Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 12th January 2022

Spelling - Silent letter spellings.

crumb, debt, plumb, scissors, scenario, plaque, design, foreign, reign, anchor, chemical, knowledge, psychology, psalm, receipt, aisle, island, castle, chimney, disguise.

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Maths - It is essential that you know your times tables really, really well.

Visit your HEAT MAP on Times Table Rockstars. Which times tables do you need to focus on? Which ones do you need to ensure you know as quick as the others? Can you get your speed down to less than 2 seconds per table.

IXL - Q1, Q2, Q9 and Q10

Can you practise some short division calculations so that you have mastered the skill?

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English - William Shakespeare

Who is William Shakespeare? Next week you will be writing an Outcome 3 biography. I have set you a To Do on Purple Mash for you to record your research on: Early Life, Education and How he became a playwright.

Focus on:

• Cohesive devices

• Key dates

• Subject specific language.

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Happy New Year!

A big welcome back to nursery everyone. I hope you have managed some rest over the festive period.

This week we welcome a new nursery lady, Justine. She will be working alongside Hannah as a support key person. The children think she is wonderful! When you see her at the gate, introduce yourself and say a say a big hello!

The children have all come back to nursery ready to grow their brains. This week have been ‘finding out’ about Space, and working and thinking like a scientist. We have found out about the Hubble space probe, astronauts, space travel and the moon. We have even written our own song about aliens, (to the tune of ‘The Animals went in Two by Two’).

An alien came to visit you,

He roared, he roared,

An alien came to visit you,

He roared, he roared,

An alien came to visit you,

His head was green and his nose was blue,

You could hear him roaring

Did he frighten you?

NO!!

Here are our plans for January. We are going to be so busy!

Key Person Blog

Wow what a week to blast off with! We cannot believe the children have returned this week, so calm, focused and eager to learn. They have enjoyed telling us about their time at home over Christmas and drawing pictures of what presents they received.

Our new learning thread has well and truly launched itself with a bang. The children all had the opportunity to share their thoughts and ideas in small groups…giving us nursery ladies plenty food for thought! Our discussions have given us some amazing wow words and the excitement has been evident all week—we have all been buzzing!

We have talked about and read the Cape Ability story about Tommy Turtle...a scared and shy character who needs to face his fears. This has in turn helped us all and we have had plenty of ‘Have a Go’ moments ourselves… rocket making; (including plenty of astronaut role play!), moon rock exploring and painting and drawing our own stars!

Thank you children for such a lovely first week back.

Colette, Hannah , Justine and Frances

This week we have started to explore the number 4. Click here to find out more. If you fancy a challenge here a Number 4/ Learn to count video. Click here.

We also looked at the sound ‘i’ with Geraldine the Giraffe. Click here to watch.

Worship

God made Me, God made you.

Created and Loved by God explores the individual. Rooted in the teaching that we are created by God out of love and for love, it helps the children to develop an understanding of the importance of valuing themselves as the basis for personal relationships:

We learnt a new song called God made Me, God made You, and a new prayer. See if your child can remember them.

Next week we are planning to expand our knowledge of the moon and space travel. Perhaps the children can find out some facts to share?

We would also like the children to make their own rocket. Could each child please bring to nursery a named tube to start us off. Thank you in anticipation.

In the meanwhile here are just a few photos to give you a flavour of our learning this week! Lots more next week!

Next week, Michelle our new nursery deputy will be joining us, she can’t wait to meet everyone!

Please have a restful (and fun) weekend and we will see everyone on Monday. Don’t forget to check Purple Mash for more learning! Enjoy!

Barbara

Year 4 blog. Friday 7th January. Wishing you all a Happy New Year

What a lovely start to the year! Although I was not back until Thursday, Miss Brisco and Mrs Mather were very impressed with the effort and perseverant attitudes of all children.

On Thursday, we launched our new Science topic - States of Matter by making ice-cream! We used salt to lower the melting point of the ice and measured the temperature before and after. It was very exciting! Mostly we were successful - children churned it by hand by shaking and shaking and shaking!

RHE

We have learned about our new virtues for this half term- ‘Curious and Active.’ We pondered on how love requires actions - not just words. We also discussed how curiosity is the cure for boredom and can lead to a happy, fulfilling life. Deep stuff!

