Year 1 Homework 20.10.22

Thank you for all of your hard work this half term.

The homework for half term is to practise your lines, they are in your child’s reading folder and I have highlighted the lines they need to practise some are whole class lines and some are individual.

We have been practising the songs so they should know the actions to share with you.

Please continue with Maths IXL, I am happy for you to go on other games if your child has completed ones that have been set previously. Please continue to read lots at home, every child has two new books to enjoy over half term and we can’t wait to hear about all the lovely stories you have read together.

We are so sorry we didn’t get chance to do our spellings this week but keep practising them and we will do them together after half term.

Thank you,

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Weekly Blog 20.10.22

It was a lovely start to the week, we celebrated the Harvest Mass together at church. The children sat and sang so beautifully and it was wonderful to see some of our food donations on the altar. Afterwards, we thought about those in our community who may need our help and reflected on how lucky we were to have lovely food.

Thank you to all the parents who joined me on Monday for Parent’s Day it was lovely to discuss how well the children and doing in school and the progress they are making. They have all setting in really well and we are enjoying our learning.

We have been Kiki Chameleons in English this week by creating our own story maps for Supertato. We then retold the story using our story map and made up our own actions. Didn’t we do a great job!

In Maths we have made groups of ten with lolly sticks and introduced doubling numbers up to 10, we played a dice game where we rolled the dice, drew the correct amount of dots in two boxes and worked out the double.

 During our KidSafe lesson this week, we learnt about the word bullying and what it means. We used the acronym S.T.O.P. to help us to understand that bullying is when something happens Several Times On Purpose and they now know what to do if they ever feel they are being bullied and have those yukky feelings in their bodies. Please read the letter below to find out more.

 I can’t believe that we have reached the end of our first half term already.

The children have worked very hard and have settled in well, they have particularly  enjoyed our topic Supertato and it has been wonderful to see all of their hard work at home. I am looking forward to our next half term and our Class Assembly and our Nativity performance.

Celebrations:

 Well done to these children:

Sadie Spider for determination in Read Write Inc

Bobby Bee for enthusiasm during lessons and working hard on putting her hand up when contributing to class discussions.

 Well done to Eliza you are taking Henry home for half term for a brilliant week, you have worked hard and listened well during our input.

This half term there was an art competition for Harvest artwork, well done to our runners up and third place. Look on the art blog to see their amazing work.

  Notices:

Our Class Assembly is on Tuesday 8th November at 9:10 for KS2 and 9:35 for EYFS and KS1, you can stay for both performances if you would like. Their half term homework is to practise thier line and songs. Please check the blog for more details.

Enjoy the half-term holidays.

Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson

Year 4 Weekly blog 20.10.22 "Autumn is the time to find contentment at home by paying attention to the things we already have."

We have had a busy but reflective week n Year 4. On Monday we all went to church to celebrate the Harvest. Thank you all so much for your kind donations! The children were so still and so responsible in church - real role models to the younger children. It was a treat to hear and see our choir on the altar too. We had our Online Safety day on Tuesday. Children reflected on how to keep themselves safe online. We explored what we can share and what we should not share online and also remembered the most important rule - if anything gives you yukky feelings, tell a trusted adult. Children learned the slogans, ‘Take care, when you share, if in doubt, speak out,’ and ‘Report, but don’t delete, reply or meet,’

We have started our learning all about four digit numbers now and children are excited to be reaching higher numbers! We have also learned all about the skill of making a point and backing it up with evidence from the text, in our Charlotte’s Web novel. We have learned about trade, agriculture, exporting and importing food in our geography topic this week. A week crammed full of fascinating things!

As a class, year 4 have grown so much this half term in their ability to listen intently and focus - something to be really proud and thankful for. It is lovely to see them learning to stop and think before they act more often, now thy are getting more mature and I am sure after a good half term rest, they will continue to grow and thrive.

Let’s Celebrate!
This week’s certificate winners are Archie and Erin. We have given you Bobby Bee certificates because both of you always listen intently and participate fully in lessons. It shows in the quality of your work when you have remembered everything taught - like little sponges!!

