Year 1 Homework 14.10.22

Spellings

The children will be quizzed (on paper) on the six spellings below on Friday.

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Maths IXL

Please continue to work through IXL challenges.

Numbers and Counting up to 5

B.1Identify numbers - up to 5

B.2Learn to count to 5

B.3Count to 5

B.4Count using stickers - up to 5

B.5Count cubes - 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.5Count cubes - 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. I am sorry we have not been able to change all books today. So I will change them on Monday.

Thank you

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Weekly Blog 14.10.22

We have had another exciting week in Year 1.

In English we thought about how we could trap the Evil Pea. We had lots of great ideas such as hiding in the classroom and throwing a blanket over him, making a trap with a rope and net, we decided the best way would to be make jelly and trap him, like they do in the book.

We loved making jelly, we all worked hard together and then we wrote up the instructions. The next day we discovered that we had caught the Evil Pea Army. We had lots of ideas how they managed to get stuck in the jelly such as: using the jelly as a trampoline, singing with their eyes closed and not seeing the jelly and eating the jelly and getting stuck.

We have been counting up to 100 in Maths can you practise this at home? We have used the rekenreks and concrete apparatus to compare numbers up to 10. Using the language greater than, less than and equal to, to make these comparisons.

Also, this week, we started our Kidsafe programme  - A series of lessons which teach children about keeping themselves safe
This week, we focused on trust and completed a trust building exercise. We also thought about the Feelings we get when we are feeling sad, scared and/or worried and how we more listen to what our body is telling us. Please read the letter below, explaining this approach and the first lesson in more detail.

Our music lessons have been great we have loved learning this song and we were excited to record our performance for the blog.

Celebrations:

Well done to our awardees:

Bobby Bee: for super concentration and brilliant phonics work.

Lizzie Ladybird: for trying really hard during carpet input and feeling proud of yourself when completing independent work.

Henry is going home with this person, for being an enthusiastic learner especially during English you have used your phonics knowledge to support your reading and writing, well done.

 Reminders:

• Thank you for all the donations of long life milk.

• Parents’ Day on Monday 17th October. Have you booked your meeting?

Have a great weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson

This week....

What a soggy old week!!!

We started the week by thinking about all the parts of our body that help us to do things, without us realising, such as our brain, heart, lungs, stomach….you get where I’m going with this?! First we watched a short video about body parts. Click here to watch at home. We then went for a jog around the garden to exercise our heart! When we came back to nursery we felt our heart beating inside our body….that was really exciting!

We have continued to talk about our thinking machine (brain), breathing machines (lungs) and stomach and what happens to the bits of food and drink we eat that our bodies don’t’ use! That was a very interesting conversation! BUT the message was very clear if we eat unhealthy foods there is no goodness for our bodies to take and store! I must remember that this weekend!

Colette’s Key Group

Hello everyone! What another busy week!

We have continued to look at our wonderful bones and we know that our smallest bone is in our ear (called a stirrup) and the largest bone is in our leg (called the femur!) We have danced our skeleton dance and continued to move and shake our bones in our hall time!

Numbers have also been around Nursery this week! The number 3 Numberblock has made an appearance and we have been singing the song ‘1, 2, 3 everybody look at me’ click here to watch and join in at home!

The children have been noticing that even more leaves and sycamore seeds have been  falling down from the trees so we have enjoyed sweeping them in to piles and looking at all the different colours. Some of us have made our own paintings using the beautiful Autumn colours!

We have certainly noticed that it is getting a bit colder now....I had better start looking for my favourite bobble hat for after the half term holiday!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend together.

Colette

Stephanie’s Key Group

Hello everyone! It has been so lovely to be with the children again this week! We have enjoyed spending time in the garden and the big hall developing our physical skills – we also managed to practice our numbers doing this too! We made some ‘action cards’ together – you could try this at home. We used the numbers we have already met – 1 and 2 and our new number this week, 3! We had to do 1 hop, 2 claps, 3 jumps – my favourite was 3 wiggles! The children’s favourite was definitely 10 ‘unicorn jumps!’ – something new for me to learn! It was great fun.

We have also been counting around the classroom – I’ve heard lots of comments this week - ‘I have 2 bears’, ‘I have 2 ice creams’, ‘I have 3 plates’. Some of us even noticed if we join 2 and 1 together it makes 3. You can watch Numberblock 3 here .

This week we have spoken all about teeth and how to care for them. You should all have taken a toothbrush and toothpaste home with you – we’d love to see some photos of you using them! We have spoken about foods that are better for our teeth and some that we shouldn’t have all the time to help keep our teeth healthy.

We practised our positional language – some of us have found this a bit tricky and this video helped us practise the language: click here. The children loved trying to spot where the monkey was hiding next! Try it at home and see if your child can remember how to describe where the monkey is. We also explored this by making a train in the garden, asking our friends who they were sitting in front of or who was behind them. Positional language can help your child to be more independent – many instructions in school will involve them understanding where they need to be, or where something is that they might need e.g. ‘your snack is in your tray’, ‘the cups are on the shelf’.

