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Year 2 Blog Friday 11th October 2024

Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 7:00pm

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.

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (18.10.24):

door, floor, poor, because, find, kind, mind, behind, child, children

Sumdog: Complete the 'Adding Three/Four 1-digit Numbers' challenge. 

Counting: At home, count in 10's forwards and backwards but start on a 1-digit number.

For example, 2, 12, 22, 32, 42, 52 or 7, 17, 27, 37, 47, 57 or 8, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58, 68. 

What do you notice about the numbers you are counting each time?

English

This week we have become owl experts. We read at a piece of non-fiction writing about owls and wrote down all the facts we could find. We learnt about the features of a non-chronological report, wrote a plan and started to write our own report.

Phonics

We revised ai as in train, eigh as in eight, a as in apricot, ea as in steak, ay as in tray, a-e as in take and ey as in grey. We played bingo and we also wrote sentences using as many of the words as we could.

Maths

The children have been adding/subtracting 2 digit numbers, 26+32 or 49-33 using tens and ones apparatus, lines and dots and by mental partitioning methods. We have also continued our work on number bonds to 10, 20 and 100. This came in useful when we were adding three 1-digit numbers together. For example, 3+5+7=15. The children calculated 3+7=10 first, then added the five to make 15.

RE

This week, we have revisited the sacrament of Baptism. The children thought about the signs and symbols of Baptism (white garment, water, Baptismal Candle, oils) and what happens in Church when a baby is Baptised.

The children were busy in our Art lesson, they painted over their oil pastel leaves using water colours. The effect was amazing, they looked really life like! We have some budding artists in Year 2.

Geography

During our lesson, we looked at the continent of Antarctica in more detail. Year 2 St Oswald's 2024-2025 have been included in a time capsule that is travelling on board the RRS Sir David Attenborough headed for the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica. It leaves on 13th October and we will have weekly updates and information about the journey, weather, crew, animals and findings. The children are so excited about it!

Science

This week we learnt about things which are living and things which have never been alive.

Year 6 Blog - 11th October 2024

Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 11:56am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

Year 6 have had an exciting end to their week after their taster day at All Hallows today! 

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have continued being inspired by the novel ‘Wonder’ by R J Palacio. We thought carefully about how different characters percieve August. We have also been inspired to create some poetry based on the themes from the novel - we were especially proud of our palindrome poetry, which is a special type of poem that reads two different messages when you read from top to bottom and bottom to top! 

Maths 

This week, we have learned how to use the grid method to multiply up to a four digit number by a two digit number. We also learned how to multiply mentally using a compensation strategy. 

RE

In RE, we have explored the Nincene Creed, and discussed how Catholics can make a common statement of their faith using this creed. We were then inspired to create some poetry about  ‘A world where everyone is equal’ by considering the ways in which all human beings have innate dignity and equality.

Topic 

For PSHE this week, we explored strategies that we can use to be assertive and stand up for ourselves. We created some amazing posters about our strategies!

In Art, we learned all about scaling up. We have begun to create larger drawings of dogs, so that we can turn them into a 3D model! 

In Computing, we learned all about what a data packet is, so that we could understand how computers transfer data and files between each other. We made our own messaages and broke them down into packets - just like a computer would.

For French this week we continued looking at how to read and say the time. We practised 'Il est heure' and learned 'et quart, et demie and moins le quart'. We matched clock faces to sentences. 

Home practice

Please complete the following tasks by next Wednesday: 

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 practise these spellings this week, which are from the Y5 and Y6 spelling list. 

All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test next Friday. 

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: 

This week I would like you to practise counting in decimal steps of 0.1, 0.2 and 0.25.

Draw a line with some marks on it. You could write the numbers as you count up or down, then double check it to make sure you have said the correct numbers.

Start with different numbers and count up 10 numbers then back again in 0.1:

5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, etc

and in 0.2:

6.5, 6.7, 6.9, 7.1, 7.3, 7.5, 7.7, etc  

Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!

Maths Task: This week's learning is to practise questions about multiplication, which will help Year 6 to apply their learning from class this week. For further Maths work, please visit the 'Maths Training' section, where your child will be able to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them.

Have a happy weekend Year 6! 

Year 5 Friday blog 4th October 2024

Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 4:05pm

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.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

beginning   beginner   gardening  forgotten  gardener  limiting  forgetting  limitation  basically

angrily    gently  nobly   simply   humbly  dramatically  preferred  usually

Counting

Count out loud in:

even numbers to 40 and back again                             0, 2, 4, 6, …

    40s from 0 to 400 and back again                                 0, 40, 80,120, …

11s from 0 to 154 and back again                                  0,11,22,33, …

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day.

There is a competition between Year 4 and Year 5 this week on Times Tables Rockstars. Fingers crossed Year 5!

Well done to Joe who was our times table rockstar last week.

Sumdog

Maths Competition – individual  

Spelling Challenge  

We have had another great week in Year 5.

In English, we continued learning about adverbials. The children wrote some fantastic spy letters to the Queen of Narnia, using fronted adverbials for cohesion in their writing.

In Maths, we moved on to our new topic of addition and subtraction. We have been practising partitioning and considering other suitable methods we could use. 

