky.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week- Florence
Super Learner- Charles
Superstar Writer- Harper
Bookworm- Eliza
Mathematician- Isaac
Special Mentions- Orlaigh for beautiful reading. Adam and George for beautiful art work.
Year 4 Blog Friday 13th June 2025
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 8:16am
Welcome to your weekly blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Have a careful look at sentence openers. Are there any that you recognise eg subordinating conjunctions, adverbs, prepositions etc.
Spellings
These are your spellings for next week:
girls’ boys’ babies’ children’s people’s mens’
mice’s foxes’ rabbits’ parents’ dogs’ friends’
cats’ brothers’ sisters’ wolves’ books’ ladies’
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 1/2’s
For example, start at 0 and count to 11 and back again
0 ½ 1 etc 11 10 ½ 10 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
Please also practise your number facts.
You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
TTRockstars challenge
‘Battle of the Bands’ Girls v Boys competition
Sumdog challenges
A spelling challenge based on the words above
An addition and subtraction with measures challenge
Our learning this week
English
In English, we started a new novel – Bill’s New Frock.
We began by looking carefully at the cover and making predictions about the story. We then read the blurb and considered whether this changed or added to our prediction.
In addition, we retold some of the first chapter as a diary entry trying to include lots of thoughts and feelings.
Maths
In Maths, we used a fraction wall to help us find equivalent fractions.
We also measured and drew lengths in m / cm and mm – this included numbers to 2 decimal places.
RE
In RE, we described what is meant by the ‘communion of saints’ and recognised that the Church teaches that Mary has a special place within the communion as Queen of Heaven.
PSHE
In PSHE, we learnt how to spot dangers and stay safe at home and when we are out and about.
We drew a comic strip about a character to give suggestions about how to stay safe.
Science
In Science, we constructed and interpreted a variety of food chains.
In addition, we observed what had happened to the eggs we placed in different liquids last week.
On the basis of the results, we discussed how these drinks would affect our teeth if we didn’t brush our teeth or look after them properly.
Computing
In Computing, we continued programming using code.org.
We built a game where the player controls a paddle and learns how events, such as pressing arrow keys, cause actions to happen – this was within the context of a basketball computer game.
History
In History, we continued comparing life in Sparta and Athens.
We then wrote a balanced argument to explain which city state we would rather live in based on our historical knowledge.
Art
In Art, we used our perseverance, determination and inventiveness to create a ‘nest’ out of different materials.
We worked hard to create a nest shape and then our instinct and intuition to create the sculpture.
Take a look at our pictures in our gallery.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Sam
Super Learner: Amelia
Superstar Writer: Alfie
Bookworm: Evangeline
Marvellous Mathematician: Bertie and Jack
Special Mentions: Joni and Josh M
The Year 4 team
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 12:51pm
Little Owls Week 2
WOW! Another fantastic week coming into Little Owls this week!
Everyone had a great time exploring the classroom again, and our outdoor area this week.
We read the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and sang lots of different nursery ryhmes.
![The Very Hungry Caterpillar [Board Book]: Eric Carle : Carle, Eric, Carle, Eric: Amazon.co.uk: Books](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81seu48cujS._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg)
The children had apple for snack today.
Reminders: If you have not returned your 'All About Me' poster please send it in next week, along with your permission slips for photos, the website and the pond.
We can't wait to see everyone for week 3!
Year 6 Blog - Friday 13th June
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 8:01am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
This week in Year 6
English
In English, we have been inspired by our evolution topic this week. We worked hard to research all about Charles Darwin and used the facts we found to create a biography all about his life and work. We also learned about Mary Anning and wrote a letter in role, explaining her thoughts and feelings when she found the ichthyosaur.
Maths
In Maths, we have started our new topic all about applied Maths. We have used our Maths skills that we have learned this year and applied them to different gameshow Maths!
RE
In RE, we have learned what the word dialogue means. We created storyboards based on a dialogue between two friends and thought about what they might say to each other.
