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Year 1 Home Practice 25th September 2020

Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 4:38pm

Year 1 Home Practice                                                                           25th September 2020

 

This week we  have started our new story, Percy the Park Keeper, After the Storm. The children designed some animal homes, wrote some super sentences and even received a letter from Percy himself.

On Friday we participated in European sports Day, learning how to play Handball. We had an experiment in Science, looking at our hands and feet and in French we’ve been counting and learning new greetings.

For your home practice this week, we have set three Sumdog challenges in Reading, Spelling and Maths. Have a go and answer as many as you can. Practise of these skills is the key to making progress so keep up your fantastic efforts.

Read for 10 minutes every night. If you have read all your books, have a look at Oxford Owl on our class page (Home learning button). We will change the books on Fridays so please remember to send them in.

Keep a look out for new galleries on the Year 1 class page. All the children have settled in brilliantly and have shown great attitudes to all their learning this week.

 

Reminders

Please check that all items of clothing have names on them so we don’t misplace any items.

 

Thank you for your continued support,

The Year 1 team

Year 2 Home Practice - 25th September 2020

Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 4:25pm

We have had a fantastic week in Year 2. In English we have been basing all our writing around the novel Flat Stanley. In Maths we continue to focus on number and place value. In Geograpghy we have explored hot and cold countries as well as looking at specific climates. In French this week the children have learnt how to say greetings as well as their numbers to 20. We have really enjoyed European Sport Day today and have learnt key skills in Handball. 

 

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.

Reading resources:

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - https://www.literacyshedblog.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/ks1_reading_vipers.pdf

 

Spelling

This week we have been learning how to spell words with the ‘ai’ sound.

Please complete practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.

This week’s spellings are:

away

tray

brain

mail

bake

snake

eight

they

any

because

 

Maths

This week we will be looking at place value and number. We have learnt all the numbers in word form to 20.  Please have a go at using the resources and work set on Sumdog. 

 

Sumdog

Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.

 

Sumdog challenges

Multiplication –  x10 tables

Maths - Place Value

Grammar – Verbs

Spellings - /ay/ and /ai/ a_e words

 

 

Year 6 Home Practice - 25th September 2020

Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 2:54pm

Nearly one month has passed in Year 6 and you have all done extremely well. You are now organising yourselves efficiently with handwashing, the morning tasks and working on your individual targets. The past week we have introduced new Home Reading books and to clarify, these are the days each reading group will change their books:
Monday – Roller Coasters

Tuesday – Big Dippers

Wednesday – The Waltzers

We have had an amazing response with 100% of you changing your books this week. Remember, as always, read 20 minutes every day.

 

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

  • Our place value knowledge has widened as we have ordered, compared, identified, rounded, added and subtracted numbers up to three decimal places.
  • Using our novel, ‘Clockwork’, we have improved our reading skill of retrieval and learnt how to describe scenes using exciting vocabulary.
  • In Geography, we located the three peaks of the UK (Ben Nevis, Snowdon, Scafell Pike) and compared Ordinance Survey maps to Google maps to help us figure out the best route up Scafell Pike.
  • For RE, our topic of ‘Unconditional Love’ continued with the ‘Prodigal Son’ story where the children animated one of the scenes to show their understanding of how the story relates to our lives today.
  • In Art, we have used the Apple version of PowerPoint, Keynote, to create some self-portrait art. Check out some of the pictures in our Year 6 gallery.
  • In French, we have been practicing our numbers to 100 and learning how to say the different family names. 

 

Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:

  • Reading – you have all chosen your second Home Reading book for Year 6 this week so reading every night for 20 minutes is essential. You still have your new Reading Journal so any opinions, thoughts, discussions or vocabulary you come across, write them in there. We can then discuss these when you bring it into school.

 

  • Spellings (-ious and ous words) which will be looked in detail from Monday:
      • cautious, various, vicious, precious, conscious, conscientious, gracious, suspicious, perilous, hazardous, marvellous, adventurous, dangerous, glamourous, famous
  • Sumdog challenges:
    • Decimal Place Value
    • SPAG – More Amazing Adjectives!
    • Spellings (-ious words)
      • I suggest writing these out first three times, then play the games. We will look at these spellings in more detail from Monday so the spelling of these words will be easier after we have investigated them. 

Year 5 Home Practice 25th September 2020

Date: 23rd Sep 2020 @ 10:19am

Another great week in Year 5, well done to everyone for working so hard in all subjects. Your stories are great and the concertina books will look so good when they are finished. European Sports Day was fun and you did so well playing Handball. Mrs Quilliam was very pleased with the work you did on L'alphabet francais and I loved reading your poems about being unique (RE). It’s super to see that you have enjoyed doing your first Home Practice on Sumdog. Excellent effort with your reading and spelling too. Keep up the good work!

 

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 25th September 2020

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. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story. Please sign to say you have read the book.

Maths

This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based adding and subtracting within 100 and times tables.

Spelling

 This week's challenge on Sumdog is linked to the same spelling rule (spellings could be different from the ones below). If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (2.10.20):

The rule is i before e except after c (there are some exceptions to the rule!).

field          their          weigh          sleigh        lied       

weird         shield       neither         beige        wield    

friend         pierce      fierce          view          spied

Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)

This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on sentence punctuation and adverbs.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Gravili

Year 1 Meet the Teacher

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:51pm

Year 2 Meet the Teacher

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:51pm

Year 3 Meet the Teacher

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:50pm

Year 4 Meet the Teacher

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:49pm

Year 5 Meet the Teacher

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:47pm

Year 6 Meet the Teacher

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:45pm

Reception 18th September 2020

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:10pm

We have completed our first full week in school! 

We would like to say a huge WELL DONE to all of the Reception children for really trying their best, every single day. They have all been amazing and we can't wait for next week already :) 

We had a lovely Golden Assembly this morning with Mrs Wood and would like to share our Golden Stars of the week! Have a look in the picture below :) 

Year 3 Home Practice 18th September 2020

Date: 17th Sep 2020 @ 4:03pm

Happy Friday.

We have had a fantastic week in Year 3. We started reading the Twits this week and showed our cheeky side by coming up with our own prank ideas. We enjoyed some outdoor learning in the sunshine and loved painting Mr Twit’s beard. We have been trying really hard with our times tables and have been doing lots and lots of counting. We have been focussing on listening and following instructions so that we are always ready to learn J

 

Year 3 Home Practice

 

Year 3 home practice will be uploaded onto the school website every Friday. You will be tested every Thursday on the spellings and times tables.

The purpose of home learning is to practise the essential skills needed in reading, writing and maths.

 

Home Practice for 18th September – 25th September

 

  1. Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes. Reading with an adult and discussing your reading will help you to become fluent, expressive and independent.

 

  1. Practise the x2 tables – ask somebody at home to call out 10 questions each night in order and 10 questions each night mixed up. Hopefully by the end of the week you will be quick and won’t have to count on.

 

  1. Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

 

Number Challenge - 18th September- 25th September – target 50 questions.

Grammar Challenge: 18th September- 25th September – target 50 questions.

Spelling Challenge: 18th September- 25th September – target 50 questions.

 

 

  1. Spellings:

badge, edge, bridge, dodge, fudge, ridge, smudge, judge, wedge, lodge

 

Write out the spellings and stick them up somewhere you will see them every day. Practise splitting them up into chunks you can remember and writing them out in different colours each night e.g. badge, edge

 

Have a lovely weekend

Year 2 Home Practice - 18th September 2020

Date: 17th Sep 2020 @ 1:20pm

We have had a fantastic week in Year 2. In English we have been basing all our writing around the novel Burglar Bill. In Maths we have focused on number and place value. We have also enjoyed using outdoor areas to carry out science investigations. We love staying active and healthy in Year 2 so we have been completing the Daily Mile every day.

 

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.

Reading resources:

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - https://www.literacyshedblog.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/ks1_reading_vipers.pdf

 

Spelling

This week we have been learning how to spell words with the ‘ee’ sound.

Please complete practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.

This week’s spellings are:

sweep

asleep

steal

leap

thief

chief

monkey

honey

after

again

 

Maths

This week we will be looking at place value and number. Please have a go at using the resources and work set on Sumdog. Try to spot some numbers around your house or while on a walk. Talk to your parent or older sibling about them. Can you partition the number into tens and ones?

 

Sumdog

Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.

 

Sumdog challenges

Multiplication –  x10 tables

Grammar – Capital letters

Spellings - /ee/ and /ea/ words

Year 4 Home Practice 18th September 2020

Date: 16th Sep 2020 @ 8:09pm

We have had another fantastic week in Year 4! Here are just a few snippets of what we have been learning.

In English we have read ‘How the Fox Came to be Where it is’ and ‘How the Polar Bear Became’ – our writing has been based on these 2 stories.  We especially enjoyed learning about the clever but cunning fox and how he outwitted other animals!  In Maths we have revised place value and been using Base 10 and numerical counters to help when adding and subtracting 1, 10, 100 and 1000.  In addition, we have been revising rounding numbers to 10. We have continued our RE topic of Families and learnt more about Jesus’ human family and his descendants.  We have also been learning how to insert, rotate, re-colour and re-size shapes using Publisher. What a busy week Year 4 – well done!

Home Practice 18th September 2020

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you understand what you are reading and find out the meaning of any new words.  Someone at home could ask you some questions about what you have read and you could tell them what has happened so far in the story.

 

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 Thursday (24th September 2020).  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?