Our focus in RE this week was the Catholic virtues. We discovered that virtues are simply the habit of doing good things in life.   

Jazz continues to be the theme in music and everyone enjoyed learning a new piece on the djembe drums.

 Finally, in Geography, Year 5 enjoyed going on a virtual field trip to Malham in Yorkshire and learning about the rural aspects of England.

Year 3 Friday Blog 4th October 2024

Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 3:58pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have enjoyed our harvest celebration this week and finished our Twits class novel.

Home Practice

Read, read and read some more. Everyone is making great progress with their reading and we're very pleased with all the book changing that is happening!

We have set 2 maths challenges for your Sumdog practice. We have been learning about bar charts this week, so there is a challenge to practise these skills. Also, we've set a x2,x5,x10 and x3 times tables practice. Try have ago on both! 

Keep counting as well. Here is a counting playlist to listen and sing along to.

For your spellings this week, we are revisiting the suffix rules. Have a go at practising these words, choose 2 or 3 a day. There is also a Sumdog Spelling challenge on these words.

This week in Year 3

We have loved reading The Twits! Lost of laughs and gasps and great discussion. We have written some play scripts and a letter to the Twits this week and on Monday we will be reviewing the story with our own book reviews.

In maths, we have learning to read bar charts and answer addition and difference questions using the information. The children have shown brilliant understanding with their maths learning this week.

In RE this week we read The Song of The Animals written by Saint Francis of Assisi. We talked about which parts of this poem showed how St Francis was thanking God for his creation and created some lovely art to accompany our ideas.

In art, we have been exploring texture and depth and used our skills to sketch some plants in torchlight. Check out our gallery.

In PE, we have been practising our throwing, catching and tactics in some 4V1 games. We also focussed on honesty and fairness when playing these games. Have a look in our gallery.

In geography this week, we explored the physical features of the UK using different maps. We discussed the differences between human and physical features and created our own physical maps of the UK.

Reception Blog - Friday 4th October 2024

Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 12:58pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

Phonics

This week we have learnt the sounds p, i and n. We have talked about what sounds we can hear at the beginning of different words, like; pin, insect and noodle.

Drawing Club

This week in Drawing Club we have listened to the story of The Little Red Hen.

We drew the Little Red Hen and we created something new for her to bake.

Maths

We visited Numberland this week.

 We built number 1’s garden and we found objects that are on their own to add to it.

Rosie Posie the Problem Pixie also paid us a visit to change the garden. We tried to spot what she had changed.

Have a look at the pictures here.

RE

We listened to the Creation Story this week and talked about all the wonderful things that God has created in our world.

We also visited Church to take part in the Harvest Festival.

Expressive Art and Design

We made pictures which included our own special people.

In Music we listened to the rhythm of instruments.

Understanding the World

This week, we discussed the five senses. We focussed on the sense of smell this week and what we use to smell with. Have a look at us using our sense of smell here.

Forest School

This week we played a game where we hid toys in the nature area. We were in teams and the team who found the most toys was the winner.

We also learnt how to tie knots in strawberry laces. We persevered and realised that the more we practise any skill, the easier we will find it. We made the strawberry laces disappear!

Then it was time for some child-initiated play. We were finding and cooking apples, finding snails and ladybirds, climbing and jumping as well as inventing our own games. We had a lovely review session at the end.

Year 1 Blog - Friday 4th October 2024

Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 7:40pm

Home Practice

Sumdog challenge

Maths - Place Value - Representing objects

Sumdog log ins are in the front of your brown reading book.

Counting - Count in tens, forwards and back from 0 to 100.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

Our story this week was How to Grow a Dragon by Rachel Morrisroe. We’ve had lots of fun exploring the book, creating our own dragons and writing some amazing sentences describing them. The children couldn’t believe that Miss Fisher’s own dragon came to visit school!

Phonics

We have focused on our phase 3 and phase 4 tricky words. We practised writing them and wrote them in some super sentences.

Maths

This week in Maths, we started to learn about measurement and the different ways in which we can measure objects. We measured objects practically using cubes, and compared them using the words taller, shorter and longer.

R.E.

We continued to explore what ‘prayer’ means to Christians.

We wrote our own personalised prayer to God, which acknowledged His actions and purpose.

Science

This week, we focused on our sense of smell. We conducted a smelling experiment, guessing what was in the jars by using our sense of smell alone. The children pulled some funny faces as some of the smells were not very nice!

See our pictures here.

Computing

We continued to learn about different forms of technology. We identified the parts of a computer and compared them to a laptop. Then we had a go at dragging and dropping objects on the iPads and experimenting on the Paintz website.

French

This week in French, we recapped some greetings: bonjour, salut, au revoir, mademoiselle, madame and monseiur. Then we learnt bonsoir and à bientôt.

Forest School

What beautiful Autumn weather for our session. We harvested the seeds from the sunflower heads. We were amazed that one sunflower produces hundreds of seeds which we can plant next year.

Mr Corbett lit a fire for the Kelly Kettle, and we knew the water was boiling when we heard the whistle. We followed all the instructions to keep safe around the fire.

We had a lovely hot chocolate with marshmallows.

We also had time for our own learning - balancing, building, climbing, jumping, bug hunting and running were just some of the things we got up to.

