Year 4 blog. "Jesus is our shelter. We are the people inside it because He protects us. " (Kai in Year 4)

It has been an amazing week in Year 4! It feels lie we are really soaring with our learning! Children have enjoyed so much this week creating their own Brer Rabbit characters and then beginning to write their own stories. The quality of them is really good. We are just trying hard now to master the grammar skills we need for Year 4 and use them in all our writing. In maths. we have found equivalent fractions tricky this week - but we have got there in the end.

Most importantly, we have been on a journey through Holy Week together this week. It has been so hard, as a school, not to be able to share our Holy week journey with you in the form of class assemblies. We all miss that community reflection and sense of shared experience we get when as parents, teachers and children, we come together.

However, in class, imagining how Jesus felt every step of the way is helping the children develop their compassion and love for Jesus and others. Children asked questions such as, “How did God feel, seeing his only Son on the cross?” and “Did heaven open when Jesus died?” We have been role playing each part of the story, which we will share as a special video in next week’s blog. Yesterday, children wrote their reflections on the Crucifixion of Jesus and they were so very beautiful and personal to them.

Let’s Celebrate!

I would like to celebrate the growing maturity of all our children this week by awarding a Cooper Crab certificate to the whole class. They are so utterly focused and also have a real desire to do well. I LOVE teaching them!

I have also awarded this week a Bobby Bee certificate to Holly for trying so hard with all learning and being so enthusiastic!

Also, a Lizzie Ladybird certificate to Grace for doing her utmost to listen, contribute all the time and strive to improve in all she does. Well done to two lovely young ladies!

Music stars this week were Kiefer and Olivia.

PE champs this week were Max and Asher - super football and sportsmanship.

So far in year 4, these children have met their reading targets: Max, Harriet, Christian, Isabella, Saul and Mason. Well done!

Notices.

We have been busy competing in class houses this half term. Children receive learning points all the time when they display the attributes of our learning characters. They also get learning points for work in books.

Next week, the winning house will be able to come on the final day (Thursday) in their own clothes with maybe an element of their house colour eg a belt, cardigan, hair band if possible.

We will let the winning class house know via text on Wednesday.

We break up on Thursday for Easter at 3.30pm

Well Spring has finally definitely sprung! We hope you have a lovely weekend with your hard-working, lovely children. God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Forster.

Year 5 Home Learning to be handed in on Thursday 1st April

Welcome to this weeks learning!

Task 1 Reading

Please enjoy your novel everyday. We read at school everyday when we arrive in the morning- it is lovely if we return to this world again last thing at night! Keep loving those books they are the key to all successful learning.

NB for parents: The link for parents to your child’s Accelerated Reader account -to help you see your child’s progress is at the top of this page.

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Task 2 Maths

It is great to see everyone’s TT Rockstar average daily times shoot up this week I can see you have been practicing daily - make sure you do those 5-10 minutes everyday!

I have decided to post an image of our fleuney efforts each week - we have an average of 3mins each day over the past 7 days. I’m sure we can get that to 5mins. You can see too that we have 93% participation- all good but can we do even better?

Task 3 Maths IXL

We have worked sooo hard on our Four Operation rules over this term we have almost mastered long multiplication and long division too )sooo proud of you).

We know that the product of two numbers is the answer when we times and the quotient is the answer when we divide- with that in mind please complete F8.

We will be moving onto fractions so to get jog your memory complete the fractions review S1

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TASK 4 English - focused writing task

We explored the pros and cons of Fracking last week- there was a lot of cracking work (did you get my pun? :D

I want you to imagine you are a Journalist this week. Imagine that Fracking has continued just outside of Blackpool in Little Plumpton. The Fracking has caused a terrible earthquake: Here is the key information

It happened at at 9: 50pm (Friday 26th March) .

I shook houses, knocking ornaments over and even TV’s fell from wall.

A crack appeared too in the promenade at Blackpool near to the Tower.

Slates fell off a roof in St. Annes and a man (Simon Jones 45 a teacher) had to be taken to hospital with head injuries.

The Fracking company have Quadrilla have been drilling for shale gas on the site for only 2 months

I would like you to write an opening paragraph a News report plus an impactful Headline! I have attached a lesson from earlier this term (14mins) to remind you about how to write that opening paragraph to the report! BUT BE AWARE IT IS A MEMORY JOGGER NOT THE LESSON YOU HAVE TO WRITE ABOUT THIS EARTHQUAKE! Once you have written it type and edit it into your Purple Mash

Here is the Success Criteria grid to help you too - make sure you have all the features. Edit your work for spelling errors and the quality of your punctuation too.

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Task 5 Spelling

Do you remember this lesson from a few weeks ago? It is a great way to remember these tricky words! Learn the little stories and rhymes for next week! Will you be able to teach another child in school? Before next Thursday complete the spelling text on Purple Mash too.

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Enjoy - you can do it!

YEAR 4 HOME LEARNING To be handed in by Thursday 1st April

Read, read, read!

It is the last week to meet your reading target! Come on - go for it! We have 8 children in class who have done it. I am sure we can get more!

Maths

This week you have:

1. a double - sided fraction sheet to complete

2. IXL units Y20 and Y21

English - Spelling

1. Mark the teacher Homophone sheet

2. 2 Purple mash homophone quizzes. Practise any you get wrong in your books.

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 24th March 2021

Here is your home learning for this week. Last week’s homework was exceptional and the bar was raised. I have included some excellent examples onto the display board above for inspiration.

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SPELLING

This week, your spellings focus on silent letters.

Complete the dictation and practise the spellings at home.

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Maths

Well done to the children who became masters this week in IXL. You have worked really hard.

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This week, you have three IXL strands to complete. Two of them are revision and you should be fairly quick at completing them, the second one is consolidating volume.

BB.1 - What is the 3D shape?

BB.2 - Count vertices, edges and faces.

CC.10 - Volume of figures made up of cubes.

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Science

What are the effects of caffeine on the body? We have looked at exercise as a way to keep our body healthy but let’s start looking at the effect of certain things. In class we have looked at smoking and alcohol…but what about caffeine? This week I would like you to research and produce a information page all about the effects of caffeine on the body.

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Answer these questions as part of your information page:

• What is caffeine?

• What does caffeine do to the body?

• Which food and drinks contain caffeine?

• Interesting facts

Here are two websites that will help you with your research

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This week...

This week we have been continuing with our investigations as well as concentrating on our number work, sounds, planting and growing, celebrating St. Patricks’ Day and making dens to tell the story of the Three Little Pigs. It’s been an exhausting week.

Our garden is beginning to look much tidier and we have planted a butterfly and bee patch, potatoes, sunflowers and our broad bean plants. If you have any plants that you would like to donate yo our garden we would be most grateful. We will try very hard to look after them!

On Tuesday we celebrated St. Patricks’ Day. We watched a short video about the story of St. Patrick and them drew and coloured pictures. Click here to watch the story.

We have played lots of number games this week and read many many stories associated with a number. On Wednesday the children acted out the story of the Three Little Pigs. The wolf was very scary!! Arghhhhhh!

We also introduced Numberblocks Number 6. Click here to watch! The children also enjoyed this episode all about holes. Click here. Also, here’s the Numberblocks version of the Three Little Pigs…enjoy! Click here.

Through the week the children have been playing number snap, fishing for sounds and hunting the number gingerbread! Those gingerbread men kept running away and hiding in the nursery and garden! Listen to Mr. Tumble telling the story here.

To tie in with our floating topic we had another bubble blowing afternoon. It was great fun. We watched our bubbles float off over the school roof. Some of the children blew enormous bubbles!!

It’s hard to believe we still had time to take part in even more learning and fun, but we did. Look at everything else we did this week!

Over the next couple of weeks we will be focusing on the Easter story. I have attached our plans to the button below for you to take a look at. Next week I will be posting more information.

Lastly, let’s hope the good weather continues and we can get out in the sunshine, we certainly need it. Enjoy your weekend and we look forward to seeing on Monday.

Barbara