Year 5 Weekly Blog 10.01.25- 'Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right'


A Happy New Year to you all and it has been a brilliant first school week of 2025. Learning has begun straight from the first minute and has not stopped all week. The children have settled back in really well and have picked the school routines back up very quickly. The new year in school was also greeted with a white welcome of snow and ice in which the children put their snow building skills to the test.

We kicked the week off with all things timed tables in maths as we prepare for our new unit of factors, multiples and primes. I have been so impressed with the children’s retention of these table facts and the speediness of their multiplication facts.

On Tuesday, we began our eagerly anticipated space topic in Science. We discussed what we already knew about space and any curious questions that we want to find out. This was helped by the inflatable planets up in our classroom- which was the focus for lesson as we discussed the planets that make up our solar system and learning the correct order of these.

On Wednesday, we started our new writing topic of Sci-Fi, where we looking at all the different components of sci fi and reenacted a specific sci-fi story. We then looked at how we could improve the writing of this story and how we could add more description.




The focus for PE this week was to prepare for the upcoming athletics tournament next week. The children had a go at attempting all of the events in the competition and there scores were recorded in order for them to try and beat their best score.

We finished the week off by starting our new class novel- ‘The Windrush Child’. This book is based on the true story of many children a part of the Windrush generation. The book focuses on the struggles of foreign families living abroad and how racism has impacted their lives.




Let’s Celebrate

  • Charlotte for being a reflective and co-operative learner: All of the Year 5 team have seen a big change from you in the new year. I can see you have reflected over the winter break about how to react to certain situations and the attitude you wish to portray throughout your day and this has been amazing to see. I hope you feel as proud of yourself as your teachers do.




  • Virtue Butterflies: Our new virtues for the half term are eloquent and truthful. Our butterfly this week goes to Jacob. You have been so helpful this week and always offering to help all of your teachers in any job being done. This has not gone unoticed and your teachers can not speak highly of your attitude since coming back to school. Excellent work.






    Lunchtime Certificates




    Role Model of the Week- Lilly

    Marvelous Manners- Logan

Notices

  • Indoor Athletics Competition- All children taking part have been informed and information regarding this is available on the sports page. This will take place on Wednesday 15th January.

  • Eco Trip Wednesday 5th February- We will be going down to the Sand Dunes to plant Christmas Trees, ready to be grown for Christmas 2025! The children will need to bring clothes/shoes that they don’t mind getting dirty along with a waterproof coat.




Year 5 Weekly Homework- Due 16th January

Spellings

  1. choir

  2. calendar

  3. heart

  4. occasion

  5. knowledge

  6. charge

  7. judge

  8. proudly

  9. amusingly

  10. anxiously

  11. especially

  12. leisure

  13. parliament

  14. relevant

  15. suggest

Mrs Barker’s group

  1. apple

  2. mummy

  3. goggles

  4. heart

  5. charge

  6. bright

  7. ghost

  8. spooky

  9. funny

  10. bitter

Punctuation and Grammar

Each week, the children will complete 10 SPAG questions to keep on top of their reading and writing practice.

Maths

We have just started our new unit of factors, multiples and primes which is heavily times tables based. Make sure to keep practicing your times tables on TTRS- 5 minutes a day is all you need. Complete the following IXL’s

D8- Multiplication facts up to 12: missing factor

A9- Writing numbers up to one million in words: digits to words

Welcome to 2025!

Welcome back everyone!

I hope Everyone had a fabulous Christmas and are well rested. We are all raring to get our bodies and brains moving!

My Happy Mind

During this module, the children will learn all about the importance of gratitude, or being thankful. Key learning points include: learning the importance of being thankful and that it helps us and others to feel good. We will experiment with different ways of showing their gratitude. We will start to develop a habit of taking the time to stop and show gratitude as well as learning about the importance of stopping and taking time to be thankful.

Click on the button below to access the Parent Pack

Meet Number 4

This week we met number 4! Four is the new block on the block and can’t wait to share how much he loves to be square! Click here to watch.

We are learning that:

  • 4 is one more that 3

  • counting to 4

  • the structure of 4 as a square number

  • the recognition of 4 items without counting (subitising)

    Look out for the number 4 puzzle to make at home!

Read write Inc.

This week we have been learning some new sounds; c, k, u, b, and f. We have been spotting them everywhere! The tricky part is remembering all the other sounds we learnt before Christmas. Keep having a go at home, it really does help.

Gealdine the giraffe:

for c click here

for k click here

for u click here

for b click here

for f click here

Don’t forget we are only learning Set1 Phonics, don’t be tempted to race ahead! Click here for more information.

People who help us!

This week we have started to explore the world of ‘Fearless Fire Fighters’. We have all been painting fire fighters, a pump engine and of course the hoses. To begin our week we read books about the life if a fire officer and then watched a couple of short videos…then we were off. The construction area quickly became a fire station and the garden our hose pipes put out lots of pretend fires!!! Click here and here to watch at home.

We also made a doctors surgery…great fun!

Snowy Days!

We had great fun in the snow this week…we made a snowman!!

Emma’s Blog

Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.

