Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 30th January

Spellings

1. disappear

2. enough

3. natural

4. busy

5. breathe

6. beautiful

7. frightened

8. believe

9. receive

10. surprise

11. ancient

12. curiosity

13. disastrous

14. explanation

15. foreign

Mrs Barker’s group

1. float

2. sweets

3. score

4. busy

5. nature

6. breathe

7. speak

8. because

9. friend

10. clothes

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

A10- Writing numbers up to a million: convert digits to words

D7- Multiplication facts

This week...

A busy week with lots of new learning opportunities.

Community Coffee Morning

Last Friday a small group of nursery children joined Year 1 to go along to the Coffee Morning at the Parish Centre. What a glorious time we all had. We took some colouring to do alongside the parishioners and we also had orange juice and home made biscuits, which were delicious! We can’t wait until the next one!

Faith Friends

Faith Friends is a unique project whereby two people of different Faiths work together.

They support schools by bringing the curriculum to life by making connections between life and learning, and also that two people of different faiths, backgrounds and cultures can be Friends thus contributing to community cohesion in school and therefore in the wider community.

The children on Monday joined Reception to listen to Rachael tell us about the Jewish faith.

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone,

We have had a fantastic week of learning.

As part of our topic 'People Who Help Us', we now have a hair salon in nursery. The children have really enjoyed role playing either being a hair stylist, or a client, but the children know we don't actually cut hair, we just do everything else! There have been some crazy hair styles on the children and nursery ladies.

The children have been working their brains, calculating how to make number 4 using 4 number blocks, connecting them together to make the 4 different ways of making the number 4 (number bonds). The children have painted and printed their 4s in our key person floor book and had a go a writing 4 as well! 

The children continue to love dough disco. We have had so much fun together, working the dough in our hands. Dough disco helps to strengthen the children's fine motor muscles to enable them to develop their pencil grip, which in turn will help to develop their writing skills.

Here are some videos to do at home again. Enjoy. Click here and here.

On Monday, a lady called Rachel, from the Jewish Faith friends, came to see the school to talk about the Jewish faith. We were invited, with reception, to meet Rachel. She told us all about the Jewish cap.

We learnt that it's called a kippah and that it is a small, brimless, cloth skullcap worn by Jewish people as a sign of their identity, and to show respect to God. The children took it in turns to try the caps on. Take a look at the he pictures above.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone see you all next week 

Emma

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.

We have had a very busy week as we now have our very own hairdressers and we have made sure that the nursery ladies look their best.

We have enjoyed PE inside and outside this week. Inside we danced to Sticky Kids. One of the songs involved repairing the road, we had great fun as we had to pretend to be diggers, rollers and dumper trucks.

Such a busy week 

See you all next week 

Michelle 

Sharing love with everyone in our school community

During Prayer and Liturgy this week we learnt more about Jesus' miracles and how he shared 5 loaves and 2 fish with 5000 of his friends. We wanted to share something with our friends in school so we have made heart pictures for each class to share our love. 

People who help us

We continue to explore all the ways in which people can help us. Click here to play the ‘Guess who game’. Enjoy!

Parent Pay

Could everyone please check their child’s school bag as the main office has sent out letters regarding your Parent Pay codes and account; log on to set up your account, you will be able to change your login password. Thank you.

Finally, I am sure you will agree it’s been a fabulous week full of learning and fun.

Have the most wonderful weekend and I will see you on Monday!

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 4 Weekly blog Friday 24th January "All the charms of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!" (William Shakespeare - The Tempest.)

It has been a really reflective week in Year 4. This week children had a special visitor to school to tell them all about the Jewish faith. They were filled with questions and the gospel this week told them of Jesus reading from the Torah in the synagogue so this again helped children make links between the two faiths. The children below led a lovely worship about Jesus’ sacrifice. They asked the class, why did Jesus do this for us?

Our Shakespeare lessons this week focused on the rest of the story. The children have absolutely stunned us with their great understanding of Caliban’s soliloquy and their portrayal of the angst between characters. We now look forward to creating our part of the play as a performance - we are focusing on the last 4 scenes of the play.

In maths we have learned to solve problems involving perimeter and we have seen how we can use our multipliction and division facts to find perimeters of regular polygons.

In Science, children learned about the part the mouth plays in digestion and how it kick starts the process. Children loved this and wrote a lovely explanation of the processes involved. I can highly recommend this video below - we watched a little in class. It is very child-friendly and fascinating!

In geography we are learning all about the Water cycle and the different stages of this. Children could link this to their computing by making animations of the process.

Conversation starters

Science

What part do the teeth and mouth play in digestion? What happens when you swallow your food?

Religion

How do Jewish and Catholic faiths link? How are they different?

Let’s Celebrate!

Going Green Certificate for TT Rockstars this week goes to Scarlett.

Lunchtime awards:

Role model: Hugo

Marvellous Manners: Ellie-Rose

Flute stars this week: Anna and Lena

This week, the learning certificate goes to Scarlett. Another double whammy certificate Tommy Turtle and Roger Robin. Although it has been a hard week for you, you have still listened intently and been brave. You have tried so hard in everything and have looked outwards to help others at all times. Well done Scarlett!

Virtues

This half term are virtues are faith filled and hopeful. Full of faith in themselves, God and others and full of hope in each moment as a precious gift from God. This week Myles receives the star for exploring his own faith. We noticed you have really been thinking and pondering over faith this week and asked interesting questions to clarify the difference in Jewish and Christian beliefs about Jesus.

Notices

Oracy Symposium at the Grand Theatre - Monday 3rd February Year 4 will be attending this event to help us practise our speaking and listening skills and debating skills.

Wednesday 12th February Year 4 children going to watch ‘Aladdin’ at St Bedes.

Shakespeare Playmaking festival Thursday 20th March - extra details.

Today I am giving out the main speaking parts for our performance. A lot of the roles are non-speaking or echoing and involve creating the ‘scene’ for the audience or being a non-speaking character. Rest assured these parts are just as important if not more so than the speaking parts!

The day before the festival, children will turn up as normal at school and will go to the Grand for a tech rehearsal. On Thursday 20th March they will be at the Grand all day and in the evening. However, you will need to pick them up and take them for their tea on this day - usually this is at approximately 2:30 to bring them back for 5:00 at the Grand theatre stage door for the evening show. These times may slightly change but please begin to arrange who will pick them up and drop them off. Nearer the date, I will send an online form asking you to state who is picking up/dropping off.

Enjoy the real live Tempest with your family this weekend!

Mrs Lyons and Miss Bray

Year 6 Home Learning 23.01.25

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. Remember to skim, scan and closer read, as we have been practising in class!

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 4 homework to be completed by Thursday 30th January

Word meanings

These are the words we have explored the meaning of this week. (displayed by Friday) Can you tell your parents what they mean?

Spelling

This week we have our normal spelling sheets, with our rule to practise too. We are looking at turning adjectives into adverbs by adding ly and some different rules that go with this.

Maths

Lets get back into TT rockstars for 5 minutes every day. This week we have learned the key facts 5 x 7 = 35 and 4 x 8 = 32. Can you teach your parents the songs we use and explain how we know these facts are true?

Flute

We will Rock You on Charanga

Optional Home Learning - Spring

Please click on the link below to access this and further your learning:

Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 22nd January

Spellings

This weeks focus is irregular past tense verbs

1. bent

2. drank

3. brought

4. drove

5. forgot

6. heard

7. thought

8. told

9. found

10. held

Reading

Well done to Bonnie and Barnaby who have already reached their reading targets this half term. Please continue reading at home daily.

Purple Mash - place value of three digit numbers linked to our maths learnng this week. Can you write a simile poem to describe an alien?

TT Rock Stars and Numbots - please encourage your child to log on to and practise number skills and times tables - all levels are now open for the children to work on .

Spring 1 Optional homework - My apologies the link wasn’t working last week - I’ve rectified this and the link should now work. Any problems please let me know. These tasks link to our learning in class.

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Student Council Meeting Minutes - 21.1.2025

Year 6 Weekly Blog 'I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be hungry; he who believes in me will never thirst' (John 6:35)

This week in RE and litrugy we have been reflecting on Jesus’ teachings on spiritual nourshment. God wanted us to understand that as well as satidfying our physical hunger we also need to build our relationship with God, satisfying our spiritual nourishment for our souls ansd for our inner selves to grow strong. We talked about all the ways we can grow our spirituality and how this develops our faith and hope, which has enhanced our virtues Faithfilled and Hopeful even further. Earlier this week we shared a liturgy where we looked at these virtues and how we can use them in our lives, the children were then asked to write a prayer on these to add to our ‘hope’ display in the classroom.

Where has our learning taken us this week?

Wow the learning in Year 6 has really started to pick up pace and Year 6 are rising to all of the challenges- we are all so proud of them. We are managing to fit in so much learning and they are even becoming much more organised in the mornings, getting all of their equipment and books ready for the lessons ahead.

• English - This week we have been working hard on our biography work, writing a paragraph each day on our Henry VIII biography and practicing using semi-colons and our relative clauses, using them as embedded clauses and at the end of our sentences. Next week we will be writing our own biographies on Rosa Parks, we were hoping to watch the Dr Who eposide to help us undertsand her struggles, please let me know via email if this is not something you want your children to see.

• Maths - This week we have been looking at multiples to 100,000, finding midpoints on scales and estimating.

• Science- This week we have been continuing our learning in to the human body. We have been learning about the function of the heart and what it looks like. The children listen to three different heart rates this week and replicated this with musical instruments.

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Leading Learners

Well done to ARTHUR this week.

Arthur, thank you for reflecting so deeply on your learning this week, ensuring you apply what you have learnt to all areas and striving to be the best you can. You have listened to advice and are working hard across all areas, focusing on your learning and ensuring this is reflected in your written work. We can see you know exactly the areas that you are determined to improve and this week you have been actively challenging yourself to improve well done Arthur!

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 Rafe for being faithfilled and hopeful.

Lunch Time Awards …

Marvelous Manners awards … Luke

Role Model of the week … Pippa

Helpers in the morning

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

Pippa Rafe Sophia Bella

Notices

• Please do continue to keep up to date with your child’s homework (particularly spelling). The vocabulary that the children are being asked to spell are getting more complex and they will need your support to figure out the best strategy to use. Learning them over time, rather than bulking them the night before, always seems like the best route to use.

• Just a reminder that lip balms or any type of creams, are classed as a type of medication and therefore (if needed) need to be handed in to the teacher- thank you for your support.

This week...

A fabulous week! We have continued with our theme of ‘People who help us’. We have already created numerous role play areas: fearless fire fighters, doctors surgery, a bakers, a shop and there is always a home corner, mummies and daddies help us so much.

Next week we are hoping to make a hairdressing salon (don’t panic …no scissors) and a health spa! The children have also asked for a karaoke area, that should be fun!

Numberblocks 4

This week we found out that four is made up of four 1s and 2 sets of 2. We watch a video where four splits and a pair of tricky twins: the Terrible Twos, who decide it's time to tickle their friends to pieces. Click here to watch. Can you think of another way to make four?

My Happy Mind

Understanding Thankfulness

The children understand what gratitude is (we used the word ‘thankfulness’ with the children).

The children understand how it feels when we say thank you andwhen we receive thankfulness.

The children understand why it is important to be thankful.

The key outcome of this lesson is that children understand that being thankful is a really important skill. Being thankful is part of how we show people that we are happy when they help us. It is important to show people that we are happy when they help us, because then they will do it more and more. When we thank someone for helping us it makes them feel happy and it makes us feel happy too. To help us understand more we have made a ‘Thankfulness Tree’. We want to find lots of examples of how it feels to be thankful with the children. Each time we find an example we had a leaf to our tree. We have added lots already, we are hopeful that it will look like a Spring Tree by Easter!

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone,

We have been having lots of fun growing our brains.

 Shapes, shapes and more shapes. They are everywhere! We have been busy looking for shapes all around nursery, both inside and out. The children have worked out that the tables are circles and that some books are square and some are rectangles! The children have made some fabulous shape pictures by gluing lots of different coloured shapes on to card.

Here is a shape game. Feed the monsters the correct shape. Click here and have fun!  Don’t forget to explore Purple Mash for more shape games!

The children are really enjoying role playing people who help us. Nursery has been turned into a fire station, a doctors surgery, a green grocers, a bakery, a building yard. It's been lovely to watch them coming up with their own ideas and imaginations.

The children have also been drawing different people who help us. We have had fire fighters putting fires out, mummy's that dance, police officers with long arms to stop the bad people, and many more! It has been great listening to the children tell a story about their drawings.

 Have a wonderful weekend. See you all on Monday.

Emma

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.

We have had such a week as we continued with our theme on People who help us. We have explored our very own fire station, doctors surgery, builders yard and green grocers.

In the green grocers we have consolidated our learning this n number four by filling our baskets with 4 items. We also learnt 4 can be made by 2 and 2.

We are continuing our funky fingers actives to develop our pincer grip ready for writing in Reception. We are also practicing our zips on our coats. Any opportunity you can give your child to try to do their zip is appreciated.

Don’t forget to check Purple Mash for some fun activities to do at home.

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week.

Michelle 

Shapes

Everyone has great fun with Emma this week, they were finding shapes everywhere! Why not have a go at home. Check out the game Emma has put on her blog!

Here are a couple from me too!

Click here for ‘What shape can you see?’

If you want a challenge try this game! Click here.

Snacks

Could I remind everyone to send in one snack per session your child attends please. We encourage fruit and veg only. Thank you.

I think that’s all for this week. Have a lovely weekend and I will see you all on Monday for another week full of learning adventures.

Stay safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 4 Weekly blog Friday 17th January "History is the discovering of the principles of human nature."

Year 4 have had great fun learning this week. The children below led a lovely worship about having Faith. In RE lessons we have been exploring how Jesus reveals He is the Messiah in various ways. In our Happy mind lesson this week, we reflected on how to appreciate ourselves by being kind to ourselves. We thought about ways we can show appreciation - for ourselves, others and experiences.

Our Shakespeare lessons this week focused on working up a storm (or Tempest) Children re-created the second storm in the play whilst learning about the characters shipwrecked. They then wrote a description of this setting including a glimpse of its conjuror, the wild spirit Ariel.

In maths we have learned to calculate perimeter of rectangles and squares ‘Going for Gold’ common multiplication facts this week (see homework) In Science, children learned all about their teeth and the different purposes of each type.

On Thursday we had a journey to Bolton Museum for an Egyptian workshop. Children loved it and it cemented their knowledge from this riveting topic! Here are some pictures below

Conversation starters

My Happy Mind

How can you show your appreciation for yourself? What can you do to be kinder on yourself?

History

What was your most fascinating discovery at the museum?

Let’s Celebrate!

Lunchtime awards:

Role model: Louisa

Marvellous Manners: Lucia

Flute stars this week: Liam,

This week, the learning certificate goes to Rosa. Another double whammy certificate Clara Clownfish/Bobby Bee. This week we have talked with the class about paying TOTAL attention and we feel you are doing just that! this is helping you notice so much more. You were amazing in the museum, figuring out the answers to the quiz sheet by reading the clues next to the exhibits. Well done!

Virtues

This half term are virtues are faith filled and hopeful. Full of faith in themselves, God and others and full of hope in each moment as a precious gift from God. This week Hugo receives the star. You went out of your way to warn people about the slippy path outside school. Mrs Nel thought this was beautiful and I agree. What a caring young man!

Notices

Oracy Symposium at the Grand Theatre - Monday 3rd February Year 4 will be attending this event to help us practise our speaking and listening skills and debating skills.

Wednesday 12th February Year 4 children going to watch ‘Aladdin’ at St Bedes.

Shakespeare Playmaking festival Thursday 20th March. There will be much more information about this coming up but you can purchase tickets to see your child perform scenes from The Tempest alongside other schools below. Make sure you book the right date - there are 2 showings at 1:00 and 6:00

Have a great weekend with your lovely children,

Mrs Lyons and Miss Bray

Year 5 Weekly Homework- Due on Thursday 23rd January

Art- Due in on Monday!

The children have been set some weekend homework by Mrs Mather for their upcoming Art lesson. This sheet has been stuck in their books.

The children are to complete a very short writing piece which can be one of the following;

• Your favourite short poem

• A small paragraph from your favourite book

• A list of words that describe your personality- you may want to put this into a short poem.

Spellings

1. difficult

2. guard

3. mention

4. probably

5. therefore

6. rough

7. armour

8. enormous

9. thousand

10. mountain

11. according

12. conscious

13. equipment

14. lightning

15. shoulder

Mrs Barker’s group

1. daddy

2. middle

3. book

4. school

5. better

6. battle

7. round

8. young

9. mouth

10. difficult

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

D9- Choose the multiple of a given number

A5- Place Value review