In English this week, we have used all our new Year 4 writing skills to write the fairy tale of ‘The Little Match Girl.’ We have learned the tricky column method for subtraction in our maths lessons this week. Also, in RE our new topic is ‘Jesus, Our Teacher.’ We learned about how Jesus was a Jew and children studied the Jewish faith. They also retold the story of the Presentation of baby Jesus in the temple.

This term is always one of super progress and we cannot wait to see what children can do! They have made a super start.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, our certificate winners are as follows:

Max has received a Lizzie Ladybird certificate for striving to improve in all he does and for reflecting deeply on his RE

Lily-Mae has received a Bobby Bee certificate for full participation and listening in all lessons and believing in herself to do well!

Notices

Please read the post before this one all about information for swimming lessons which begin this Monday morning. Children will undergo an initial assessment lesson this first week in the pool to place them in a group. We are very aware that not all children can swim as there has been so much disruption to swimming lessons due to Covid so there is no need to be concerned if this is the case.

Please remember to pay for our school trip on Parentpay if you have not already done so.

Have a lovely, cosy weekend with your families.

Kindest regards,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

Year 3 Home learning 7.1.22

Spellings:

Our spelling strategy this week is to look for smaller words inside the word you are learning to spell.

Our spellings this week will test your long term memory, they are all spellings you have already been given and include one of the spelling rules that we have covered last term:

1. centre

2. incomplete

3. disappear

4. impatient

5. although

6. hazardous

7. suddenly

8. mixture

Ongoing Maths

These IXL strands can be completed over the next few weeks and can be done as and when you want to complete each strand:

E1- E8 under addition one digit

Geography

On Purple Mash, following the 2Do that has been sent to you, imagine that you are on holiday in the Arctic and send a postcard back to our class describing what it is like there and what you have seen on your travels.

Year 4 Information for swimming beginning this Monday 10th January

Today, Graham came from St Annes YMCA to explain all about children’s swimming lessons beginning on Monday. Please read this information carefully so you can be familiar with the procedure.

Children can come to school on Mondays wearing their PE tracksuits. They must be at school on Monday mornings at 8.30am prompt so that they can be registered and on the coach by 8.45am. Girls and any boys with a long fringe must wear swimming hats- we advise that they come to school wearing them please.

Children are not to wear their costumes under their uniform. Please bring a plastic bag containing their swimming costume, a towel and goggles if needed. (there is a letter you need to fill in - given out tomorrow if you wish your child to wear goggles)

They can not bring shampoo as there will not be time to wash hair afterwards but can bring a hairbrush.

Please make sure children do not wear any watches, jewellry or bring any money. Any armbands or floats will be provided at the pool so please do not bring any.

Graham advised that boys can wear normal swimming trunks or shorts - but not the long type bermuda shorts as these are more difficult to swim in. Also girls must not wear bikinis - a one piece swimsuit please.

It is a good idea for children to definitely bring a substantial snack to eat at breaktime as they do expend lots of energy.

Verucca socks must be worn if your child has veruccas. Any other questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Kind regards and Happy New Year!

Mrs Lyons

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 5th January 2022

Spelling - Please can you recap the spellings from the last 3 homework ready for a random test next week?

decision, collision, Asia, discussion, revision, impression, expansion, vision, transmission, obsession, passion, recession, expansion, permission, comprehension, admission, tension, profession, possession, impression, collision, revision, confession, progression, direction, explanation, competition, cautious, especially, appreciate, ancient, delicious, subtraction, politician, infection, international, crying, reliable, busily, happiness, heavily, beautifully, mysterious, applied, business, heavier, copier, happily.

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Maths - It is essential that you know your times tables really, really well.

Visit your HEAT MAP on Times Table Rockstars. Which times tables do you need to focus on? Which ones do you need to ensure you know as quick as the others? Can you get your speed down to less than 2 seconds per table.

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Science - ADAPTATION

This week we are starting our new unit of work on EVOLUTION AND INHERITANCE. To start with, what do you know about adaptation and how have animals adapted to the environment that they live in? I have set you a To Do on Purple Mash. Use the template to find 6 different animals explaining to me how they have adapted to their environment. Find a range of animals from a range of habitats.

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Storyboard That - INVESTIGATION

Over the next few weeks, we will be using STORYBOARD THAT to help us tell the story of Romeo and Juliet. Have a play around with it for homework. What comic strips can you create? What characters can you include? See what you can create?