We have had a wonderful week both inside and out.
Read moreHomework to be completed for Thursday 12th December
Christmas songs
Please make it your priority to learn the words of our Christmas songs off by heart. Maybe practise two a night. We are doing our first rehearsal in church on Monday!
Flute
Please practise all songs for our first flute concert on Monday.
Maths
We have been practising lots of strategies in addition and subtraction. Children have brought home a sheet to complete where they choose and practise them.
Charlotte’s Web
Please read the extract from Charlotte’s web to your family. Don’t forget to EMPHASIZE the words in italics. Or you could all choose to take a part to read! Tell your family all about our story so far!
Year 2 Home Learning - 6.12.19
I must apologise! The home learning blog hadn’t uploaded from last week!
Maths
I have attached some Christmas addition and subtraction sheets that can be completed at anytime up to Christmas. I understand that Christmas can be an incredibly busy time of year and thought that these might be something nice for the children to complete when they have some spare minutes to keep their learning ticking along.
English
Please complete the attached English activity mat.
Spellings
Set 7 from the spelling pack - have do little out our saw
Doubling the consonant and adding ‘ing/taking off the ‘e’ and adding ‘ing’ - tripping clapping shopping shining racing making
English IXL
A.1 A.2
B.1 B.2 B.3 B.4
C.1 C.2 C.3
E.1 E.2 E.3
K.1 K.2 K.3
L.1 L.2 L.3 L.4
M.1 M.2 M.3 M.4
O.1 O.2 O.3 O.4 O.9 O.10 O.11 O.12
Q.1 Q.2 Q.3 Q.4 Q.5 Q.6
Maths IXL
A.1 A.2 A.3 A.4 A.5 A.6 A.7 A.8 A.9 A.10 A.11 A.20 A.21 A.22 A.24 A.25 A.26 A.27
B.1 B.2 B.3 B.4
D.1 D.2 D.3 D.4 D.5 D.6 D.7 D.8 D.9 D.10 D.11 D.12
E.1 E.2 E.3 E.4 E.5
H.1 H.2 H.3 H.4
NATIVITY PARTS PLEASE!
Miss Woodend
"May this season remind you of the hope, joy, love and peace found in Christ"
I can’t believe we are yet again at the end of another busy week! Our learning has been filled with the Nativity story this week, where the children were challenged to think deeply about why God chose Mary and Joseph and how they might have felt at the time. We looked closely at scripture from the Bible and wrote our own messages to Mary, explaining why she shouldn’t worry and how God would help her. These were absolutely beautiful to read and it was lovely to see the children’s pride as they shared their messages with each other.
Read more'Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world' C.S.Lewis
This week has been all about our writing. We started the week off by showering our thoughts and ideas of the characteristics of each of our dragons- what they look like, where they are found and their unique characteristics. Once we had gathered enough information, the children then wrote their first independent non-chronological report on their chosen dragon. I can’t wait to get marking them! In Maths we are continuing with our addition and subtraction and in RE we have been looking at the true meaning of advent, reflecting on ways we celebrate this special time, in particular the symbolic meaning to the advent wreath. Today we have started our Geography topic on the Arctic, which will be our big focus over the next couple of weeks.
Advent Mass was beautiful once again this morning, with so many families coming to share this time of reflection. Please don’t forget that the last Advent Mass is taking place Next Friday at 8am in the hall. At this incredibly busy time of year, it is important to take time for ourselves and be reminded of the true reasons to celebrate at Christmas.
The awards this week go to …
Thank you Amber for being such a Curious Clownish learner- for asking all the right questions and always wanting to find out more.
Julia you have been such a Kiki Chameleon- well done for showing your creativity in your writing and doing extra writing at home!
Important Information…
Christmas Cards - We had a great chat in class today about Christmas cards and how every year at Christmas, instead of spending money and sending out cards, it is a much kinder idea in the season of Advent to collect the money and choose a Cafod World Gift to buy from us all. We agreed that the children could create or buy one card for the class and then donate any money they would spend on cards to our collection. As we get enough money, we will look at the World Gifts as a class and decide on the ones we would like to purchase for those less fortunate than ourselves.
Christmas jumper and silly sock day on Friday 13th December - Year 5 have organised the event and are hoping to raise over £1000 for local charity Brian House. On this day, children can wear their own clothes with a Christmas jumper and/or silly socks for a small donation of £1.
Our Key stage 2 Christmas performance is on Tuesday 17th December at 2pm and again at 6.30pm. The songs they sing are beautiful
Party day Wednesday 18th December. Drink (not fizzy) and fun snack (chocolate or crisps)- PARTY CLOTHES- sensible shoes for serious dancing!
"Jesus is the Gift that perfectly fits the size of every heart."
Where to begin? A huge well done to all of our children! They were all fantastic! The way that they helped one another, spoke their lines and sang so beautifully, was just amazing. We are all so proud of them. Thank you for all of your support by practising lines at home to make sure they were ready to share the story of Jesus’ birth.
Certificates
Co-operative Roger Robin Tilly for… Being such a thoughtful and caring young girl. You spend so much of your time making beautiful pictures and gifts for your friends and for our worship area. Your love for Jesus Christ is so special, and you use this to follow in his footsteps with your beautiful behaviour. Well done Tilly!
Focused Cooper Crab Rose for… Always concentrating so carefully during our learning. Your effort and hard work shows in all of the wonderful work that you do. It was lovely to see you on the stage with so much confidence during our Nativity. Well done Rose!
Phonics
This weeks focus word is no. Please practise reading and writing this word, as it is one of our High Frequency words that we aim for our Reception children to be able to read, by sight, at the end of Reception. Thank you.
Silly Sock and Christmas jumper day
On Friday 13th December we are asking children and teachers to wear their best Christmas jumper and silly socks. This is because Year 6 would like to raise £1,000 for Brian House. Please bring £1 to school on this day to help Year 6 reach their target. Thank you.
Christmas Cards
At our school we decided many years ago to save/collect the money that we would spend on Christmas cards to buy a special world gift off Cafod’s website. Last year in Reception we were able to buy a watering pump to help a family in Africa have safe water to drink.
Nativity DVD
If you are wanting to buy a DVD of our Nativity, please return your form with the money ASAP. We will be sending off the amount of copies to the company soon, so please don’t miss out.
We hope that you all have a wonderful weekend together as a family.
Miss Bassett, Miss Neves and Mrs Malley
Four Hymns to practice this weekend- some more coming on Tuesday!
We are so proud!
I am sure you will agree that the children told the story of the birth of Christ splendidly in their Nativity play this week. Everyone was so proud of their achievements. Clearly their confidence knows no boundaries!
I would just like to remind you that the Foundation/KS1 Christmas party is on Thursday 19th December 9.30-11.30 am. All the children are invited to join us…party clothes are a must!! However, if it is not your child’s usual session we would be grateful if you could bring your child at 9.30 am and the collect them promptly at 11.30 am.
Also, we break for the Christmas holidays on Friday 20th December at 2 pm.
"Nothing humbles a man like gravity"
This week was filled with tricky science! The children spent Monday exploring gravity and the theories of gravity.
Read more'Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem, let us be drawn by the light of Christ.
Christmas is fast approaching and like every Advent, it is a time to just stop and reflect. During Wednesday Word this week, we discussed the stresses of Christmas and how we could just make a little time for ourselves during this busy time.
Read moreYear 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 12th December
Reading
The class are continuing to make very pleasing progress with their reading. It is a rare day when we haven’y been able to spend 20-30 minutes of our day lost in a book. There is nothing nicer than seeing children lost in their imaginations!
Maths
We have mastery column addition and column subtraction - applying it to problems and large numbers. Please complete B5.
Spellings
The ending que when is sounds like c (cat)
Cheque
antique
grotesque
unique
The ending gue when it sounds like g (gate)
catalogue
league
tongue
dialogue
Please learn them in you favourite way: I have attached some spelling challenge cards to help with fun ways to learn them!
Science
I have set you a new challenge in Purple Mash. This time you have to select an image then place the force arrows on. Please labels your arrows showing the forces acting in the picture. Your Posters were fantastic last week! Have a look at my feedback.
Singing
We need to keep practising our songs- we are doing really well
Week Six
With only two weeks left until we break up for Christmas, we are practising Nativities and a carol service on top of all our wonderful learning. The school is truly a magical place to be, just ask the children!
In Art…
Read moreHome Learning 6.12.19
Maths
The children have been challenged to complete the repeating patterns on the worksheet. To be stuck into home learning books.
For an extra challenge, I would love for the children to come up with their own patterns too. They can complete these in their home learning books.
Reading
As much reading as possible please!
"In a world where you can be anything, be kind."
his week the children have been very busy practising for their Nativity next week. They are so excited to share with you, the greatest story ever told! We have also been reflecting on our Advent promises and what a special time of the year Advent is.
Read moreChristmas Carol Booklet
As promised, I have attached the carol booklet that will be used during our visit to Stella Matutina. Please practise as much as you can over the coming weeks.
Enjoy!
Miss Woodend
Homework to be handed in Wednesday 11th December
Thank you so much for those who have completed the book reviews, they are wonderful and as soon as we have more in we will look at a good place to display them! We were extremely impressed with some of the creative paragraphs with the spellings of the week, especially as it helps the children to understand the meaning of the words and how they can be used in the right context.
CHRISTMAS CONCERT PREPARATION - Please make sure you are practicing and learning the songs ready for our Christmas concert.
READING- Continue to read lots of at home- I am so pleased with the progress the children are making, we need to keep this up!
If you haven’t already, please complete a book review for a book you are reading on purple mash, it will be under the 2do list section ready for you.
SPELLING- There are new spellings this week. Please learn the spellings as much as you can off by heart. See if you can design a picture in your homework book or on a blank piece of paper using the spellings. Look below for some examples.
Heart Special Remember Strength Appear Breath
MATHS - Please complete the IXL sections E5 and E6.
ENGLISH OPTIONAL HOMEWORK- Some of you just could not decide on the dragon you wanted to write about, so if you are feeling inspired and would like to, why not write a non-chronological report on the dragon of your choice or the one you didn’t get chance to write about. Try to use the vocabulary, sentence openers and connectives we have been using in class. I know some of you have already done this, which we have been extremely impressed with in class- we love how some of you go the extra mile with your work, well done!
Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 4th December
Spelling - there was a big improvement in the spelling scores this week. Please keep it up!
Maths - this week we have been working on our two digit multiplication strategies. Have a go at these calculations.
Christmas Concerts - Please learn your lines for the concert and song lyrics. You all have books and lines to learn. These will be coming out on Thursday.
“Play is not a break from learning. It is endless, delightful, deep, engaging, practical learning. It’s the doorway into the child’s heart!” ~ Vince Gowmon
Welcome back Mr Nay!
Read more'Forget your troubles and dance!'
Over the past month, we have just danced and danced and danced! Have a look at what has been going on around the school.
Danceathon
It all started with our Dancethon where we danced from 8am through to 3:30pm - literally non stop! Throughout the day, all classes had a dance lesson with Miss Sarah and Miss Amy from Clifton Academy. This year we aimed to learn and tackle the Cha Cha Cha - Miss Hornby’s favourite! Thank you so much to our wonderful teachers - you made learning a challenging dance so much fun. Now that all the money has been collected and accounted for, we have managed to raise a staggering £1671 to replace part of the trim trail. Keep an eye on it over the next year! Thank you to all of our wonderful parents and families who came and danced with us in the morning. There was certainly lots of smiles on everyones faces.
Have a look at the video below to see our whole school come together for a big Cha Cha Cha in the afternoon!
Dance Festival
Every year, a group of committed dancers face a tough judging panel with the hope of being selected for the dance team. This year, 20 children were successful and trained really hard alongside Mrs Harrison and Miss Bassett week in, week out.
We could not have been prouder as the children took to the stage to perform Absolutely Everybody in front of a packed crowd. Children you were brilliant, your sheer enthusiasm was wonderful to see. We really look forward to seeing the team perform next year…I wonder what the theme will be?
Tudor Dancing at Samlesbury Hall
It is always nice to see what other classes are doing with dance around school. Not only have our Year 6 class been learning and creating their own Tudor style dance in school as part of their lessons, they headed off to Samlesbury Hall on a trip and performed in the great hall there. Never has a school done such a thing there and the staff were blown away. Why not watch the dance below…
Homework to be in by Thursday 6th December
Spellings to be learned for next week are:
Christmas Jesus angel busy arrive centre
young touch double trouble country tough
Could you write a paragraph about the importance of Christmas/Advent using these words?
Flute
Please practise all songs learned so far for your concert.
Maths
IXL V1 and V2 thinking about thermometers and temperature
Reading
Try and meet that reading target - curl up and enjoy your reading book!