"It's very simple: Almsgiving is to love others. Fasting is to love yourself. Prayer is to love God. Lent is all about LOVE."

It has been another busy week this week in Reception. We used new instruments with Mrs Mallinson, made something very special with Mrs Curtis and have been busy helping Goldilocks. We found a lovely letter on Wednesday from Goldilocks who was so apologetic about eating Mrs Malley’s porridge. She wanted to put her mistake right and bought Reception some porridge to say sorry. This was a real relief for everybody in class, lots of us had been worried that Goldilocks was unkind and may come back to do something else mischievous. Goldilocks also left us her special story which we are now learning. At the end of the week we created a story map so that we can retell the story using the pictures to help us.

Certificates

Brave Timmy Turtle Charlotte for… becoming so brave and confident, particularly with your writing! Miss Neves and I were blown away with your writing in RE this week. You wrote a whole sentence with beautiful handwriting completely independently. You should feel so proud Charlotte, you have worked so hard!

Co-operative Roger Robin Tilly N for… being such a caring member of our class! You think about those around you with such empathy and kindness. During Read Write Inc you make such a super learning partner, praising and supporting their reading and effort. Thank you Tilly for being such a kind and loving friend towards others in our class, it is so wonderful to see!

Lent: Well done to all of the children for trying so hard to raise money for Cafod this week at home. It has been wonderful to hear from the children how they have been busy keeping their bedrooms tidy.  A huge thank you to you all for supporting this at home. I am sure that by the end of lent we will have raised a lot of money for Cafod.

This week our lent almsgiving is to help after tea by washing the plates. You could earn 20p per plate you wash, or 50p each day that you help.

Phonics: This week we have been introduced to the new sound: ‘or-shut the door’.

Please continue to enjoy stories at home, your child’s reading book and hunting for tricky words and new sounds out and about.

Maths: We have focused on the numbers 6-8. Most of us are able to recognise these numbers, but this is definitely something to keep practising. The children have been busy counting out amounts and spotting things that make them think about these numbers. We looked at the colours in the rainbow and some of the children noticed that there are 7 colours in the rainbow! We decided that we would learn the rainbow song to remind us.

PE: We have focused continued to practise our, bouncing and catching skills. We have also been practising our over arm throwing by playing a game called splat the rat. I wonder if your child could teach you how to play this game at home? Do they remember their aiming arm?

World Book Day: If you have not managed to get to our book fair just yet do not worry, it will still be here on Monday afterschool at 3:35.

We hope that you have a wonderful weekend, Miss Bassett, Miss Neves and Mrs Malley

Home learning given out 6.3.2020 to be returned 12.3.2020

Flute—  The children are going to be putting on a performance for Year 3 in the last week of school before Easter, so please make a really good effort with your practice over these next few weeks. Please revise ‘We will rock you’, ‘Happy’, ’Mamma Mia’  and ‘Prince of Belair’ this week on your flute.

Maths—Please practise your 4 and 8 times tables—be active, sing them or do a family quiz maybe. Can you write the link between these times tables and prove it to me with 3 examples? Make sure a grown up writes a note so I can give you learning points children.

Lent  - Please discuss jobs and donations to CAFOD and see if you can bring in a donation next week.

Spellings—Please continue to practise your spellings for your quiz on Monday.

Home Learning 4th March 2020

English - Semi-colon work in your revision book. Please complete the sheet that you have got.

Maths - formal multiplication. Calculate and then you can check these afterwards, marking and correcting your work. Go through your arithmetic paper, use it as a point of revision - what do you need to correct? What do you now need to revise?

Reading - there is a short read in your revision books. Answer the questions in detail.

Spelling - suffixes. There are 20 spellings this week. The test will be on Wednesday.

encouragement, embankment, disappointment, entertainment, compartment, thoughtful, unsuccessful, respectful, insightful, stressful, illness, oddness, laziness, lioness, business, unaided, wrecked, heated, muted, untamed

Homework 5th March 2020

This week the children are asked to complete pages 16 - 28 in their “Making Things Right” book. They have also been given the Act of Contrition prayer which they have been asked to learn. (They will need this for 17th March when they receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation) I have to say there were many really beautiful books shared on Tuesday evening and the children had obviously taken a great deal of time and effort. Well done children. Please make sure that books are returned each Tuesday so that we can share them in the session. Thank you.

Our Lenten challenge for this week is Can you load the dishwasher or Wash the dishes for 20p? Well done and thank you to all of the children who made the beds or have done jobs at home this week and brought in the money that they have earned. Don’t forget to keep looking at your jobs list and helping where you can.