Swimming stars this week go to Isaac and Dominic for super front crawl with breathing technique and Faye for trying so hard.

Music stars this week, were Arthur and Esther.

PE stars were Sophia and Luke.

Notices

Parent’s online meetings are tomorrow.

On the first Monday back, the following children will begin sports club at 8:am at school:

Riley Archie Ben B Esther Gabriella

Isaac Rex Layla Faye

Michael Dominic Arthur Niamh

Jacob Theo Benjamin Millie

Swimming will continue on the first Thursday back after half-term. Please can we ensure they are all wrapped up now the weather is colder.

Children have a little homework to keep them ticking over - especially those 2x tables for a timed test first week back! I’m sure they will be raring to go!

Have a lovely half term break - children have worked so hard and definitely need some rest and relaxation!

Thank you all so much for your continued support and I look forward to speaking to you tomorrow about your child.

God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Miss Hennessy and Mrs Mather.

Year 4 homework to be handed in by Thursday 3rd November

Online homework for over the holidays

Maths

TT rockstars for 2x table facts. There will be a test on Monday 31st October where you will need to answer each 2x table sum within 6 seconds. This means you need to know them and not have to work them out!

Practise EVERY DAY on TTrockstars to gather your speed for these times tables facts. I will be checking that you have done this and I will see what your speed is.

After the holidays we will be learning and speeding up the 4x tables so you must not get behind!

Computing - Online Safety

Following our online safety lesson on Tuesday, what have you learned about keeping yourself safe online? Create a safety poster (see the 2do set in Purple Mash) There are lots of prompts on this for you to use, to help you think.

Science/Reading practice

To celebrate our lovely work all about Plants, I have set you some 2dos for this. One you need to find yourself!

1. On purple mash home screen go to ‘Science’ and find ‘Plants.’ Scroll down and click on ‘Plant Life Cycle slideshow.’ I would like you to read this to an adult to practise your reading fluency. You can discuss if you have found out anything new that I have not taught you yet in school!

2. From doing this, you will have learned more parts of a flower. You are ready to complete the 2do I set called ‘Flower Labelling game.’

3. Now you can make a lovely sunflower complete with seeds! See ‘Sunflowers’ 2do.

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!

Dance important information

With our performance soon approaching there are a few things we want to make you aware of. By now we hope that you all have managed to book your tickets, they were selling very quickly but I know a few more have been released. We are keeping our costumes simple - not to take away from the dance. We therefore ask if you could just provide a pair of black leggings or shorts that your child could wear and we have coloured t-shirt.

The day of our performance: Tuesday 15th November.

On this day the children will come to school as normal (wear PE kit). They will access their usual morning lessons before we all have lunch at an earlier time. As this is a long day we advise that you book a hot school meal as they will not be having their usual evening meals, however this is not a must - you know your child and what they will/will not eat. After we have eaten lunch we will then get on a coach which will take us to the Winter Gardens where we will remain for the rest of the day - until the show has finished. We will have 1 rehearsal on the stage and the remainder of the time we will be backstage - we therefore ask that you bring a couple of books, colouring books or puzzle books to keep you busy (nothing valuable). We ask that you bring to school a packed meal (this will be your evening meal which we will eat at the Winter Gardens). After the show we will take the children to a meeting place (TBC via text nearer the time) and this is where you will collect your child.

To clarify your checklist for the day:

• wear school tracksuit and bring a coat.

• make sure your leggings are in school ready to take with us.

• pack your bag with a couple of books, crayons and colouring book/puzzle book (no tech/valuables as belongings won’t always be supervised).

• book a school meal or bring a packed lunch for our lunchtime at school.

• bring a packed meal (in a plastic bag-easy to throw away after) that we will eat during our evening at the Winter Gardens.

• make sure you have a snack or two and a water bottle/drinks(non fizzy) to keep you going throughout the day.

Final rehearsals

Our final rehearsals are as followed:

Monday 31st October

Monday 7th November

Monday 14th November

A huge well done to the children so far who have been working so hard during our rehearsals, we cannot wait for you to see what they have been working on!

Have a wonderful half term.

Miss Bassett and Miss Lavelle

Time for a rest!

