Year 6 Weekly Blog - 'He is risen. He is not there.'

What a way to end a wonderful term together! I am sure that you were all moved by the children’s depiction of the Resurrection this morning - many a tear had to be wiped from the eye. This morning is what education is all about. The children having the opportunity to think outside of the box, be creative and to express themselves. We are incredibly proud of them all.

Continuing to learn

We have continued to really push ourselves to learn in the last week of this term. In addition to focusing on the Easter assembly, the children have been writing their own versions of Jesus’ journey to His cross. This piece is being written in 1st person so the children really have to focus on the emotion of the event. I can’t wait to share these with you after half term. In maths, we have done lots of percetnage work and to make sure children remember everything they have learnt, it’s important to keep this ticking over during the Easter break- please see the home learning page.

All of the children have revision resources and some past SAT papers for over half term for them to practise and have a go at. They have worked so hard and we are now onto the final push. Support your child the best way you see fit, these will not be assessed by me, so whatever level input you feel is necessary then please feel free. If you click on the button below, it will take you to the section on the Year 6 web page ‘How to Help Your Child.’ I have updated the page with lots of useful sites for the children to access. If you see there is an area that children need more practice, then these sites should help, but remember one of the most crucial ways is through books. So please make sure you set aside time of Easter to read together.The final weeks after half term will be focused on revision and helping the children in each of the different areas.

This week we went to visit the special visitors in Year 2 and we loved every minute if it …

Food Tech for after Easter …

Below is the dates, groups and the ingredients the children will need for after Easter…

Friday 12th April- Groups cooking(Mains)

Group 1:

Millie- parmesan (to sprinkle over pasta) and 1 lemon

Ruby Lilly- dry pasta(for 6 servings)

Poppy- 1 bunch of Parsley

Harvey- 1 pack of breadcrumbs

Leo- 5 garlic cloves

Group 2:

Max- x2 tomatoes 2x pepper's

Iris- 4 cloves of garlic 1x avocado

Owen- Taco shells x8 

Lilly- 1x natural yoghurt  2xlimes

Daisy- 2x red onions 2x avocados

Friday the 19th April - Groups cooking (desserts)

Group 1

Rosa-2x bars of cooking chocolate 

Charlie- 1x packs of strawberries

Georgia- 1x packs of marshmallows

Evan- 1x packs of strawberries

Group 2

Betsy- 1x meringue pack 

Tabby- 3x eggs    

Matilda-1x bar of cooking chocolate

Leon-Vanilla extract 

Jay- 1x strawberries

LEARNER OF THE HALF TERM

Voted for by your classmates for being an excellent learning role model within our classroom. The class think you have shone this half term …

Angel and Owen

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 Emilia, Daisy and Matilda for always being compassionate and loving with others.

Lunch Time Awards …

Year 6 have been awarded class of the half term for good manners and being excellent role models in the dinner hall!

Helpers in the morning for after Easter

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

Edi Iris Nicola Harvey

Notices

Back to school on Monday 8th April

Leaver’s Hoodies

The leaver’s hoodies have been organised and are now ready to be sized. To ensure that your child receives the correct size, please take them into Top Marques to try them on. Top Marques will also take payment fpr the hoodie of £18.50 - hoodies will then be delivered to school before the children go on their next residential. You have until Friday 26th April to pop in and complete your orders.

On behalf of the Year 6 team, I wish you all a restful and holy Easter. Take time to spend with each other and to enjoy the beautiful weather- let’s hope it remains.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker

Year 3 Weekly Blog 27.3.24 - ‘This is my body, which is broken for you: do this in remembrance of me.’

As a whole school community we have witnessed reenactments of the events of Holy week, it has been an emotional week, starting with the celebrations of Palm Sunday with Year 2 right up to the Resurrection this morning with Year 6. We have spent some time each day reflecting on what we have witnessed, thinking about the thoughts and feelings of Jesus and those around him.

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Year 6 Home Learning 28.03.24

Message to Parents

This year really is flying! The children are being asked to work incredibly hard in class and our pace of learning is incredible. As always, the children are rising to every challenge that they are being set.

After this week, we have 6 weeks until our assessment week. Maintaining a balanced curriculum is really important. They have to experience learning in all of the other subjects as well as the increased focus on Maths and English. There has been huge progress made in these areas because the children are so motivated and determined to do well.

Intrinsic motivation and the children being determined to succeed will inevitably lead to their success. Effort breeds success.

Please do get in touch if you need any more support.

REVISION FOR OVER THE EASTER HOLIDAYS

SPELLING - Revise all of your spellings from your spelling book. Which words are you finding tricky? Is there a particular rule? Can you re-learn some of the spellings you have got wrong in your quizzes?

GPS - You have a paper to work through at home. Are you comfortable with all concepts? What could you research further? Could you use IXL for further consolidation?

MATHS - I have given you a reasoning paper to have a go at over the holidays, reason your way through this along side an adult for support. I have added White Rose Home Learning to the button below. You can watch videos to help you in any area of maths that you are not sure about.

Please keep our precentage work ticking over ready to take off where we started after the holidays, by having a go at the following IXL strands:

T1 What percentage is illustrated?

T2 Understanding percents: bar models

READING - Please make sure you are reading every day over half term and be ready to quiz when you come back!

Year 3 Homework- Tuesday 26th March

Spellings

This weeks focus is long vowel sounds.
Spelling quiz will be on Monday 8th April.

  1. cake

  2. time

  3. home

  4. complete

  5. arrive

  6. decide

  7. describe

  8. extreme

  9. surprise

  10. twice

Reading
The children have made fantastic progress towards their reading targets this half term. Reading targets will be reset ready for the summer term.
Our Author of the month for April will be Peter Brown.

Easter Holidays Challenge!

Homework over the half term is to relax and enjoy spending time with your family and friends - you have all worked very hard this half term, rest and get ready for Summer!





Year 1 Homework 22.3.24

Reading

Please continue to read regularly at home and sign the challenge boxes, just a reminder it is one box per day.

Don’t forget you have the QR codes for the RWI videos these are great to practise their sounds at home, let me know if you need another copy.

Spellings

It will be our big spelling test after the Easter break with a mix of the spellings from this half term and last. It will be on Friday 12th April.

The spellings are:

my were are said here our house pull

love come put do was by some they full they

of you we

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 5 Weekly Blog 22.03.24- ' Give me your strength when I am discouraged and not to stay crushed by my sadness'

As we approach holy week, we have been balancing our in classroom workload along with our Easter preparations. The children have been brilliant in transition by constantly needing to switching their focus based on the busy schedule.

We have spent the last two science lessons experimenting with shadows by using different types of objects to create different shades of shadows. We were then able to change the size of shadows depending on the distance from the light source to our object.

In Maths, we have began our big topic of multiplication. We have been looking at larger multiplication calculations that are much harder to do mentally- in which we have been partioning our biggest number. We then applied these skills into our new tidy method called ‘Long Multiplication’ or ‘Column Multiplication’.

In English, we have been touching over lots of SPAG skills that we have learnt this year and applying these to grammatically correct examples of work and to break sentences down into different clauses.

In PE, Mr Murray and Mr Holford took the class on an orenteering session, where the class hid objects around the school grounds and the children used maps to locate the hidden objects.

Let’s Celebrate

  • Isaac for being a co-operative learner: You really do make mine and Mrs Mather’s life easier when it comes to group activities. You are so adaptive in working alongside anyone and your calming mature approach really makes you a good teammate. Whether it  is a classroom activity or a PE task, you always treat your group in the right manner.

  • Cora for being an enthusiastic learner: Your focus and attention to detail throughout our assembly practices have been excellent Cora. This is clearly evident by your characterisation and the commitment to your role- you are always staying in character. Great work!


  • Virtue Butterflies: Our butterfly this week goes to Pippa for being loving and compassionate. You are not just loving and compassionate towards your friends, which is seen by the teachers everyday on the playground, you are also so kind and respectful towards our members of staff. This really doesn’t go unnoticed.

    Lunchtime Certificates

    • Role Model of the Week- Esther

    • Marvelous Manners- Rafe

Notices

  • Easter Assembly- Our focus in the lead up to Easter will be the Crucifixion, which will take place on Wednesday 27th March at 9:15am.

  • Easter Holidays- School will close for Easter on Thursday 28th March at 2pm

This week...

