Year 6 Weekly Home Learning 2.05.24

IT’S THE FINAL PUSH …

The children are very clear about what they need to do and the areas that they need to develop. Please look at the ‘How to Help Your Child’ button on the Year 6 page. There are lots of resources for the children to access as well as the revision boxes that are in the classroom.

Maths: Please have a go and complete the maths reasoning paper. You could do this along side an adult or do it to the time- it should take you 40 minutes to complete the test.

READING- Please complete the SAT’s reading paper- some of you definitely need to practise this paper to ensure you complete the test in one hour.

GPS- Have a go at the revision map on punctuation I have sent you.

There may be other areas you want to go over that you have identified from the last paper you completed.

OPTIONAL

Year 1 Homework 26.4.24

Reading

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

Ask your child which sounds they have been learning this week, you can watch the videos to practise at home.

Handwriting

Please keep up with handwriting practise at home, this week we have been practising ‘b’ and ‘p’ and ‘K’ we appreciate all you are doing at home, thank you.

Once you log in, you can click on free play to explore at home or Year 1.

To find the letters ‘b’ ‘k’ and ‘p’, click on easy letters, then click on the ‘b’ ‘k’ and ‘p’ at the bottom of the screen. You can click on the play button to see how you write the letter, then click on try and the bottom of the screen under the play button so you can practice each letter.

Don’t forget to practise with pencils in your purple books.

Optional Challenges!

It is wonderful that the children are so excited about their learning and to see how keen they are to continue this outside of school. We welcome any opportunity to share these learning experiences with you at home, which is why we have created ‘optional challenges’ across each year group which can be explored over this Summer 1 half term.

These challenges link to the wider area of our curriculum, there are some activities to help with retrival and some with topics that are coming up.

Below you will find the optional challenges linking to the topics and areas of learning that we will be exploring this half term. These fun challenges are designed to cover a range of skills without being stressful or time consuming for you at home. You are welcome to complete them in any order you wish and it would be lovely to see pictures or examples of things that the children have enjoyed at home.

As always, thank you for your continued support.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 5 Weekly Blog 26.04.24- ' A true shepherd leads the way and does not simply point the way'

Such a beautiful and heartwarming week for liturgy and celebration this week as we came together for our Father Peter. On Thursday, it marked the 50 year anniversary of Father Peter becoming a priest, in which we celebrated together as the Our Lady family at church to dedicate the mass to him. The children sang Father’s favourite hymns with such love and created such beautiful gifts for him. I hope that the spreading of love and happiness from that mass is spread into your weekend as you read this.

What have we been learning this week?

English- It has been a very independent writing week as the children finished their final drafts of the ‘The Highwayman’ and began to construct their finished piece. You will be amazed with the creativity and imagination that the children have managed to entwine into their writing.

PE- Beautiful weather this week to match up perfectly with our chosen sport for the half term- Cricket. This week it was all things bowling, in which we broke the skill down and focused on the details of the teaching points. We then took this outside and practiced bowling on the right line and length in order to try and hit our wickets.

History- Our dive into crime and punishment from the 15th century onwards has taken us to all things ‘witches’. We discussed as a class what came to mind when we hear the word and if we could make any connections to what we already knew. The shock came to children when they discovered the severity of witchcraft belief back in the 1500’s and the strategies people used to catch and torture them. We then set up our own witch hunt around the classroom, for the children to find the reasons behind the rise of witch hunts during this time.


Deeper thinking questions

Every week now, we would like children to explore their weekly learning at home by discussing interesting questions with family members. This may be at the table during dinner, before bedtime or when out for a walk. However you choose to discuss these questions is up to you but this may give you more of an insight into what we have been learning in class.

Do you think having a jury system is correct? Would you change it?

Has any of your family members/anyone you know been involved in a jury?

Let’s Celebrate

  • Gabriella for being a resilient learner- You have really put the work in with your multiplication work and it is paying off. You are more fluent with your independent work and you are gaining more confidence from this- Keep this up!


  • Dominic for being an focused learner- I have been super impressed with your attentiveness and your focus during our tutoring lessons. All of your TTRS practice is paying off as you have been able to catch up on all of our multiplication work.


  • Virtue Butterflies- Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our butterfly goes to Faye. You really are a role model in terms of your behaviour and how you make wise decisions. This is always seen in class but it is great to see this outside on the playground- as this is a class target of ours.


    Lunchtime Certificates

    • Marvellous Manners- Elsie

    • Role Model of the Week- Riley

Notices

  • Football Kits- If you have played for the school football team this year, could you have a look for any kits that you may still have in which they are to be brought back in. This will consists of blue top, blue socks and white socks. This will either be the Our Lady’s kit (with CN Active sponsorship) or the Premier League Primary Stars kit.