Super teamwork, communication and resilience was shown.

Year 4 Blog - Friday 4th October 2024

Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 1:19pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Discuss what you have read with an adult. Can you spot any co-ordinating conjunctions in sentences?

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

crystal         gym             hymn            mystery       myth

pyramid       symbol         syrup           typical         Egypt

bicycle         cymbals        cylinder       gymnast       gymnastics

oxygen         crypt           lyrics

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 3’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 36 and back again

0    3    6      etc                        36    33     30  etc

Now try counting in 10’s from 268 to 428 and back again

268     278    288    etc             428    418    408  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 ‘Battle of the Bands’ competition against Year 5 – please log on and have a go!

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A maths challenge based on the 3 times table which we have been revisiting this week

In English, we learnt the acronym FANBOYS to help us remember the 7 co-ordinating conjunctions. The conjunctions are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So. We then practised using these conjunctions in sentences. We hope to try and use more compound sentences in our independent writing.

In Maths, we used partitioning and number lines to help us add and subtract numbers when we needed to bridge 10 and 100. This was quite tricky, but with a bit more practise we hope it will become a little easier. In addition, we learnt how to measure and draw lengths as properties of 2D shapes, as well as how to measure in centimetres and millimetres.

In RE, we consolidated our learning of the words - virtue, faith, hope and love. We then read St John Henry Newman’s ‘Mission of my Life’, underlined our favourite line, and explained why we chose it. We also explained how we could relate it to our everyday lives. 

In P.S.H.E, we discussed good and not so good feelings and how they can affect our physical state. We ordered sets of feelings based on their intensity.

In Art, we began to retell the story of ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ through sketching.  

This week, we also attended the Harvest Celebration in church on Friday afternoon. Thank you for your harvest gifts – these will be donated to a local food bank.

Have a relaxing weekend

The Year 4 team

Year 6 Blog - 4th October 2024

Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 11:43am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!

Thank you for all the Harvest donations – our box was overflowing in class! Year 6 have worked hard to be a part of the Harvest service at church today. All of the children sang and read beautifully – well done Year 6!

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have started our new topic all about the novel ‘Wonder’ by R J Palacio. We have worked hard to use our inference and retrieval skills while reading the story together. In class, we have also explored formal and informal letters by writing in role. We researched what Treacher Collins syndrome is, a condition that the main character, August, was born with in the story.

Maths 

This week, we have learned lots of strategies for multiplication. We have learned how to partition to multiply whole numbers and decimals and we have also used the grid method to multiply four digit numbers by one digit, and numbers with two decimal places by one digit.  

RE

In RE, we have explored the signs and symbols linked to Baptism. We have also shared John1:1-5 16-18 and thought about what the words from the scripture meant. We were inspired by the scripture to reflect on the question: "How can I live as a light for others, sharing the grace of God that I received in Baptism?"

Topic 

For Geography this week, we researched all about the four highest peaks in the UK. We learned that the four highest peaks in the UK are: Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, Snowdon and Slieve Donard. We worked hard to create leaflets to explain all about where the mountains are located and how tall they are!

In Music, we continued to explore the music of John Williams, listening and appraising the score from Jaws. We also played the glockenspiels and learned the theme from Jurassic Park.

In Science, we completed an investigation to determine if micro-organisms are alive. We were able to determine that yeast, and micro-organisms, are alive because we could observe them respiring. You can see our investigation on the class galleries!

Home practice

Please complete the following tasks by next Wednesday: 

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 practise the following spellings this week, which are from the Y5 and Y6 spelling list. 

All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test next Friday. 

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: Practise counting in your multiples! 

Choose a times table. How far can you count in multiples of that number? Can you count backwards as well as forwards?

Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!

Multiples: This week's learning is to practise questions multiples and factors, which will help Year 6 with their multiplication work in class. For further Maths work, please visit the 'Maths Training' section, where your child will be able to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them.

Have an amazing weekend Year 6! 

Year 2 Friday Blog- 4th October 2024

Date: 1st Oct 2024 @ 5:36pm

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.

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (11.10.24):

he, she, no, so, my,some,our, pull, put, push

Sumdog: Complete the 'Adding multiples of 10 ' challenge. 

Counting: At home, play the 'follow me' game that you learnt in class. Count in 2's, 5's and 10's forwards and backwards.

English

This week we wrote sentences about Plop. We pretended to be Plop. We are trying so hard to form our letters with lead-ins.

We wrote a book review.

Phonics

We have been revising eigh as in eight, ey as in grey, a as in apricot and ea as in steak.

SPaG

We have been learning about conjunctions (joining words) and writing sentences including... and, but, because, so. The children are trying to use them as often as possible in their own writing.

Maths

The children have been adding/subtracting a multiple of 10 to/from a 2 digit number, 26+20 or 41-30. We have also worked on number bonds to 10 and 100.

RE

This week, we have read Psalm 139 together. The children learnt that a Psalm is a bit like a song or a prayer. They responded to the Psalm with their own art work in the style of Eva Crawford.

French

Year 2 have been drawing leaves - Fir, Birch, Hazel, Willow, Sycamore and Oak. First they used pencil, then oil pastels. Next week, we will paint over their oil pastel leaves using water colours to see the effect.

Geography

The children know the seven continents and five oceans so well now. During our lesson, we looked at the continent of Asia in more detail. 

Forest School 

Mrs Wood gave every class a bag of daffodils and we planted ours today.

We had a great time in the log circle area- building dens,making obstacle courses, cooking with apples, climbing, balancing, jumping and finding creatures.

We have been using leaves as our inspiration in our art work and we found some of the leaves outside.

Science

We learnt about food chains and drew our own.

Thank you for all your generous Harvest gifts.

Year 5 Friday blog 27th September 2024

Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 4:09pm

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.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

dragged     dragging   stopped  playing   stopping  speedily   sadly   played   completely   usually

finally   frantically  comically  supporting   supported  creatively  happily  working   worked 

accidentally

Counting

Count out loud in:

Odd numbers to 31 and back again                                  1, 3, 5, …

30s from 0 to 330 and back again                                 0, 30, 60,90, …

12s from 0 to 144 and back again                                  0,12,24,36, …

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day.

Remember, you can now compete and have lots of fun on Times Tables Rockstars.

Well done to William who was our times table rockstar last week.

Sumdog

Maths Competition – individual  

Spelling Challenge  

We have had a wonderful week in Year 5.

In English we have done lots of challenging and enjoyable writing. We wrote a persuasive letter from the queen of Narnia to the children. Everyone worked very hard on this. We also spent time learning about and using adverbs and adverbial phrases.

In Maths we have been continuing with rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000 and 10,000. We have also been practising ‘what is 100/1.000/10,000/100,000 less than’, using 6 digit numbers.

Our topic in RE this week was all about making the right choices in life so that we stay close to God, our families and friends.

In music we have been listening to jazz music and trying to identify instruments. The children enjoyed learning about Louis Armstrong and his trumpet.

In French the children celebrated European day of Languages and found out about the benefits of learning other languages from Europe.

We conducted another experiment in science this week relating to friction. We measured the newton force required to move shoes along different surfaces. The children worked really well as young scientist explorers.

Finally, in art the children once again showed their creative side by creating drawings on maps. Well done Year 5.

Year 1 Blog Friday 27th September 2024

Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 3:50pm

Home Practice

Sumdog challenge

Maths – Place Value - counting larger groups

Counting - Count in 2s from 0 to 20.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

Our story this week is Dogger by Shirley Hughes. The children have written a character description of ‘Dogger’ using adjectives.

Phonics

Sounds this week are: y, x, z, zz, oy, ir, ue, aw

Maths

This week in Maths, we have continued our understanding about place value. The children have practically made numbers using base ten, tens frames and cubes.

R.E.

The children have explored what ‘prayer’ means to Christians.

Children have highlighted words they like from the creed and created beautiful art work to go with the prayer.

Science

This week in science, the children learnt about senses.

The children explored what senses are and which body parts we use for each one.

French

Forest School

We used the leaf cutters to make leaf confetti and used wool to wrap sticks. These activities develop our fine motor skills. We also used the digging tools safely and lots of apples were found which became some interesting dishes in the mud kitchen. Great teamwork was shown by all. We passed the hedgehog around at the end and made a comment about the session, if we wanted to.

Year 3 Friday Blog 27th September 2024

Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 3:39pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

We have had a lovely week in Year 3. We've been very impressed with everyone's super listening!

Home Practice

Keep changing your books regularly and read for at least 15-20 minutes every night! 

Well done to everyone who completed their Sumdog challenges and even had some time to practise on the Sumdog Training. Three new challenges have been added today. Remember, little and often every night will benefit your children with their learning in school.

Try and do a little counting at home as well. This will promote number fluency and understanding. There are lots of counting games here at ictgames.com that we use in school. You will also find lots of counting songs on YouTube.

We have given out your home spellings to practice for next week's test. In our spelling lessons this week we have been revisiting our spelling strategies. We have been breaking our words into syllables to help us spell more accurately and using what we already know to spell new words.

Your spellings this week all cover the long ow/oa/o_e sounds. Good luck!

This week in Year 3

We have been looking at descriptive writing this week. We visited the Twit's home and garden and wrote some fantastic descriptions. Everyone has been trying to improve their handwriting and presentation, remembering to write on the lines and form our letters correctly. It makes a huge difference when our writing looks beautiful!  Amazing effort everyone!

In Maths we have been learning how to measure in mm and cm. We also learned about the perimeter of shapes and how to measure this. Super maths Year 3!

In Art we looked at chiaroscuro, which is an Italian art form exploring light and dark. We used our sketching pencils to create depth and form in our pieces.

In PE we practised our throwing and catching as well as feinting passes as part of our invasion games topic. We learned lob, chest and bounce passes and discussed when was best to use each. 

In Forest School this week some of us had a go at stick wrapping with wool. This activity is very good for mindfulness and for developing our fine motor skills. We also tried to light a fire with the flint and steel again- some of us lit it first time which shows brilliant skill development. Eveyone's participation in the session was superb and we had a lovely review time at the end.

Next week we are celebrating harvest and are collecting food items to donate to the local food bank. Thank you for all the donations so far!