Topic
In Science, we have continued our topic on evolution. We researched different animals and learned about their special adaptations that help them to survive in their habitats.
In History, we learned about how WW2 began. We thought about different causes and the effect that they had on the start of the war.
In Computing, we created spreadsheets and used formula to plan a party!
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 18/06/25.
Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen.
Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Spelling -
Please learn these words ready for our test on Friday.
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innocent
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frequent
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independence |
parent |
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innocence |
frequency |
obedience
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accomplishment |
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obedient |
confident |
transparent |
intelligent |
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decent |
confidence |
transparency |
existence |
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decency |
independent |
client
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consequence |
Homework -
Homework for this half term will be more topic based.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Amelia
Super Learner - Tom
Superstar Writer - Josh
Bookworm - Erin
Marvellous Mathematician - Phoebe
Special Mentions - Ava M, Pearl, Isabella, Freya - for raising money for Cancer Research.
Have a happy weekend Year 6!
Date: 6th Jun 2025 @ 4:20pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week.
existence explanation familiar leisure foreign forty frequently lightning government harass hindrance marvellous identity immediately individual mischievous interfere interrupt language muscle
Counting
Count out loud in:
4s up to 104 and back again 0,4,8,12…
40s from 240 to 880 and back again 240,280, 320…
25s from 2150 backwards to 1800 2150, 2125, 2100…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Most of the class are practising divisions of tables that are 10x/100x larger.
Sumdog
Maths practise based on statistics - individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Please also continue to use the fluency booster on sumdog.
We have had another fantastic week of learning in Year 5.
To start the week everyone wrote about their perfect day, using all the writing skills that they have learned over the year. We have been also enjoying our new novel ‘Dear Olly’ by Michael Morpurgo this week.
In Maths we have been learning about the volume of 3d shapes and making cuboids. We have now moved onto statistics and reading data in various table formats.
In RE we have explored the bible and how it is made up of many books and in various languages.
We have also been practising for sports day and we had great fun doing outdoor gymnastics too!
The week has ended with a special experience; a careers day. The children got to speak to various adults about their jobs including the police, a surgeon, a film maker, a physiotherapist and an estate agent to name a few! We also finished our 3D houses in art and created little videos of our work. A great week of learning Year 5 – well done!
Golden stars this week
Maisie – star of the week
Milana – marvellous mathematician
Edison – super learner for a great effort with his writing
Freddie – superstar writer
Eliza M – bookworm for her poetry reading, writing and performing
Willow – special mention for being kind and helpful
Reception Blog - Friday 6th June 2025
Date: 6th Jun 2025 @ 2:04pm
Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!
Welcome back to our last half term in Reception.
We have loved coming back to school this week and starting a our new topic - animals.
Phonics
Mrs Robinson's group have been revisiting the ar and or sounds.
Mrs Dixon's group have been revising our tricky words.
Drawing Club
In Drawing Club, we have been reading the story, Tiddler.
We have been designing our own fish to join Tiddler’s class and drawing him exploring the ocean.
Maths
We have been exploring money and different coins this week.
RE
We have been learning about looking after our wonderful world and everything in it.
As a class, we made pledges about how we would protect our world.
We wrote them on ribbon and attatched them to a tree in our school grounds.
If you see them, go and have a look! See the photos here.
Expressive Art and Design
We have been drawing self portraits this week.
Understanding the World
This week we have been discussing what maps are and how we can use them.
We made a map of our classroom.
We have also had a careers fair in school. We loved visiting the different adults and talking to them about their jobs. See the photos here.
PE
This week we took part in our whole school event of tough kidder, with every child completing the course! See the photos here.
We have also done some cosmic kids yoga.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week – Judah
Super Learner – Indie
Superstar Writer – Elsie, Thomas and Ariana
Bookworm – Stanley
Mathematician – Roman
Special Mentions - Evie E - for being spotted by Mrs Cookson for fantastic Football.
Year 3 Friday Blog 6th June 2025
Date: 6th Jun 2025 @ 11:21am
It’s been another busy and brilliant week in Year 3!
Home Learning
Reading – Please read every night for at least 15 minutes. Don’t forget to record it in your reading diary!
Maths – We’ve set two challenges on Sumdog this week. They focus on shape and fluency. The fluency challenge is table vs table. Good luck!
Spellings – This week’s spellings all have the ei and ey spelling patterns, making the /ai/ sound. Practise reading and spelling them at home:
vein, neighbour, sleigh, neigh, weigh, weight, neighbourhood, freight, eight, obey, bobsleigh, reign, beige
This week in Year 3
We have had a brilliant week in Year 3!
On Thursday, everyone was amazing at our Tough Kidder event – every single child completed the course with determination and big smiles. Thank you so much for all your sponsorship and support!
In English, we finished the beautiful book The Butterfly Lion. The children wrote some fantastic pieces, continuing to focus on making their ideas flow together smoothly. We were so proud of the creativity and thoughtfulness they put into their writing.
In Maths, we’ve been learning all about 2D shape. We’ve been spotting different angles and even drawing our own shapes accurately. Super shape learning all round!
In History, we delved deeper into Ancient Egypt and explored the fascinating process of mummification. We learned how the Ancient Egyptians prepared for the afterlife – and even renamed our tables to match jobs from Egyptian times!
In our myHappymind learning, we’ve started our Engage module. This part of the curriculum brings together everything we’ve learned so far and focuses on how we can use our knowledge and skills to engage with the world through goal setting. We’ve also been exploring the character strength of perseverance, closely linked to resilience. There’s been lots of thoughtful reflection as we look back over our learning journey.
On Friday, we had a fantastic Careers Fair! We met lots of people with interesting jobs, asked brilliant questions, and created some super presentations about what we’d like to be when we grow up. Check out our gallery.
Golden Assembly
Star of the week - Heidi
Super Learner - Albie
Writer of the week - Noah
Marvellous Mathematician - Violet
Bookworm - Daisy
Special Mentions -Alice and Violet for setting a fantastic example on our playground!
Have a lovely weekend and we’ll see you on Monday!
— The Year 3 Team
Year 2 Blog Friday 6th June 2025
Date: 5th Jun 2025 @ 6:50pm
Home Practice
Reading:
In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book.
This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!
Spelling:
Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (13.06.25):
beautiful colourful careful grateful useful hopeful powerful cheerful peaceful awful
Sumdog:
Counting:
Count in 2s, 5s and 10s forwards and backwards to 100. See how fast and accurate you can get.
Look at how they relate to the 2s, 5s and 10 times tables.
Times Tables:
Our next quiz will be on Thursday (12.06.25)
We will quiz your knowledge of the 2 times tables in a muddled order.
English
This week we started our new book, Stella and the Seagull. Year 2 drew and wrote about the main events of the story in order on a flow diagram.
They noted down interesting vocabulary about Stella and the Seagull and used these words in their own sentences and wrote a fantastic diary entry about Stella's day.
We finished our shape work this week.
The children have been completing arithmetic and reasoning end of term quizzes.
R.E.
We learnt about how the Holy Spirit helped different people in the Bible, including Jesus, Mary, the Disciples and Saul (Paul).
P.E
The children have been playing mini games of rounders. We have got some great throwers, catchers and batters in Year 2.
History
We learnt about the first wooden castles - The Motte and Bailey Castle. Can you remember which part is the motte and which part is the bailey?
Year 2 found out about active listening and the checklist we can use to see that we are really listening carefully.
It is so important for our learning and for good relationships too.
Forest School
We went in our log circle area. We built dens, did some mud cooking, made daisy chains and played games.
Tough Kidda
What a fantastic afternoon, full of fun, excitement, music and energy.
Year 2 were amazing!!
Careers Fair
We went into the hall and met people with different jobs. There were police, a surgeon, an estate agent, a film maker , a costume designer and a surveyor.
