This week...

Such a busy week!!!

All the children have designed a firework picture on the computer and then printed it out. We then decorated it using lots of sparkles!! They look fantastic!

During the week we have also been finding out about the Remembrance Day poppy. We watched a short video about why we commemorative on the 11th November. The children then printed their own field of poppies.

Click here to watch the video.

On Friday we intend to make Gingerbread Men. The children have reminded me that I said we would after the holiday...!! We will eat them for snack!

Currently at nursery we are very short of socks, underpants/knickers and trousers. May I ask, if you have any of our spare clothing at home could you please return them, if not donations of the above would be greatly received!

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 6th November

What an improvement in the standard of homework, it is so lovely to see the efforts that the children are putting in. The work on the Battle of Bosworth is great!

Spelling: words ending in -ence. Remember, the words that we looked at last week were adjectives, they are now turning into nouns.

science, offence, violence, audience, sequence, patience, reference, obedience, existence, influence, experience, dependence, difference, competence, commence.

Maths - continue to work through strand B on IXL. Please do not worry if you are finding some areas tricky, I can see from the analysis which areas you are finding difficult and we can look at it in class.

History - Using the research that you completed on the Battle of Bosworth last week, can you turn this into a newspaper article on Purple Mash. Think carefully about the fonts that you are using and the format of your work. Remember that your work is all about detail. I want to see depth to your writing. I would like to see:

• Who was involved in the battle?

• Where did it take place?

• When did it take place?

• What happened at the battle?

• Could you include a quote of someone who was there? Use your imagination.

English - can you find 10 facts about William Shakespeare that will contribute to our biography on him next week.

Year 3 Homework to be handed in Wednesday 13th November

READING- Please make sure you are reading to an adult for at least 20 minutes EVERY night and get them to ask you questions about the text, I can’t stress how important this is! Are you quizzing regularly enough? Are you reading books that you enjoy? Are you challenging yourselves with the books you are choosing?

SPELLING- Like last week the spelling is from Year 2’s key spelling list, just to remind ourselves of how to spell some of those tricky words. Like last week, make sure you know when you would use these words by putting them in to different sentences out loud with an adult or in your books. We will be quizzing on them as part of our spelling lesson next week:

People Money Hour Everybody Clothes Behind Children With

Once again, if you want more of a challenge then please feel free to practice some of our Year 3 and 4 key spellings on the following website.

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySpellings/index.html

MATHS - Please complete the IXL strand B2 and B4 under ‘comparing and ordering’ to practice our use of the greater than and less than sign- we must make sure we do not get mixed up with which way the crocodile snaps! I will be checking who has completed these strands on Wednesday.

ASSEMBLY PREPARATION - Children have now been given their lines to learn for the assembly on the 19th November. Could you please make sure they learn their lines off by heart with lots of expression and volume. The lyrics of the song that we are learning as a class for the assembly have also been sent, if children could use the clip below to practice and sing a long to that would be great- they must also try to learn this song off by heart …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRjDBd6tBBY

Thinking about our world and those who live in it.

Our Harvest celebrations were held in school this year with liturgies shared which encouraged the children to think of how their own actions could grow the people harvest that Christ imagined. Thank you so much for all your wonderful donations; you are all so kind! The food bank greatly appreciated your kindness, and a special thank you to our lovely three parents who transported the collection for us.

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. (Helen Keller)

We have had a really good first week back! Children are really settling down and coming together as a class now, which is lovely. We will be welcoming Victor, who some children remember from nursery, on Monday. Children are so excited to get to know him again!

Today we celebrated a lovely mass together in church. Children were so prayerful and really sung their hearts out. In RE this week, we have been considering ‘What is God like?’ and using what is revealed to us in the Old Testament to find out. This led to children asking a barrage of questions about God, which they have recorded in their RE books! We went deep!

In our English this week, we have practised reading skills of inference and finding evidence from the text. Then we have planned our own story based on the Pied Piper and begun to write it. In french we have been learning about different rooms in the house whilst also learning all the french words for ‘the’ and ‘a’ Sometimes it feels like a high school class in French but the children really rise to it!

In yoga, children are becoming very good yogis too - they were so still this week! They have been practising techniques for relaxing at bedtime and going to sleep. Why not practise at home?

In maths this week, we have been comparing and ordering our larger numbers and making sure we understand this language: greater than, smaller than, fewer, ascending order and descending order.

Let’s celebrate!

This week, three Sadie Spider certificates for effort and hard work were given out - well done Eli, Harvey and James. You are working your socks off!

Our french stars this week were Finian and Jacob. Our swimming stars were Olivia and Jacob and our yoga stars were Jacob and Lorna-Jane. Well done!

Notices:

Please could any outstanding sponsorship money be handed in on Monday. Many thanks for all your kind donations.