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you on Monday!

Steph

Michelle’s Key Group

This week we have continued our learning about our bodies. We worked as a team to build the skeleton, making sure we put the bones in the right place. Great team work everyone!

We have also been very busy practising our sticky kids songs. This is a new song that we have loved this week. Click here to have a go at home!!! I hope you have lots of energy!!!

When we run, we can feel that our hearts are beating very fast. We know this mans we are getting lots of exercise and looking after our bodies.

We have also learnt about foods that are good for us and foods that are not so good for us and some of these foods are not very good for our teeth. Hopefully, you will all have found the new toothbrush and toothpaste in your book bags, we hope you use them to keep your teeth shiny and white.

We used some healthy foods and did some art work, making prints with apples and oranges. This was a bit messy but we concentrated to make a pattern of three.

We continued our healthy exercises by riding the bikes and computers in the garden. We are trying really hard to use the pedals on the bikes, its tricky but ewe are getting really skilled at this. We have also been practising putting our coats on by ourselves, this is something we can all practise at home too!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week.

Michelle

We would like to thank everyone for coming to parents meetings. All the team have been overwhelmed by your lovely comments. You must believe us when we say it is an absolute privilege to be able to work alongside yourselves and your children. There truly is no better job. Thank you.

Next week will be a shorter week as we close for half term on Thursday. I think we are all in need of a rest and recharge. If you click on the button below you will be able to see what we will be learning…we will also be continuing with our mighty quest to make healthy choices and look after our bodies. On Monday the children will be joining with Reception for a short Harvest Festival assembly. I must thank everyone for all their kind donations, you have been so generous.

 Have a fabulous weekend everyone and I will see you next week.

God Bless

Barbara

Year 4 Weekly blog 14.10.22 "A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it; it just blooms!"

I am so proud of our class team with their performance in the class assembly this week! Every single child worked together and improved on each practice. This class really does take initiative and they are full of creativity! I am sure you will agree they delivered their assembly with such energy and surprised themselves with their confidence! The class are learning to celebrate and appreciate each other’s differences and concentrate on helping themselves ‘bloom’ rather than competing with others!

This week, we have delved deeper into our class novel ‘Charlotte’s Web.’ Through this we are learning vital reading skills which help our comprehension. This week children have learned what to do if they do not know the meaning of a word they read - we can try to figure it out from the context, we can look ti up or ask an adult! Children need to understand 95% of the words they read, in order to understand. We have also learned how to use our reading brain to keep track of what is happening in a story and how to summarise - or pick out the main idea of each paragraph we read. This is useful to practice at home sometimes, during reading.

This week, we have learned the stories of Joseph and of Moses from the Old Testament. Children have written newspaper reports to tell the audience all about the ten plagues of Egypt. We have also written an explanatory text about the Life Cycle of a Plant. All in all, children have worked their socks off!

Notices

On Monday 17th October, it will be our Harvest festival celebration in church. Thanks so much for all the biscuits - they are making a very tempting display in class at the moment! If anyone would like to join us and help us walk to church, we will be setting off from school at 9:05. This will be much appreciated.

Please also begin to sign up for our parents meetings on Friday 21st October, where I look forward to discussing all your child’s achievements so far.

Multi-sports Club

After the holidays, Mr Nay will be running a sports club on Monday mornings 8am-8:45am for Year 4. If your chid would like to attend, please fill in the form below by next Tuesday.

Let’s Celebrate!

Learning certificates this week:

The whole class received a Lizzie Ladybird certificate for improving their assembly each time they practised it, leading to such a great delivery! Also Year 4, you are really improving in your understanding and care of each other and in helping each other learn. I am very proud of you!

Pippa received a Kiki Chameleon certificate for being a great Kiki chameleon and really using her own original ideas in our class assembly. You are so good in class too at listening and using your own creative thoughts.

Isaac received a Kiki Chameleon certificate for using his creativity to help others and producing some super explanatory writing, using lots of the language of explanation in clever ways..

Swimming stars this week were Ben B, Erin and Rafe

Music stars were Bella and Dominic

French stars were Rex for excellent listening and effort and Ben B for so much written work!

Enjoy your weekend everyone.

God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Miss Hennessy and Mrs Mather.

Year 3 Blog 14.10.22 "T.E.A.M: Together, Everyone, Achieves, More."

Our week has certainly been a busy one! Along with our usual learning we have been rehearsing for our assembly next week. It has been wonderful to watch each child slowly grow in confidence, becoming louder, clearer and adding emotion and expression to their parts. The assembly really is coming to life! The teamwork during our practices has been what has really stood out to us. I am sure this is something you will notice too when you watch us next week.

We have continued our bridging over the 10s boundary. We have looked at this in many ways and have also learnt different strategies to help us to solve these problems. I wonder if your child could tell you about how we can use the part-whole model and how we partition the number to help us to bridge over the 10? Do they remember that we need to first make 10 and then add the other part?

In English we have been kept very busy by completing our guided writing this week! The children have had a wail of a time using their creative and inquisitive minds to find new vocabulary and including this into their writing. We certainly have lots of word wizards!

Let’s celebrate

Ciaran our Focused cooper crab AND a Roger robin!: You have tried so hard with your learning Ciaran! We could not have asked anymore from you! You have shown such focus and determination during lessons, in particular during our maths work! You have also been the most wonderful friend, helping those around you with such care and kindness. Thank you Ciaran!

Beth has been an Enthusiastic Bobby Bee this week, Beth you have been such an enthusiastic Bobby Bee. You are always so excited about your learning and you want to do your best in everything that you do. We know that this enthusiasm will help you grow your brain this year. Well done Beth – keep up the good work.

Notices: Lots coming up!

Harvest: On Monday morning we will be walking to Mass to celebrate the Harvest festival. Year 3 have been collecting tinned custard, thank you to all of you who have donated! I am sure it will all help to make a big difference in our community.

Assembly: Our assembly is NEXT WEEK on Tuesday 18th October at 9:10 and 9:35. We hope you will be able to come along to watch us perform!

After half term, Mr Nay is going to be running a sports session on Tuesdays 3.30-4.15pm If you wish you child to take part please complete the permission form below. If we have a large uptake of children, we will split the class into two groups. One group for sport before Christmas and one group for sport after Christmas. The form needs completing before next Wednesday so that things can be organised before half term starts. Thank you/

Parents day. Friday 21st we have our online parents day.

We hope you have a great weekend!

Miss Bassett, Miss Brisco, Miss Russell and Mrs Carter

Year 3 Homework to be handed in by 20.10.22

Spelling

1. Even

2. Found

3. Large

4. Listen

5. Should

6. Why

7. Learn

8. Every

9. World

10. Earth

IXL and TT Rockstars

Please complete and spend 10 minutes on TT Rockstars each day.

Speaking parts

Please continue to practise your parts ready for Tuesday. Remember to speak clearly, loudly and with expression.

Optional: Purple mash speaking parts

I have set a 2Do on purple mash if you would like to have a go at typing up your speaking parts. Can you remember it all without looking at your printed words? Could you draw a picture of you as you are saying your part? This is another way to help you to remember your lines along with practising your typing skills.

Year 6 home learning 14.10.22

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- We’ve been focusing on our clauses, looking at main and subordinate clauses. Can you complete the worksheet in your home learning books to make complex sentences.

Don’t forget when adding a subordinate clause you need to include a subordinating conjunction. Use the picture below to help you.

Spellings - this week we are focusing on words with the ending ‘ance’ and ‘ancy’

Maths - Please complete the fractions of quantities worksheets in your home learning books.

Also complete the following strand on IXL to add and subtract fractions:

N8- Multiply fractions by whole numbers

Year 4 homework to be handed in by Thursday 20th October

Maths - booklet and online

This week, we will begin really mastering our times tables. In class we have gone over the 2x tables and their link to doubles sums eg 6 x 2 is the same as 2 x 6 which is also the same as 6+6. It is so important with times tables. not simply to learn hem off by heart but to understand them and be able to represent them. We did it with square counters so we can visualise the twos.

Homework this week is the following:

1. Watch our Percy Parker song below and sing along!

2. Make sure you understand them by making various sums given by your parents eg if mum gives you 5 x 2 - make it with shoes, sweets, cups etc Put them in rows and columns like we did in class. This is an array.

3. Practise your 2x tables using the booklet I provided. You do not need to bring this back into school but it is important you complete it.

4. Go on TTRockstars - it is set for the 2’s.

Spelling

This week, we are revising spellings. There are 6 spellings to practise below.

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There is also a spelling investigation concentrating on ‘split digraph’ words. Please copy the following words into your homework books. Then try and make each list longer. See how many other words you can find, with this spelling pattern. They will rhyme.

ake ike oke uke ace ice age

make like spoke Luke pace rice page

shake bike choke duke lace twice stage

Reading

How are you doing? Have you met your reading target? Curl up with a good book and read every day for at least 20 minutes. Keep quizzing and trying to meet your reading target this half term. Less than 2 weeks to go.

Music

This week, Mrs Maddocks wants you to have a go at the tunes on Charanga. Please be careful not to bite the actual wooden reeds as they are delicate!

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Important message: Year 4 guidance about Nuts.

Dear Year 4 parents,

Currently we have a "Medical Care Plan" under review in Year 4.

We are seeking your co-operation in our duty to keep all children safe.

We are asking you to check snacks/ packed lunches and avoid sending in products containing nuts.

I know this is limited guidance and we’re sorry that we cannot currently be more specific.

Please support us with this measure at this time - every child is so precious.