Year 4 blog. Friday 10th December "Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man." (Pope Francis)

What a lovely week in Year 4. Our classroom is looking a little more Christmassy as we put our tree up and decorated with tinsel. Children are still working harder than ever! In maths, children have practised many mental strategies for addition and subtraction and they are now selecting the most efficient one to use - reasoning about the numbers in their calculations, which is lovely to see. We have started learning all about fairy tales, using ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin,’ as our model. Children have been practising lots of grammar skills and are now applying these to their own stories which they have created.

This afternoon, children shared their wonderful homework with each other, finding out about Christmas in many different cultures. We also made snowflakes to decorate our class!

In other news, Children have performed in class a medley of recorder songs - some Christmas ones and some others. I have put them in order that they learned them so you can see their progress. Enjoy!

Let’s Celebrate!

These children have met their reading targets this week: Christian, Owen, Rosa and Edi

This week our certificate winners are:

1. Iris (Sadie Spider/Kiki Chameleon) For trying so hard and putting so much thought into all she does

2. Harvey (Tommy Turtle) for being a brave learner and having a go.

3. Emilia (Kiki Chameleon) For using her creativity and listening to advice.

Music stars this week were Dominic and Rosa.

Notices

• Linked to our upcoming Science topic of Solids, Liquids and Gases, there will be a ‘Cosmetic Chemistry,’ trip after holidays on Wednesday 26th January to UCLAN, Preston. The cost of the trip will be £11 payable on ParentPay by January 19th

• Thursday 16th December Christmas dinner and party day. Children can wear party/Christmas clothes and bring in one special snack and their own drink (non-fizzy)

• Children now no longer need a shoebox after Christmas, as the topic has been changed!

• Children break up on Friday 17th December at 2:00pm

Have a lovely weekend everyone. God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

"Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again; rejoice!" Philippians 4:4

With only one week left to go until the start the Christmas holidays, the children in Year 2 are now definitely full of the festive cheer! This week we have been busy filming our Nativity performance and I have been so proud of how well the children have spoken out and how wonderfully they have sang and danced! Thank you for helping your children to learn their parts - it’s really helped us to get through the filming much quicker!

In English we have continued reading our focus story ‘The Great Fairytale Disaster’. The children are now great at retelling the beginning of the story using their story maps, which they are very excited to show you for their home learning.

Thursday was a day filled with all things History and Florence Nightingale! Miss Brisco has been teaching the children History this term and she has told me that she has been blown away by their knowledge, understanding and enthusiasm! I know that they have been busy creating a quiz containing all of their new knowledge - I can’t wait to have a go at these myself!

In RE we continued reflecting upon the Nativity story and this week focused on Mary how how she must have been feeling. We listened to the song ‘Don’t Worry Mary’ before unpicking what they lyrics actually mean and what message they are spreading. The class then had a go at writing their own verses which hopefully we’ll have time to sing and share next week.

In HRSE, our friend KS came out for the last time in a while to teach us our final bit of learning. Please read the letter below to find out what we discussed. We each said a ‘goodbye’ and ‘see you soon’ to KS as he will be coming back in a couple of months to see how much of our learning we can remember. The evaluation sheet which is mentioned in the letter below has been sent home with your child. Please could these be returned to school with your child next week. Thank you.

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Let’s Celebrate

Well done Beth – you have been a real ‘Focused Cooper Crab’ this week!  You have tried really hard to stay on task and have managed any distractions around you brilliantly.  I was also super proud of you during the filming of our Nativity production.  You stayed in character whilst the other angels were performing and didn’t grumble once!

Tommy, you have certainly lived up to your name this week and have been such a ‘Brave Tommy Turtle!’  It has been wonderful to see you having a go at your work independently this week, particularly your writing, and you are beginning to show just what you are capable of when you put your mind to it and believe in yourself.  Keep going Tommy – we’re really proud! 

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Notices

Christmas Party Day - In class on the 16th December, we will be having our Christmas party. Children can come to school wearing their party clothes ready for a day of fun, dancing and games. Please do ensure that warm clothes and sensible footwear are still worn as we will be going outside at playtimes and lunch. I feel layers may be a good idea! On this day, children can also bring an extra small snack (packet of crisps or a chocolate bar) to enjoy and a drink (not fizzy). The children will also be enjoying a Christmas lunch in the hall.

Keep an eye out for the winning house team of learning points for this term which will be sent out next week. This house can come to school on Friday 17th December wearing their house colours/own clothes.

Friday 17th December - School finishes for Christmas at 2pm and 2.10pm and reopens on Tuesday 4th January.

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Have a wonderful weekend with your families.
God Bless,
Miss Woodend and the rest of the Year 2 team.

It's the most wonderful time of the year.....

It has been all systems go at nursery this week. Filming of the Nativity is now complete and has gone off to Mrs. Gregan who is very kindly editing and compiling it for us. Thank you Mrs. Gregan.

We have finished our Christmas cards and a special surprise. Everyone is completely exhausted! Some of the children at the end of the day have struggled to stay awake. This is in addition to all our usual learning at nursery.

As last weeks quiz was such a hit, the nursery ladies have put their creative thinking caps on and come up with another fun quiz called ‘Guess who came to nursery?” Look at the pictures in the gallery below and ask:

Who came to nursery and why?

What do you think Father Christmas was cooking in the home corner?