 The children have got right back into nursery life, and have been enjoying being back with their friends and growing their brains again.

 We enjoyed the snow on Monday, which was still untouched from Sunday in the nursery garden. The children helped to make a snowman, with a hat and a smiley face. We listened to the crunching sounds under their feet as we were playing.

As it is a new term, we have been discussing our new topic 'People who help us'? Firefighters, police officers, doctors, shop assistants, and many more. We played a game where we matched objects to a picture of someone who helps us, for example, bits of rubbish would go with the picture of refuse collectors etc.

The children had a great understanding of how people help us. Here is a video about different people who can help us. Click here.

 We continued our learning by meeting numberblock 4. We found out that 4 blocks can make a square. We also have been learning some new sounds c, k, u, b, f. The children have been enjoying the challenge.

I have set some fun activities on the Purple Mash app. Please have a look, as I can't wait to see your work.

Have a lovely weekend, and I will see you all on Monday for more learning.

Emma

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone and welcome back to nursery.

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a lovely time with your family.

We were so excited to start the new year with snow. We made a wonderful snowman in the garden and watched him everyday until he turned into ice.

We loved hearing the children tell us all about their adventures over the Christmas holidays. 

We will be sending home a challenge bag where the children have to build a snowman using tweezers. It would be helpful if you could return this back to nursery at your child's next session. Thank you in advance.

Our learning this half term will be concentrating on our theme of People Who Help Us. We have learnt more about all the important jobs that people do 

We have also learnt that anyone can help somebody else. We can all be kind and make a difference. We watched this video and tried to spot all the acts of kindness. Click here.

This week we have celebrated the feast of Epiphany as we went on our own journey to the worship area where we met the Maji. Epiphany is a Christian festival that takes place just after Christmas, around the 6th of January. The Epiphany story celebrates when the Three Wise Men (sometimes known as the Magi or Three Kings) arrived to see Baby Jesus in Bethlehem. It is also known as Three Kings Day or the Feast of Epiphany and is celebrated in many places around the world.   

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week 

Michelle 

Purple Mash

Purple Mash is a comprehensive suite of online learning tools and content, designed to be used by school and nursery in the classroom and at home. This is a wonderful site, please take full advantage of it! Your login details and how to use the programme will have been sent home. If you have misplaced them or not recieved them let me know.

Also, keep checking regularly as your child’s key person will be setting work for you to do at home (if you want to).

Enjoy!

Lastly, can I remind everyone that your child will need one piece of fruit or veg for each session. We have milk and water here or if you prefer you can send a water bottle from home. Please no juice.

As you can see it has been a busy start to 2025, even more learning next week so have a restful weekend and I will see yo on Monday.

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 6 Weekly Blog - 'The best is yet to come. The start of a New Year is the chance to rewrite your book.'

Welcome back…

Wishing you all a very happy new year. It has been so lovely to welcome the children back to school this week, despite the bitter cold. The most important part of any school is the people within it. We have loved seeing the smiles and listening to all of the wonderful stories that the festive season has brought. On Monday we celebrated as a whole school the feast of the Epiphany in liturgy. It was an opportunity for the children to spend a few minutes reflecting on what a miracle the baby Jesus was.

The children have been thinking about what 2025 might look like for them. The children have all reflected on their year ahead and thought about their new year’s resolutions- what do they want to improve this year and what are they going to do to achieve this. They are all going to come across some monumental experiences and opportunities this year. Some of them will be challenging, some will be exciting, some they will be anxious about. Whatever happens, they know they have the skills to tackle it with great resilience and determination. I have to say, they have all come back to school extremely well rested and ready to take on all the challenges they come across in their learning- I am so proud of them this week, they have worked so hard!

This half term, we are looking at what it means to be faithfilled and hopeful. Both of these qualities will be really important as we journey towards half term, having faith in oursleves, others and most importantly God. With faith and love, comes hope, hope that we can achieve the things we want to and hope in others.

This week we have done lots of work on multiples to 100,000, as well as working on the accuracy of our arithmetic work. Our focus in English has been on gathering content and analysing biographies, adding vocabulary and it’s features to our working wall. Next week, we will spend each day writing a paragraph on our class biography of Henry VIII, I can’t wait to see how they put everything they have learnt in to practice.This week in indoor PE we have been practicing and developing our athletics events and trying to beat our personal best in speed bounce, standing long jump and triple jump.

Leading Learners

Well done to Pippa.

Pippa, you work tirelessly in lessons to be the best you can be and I love teaching you as you are always so focused and engaged, with your great attention, you have the ability to think deeply about subjects, taking your learning that step further! Your thirst for learning is contagious and how you strive to challenge yourself in your work is wonderful- keep this up Pippa!

Faithfilled and Hopeful butterflies

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that are intention in their actions. Children who show great faith in themselves, others and God. We will also be spotting children who are hopeful, who show hope for the future, enabling us to trust ourselves and those around us with the decisions that will shape our future. These children are the role models of the school. This week we thank Layla for being faithfilled and hopeful.

 Lunch Time Awards …

Marvellous Manners awards … Liam

Role Model of the week … Elsie

Helpers in the mornings:

This week and for the first week back after Christmas we have the following children helping to take the younger children to their class:

Ella Luke Michael Elsie

Notices

Indoor Athletics Competition- Will take place on Wednesday 15th January at Stanley Park Sports Centre in Blackpool. Those that have been picked will have been informed and information will be on the sports page.

PE is now on Tuesday and Wednesday. Indoor PE is Tuesday and outdoor is Wednesday at 9am.

Homework is handed in every Wednesday and goes out on Thursday.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker

 

 

Year 6 Home Learning 9.1.25

Homework should be completed and brought back to school for the following Wednesday

Maths- Please keep going on TT Rockstars- 5 minutes every night! In your books please also complete the maths questions that are stuck in.

English- Please complete the reading comprehension on Barack Obama, a biography that will help our writing next week!

Spelling - Please complete the spellings rules sheet in your books- we will practice these throughout the week in class but you also need to practice them at home ready for our quiz on a Thursday!

OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING FOR THE HALF TERM TO ENHANCE OUR CURRICULUM

Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 8th January


Spellings

This weeks focus is common exception words - here’s the next set of these tricky words that we just need to learn…no patterns or special rules.

  1. promise

  2. quarter

  3. describe

  4. answer

  5. arrive

  6. notice

  7. decide

  8. library

  9. address

  10. believe

Reading

Reading targets have been reset, please listen to your child read at home for 15 minutes each night - it really does make a huge difference.

Purple Mash - Optional activities linked to our learning will be added to purple mash each week.

TT Rock Stars and Numbots - please encourage your child to log on to and practise number skills and times tables.

Spring 1 Optional homework - below is the link for this half term’s optional homework. These task link to our learning in class.





Year 5 & 6 Indoor Athletics Competition- Wednesday 15th January

This is to take place at Stanley Park Sports Centre, Blackpool, FY3 9HQ on Wednesday 15th January.

The event will start at 12:30pm-4:00pm

Children will have lunch in school as normal and will be taken to the sports centre via a coach- provided by school. The children will need to be picked up from Blackpool Sports Centre when the event finishes.

Children are to wear their PE kit and to have plenty of fluids. Water is highly recommended but the children are allowed an isotonic hydration drink.

Parents are welcome to come and watch the event

The children taking part are listed below

Girls Boys

Elsie Archie

Cora Rex

Bella Dominic

Faye

Millie Jacob

Layla Ben

Gabriella Gus

Erin Liam

Sophia Benjamin

Niamh John Paul

Daisy Lorenzo

Charlotte Seth

Rose Logan

Beth

Matilda

Spring 1 Extra-Curricular Opportunities

Here is our Spring 1 extra-curricular offer. Please click on the button below to see what is available and what your child can sign up for. If you child attends the All Stars Wrap Around Care at school and would like to take part in the clubs, please still complete the form so that we can amend registers. Children will be able to attend All Stars before of after the clubs.

As per previous terms, the Mini-Vinnie group will continue to run on a Monday after school and Choir on a Thursday whilst they prepare for The Big Sing at Lowther Pavillion on the 5th March. On a Tuesday after school, Mr Nay will be working with our All Stars children as part of our club offer there.

Please sign up to the clubs using the buttons below.

Year 2 Home Learning to be handed in on Monday 13th January

Welcome back everyone.

It was lovely to see all the children excited to see their friends and ready to learn again. We have dived straight back in!

CHANGES

There are some changes to the home learning. We now combine the spelling and handwriting together. We also introduce sentence dictations. This allows the children to listen, sound out and check over. In Maths we will be introducing fluency games to play at home. I’m just waiting for some training on this for myself and then I’ll introduce it to you and the children. This week we have a video explaining the bridging we are doing in class.

READING

Please make reading your priority each evening. Allow your child to build up their fluency and please do read to them - this is were new words and worlds open up!

HANDWRITING/SPELLING

Please watch the film here you will find CAPITAL LETTER PRACTICE and the dictated sentences.

SPELLING

Spelling rule this week changing single nouns to plurals - change the y into i and add es.

Play “Ping Pong” You say and show the word single. Then the child says the plural and writes the plural - this time dropping the y and adding ies.

cherry cherries

baby babies

family families

story stories

army armies

WHAT MY BOOK LOOKS LIKE

MATHS

Before half term, the children were learning how to bridge through ten when adding two numbers. We broke down this process over a number of lessons. We revised it immediately on our return. Some children are finding it tricky and it highlights our need to have automacitiy with all number bonds for numbers below ten. I have made a film especially for you so you can see how we are recording the bridging process. You will see how, over time, and with lots of practice this bridging becomes a mental strategy.

We have glued the maths sheets into their book - if the book was in school. If not it has been handed to the child and placed in their bag.

Having explained all this - we have a number of children in class who can already mentally bridge through ten. For those children it would be good for them to continue with their numbots.

Below is the button for our optional extra learning opportunities. These tasks link into the learning taking place over the next 6 weeks. We love to see your work and it is lovingly displayed in class.

Enjoy!