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 4 Blog Friday 27th September 2024

Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 3:36pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Discuss what you have read with an adult. Look up any words you are unsure of in a dictionary.

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

kindly           slowly           loudly           comically      crossly

quietly         angrily         happily         sleepily        hesitantly

gently          simply          humbly         nobly            sarcastically

basically       quickly         dramatically           frantically             worryingly

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 5’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 60 and back again

0     5     10      etc                    60     55     50  etc

Now try counting in 50’s from 50 to 600 and back again

50   100    150    etc                  600   550    500

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 ‘studio’ session – please log on and have a go!

Why not challenge someone else in Year 4 to a ‘Rock Slam’. This is a competition and you can set a score for them to beat. You don’t need to be online at the same time.

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A maths challenge based on adding and subtraction 1, 10, 100 and 1000

In English, we analysed the features of an informal letter. We then planned and wrote our own letter from Michael to his best friend Eddie which outlined the countries he had visited and the adventures he had had during his sailing trip around the world.

In Maths, we consolidated our learning about rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. In addition, we practised adding and subtracting 1, 10, 100 and 1000 to different numbers. We then used what we had learnt to add multiples of 10 to 3 digit numbers eg 342 + 250. See the pictures in our gallery which demonstrate how we answered these using place value counters.

In RE, we talked about how Abraham is a model of prayer and how we can use prayer in our everyday lives. We also discussed and wrote definitions of the words - virtue, faith, hope and love.   

In P.S.H.E, we described appropriate ways to say no to a friend and discussed how we can be assertive. We then acted a scenario out with our partner.

In Science, we worked in our groups to create a poster about an animal's features and any extra information about their habitat, nutritional group, or animal type. Have a look at our gallery.  

In Geography, we learnt about the ‘water cycle’. We learnt some new words which describe what happens to water during this cycle eg. evaporation,  condensation, precipitation and ground water.

This week, we also planted some bulbs in the nature area. We are looking forward to seeing them blossom in spring. You can see some pictures of us planting them in our gallery.

Have a super weekend

The Year 4 team

Reception Blog - Friday 27th September 2024

Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 8:34am

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

Phonics

This week we have learnt the sounds s, a and t. We have talked about what sounds we can hear at the beginning of different words, like; spaghetti, ant and table.

RE

We have learnt all about the Bible this week.

This week we have made some special bookmarks for our blessing in Church.

Expressive Art and Design

We have been making our own Autumn leaves by cutting and tearing paper.

We have made our own rainbows to decorate our classroom.

We had Music with Mrs Campbell. We have categorised groups of instruments.

Understanding the World

This week we have continued to talk about Autumn, especially as we have had so many lovely treasures coming in from your Autumn walks.

We carried out a colour experiment using skittles and water. First, we predicted what we thought might happen, then we waited and watched as the colours slowly merged into the water. We used some amazing vocabulary to describe what we could see (fizz and dissolve). See the photos here

In French, with Miss Whiting we celebrated European Day of Languages. In the lesson we shared what other languages we might know or want to learn. We then identified ways which we can celebrate other languages and cultures, including learning new words, tasting their food, practising languages we know. To finish the lesson, we learned ways to say hello and goodbye in other European languages.

Physical Development

This week we have continued with our dough disco and pen disco to help strengthen our hand muscles.

In PE this week we have practised throwing and catching.

Forest School

We had a brilliant session in the muddy nature area. We used the cutters to make leaf confetti and some of us tried stick wrapping with wool. Both of these activities are really good for developing our fine motor skills. We had a lovely review session at the end when we were invited to say one thing we had noticed, learnt, discovered or someone we had played with.

We have also put the information from our Parent Curriculum Night. Thank you to everyone who has attended. To see the slides please click here.

Year 6 Blog - 27th September 2024

Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 1:31pm

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!

Thank you for all the Harvest donations that have been brought in this week! We are still collecting donations for the food bank next week. 

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have completed our work on the Nowhere Emporium this week. The children all worked hard earlier in the week to describe a wonder for their stories. All of the children have used their knowledge and skills from the topic to create their own independent stories about a new wonder.

Maths 

This week, we have learned about lots of strategies that we can use to solve addition and subtraction questions. We have worked hard on a range of number line strategies, such as compensation and bridging. Year 6 have also used a formal method to add and subtract whole numbers and decimals.

RE

In RE, we have shared Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ and thought carefully about what message he taught us in this letter. We have recognised that we are stewards of creation and that we need to look after our beautiful word. Year 6 worked hard to create some amazing posters to show how we should look after creation, making links to Laudato Si’ and the second story of creation.

Topic 

For Geography this week, we explored what the climate of a mountain is like. We discovered that mountains often have their own climate and learned about how the weather on a mountain can be very unpredictable!

In French we celebrated the European day of languages and learned all about why it is important to speak different languages. Did you know only 25% of the world population speaks English?

In Computing, we learned how computers communicate with each other. We had to research the different IP addresses of websites and learned how a DNS server acts like an address book for computers.

Home practice

Please complete the following tasks by next Wednesday: 

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 practise the following spellings this week, which are from the Y5 and Y6 spelling list: 

All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test next Friday. 

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?

Which is quicker, counting up to 40 in ones or counting up to 4,000 in hundreds?

Which is quicker, counting up to 10 in ones or counting up to 1,000,000 in hundred-thousands?

Which is quicker, counting up to 20 in ones or counting up to 140 in sevens?

Which is quicker, counting up to 25 in French or in English?

Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!

Maths Practise: This week's learning is to continue to practise questions on addition and subtraction. For further Maths work, please visit the 'Maths Training' section, where your child will be able to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them.

Have a wonderful weekend Year 6! 

Year 2 Blog- Friday 27th September 2024

Date: 25th Sep 2024 @ 5:41pm

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.

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (04.10.24):

of, says, your, me, we,

there, love, one, ask, pull.

Sumdog: Complete the 'Addition/Subtraction within 20' challenge.

Counting: At home, count in 2's, 5's and 10's forwards and backwards.

English

We have started learning through the story of The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark. The owl is called Plop. We wrote sentences to describe him, using adjectives and connectives.

In pairs, we discussed why he might be afraid of the dark and wrote some possible reasons for this. 

Phonics

We have been learning ui as in fruit, u-e as in rude and u-e as in cute.

SPaG

We have been learning about proper nouns, common nouns and adjectives. We have also been learning about how many syllables are in a word.

Maths

The children learned how to add a 1 digit number to a 2 digit number, 26+4. we have also been learning about subtraction.

We have been counting in 10's.

French

PE

The children have really improved their under arm throwing and catching. They have played various mini games and learnt about the importance of dodging to get away from a defender.

RE

The children have completed their Noah's Ark puppets which they will use to act out the story. We also read the story of God's Rainbow which explains God's promise, love and faithfulness.

Forest School

This week we used the leaf cutters to make leaf confetti. Some of us practised tying knots and stick wrapping. We found a lot of apples and spent time collecting them, which required our problem solving skills, washing them and cooking with them.

Thank you for sending in donations for Harvest. 

Year 5 Friday blog 20th September 2024

Date: 20th Sep 2024 @ 4:26pm

Happy weekend and welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

 Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

accommodate   achieve   ancient   attached   awkward    accompany   aggressive   apparent

available  bargain   according   amateur  appreciate   average   bruise  category  cemetery  committee

Counting

Count out loud in:

       50s backwards from 500                                                 500,450,400 …

20s from 0 to 450 and back again                                     0, 20,40, …

2s from 50 to 99 and back again                                        50,52,54,56 …

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day. Every pupil has been given their tables target

to practise at home.

Sumdog

Maths  - number ordering    

Spelling Challenge

Times Tables Rockstars

Tables challenge

We have had another great week in Year 5.

In English we have all been creating great questions to ask the class about The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, as well as practising writing direct speech and using modal verbs.   

In Maths we have been learning about place values, including numbers with decimals. We have also been re-capping where large numbers sit on a number line. Year 5 have once again put 100% effort into this.  

We continued to follow the life of Moses in RE this week by learning about the time that he heard the ten commandments from God. As a class, we have been discussing their meanings and how they apply to us today.  

In Art the children have created their own fonts in typography using inspiration from mechanical items and nature.

We were able to play full games of netball in PE this week and the children were able to demonstrate both their passing skills as well as practise their shooting. The sun shone and everyone tried so hard which was great to see. 

After last week’s delve into gravity in science, this time we discussed other forces at work on our planet. We went on to experiment with magnets and discover how useful magnetic force is in our world. Well done Year 5.

Year 1 Blog - Friday 20th September 2024

Date: 20th Sep 2024 @ 1:07pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice this week

Counting - Count in 10s from 0 to 100.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

Sumdog challenges

Maths – Place Value - counting objects

Our learning this week

English

Our story this week is another book from the series of The Large Family. We read the story ‘Mr Large In Charge'. The children have written sentences about the jobs the whole family do to help Mr Large.

Phonics

Sounds this week are: j, v, w, ay, ea, ou, ie

Maths

This week in Maths, the children have explored numbers up to 20.

The children have been learning about how many tens and ones in a number.

R.E.

The children have written a creation poem.

The children talked about all the wonderful things God created.

Science

We learnt about our body parts. We drew around each other and labelled each part together.

PE

In PE this week, the children have been learning kicking fundamental skills.

We learnt how to control the ball close to our body and kick at a target.

Forest School

We had a discussion about the seasons and how we are moving into Autumn.  We hunted for leaves in our log circle area. We found leaves of many shapes, sizes and colours. We stuck them onto paper and made a crown. We then played some games which showed fabulous imagination and creativity, 'I am the king of nature', I am Lady Leaf, were just some of the things we said! At the end of the session we played a game called Swap the Log. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 1 team 

Reception Blog - Friday 20th September 2024

Date: 20th Sep 2024 @ 12:47pm

Welcome to Reception's Friday Blog!

Communication and Language

This week we have been taking part in listening games.

We had French with Miss Whiting. We practised saying Hello again and we learnt Goodbye!

Personal, Emotional and Social Development

This week we have revisited the colour monster. We sorted the colours whilst talking about the feelings of each colour and discussing times we may have felt this way.

Expressive Art and Design

We have continued to explore primary colours, but this week we have been mixing them to see what colours they make. See the gallery here.

