Year 4 blog Friday 11th March "See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."

Another super week in Year 4 - albeit a lot of absence this week. It was so lovely to touch base with so many of you today and also speak to you regarding your child’s progress on Wednesday. Aren’t they doing well! They are very proud of all they have achieved.

I look forward to round two of parent meetings in a couple of weeks.

We have begun our new novel in English this week by Phillip Pullman ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter,' - it has some very quirky characters! It is apparent that we are really mastering our Year 4 reading skills now. We just need to read lots and lots and get quizzing!

In maths, the children are becoming so good at seeing the links between concepts and figuring out how to work out Multiplication and division problems. We have consolidated the 6x table this week and have also moved onto the 9x. Patterns galore!

Our history has been exciting this week, as we continued working in our Anglo-Saxon families! We also explored push and pull factors which influenced the Anglo-Saxons leaving their homeland to settle here and also used map evidence to find out where they settled. Did you know that they settled locally?

We have been rock detectives in Science - finding our about how rock is formed and the 3 main types of rock. We then conducted the hardness test, water test and acid test on our rock samples to interpret our results and deduce which type of rock they must be.

Also, using less creative and more analytical skills - children have moved from thinking about life in volcanic areas (and the advatages of this) in Geography, very nicely onto different types of rocks. Children classified rocks according to their properties and then made close observational drawings before naming 6 main types of rock.

We have got into full flow with our Walk Against Hunger this week. Already, we have walked between us….. Walking around the school block twice to bolster this

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, our certificate winners are as follows:

A Cooper Crab certificate goes to Dominic for always giving your full focus and effort to all tasks. You are a hard-working young man and you are doing so well!

A Lizzie Ladybird certificate goes to Stanley for really striving to improve and for taking any advice gratefully. I loved to see you acting on your advice in your last story Stanley - well done!

Swimming stars were Edi, Rosa, Alex, Tabby, Emilia, Georgia and Matilda

Music stars were Rosa and Aviya

Notices

IMPORTANT NOTICE: SWIMMING CONTINUES on Mondays and Thursdays - prompt at 8.30am

SCHOOL TRIP NEWS - Tuesday 29th March. We are walking through St Annes square and onto the beach to examine rocks, look at buildings and find fossils! There will be no cost to this trip but we are hoping to have our lunch on the beach, so a packed lunch in a plastic bag will be needed. They will be using the plastic bag to carry their rocks back to school.

Attention Year four… Art News

Year four, after we finish our Money Containers topic, we are moving on to Textiles and we will be tie dyeing a tshirt. So you will need to bring in a white tshirt, put your name on the label and bring it to school as soon as possible, we start the week after next. It can be a new one or a school or home tshirt that has gone a little grubby, it must not have any designs on it though. The good news is, that after we have finished with it in art, you can wear it to school with your PE kits on PE days to show off your creativity.

Enjoy your weekend everyone. God Bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

Year 3 Remote Learning Week Beginning 7th March

This work will closely mirror the work we are doing in class this week:

ENGLISH:

This week we have been learning how to punctuate direct speech with inverted commas and continuing our shared reading of ‘the Greenling’ …

Read the text above and make sure you understand all of the vocabulary and the meaning of the text.

Have a look at the dialogue below and answer the questions around the side. Can you have a go at acting out what one of the characters says, thinking about how they would say it?

MATHS:

Please follow the link below to see all of the lesson videos, you should click the following link on the website then watch the videos in the following order:

Thursday: multiply by 4

Friday: ‘The 4 times table’

Worksheets to go with the Maths lesson:

On top of this please don’t forget to keep on top of your reading, quizzing, TT Rockstars and Nessy (if you are on this program)

Year 3 4.03.22 'I do believe something very magical can happen when you open a book' J.K. Rowling

Year 3 have been very creative this week in their English. This week we have been developing our inference skills in reading, continuing to infer the thoughts and feelings of our characters in ‘The Green Children’ text. Then using this knowledge and understanding to write our very own diary entry as one of the green children. I can’t wait to see their depth and how they have applied all of their grammar work to their writing! The children’s homework that they competed on the Green Children last week, looks fabulous in our classroom. Such thought and effort has clearly gone in to them so thank you.