  • Thursday 16th May- We will be going on a school trip to Lancaster to visit the Castle and the Police Museum to further learn about our crime and punishment unit in History. A text will be sent out closer to the time in regards to payments

A weed is a plant, that is growing in the wrong place!

This week, we have weeded galore to prepare the raised beds for this years growing season. The beds are immaculate and ready to go! The children have been wonderful in digging out those unwanted plants, watering the seedlings thriving in the polytunnel and re organizing it, so we have more room for even more planting. I am so excited to see the array fruit and vegetables that we hope to produce this year.

This week...

Such an exciting week, our seeds have started to germinate!! The children couldn’t believe their eyes. The nursery garden will look so beautiful this year.

As we have had lots of sunshine this week we have spent most of time outside tending the garden and getting our new house decorated and ready to use. The new flooring went down on Tuesday and it looks fantastic. We have new curtains and fairy lights along with some rare pictures hanging on the wall. Come and have a look on our drop in session.

Drop in session

This terms parent ‘drop in’ session is being held on Tuesday 14th May from 3.45- 4.45 pm. This is an ideal opportunity to pop in to see all our wonderful learning and have a chat with the nursery team. No appointment necessary.

Sports Day

Foundation Sports Day is being held on Tuesday 18th June at 2.00pm. All children are invited to attend this event but must be in nursery no later than 1.45 pm wearing shorts and trainers. As in previous years each child will be designing their own t-shirt. We therefore ask if everyone can bring in a. s. a. p. as named, plain white t-shirt. We have to start early to ensure that we get them all finished in time!!

We have been practising our fundamental movement skills and team games with Mr. Nay and Mr. Murray and we are getting better and better.

Getting ready for school

Click here to find out more about the skills your child will need to be school ready.

Click here for What to Expect When. This is a really useful document.

We have also been on a ‘mission’ with ‘Super Croccy’. The Big Bad Wolf was busy blowing things down and we had to catch him! We listened to the Amazing Super Hero song and decided which special super powers we may need! Click here to sing along at home, maybe you could go a secret mission too!

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s blog.

We have all had a lovely but busy week at nursery, planting more wild flowers and plants to eat. We have planted peas, beans, different herbs and also raspberry plants. We are hoping we get lots of lovely fruit and vegetables to eat.

We were very excited this week as our new house outside has had new flooring put down and we can now use it. We had a grand opening this week. It looks really fantastic, just like a real house.

We met another number this week, number nine. We worked really hard to think of different ways to make number nine. We watched numberblock number nine and it helped us to remember that nine can be made from three plus three plus three. We also practised writing number nine ‘loop and then a downward line, that’s the way to make a 9’.

In PE we have concentrated on practising our Fundamental Movement Skills, ready for Sports Day. We are getting very good at throwing, running, jumping and hopping.

We were very excited when Emma showed us the wormery and we could see that the worms had wriggled and writhed in the sand and soil. We then enjoyed an activity where we had to rescue Superworm from the Wizard Lizard and his crow. This was tricky as we couldn’t use our hands, we could only use clothes pegs. It was lots of fun, but it also turns out that using clothes pegs is a good way to exercise those muscles in our hands that we need to be wonderful writers. Here are some activities to try at home. Click here.

The weather has been great this week so we have enjoyed our time in the garden, where there were lots of superheroes. We practised our superhero jumps and runs, and of course, rescued lots of our friends who were in tricky situations. We spoke about our superpowers; everyone has their own superpower. We are all superheroes! What’s your superpower?

Have a lovely weekend everyone

Michelle

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone 

We have had a very busy and exciting week.

Firsty, some of our seeds have germinated inside and outside. We have carrot, lettuce and sunflower seedlings and now we just need lots of sun to help with the rest.

Something exciting has happened to the wormery as all of the food has gone, and there is more compost than before. The children have been helping by giving the worms some more food, and you could see that the worms have started to pull down some of the new leaves. We are very excited about the changes. 

We have been brain growing, looking at the cycle of a seed from an apple using a chain to link the cycle together. The children worked out in order of events and we all agreed that, we eat the apple, we find and plant the seed. The sun and water help it to grow. We then eat the apple and give the core to the worms for them to turn it into compost. The whole process then starts again. 

To continue our thread, learning about planting, we have been busy making spring flowers out of dough by following Dough Disco. It's a little bit tricky, but the children all did fantastic in having a go. Here is the link to practice at home, click here. Enjoy!

We became scientists this week and we wondered what would happen if we put food colouring in the water of some flowers. We used red, blue, and yellow food colouring, and the children worked out that as the flowers would drink the water, they would charge colour. And guess what, they did! We couldn't believe it. I'm sure the children will tell you all about what's happened. Click here.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone. 

 See you all on Monday 

Emma 

Meet number 9!

We met number 9 this week and the children were excited to meet another new number.

Saying the counting numbers to 9

We recognised the cardinal principle of counting that the last number counted represents the entire set of the objects counted.

Partitioning and combining to 9

We noticed that nine if formed by combining one and eight and then partitioned again.

9 and 4 are square numbers

Although the children are not formally introduced to square numbers until much later, number 9 provides us with an opportunity to look at both the structure of squares with 4 equal sides and 4 corners, and square numbers make a shape with the same number of blocks down as across. Identifying pattern and seeing structure in number is important to early maths development.

Complicated stuff don’t you think!

Click here to watch the episode.

Wow, such a busy week!! A well earned rest is deserved.

Have a fabulous weekend.

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 3 Weekly Blog 26th April - “A true shepherd leads the way, he does not merely point the way.” (Leonard Ravenhill)

Emilia, Fletcher and George led our class worship on Wednesday, we made the most of the sunny weather and sat outside to listen to them share their prayers. We listened to the children read Breakfast By Galilee (John 21) and sang The Table and Sing Hosanna together. Next week, our class worship will be led by Joseph, Lena and Phoebe.

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Year 6 Home Learning 25.04.24

With just 2 weeks until the end of year assessments, we have ramped up learning in class. The children are very clear about what they need to do and the areas that they need to develop. Please look at the ‘How to Help Your Child’ button on the link below. There are lots of resources for the children to access as well as the revision boxes that are in the classroom.

GPS

I have prepared a revision map word class sheet for you to have a go at. Once you have completed this, you will soon see any areas that you need to work on at identifying certain word classes. Once you have found the areas you found difficult, why not go to IXL to practise this!

Maths

Please complete the example reasoning SAT’s style word problems.

Keep practising your long divisions at home. I have left the video on to remind you.

Spellings

SPELLING FOCUS - i before e, except after c. This is a really tricky rule! Focus on it.

What other spelling rules do you need to revise?

cashier, priest, mischief, deceive, receipt, mischief, believe, brief, niece, diesel, hygiene, fierce, siege, grief, receive, perceive, inconceivable, yield, efficient, conscience

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?

Mrs Barker’s group spellings …

let’s focus on the ‘ou’ sound.

touch, young, double, trouble, couple, country, cousin, courage,

OPTIONAL IXL STRANDS TO REINFORCE THIS WEEK’S LEARNING

HALF TERMLY OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING

In line with our new homework policy, each class will now have some optional tasks in addition to the set reading, spelling and Maths. Year 6 homework will look slightly different to other classes, as the need for reinforcement and revision is crucial on the run up to SAT’s, but then in Summer 2 term will follow the structure outlined on Mrs Gregan’s blog last week. The optional tasks below are for the whole term, some 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 term. You can do these in homework books, as photos, powerpoints or however you like.

Year 3 Homework- Tuesday 23rd April

Spellings

This weeks focus is sion sound
Spelling quiz will be on Monday 29th April.

  1. invasion

  2. confusion

  3. decision

  4. collision

  5. television

  6. abrasion

  7. expansion

  8. erosion

  9. excursion

  10. division

Reading
The children are making good progress towards their new reading targets, please continue reading at home each evening.
Our Author of the month for April will be Peter Brown.

Summer Term Optional Homework

As mentioned on Mrs Gregan’s weekly blog, the Summer term sees us launch our new Home Learning Policy. Below is a link to this half terms home learning tasks.





Hope Park Update.

It seems such a short time ago, that we were at Hope Park planting bulbs with Fraser and his team. With the sun shining, we went to visit the park to see the fruits of our labour. We were so pleased to see the Daffodils in bloom, they certainly do brighten the dullest day and act as a reminder that warmer weather is on its way!

We also took the opportunity to have an Eco meeting reflecting on the year so far and the remaining time as Stewards of the Earth within Year 5. Each year, we have a fundraiser so that the current eco team leaves a legacy. They have come up with lots of ideas, so watch this space for more information!

Year 5 Weekly Blog 19.04.24- 'Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future'

What a brilliant week it has been. The warmer weather really does put us in brighter moods and allows us to access our learning in the outdoor environment. As always, we began our week with RE- where we looked at some key words and how some of our inspirational people from the bible have portrayed these such as love, compassion, forgiveness, mercy and justice.

We then ended the week with a trip to Hope Park to check our bulbs out- back when we planted them prior to Christmas. It was a pleasure to see the children’s hard work had paid off and we used the opportunity to have a class council session and also spend our break time.


What have we been learning this week?

