Hungry Little Minds

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‘Many little things light up hungry little minds. Children take everything in, and even the smallest things you do with them can make a big difference. They love it when you chat and read with them, even when they’re too young to understand everything. Whatever the time and wherever you are, you can turn almost anything in to a game. And every little things you do together will help set them up nicely for the day they start school’

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There's only one world and one me!

Look at our wonderful self portraits! We have displayed them for you all to see!

Year 6 Home Learning - Week 2

Please can you complete the following homework to be handed in next Tuesday. Thank you

Just a reminder about the standard of homework expected. It should replicate the standard of work that is in your school books with all aspects completed.

Maths - Ensure you have completed all strands A1 - A6.

Complete strand A7 - Roman Numerals as a reminder from last year.

Reading - As always….read, read, read, read, read.

Spellings - resistible, reversible, legible, visible, inaudible

syllable, enjoyable, adorable, unstable, durable, movable, enable, liable, fable, savable

If there are any words that you do not know the meaning of, please look them up.

Geography - This week we have been learning about the mountainous regions of South America. This started with looking at tectonic plates and volcanoes. Can you choose either tectonic plates or volcanoes and make a poster all about them. Be as creative as possible! This can be done on the computer or drawn, it really is up to you!

Assembly lines - Please make sure you know your lines and song lyrics for our final practice on Monday morning.

Year 3 Homework to be handed in Wednesday 25th September

MATHS on Purple Mash- Please complete the 2Do Maths task ‘Read and write numbers’ to compliment what we are working on in class.

ENGLISH on Purple Mash- Please practise your homophones on the quiz set on the 2Do list. We will be looking at this in more detail next week in lessons. Remember homophones are words that SOUND the same but have a different meaning and spelling.

We have also stuck in some extra spellings and numbers for you to practise at home in your home learning books. We have noticed many children need extra practise at forming their digits the correct way and spelling of tricky numbers.

READING- It is vital that you read every night and make sure that you are reading to an adult. Ask questions, expand your vocabulary and discuss the characters. Enjoy your quiet time together!

Optional homework

We have really been enjoying our yoga sessions with Mrs Ward. Why not put some quiet music on and practise some of our yoga techniques. Can you maybe teach one of your grown ups? Practise being still and sitting mindfully. Breathe through your nostrils. What sounds can you hear around you when you are truly mindful? Collect them for Mrs Ward.

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” E.B. White

What a lovely, exciting week it has been. We have experienced a lot of awe and wonder this week as we thought about God’s creation. We each examined a leaf and looked at the intricate patterns, different shapes and veins running through it. Just one tiny part of God’s creation, yet so amazing! We wrote poems/prayers praising God and asking Him to help us look after our world. They were beautiful.

Today, as part of our English lesson on explaining seed dispersal, we learned about the humble dandelion and how it awaits the wind to disperse each seed by individual parachute away from the adult plant. It is a great time of year to look at seeds and dispersal as all the flowers are dying - why not have a look round the garden and find the seeds of plants growing?

Also to practise the language of explanation, children have been pretending they were Goldilocks and explaining how it came about that they ended up causing such disaster in the 3 bears’ cottage! I have been VERY impressed with how hard they have worked.

We have also cracked on with maths this week - Roman numerals at the beginning of the week, moving on to exploring our own number system. We are understanding place value - this means really getting to grips with the value of each number and what it means. We are trying hard.

Children enjoyed flute this week - they learned how to play their mouthpieces. It can take quite a while to master how to blow correctly so don’t worry children if you do not get it right away. Next Monday, there is no flute lesson, but the Monday after they should be bringing their flutes home.

We are continuing with all our plant investigations. Poor Harcourt’s plant is losing flowers rapidly as it only receives 10ml of water a day. We have a plant without leaves that is looking pretty sad too! We have discovered that seeds need warmth to germinate as the ones in the freezer have not! We also think that they need air, because the one immersed in water is not germinating either! However, the one growing in a paper towel has germinated which proves they don’t need soil. Children are really enjoying drawing conclusions from these investigations.

It was lovely to see so many parents (some familiar) on Wednesday evening. I am getting to know your faces now! Below is a link to the powerpoint presentation I gave, in case you could not make it.

Let’s Celebrate!

Children this week have voted for their Year 6 house captains and Year 6 have been given all their positions of responsibility. Our class have also voted for their class councillors who will represent year 4 in school council meetings. Well done Georgia and Daniel.

In our first week of learning certificates, Clayton received a Bobby Bee certificate for always joining in every lesson and buzzing with enthusiasm. It is lovely to see you believing in yourself like Bobby Bee!

Emma received a Cooper Crab certificate for being such a focused learner - you are always ready to learn and you listen to every word. Well done for managing distractions.

Notices

Monday - dance auditions for any children wanting to take part.

Wednesday - Parkview trip. Normal time

Thursday - Swimming - prompt at 8.30 please

PE days Monday- Mr Nay’s sports club at lunch, Wednesday - Yoga, Thursday - swimming, Friday - PE outside.

Choir begins on Monday 30th September

Please bring all paperwork back on Monday so we can update our records.

Please could we ensure children have their reading books every day.

Please visit the Discover part of our website to look at recommended snacks to bring in each day.

Have a beautiful Autumn weekend with your family looking at God’s wonderful creation - especially those beautiful children!

God bless, Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Mrs Kennedy.

Home Learning 13.9.19

The children’s homework this week is all about READING!

The children have each been given a copy of the Read Write Inc. speed sounds chart and a lolly stick. This is the children’s to keep. Please spend time pointing to each of the sounds in and out of order with the lolly stick. Being able to fluently recognise, read and correctly say these sounds is invaluable to the children’s progression in reading and writing.

The children may not have learned all of the sounds at school yet, it would be wonderful for the children to become familiar with them, all ready for when they are explicitly taught. Watch this space as over the coming weeks the children will be producing a video on how to correctly pronounce the sounds!

Next week’s show and tell (Friday) will be for the children to bring in their favourite book from home. Children can bring this book in on any day and keep it safely in their tray.

Please read with the children as much as possible over the weekend and remember to record the children’s reading in their log.

Finally, thank you for supporting all of the children with decorating their home learning books. It was amazing to see their personality all over the covers!

Year 5 homework to be handed in Thursday 19th September

Reading

Reading every night! ENJOY!!!

Maths IXL

Please complete A1 and A2

History

The children have started researching in the Greek Gods. They have brought this home to complete. The cards in their bags create a fan. I would like the children to bring these back so we can pin them together and display them. I have linked one useful website here

Spellings

This week we ave learnt the ay sound when it appears as “eigh” ey” “ei”

Please learn: reign, neighbour, obey, vein, eighteen, weight, prey, freight, sleigh veil, they

History optional

We have chatted about the film “Jason and the Argo-naughts” in class. It was made along time ago and its special effects are creative but fun to watch now! If you have time to watch it with your child I know they will gain a great deal as it references a lot of the learning we are doing at the moment. I have found the whole film on You-Tube. why not buy some popcorn and enjoy- there are some scary bits so sharing the experience would be best!

Thank you Mrs H

"Let your dreams stay big and your worries stay small."

We would like to say a huge thank you for the support you have shown as your child has been settling into school life. We could not be more pleased with how well they have all settled into school. This week, during our settling in days, we have been learning all about some of our school learning characters. We have discovered all about Bobby bee’s ENTHUSIASM, Tommy turtle’s BRAVERY, Cooper crab’s CONCENTRATION and Lizzy ladybird’s desire to IMPROVE.

We have also been learning the Nursery rhyme called, ‘I’m a little teapot’. The children really enjoyed learning the actions too. I think we may just have some budding musicians and dancers.

Reminders for next week:

1. School begins at 8:45 and finishes at 3:30.

2. Our PE lessons will begin next week. These are TUESDAY and THURSDAY each week. Please remember that if your child does have their ears pierced, that their earrings are removed before coming to school on both of these days.

3. On Wednesday at 6:00pm, you are most welcome to come and spend some time in the classroom exploring our new school website. This also will give anybody the chance to ask any questions that they maybe wondering.

Show and Tell:

Next week our Show and Tell theme is: Our family. We would love for the children to continue to learn more about each other and therefore this topic will help us to do this. Please could you help your child to select a toy, maybe one bought by a special family member or one that holds a particular memory, or a photograph and discuss this with them before show and tell. Thank you.

 We hope that you all have a wonderful weekend together as a family.

Miss Bassett and Miss Neves

Year 2 Home Learning - 13.9.19

Thank you for all of the wonderful drawings and photographs of families, it was great to gain a better understanding of the different people the children talk about each day. Also thank you for backing and protecting your children’s books - hopefully they’ll last us for the year now.

This week’s home learning

Every child has come home with a log in book mark containing usernames and passwords for Accelerated Reader, IXL and Purple Mash.

This week, I would like the children to follow the link on the bottom of their Purple Mash log in and have a play. They can investigate what’s on there and have a go at completing their choice of activities and games. Enjoy!

IXL log ins have slightly changed so please check these. Please complete sections:

ENGLISH

A.1 A.2

MATHS

A.1 A.2 A.3

The Accelerated Reading log in will not work at home. Further details of how parents can check reading progress through Accelerated Reader will follow.

Finally, all of the children have come home with new reading books. Please read every day at home; remember books can be quizzed on and changed daily if needed. As the length of the children’s books grow longer, they will be expected to keep these for longer periods of time.

Thank you

Miss Woodend

This week....

It has been such a wonderful week at nursery. The children have embraced nursery life with great enthusiasm, we are so pleased.

During this week we have been painting and drawing pictures of ourselves. We have looked closely at our faces and bodies in a mirror and asked questions such as “how many”, “why”, “the same or different” and “what does each body part do?” We hope to have our 'There’s only one world and one me’ display finished next week, please try and pop in for a look! We will be extending this learning thread by discussing exercise and healthy eating.

At the beginning we introduced the number 1 and have spent the whole week exploring this particular number in all its entirety. We have found it hiding in our environment, in books and in songs that we have been singing, in fact we found there is 1 ‘something’ everywhere.

Could I take this opportunity to remind everyone to ensure that your child has one piece of fruit for each session that they are at nursery and a blue Our Lady book bag. Book bags can be purchased fro Top Mark in Wood St, St Annes.

This week everyone should have received their welcome newsletter from their key person. If for some reason you have not yet received yours please let me know.

I believe the weather is going to be lovely this weekend, I hope you all have the time to enjoy it!

Homework for Year 4 to be handed in by Thursday 19th September

1. Essential Paperwork (parent homework!)- please make sure all your paperwork from the induction night is completed and handed in by Monday so we can update our records. Many thanks.

2. Purple mash - Please complete the 2do ‘Home-row keys (typing practice) and the 2do Practise one more and one less to 1001 (racing game)

3. Timetable - Please make yourself a timetable and write on it things you need to remember for school each day (reading book and record needs to be remembered every day.) You could also include PE days- if you need swimming stuff, homework books and anything else to help you get yourselves organised now you are a mature Year 4 learner.

   There is a timetable you can download on this website you can use. You need to click on DISCOVER at the top. Then DAILY THINGS TO REMEMBER. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and it is there!

   Optional homework

   We have been blessed with a weekly yoga session. Put some quiet music on. Practise some of our yoga techniques. Can you remember our seed which grows into a flower? How about our beautiful bird and our butterfly? Practise being still and sitting mindfully. Breathe through your nostrils. What sounds can you hear around you when you are truly mindful? Collect them for Mrs Ward.

Homework - Wednesday 11th September 2019

Maths - as we have been looking at place value this week, please can you complete the following IXL strands

A1, A2 and A4

We will check progress next week so make sure you give it your all.

RE - What makes a good leader? Can you log into Purple Mash and complete the ‘to do’ set? A wanted poster on leadership. What makes a good leader? Is there a leader who you admire?

English - Reading - Read, read, read, read every single day! Whilst you are reading can you collect nouns in your homework book? Think about whether they are proper, common or an abstract noun.

Spellings -

climb, thumb, subtle, limb, comb, tomb, numb, crumb, doubt, debt

credible, divisible, eligible, possible, responsible

Optional Homework - Over the past few weeks we have been learning how to do yoga and to be mindful. Practise yoga every day and mindful breathing. Why not create an image of your tree, bird or butterfly that we have been imagining.