We tried on some uniforms and asked really good questions.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week- Noa
Super Learner- Harrison
Superstar Writer- James and Leo
Bookworm- Devyn
Mathematician- Amelia F.
Special Mentions- Zack W. Dylan and Rowan for challenging themselves in Forest School
George for being a really good friend.
Year 1 Blog - Friday 6th June 2025
Date: 5th Jun 2025 @ 3:40pm
Welcome to your Friday blog!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Maths - Ordering numbers to 20
Phonics - Sounds learnt this week
Counting - Play the counting to 20 game with your family, see who wins!
Reading - Please try to read remaining books over half term.
Please remember to bring book bags in each day.
English
We wrote amazing fact files about David Attenborough and Eugenie Clark, two people who work hard to ensure that the animals on our planet are looked after.
We also wrote pledges on orange ribbon, describing how we can help the Earth.
Phonics
All of us have been recapping the phase 3 and phase 5 sounds ready for our phonics screen.
Some of us have continued to learn the different ways to make an or sound. We learnt oar in roar, our in pour, augh in taught and ough in bought.
Maths
We continued to share objects into groups. This week, we shared between three, four and fives different groups and some of us even began writing division number sentences!
R.E.
We focused on reciting the words of The Sign of the Cross. We also drew our own cross to represent Jesus Christ.
Science
We recapped the differences between evergreen and desciduous trees before going outside to see if we could spot any of them. We used their leaves to distinguish between them.
History
We matched up facts about famous explorers.
PSHE
We learnt about how to engage our brains by being calm and showing good listening. We learnt how to set goals so that we feel good when we achieve them.
We also started to identify how our needs change as we grow up. We compared babies to toddlers, children and adults.
Art
We sketched different minibeasts in our sketchbooks.
PE
We continued to practise our underarm throwing using smaller objects like beanbags and tennis balls.
Tough Kidder
We had so much fun during Tough Kidder!
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Arthur
Super Learner: Seb
Superstar Writer: Jessie H
Bookworm: Harry
Marvellous Mathematician: Jaxon
Special Mentions: Bobby for being brave during Tough Kidder, Emma and Amelia for always concentrating on their morning work.
Please practise reading as many real and nonsense words as you can at home.
Past booklets can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/search/all?keywords=phonics+screening
Date: 5th Jun 2025 @ 12:55pm
Little Owls Week 1
WOW! We are amazed at how well every single one of you came into school this morning.
Everyone had a great time exploring the classroom and having a go at the different activities.
We read the story 'The Gruffalo' and sang lots of different nursery ryhmes.
The children had cucumber for snack today.
Reminders: If you have not returned your 'All About Me' poster please send it in next week, along with your permission slips for photos on the website and the pond.
We can't wait to see everyone again next week :)
Year 4 Blog Friday 6th June 2025
Date: 5th Jun 2025 @ 9:58am
Welcome to the first blog of this half term
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.
Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
See if you can spot any speech – look carefully at the punctuation used.
Spellings
These are your spellings for next week:
fruit grammar group guard guide heard
heart height history imagine increase important
interest island knowledge learn length library
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 12’s and back again
For example, start at 12 and count to 144 and back again
12 24 36 etc 144 132 120 etc
Now try counting in 1.2’s and back again
1.2 2.4 3.6 etc 14.4 13.2 12.0 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
You can practise a similar Multiplication Tables Check on timestables.co.uk
If you practise for 5 minutes every night, you will see a big improvement in your tables fluency.
Please also practise your number facts.
You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
TTRockstars challenge
‘Soundcheck’ sessions
Sumdog challenges
A spelling challenge based on the words above
A co-ordinates challenge
Our learning this week
English
In English, we read the story ‘Food Fight’. We then planned and wrote a perilous adventure about what Grape and Mushroom encountered on their way to the top of the fridge to ask The Big Cheese for advice.
Following this, we retold the story from The Big Cheese’s point of view!
Maths
In Maths, we consolidated our learning about coordinates.