Our spellings for this week are forwards perhaps guard often opposite busy. I have given the children a list of fun ways to learn your spellings. This may help some who are struggling to get all of their spellings correct. Why not have a go at some of them!)

I have set the children a challenge and we are really going to try to get a full class of everybody getting all of the spellings correct. Can we do it? I think we can but everyone has to try. m Keep trying!

Can you make up some sentences using each of these words?

IXL - Have a go at any of the addition and subtraction units. (E, F, G, H, I and J)

Can you find any fun poems about machines or robots?

Don’t forget to keep working on Nessy if you have a Nessy login. Can you be our Nessy Star this week?

Spellings given on 2.3.2020 to be quizzed on 9.3.2020

confusion

revision

explosion

division

decision

television

fruit

minute

learn

exercise

regular

interest

“You will discover that you have two hands, one to help yourself and one to help others.” Audrey Hepburn

What a fabulous week we have had. It has absolutely flown by and I can’t believe we have been back a week already. Mrs Harrison is so proud to hear that they have come back to school so focused and ready to work — and work we have!!!

This half term we are focusing on the virtues of generosity and gratitude. We have been thinking about all of the ways that we can be generous and we have realised that being generous with our time and our love and kindness is really important and something that we can all try hard to improve upon. We have also looked at how we can be grateful for all of the little things that happen every day.

This week we have started our new novel, ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. Already we have asked a multitude of questions about what we are wondering about the text,  drawn annotated diagrams, written a brief description about where we think the Iron Man came from and how he arrived, found exciting description in the text and thought about our own vocabulary and description linking to the text, and we have only read chapter 1 so far! It’s so exciting and we are really curious to find out more. In maths we have continued our work on addition and subtraction using 3 digit numbers. We have finished off our Roman topic, investigating roads and also thinking about the reasons why the Roman Empire came to an end. In RE we have thought about what Lent is and how we can try to change during Lent to become more like Jesus, we have linked this to the topic of reconciliation and our preparation to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. We have all made our own Lenten Promise which we are going to try hard to keep to throughout Lent. (Can you guess what their Lenten Promise is? Have you noticed any extra jobs being done around the house these last couple of days?)

Lent

Today in Class Council we have discussed ways that we could help others during Lent. We have written our Lenten Promises, started to pray for our Prayer Sponsors and thought about how we can raise money to give to others who are less fortunate. This year, as a school, we are raising money for CAFOD. We have thought about all the extra jobs that we could try to do at home and wondered if maybe we could ask for small amounts in payment for these jobs so that we could then give the money to CAFOD. As a family could you please discuss this and agree on a list of jobs and a price list for these jobs. We have thought about jobs like tidying up, making the beds, loading the dishwasher/washing up, vacuuming the carpets, dusting, mopping, sorting out the recycling and taking out the rubbish but we are sure that you could think of lots more as a family. It was also suggested a lovely massage for mum (or dad) and baking biscuits to sell to friends and family, and bringing in that money. We hope that you will enjoy sharing your ideas as a family and working together to help others in need.

This week the extra challenge is to make everyone’s bed for 20p.

Please could money for jobs done each week be brought into school and we will complete a donation chart showing what we have raised as a class. Many thanks in anticipation.

Certificates

This week the children have all worked hard and we are delighted to give the certificates to… Jayden and Olivia. Well done children.

Olivia received the Kiki Chameleon Certificate for being such a creative learner. You have such lovely ideas Olivia and you choose your vocabulary and description carefully to entertain the reader. Well done!

Jayden received the Cooper Crab Certificate for concentrating so hard this week and for being such a focused learner. Well done Jayden—keep up the good work!

We are also very pleased that Jayden was awarded the French Award for the week. Madame Jefferson was very proud of your super conversation in French and your focus and enthusiasm during the lesson.

Well done also to Abi and Isabella who were our Gym Stars this week. Your creativity and determination really do help you to learn and achieve.

Reminders

• Welcome Mass on Sunday morning (9:30am) for all those who are taking part in the Holy Communion programme.

• Friday morning Lenten Masses start next week at 8am. Please try to come along and share this special time of prayer with us.

• White group have 2 more weeks of Multiskills on a Thursday morning.  8am with Mr Nay.

• Preparation for Reconciliation, Tuesday afternoons after school until 4:45pm. Please remember to bring your “Called to Change” books back to the session with you.

• Just to clarify—PE days are back to Tuesdays and Wednesdays and PE kit can be worn all day on these days. Please could we have shorts for our indoor lesson on Wednesday?  Thank you

• Also just a reminder that full school uniform or school PE kit should be worn each day, so that the children show that they are proud to belong to our lovely school family. Many thanks. (We are getting some deviation from this both in uniform and PE kit which does not look as smart as our uniform worn proudly does.)

Have a lovely weekend. God Bless. See you on Sunday!

The Year 3 Team

Here are the Football teams for March fixtures:

Home Learning - 28th February 2020

English

Please complete the spelling sheet attached below:

Spellings

Adding suffixed ‘er’ and ‘est’ - happiest sillier funniest wiser nicest wider

Set 15 from the spelling pack - above great human walk talk because

Maths

Please complete the 2D and 3D shape sheet attached below

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 

D.1   D.2   D.3   D.4   D.5   D.6   D.7   D.8    D.9    D.10    D.11    D.12

E.1    E.2    E.3    E.4    E.5

H.1    H.2    H.3    H.4   H.5    H.6    H.7    H.8

N.1 N.2 N.3 N.4 N.5 N.6 N.7

O.1 O.2 O.3 O.4

X.1    X.2    X.3    X.4  X.5    X.6    X.7    X.8

Y.1    Y.2    Y.3    Y.4

Z.1    Z.2   Z.3    Z.4    Z.5

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  E.4   E.5    E.6    E.7  

G.1 G.2 G.3 G.4

H.1    H.2    H.3    H.4

I.1    I.2   

K.1   K.2   K.3

L.1    L.2    L.3    L.4 L.5   L.6    L.7    L.8

M.1    M.2    M.3    M.4

O.1    O.2    O.3    O.4    O.9   O.10   O.11   O.12

Q.1   Q.2   Q.3   Q.4   Q.5   Q.6

S.1    S.2    S.3

T.1 T.2 T.3 T.4

U.1    U.2    U.3

"The season of Lent"

The children have returned to school with a spring in their step, which is great because our learning has been jam-packed, I know that many of them are certainly in need of a rest this weekend.

Certificates

Concentrating Cooper crab Rory for... wonderful concentration during your maths learning. You have such an interest in numbers and we love hearing you making connections between them, such as, “10 is two more than 8.” Your enthusiasm is just delightful. You are a joy to teach Rory, well done!

Creative Kiki Chameleon Chloe for… being such a creative thinker! The detail that you put into each and every piece of artwork is just amazing! I know that Mrs Curtis would agree. You concentrate so carefully and this shows in your reading and writing too. You should be so proud of your hard and consistent effort Chloe! You are an absolute delight to teach. Well done!

Tuesday made for such an exciting day! So many of the children came bouncing into school to tell Miss Neves and I all about the pancakes that they either, had for breakfast, or would be having later that day. This excitement carried on until the time came for the children to make their own pancakes in class. We used all of our senses as we made and ate these delicious treats. I have been so impressed with the children’s listening and memory skills. Each one of them engaged wonderfully during our discussions as we made pancakes. By the end of the day, they all knew the importance of this day as a Catholic, and were proudly calling the day Shrove Tuesday. 

On Wednesday we went to church for Ash Wednesday and, once again, the children behaved beautifully as they sat quietly and prayerfully with their Year 6 partners. They were fascinated to find out that the ash put on their forehead was made from palm leaves!

RE: This week has marked the start of Lent. We have decided to create a class Lent box and we hope to fill this box with money, which we will give to CAFOD at the end of Lent. Each week I will be setting the children a special challenge to earn money at home by carrying out helpful acts around the house.

This week I want the children to have a go at tidying their bedrooms. They could earn some money for the initial tidy and then a little extra for every day that they manage to keep it tidy. Please bring in the money they earn next Thursday. Good luck Reception!

Phonics: This week we have been introduced to the new sound: ‘ar-start the car’.

Please continue to enjoy stories at home, your child’s reading book and hunting for tricky words and new sounds out and about.

Maths: We have focused on the number 1-5. Looking at each number as a whole  and how they are made up by other numbers, parts. For example we have been saying, “5 is the whole number. It is made up of a part of 1 and a part of 4.”

PE: We have focused our attention towards the skills, bouncing catching. The children have been building up their skills using two hands and moving to 1 hand to bounce/dribble a large ball. Please practise this skill at home.

World Book Day: This year we will be holding a Book Fair after school taking place on Thursday 5th, Friday 6th and Monday 9th March. We will NOT be dressing up for World Book Day. This is something that we do as a school every 2 years so that it does not become too much work sourcing costumes each year. We will still focus on stories throughout this day, including stories from the Gospels.

We hope that you have a wonderful weekend, Miss Bassett, Miss Neves and Mrs Malley