 

Spellings

The spelling rule this week is the ‘ee’ sound spelt ‘ey’. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (24th September 2020).  We have discussed in class different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you can always use ‘Look say cover write check’.  Your spellings are:

key              honey           money          phoney         donkey

monkey      turkey         hockey         barley          baloney

abbey         dopey           alley            trolley         chimney

 

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

  • A multiplication challenge (x2 x3 x4 x5 x10)
  • A maths challenge (Counting in 10’s 100’s and 1000’s)
  • A spelling challenge (based on the spelling rule the ‘ee’ sound spelt ‘ey’)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

Have a lovely weekend Year 4 - see you all next week.smiley

Online Content - 10 tips to keep your children safe online

Date: 16th Sep 2020 @ 6:22pm

Monitor-Talk-Report

"In light of recent distressing content circulating on several popular social media platforms, we're reminding parents how important it is to monitor, support and talk to children about their online activities." - National Online Safety

Here are some top tips from National Online Safety on keeping children safe online when viewing content online.

Year 5 Home Practice 18th September 2020

Date: 16th Sep 2020 @ 5:15pm

Year 5 Home Practice 18th September 2020

Year 5 have settled back to school brilliantly and have learnt all the new rules and routines so quickly, well done everyone! We have enjoyed reading our class novel, Street Child and story, The Hole. I'm very impressed with the excellent work the children have produced. There is a big focus on times tables, place value and number facts in maths. Our history topic - The Victorians is very interesting. Keep up your positive attitude and hard work whilst doing your home practice 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. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story.

Maths

This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on place value, rounding to the nearest 10/100 and times tables.

Spellings

There will be new spellings to learn each week on a Friday and a Sumdog spelling challenge linked to the spelling rule (spellings could be different from the ones below). The children will be tested on those spellings the following Friday. If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (25.9.20):

The rule is i before e except after c (there are some exceptions to the rule!).

chief          niece          piece          seize          receipt      

thief          priest         belief          relief        ceiling     

grief          mischief      deceive      fiend          relieved

Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)

This week's challenge on Sumdog (grammar) is based on basic punctuation and adjectives.

Year 6 Home Practice - 18th September 2020

Date: 16th Sep 2020 @ 4:39pm

Well done to everyone for completing the first few weeks of year 6. You have all been exceptional in transitioning into the routines and getting used to the expectations of this new year.

 

This week in Year 6:

  • We have improved our place value knowledge in Maths through comparing and rounding numbers to ten million.
  • In English we are reading ‘Clockwork’ by Phillip Pullman where we have investigated how to develop the story through dialogue.
  • In Geography, we have begun our new topic Mountains, searching atlases and maps to see where the highest mountains are.
  • For RE, we have also begun our first topic of ‘Love’ and how God’s unconditional love can affect our lives.
  • In PE, invasion games is our theme for the next 5 weeks, focusing on improving our throwing and catching skills and starting to develop advanced tactics to give an advantage for the attacking team.
  • In Music, we have been enjoying our new instruments, the Boomwhackers.

 

Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:

  • Reading – you have chosen your first Home Reading book for Year 6 so reading every night for 20 minutes is essential. You also have your new Reading Journal so any opinions, thoughts, discussions or vocabulary you come across, write them in there.
    • Spellings (ly words) which will be looked in detail from Monday - test is on Friday:
        • really, hardly, happily, finally, suddenly, angrily, safely, truly, carefully, frantically, slowly, rapidly, reluctantly, energetically, swiftly
  • Sumdog challenges:
    • Times Tables (x4 / x8)
    • SPAG – adjectives
    • Spellings (ly words)

Year 1 Home Practice - 18th September 2020

Date: 15th Sep 2020 @ 8:17pm

Year 1 Home Practice                                                                                                                 18th September 2020

This week we have had a fantastic week of learning. Everyone has really enjoyed our Large family stories and created some super pieces of work in our families topic in RE. We have had some busy afternoons in our outdoor area and been very active in our PE sessions, learning new skills and games.

We have given out new reading books this week for you to read at home. Make sure you are reading for at least 10 minutes every night. You can also access a huge range of e-books on Oxford Owl in the home learning button on our class page. These books will be changed on Fridays but for this week we will have an additional change on Monday, so send in your books.

This week we have been learning how to count in lots of ways, looked at numbers to 100 and learned the ow and oa sounds. We have set a few challenges on Sumdog to practise this learning. Have a go on all of these. We have given out passwords today and all the children have had a go to familiarise themselves with the platform. The games can be accessed through the website www.sumdog.com or through the app (available on the App store)

Try not to help your child too much as this will mean they get questions that may be too tricky for them. 

Keep checking our class page on our new website for galleries and news from Year 1.

 

Reminder - Send in PE kits every Monday and make sure your child has a water bottle, especially during this warm weather.

Online Safety at Home

Date: 25th Aug 2020 @ 12:55pm

Online safety at home

Over the last few months many schools across the UK closed to most families. This page has been created to provide you with the support and resources to help learn about online safety at home with your child. 

Click the link below to access resources to help promote online safety at home

Online Safety at Home

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