DANCE FESTIVAL

Tickets are now on sale for the Dance Festival on Monday 25th November! Follow the link below to book tickets.

Tickets are £9 for adults and £5 for children with all funds raised going to the Winter Gardens Trust.

I think to myself.... what a wonderful World! (Louis Armstrong)

What a lovely week it has been! We began on Monday morning with a reflective worship in our school chapel - all about creating the kingdom of God on earth, through loving one another. We have been so busy typing our improved explanation text all about Seed dispersal in our English lessons and today we planned our new one - The Life Cycle of A Flowering Plant. We dissected lilies to discover all its different male and female parts and we even looked at pollen through a microscope! All very exciting! We need next week to explain how plants are pollinated by bees - why not have a chat about it this weekend and watch a bee in action?

Other highlights this week included doing a Computing lesson all about how to effectively search on the internet where children found lots of different information. We have been getting to grips with 4 digit thousands numbers this week and we are understanding really well so far. We have also given out assembly parts today to practise over the weekend.

This week we have welcomed a new teaching assistant to our class - Miss Atkinson. She has fitted in seamlessly to class life already! Welcome to our school!

Let’s Celebrate

This week two Sadie Spider certificates for resilience were give out - one to Fin and one to Zac. You both try so hard boys and are role models for the class.

Our French stars this week were Lorna-Jane and Harvey.

Swimming stars were Harvey and Penny - super swimming you two!

We did pick Yoga stars too - but Mrs Lyons cannot remember who they were! Perhaps you do children! I know that we picked them for allowing themselves to be calm and still. A good skill to have!

Notices

Our class assembly is on Tuesday 8th October at 9.10 and again at 9.35

There are an incredible amount of PE jackets and even some PE trousers along with cardigans and jumpers in class. Most do not have names so I cannot give them out. I will leave them outside the class on Monday or Tuesday evening to be claimed!

Please could we make sure that all homework is completed and handed in on Thursdays so that it can be marked. Many thanks.

Have a lovely last weekend of September. (Where does time go?)

God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Miss Atkinson, Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Mather

Year 2 Home Learning - 27.9.19

Maths IXL

A.1 A.2 A.3 A.4 A.5 A.6 A.7 A.8 A.24 A.25 A.26 A.27

Maths

We have continued our place value learning this week. Please complete the place value sheet attached.

English

English IXL

A.1 A.2

B.1 B.2 B.3 B.4

C.1 C.2 C.3

You will have notice that a big pack of words has come home with your child this weekend. DO NOT PANIC - these are not to be learned all in one week! These are to be kept at home and each week, I will ask your child to focus on and learn to spell one set. This week, I would like your child to learn how to spell set 1. You can do this in anyway which is best for your child. For example you may stick them around the house, you may write a couple out each night, you may write them out in sand or you may use the say, write, cover, check system. What ever is best for your child is fine. I would also like them to learn the following ‘al’ words:

ball call talk already small also

A mix of the set 1 words and ‘al’ words will be given in a little quiz next week, so please do go over them. Remember, the children have their home learning books to complete any work in.

Purple Mash

If you do get chance, I have set a little ‘to do’ on Purple Mash for the children to complete if they wish.

Thank you, Miss Woodend

Home Learning 27.9.19

Dangerous story map

Children will be bringing home a copy of the Dangerous story map. Please encourage them to practise orally retelling the story with actions and enthusiasm.

Reading

As mentioned on the Induction Evening, the children will be bringing home a set of 6 words. Please support the children to learn these words inside out; the children need to be able to read these words on sight (not by Fredding in their head).

Every Monday/Tuesday the children will be tested on these words, if they know them fluently and confidently, they will be given the next set. There are 25 sets in total.

Please encourage the children to read as much as possible over the weekend. On Monday/Tuesday, the children will quiz on their accelerated reader book and will be given a new reading book. Children should be ready to quiz on their reading book on these days.

Anything is possible if you just believe...

Our learning has continued at a fast pace and we have already moved onto the third set of sounds. We have also been busy using our sounds during ’Word time’ by blending the sounds together to hear two letter (VC: Vowel constant eg. at, am, it) words. In Art this week the children have created wonderful paintings of autumn leaves! Mrs Curtis was very impressed with their painting skills. Alongside all of this we have been busy focusing on a new learning character called, Roger Robin, who COOPERATES with others, learning from those around him! After hearing all about Roger’s story the children set off creating their own Roger robin. These are going to create a fantastic display!

Certificates

Finley has been awarded a Roger Robin certificate for… Making such a wonderful shoulder partner during our class discussions. Miss Neves and I have watched as you kindly ask questions and listen to your partner. Well done Finley.

John Paul has been awarded a Bobby Bee certificate for… Always being such a happy and positive learner. You show great enthusiasm during your learning and always have a wonderful smile on your face! You are always surrounded by others because of your friendly, smiley nature. Thank you John Paul.

Our Phonic sounds this week are:

Set 3 sounds: d, i, n, and o. Please practise forming these at home by using the sound cards provided. We have also continued to spend time practising ‘Fred Talk’. This is our special way of speaking in sounds, for example, s-a-t, s-ea-t, s-w-ee-t-ie-s. Please practise this skill when talking with your child to support them to hear and identify sounds

Next week: We will continue to learn new sounds and hearing these sounds in words.

Maths

In maths this week we have introduced the number 2 by, “another one”. We had so much fun getting objects and pairing up with a partner to make 2! Following this we used red and orange cubes to REPRESENT our Numberblocks.

Physical skill of the week:

Balancing!

How long can your child balance on one leg?

RE

In RE this week we listened to the story, ‘Guess how much I love you..’ after which, the children drew all of the people who love them and discussed the ways in which we can show our love for each other. We then thought about God, and how He loves each one of us. The children are enjoying learning the song and sign language for, “There is Someone who knows me”. Hopefully soon they will be able to share this with you at home!

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

Miss Bassett, Miss Neves and Mrs Malley

Year 4 homework to be handed in for Thursday 3rd October

Assembly parts

Children have come home with these to be learnt for Monday if possible and practised each night until our assembly - Tuesday 8th October. We are going to sing the song below too so please practise this. I have sent home a paper copy of the words too.

Spelling

This week we have been learning the suffix tion.

Please copy these verbs and change them into nouns by adding ion - if it ends in e, drop the e first.

collect inject inspect act germinate locate

create investigate

We also are practising these words which we spell wrong in our writing sometimes:

which appear saw something were again



Purple mash

Have a go at explaining the process of germination in purple mash (2do Germination)

Explain the following in order:

1. The conditions needed in order to germinte

2. What happens to the seed first?

3. Then what happens to the seed case?

4. Then think root and shoot!

   Don’t forget your causal conjunctions (the language of explanation) eg in order to, consequently, this means that, this enables, at this stage, as a result

Year 5 homework to be complete for Thursday 3rd October

Reading

Most of the class are really getting into their reading stride. I am delighted to see children carefully selecting books that are challenging yet accessible- this is a very important and mature skill. Children are experiencing increased reading success and their is a buzz in the room at reading time! Well done everyone. KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT- we need to improve our daily reading times now!

Assembly lines

Some children have assembly lines- please make sure you know them for Monday!

Spelling

We have synonyms for feelings: sad and fear. Can you learn the spellings:

Livid, furious and irritated

Petrified, and anxious

When we write we are trying to choose the right word- sometimes the words we know are just not powerful enough!

Purple Mash

I am sure the children have already told you about our new computing platform- Purple Mash. The children have all been to a purple mash club at lunchtime run by Year 6. Today we completed our first task in class- writing about our history topic “Ancient Greece”. I have set two "2do” tasks for the children:

Task one: Game - Testing your 3 and 6 times tables facts

Task two: As requested A Slide Show. Creating a slide show all about your passion! Mrs Hotchkiss would have to create one all about sewing or Manchester Utd!

I have set up the tasks and the folders into which the work needs saving!

Have fun!