We then extended this learning to translate points from one co-ordinate to another on a co-ordinate grid.
We also learnt what is meant by the term ‘area’ (the amount of space taken up by a 2D shape) and how to calculate it.
RE
In RE, we talked about why the Pope is described as ‘the servant of the servants of God’.
In order to do this, we needed to understand the role of the clergy within the church and how the church is structured.
PSHE
In PSHE, we learnt what makes a good friend, how friends can help us solve problems, and why it is important to show gratitude to friends.
Science
In Science, we recapped the different types of teeth and their functions.
We then looked at the structure of a tooth and discussed which parts can become damaged with plaque or tooth decay.
We also set up an investigation to find out how different liquids could affect our teeth, using boiled eggs!
Music
In Music, we sang in groups and put actions to our songs – we were able to input our own ideas.
We also practised pentatonic singing and listened and repeated songs as accurately as we could.
Have a look in our gallery at some pictures.
History
In History, we learnt about life in Sparta and Athens.
We compared these two city states and then decided where we would rather live, based on our historical knowledge.
Art
In art, we sketched 'fine' and 'rough' nests.
Have a look at the photos in our gallery.
Laudato Si Pledges
This week, we also shared Pope Francis’ letter - Laudato Si.
Each class, including Year 4, then wrote pledges about how we can work for the common good and look after our world.
Our pledges were then tied to trees in school.
Have a look at Year 4 hanging up their promises in our gallery.
Tough Kidder
On Thursday afternoon, we took part in Tough Kidder.
Wow – what a fabulous afternoon – please have a look at our pictures in the gallery!
Careers Fair
On Friday morning, we went to a careers fair in the school hall.
We met a variety of adults with different jobs and asked lots of questions!
There are some pictures in our gallery.
Golden Assembly
Star of the Week: Sidney
Super Learner: Willow
Superstar Writer: Tiffany
Bookworm: Mark
Marvellous Mathematician: Emma
Special Mentions: Ada-May, Trudy and Alana
The Year 4 team
Date: 5th Jun 2025 @ 7:54am
Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.
All of Year 6 have had a busy first week back in school. All of the children have been working hard at rehersals for our production. Year 6 have also helped to run the tough kidder this week. Well done for all your hard work Year 6!
This week in Year 6
English
In English we have been exploring the graphic novel 'The Arrival'. We have used our inference skills this week as there are no words in the text! We have written a narrative based on an image from the story, a diary entry in role as the protagonist and created a backstory for one of the characters who moved to the city.
RE
In RE, we have started our new topic 'Dialogue and Encounter'. We have learned what the common good is and created shields to represent the principles of Catholic Social Teaching.
Topic
In Science, we have started our new topic all about evolution! We have learned about adaptation in plants by researching different plants and finding out how they are adapted to their environment.
In History, we have continued our topic all about WW2. We have learned how Hitler rose to power.
In Computing, we have been investigating how to use spreadsheets and how to add a formula to a spreadsheet.
Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 11/06/25.
Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen.
Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Spelling -
Please learn these words ready for our test on Friday.
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observant
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observance |
expectant |
hesitant |
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hesitancy |
tolerant
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tolerance |
assistant |
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assistance
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substance |
reliance |
defiance
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reliant |
defiant
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sustenance
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vacancy |
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vacant |
infancy |
elegant |
elegance |
Homework -
Homework for this half term will be more topic based. Today, the children have brought home their homework choices for the half term. Each week, the children should choose one homework activity from the sheet and return this to school by Thursday. Each Friday, there will be time to share the children's work in class. The homework activities are also attached to the blog this week.
Golden Assembly
Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week!
Star of the Week - Maizie
Super Learner - Walter
Superstar Writer - Ava M
Bookworm - Zofia
Marvellous Mathematician - Isla
Special Mentions - Ishan and Issac - for helping to blow up the footballs.
Phoebe - for always listening and working hard!
All of Y6 - for helping at Tough Kidder!
Have a great weekend Year 6!