Our trip on Tuesday 12 November - please pay by parentpay

Have a nice restful weekend with your lovely children. God bless.

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather, Mrs Kennedy and Miss Atkinson.

Home Learning 1.11.19

Please help the children to learn their lines for our class assembly. These are stuck into their reading logs. I have challenged the children to learn them as well as they can, but please reassure the children that I will be able to prompt them on the day.

Reading, reading and more reading!

IXL - English

Parts of speech

M.1 Is the noun a person, animal, place or thing?

Consonant blends and digraphs

H.1 Which consonant blend does the word start with?

H.2 Complete the word with the right initial consonant blend.

Year 2 Home Learning - 01.11.19

Maths

Please find this week’s maths home learning below.

English IXL

A.1 A.2

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

C.1 C.2 C.3

E.1 E.2 E.3

Q.1 Q.2 Q.3 Q.4 Q.5 Q.6

Maths IXL

A.1 A.2 A.3 A.4 A.5 A.6 A.7 A.8 A.9 A.10 A.11 A.20 A.21 A.22 A.24 A.25 A.26 A.27

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

English

Spellings - please learn set 4 in your child’s spelling pack and the ‘adding the suffix -y’ words below:

wavy shiny smoky simply crazy curvy

Don’t forget reading books and assembly parts!

Thank you,

Miss Woodend

"Forget your troubles and dance."

Welcome back everybody, the children have come back refreshed and full of enthusiasm. Danceathon was such a success and any of the initial nerves were soon banished as all of the children danced all day long with huge smiles! At the end of the school day all of the classes went out onto the playground to dance the Cha cha cha. It was fantastic!

We have also started our new story focus, the traditional tale, ‘The Three Little Pigs’. On Thursday we found hay, sticks and bricks and the children concluded that the only possible explanation could be that the three little pigs had been into our classroom. Next week we will be exploring the story further, creating story maps and actions to help us to retell the story.

Today we went to church, our first time as a class! The children were beautifully behaved and sang the hymns we have learnt in class wonderfully.

Certificates

Seth for... always being so enthusiastic towards learning! Your excitement really rubs off on those around you and this means you are always surrounded by others. You are also very curious, you think carefully and wonder about how things work. Keep being curious and enthusiasm Seth, it is just wonderful to be around!

Tilly N for... Always concentrating so carefully. You are such a determined little girl with such a desire to succeed. You concentrate so hard during our learning challenges. It is so lovely to hear you chanting, “Concentrate Cooper” as you spur yourself and others on. You really do encourage your friends with such kindness and love. Well done Tilly!

Phonics

This week we have learnt the sounds:

L, h, sh and r. The ‘sh’ is made up of two ‘special friends’. When they are together in a word they no longer make their initial sounds ‘s’ or ‘h’, they make the new sound ‘sh’. I wonder if you can spot our new sounds in any words this week…

RE

We have been thinking carefully about our families this week and how special they are to us. We explored the similarities and differences between many different family structures. The children understand that we all belong to one big family, God’s family!

Reminder

Reading books should be in your child’s school bag each day. We change all of he children’s reading books on a Thursday. However, if your child has read their book a few times, shows good understanding and is able to tell the story or read the story fluently, please let either myself or Miss Neves know when dropping your child off and we can change their book that day.

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

Miss Bassett, Miss Neves and Mrs Malley

'Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase' Martin Luther King

Welcome back to the second Autumn half term- I can’t believe how fast the first half term went and this half term will go even quicker I am sure! It was lovely meeting you all before the holidays to celebrate your children and I think the key message was mostly, please keep reading with your children every night. I have to say, it is lovely coming back and seeing the children so enthusiastic about the books they are reading and they are much more eager to take quizzes and get on to their next book- their is a real buzz about reading so thank you!

You can see the children have come back back well rested, full of what they have been up to over half term and most importantly ready to grow our brains and learn as much as we can! The focus has been heavily on our History ‘Stone age to Iron age’, which the children have loved learning about Skara Brae and Stone Henge. They have had to think extremely deeply, as historians do, looking at evidence and interpreting what this tells us about the way they live. We have had very exciting Maths lessons this week, where the children have been focusing on comparing numbers and using the greater than or less than sign for various representations of the number. In RE this week we are looking at Mary Our Mother, focusing firstly on when Mary found out she was to have a baby, which links in beautifully with the introduction to our Christian virtues of the half term- ‘Faith-filled and Hopeful’. Next week we will be exploring Mary’s act of faith even further and discussing how we too have faith in our daily lives.

Danceathon on Tuesday was a huge success, thank you for all of your support. The atmosphere on the playground for our Wake up, Shake up was magical, which set the mood for the rest of the day. The bell rang throughout the day, which paused our learning briefly while we danced, then we had a lesson to learn the cha cha- the children were wonderful! Finally at the end of the day, the whole school met on the playground to perform the whole dance from start to finish, it was all very exciting!

The awards this week go to …

Thank you Abi Cassidy for being such a focused Cooper Crab for working so hard and always being ready to learn.

James Barrow what an enthusiastic Bobby Bee you are! We have loved seeing your desire and enjoyment of learning this week, your hand is forever up.

Important Information…

Our class assembly is on Tuesday 19th November 9:10

Curriculum Evening is Thursday 21st October 6pm - 8pm

Welcome back!

We have launched straight back into our lessons this week. We have completed our work on negative numbers- as you can see from the photograph we enjoyed having ice in our maths lesson on Monday. Alongside this learning, we collected content for our story writing. We have learnt how to write an effective character description, to do this we explored the work of real authors. We realized when reading these examples of exciting characters that the writer makes the reader work hard to get to know the person and they cleverly reveal important details as they go. In RE Mrs Gawthrope introduced us to three inspiring saints who showed through their example how to love our world and the people and creatures who inhabit it. This lesson led beautifully into Mass on Friday- All Saints Day. It is always lovely to be together in the church praising God alongside our parish community. On Monday we had all the apparatus out in the hall and I must apologize for our very late exit out to you. We got carried away in the hall - the bell went and we had only just started to put the apparatus away! I will make sure I watch the clock next week- sorry. Finally we completed work on the Greeks. We made vases in art (collage), finished our work on the Battle of Marathon and we researched the differences and similarities between Athens and Sparta. This topic is coming to an end - but it continues to pop up throughout the year as the Greeks and their influence spread beyond history and into art, science and politics.

Thank you for all your support at the Dancethon- I sadly missed it but Miss Brisco had a ball!

The grow your brain certificates this week went to: Ethan and Lila

Reminders for next week

Choir Monday

Please see the sports page on the Engage page to keep up to date with the Autumn 2 sports timetable

Indoor Athletics Competition 2019

Wow, what a job we had selecting the team for this years competition. Across Year 5 & 6, there are so many talented sportsmen and women; we are constantly looking at ways to give more opportunities to everyone who trains. We ranked the entire two groups of children across both classes and then went with the fastest and those who jumped the furthest. There are some specialists of their field!. I am excited to see what this team can produce!

As the standard was so high, we are looking to arrange another athletics competition for this children who trained with Mr Nay from Year 5. This will give all of the children a chance to compete against other another school and gain experience for competitions in Year 6.

Indoor Athletics Competition Information

Thursday 7th November at AKS from 1.30pm - 4.00pm. The children will have their lunch before they leave for the competition and will be then taken to the event by coach.

Parents and family members are more than welcome to meet us there and support us during the afternoon. Please ensure that your child is in full PE kit and has enough fluid and a few healthy snacks for during the competition.

Please ensure that your child is collected from AKS after the event.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday November 7th

Reading

So many children have made a fantastic start to their reading sessions this half term. I have set them all new targets. Because they have read a lot over the holidays they have begun to romp up our reading target board! Keep it up every one.

Maths

We have complete the negative number unit on IXL so why not have a go on this mission game. It is not tablet friendly so you will need a computer. If you need to complete it in school just ask!

English

This week the children created extended noun phrases. These are descriptive sentences that fully describe the noun. The are fun to make. I have downloaded my PowerPoint for the children. I would like them to be the teacher and one of their parents (or sibling) to be the pupil. Please teach.

Once you have taught it write extended noun phrases for the following nouns:

Pumpkin

Candy

Lantern

Ghost

Topic work- Purple Mash

We are moving onto our new Geography topic North America. We will be investigating the countries tat make up North America over the next few weeks. Before we move across the Atlantic. Can you complete the two purple mash map work challenges I have set you? You will need an atlas our online map of Europe!

Nessy homework

The children involved in the Nessy program, are able to continue working through the tasks at home. Please see the letter they received it has all the information you need for logging on. The children have been assessed and had an independent session too in school. Three fifteen minute sessions would be great but you can do more - it’s up to you!

Have fun

Have fun

Year 4 homework to be in for Thursday 7th November

Flute

Please log into charanga below. Practise your songs Strictly B and B Blues

Spelling investigation

We have been learning about the meaning of different prefixes. Please use the sheet given out and a dictionary. Look up the meaning of the prefixes. Then find some examples of words with this prefix meaning. If your child for any reason does not have the sheet, there is a copy below!

Maths IXL units A12 A13 A14. Each unit goes beyond 10,000 when you get to about 80 points. You do not need to complete these parts if you are too confused - as we have only gone up to 10,000 in class.

Reading: Please continue to read for 20 minutes each day. This will help you to get really into what you are reading and enjoy your story.