In PE we have continued looking at games across the centuries, where the children are working in groups to set up and play these games. They are working so hard on working as a team and listening to the rules, to ensure all games are fair and consistent. The hope is that these games can then be played fairly on the playground, giving the children more choice and ideas as to what to play. Maybe you could try these games at home, our focus this week has been different adaptations of Hopscotch and Queenie. Why not ask the children how to play these games, they are a lot of fun! In Maths we have used stem sentences to approach calculations, using known facts to help us add and subtract from 100. They are doing very well with this!

World Book Day was a big hit! On Thursday our classroom became the home to Cinderella, Wally.. although he wasn’t always easy to spot… footballers, a handful of Harry Potter’s and many, many more wonderful story book characters. We had such a wonderful day celebrating the magical world of books! Reading is such a special skill that can take our imagination and transport us to a new world. To celebrate this we put our memories to the test with a, ‘Walkabout Bingo’ where the children walked around the classroom, asking one another about the different books they have read and enjoyed. We had so much fun, whilst also gaining lots of book recommendations! We also had a fun game of Quiz, Quiz, trade… this time the questions were created by the children based on their favourite books. We had great fun quizzing each other and learning about books our friends have enjoyed reading.

On Wednesday we celebrated Ash Wednesday with a liturgy led by Father Peter. What a beautiful way to enter our Lenten Journey. The children were extremely reverent and reflective during this liturgy, as we thought about the sins we are asking forgiveness for and what we can offer Jesus during this period. In council this week the children have been discussing ways in which we can raise money during Lent.

After much thought we have decided that our almsgiving through Lent will focus on CAFOD’s Walk Against Hunger and we will be praying for all those around the world who are in desperate need. The children will be asking you to sponsor them as each class tries to walk at least 200K (125 miles!) over the next five weeks in our lead up to Holy Week in school. You can do this by donating on ParentPay which will be live from today. If every family donates at least £5 in sponsorship we should be able to head towards that magical £1000 for this very worthy cause. In the past a few families have collected Lenten alms with wider family and friends and passed on the donation to our chosen charity so we will put this item on ParentPay showing a range for the amount to be donated but there are no expectations and all donations are gratefully received. Below are some of the items and support which CAFOD is hoping to provide:

·         £12 can buy ingredients to make a highly nutritious sesame seed paste so a new mum can help her
malnourished child grow big and strong

·         £20 can fund expert nutrition and healthcare classes for new mums and dads in rural communities

·         £200 can feed ten malnourished children sesame paste for a week, helping them grow big and
strong

·         £500 can provide an entire community with pepper seeds for planting season

·         £600 can help local experts deliver a highly effective door-to-door campaign in rural communities,
training people in proper sanitation, hygiene and nutrition

Year 3 have decided to run each day around the school playground. We are recording each lap that we do in our Walking against hunger passports. We have also decided to link up with our Year 5 friends to go on a special walk to a church towards the end of the half term.

Let’s Celebrate!

Layla… for showing such improvement when listening in class. This focus is having a huge impact on your learning and you are starting to grasp skills that you once found quite a challenge. Keep up this wonderful effort and determination Layla. We are so proud of you and cannot wait to watch you continue to fly.

Dominic… We have been so impressed with the wonderful determination you have shown towards improving your handwriting skills! You should feel so proud of yourself and the hard work you have put in to develop this important skill… what a difference this has made! We are very proud of you Dominic, well done and keep up this wonderful effort!

Notices…

• Don’t forget our open afternoon on Wednesday 16th March to look at your child’s learning. You book this through the form found on the last week’s blog on the discovery page.

• Don’t forget your parent meeting appointments which are taking place on Wednesday 9th March and Wednesday 23rd March from 2:30pm - 5:30pm.

Year 3 Home Learning 4.03.22

Spelling:

This weeks spellings are a variety of frequently misspelt words in Year 3. Remember to use your most favoured spelling strategy to help you.

1. because

2. though

3. although

4. through

5. thought

6. however

7. enough

8. actually

English:

1. Not everyone has completed these two sections, please make sure you complete IXL English DD1 and DD2 on synonyms.

2. In your home learning books can you complete these complex sentences by adding a main clause. Remember you have to look carefully at the subordinating conjunction and what it is telling you about the time before you decide on your main clause. Remember to add your WOOSH!