We had Music with Mrs Campbell. We listened to music from other countries.

Understanding the World

This week we have been learning about the season of Autumn and what happens in our world when this season arrives. The children have loved exploring our outdoors to create our Autumn tray. We also made leaf rubbings with the items we found!

Drawing Club

This week we have been listening to the story of the Three Little Pigs.

We drew pictures of who we live with in our houses.

Physical Development

This week we have introduced our dough disco and pen disco to help strengthen our hand muscles.

Forest School

We played a game in our nature area. Someone hid a toy whilst everyone else closed their eyes. We then had to find the toy. The person who had hidden it shouted ‘hot’ if we were near to the toy and ‘cold’ if we were far away from it. We had a discussion about the seasons and how we are moving into Autumn. We went on a leaf hunt and threaded our leaves on a skewer. We were really good at noticing different colours, shapes and sizes.

Year 3 Friday Blog 20th September 2024

Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 5:33pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

We have had a brilliant week in Year 3 with lots of learning in the sun!

Home Practice

Continue with your daily reading. The children are really enjoying picking their own books and changing them lots. 10 minutes every night will make all the difference.

On Sumdog this week we have set a times table challenge on the 3 times tables. A little practice with these every day will help your children become fluent in their number facts.

Continue to practise your counting. This week, try counting forwards and backwards in 5s from any 2 digit number. Can you spot a pattern?

We have also set an addition and subtraction challenge. This is to practise the learning we have done in school over the past few weeks.

Your home spellings this week are the days of the week and months of the year. We will test the children on these on Friday.

This week in Year 3

In English this week we have been really working on our think pinks. These are the individual writing skills your children are working on to improve their writing. We have loved reading The Twits. We have written in character this week and acted out some scenes from the story.

In maths we have learning new strategies to add and subtract within 100. We learned how to use partitioning and a number line to solve our problems. Super maths Year 3!

In Forest school we explored our nature area and noticed the changes that have happened since July. We played some fantastic games which showed super creativity and imagination. Mrs Marshall is our Forest School helper, and it was her first session with us this week. Some of us had a go at lighting a fire with the flint and steel. It's harder than it looks but quite a few children managed it and were pleased with their achievements- great determination was shown.

In Geography this week we learned how to use atlases to find settlements in the UK. Everyone showed great place knowledge and talked about some of the places they have visited. Check out our gallery.

In music this week we were sorting our musical instruments. We also listened to the carnival of the animals and tried to spot the animals from their instruments.

In Science we were looking at the human body. We learned the names of a lot of bones and we learned what the bones are for, support, protection and movement. 

In swimming we used our noodles to help us to swim all around the pool by ourselves. Simon was very impresssed!

Have a lovely weekend 

The Year 3 team

Year 4 Blog Friday 20th September 2024

Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 5:02pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Discuss what you have read with an adult. See if you can spot any nouns – do they have capital letters or not?

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

minute         natural         naughty        notice          occasion(ally)

opposite      ordinary       particular    peculiar       perhaps

material       possible       medicine      potatoes      popular

often           pressure      position       probably      possess(ion)

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 2’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 24 and back again

0     2      4   etc                        24     22     20  etc

Now try counting from 25 to 41 and back again

25    27    29    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 – please log on and have a go!

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A maths challenge based on ordering and comparing whole numbers

In English, we wrote reasons for and against sailing around the world. In addition, we collected words to describe Michael’s character. Information about Michael's character could have been written down in the novel, or inferred – that is, we could work it out from the evidence.

In Maths, we learnt more about place value. We learnt how to compare and order both whole and decimal numbers, and how to round numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.

In RE, we acted out the story of Abraham and Sarah. Following this, we retold the story in our own words ensuring we included some important vocabulary, eg covenant and trust.

In PE, we practised our chest pass, bounce pass, overhead pass and shooting skills and then applied these skills to a game of netball.

In Science, we grouped animals in a variety of different ways, for example as vertebrates or invertebrates / as fish, amphibians, retiles, birds or mammals.

In Art, we created our own scenes and then sketched them. We also gave them a title. Please have a look in our gallery.

Have a relaxing weekend

The Year 4 Team

Year 2 Blog Friday 20th September 2024

Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 3:29pm

Year 2 have had another fantastic week, filled with lots of interesting and enjoyable learning. 

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.

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (27.09.24):

house, school,once, come,they,

by,here,friend, go, be

Sumdog: Complete the 'one more/less than' challenge.

English

We have continued our learning through the story of Burglar Bill. He wrote us all a letter. As they were all different, they told us lots of information. We used this information to write a character description of him. We also planned an alternative ending to the story and wrote it. We have been using connecting words and adjectives to make our writing even better.

In handwriting we have been learning how to form our letters with lead-ins.

                                                                                                                                 Phonics

We have been revising oo as in zoo and ew as in brew and y as in happy.

Maths

The children have been learning how to work out one more/less than and ten more/less than a given number. We have also been comparing two numbers and deciding which is the greatest or which is the least.

R.E

We re-read the story of Noah's Ark, focusing on the rainbow being a sign of God's promise (covenant) never to send another flood again. The children made their own rainbows and Noah's Ark puppets.