English- We have come to the end of part 1 of our poem ‘The Highwayman’. The children have been really inquisitive in learning new vocabulary and making predictions about what happens next. The children feel really comfortable in identifying poetic devices throughout stanzas and love creating their own versions of these.

PE- With the unpredictability of the weather this week, we were lucky for our outdoor PE lesson to fall on a bright sunny day. We were able to use the field to help develop our cricket skills- with us focusing on both fielding and batting. In our indoor topic, our theme in dance is heroes and villains- where the children have been reenacting their chosen heroes via freeze frames to display their characteristics.

Art- The children have been experimenting and developing their portrait skills- partically self portraits- by using different mediums and mixing these together.

Science- It has been very experimental this week with our theme being soluble materials. We discussed the meaning of our new vocabulary and created common examples of this such as sugar and salt. We then experimented with lots of different materials to assess if they were soluble or not. We have also recapped on the states of matter and how they can change between states but also thinking deeply about how the states are different.


Deeper thinking questions

Every week now, we would like children to explore their weekly learning at home by discussing interesting questions with family members. This may be at the table during dinner, before bedtime or when out for a walk. However you choose to discuss these questions is up to you but this may give you more of an insight into what we have been learning in class.

How do you think crime has changed over your lifetime?

Do you think prisons really work?



Let’s Celebrate

  • Michael for being a brave learner- Being apart of a school that loves drama, especially with all of our Shakespeare work, is unique so it is brilliant to see children carry on that passion outside of lessons. Choosing to do this at break times offers a different and exciting experience for children, in which it is a brave act to organise on your own. Never be afraid to do what you love and you will reap the benefits.

  • Ben for being an determined learner- I have seen this both in and outside the classroom these past few weeks. As competitive as you are, you have put the work in during your SPAG work as you strive for a full house on your grammar check and also earning points for your house in the spelling tests. Your catching and throwing skills have been excellent in PE- where you showed determination when taking those really difficult catches.


  • Virtue Butterflies- Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our butterfly goes to Sophia. You do so much for the kitchen staff during lunchtimes in which they massively appreciate. Your manners are impeccable and really do light up the teachers day.


    Lunchtime Certificates

    • Marvellous Manners- Pippa

    • Role Model of the Week- Michael

Notices

  • Boys Football Tournaments- There will be a tournament after school for both the A and B boys football teams this upcoming week. They will both take place at Lytham St Annes High School (LSA) and this will be after school from 3:30pm-5:00pm

    • A Team- Monday 22nd April

    • B Team - Thursday 25th April

      CAN WE HAVE ANY SCHOOL FOOTBALL KITS BACK IN ON MONDAY PLEASE

  • Thursday 16th May- We will be going on a school trip to Lancaster to visit the Castle and the Police Museum to further learn about our crime and punishment unit in History. A text will be sent out closer to the time in regards to payments

Year 1 Homework 19.4.24

Reading

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

Ask your child which sounds they have been learning this week, you can watch the videos to practise at home.

Handwriting

Please keep up with handwriting practise at home, this week we have been practising ‘o’ and ‘c’. Already in a week I have seen a huge difference in handwriting, we appreciate all you are doing at home, thank you.

Once you log in, you can click on free play to explore at home or Year 1, there will be a box that comes up that says:

Find the letter ‘c’ and ‘o’, click on easy letters, then click on the ‘o’ and ‘c’ at the bottom of the screen. You can click on the play button to see how you write the letter, then click on try and the bottom of the screen under the play button so you can practice each letter.

In your child’s yellow reading book there are log in cards for computers and tablets, ideally a tablet would be easier as they can use their finger to practice the formations. The online programme is great at helping learn the direction of each letter and where to start but it is important that they are using pencils to practice writing on paper. We have been learning a rhyme to help us hold our pencils correctly. We have focused on sitting at the table properly, feet on the floor our non writing hand holding our book or paper, sitting up straight. In the purple books there is a letter formation sheet and the pencil rhyme. I would like to see on the next page lots of ‘a’ and ‘d’ on the line and circle your best one.

Computing

Can you look around your house and draw/ take a photo of four ways in which technology is used. Can you log onto Numbots independently?

Optional Challenges!

It is wonderful that the children are so excited about their learning and to see how keen they are to continue this outside of school. We welcome any opportunity to share these learning experiences with you at home, which is why we have created ‘optional challenges’ across each year group which can be explored over this Summer 1 half term.

These challenges link to the wider area of our curriculum, there are some activities to help with retrival and some with topics that are coming up.

Below you will find the optional challenges linking to the topics and areas of learning that we will be exploring this half term. These fun challenges are designed to cover a range of skills without being stressful or time consuming for you at home. You are welcome to complete them in any order you wish and it would be lovely to see pictures or examples of things that the children have enjoyed at home.

As always, thank you for your continued support.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond