Year 5 homework to be handed in Thursday 19th September

Reading

Reading every night! ENJOY!!!

Maths IXL

Please complete A1 and A2

History

The children have started researching in the Greek Gods. They have brought this home to complete. The cards in their bags create a fan. I would like the children to bring these back so we can pin them together and display them. I have linked one useful website here

Spellings

This week we ave learnt the ay sound when it appears as “eigh” ey” “ei”

Please learn: reign, neighbour, obey, vein, eighteen, weight, prey, freight, sleigh veil, they

History optional

We have chatted about the film “Jason and the Argo-naughts” in class. It was made along time ago and its special effects are creative but fun to watch now! If you have time to watch it with your child I know they will gain a great deal as it references a lot of the learning we are doing at the moment. I have found the whole film on You-Tube. why not buy some popcorn and enjoy- there are some scary bits so sharing the experience would be best!

Thank you Mrs H

"Let your dreams stay big and your worries stay small."

We would like to say a huge thank you for the support you have shown as your child has been settling into school life. We could not be more pleased with how well they have all settled into school. This week, during our settling in days, we have been learning all about some of our school learning characters. We have discovered all about Bobby bee’s ENTHUSIASM, Tommy turtle’s BRAVERY, Cooper crab’s CONCENTRATION and Lizzy ladybird’s desire to IMPROVE.

We have also been learning the Nursery rhyme called, ‘I’m a little teapot’. The children really enjoyed learning the actions too. I think we may just have some budding musicians and dancers.

Reminders for next week:

1. School begins at 8:45 and finishes at 3:30.

2. Our PE lessons will begin next week. These are TUESDAY and THURSDAY each week. Please remember that if your child does have their ears pierced, that their earrings are removed before coming to school on both of these days.

3. On Wednesday at 6:00pm, you are most welcome to come and spend some time in the classroom exploring our new school website. This also will give anybody the chance to ask any questions that they maybe wondering.

Show and Tell:

Next week our Show and Tell theme is: Our family. We would love for the children to continue to learn more about each other and therefore this topic will help us to do this. Please could you help your child to select a toy, maybe one bought by a special family member or one that holds a particular memory, or a photograph and discuss this with them before show and tell. Thank you.

 We hope that you all have a wonderful weekend together as a family.

Miss Bassett and Miss Neves

Year 2 Home Learning - 13.9.19

Thank you for all of the wonderful drawings and photographs of families, it was great to gain a better understanding of the different people the children talk about each day. Also thank you for backing and protecting your children’s books - hopefully they’ll last us for the year now.

This week’s home learning

Every child has come home with a log in book mark containing usernames and passwords for Accelerated Reader, IXL and Purple Mash.

This week, I would like the children to follow the link on the bottom of their Purple Mash log in and have a play. They can investigate what’s on there and have a go at completing their choice of activities and games. Enjoy!

IXL log ins have slightly changed so please check these. Please complete sections:

ENGLISH

A.1 A.2

MATHS

A.1 A.2 A.3

The Accelerated Reading log in will not work at home. Further details of how parents can check reading progress through Accelerated Reader will follow.

Finally, all of the children have come home with new reading books. Please read every day at home; remember books can be quizzed on and changed daily if needed. As the length of the children’s books grow longer, they will be expected to keep these for longer periods of time.

Thank you

Miss Woodend

This week....

It has been such a wonderful week at nursery. The children have embraced nursery life with great enthusiasm, we are so pleased.

During this week we have been painting and drawing pictures of ourselves. We have looked closely at our faces and bodies in a mirror and asked questions such as “how many”, “why”, “the same or different” and “what does each body part do?” We hope to have our 'There’s only one world and one me’ display finished next week, please try and pop in for a look! We will be extending this learning thread by discussing exercise and healthy eating.

At the beginning we introduced the number 1 and have spent the whole week exploring this particular number in all its entirety. We have found it hiding in our environment, in books and in songs that we have been singing, in fact we found there is 1 ‘something’ everywhere.

Could I take this opportunity to remind everyone to ensure that your child has one piece of fruit for each session that they are at nursery and a blue Our Lady book bag. Book bags can be purchased fro Top Mark in Wood St, St Annes.

This week everyone should have received their welcome newsletter from their key person. If for some reason you have not yet received yours please let me know.

I believe the weather is going to be lovely this weekend, I hope you all have the time to enjoy it!

Homework for Year 4 to be handed in by Thursday 19th September

1. Essential Paperwork (parent homework!)- please make sure all your paperwork from the induction night is completed and handed in by Monday so we can update our records. Many thanks.

2. Purple mash - Please complete the 2do ‘Home-row keys (typing practice) and the 2do Practise one more and one less to 1001 (racing game)

3. Timetable - Please make yourself a timetable and write on it things you need to remember for school each day (reading book and record needs to be remembered every day.) You could also include PE days- if you need swimming stuff, homework books and anything else to help you get yourselves organised now you are a mature Year 4 learner.

   There is a timetable you can download on this website you can use. You need to click on DISCOVER at the top. Then DAILY THINGS TO REMEMBER. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and it is there!

   Optional homework

   We have been blessed with a weekly yoga session. Put some quiet music on. Practise some of our yoga techniques. Can you remember our seed which grows into a flower? How about our beautiful bird and our butterfly? Practise being still and sitting mindfully. Breathe through your nostrils. What sounds can you hear around you when you are truly mindful? Collect them for Mrs Ward.

Homework - Wednesday 11th September 2019

Maths - as we have been looking at place value this week, please can you complete the following IXL strands

A1, A2 and A4

We will check progress next week so make sure you give it your all.

RE - What makes a good leader? Can you log into Purple Mash and complete the ‘to do’ set? A wanted poster on leadership. What makes a good leader? Is there a leader who you admire?

English - Reading - Read, read, read, read every single day! Whilst you are reading can you collect nouns in your homework book? Think about whether they are proper, common or an abstract noun.

Spellings -

climb, thumb, subtle, limb, comb, tomb, numb, crumb, doubt, debt

credible, divisible, eligible, possible, responsible

Optional Homework - Over the past few weeks we have been learning how to do yoga and to be mindful. Practise yoga every day and mindful breathing. Why not create an image of your tree, bird or butterfly that we have been imagining.

Our Trip to Parkview - Dinner time

Next Wednesday is our trip to Parkview. If you normally have school dinners Jackie will prepare children a packed lunch.

If you are not normally school dinners on Wednesday but you would like to pay for Jackie to prepare one on this day that is also fine.

The choices of sandwich are tuna, cheese or ham. Please could you talk to your child and decide together what they would like and let me know by Friday so that Jackie is prepared!

Kind regards,

Mrs Lyons

Copy of Year 6 Blog - 'Be brave, take risks and allow the unexpected.'

Welcome to Year 6!

Mrs Webster and I have absolutely loved getting to know your children this week, and my, what a start to Year 6 have they made. Mrs Webster has had the pleasure of working with your children before and she keeps on telling me just how much they have grown into the children we now have. The first two weeks in Year 6 are always a whirl wind but I am looking forward to meeting you all on Wednesday night at induction Evening. Please make it a priority to come as Year 6 is such an important year with lots of new experiences for the children.

‘Feel the fear, and do it anyway.’

This has been a bit of a slogan in our classroom this week! On Tuesday, a group of nervous children entered the classroom all eager to ask lots of questions about the year ahead. After a lovely liturgy, we all discussed our worries for the year and also the things that we were looking forward to. No surprise that The Pleasure Beach and Water Parks were mentioned.

I told the children the story about, ‘The Jesus Nut,’ a nut that was used in the Vietnam War to hold the blades in place. If the nut ever came loose, the blades would fall off and the helicopter would crash to the ground. This small, hexagonal nut was referred to as the Jesus Nut - something that holds everything together. I have made all of the children in class a key ring with a Jesus Nut on. When things get challenging this year and the children find things hard, they need to just remember the story and that no matter what, everything will be OK if Christ is with us. He holds us together! Ask your children to see the key ring and see if they can tell you the story.

Bravery is so important this year. The children will be given lots of opportunities and I really want to challenge them to overcome any worries that they have. So many children have already done this exact thing this week - we are in for an exciting year!

Diving straight into learning

Year 6 is such a busy year, it was important that we dived straight into learning this week. One of the first jobs that the children had to do was to write their letter of application for a position of responsibility. Listening to what the children have written has brought a tear to my eye. They really care about Our Ladys and see their final year as an opportunity to give something back and provide real service to their community. Once house captain speeches have been completed on Monday, the final decisions and positions will be awarded in assembly on Thursday afternoon.

We started to dip our feet into maths this week. The children completed an arithmetic challenge and we started to look at place value and numbers up to 10 million! Place Value underpins all mathematical concepts - it is such an important skill.

On Thursday we started to read our novel - Skellig. We spent 50 minutes predicting what the book was about before reading the first chapter. We were all on the edge of our seats and wanted to read on. Mrs Webster has continued to read the book with the children today. We also started our science topic, electricity. It is fascinating to discuss electricity usage in our world today.

Homework will be set on a Wednesday next week and then due in on a Tuesday. The children have access to the computers in school for support.

New Year Mass

On Thursday we shared a lovely welcome mass with our school community to pray for our year ahead. We also gave thanks for all mothers as it is Our Lady’s birthday this Sunday. Well done to all of the children who read and carried the gifts in the offertory. You acted with such reverence and spoke so beautifully.

Welcome the the new members of our class

We have got two new members of our class who will be joining us for the final year. Marwa has joined us this week from Syria, along with her sisters lower down the school. The children have been so supportive, helping her to develop her English and to get to know our class routines. On Monday we will be welcoming Hirumi from Yorkshire. We look forward to having a full cohort of 30 ready to continue our year together.

Reminders

• Induction Night - Wednesday 11th September at 6pm

• Netball and football starts next week and dance the week after. Please check the sport page on the website to see the timetable for this half term.

• Our Assembly is coming up on Tuesday 24th September - date for your diary.

Apologies for the really long blog. I think it is nice to know what has happened this week when it is such a special year for your children.

Have a wonderful weekend

Mrs Gregan & Mrs Webster

Home Learning 6.9.19

The children have each been given a Home Learning book. Homework will be given out each Friday and will need to be returned to school by the following Thursday.

The children have two special tasks this week. Firstly, please could you support the children to back their home learning book; this will help to protect the books when being brought to and from school. The children can choose to do this in whichever way they like - the more creative the better. The home learning book could be covered in wrapping paper, stick back plastic, newspaper, photographs etc. When the home learning books are returned next week I will stick a name label on each of them, so do not worry about making the name visible.

On the first page of the Home Learning book please could the children draw a picture of their family (furry friends included). Next week the children will have the chance to talk about the special people in their lives; an opportunity for the children to see how everyone’s family is unique and precious.

You will notice that the children will not be bringing a reading book home with them this weekend. Reading books will be coming home with the children from next week. Please encourage the children to read as much as they can over the weekend, prompting them to use their Fred Talk to sound out words they are struggling with.

"One smile can start a friendship..."

We have been overjoyed with how well all of the children have settled already. New friendships are forming and we have already started to see their confidence grow, it has been magical. Miss Neves and I have been so impressed with how well the children are able to share and take turns independently. Like our school mission statement says, “You are precious in My eyes.” and our new Reception children are certainly making each other feel this way.

Some reminders:

1. Our PE days are on Tuesday and Thursday. Children are able to wear their tracksuit uniform all day, saving their time getting dressed and undressed.

Please bring (or wear) shorts for our PE days.

Remember all jewellery must be removed before school on PE days.

2. Our school lunch menu is on our school website under: Engage—Lunchtimes.

(Week beginning the 16th September, we will be on the week 2 menu)

3. Show and tell will be every Friday. You will find out what the theme is in your child’s Learning Log (Home Learning book) each week.

4. Please remember to send your child into school with a coat each day.

We hope that you have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Bassett and Miss Neves

All about Growth! Our First week in Year 4.

What a lovely start to the year. It has been lovely getting to know all of your children this week. We began with our mission statement, ‘You are precious in my eyes,’ and we thought about what this meant. We have spent a lot of the week thinking about what we want our new class to be like and how we want to grow this year -knowing and loving ourselves, God and other people. In one week, children have already really matured as they have started to reflect on themselves.

We have been thinking about rights, responsibilities and how we need to follow them so that others can learn effectively.We have been using the learning characters to find out how to be an effective learner. Children have loved hearing how Tommy Turtle learned to be brave, how Sadie Spider learned not to give up and how Cooper Crab learned to concentrate. We have been thinking about how we can do this too, so that we are optimum learners and can get those lovely learning points for our house team!

We have also started our new Science topic which is all about plants. Many children in the class are already avid growers which is lovely! We took apart a broad bean seed and looked closely at lots of different types of seeds, drawing our findings in our books. We are currently running two investigations - ‘What does a seed need in order to germinate?’ and “How much water does a plant need?’ Children have asked lots of fantastic questions already.

We have started to learn about the language of explanation in English and we will be creating our own leaflets explaining all about plants in a few weeks. Unfortunately, although most children have done their Star reading test, the library would not scan books out today, so we hope for them to have a reading book on Monday.

Notices:

Accelerated Reader

In Year 4, we normally allow children to choose from the orange AND BLUE level books in our library. This is nothing to do with the difficulty of the book, but it is about the ‘interest level.’ This means that it will have content which interests 9 year olds and above. There may be some scary bits or more complicated issues in it. If you do not wish your child to choose blue books, please let me know by Wednesday. We find they are fine for this age group and it opens up a lot more choice.

A school trip to Parkview

We are going to learn about Seed dispersal on Wednesday 18th September for the morning. Children who are normally a hot dinner will have a packed lunch made by Jackie, the cook. Others can bring their dinner in a named plastic bag. It is normal pick-up and drop-off times. The cost of the trip is £8.00 now payable on parentpay.

PE

PE times have changed! Wednesday is Yoga, Thursday is swimming and Friday is now outside PE with Mr Nay.

Swimming will start this Thursday. Children need to be at school by 8.30am. They need a plastic bag with a towel, goggles if needed and appropriate swimming costume (see letters sent home) If children have long hair or a fringe which may end up in their eyes, they need a swimming cap. Please could you send them in wearing this on Thursday morning? They do not have time to wash their hair as another class is straight in afterwards.

Induction evening is this Wednesday. Please come along to meet the team and find out all about life and learning in Year 4.

Thank you for being patient with me as get to know your faces - I am great at learning the children’s really quickly! It is such a privilege to teach your children and I am excited about the coming year.

God bless, Mrs Lyons and Mrs Mather