Year 4 home learning to be completed by Thursday 18th April

HALF TERMLY OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING

In line with our new homework policy, each class will now have some optional half termly tasks . Some tasks will build on previous learning and others will enrich this half term’s learning. Please click on the link below to view the tasks for this half term. You can do these in homework books, as photos, powerpoints or however you like.

Then we have our usual weekly learning - to be carried out by everyone:

Reading

Dedicate 15 - 30 minutes on reading. Have you quizzed yet this half term?

Maths

TTROCKSTARS 10 minutes per day in Garage - see if you can improve your heatmap. Also, can you use our method to complete the following calculations?

a) 14 x 6 b) 17 x 8 c) 19 x 5 d) 24 x 3 e) 28 x 4 f) 27 x 7 g) 49 x 3 h)234 x 5

In Year 4, we work them out by partitioning the larger number into its parts.

See the example below

16 x 7= (break it into the calculations below then add up the answers)

10 x 7=

6 x 7=

Spellings

Group 1: First practise the spellings below and complete quiz in purple mash

actual, address, calendar, disappear, experience, particular, thought, separate, difficult, weight

Group 2 Practise these spellings below.

I’ve, I’m, now, call, house, school, would, could, should, other, mother, brother

Netball Tournament Selections

Next Thursday, the local netball tournament will be played at Lytham St Annes High School. It will start at 3.30pm, hoping to be finished by around 5.15pm at the latest. Please can you collect your child from school at 3.10pm and take them to the event.

We are only able to take one team to the tournament.

Well done to the following girls who have been selected:

Daisy, Iris, Nicola, Tabby, Millie, Faye, Esther, Bella

The girls’ will need to be in full netball kit and school PE kit with appropriate trainers. Plenty of fluid will be required to keep hydrated.

The tournament is being run by the young leaders from LSA who will be supporting, running the table, umpiring and lots of things. Please be kind and courteous to them.

This week...

Welcome back! I hope that everyone had a lovely Easter despite the rain and the wind!

We have started our new learning thread ‘growing’. A big thank you to everyone who has donated seeds and pots. Our delivery of soil arrived just before Easter…I may have over ordered, it’s HUGE bag.

On Monday we planted carrots, meadow seeds, lettuce, tomatoes and strawberries. Now we are waiting patiently. In the meanwhile we have been discussing what will be happening under the soil and what the seeds need to thrive. Click here to watch and here to see the seeds start to germinate.

Worship

This week we explored the concept of the Trinity, where God is three-in-one and each part loves the others and loves us. We discussed how Children we are made in the image of God, we are designed to love God and love one another in our wider communities too.

Our word of the week is ‘believe’. Even though we have seen the season of Lent cumulate in Easter Sunday, and Jesus’ Resurrection, Eastertide still continues. Now ids the time to celebrate in the risen Lord; during which we are called to grow in friendship with Jesus, believe in Him, and tell others about the Resurrection. We have been learning the hymn ‘Be Still for the Presence of the Lord’. Click here to join in at home.

Emma’s Blog

Hello everyone, 

Welcome back. I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. It's been lovely hearing the children telling us all what they have been up to over the holidays.

As it’s a new term and Summer is here, we have been busy planting seeds in our garden. We have planted strawberry, carrot, tomato and cucumber plants as well as wild flower seeds, and lots more. We have been working our brains and learning about how seeds germinate, and how the roots of the seed need water and nutrients to feed the plant and to help it grow from under the ground. Talking about nutrition in the soil, how does the soil gets the nutrition I here you ask? Earthworms are fantastic burrowing creatures and are the living, breathing, engineers of the underworld, eating and recycling organic matter to keep our soil healthy with nutrition ready for planting.

We also found out lots of interesting facts about the earthworm, and here is a link for you to look at: Click here to learn more.

The children have been working together to make a wormery in nursery, to see how the worms live and eat underground. The children really enjoyed looking for the worms and layering their new home with sand and soil and feeding them by leaving out dead leaves and plants on top of the soil. I will keep you all updated with how they are getting on.

