Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 3rd April

Maths

To be completed on IXL;

H18- Divide larger numbers: interpret remainders

Grammar and Punctuation

To complete the 10 SPAG questions, which have been stuck in their book.

Spellings

Can you remember the theme in this weeks spellings. Can you spot the pattern in these spellings.

  1. peculiar

  2. centre

  3. thought

  4. perform

  5. curtain

  6. understandably

  7. horribly

  8. suitably

  9. possibly

  10. comfortably

  11. incredibly

  12. miserably

  13. responsibly

  14. reasonably

  15. sensibly

Mrs Barkers group

  1. strange

  2. middle

  3. think

  4. mind

  5. blind

  6. know

  7. chance

  8. amazing

  9. smart

  10. fair

This week...

A glorious week of learning and glorious weather!

We have planted meadow seeds throughout the garden, we think it will be the most colourful garden in St. Annes. We are also hopeful of some frog spawn, so we have made a pond in readiness!

Meet Lucky number 7

It's a rainy day for a picnic, but when lucky number Seven appears, everything comes up rainbows. Learn all about the number 7 with Numberblock Seven. Click here to watch at home!

We have also been writing ‘7’. Here’s the rhyme to help you at home - ‘a line in the air then down to the ground, that’s how lucky seven is found’.

I have sent home a fab science activity using Skittles sweets….the colours are the same as Luck number 7. Have a go at the experiment!!!

Duckling alert!!!

Duckings have hatched in Mrs. Hotchkiss’s class! On Tuesday and Wednesday we went to visit them.

Before we went we watched how a duckling hatched our of their egg. Everyone was amazed. Click here to watch at home.

When we arrived the ducklings were all have a swim in their pond. Everyone thought they were so very cute…especially when they were splashing around! Take a look.

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone.

It has been another fun packed week of learning and growing our brains. 

The children have been very busy creating their Easter cards this week. We used masking tape to make a cross on the card, and the children painted over the tape on to the card using a in a left to right motion. The children found this so tricky as they wanted to paint up and down, where as using another movement by going across the body whilst painting, engages different muscle groups. This enhances gross motor skills, the same dough as taking the dough across the body in dough disco.

Continuing with our thread learning on changes, we have been monitoring the weather using our weather wheels, and recording the results on our weather chart. We have noticed that that the sunshine column of the chart is currently the tallest at the moment. Let's hope it stays that way!

I hope all of the mummies have a wonderful Mother's Day. Enjoy your day and I will see you all next week. Fingers crossed for more sunshine.

 Emma 

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.

Spring has definitely arrived here at nursery as we have been very busy in the garden, planting, tidying and investigating. We are pleased to see we still have lots of worms in the garden. We have noticed the daffodils are still in full bloom.

We have been meteorologists this week, monitoring the weather using our water collection station. We were excited to find we had collected rain water, good for the garden. It must have rained during the night! We also have been predicting the weather; are we expecting some rain, sunshine, wind or a bit of thunder and lightening this weekend. We watched JoJo and Gran Gran checking the weather forecast, click here

Have a lovely weekend and hope all the mummies enjoy their Mother's Day.

Michelle 

Read, Write Inc

More new sounds! Don’t panic only a few more…for now!

for ‘x’ click here

for ‘z’ click here

for ‘ch’ click here

Coffee Morning at the Social Centre

A group of children went the Social Centre last week. We all did some colouring and had a a drink and biscuit. It was such a treat!

Another great week of fun and learning!

Have a lovely restful Mother’s Day on Sunday and I will see you all on Monday.

Stay safe and God bless.

Barbara

Year 6 Weekly Blog' During the season of lent contemplate your heart and look at your world with hope'

Earlier this week we attended mass as part of our journey through lent and preparation for the resurrection. This was a beautiful time spent with our reception partners and the nursery children, spent in deep prayer and reflection.

We have had another successful week in Year 6, where they have worked so hard and reflecting on their learning constantly. The children have recieved more feedback on previous papwers and now have a very clear idea on the areas they need to work on and what they may want to revise. They have now got English and Maths revisions folders and books, which they can take to and from school to help them revise and prepare, but please can you ensure that these come abck to school every day as they will need them. Next week, revision material will be available to children to choose areas they might want to do extra work on, they will not be marked but they can use the material to aid their revision should they wish to, it is completely optional but we want to eqipt them as much as possible.

What have we been learning this week?

English - This week our focus has been on srevising the spelling of singular and plural nouns. We have also looked at the use of apostrophes in possession and the rules for singular and plural nouns.

Maths - We have now completed our fraction work and now we can all add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions! We have started moving on to percentages, which the children have already a good handle on!

PE- We have loved our PE this week, practising our fore and backhand in tennis! We have even started our Resurrection assembly and can’t wait to share this with you!

Year 6 have started their clubs this week and goodness me have I been proud of them! They have all been extrmemely well organised and engaging for our younger children!

Don’t forget to keep encouraging children to read as much as possible and to ocmplete their homework, to have it on time- good practice for next year! This week we had 8 children who did not either complete the whole homework in their books or hand it in on time. Please also use the link below if you want to do some extra learning …

Delving deeper through talk …

What are the different spelling rules when changing sungular to plural nouns?

My Happy Mind…

How have you been a good friend this week?

Leading Learner

Well done to Layla this week.

Layla, you have had such a wonderful attitude towards your learning this week- every day you have come in with a smile ready to work your socks off but also help others!

Grateful and Generous stars…

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that show our two virtues of the half term in their actions. Children who show gratitude for all of their own and other people’s gifts- also regarding other people as precious gifts themsleves, reflecting our school’s mission statement. We will also be spotting children who are generous, who show generosity in their service for others. These children are the role models of the school. This week we thank Elsie for being Grateful and Generous.


Helpers in the morning

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

Elsie Millie Ben Jacob

Notices

  • Date for the diary- Year 6 Resurrection Assembly is on Friday 11th April.

  • School Leaver Hoodies- Next week is the final week to get your orders for the hoodies at Top Marques- please make sure you go in and order the correct size.

  • Bikeability - this has been booked for Monday 16th and 23rd June. If you would like your child to take part in this crucial trainng before they go on to high school then please complete the consent form via the QR code on the letter.

  • MEDICAL FORMS- we still have some medical forms that need to be completed and sent back to school. Please ensure any conditions and food or other allergies are mentioned in this form.


Have a lovely weekend.

We will see you on Monday.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker

Year 2 Home Learning to be handed in Monday 31st March

LINES TO LEARN

Welcome Year 2 to the Easter Assembly story! Each Year each class form Year 2 to Year 6 takes one part of the Easter story and performs an assembly one each day over a week. Together we tell the story to the whole class and it is wonderful for everyone especially our youngest children. The assemblies help us to piece together the events of Jesus final days and his glorious reresection.

Year 2, we have the job of producing the opening assembly- telling the story of Palm Sunday (Monday 7th April). We have already started staging the play. We have limited time in the hall so it is super important that you know your line and who you come after before this Friday. We all have a line to learn. I have given everyone a copy of the script to take home and I have attached the script here too in case it is mislaid. Remember to practice with your biggest voice. I have also attached the song we are learning which we sing at the end “The Lord of the Dance”

MATHS- GAMES

I have given the children a copy of the maths games WEEK 3 of 5 on card and the instructions and diary. A massive thank you to parents who completed the diary last time (printing it out at home) and giving some feedback. Have fun with these. I’ve attached here again just incase the pack is mislaid.

HANDWRITING AND SPELLING

When marking I have noticed a join the children are struggling with - this is the r. I have given the children a practice sheet with this join (attached below too). I have also chosen 5 red word to learn. These are “words for life” they also have the r join in them. Ask your child to show you how we learn these spelling in school using a piece of paper folded into quarters. We write the word (correctly): then copy; then fold and hid to spell without looking; then we finally write it with our eyes closed.

very

every

everyone

everybody

friends

Have fun

Year 5 Weekly Blog 21.03.25- ‘Every choice has a consequence. Once you make that choice, you must accept responsibility’


Another week has flown by as we approach the halfway point in our Lenten journey- I hope you have been earning those pennies in your Lenten boxes. In preparations for Easter week, the children have been given their scripts for the Easter assembly with all children knowing their roles and their lines.

Is it important that during this holy yet stressful period of the year, we remember that all of our actions have consequences. Everything we say and do and how we do it has an impact on someone else- both positive and negative. This has been our focus in RE this week, known as the ‘Ripple Effect’. These teachings allow us to reflect more on our choices, knowing what impact these have on those around us and then everyone else indirectly.


This week, we have been learning…

  • Maths- The children have been smashing short division this week, now tackling 4 digit by 1 digit numbers including lots of carrying and overall remainders.

  • Science- we have been experimenting with water resistance and discussed how this impacts even our fun play in the water such as ways to jump into a swimming pool. We analaysed how the factors affecting water resistance change the outcome of three different types of jumps. We then replicated this on a smaller scale, using objects to act as these shapes.

  • Geography- We have continued to use map grid references to precisely and have made this even more precise by introducing 6 figure gird references as opposed to 4 figures.

  • French- We have been applying our geography knowledge into our French by looking at which countries around the world that speak French as their first language- also making a historical link as to why with some countries.

  • PE- It was all about patience, carefulness and team strategy in the team games this week as we used our balancing and hand eye coordination techniques to complete team relays just using a tennis racket and bean bag.

    Photos have been taken out the week to capture these moments of learning. We have had some difficulty with uploading these. These photos will be uploaded on Monday.

Let’s Celebrate

Learning Certificate- Joseph for being a focused and determined learner. You have had a super week Joseph. You have been so calm and focused in all of your lessons and this has paid off. This has given you more time to get stuck into your work and I have seen the determination to complete your tasks- Keep it up!

Virtue Star of the Week- Our star of the week goes to Tilly. You are such a generous girl Tilly and not the mention grateful. Your kind and compassionate nature is just a joy to have in the classroom. You treat all of your classmates and staff members with the upmost love and generosity. Thankyou so much!

Notices

  • Homework- Please check the homework blog to keep on track of your child’s SPAG, multiplication and division practice and also their reading.

  • Wednesday 19th March Schoolastic Book Fair- From this date until the following Wednesday, the hall will be open at the end of the day for the chance to buy a book at our annual book fair sale.

  • Wednesday 2nd April- School Photo Day

  • Friday 4th April Reconciliation- Our Year 5 and 6 children will be given the opportunity for reconciliation by having confessions with our Father Peter in the lead to up to our lent preparations. This is usually done in high school but yourIf you would not like your child to participate then please let Mr Cornwell, Mrs Gregan or the school office know.

    If your child is likely to attend St Bedes High School. They are given the opportunity to make their sacrament of confirmation. We have been given the opportunity to do this when the children get to Year 6. Please complete the form below to choose which option you would like for your child.

  • Thursday 10th April Crucifixion Assembly- This will be held at school around 9:10am

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 27th March 2025

Maths

To be completed on IXL;

FF9(English)- Identify relative pronouns

N2 (Maths)- Graph points on a coordinate plane

N4(Maths)- coordinate planes as maps

Spellings

Can you remember the theme in this weeks spellings. Can you spot the pattern in these spellings.

  1. fight

  2. write

  3. their

  4. chair

  5. soak

  6. rinse

  7. fate

  8. pain

  9. monitor

  10. rhyme

  11. rhythm

  12. symbol

  13. system

  14. forty

  15. curiosity

Mrs Barkers group

  1. right

  2. left

  3. north

  4. south

  5. pen

  6. pencil

  7. chair

  8. table

  9. four

  10. forty

This week...

A sunny week at nursery! It was positively tropical on Thursday, fingers crossed it continues.

I think the sunshine prompted a delivery of sand for big digging outside. Everyone got stuck in to barrow the sand to the sand pit, all hands to the deck including Reception and Mrs. Gregan. We are having another ton delivered next week! We will have more sand than Blackpool beach!

Worship

Over the past week we have been visiting the chapel as part of our pilgrimage to the cross. On Wednesday we read the Gospel which was the parable of the fig tree. Click here to watch. We asked the question; what was wrong with the fig tree?. The fig tree represents God’s people- that is all of us. We are all called to change: to grow and enrich the world around us. In other words to love as Jesus loved. Jesus is like the gardener. He is patient and nurtures us to change for the better.

Kandinsky

This week we explored what it is to be and artist. We chatted about who does painting and drawing at nursery…that meant we are all artists, but all different kinds of artists. We read the story ‘The Dot’ for inspiration. The Dot by Peter H Reynolds : a wonderful story about art and creativity for kids A Terrific story about a girl called Vashti and an her special teacher who encourages during her art class to make beautiful paintings. Click here to listen.

We were now ready to find out about Wassily Kandinsky. Kandinsky said “everything starts from a dot” and one of his most famous paintings did just that! It was a colour study with squares and concentric circles…Kandinsky loved colour and so do we! We decided that everyone would paint a Kandinsky style painting starting with a dot. We would then join them all together to create one huge colour study with squares and concentric circles. It is well on its way to being completed…watch this space.

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone, 

We have had a fantastic week again of fun, learning and more sunshine.

The children have been doing lots of investigating in the garden. As spring has now arrived, it seems there are lots of mini beasts starting to move into our garden. The children have found spiders, millipedes, some baby worms and some juicy big ones (I think the nursery garden must have great soil!).

The children are not afraid of picking the mini beasts up and observing them close up. I can't wait to see what others minibeasts come to join our garden as the weather starts to get warmer. Here's a mini beast guessing game, enjoy. Click here.

We have been ‘having a go’ (like Tommy Turtle) at writing our new letter sounds for our floor book. Some of the sounds have been very tricky, but I think the children have a few favourites that they like to write, such as v and w. The children have been really trying, and have been proud of their achievements. Well done everybody, but keep practising.

The children have been very busy creating their own weather wheel this week, just like the interactive big one on display in nursery. It has been lovely to see the children’s understanding and interpretation of what the children’s knowledge about our wonderful British weather and how it can be represented as an image.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone, and see you all Monday.

Emma 

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.

We have continued our investigations this week into ‘changes’ as we have used our weather machine to explore the weather each day. We have noticed that we haven't collected any rain this week but it has been sunny and windy. We hoped that we get some rain soon as we know our plants in the garden need sun and rain to grow.

We have enjoyed using our imaginations in the role play area, both inside and out. Imaginative play is so important for the children to explore their world and to work out their place in it. It's also lots of fun dressing up. Maybe you could have fun at home dressing up 

We have also worked hard building obstacle courses in the garden to practice our jumping and landing. Then Mr Nay taught us how to roll the balls along the floor in PE, we were very good at it, he said. We are really looking forward to Sports Day this year.

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

Michelle  

Parish Coffee Morning

On Friday a small group of children popped to the Parish Centre to have a drink and biscuit with our parishioners. We did some colouring and had a lovely chat.

Mass

On Monday another small group of children will be joining Year 6 and Reception at Mass in church. This will be the first visit of the year for nursery.

Book Fair

Don’t forget that the Book Fair is in school on Monday and Tuesday. There will also be a 2nd hand book stall. If you have any books that you would like to donate to the sale, please do bring them in on Monday.

Sports Day

I know Sports Day is always a popular date for your calendar, so I am giving your plenty of notice to organise your own calendar.

EYFS (Nursery & Reception) - Wednesday 11th June pm

Little Hearts Matter

As you are aware a couple of weeks ago we had our ‘Dress Up’ charity event. We have all been so very pleased to have heard back from the Little Hears Matter Charity. We received a lovely thank you letter and a certificate of fundraising. This is down to all our wonderful and generous families, thank you again.

Wow!!!

Thank you everyone!

What a fabulous end to an already fabulous week!

I hope that everyone has a lovely weekend and I will see you on Monday. Pray for sunshine.

Stay safe and God bless.

Barbara

Year 6 Weekly Blog 'A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new' Albert Einstein

This week we have listened to and reflected on Luke parable of the fig tree, which highlights God’s patience and the need for believers to produce good fruit. Year 6 have looked at how we can produce good fruit in our lives and what the symbolism means behind it. In liturgy we discussed how just like the fig tree needed a chance to bear fruit, we also need time to grow and become better christians.

Wow we have been a class full of Isabella Insects this week: listening to advice, celebrating the things we have achieved, looking forward to the things we want to develop next and most importantly not comparing ourselves to others. Such vital skills when we are teaching our children to be independent learners; giving them the confidence to take risks, try different skills and most importantly, be allowed to make those crucial mistakes and learn from them. We have had a week of feedback from our first practice SAT’s papers and next week we will continue with this journey. This is a huge learning curve for the children, and a crucial one, as it allows them to celebrate their achievements but also, to see for themselves the areas they need to work on. The first paper is never a full reflection of what your children are capable of, but we must celebrate them whatever mark they got as it is the first hurdle of a journey together. They now fully understand this process, as we have talked at length about how our feelings/ emotions can take control, preventing us to see or read questions carefully, the silly mistakes we make when we feel like we are being timed, the way the questions are worded and decoding ‘what does it want me to do?’ and then the strategies they can use to allow them to become more accurate or efficient. These are just SOME of the barriers, or as we would say, ‘learning opportunities’, that the children need to learn or overcome, before they even then, apply all of their knowledge.

I am so proud of the way Year 6 have approached this feedback. They have faced these sessions with such resilience, determination and maturity. This is why it is so crucial to do these papers at this time as they are ready and have the skills to face these challenges. The children have laughed and celebrated at their silly errors, know exactly where they have gone wrong, know what they need to work on and are, dare I say it, even excited to do it again and ‘beat’ their score. These papers will go home with the children next week to share with you. Take the time to go through these papers, to celebrate their achievements, let them explain their mistakes and what they should have done and let them share their targets with you.

What have we been learning this week?

Learning has been full on and fast paced this week. I am so impressed by the attitude of the children and their desire to make progress.

English - ThIs week our focus has been finishing off our learning around progressive tense. We are getting closer to the end of our class novel- The Boy at the Back of the Class, which the children are loving! Mrs Gregan has treated us to a book she found at the school fair- ‘The girl at the front of the class’ which we can’t wait to read after!

Maths - this week we have been adding and subtracting fractions!

PE- we have thoroughly enjoyed our PE this week. On Tuesday we have been putting together sequences on the large equipment in the hall and on Wednesday, we have been practising our forehand and backhand in tennis, seeing how long we can keep a ralley going!

You will see from the homework this week that we are really gearing up to the final weeks of teaching. Please continue to keep asking questions and I will help you wherever I can. Over Easter we will be sending a number of practice papers home to have a go at over the holidays, all of these will be due back the first day back after the Easter holidays. 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. Below also is the timetable and just so information about SAT’s week.

Delving deeper through talk …

What is the difference between simple, perfect and progressive tense?

My Happy Mind…

What have you learnt from the relate module?

Leading Learner

Well done to Isaac this week.

Isaac, you could get this certificate every single week for your attitude towards learning. You have come back to school seamlessly, with great enthusaism and determination and your work always reflects your outstanding learning attitude!

Grateful and Generous stars…

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that show our two virtues of the half term in their actions. Children who show gratitude for all of their own and other people’s gifts- also regarding other people as precious gifts themsleves, reflecting our school’s mission statement. We will also be spotting children who are generous, who show generosity in their service for others. These children are the role models of the school. This week we thank Jacob for being Grateful and Generous.


Helpers in the morning

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

Cora Jacob Luke Rose

Notices

  • Date for the diary- Year 6 Resurrection Assembly is on Friday 11th April.

  • School Leaver Hoodies- a Parent payment of £20 has now been set for all those wanting to purchase a school leavers hoody. These are a great keepsake for the children and usually they request to wear these on their leavers day out ready for a class photo! Top Marques, St Annes, are now expecting you to go in to shop to make sure you get the correct size and let them know what size you want- payment is not needed in the shop this is through ParentPay.

  • Bikeability letters have gone out today- this has been booked for Monday 16th and 23rd June. If you would like your child to take part in this crucial trainng before they go on to high school then please complete the consent form via the QR code on the letter.

  • MEDICAL FORMS have also been sent out today for our upcoming residential. I know you have completed these back in Autumn, however, we need to ensure no changes have been added so if you could complete these again we for next week we would be very grateful as I need to start sending information over. Please ensure any conditions and food or other allergies are mentioned in this form.


Have a lovely weekend.

We will see you on Monday.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker