Year 4 blog "Friendship is built on two things; Respect and trust."

What an interesting week we have had! This week children have been given learning targets to help them strive to be the best learner they can be, which they keep in their pencil cases. They have worked their absolute socks off this week! In English, they finished their fairy tale based on the Pied Piper and then wrote another story, ‘The Little Match Girl.’was a very sad story which helped us to feel so grateful for all we have.

In history this week, we have formed our own Anglo-Saxon village - ‘Angleville.’ Each child has a character and a family they belong to. We have done a huge detailed drawing of our lovely village to find out more about Anglo-Saxon life. We found out why they invaded our country, this week. Children were challenged to make their first ever movie, explaining this and and the winning one would be put online. Here it is:

Well done to the Shoemaker family - very good attempt at your first movie! I bet children will enjoy their Anglo-Saxon homework task this week - they are loving being immersed in the Anglo-Saxon world!

In maths this week, we mastered column subtraction - be sure to watch the video on our help section to see how we do it at our school.

We had a lovely worship of remembrance on Wednesday and took part in two minutes of silence.

RHE focus

This week we focused on God’s purpose for us and how we can grow closer to God in prayer. We learned that we are never bothering God and He wants us to trust him with our worries and our daily thoughts. We then did one of Mrs Lyons’ stories - “Whisper your Worries, Rosie Wren,’ and we had a brilliant conversation in class about what worries us. We discussed together how we can manage our worries and not let them control us. We learned about putting our trust in God - that He always knows what is best for us.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, Mrs Maddocks gave out Music awards. Both Lena and Jacob O got this for excellent listening and effort.

The certificate winners this week are Jacob M (Bobby Bee) for super enthusiasm and effort and Olivia received a Kiki Chameleon certificate for superb writing and always thinking of creative ways to do things.

PE champs this week are Hollie-Rose and John-Joseph for super skills

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

God bless, Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather, Miss Forster and Miss Edmondson

When Goldilocks came to nursery!

Over the past two weeks we have been reading the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children have been retelling the story using puppets, drawing pictures and acting out. It’s been great fun!

We have also been focusing on the number three and trying to think of any other stories or rhymes we might know with the number three in it. We did think of quite a few books to explore as well as some stories we made up too!

On Wednesday we found out that Goldilocks had visited nursery whilst we were all at home and played with all our toys. She even broke one of our chairs!!

Click on the slide show below to see the pictures of all the things Goldilocks got up to and ask your child to tell you a story all about them!

Watch this space because next week we will be reading the Three Billy Goats Gruff!!! I hope the troll doesn’t pay us a visit!

Have a lovely weekend. Plenty of time for telling stories!

Barbara

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 11th November 2020

Spellings - suffix ful

boastful, disrespectful, insightful, neglectful, truthful, prayerful, skillful, watchful, harmful, powerful, peaceful, dreadful, wrongful, vengeful, beautiful

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Maths - IXL

Please complete the division units of work D4, D5 and D6

Can you also visit Times Tables Rockstars?

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Remembrance Day Art

You can create some beautiful pieces of artwork digitally. Can you create a Poppy?

Next week we will be creating some digital artwork as we turn ourselves into Kings and Queens of Tudor times. Have a practice for home learning. Using the to do that I have set you on Purple Mash, can you create a poppy. Think about what tools you are going to use to get your desired effect. Be creative!

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Online Safety

Next Tuesday is this term’s online safety day so I have set you two challenges on Purple Mash. One is a game…what keeps us safe online? The second is a quiz about your digital footprint. We will be exploring how our digital footprint has changed, especially during lockdown…so have a think about what you use the internet for at home? What digital devices have you got?

Home Learning 6th November 2020

THIS WEEK WE ARE USING COMPUTER BASED LEARNING.

This week’s homework should be completed by next Thursday please. Many thanks.

Reading:

Read at home every day. You can quiz during school time when a book has been completed.  Please remember that you should all be selecting books from the school library within your ZPD to read at home and at school. You may also choose to read extra books from home but these should be within your ZPD please.

(Parents: Don’t forget you can check on your child’s progress on Accelerated Reader -  this will let you know which books they have read and quizzed on and also their progress towards their reading target.)

Maths:

IXL maths using the IXL website.  Please complete any of the units E (addition) and F (subtraction). How many of these units can you complete?

Play the number bonds game on mathplayground to practise your number bonds.

https://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_20.html

Spellings:

Please learn the spellings below ready for a spelling quiz in class next week.

eighth      heard     thought     breathe     scene     seen     sighed     side    

The first 4 spellings are high frequency words. The next 4 are homophones—they sound the same but they have different spellings. Please can you make sure that you put the words in context so that the children know which word is being used. Thank you.

Don’t forget to find different activities from “Fun Ways to Learn your Spellings” sheet to help your child to learn their spellings.

The children should be able to write the spellings independently - this will need to be written clearly and correctly during the spelling quiz.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. -

I hope that you all had a lovely week and managed to enjoy some time together as a family.

The children have settled down well into their learning again and we have had a lovely week.

Today in PE we started our team building unit. This was very exciting with lots of different challenges which the children were so enthusiastic to work together on. What fantastic Roger Robins we have—there was so much co-operation and focus in how they solved the different problems. Well done children. In maths this week, we have continued with our adding and subtracting. Regular fluency lessons are also ensuring that the children are practising and over learning the skills. In English, we have started our new topic which will see us looking at the text The Green Children and the also The Greenling. This has been most exciting and has generated lots of ideas, talk and questions. What curious Clara Clownfish and enthusiastic Bobby Bees we have been!. All children have had their reading targets reset and some children have also received new ZPDs. The children have been so enthusiastic about their reading. It has been wonderful to feel the buzz that is happening in the classroom when it comes to reading! Well done children—keep up the good work. We have some children who are so enthusiastic about their reading that they have already reached their reading target for the term!! (They have done this by reading lots during half term and then quizzing on what they have read.) In Science the children have started their new topic of electricity. A very busy and exciting week with lots of enthusiastic and curious children.

Let’s Celebrate:

This week our certificates go to Molly-Ann and Leo.  Leo receives a Bobby Bee certificate because he is always so enthusiastic during learning. You are always so bubbly and ready to learn Leo and you are trying so hard with all of your work. You always join in and have so much to offer. Well done, keep up the good work!   Molly-Ann receives a Lizzie Ladybird certificate because she keeps trying to improve her work. You always listen carefully to advice and try to make improvements in your work. You are also looking carefully at what you have done and trying to spot where you can improve independently too. Well done.

Harvey received Role Model of the week for lunchtime. Well done Harvey. It is great to be a good role model,

We are delighted that Evan, Owen and Leo have achieved 100% of their reading target already. Well done boys. You have done a super job with your reading. I have reset their targets with a very tricky challenge and all three of them are determined to try to reach them again before the end of this half term. The children are all determined to climb up the rainbow faster this half term and what a fabulous start we have had.

Things to Note:

• To make things easier for you if your child is off school due to illness, we have created an online form for you to complete. This form can be found on the Discover page, Attendance and there is a button at the bottom which says REPORTING AN ILLNESS. Please complete the form and submit it in the case of illness. We hope that this helps. Thank you.

• As the weather gets colder, please make sure that children are wearing multiple layers for school. We need to keep the windows /door open as much as we can for ventilation and the classroom can get quite cold. We have discussed this in class and suggested sweatshirt/ cardigan plus tracksuit top, vests and t.shirts under school t.shirts etc. Thank you.

•  Please can I remind you about the Home School Partnership form which I sent the link for with your child’s mid term report. If you have not yet completed this form please complete and submit it asap. Many thanks. (Click on the button below)

• Please make sure that you look at the home learning page for this week’s home learning. This should be completed by next Thursday.  This week’s learning is COMPUTER BASED. Many thanks.

Thank you for all your continued support and co-operation throughout the term. Another successful week!

We hope that you have a lovely weekend and have a chance to share some time together as a family.

Take care and stay safe

The Year 3 Team      Miss Brisco, Miss Edmondson, Miss Woodrow and Mrs Mather.

Contact us at:

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

k.edmondson@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 2 Home Learning - Week Ending 6th November 2020

Maths

Please complete the addition sheet attached below. I have also included a die template for the children to use if they wish. Alternatively, the children can use a die that they may already have at home.

Have a go at playing the game below which will help to consolidate counting in steps of 2s, 5s and 10s.

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English

Please read your reading book for at least 10 minutes per day. I have spoken to the children this week about quizzing and reminded them that some books should be read more than once before quizzing. For those children on longer books, I reminded them to really take their time so that when it comes to quizzing, they have a good understanding of what happened.

As mentioned in this week’s blog, we have been using dictionaries to help us to discover new vocabulary. If you do have a dictionary at home, it would be great if the children could practise the skill. You could give your child a word to find each night and time how long it takes them to find it.
If you don’t have a dictionary at home, you could write a list of words for your child that they then have to put into alphabetical order. Can you challenge them by writing two words that begin with the same letter?

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Spellings

Set 6 from the spelling pack -
some come they this there that
Adding the suffix -ly -
sadly loudly quietly slowly quickly bravely

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IXL Maths

I.1 I.2 I.3 I.4

IXL English

H.1 H.2 H.3 H.4 H.5

Year 4 Blog "Autumn is the Year's last, loveliest smile!"

What a super week its been! We kicked off the week by watching the lovely Year 6 assembly all about Gratitude, which really made us stop and be grateful, in these uncertain times.

We have dived straight into our History topic of the Anglo-Saxons. What excited children! They love history! We found out what a typical village looked like and how society was organised Children produced some excellent diagrams of Anglo-Saxon settlements. We then found out what was happening in AD410 when they invaded - Why was it so easy and why did they choose England?

We have now mastered column addition in maths and have started column subtraction. We were so engrossed the other day that children didn’t realise it was break time! Enthusiasm for reading is at an all time high too. Children are telling me they are engrossed in their books at home and are progressing well though their books.

We have started to write our stories in English which are based on the Pied Piper this week too! I have never taught such an enthusiastic group of writers - so many children write at home and bring their creations in too! A lot of budding authors!

Have a look below at our Dance of the Pied Piper. Children enjoyed this mischievous music and got right into character. They particularly enjoyed the end of the dance where they get to hypnotise the rat!

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, our certificate winners were India for really challenging herself, Christian for being so enthusiastic in ll our learning - especially history and geography and Holly for bubbling with enthusiasm!

PE stars were Max and Grace this week - some super effort in outside PE!

Notices

Please could we make sure all children have an art t-shirt/shirt in class and have their full tracksuits for PE now the weather is turning.

I have talked to all the children about the importance of keeping up with and being on time with homework. We have a big emphasis on the times tables in Year 4 - this week TT Rockstars will be set up to practise the 8x tables ready for a test next week.

Don’t forget to do those little chores children for your tired grown-ups and raise some money for Streetlife - our class charity. We have a special tin in class to collect.

Have a lovely, restful weekend,

God bless and thank you for your continuous support,

Mrs Lyons, Miss Edmondson, Mrs Mather and Miss Forster