History

Year 2 are thoroughly enjoying learning about The Great Fire of London. We compared London today with London back in 1666 and learnt where the fire started and how it spread so quickly.

Geography

The children have already learnt most of the continents and oceans of the world and really enjoyed looking at their location on the map.

Forest School

We went on a scavenger hunt to find natural objects. We then displayed them on a log-we showed lots of creativity. We then had time for our own learning-we invented games, found plenty of apples, did some wood carving with stones, tried to make a whistle, spotted patterns in the tree stumps, found creatures, problem-solved and practised balancing.

PLEASE ASK YOUR CHILD TO PUT THEIR READING BOOKS IN THE RED BOX ON MRS DEIGHTON'S TABLE WHEN THEY  HAVE ALL BEEN READ. THANK YOU.

Year 6 Blog - 20th September 2024

Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 11:03am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!

We have had individual and sibling pictures taken today, with everyone looking very smart in their autumn uniforms. They should take a couple of weeks to come back to us, if you would like to order any. Letters for bikeability and a taster day at All Hallows have also been handed out this afternoon. 

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have continued with our work on  'The Nowhere Emporium' by Ross Mackenzie. We read the story 'The Wonder' in class to inspire us to think of our own wonders that we could incorporate into our Nowhere Emporium stories. We were able to gather and use some amazing higher level vocabulary to apply to our fantasy story writing! 

Maths 

This week we have completed our Place Value topic and begun to learn about the four operations, starting with addition and subtraction. We have been learning about the mental and written strategies that we can use to help us add and subtract numbers, such as partitioning using a number line. 

RE

We have continued with our 'Creation and Covenant' topic in RE this week and have been learning about the meaning of the second story of creation. We shared the next part of the story together, where Adam and Eve are tempted to eat from the tree of knowledge, and used watercolours to paint our favourite part of the story! 

Topic 

For Science this week, we have learned how to classify leaves. Together, we gathered leaves from our forest school area and investigated how to classify them like Scientists. We enjoyed gathering our samples and sketching them in our Science books!  You can see us working hard on our galleries.  

This week in PSHE, we discussed what makes a positive and healthy friendship. We imagined that we had to give advice and provide a solution to some friendship problems in our lesson.  

In Geography, we researched how mountains are formed. Did you know that there are five different ways that a mountain can be formed? We presented our research as some amazing posters! 

Home practice

Please complete the following tasks by next Wednesday: 

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 practise the following spellings this week, which are homophones and other words that are often confused: 

All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test next Friday. 

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: This week we have had to count powers of ten for our place value work. Try to count in powers of 10 (1000, 10,000, 100,000 etc). You could do this out loud or write it on a piece of paper.

You could draw a numberline, like we have done in class this week. Can you count up and down in powers of ten? How far can you go?  Challenge yourself by choosing different starting numbers and practising your exchanging. 

Times Tables: This week I would like the children to practise their 7, 8, 9 and 12 times tables. There are 100 questions to answer on Sumdog! 

Place Value: This week's learning is to practise questions on addition and subtraction. For further Maths work, please visit the 'Maths Training' section, where your child will be able to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them.

Have a wonderful weekend Year 6! 

Back to School Online Safety

Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 9:26am

With your children now back in school, it is a great time to review online safety in your homes and make sure we are all up to date with developments in the online world. At St Oswald's, all classes will be beginning their Online Saftety learning where they will learn all about safe practices online in the following areas. 

Self image and identitiy

Online relationships

Online bulllying

Health, Well-being and lifestyle

Online reputation

Managing online information

Copyright and ownership

We will blog regularly to keep you updated with developments in the online space, sharing platform guides and links to expert training for you to keep your children safe when exploring the internet. Below you will find guides on new devices and WhatsApp.

To access a huge range of information on the National Online Safety website click the link below and join our school online safety hub.You will get access to videos, training and guides to keep you informed of the best practices in keeping your children safe online.

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

Year 5 Friday blog 13th September 2024

Date: 13th Sep 2024 @ 4:26pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

 Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

said    with     because       went        like       water      people   children   asked   school   thought

friends   house    through   each   different   something     

Counting

Count out loud in:

         10s back from 249                                              249, 239, 229 …

25s from 0 to 450 and back again                                 0, 25,50, …

3s from 0 to 99 and back again                                      0, 3, 6, …

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day. Every pupil has been given their tables target

to practise at home.

Sumdog

Maths Competition – individual  

Spelling Challenge  

We have had a wonderful week in Year 5.

In English, we enjoyed reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe together. There were some super written summaries of the opening chapters by Year 5. It’s been an impressive start!

In Maths, we learnt about place value, including tenths, hundredths and thousandths . Everyone has been trying so hard with this.

We started our topic of Creation and Covenant in RE this week by learning about Moses and the burning bush. We talked about God calling to Moses and the task that he asked him to do.

In Art, the children enjoyed learning about typography and they created some of their own unique designs. Their natural creativity really shone through.

PE has been enjoyed by all with the whole class demonstrating great ball skills in netball. Despite the erratic weather, everyone
persevered which was great to see.

In Science, we started a new topic; forces. The children performed experiments with different objects to see if they dropped to the floor at the same rate. It was wonderful to see everyone so engaged in this task.