What a week! You may have noticed that our garden is nearing completion. The children have been thrilled to be able to access our new builders yard. They have been laying pipes, hoisting brick and mixing cement! On Wednesday we had a had a beach delivered! We are now in the process of cleaning our sand area and trundling the new sand into situe…it is really exhausting. The only thing that we are waiting for is our new flooring for the house, then we can move in! We can’t wait!

On Friday our compost arrives. We have started to prepare the planting boxes by removing all the weeds and turning the earth. We have also managed to plant some potatoes, a buddleia, an apple tree and some strawberries. Can I say a big thank you to everyone who has donated seeds and plants to make our garden BEAUTIFUL!

As we continue our exploration of the solar system we happened across a new planet song. The children thought to was wonderful, although we were a bit sad about Pluto! Click here to listen at home

As we have been spotting daffodils everywhere around school we decided to paint pictures of them. Take a look.

Daffodils

by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone, 

I hope you've all been enjoying the bit of spring sunshine we have been having this week. 

We have been so busy this week working hard as always and we have all enjoyed being challenged in Mr Nays PE class. Mr Nay had us working hard with a tricky game, we had to really listen and follow his instructions. We had four teams; our challenge was to run around cones, find a ball, then pass it onto a friend. Whichever team had the most balls at the end were the winners. The children did so well in understanding what they had to do, it was complicated!

We have also been working hard in the garden, weeding, sweeping, planting, tidying up, and helping put the new sand in the sand pit, getting ready for Spring. The children have really enjoyed finding insects in the garden, and looking at all their different shapes and sizes. The children used magnifying glasses and pots to observe how they moved. Now all of the weeds have gone, we will be ready for even more planting after the Easter break. Thank you for all the wonderful garden donations.

The children have enjoyed being back in the garden which is now finished. The garden looks brilliant and the children  have been busy playing and leaning in all of the new areas.  

We met number 8 this week or should I say 'Octoblock'. We worked out that by adding one more to 7, this made 8, and that we could find different ways to make 8 with our fingers. The children also have also been practicing how to write the number. The rhyme helps us to remember how to write Octoblock 8, here it is:

S to start looking great, and loop back up and there's your eight.' Here is a rap all about the number 8, enjoy. Click here

Thank you to the parents I have have seen and spoken to earlier this week. It was nice to chat and catch up on your child's development.

Have a fabulous weekend, see you all on Monday.

Emma 

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s blog. We have continued this week in our worship learning about the Easter story. We have thought really hard about how the individuals felt. How did Jesus feel and how did Mary feel? We watched a film about how people celebrate Easter. Click here to watch at home. We also completed a quiz to find out what we know about the festival of Easter, click here and then watched a film about an artist who works with sand. The children thought it was wonderful click here.

This week we have also met Numberblock number 8, Octoblock and have been growing our brains working out how we can make number bonds to 8. There are lots of different ways. Maybe you can think of some ways to make 8 at home.

In PE we were excited to play team games with Mr Nay and Mr Murray. We also practised hopping and jumping.

We have been very lucky to have had some sunshine this week and this has allowed us to do some gardening, to weed and to plant some new plants. We are very excited to wait and see if they grow.

We also had an opportunity to eat the moon this week, as we made our very own moon biscuits, complete with moon craters. They were delicious!

See you all next week

Michelle

Meet Octoblock!

We have been saying and counting numbers up to 8. Our aim for the children to recognise the cardinal principle of counting that the last number counted represents the entire set of objects counted.

We have also been partitioning and counting to 8. We have learnt that Eight is formed from combining One and Seven and then partitioned again. Tricky stuff!

With this in mind now watch the episode. Click here

Story Time

We read two fabulous new stories this week. I promised that i would put the on the blog, so here goes:

Billy’s Bucket: Click here

Stone Soup: Click here

Enjoy!

Worship

We have visited the Chapel this week, to see the prayer area that Mrs Gregan has made. The children reconised the crown of thrns which was resting on the cross. We discussed how it made us feel. We recalled the Easter story in detail, the children even remembered the role of Simon of Cyrene and Veronica. The children offered a prayer for someone. They spoke with such compassion and understanding it was hard to believe they are only three and four years old. We we so moved.

On Friday we start the our Holy week in school with Jesus riding into Jerusalem. We will continue to follow Jesus’ journey throughout next week.