   Until Year 3 have completed their work,

   Since we have started Year 3,

   Before I have my tea,

   When I get up in the morning,

   After I have done my homework,

   While I am at school,

   CHALLENGE: If you are up for it, why not choose a couple of the subordinating conjunctions to make some of your own complex sentences!

Maths:

Ongoing Maths homework for the next few weeks to complete the following strands on IXL:

F1 - Subtract one digit numbers

F2- Ways to subtract

F3- Write subtractions sentences

F6 - Subtractions with pictures

F7 - Write subtraction sentences based on pictures

This week....

A strange week weather-wise, we have managed to have prolonged periods of time in the garden when the sun has shone and warmed us, at other times it has been wet and dull. However, our spirits at nursery are never dampened and our love of learning together continues no matter what.

This months planning aims to encourage the children to become confident about coming up with their own ideas and to make more links between those ideas. The children have been using pretend play to think beyond the ‘here and now’ and to understand another perspective. For example, role-playing by creating the imaginative world of fairies, pixies, goblins and trolls!

Worship

Lent is the time when we make a special effort to grow more like Jesus and allow God's love to shine in everything we do. We began our Lenten preparations on Shrove Tuesday when we enjoyed tasting pancakes with a variety of toppings!

We have made a huge Lenten promise poster that we aim to fill with smiley faces; one face every time we grow an extra bit of love through acts of kindness and become a bit more like Jesus.

As always nursery will be joining the school almsgiving through Lent. This year it will focus on CAFOD’s Walk Against Hunger and we will be praying for all those around the world who are in desperate need. The children will be asking you to support them.

This week you will have received a box full of raisins for the children to eat and enjoy. We are asking that you fill the empty box with money, and the children and nursery ladies will pledge walk two laps of the school field every day over the next five weeks, in our lead up to Holy Week. We are hopeful that if every family donates at least £5 we should be able to head towards that collective magical £1000 for this very worthy cause.

Below are some of the items and support which CAFOD is hoping to provide:

• £12 can buy ingredients to make a highly nutritious sesame seed paste so a new mum can help her malnourished child grow big and strong

• £20 can fund expert nutrition and healthcare classes for new mums and dads in rural communities

• £200 can feed ten malnourished children sesame paste for a week, helping them grow big and strong

• £500 can provide an entire community with pepper seeds for planting season

• £600 can help local experts deliver a highly effective door-to-door campaign in rural communities, training people in proper sanitation, hygiene and nutrition

Key Person blog

What an action packed week we have had in Nursery! The Spring sunshine made a brief appearance and it was so lovely playing outside with COATS OFF (for the one day it was warm enough to!!)!! We have enjoyed talking about pancake day and eating them too, started to look at signs of Spring and celebrating all things books on World Book Day.

We have used lemons for making bright prints with paint, been curious with our primary colours by mixing them together. We have continued to really work on our super scissors skills; cutting out shapes! We are getting very good

 The sound ‘k’ has tried to confuse us this week. He sounds the same as ‘c’ but looks rather different! Can you remember anything that starts with this letter? Click here to watch Geraldine Giraffe find out about ‘k’

 What amazing creativity we have seen shine through this week with our Duplo building and role play. There has been loads of giant floor puzzles, group games and construction completed. What great team work everyone—you have been just like our new learning character ‘Be Co-operative’ Roger Robin.

 Michelle, Hannah, Colette, Justine and Frances

We are doing really well exploring the number 5. Have ago at ‘Today’s number’ game. Click here to play Remember today’s number is 5. Enjoy!

The children have also been noticing some signs of fairies in our garden and classroom. Watch this space as we investigate further! I think we may be in for a few surprises!

Let’s hope the sunshine makes a prolonged appearance this weekend and we can all get out and about. Have a lovely weekend whatever your plans may be and we will see you all on Monday.

Barbara

Year 4 blog Friday 4th March. "Books Give a soul to the universe; wings to the mind; flight to the imagination and life to everything."

It has really been a week of using our imagination this week in Year 4! We have written amazing stories about the Dragon Slayer which I am looking forward to you reading on our book afternoon. We have started our Anglo-Saxon topic - finding out what happened when the Romans left and how the Anglo-Saxons managed to take over. Then we created our own Anglo-Saxon community where each child in class is part of an Anglo-Saxon family. They re-enacted a typical Anglo-Saxon day to music and they were immersed in what life would have been like for our early creators of England - or Angle-land!

