Year 3 Homework- Tuesday 27th February

Spellings

This weeks focus is the suffix ly - changing le to ly.

  1. gently

  2. simply

  3. humbly

  4. sensibly

  5. horribly

  6. possibly

  7. terribly

  8. responsibly

  9. prickly

  10. giggly

Reading

Well done - many of the children have already starting making progress towards their reading target this half term. When was your last 100% score? Have you made it into our 100% club yet?
Please continue reading at home for 20 minutes each night, it really does make a difference.

Kindness Homework

Now we have swapped lenten boxes with our Nursery partners, what can you do at home this week to add money to our box? All money collected this year will go to CAFOD.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 23.3.23- 'Lent is a new beginning, a path leading towards God'

We started the week as a whole school- coming together to celebrate the beginning of lent and to reflect on the importance of this. We then looked at this further in our RE lesson of how Catholics prepare for lent. Our week also finished with a lent celebration as we exchanged Lenten boxes with our Year 2 partners. It was lovely to see the creativity and commitment into making these boxes- which really lit up our younger pupils faces.

In English, we have started our new topic of discussion texts and debating. We discussed the differences and similarities between an argument, discussion and a debate and also shared our points on some interesting school based motions such as, ‘Should homework be doubled or banned’ and 'Should we keep wearing school uniforms’.

In Maths, we have finished mulitplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000- in which the children have been excellent in using their place value charts to understand the shifting of digits. We have now began looking at our big division topic and using methods to work out calculations that cannot be done mentally.

In PE, we have started our new indoor and outdoor topics for the half term. We are currently working on our team building skills in OAA to help solve problems in fun based games. It has been brilliant to see all of the children working together really well and encouraging fellow classmates throughout the games. In our indoor topic, we have started our first dance unit of the year, where the theme is ‘Heroes and Villains’. The children worked in groups to discuss different types of superheroes and the qualities they possess that make them heroic. The children then had to reenact these via freeze frames and different movements.

In French, our topic is ‘French around the World’, in which we have been looking at french directions on a compass. We have then used these directions to help guide us through a treasure map to find the gold!


Let’s Celebrate

  • Faye for being an enthusiastic learner- Regardless if you’re sat at the front or back and regardless of what subject it is- your enthusiasm to learn and to grow is excellent. You never get yourself down, even if you are struggling- you always power through.




  • Niamh for being a focused and creative learner- In every manner throughout the classroom, you are always setting the right example Niamh. I feel like I don’t praise you enough for this but it is simply because you portray this behaviour every single day. You also apply these positive choices into your learning by always listening to instructions  to get the most out of your work.




  • Virtue Butterflies- Our new virtues for this half term are love and compassion. Today, we had an earlier break out with the infants and I saw lots of children playing with their younger siblings- in particular Archie and Ben. The way you played with our younger children was delightful to see and how caring and considerate you were towards them. You really made their day.




  • Lunchtime Certificates

    • Role Model of the Week- Benjamin

    • Marvelous Manners- Archie




Notices

  • Monday 4th March Year 5 Book Look- This will start at 9am and is a chance for the children to share with you some of the work that they have done and are proud of.



  • Thursday 7th March World Book Day- The children can dress up as a character from a book and they can also bring in a ‘magical object’, which they’ll use for a storytelling activity. This object could be as simple as a feather, shell, pebble or stick- They will use their imagination to create a story including this item.



  • Parents Evening Appointments- This will take place between 2:00pm-5:30pm over the course of two days, which are Wednesday 13th March and Wednesday 20th.



  • Extra-Curricular Timetable- This is now available on the sports page of the website, which includes the times and dates of the upcoming sports activities for before and after school. The children have also been given a copy of this.

Year 1 Homework 23.2.24

It has been a busy week, so I would like the focus to be on reading. I am so pleased that all the children have an enjoyment for reading. They are excited to read in school and are enjoying their reading challenge. Please keep it up. Just a reminder it is one box per day.

Spellings will be given out next week.