It’s hard to believe that we have been at nursery for seven weeks! Half term starts today and we return on Monday 31st October, hopefully bright eyed and busy tailed. The second half of the Autumn Term is even busier as we have Bonfire Night, Remembrance Day and of course Christmas. Nursery along with Reception are already thinking about our Nativity! Watch this space for more information.

As I say every week we have not stopped. Our number work is coming along leaps and bounds, we have even started to make number bonds to 3! We have been:

• comparing numbers 1, 2 and 3 - ‘bigger’ and ‘smaller’

• Ordering numbers to 3

• Understanding that 3 is made of 2 and 1 or three 1s

• Recognising the numerals in the environment

After the half term break we will be starting ‘Read Write Inc’. We will focus on five sounds every couple of weeks. The children love learning sounds. I will be posting on the blog a sound mat and activities so you can join in the fun at home!

We have been discussing at length about oral health and food that out teeth don’t like. I have noticed that everyone is questioning everything that we eat! Sorry.

Harvest

On Monday the children joined Reception for a short Harvest Festival.

We gave thanks to Our Lord for all our food and our lovely world but we also remembered those children who may be hungry and need our help. We then danced around the hall, performing our Harvest samba. Here is the Harvest Festival song if you would like to have a dance at home. Click here .

After all the fun of our dancing we got down to some serious business and helped to pack all the generous donations for the food bank. Click here if you would like to know more about the food bank in St Annes.

Colette’s Blog

Hello everyone! Just because it was a short week didn’t mean it was a quiet one….oh no! The children and Nursery Ladies have definitely not been resting! Sadly, we have had a few bouts of illness in Nursery but I hope that the half term holiday allows everyone to rest and recharge those tired batteries!

On Monday Nursery and Reception shared their own Harvest Festival celebration in the hall. We thanked God for all the wonderful things that grow on our planet earth and we even had time to dance our favourite ‘Harvest Samba!’ Thank you to all of you that donated the tins of soup!!

As always, there have been lots of building, puzzles singing and number fun. We have been continuing to look at number 3 and all the ways we can make a three… 2 plus 1 more or 3 and zero!

In our hall time we tried out some new songs, the floating song using some different coloured ribbons and the bean bag song where we had to follow the instructions and try not to drop the bean bag!!! Click here to have a go yourself!

We have finally arrived at our half term holiday. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support and I hope you all enjoy a lovely half term together.

Kind regards

Colette

Michelle’s Blog

A shorter week than normal but that doesn’t mean we have been any less busy than normal. I think we have packed more learning into our week!

We continue to learn about healthy food and how to make sure we make healthy choices with our food to care for our teeth and the importance of exercise by taking our PE lessons outside and having lots of running races on the school field, including a running backwards race. This was tricky but lots of fun!  We then could feel our hearts beating fast in our chests, this means we are getting lots of exercise to keep our hearts healthy. Hopefully you can all get outside during half term, here are some ideas for you to try. Click here.

We have all had a fantastic start to our nursery year, and I can’t believe it is half term all ready. I have been amazed at how well the children have settled in and taken to all the routines. The children are all working so hard on their independence skills, especially putting their coats on. Next half term I will be making sure we are getting lots of practise using scissors, I hope you all enjoyed the cutting and sticking homework I sent home. Click here for some more scissor skills activities, which are really good for developing hand muscles needed for holding a pencil and writing. Click here.

Finally, I hope you all have a wonderful half term and I will see you soon.

Steph’s Blog

Hello everyone!

What a lovely last week of term we have had. We have enjoyed role play this week, making food and drink in the house and the sand area outside. We’ve also looked after the dolls making sure they were warm enough to go outside and we even went on an aeroplane! We all lined up on the bridge and our pilot flew us to a lovely hot destination! Of course we needed snacks and drinks too – we’ve had lovely discussions about family and favourite things. It’s been so nice listening to the children having conversations with each other and continuing to develop their friendships.

We have continued to practise numbers 1, 2 and 3 – we found things in the garden and tried to match them up to the correct number. The children have developed their mathematical language without even realising – ‘I need one more!’, ‘Now I have 3! You have 2 and I have 3!’. Barbara also tried to trick us by hiding numbers and slowly revealing them but she can’t trick us! We are great at recognising 1, 2 and 3 now!

On Monday we had our first assembly in the hall with Reception. The children loved it, especially doing the Harvest Samba around the hall. We gathered all our tins of soup for the people that have hungry tummies, thank you for all your generous donations.

The children have continued to love the ‘Where’s the Monkey?’ video and have been singing the song themselves and hiding our monkey – look out for the photos of it on our heads! One of our friends even brought in his guitar from home and we sang the song together on the stage outside. I went outside this morning and found the monkey in one of our tubes! Here is the video again if you would like to watch it over half term and hide things around your house! Click here

I hope you all have a lovely week off together – get lots of rest and have lots of fun!

See you soon

Steph

Just in case you are at a loose end next week click on the buttons below for a couple of ideas! Enjoy! It would be lovely if you could send us some pictures of your adventures to share during circle time!

When we return after the holiday I will be posting the events for the half term….keep a look out so that you don’t miss anything!

I hope you all manage to have some family time and a chance to make memories that will last forever. Keep safe and well. I will see you on the 31st!

God Bless

Barbara

Year 3 Weekly Blog 20.10.22 - "Autumn is the season that teaches us that change can be beautiful."

And so we have reached the end of our first half term. To say the time has flown by is a slight understatement! We started our week with a visit to church to celebrate the Harvest festival and what a lovely start to the week this was. Thank you again for your generosity, collecting tins which will already be on their way to help those who need it! It was just wonderful to hear our children celebrating mass, joining in responses and singing away to the hymn “Freely, Freely…” our final hymn during the mass.

Following this we through ourselves back into rehearsing for our assembly. The children were very excited to share their assembly with you all and, although the nerves were there at the beginning, the feeling afterward they had performed was of great elation. I always find watching the children help and support one another during their performances so heart warming and find myself holding back the tears. We were so proud of each and every one of them!

The children have also had their creative hats on, setting to work on writing their own fables. Seeing our children enthusiastically get their ideas down on paper was wonderful and hearing them proudly sharing with each other their opening sentences led me to do a happy dance… what is a teacher to do when she hears such great vocabulary?!

Let’s celebrate

Louis for being a Concentrating Cooper crab: Louis you have shown such focus this week! We were so proud of you and how you learnt your assembly part, becoming so confident in delivering your lines and helping others too! You have also shown this same focus within our lessons and have completed a wonderful piece of writing. Keep it up Louis, we are SO impressed!

Toby for also being a Concentrating Cooper crab: Toby you always show great interest and determination when learning something new. You focus carefully during our class discussions and always show great enthusiasm when faced with a challenge. You look carefully to solve problems and it is always such a special moment when we see the happiness spread across your face once you have solved a problem. Well done Toby!

Reminders

• After school club for Year 3 commence on the first Tuesday back (1st November) and will be from 3:30 until 4:15. Please find the list below to see for the children who have signed up.

• Mass: On Tuesday 1st November we will be heading to church to celebrate All Souls day.

Finally…

A big thank you for taking the time to discuss your child’s first half term in year 3 and how we can work together to best support them going forward. We really appreciate you taking the time out of your day for these discussions and it was, as always, a pleasure to get to chat with you all!

We hope you all have a very well deserved half term and we very much look forward to seeing the children on Monday 31st October as we begin the second half to our Autumn term together.

God bless,

Miss Bassett, Miss Brisco, Miss Russell and Mrs Carter.

Year 3 Home learning to be handed in on Thursday 3rd November

Spellings

TT Rockstars

Please spend some time each day during half term on TT Rockstar’s. Make sure you spend time particularly focusing on the 5 and 10 timetables. You should be able to speedily recall these number facts.

Five finger breathing

This week we have been looking at finding ways of self regulating ourselves and have used this strategy to bring us back to a calmer place. Each child has created their own poster to remind them of how to practice this way of calming themselves. I would like them to find a place to display their poster at home. We will review how we have found using this coping strategy when we return from the half term.

Online safety - optional

On Tuesday we had Online safety day. We would like to see how much you can remember by creating your own online safety poster. This is something you could discuss as a family and maybe create a couple of online safety rules at home. There is a 2do set on Purple Mash for you to complete this.

Year 6 Weekly Home Learning 19.10.22

English - Reading - Read, read, read, read every single day for AT LEAST 30 minutes. Are you quizzing regularly enough? Be ready to quiz when you come back.

Could you please complete the reading comprehension on ‘electricity’. Remember to use full sentences and refer to the text where you can.

Grammar- Please complete IXL OO2- commas with compound and complex sentences.

Spellings - Please learn and practice spelling the following words from the Year 5 and 6 spelling list:

1. accompany

2. awkward

3. bruise

4. familiar

5. opportunity

6. physical

7. recognise

8. system

Maths - Please complete the following strand on IXL to find fractions of numbers:

N10- Fractions of a number

BIKEABILITY- Get out on your bike, wear your helmet and get practicing ready for the first day back!

Year 6 Blog - ‘Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.’ –Benjamin Franklin

What a busy week full of learning we have had in Year 6, we have not stopped! Our fractions work is in full flow, as we have now moved on from subtracting fractions to finding fractions of quantities. The children have used various cocrete materials to model finding equal parts (fractions) of amounts and as they have moved on to more abstract maths have now seen the link and the importance of knowing their multiplication and division facts. In English this week, we have got up to chapter 6 in our class novel and have delved deeper in to the plot and characters, as we prepare to write out diary entry next week.

During our class liturgy we looked at how to pray the rosary in more detail and mediated on one of joyful mysteries of Christ. During RE the children researched and wrote up information on two people who help to bring the Kingdom of God on Earth, Therese of Lisieux and Mother Theresa. Science today was all about challenging ourselves independently making a circuits, drawing them up and explaining why they would or would not work. We also looked at four famous gentlemen who contributed to invention and he progression of electricity- why not ask your children for more information and see if they can retrieve what they have learnt today!

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.

Bikeability

Year 6’s ‘Bikeability’ training is set to start the first day back after half term (Monday 31st October) and then again the following Monday (Monday 7th November). Please remember to send your children in to school with their bikes, where they are able to keep them in our school’s bike rack, as you come in the school gates on Kenilworth Road. All Year 6 children with their bikes may come through this entrance on these days. Please note, that we will not be able to keep bikes here over night.

The first morning of their training will take place on the school playground, where they will complete level 1 of their ‘Bikeability’ course. Following assessment, only those that pass this level will progress on to the next stage in the afternoon and then the following week, where they will continue their training on the roads around the school. This gives you enough time to get those bikes out and get practicing in preparation for after half term. This will also be part of the children’s homework over half term.

Leading Learners

Well done to Stephanie and Julia this week.

Stephanie, Thank you for your wonderful Mathematics work over the last couple of weeks. You found the fractions work challenging to begin with, but you showed such determination and resilience in your approach, never giving up, seeking advice and learning from mistakes. All vital skills needed in Year 6 and look at you now- mastering your fractions!

Julia, thank you for your whole approach to learning. You show so many of the learning characteristics it’s difficult to decide which one t give you. You push yourself in every lesson challenging yourself, listening, reflecting and doing your best in every piece of work.

Kind and compassionate butterflies

We have been on the look out for acts of kindness and compassion this week. Pure love and kindness has been shown in abundance this week. It definitely makes our classroom a happier and a richer place for it. Thank you to Abi. There have been so many times this week when you have gone out of your way to help someone in class. Thank you for all that you do!

Helpers in the mornings:

This week we have the following children helping to take the younger children to their class:

Asher Mason Jacob M Holly

Notices

• Please send children in full school uniform in line with our school policy, children will not be allowed to wear hoodies or jumpers that are not part of our school uniform.

• Please check the home learning section for this week’s homework.

• Thank you for all of your donations of tinned fruit for Harvest. They are all greatly appreciated!

• Parents’ Day on Friday 21st October. Have you booked your meeting?

• The children finish at the normal times of 3:15pm and 3:25pm on Thursday 20th October for a well deserved half term break.