Father Christmas is on his laptop in one of the photos, what was he writing ( I hope he wasn’t adding Colette to the bad list!!)

Which story was Father Christmas reading?

Father Christmas was having a good look at our emotions wall, how do you think he feels?

Why was Father Christmas washing his hands ( I hope he made a hundred bubbles!)

Why was Father Christmas in the nursery office?

What is Father Christmas having a drink of?

What colour remote controlled car is Father Christmas playing with?

What colour bauble is Father Christmas looking at on our tree?

Click here to listen to the story ‘Santa Needs a Wee’

ENJOY!

On Friday (and throughout the week) the children and nursery ladies have been wearing their finest Christmas outfits. Here are just a few!

If you fancy some Numberblocks, click here for their Christmas Special and on the button below for a 1-5 cut and stick activity.

Well done to everyone who completed the Purplemash activities. I will set some more! Keep watching!

I hope you all manage some down time this weekend, time to recharge your batteries before the festivities begin at home. We will see you all for the last week of term on Monday (don’t forget school and nursery closes at 2pm on Friday). It is an even busier week culminating with our Christmas party on Thursday and the Nativity going live on Friday.

Barbara, Clare, Colette and Hannah

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 8th December 2021

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Maths - IXL - Maths M10 - M15 Adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators

These are due to be completed for next Wednesday.

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History - Who was Sir Francis Drake? What can you find out about him in relation to the Armada? How did he help Tudor exploration?

Purple Mash Task

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CHRISTMAS - Can you design a Christmas card for our class and a Christmas bauble to be shared?

These are set for you on Purple Mash. They need to be in next Wednesday

Reception Blog Friday 3rd December 2021 "We’re walking in the Air"

What a lovely week we have had. It might have been cold and wet at times but that has not stopped us learning!

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This week we have been thinking all about the story of “The Snowman”. We’ve looked at the story and then ordered this. We’ve made snowflake pictures, decorated snowman biscuits, created our own snowmen and built up a bank of words that link to cold and frosty weather.

In RE this week, we have written our Advent promises and decorated our angels. We have revisited the story of the Nativity, retelling it in our own words and using construction toys.

Please can you practise the words that have been sent home tonight for our Christmas Nativity? Many thanks. Our Nativity goes live on the website for you to watch as a family on the last day of ter,.

In Maths we have been continuing to organise and count objects, recognising that the last number in the count tells us ‘how many’ things there are altogether in a set of objects. A key focus this week has been the deepening of our understanding of 5 as a quantity by linking the number itself to the 5 fingers on one hand.

In Read Write Inc this week we have learnt three new sounds and had more fun segmenting and blending words orally.

For ‘rrrr’ we go ‘down his back and then curl over his arm’.

For ‘j..j..j’ we go ‘down the body, curl and dot’.

For ‘vvvv’ we go “down a wing, up a wing.’

We have added these sounds to the flashcard sets

Kidsafe - This week we have continued with our Kidsafe lessons, We have talked about bullying and how we can say stop if someone continues to do things that upset us in any way. KS told the children that this was happening to him and they were able to explain to KS what he should do.

Please click on the button to read a letter explaining more.

Have a look at the little video of pictures below to see what we have been up to. We have had such a lot of fun!

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Wren is an Enthusiastic Bobby Bee - You have been so enthusiastic and eager to join in with everything this week Wren. Your smiling face has really lit up the classroom and you have had a go with all of the learning opportunities. Well done Wren - keep up the good work!

Dexter is an Enthusiastic Bobby Bee too - You have really enjoyed all of the learning this week Dexter and joined in with everything with a cheery smile and oodles of enthusiasm. Because you have been so enthusiastic, you have encouraged other children in class to be enthusiastic too. Well done Dexter!

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Christmas Charity Fundraising - After great discussion about how to restart our charity work the children agreed that if every family donates £5 we will be able to raise a large sum to present to Brian House. Mrs Hodges has organised ParentPay so that each family and members of staff can make a charitable donation. Thank you for all of your kind donations. If you have not yet managed to make your donation, there is still time to do so through ParentPay. Thank you.

Today we had our Silly Sock (or tights) with uniform day. It was lovely to see all of the fun socks and tights that the children were wearing.

Next week - Friday 10th December - Christmas themed clothes day (a jumper, a t-shirt or simply Christmas colours).

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 Have a lovely weekend,

The Reception Team

Year 3 Home Learning 3.12.21

Spellings:

This week’s strategy is called ‘Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check’. 

This is probably the most common strategy used to learn spellings. 

Look – First look at the whole word carefully and if there is one part of the word that is difficult, look at that part in more detail. 

Say – Say the word as you look at it, using different ways of pronouncing it if that will make it more memorable. 

Cover – Cover the word.

Write –Write the word from memory, saying the word as you do so. 

Check – Have you got it right? If yes, try writing it again and again! If not, start again – look, say, cover, write, check.

This week we are adding the suffix - ly.

1. serious - seriously

2. final - finally

3. sudden - suddenly

4. quick - quickly

5. careful - carefully

6. immediate - immediately

7. horrible - horribly

8. gentle - gently

Songs for Christmas:

The Angel Song:

Away in a Manger:

English:

This week we have learnt the whole of our ‘Manchester Ridge-back’ report. Here is the story map (excuse the drawings) … please could children practice and see if they can perform it for you, ready for our innovation next week. Particularly the final two paragraphs that have not been as practiced at the others.