Lenten boxes

From Monday we will start collecting in the Lenten boxes.

Year 5 Homework Due Thursday 28th March

Spellings

Tricky words again for this week with the first 4 words being our new spellings and the rest are previous tricky words that we have done this year.

  1. bruise

  2. nuisance

  3. recognise

  4. criticise

  5. buoyancy

  6. fictitious

  7. superstitious

  8. immediately

  9. necessary

  10. receive

  11. determined

  12. obedience

English

Will be on IXL;

T1- Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes.

Y3- Use the correct homophone

Art- Poetry

Mrs Mather has set everyone the task of finding/writing your favourite poem in your homework books. You can either select a pre-written poem and stick/write this in your books or you can create your own.

Year 6 Home Learning 21.03.24

Homework is now due back on Wednesdays

Maths

  1. This week it has been all about the fractions- please complete the multiplying fractions sheet to reinforce what we have been doing in class.

2. Complete the following IXL strands:

N 17 Multiply two fractions

N 24 Divide fractions by whole numbers

Spellings

This week’s spelling focus are words that we have already learnt this half term, so let’s see whether we have remembered them! Remember to pratise these throughout the week and to complete the quiz on Purple Mash.

 

Mrs Barker’s Group

Begin below between both city close country

Grammar

This week we have been learning about prepositions and determiners! Please complete the example SAT questions on prepositions and complete the following IXL strands:

LL 1. Identify prepositions

LL 2. Identify prepositions and their objects

Have a go at the following determiners game:



Year 3 Homework- Tuesday 19th March

Spellings

This weeks focus is double consonants

  1. appear

  2. disappear

  3. address

  4. difficult

  5. grammar

  6. occasion

  7. opposite

  8. pressure

  9. suppose

  10. puzzle

Reading
Please continue reading at home for 20 minutes each night. Not long left until half term - how far can you gets towards your target?

Easter Worship - The Last Supper

Please practise your lines and the Hymn below at home - our Easter Worship is on Monday 25th March at 9.15am, please join us.




Year 5 Weekly Blog 15.03.24' Help me carry the weight of the great and small sufferings in my life'

What an exciting week it has been! It’s not often that the first thing on a Monday morning is full of excitement and something new but this week it was as we carried out our fourth enrichment session. This time, the children were in Year 1 with Miss Drummond where they took part in some science experiments involving food. I’m not too sure what they were creating but it looked delicious.

The focus of the week was starting our Easter assembly preparations, in which we handed out scripts and also completed our first stage practice. With less than two weeks until the assembly, it is vital that all children learn their lines and when they come in.

In Maths, the children started their new topic with Mrs Gregan and focused on volume- looking at how we use this in everyday practices and the relationships it has with other units of maths. In my maths topic, we have come to the end of division as we look to start multiplication next week. I have never taught a class that enjoys the bus stop method so much and I think that comes from their confidence in understanding the method.

In English, we have discussed, researched and independently written up our first discussion text from scratch which is ‘Should all children learn how to swim?’. The children have loved sharing their points of view and also look at ways to counter argue points previously made.




Let’s Celebrate

  • Pippa for being a co-operative learner: Such a friendly and caring member of the class. This makes you a brilliant learning partner as you are not concerned with who you are sat with- you still give it 100%. You treat all of your classmates the same, making them feel valued and apart of the team.




  • Sophia for being an enthusiastic learner: I really could not tell what your favourite or least favourite subject is because you have the same high level of enthusiasm throughout every lesson. You give everything a go and your sole focus is to learn and to tackle any learning task in front of you. A real mature and positive way of approaching the entire curriculum- Keep it up!




  • Virtue Butterflies: Our butterfly this week goes to Millie for being loving and compassionate. Your manners are impeccable- you always say please and thank you towards all members of staff and children.




    Lunchtime Certificates

    • Role Model of the Week- Ella

    • Marvelous Manners- Cora


Notices

  • Parents Evening Appointments- Next week will be the second half of the appointments, 2:00pm-5:30pm Wednesday 20th March.

Please book your appointments on Mrs Gregan’s blog.

  • Easter Assembly- Our focus in the lead up to Easter will be the Crucifixion, which will take place on Wednesday 27th March at 9:15am.