Then of course we had World Book day! WOW! what an effort we all went to! Children had a lovely time reading to the Year 1 children and making up their own stories with their own characters featuring in them. They enjoyed re-telling this story whilst acting it out. In the afternoon we read and figured out Anglo-Saxon riddles! Very exciting!

Also, using less creative and more analytical skills - children have moved from thinking about life in volcanic areas (and the advatages of this) in Geography, very nicely onto different types of rocks. Children classified rocks according to their properties and then made close observational drawings before naming 6 main types of rock.

We have been gaining a deep understanding of the relationships between our times tables this week - focusing on the 3x and 6x table. Children have been busy constructing the 6x table and noticing patterns. They have also had a test on all their times tables so far. Ask them how they did.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, our certificate winners are as follows:

A Cooper Crab certificate goes to Tabby for giving your best focus to all work and really challenging yourself to get onto all the extension tasks.

A Sadie Spider certificate goes to Leo for trying so hard and being determined with all work you carry out. You are a hard worker and it shows in the quality of your work.

Swimming stars were Millie, Edi, Molly-Ann and Betsy

Notices

IMPORTANT NOTICE: SWIMMING CONTINUES on Mondays - prompt at 8.30am but we are also going on Thursday at the same time too starting next week Thursday 10th March. Please be prompt at 8:30 at St Patrick’s Road gate. This will be their second PE slot - so no PE on Wednesdays and Fridays.

NEW NOTICE - No swimming this Monday due to burst pipe at St Annes YMCA pool Hoping it will be fixed by Thursday.

SCHOOL TRIP NEWS - Tuesday 29th March. We are walking through St Annes square and onto the beach to examine rocks, look at buildings and find fossils! There will be no cost to this trip but we are hoping to have our lunch on the beach, so a packed lunch in a plastic bag will be needed. They will be using the plastic bag to carry their rocks back to school.

Parent meetings begin next week - Please be prompt so we can have our fully alloted time slot.

Friday 11th March at 2:30 is an opportunity to come into school and have a look at your child’s school books in the hall. I look forward to seeing you and I know children are very proud of their books.

DURING LENT - WALK AGAINST HUNGER.

After much thought we have decided that our almsgiving through Lent will focus on CAFOD’s Walk Against Hunger and we will be praying for all those around the world who are in desperate need. The children will be asking you to sponsor them as each class tries to walk at least 200K (125 miles!) over the next five weeks in our lead up to Holy Week in school. You can do this by donating on ParentPay which will be live from today. If every family donates at least £5 in sponsorship we should be able to head towards that magical £1000 for this very worthy cause. In the past a few families have collected Lenten alms with wider family and friends and passed on the donation to our chosen charity so we will put this item on ParentPay showing a range for the amount to be donated but there are no expectations and all donations are gratefully received. Below are some of the items and support which CAFOD is hoping to provide:

• £12 can buy ingredients to make a highly nutritious sesame seed paste so a new mum can help her malnourished child grow big and strong

• £20 can fund expert nutrition and healthcare classes for new mums and dads in rural communities

• £200 can feed ten malnourished children sesame paste for a week, helping them grow big and strong

• £500 can provide an entire community with pepper seeds for planting season

• £600 can help local experts deliver a highly effective door-to-door campaign in rural communities, training people in proper sanitation, hygiene and nutrition

We have decided as a class that collectively we are going to try to walk at least 1500km as a class - all the way to Poland in fact to raise money to fight against poverty and hunger. We will be walking around the playground each day but also round the block twice a week too!

Attention Year four… Art News

Year four, after we finish our Money Containers topic, we are moving on to Textiles and we will be tie dyeing a tshirt. So you will need to bring in a white tshirt, put your name on the label and bring it to school as soon as possible, we start the week after next. It can be a new one or a school or home tshirt that has gone a little grubby, it must not have any designs on it though. The good news is, that after we have finished with it in art, you can wear it to school with your PE kits on PE days to show off your creativity.

Have a lovely weekend and thanks so much again for such a super effort on World Book day!

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.