We have also been busy learning our new sounds, ng, nk, qu, th, ch this week. The children are working really hard with their sounds.

See you all next week.

Emma

Michelle’s blog

Hello, and welcome to this week’s nursery blog. I hope you all had a restful and peaceful Easter and didn’t eat too many eggs.

This week we have jumped straight into our new topic of spring and growing with both feet, or should that be both wellies?

We have decided we want to grow lots of things , lots of flowers and lots of fruit and vegetable. We have spent some time planting seeds and plants with pots and compost. We keep looking but they haven’t grown yet.

Here are some fantastic spring ideas for you to try at home. Click here.

If you would like to have a go at growing at home but are short on space or time, here are some ideas for growing using vegetable scraps, click here

In PE we have continued to practise our Fundamental Movement skills of throwing, catching, jumping, running and hopping. Catching is really tricky but we keep practising. This is a skill that you could try practising with your child, as you can throw and catch anything, it doesn’t have to be a ball.

We have also continued  exploring numbers this week and have been growing our brains trying to find all the different ways we can make different numbers and also looking for numbers in the environment. When you look, they are everywhere! Which numbers can you spot?

Here is a link to some fantastic number games, including letter formation, counting and number recognition. Click here.

That’s all for now. Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week.

Michelle

Storytime

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle; Click here

Please look out for a seeds sequencing card game to make at home…coming home this week! Enjoy!

Lastly, it has been so lovely to see everyone back at nursery this week, ready and eager to learn. Next week…more growing! We can’t wait.

Have a lovely weekend

God Bless

Barbara

Year 6 Home Learning 11.04.24

READING

Lots of reading please- let’s get quizzing!

Maths

This week we have looked at percentages. Please have a go at the following IXL strand to revisit your learning.

T3 Convert fractions to percents using grid models

T4Convert between percents, fractions and decimals

Then please complete the arithmetic booklet. This can be either completed independently to a time (30 minutes) or alongside a grown up where you can discuss the strategies and methods you use- you must decide what is going to be most beneficial for you.

Spellings

This week’s spelling focus are words that contain a double consonant. Remember to practice these throughout the week and to complete the quiz on Purple Mash.

Optional revision:

1) Why don’t use look at the pronouns sections in IXL English GG PRONOUNS. We have been doing this in class so it would be great to reinforce!

2) Below is a list of the Year 5 and 6 word list that children are expected to be able to spell by the end of Year 6. Why not take a look at them and see how many you know how to spell? How many do you know you need to work on?

Summer 1 Extra-Curricular Names and Places

Please find above the names of the children who have signed up for the extra-curricular clubs this half term.

Archery, Judo and Mr Nay’s football sessions start tomorrow.

For the archery and judo, can all children come in through the main entrance, they will then be directed to where they need to go; depending on where the activity is. Please ensure that you have paid £28 before the session starts tomorrow.

The cricket clubs start next week and will run for the next 5 weeks.

Year 1 Homework 28.3.24

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, click on the buttons to get the codes.

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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

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Have a lovely Easter Break

Miss Drummond

This week...

Such an emotional week. We have travelled through Holy Week attending each moving assembly which has depicted Jesus’ journey to the cross. We have been discussing each event by visiting the stations of the cross. The children have been truly reflective, trying to comprehend ‘why’? On the morning of the Crucifixion assembly we were so overcome with sadness it made some of us cry.

It has not been all sadness though, we have enjoyed lots of fun in the garden, organising everything in readiness for a planting bonanza when we return!!

Our learning thread focusses on ‘cycles’; plants and animals, and also a complementary thread- ‘Superheroes’! Click on the button below to see our planning.

We were lucky enough to have Year 2 newly hatched chicks come to nursery for us to look after. It was thrilling. We watched a video of one of the chicks emerging from its shell (see year 2 blog from last week).

Easter Egg Hunt!

On Thursday Easter bunny came to nursery and hid eggs for everyone in the garden. We had great fun searching for them. Take a look!

Read, Write Inc.

We are so proud of ourselves…we have completed Speed Set 1 sounds, phew! We now need to keep practising them so that we get better and better.

Click here for z

Click here for ch

Click here for qu

Click here for x

Click here for ng

Click here for nk

Try and think of words with these sounds in them. Good luck, it’s tricky!

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone 

We have had a fun packed 4 days this week.

Nursery has been into the school assembly every day this week to watch years 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, tell different parts of the Easter story. We have really enjoyed it. 

The children have continued learning about the 14 stations of the cross by using objects to represent each station. For example, a rock represents the tomb, 3 plasters represents Jesus falling 3 times, lolly sticks for the cross and many more. The children linked the objects to each station to help us remember and retell the Easter Story.

A big thank you for bringing back your Lenten boxes. Your kindness will really help those less fortunate.

We were so excited we met x and z letter sounds this week as the children have been waiting so long for these as its seems they really like saying them. The children also use there whole body to represent X.

We had some visitors in nursery this week. Some baby chick's from year 2, where the children in year 2 have been looking after them. They have had them since they were eggs and looked after them as they hatched. The children in nursery were really grateful that they got to see and touch them. Thank you year 2 for letting us spend time with your chick's.

As Easter is this weekend, here is a recipe to make chocolate nests and an Easter counting game. Click here and here. Enjoy!

Have a wonderful Easter and enjoy your week off, and I can’t wait to hear what you have all been up to.

Emma 

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.

This week we have had assembly every morning as we have watched the juniors tell the story of Easter. Mrs Gregan has said she was very impressed when visiting nursery at how much the children could recall about Easter. The children are very aware of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection as we have had many discussions over the previous weeks about many aspects of Easter.

Thank you so much for all the Lenten boxes that have been returned. We have been very humbled by your generosity.

We have continued learning new letter sounds this week and have been practising our writing too.  Here is a reminder of the sounds we have learnt so far.

Click here

We are enjoying our revamped garden and have been enjoying it, whatever the weather.

Have a lovely Easter and we will see you after the holidays.

Michelle 

Finally, I would like to wish everyone and Happy and Holy Easter. Thank you for all your support of nursery this term, you are truly wonderful!

Stay safe and God bless, I will see you on the 8th April.

Barbara

Year 5 Weekly Blog 287.03.24- ' Into your hands Lord, I commend my spirit'

Wow! What an emotional yet exhilarating final week of the term- where we all came together as one to witness Holy Week. Each day, we came into the hall in silence and reflection as we relived the story of Jesus’s death and resurrection. Wednesday was our big day as the children had the biggest of tasks of recreating the Crucifixion of Jesus. The children were fantastic in their character roles, their emotive behaviour and their delivery of prayer and scripture.

With the end of our Holy Week in school, Year 6 closed us out with a beautiful portray of the resurrection which was followed by celebrations of an Easter Egg Hunt! With a surprise visit from our Easter bunny, they had hidden an egg for each child around the gardens of the school. The children’s quick-witted investigating skills came in handy as they all found their eggs!

Let’s Celebrate

With it being the end of a term, the certificates were chosen by the children themselves- with the theme being a reflective learner'. Our winners for this term are;

Michael: You have been chosen by your classmates for:

• Being an excellent learning partner

• Putting lots of work into your handwriting practice

• Pushing through till the end when things get tough

• Taking every word from the teacher and wanting the improve

Elsie: You have been chosen by your classmates for:

• High focus during independent tasks to make sure your work is your best

• Pushing through till the end when things get tough

• You like receiving feedback because it gives you a chance to improve

• Always being kind to everyone and reflect how other people are feeling

Virtue Butterflies: Our butterfly this week goes to Ruby. You live and breath kindness and you are so respectful to all members of staff. You don’t just treat your closest friends with love and compassion but everyone you come across.

Notices

• Homework for half term: Spellings will be the same as last weeks due to not having a spelling test this week. Any missed IXL’s or Art homework from last week needs to be completed. Lots of reading and times tables practice over the Easter break.

• School will reopen on Monday 8th April

Year 4 Weekly blog Thursday 28th March " He is Risen, Alleluia, Alleluia!"

Thank you all so much for your kind donations in Lenten boxes for CAFOD and thank you children for all those tasks you did to earn the money.What a beautiful and poignant week it has been throughout school. It has been so painful at times, as children have been sorrowful and reflective when thinking about the agonising events of Holy week. Our class assembly showed their maturity to understand the fear, abandonment, betrayal and agony of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. On Wednesday children wrote about their reflections and feelings towards the crucifixion. There was a mixture of deep sorrow, frustration and gratefulness for what Jesus did for us. Also, children wrote questions they wanted to ask about it. I read their work on Wednesday night and felt tearful myself at the depth of children’s emotion towards and understanding of Good Friday’s events. Today they were asked to do reflections of a different nature, about the hope that the Resurrection of Jesus brings.

As we get to the final term, we are encouraging children to strive to be independent and believe in their own ideas when writing. The above tasks really helped them to see that their best is good enough and that there is not one right answer to things. In English this week, children have been writing our story learned in class, “Brer Fox and the White Plums,’ to see if they can use all the year 4 writing skills when they compose. A lot of learning is ‘mind over matter,’ and just taking the plunge to go for it! We are developing our resilience and stamina to keep going when things are tricky - to stand us in good stead for life’s challenges.

In Science we have learned all about fossil formation this week and also enjoyed sifting through soil with our plastic gloves to see exactly what it was made out of. After the holidays, we will go on a trip to the beach via St Annes, looking out for rocks, erosion, fossils and collecting rocks to bring back to school and test.

We had a treat today when the Easter bunny had hidden eggs all over our garden for each child in school. The excitement of the hunt was lovely!

Conversation starters

We learned about the Earth’s tectonic plates in Geography this week by taking the ‘lid’ off a crunch cream biscuit and seeing what happened when 2 plates rub together/converge. This taught children about the causes of earthquakes and volcanoes. See if they can explain it to you. Why not look up the ‘Tectonic plates - Ring of Fire,’ and find out why it gets its name.

Let’s Celebrate!

Each half term the class are asked to vote for the certificate winners. Mrs Gregan asked children to focus this half term on learners who were reflective. The class picked Matilda for how hard she tries and how she is always seeking to improve, listening well to feedback. They picked Tommy because he inspired them in Shakespeare by learning so many lines. He always tries to get better. He is a good listener and a kind friend. They also picked William because he is so enthusiastic and does not give up. They said he listens to advice and improves every day!

Loving and Compassionate butterflies

This half term, our virtues are ‘Loving and Compassionate.’ This week our butterfly go to Grace for always showing such respect for others and such love for her peers. Grace - you are full of grace!

Music Stars: Joseph, Tilly, Lily and William

PE stars this week go to Louis and John-Paul for some super sling throwing!

GOING GREEN! This week, these children have been awarded their going green certificate for having completely green heatmaps - meaning they have mastered their times tables!

Finley, Logan and Toby

Well done! This is through sheer hard work and practice!

Notices

No swimming after the holidays. However, inside PE will be on a Thursday each week so children will need shorts under their tracksuits. Wednesday is outside PE.

Wednesday 10th April 9:10am Children will do another performance of their Romeo and Juliet in our school hall for anyone to come and see.

Thursday 11th April We are going on a trip to the beach in the morning and having lunch there. I have sent a text if your child is normally a hot dinner and has said you will prepare them a packed lunch. Please could children bring in £2 for an ice-cream and a plastic bag to carry their rocks back to school.

Have a lovely Easter with your little chicks!

Mrs Lyons , Mrs Ely, Miss Hennessey and Mrs Carter

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.

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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.

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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

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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 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.

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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!

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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.

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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!