What a wonderful week in Reception!
Read moreYear 1 Homework 7.10.22
Spellings
The children will be quizzed (on paper) on the six spellings below on Friday.
is be my and me we
Maths IXL
Please continue to work through IXL challenges.
Numbers and Counting up to 5
B.3Count to 5
B.4Count using stickers - up to 5
B.6Show numbers with cubes - up to 5
B.7Count on ten frames - up to 5
B.8Show numbers on ten frames - up to 5
B.9Represent numbers - up to 5
Numbers and counting up to 10
C.6Show numbers with cubes - up to 10
C.7Count on ten frames - up to 10
C.8Show numbers on ten frames - up to 10
C.9Represent numbers - up to 10
Reading:
Thank you for those who have been reading at home I can tell! Please continue to read at home, it is really important that you read regularly at home to help improve your child’s fluency and confidence. Please can you sign in their books so we know they have read at home, you do not need to write a comment, just how many pages they have read. Their RWI books will be changed once a week on Mondays.
Thank you
Miss Drummond
Year 1 Weekly Blog 7.10.22
What an exciting week, we though of questions to ask the Evil Pea and wrote them on our board. When we came back to school the next day he had visited our classroom again and answered all of our questions. We have been checking around school to make sure the Evil pea is not hiding. Some of us thought he may have come home with us and is hiding in our rooms! Watch out for the Evil Pea we are excited for next week, we are going to think about how we can catch the Evil Pea.
We also retold the Supertato and Evil Pea chase, we had lots of fun and used great language to retell the story.
In RE we thought about how people can spoil God’s world and we discussed how we can care for it, we all made posters to help encourage others to look after our world.
We have loved our practical Maths lessons, we have been comparing objects and working out which group has more than and which has fewer than. We discovered it was easier when we put the objects into a grid so we could see without having to counting them.
Celebrations:
Well done to our awardees:
Tommy Turtle for Jack trying new food every day at lunch, well done.
Cooper Crab you have done some excellent independent writing in English and we have loved your Supertato speech bubble independent writing in continuous provision.
Henry is going home with this person for working hard this week and coming into school with a big smile on her face. Well done.
Harvest Plea
With Harvest time fast approaching, we are looking forward to celebrating as a whole school community once again for the first time since the pandemic. As in previous years, as a school, we will be collecting food items for local food banks. Year 1 are collecting Long Life Milk, so please donate if you can, before Friday 14th October.
Reminders:
· School dinners are free up until Year 3, if your child would like a school dinner, they can let us know in the morning.
· Please ensure your child has a spare set of clothes, just in case of any accidents (not just toilet accidents) such as falling in a puddle or spilling something over themselves.
· If you have any spare boys underwear, we would be grateful if you could donate them to our class, as we do not have many spare at the moment.
· Please can you return any borrowed uniform back to school as soon as possible.
Thank you
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson
Year 4 Weekly blog 7.10.22 "Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better!"
My goodness, this week we have looked deep into nature! We have been busy learning about the functions of each part of a plant. We learned about the function of the stem through an experiment with carnations and food colouring. We also dissected a lily to look at its male and female parts so that we could understand the tricky processes of Pollination and Fertilisation. Now it is time to bring our English and Science skills together to write the explanatory text of ‘The Life Cycle of a Plant.”
In English also this week, we have started our new class novel, ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and already children are theorising about what might happen next! They know the farmer faces a dilemma - whether or not to kill the runt of the litter and a great debate was held in class!
Today we have started our exciting journey into Shakespeare! We have had a workshop in Year 4 from a Broadsides Playwright, who helped the children learn about writing plays. As January 2023 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s first works going to print, the Royal Shakespeare company are launching a year of playmaking and playwriting. There is a competition called ‘37 plays’ which we will be taking part in. Year 4 will be also writing our own playscript, which will have a mixture of Shakespeare text and children’s own writing! We will then perform this playscript on the Grand theatre stage in March!
WE have been busy learning column subtraction this week in Year 4. We have also been practising our class assembly - I think you will enjoy it!
This week, we have done our third kidsafe lesson. This week it was about keeping safe during any sort of screen time - be it T.V, mobile or gaming. We gave clear messages about age ratings for films and games and looking after our tender, young minds! Many children talked about things they had seen which they liked watching at the time - but then felt scared when it came to bedtime.
We plan to explore this more on our upcoming E-safety Day. Please read the letter below which explains further.
Notices
On Tuesday October 11th it is our class assembly at school in the hall. We do two performances - one at 9:10am and the other at 9:35am. You are most welcome to come and see your child.
On Wednesday 12th October it is School photographs day. Since this is our PE day, you can choose to send your child in their school jumper and tracksuit bottoms if you prefer their photos to be school uniform.
On Monday 17th October, it will be our Harvest festival celebration in church. This year, we are asking Year 4 to bring in packets of biscuits to give to local food banks. Please could you start sending these in - by Friday 14th October.
Just a reminder also, that any earrings worn for school must be simple silver or gold studs.
Please also begin to sign up for our parents meetings on Friday 21st October.
Let’s Celebrate!
Learning certificates this week:
Elsie received a Sadie Spider certificate for being such a hard worker and also helping others. You listen to every word Elsie and you are a super learner.
Ella received a Tommy Turtle certificate for being a learner who always gives things her best go and learns from mistakes. You did some super writing this week Ella.
Swimming stars this week were Arthur for improving your stamina and Gabriella for being a brilliant listener when improving your strokes.
Music stars were Ben B and Erin
Have a lovely weekend, we look forward to welcoming you to our class assembly on Tuesday!
God bless,
Mrs Lyons, Miss Hennessy and Mrs Mather.
Childhood is about playing, discovering, and believing in dreams; the imagination and possibilities are endless. Unknown
The discoveries made through imaginative play have been endless this week.
Read moreYear 6 Weekly Blog - "No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
Kindness doesn’t cost anything, it is something that we can all give and it makes our world a better place. This week, in our council meeting we shared the acts kindness we have seen within our class and celebrated those children. Another one of the Kingdom of God values. Seeing little acts of kindness around the classroom and on the playground throughout the week has been really lovely.
Read moreYear 3 Blog 7.10.22 - "No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else." P.T. Barnum
We have had great fun in English this week, creating actions for our story the Lion and the Mouse and using this to help us to re-write the opening paragraph. We have a class of enthusiastic and curious learners, all creating wonderful pieces of writing. We paid particular attention towards including adjectives to describe nouns, along with using the right determiners before a noun. We have been so impressed to see this within their writing. Well done Year 3!
In maths we have moved on from 3 addend sums, using this knowledge to help us begin to bridge over the 10. The children are already becoming confident at splitting an addend into 2 parts to help make the equation much simpler to answer. For example taking the sum 7 + 5 and changing it to 7 + 3 + 2, making that all important 10 first. This is something we will continue to build on next week.
The children we all buzzing with excitement as they learnt all about their assembly which we will now be practising ready for our performances in a couple of weeks. The message we aim to share with our audience is that we are all special and our assembly is based on the story of Punchinello. You might like to read this story at home, or watch it being re-told on youtube. We cannot wait to share our assembly with you all.
This week our KIDSAFE lesson has focussed on bullying and the “Yukky Feelings” that this can cause. Please read the letter below to find out more about the session.
Certificates
Sean for being a wonderful Roger robin! We have been full of happiness watching you this week Sean! You have set yourself the goal to help those around you and because of this, we have seen lots of smiley faces! Quietly, you have helped others to organise themselves, carry their belongings and supporting them in their learning. Thank you Sean, your kind actions have not gone unnoticed!
Rory for being a creative Kiki chameleon! We were so impressed with your efforts during our writing this week. You were determined to think differently and develop your vocabulary, innovating our story with lots of fantastic vocabulary! A huge well done Rory, we hope you always keep this thirst for knowledge, it is wonderful!
Reminders
Tempest Photographs: On Wednesday 12th October it is School photographs day. Since this is our PE day, you can choose to send your child in their school jumper and tracksuit bottoms if you prefer their photos to be school uniform.
Assembly: Year 3’s assembly is on Tuesday 18th October at 9:10 and 9:35. We hope you will be able to come along to watch us perform!
Harvest: With Harvest time fast approaching, we are looking forward to celebrating as a whole school community once again for the first time since the pandemic. As in previous years, as a school, we will be collecting food items for local food banks. Year 3 are collecting tinned custard, so please donate if you can, before Friday 14th October.
Parents day. Friday 21st we have our online parents day. Above you will find the teacher that you are to book an appointment with.
We hope you have a great weekend!
Miss Bassett, Miss Brisco, Miss Russell and Mrs Carter
Year 3 Home Learning to be handed in 13.10
Spellings
1 because
2. over
3. time
4. these
5 some
6. again
7. another
8. change
9. different
10 does
TT Rockstars
Please make sure you spend a short amount of time each day on TT Rockstars. Learning our times tables is crucial in the lower juniors and a skill that we need to be very confident in.
Assembly Parts
Please, please, please practise your assembly parts. We will be rehearsing throughout the week next week so it is very important to know your lines to help with this.
Assembly Song
Year 6 home learning 7th October
English - Reading - Read, read, read, read every single day for AT LEAST 30 minutes. Are you quizzing regularly enough? Some still haven’t quiz since they’ve been back, let’s change that and get to our targets.
Grammar- Over the half term our focus is on sentence structure, looking at different sentence types and how we can connect clauses using conjunctions. There are two main type of conjunctions and we have to be able to identify and us these. Please practice using the IXL strands below:
MM1 - Identify coordinating conjunctions
MM2- Identify subordinating conjunctions
Spellings - this week we are focusing on words with the ending ‘ant’
Maths - Please complete the following strands on IXL to multiply fractions:
N1- Multiply unit fractions by whole numbers using number lines
Year 5 Homework- Due on Wednesday 12th October
This weeks homework will be in their homework books.
Read moreYear 4 homework to be handed in by Thursday 13th October
Assembly parts.
Please continue to learn your parts and the songs below to deliver with confidence on Tuesday. Our assembly is on Tuesday 11th October. There are two showings 9:10 am and 9:35am. You are most welcome to come and watch, parents.
Song 1 - This is me!
Song 2 - Autumn Days
The whole school will join in with us as we sing this - but lets try to learn the lyrics too.
Science
You started this in class, but please finish your explanatory text about Germination in Purple mash. Use scientific vocabulary and our causal connectives, such as: therefore, consequently, this means that, as a result, however, due to the fact that, etc
Maths
We have now completed column subtraction. Show your adults how you can do the calculations below, using the squared paper I have placed in your book. I have given you 2 column addition so you remember this method too!
a) 345 - 142 = b) 571 - 248 = c) 718 - 263 = d) 604 - 243 = e) 632 - 88= f) 506 - 269 = g) 800 - 654=
and addition: g) 435+ 292 = h) 288 + 78=
Music
This week, you have taken home your Clarinets for the first time! The site below (Charanga) is where you visit each week to do your music homework that Mrs Maddocks sets. Your log in is stuck to the green label attached to your clarinet case.
This week, Mrs Maddocks wants you to have a go at the tune on there. But very importantly, she wants you to rewatch the video about putting together your clarinet with your parents so they can help you if you need it.
This week...
What a week! We have been finding out all about our skeleton and where it is hiding! We have looked at the skeletons of animals too!!!
Making fruit Kebabs
This week we made healthy fruit kebabs…mmmmmm, they were yummy! We chopped up the fruit and then carefully put the pieces onto a kebab stick!
Worship
Me, My Body, My Health
Over the next few weeks we will be meeting the story book characters of Freddy Teddy, Mollie the Cat and Billy Bird.
We will be learning about our uniqueness, including celebrating differences and individual gifts, talents and abilities. We will be have been learning about looking after and using their God-given bodies. Click on the button to look at this weeks slides.
Stephanie’s Blog
Sadly Steph is poorly so hasn’t been in nursery since Monday. We are missing her lots! So guess what…. I have been a stand in for your children this week! It’s been great fun.
On Monday we met Henry our skeleton. We talked about all the bones in our body and how they work! We found our there are 206 bones in our skeleton and they help up to stand up, run, wave, hop and dance, in fact they help us to do EVERYTHING! We have chalked a picture of our skeleton, have a look at the picure of our busy bones display!
Click here to find out more about body parts.
We have also been talking about how to stay health and the foods we should be eating. We played a game where we had to make our meal only using healthy choices! Click here to watch what humans need to stay healthy. There is even a quiz at the end! Next week we will be finding out about how to take care of our teeth!
In PE we danced to the bones song. Click here to do it at home!
Number 2 is still being explored click here to watch and sing along to the Number Rap 2!
Hopefully Steph will fit and well and be able to come back to nursery next week.
Enjoy your weekend
Barbara
Colette’s Blog
Hello everyone! The weather has been so mixed this week. One minute raining, then sunny, windy and one day it was so windy we had to wrap up really warm. The wild wind has delivered us a huge amount of sycamore seeds all over the garden. As you can imagine, we have just had to throw them up in the air and pretend they were helicopters!!! We seem to have an amazing number of ladybirds too (lots of spots to count!)
We began the week looking at our lovely bones and talking about the fact that we all have a skeleton inside our bodies, if we had no skeleton we would all be like a wibbly wobbly jelly. We have made some chalk drawings of our skeletons….they looked so amazing that we even made a skeleton display! We had fun dancing to a skeleton dance . Why don’t you try it at home? Click here.
We have enjoyed our hall time this week with lots of walking, head, shoulders, knees and toes (watch out it goes really fast at the end), the stand-up sit down song and some lovely cool down time too.
What another busy week!
I hope you all have a lovely weekend together.
Kind regards
Colette
Michelle’s Blog
This week we have continued to learn about our bodies and have produced some fantastic pictures of our skeletons using chalk. We have learnt the names of our bones and how to keep our bodies fit and healthy. Did you now we have 206 bones in our body?
As well as looking after our skeletons we have also had fun learning about how we can keep our bodies healthy by eating healthy food. We made delicious fruit kebabs. They were lovely.
We have continued to learn all about number one and number two. We had a tricky challenge to work out how many of our body parts we have one of and how many we have two of and make a number chart. This made us use our brains to think really hard. But we got it in the end.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week.
We have had lots of soup donation for our Harvest Festival…thank you soooo much for your generosity! Have you tried the Harvest Samba yet?
It’s been a bit of a wet and windy week and the children have been reluctant to go into the garden…especially on Friday. Wow we had never seen rain like it! We wondered if we should start to build and Ark! One of the children suggested that we bet a boat.
Let’s hope this weekend isn’t too rainy.
Have a restful weekend and see you on Monday.
God Bless
Barbara
Year 2 Home Learning - Week Ending 30.9.22
This week’s home learning is online.
Read more‘Be present in all things and thankful for all things.’
Our first week altogether…
Read moreYear 1 Blog 30.09.22
When we arrived a school we discovered a crime scene in our classroom, somebody had snuck in during the night and destroyed the fruit and vegetables! We noticed sand on the table and on the floor so we think the intruder came in from the back door!
We thought about how the fruit and vegetables would feel and why. We then decided we should make posters to see if anyone had information about the crime scene.
We put some of our posters up around the school, we let lots of people know what had happened in our classroom. So they can tell us if they find out any information.
In Maths we have loved completing lots of practical activities with numbers up to 10. We ordered them drew pictures to represent the number, counted out a specific number of objects, matched the words to the numerals and found the missing numbers.
During RE we have learnt about Adam and Eve we acted out the story. We thought deeply about why God was disappointed by their choices and thought of some questions to ask them:
Why did you listen to the bad serpent?
How did you feel when you ate the fruit?
Why did you eat the fruit when God told you not to?
Why did you not listen to God?
Why did you hide from God after you ate the apple?
We thought of a time when we made a good choice and discussed it with the class.
Celebrations:
Well done to our awardees:
Tommy Turtle for having a go at being Eve in RE, you did a brilliant job well done!
Kiki Chameleon you were a super Mr Broccoli and gave some great answers to all the different questions. Well done!
Henry is going home with this person for always working hard, super listening on the carpet and for excellent work in his RWI sessions well done!
Harvest Plea
With Harvest time fast approaching, we are looking forward to celebrating as a whole school community once again for the first time since the pandemic. As in previous years, as a school, we will be collecting food items for local food banks. Year 1 are collecting Long Life Milk, so please donate if you can, before Friday 14th October.
Reminders:
School dinners are free up until Year 3, if your child would like a school dinner, they can let us know in the morning.
Please ensure your child has a spare set of clothes, just in case of any accidents (not just toilet accidents) such as falling in a puddle or spilling something over themselves.
If you have any spare boys underwear, we would be grateful if you could donate them to our class, as we do not have many spare at the moment.
Please can you return any borrowed uniform back to school as soon a possible.
Thank you
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson
Year 2 Weekly Blog 30.9.22 - "Let all that you do be done in love"
Unfortunately I was struck with a dreaded sickness bug on Monday and Tuesday so was unable to come into school at the beginning of the week. However, it was Mrs Hotchkiss to the rescue who said that she had loads of fun starting the week with lots of fantastic learning. She enthusiastically told me when I returned on Wednesday that all the children are now able to recognise the minute hand on a clock when placed on one of the 5 minute intervals past the hour. She was also incredibly impressed by the children’s confident speaking and wonderful singing as they went through our assembly script together. Map skills have also been the focus with Mrs Hotchkiss in Geography.
Read moreYear 6 Weekly Blog 'Love one another as I have loved you'
Jesus asks us to love one another as he loved us. This can be so hard to do at times when often we are not feeling loved ourselves. During our RE lessons this week, we have continued to explore the Kingdom of God and how we can create it here on Earth, just as God wanted us to do. This week the children have been creating their very own webpage on this, I can’t wait to read them all. In our worship this week, I asked the children to think about all of the people who they love and how it feels to be loved. The children have been adding hearts to our worship board every time they have felt loved by someone within our classroom.
Read moreYear 5 weekly blog 30.09.22- 'Legends are not born, they are created'
Another week finished…
Read moreYear 1 Homework 30.09.22
Spellings
The spellings from now on will be a mixture of the Year 1 common exception words (these are words that your child is expected to be able to spell by the end of year 1) and red RWI words. The children will be quizzed (on paper) on the six spellings below on Friday. I have made a quiz on Purple Mash with these spelling and set as a 2do for your child to practise at home.
I the he
she to a
Maths IXL
Please continue to work through IXL challenges.
Numbers and Counting up to 5
B.3Count to 5
B.4Count using stickers - up to 5
B.6Show numbers with cubes - up to 5
B.7Count on ten frames - up to 5
B.8Show numbers on ten frames - up to 5
B.9Represent numbers - up to 5
Numbers and counting up to 10
C.6Show numbers with cubes - up to 10
C.7Count on ten frames - up to 10
C.8Show numbers on ten frames - up to 10
C.9Represent numbers - up to 10
Reading:
Thank you for those who have been reading at home I can tell! Please continue to read at home, it is really important that you read regularly at home to help improve your child’s fluency and confidence. From next week your child will read to an adult in school at least once a week, if we are happy they are confidence with their book we will change it. Please can you sign in their books so we know they have read at home, you do not need to write a comment, just how many pages they have read. Their RWI books will be changed once a week on Mondays.
Thank you
Miss Drummond
Year 4 Weekly blog 30.9.22 "The creation of a thousand forests can begin with one acorn.""
What a hardworking bunch of children we have had this week. From learning column subtraction, to explaining in writing all about seed dispersal each day, their effort has been phenomenal! Their use of language in their writing has been superb.
In other news, we have now moved onto learning about the process of Germination in Science and next week, will find out all about the life cycle of a flowering plant. In Geography this week, we learned about extreme environments - ask your children all about deserts!
In the clarinet lesson, children spent the whole time learning how to put it together. It can be tricky as they are a fragile and expensive bit of kit.
This week, we have done our second kidsafe lesson. This week it was all about the nature of bullying. We learned the acronym STOP Several Times on Purpose. We thought about how bullying can make us feel and what to do about it.
Notices
On Tuesday October 11th it is our class assembly at school in the hall. (Children’s homework is based on this, this week.) We do two performances - one at 9:10am and the other at 9:35am. You are most welcome to come and see your child.
You will receive a consent letter about clarinets tonight, which we would like you and your child to read and fill in. If you bring it back on Monday, your child will be able to take their clarinet home after the lesson.
On Monday 17th October, it will be our Harvest festival celebration in church. This year, we are asking Year 4 to bring in packets of biscuits to give to local food banks. Please could you start sending these in - by Friday 14th October.
Let’s Celebrate!
Learning certificates this week:
Benjamin received a Bobby Bee certificate for always contributing so enthusiastically in all lessons and being such an excellent listener.
Faye received a Cooper Crab certificate for giving her full concentration in lessons and managing any distractions around her.
Swimming stars this week were Sophia and Ella for lovely strokes and full effort.
PE stars were Isaac and Cora
Keep warm everyone and have a lovely Autumnal weekend.
God bless,
Mrs Lyons, Miss Hennessy and Mrs Mather.