Purple Mash

We started our unit on grouping and sorting, I have set 4 2dos we did these today in school and the children enjoyed them so you can do them together at home. This will help us to continue to practise our computing skills.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 29th February

Spellings

  1. convenience

  2. muscle

  3. disastrous

  4. neighbour

  5. interfere

  6. rhythm

  7. awkward

  8. familiar

  9. immediately

  10. curiosity

  11. receive

  12. hustle

Maths

We have just begun our big division topic which is closely related to our times tables. Regular times tables practice will be needed to help your child access the content. There are lots of fun times tables games to play online such as Hit the Button, Maths Bingo and TTRS.

Kindness Homework

As we have now swapped our Lenten boxes with our Year 2 partners, the children will now need to fill these boxes with money earned from acts of kindness. The children are to write a list of the acts of kindness they intend to carry out in order to raise money. This may also include doing some extra chores around the house to help you parents!

This week...

A huge welcome back to every one. We missed everyone.

As Lent began during the holidays it has been a bit of a catch up week. It can be of no surprise that most of the week had been dedicated to walking alongside Jesus during His last week. The children have been visibly moved by the Easter story, which as prompted some in depth discussions. One of the questions was “when did God die?” One for Father Peter I think… we will write it in his book.

In our mission to be more like Jesus our Lenten promise wall is full of the qualities we aspire to maintain each day. The children are filling our Lenten Heart by being kind, loving, thoughtful and giving. We are all trying to put others needs before our own, just as Jesus would do.

We have contributed to the whole school Stations of the Cross by depicting the stations 2 and 9. Take a look at our interpretations. Take a look.

Thank you to everyone for bringing in your Lenten boxes. They have now been successfully swapped with our class partners and sent back home. We have talked about completing acts of kindness each day and in doing so collect money that can be donated to our chosen charity, Cafod. Cafod is an international development charity who reach out to people living in poverty with practical help, whatever their religion or culture. CAFOD is the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and part of Caritas International.

Through their global Church network, they have the potential to reach everyone; campaigning for global justice, so that every woman, man and child can live a full and dignified life.

A worthy mission, let’s work together to make it a huge success and to help as many people as we can. In anticipation, thank you.

As we have been so busy with the Easter story we have delayed our NEW learning thread. We are launching it tomorrow! So you can join us in our learning this half term click on the button below.

Lucky Number 7

This week we have been excited to meet Number 7. Click here to watch.

In this episode the children discovered the relationship between Seven and the other Numberblocks. It gave us the opportunity to practise counting numbers to 7nandto say their ordinal names (first, second third) 7 is also related to the number of the colours of the rainbow and the days of the week.

As with previous numbers, Seven is created through adding one to the previous number, combing 6 and 1. Each consecutive number is one more than the previous one. The children are also beginning to compare 7 with other numbers; seven is taller than six; 7 is one more than 6.

Don’t forget to keep practising writing numbers 0-7 using the special rhymes! Click here for a reminder. Remember duck fingers!

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone,

Welcome back, I hope your all had a wonderful break. We have got straight back into growing our brains and having lots of fun.

We started off this week talking about Lent and it has been lovely seeing all of your amazing lent boxes coming in that you have worked so hard on, so thank you. The children were very excited to swap their Lent boxes with year 3.

We have made a heart that represents our lent promise, and the children have come up with words that relate to this promise such as loving, kind, helpful, patient and many more. The children each get a smiley face stamp on the heart each time they show they are representing one of these words and are so proud when they get a stamp. 

Mrs Gregan has asked the nursery to help make a part of the Stations of the Cross for the school and has given us stages 2 and 9. The children have been very busy painting and helping to bring them to life. 

We have been looking and talking about the 14 Stations of the cross, and reading the Easter story. The children are shocked to hear how Judas made a bad choice, and very sad to hear what Jesus had to go through. But as the children say, it has a happy ending when Jesus “was alive again” Here is a link for the Easter story.

As you may have seen, our nursery garden is having a bit of a makeover and the children have been very excited watching all of the building works that's been going on. The children can't wait to play in their new garden. 

We have been on a walk around the school grounds, looking for signs of Spring. I know, you are all saying 'it's too early', but we found daffodils, crocuses, daisies and snowdrops. We also tried to find some birds nests; we didn’t find any though. The children had so much joy in finding them.

This week we have met number 7. We have been working out with our fingers how we can make 7 in different ways. The children have also enjoyed having a go at writing the number 7 as well.

Have a great weekend everyone and see you all on Monday for more fun and leaning. 

Emma 

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.

I hope you all had a lovely restful week at half term.

This week we have been consolidating our previous knowledge of the letter sounds we have learnt so far. We had done so well!

We have revisited the letter sound ' p' and watched a video of Geraldine the Giraffe and we could think of lots of words that begin with this sound.

Why not have a hunt for things in your house that begin with 'p'

We were very excited this week to watch as our garden is undergoing a bit of a change. It looks very exciting and we can't wait to try it all out. This has not stopped us from going outside as we have visited the castle, investigated signs of spring in the environmental garden and we have even been invited to use reception's outside space too. Thank you Mrs Hartley.

We are now in Lent and we have been exploring the Easter Story. We have tried really hard to be like Jesus and his disciple to earn a stamp on our Lenten promise wall. Although the story of Jesus makes us sad we know that it has a happy ending.

Our crafts this week have mostly involved reflecting on Jesus’s journey to crucifixion.

Have a lovely weekend

Michelle

As usual nursery has been frantically busy again, but we just love growing our brains. Added to all our learning everyone has been keeping a special eye on the building works that are happening in our garden…we are so excited!!!

I suggest a quiet weekend may be in order because we have lots planned for next week!!! Please keep safe and enjoy just being together. I will see you on Monday.

God Bless

Barbara

Year 3 Weekly Blog 23.2.24 - ‘We’ve been to the Roman Museum and now the sun is out. This is the best day ever!’

We have had a very busy week in Year 3! Our Class Worship was led by Lucia, Mia-Grace and Rodnie, they read The True God (Kings 12:16-19) and chose the hymn Mary did you know for us to sing together. The children listened thoughtfully as they shared the prayers they had written. Thank you for leading our class worship, you will be our prayer monitor until next week.

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Year 6 Home Learning 23.02.24

Maths

Please get on TT Rockstars this week and speed up with your times tables- some of you are in desperate need! This will HUGELY help you with your fractions work!

Grammar

Many of us are making mistakes when using apostrophes in contractions within our writing- this needs revising and revisiting before lessons next week. Please complete the following IXL strands:

NN.Contractions

  1. Pronoun-verb contractions

  2. Contractions with 'not'

Reading

Please complete the reading comprehension- remember you can do this independently or alongside an adult to help you practice certain strategies.

Spellings

This week’s spelling focus are words ending with ‘ence’ ‘ency’ and ‘ent’. There is a quiz for you to complete on PurpleMash and flash cards if they help you. I have also put an ideas that may help you to learn your spellings below- just another staretgy that will help!

Mrs Barker’s Group

move must need page picture point

Research (due next Thursday)

Can you research William Shakespeare - what information can you find out about him? Then bring back your research after half term please for our English lessons. Think about the following titles: Early life; education; how he became a playwright; late life and legacy

Year 6 Weekly Blog ‘Love and Compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive' Dalai Lama

Welcome back to the second half of the spring term. There is no doubt that it is going to be a busy term with lots and lots going on. I am really excited that we will end the term with an Easter assembly. It will be a lovely way to bring our class family: parents and children together.

This half term, we are focusing on the virtues of being compassionate and loving. There is so much love in our school and especially our class and I am so grateful for all of your wonderful children and how hard they are all working. Keep supporting them at home with their daily reading, completion of homework and of course attendance, it is such a crucial time, that we can not miss any learning opportunity!

This week has been a different week, as I was unfortunately poorly earlier in the week, but the children continued to workb hard and show the supply teachers just what polite, well-mannered and compassionate children they are!

Turning to the Cross

This week, we celebrated the start of Lent at mass with our Reception parnters. This was such a beautiful time, of deep prayer and reflection.We also have now exchanged our Lenten boxes with Reception, ready to collect money for Cafod during Lent. It was so clear how much effort all the children had put in to when creating their boxes and they loved getting together again to give it to their partner.

Being an active and curious learner.

I am sure the children have come home to tell you that they have had their first paper back from their grammar. This was such an exciting and worth-while learning journey, where we have been through the paper, celebrated achievements and even mistakes- as the mistakes we make are what we truly learn from the most! I would like to remind all of you that this process is not to label or to level your child, as we have not yet completed the whole curriculum, we simply do this to ensure your children are familiar with the layout, formatting, style of questions and of course to learn what is expected of them. The children have had the chance to think about what areas they know they need to work on now and reflect on what progress they would like to make next time- marginal gains are always the best way! We were so proud of the children’s maturity and resilience during this feedback time.

Leading Learners

Well done to Georgia and Emilia this week.

Georgia we are so proud of your attitude towards your learning and your drive to succeed. You really are such a resilient Sadie Spider! You just have not given up in Maths this week, in an area that you found really difficult! But you stuck with it, tried your best, reflected on mistakes and strived to not let it beat you with great results!! Keep working on those times tables with the same resilience and then you will be unstoppable!

Emilia, you are so focused during lessons, managing your distractions and getting lost in each task. Your work always reflects your capabilities, but also you’re creative, and we love the way you never stop at what is expected from you, you always challenge yourself to take your learning to the next step! We love your enthusiasm and enjoyment when approaching French lessons- thank you for passing on your enthusiasm to others!

Love and Compassionate butterflies

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that stop and notice how others are experiencing their lives, and how they feel, and why they say and believe what they do.  Ultimately, it is what makes us kind and, at a deeper level, opens up the possibility of being loving through our just and merciful actions and forgiving words. This week we thank Connor-Sean for always being compassionate and loving with others.

Lunch Time Awards …

Marvelous Manners awards … Tabby

Role Model of the week … Daisy

Helpers in the morning

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

Stan Edi Iris Tabby

Notices

  • World Book Day 7th March- dress up as your favourite BOOK characters and bring with you a magical object to help spark our imaginations to create our own cllass story! This ‘magical object’ could be linked to the character you’re dressed up as, but it doesn’t have to be- but be prepared to share your story and get creative! Some magical objects may include: a magic feather, a magic stone, a magic jewel- be creative!

  • Wednesday 6th March Year 6 Book Look at 2pm- we will also be doing a brief talk on SAT’s - what to expect and on the end of year residential, so please come along!

  • Have you booked your Parent meetings from Mrs Gregan’s blog ?? These virtual meetings will take place on either Wednesday 13th March or Wednesday 20th March 2pm- 5:20pm.


Have a lovely weekend.

We will see you on Monday.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker



Year 3 Homework - Tuesday 20th February

Spellings

Suffix ily
happily angrily easily sensibly fussily merrily greedily heavily luckily sleepily

Your spelling quiz will be on Monday 26th February

English

This half term we will be looking at trifold leaflets, with the intention of making our own leaflets about The Romans. Your homework this week is to find 3 facts about The Romans that you could share with the class and perhaps include on your leaflet.


Reconciliation and Holy Communion Programme

Today, marks the start of the children’s preparation to receive the very special gift of the eucharist in May. Throughout the next term, the children will be asked to think deeply about their faith and their commitment to the church before receiving Jesus via the Eucharist in May.

On Sunday, it is the Welcome Mass for all children and families. Those who are taking part in the programme will be expected to attend 9.30am mass so that Father Peter can welcome you all formally as part of the programme. During this week, Mrs Lyons and the class will be making something for them to bring with them, ready to display in church. It is a really special mass and it is so important that all children who will be making their First Reconciliation and Holy Communion make time to attend.

The formal sessions will then start for the children next Thursday and will run on the following dates from 3.30-4.20pm:

Thursday 29th February

Thursday 7th March

Thursday 14th March

Thursday 25th April

Thursday 2nd May

Thursday 9th May

Father Peter has asked to change the parents’s session due to him being called out of the diocese next Thursday. The parents’s sessions will now take place on the following dates from 3.30-4.20pm in school:

Thursday 7th March - Introductory Session and Reconciliation

Thursday 25th April - Holy Communion

This programme does require complete commitment from the children so that they will have that knowledge and understanding about what they will be doing and the significance of what they receive - it is so important and part of their sacramental journey.

We look forward to seeing you at church on Sunday and working with you all over the coming months.

Mrs Gregan