What is a constellation? What can you find out? You might want to spend time staring at the sky at night once you have found out. Record what you have discovered in your homework book. If it fires your imagination make us a PowerPoint or film to watch in class!
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Maths
Complete the pizza toppings fraction sheet attached below:
English
Don’t forget to keep reading those reading books and practising cursive handwriting using the correct joins.
Spellings
Set 16 from the spelling pack - these only most those both cold
Adding the suffixes -er or -es - sadder biggest hotter fittest wetter slimmest
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
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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
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E.1 E.2 E.3 E.4 E.5 E.6 E.7
F.1 F.2 F.3 F.4
G.1 G.2 G.3 G.4
H.1 H.2 H.3 H.4
I.1 I.2
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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
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T.1 T.2 T.3 T.4
U.1 U.2 U.3
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings."- Hodding Carter
As the week has drawn to an end, we have been blessed with blue skies and sunshine
Read more"There is so much to be grateful for, just open your eyes!'
The children are well and truly back into the swing of learning now and are continually amazing us all with their focus, determination and enthusiasm. Lessons have been filled with real deep thinking and reasoning, with many great questions being asked in all areas of learning.
Read more"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.
It is in giving that we receive.
What a week, I’m sure they are getting quicker and quicker. We are well into the process of writing our Brer Rabbit stories, I have really enjoyed writing mine and then reading the children’s versions. There are some very talented writers and some real resilience to keep going when completing longer pieces of writing like this. Well done children.
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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
'Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.' Budda
Since September, we have been learning how to practise yoga and mindfulness, alongside Mrs Ward. The children have learnt how to be still, to be relaxed, to be mindful and to be at one with themselves. It hasn’t been until this week that I have seen the true power of it.
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Week Two
Week two has passed so quickly, there is a definite buzz around school as children discover more about their topics and about themselves.
In Art…
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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?
‘A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.’
As we celebrated World Book Day this week, I would like to take the oppourtunity to share with you how proud I am of all of the children in year 1. The children have all made brilliant progress in their reading!
Read moreSpellings given on 2.3.2020 to be quizzed on 9.3.2020
confusion
revision
explosion
division
decision
television
fruit
minute
learn
exercise
regular
interest
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
Welcome back to Spring 2 half term
We have hit the ground running and jumped straight back into the swing of things after our week off, the children all sound like they’ve had a lovely week at home. I too am well rested and ready for lots more fun and learning.
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“You will discover that you have two hands, one to help yourself and one to help others.” Audrey Hepburn
Just think how generous we would be if we only used our hands to do acts of kindness and love for others.
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:
"Sometimes when we are generous in small detectable ways, it can change someone else's life forever"- Margaret Cho
It has been so lovely to see all the children return to school this week with an air of love, generosity and gratefulness.
Read more'Don't wait for an opportunity, create it!'
This Wednesday saw the start of Lent, the receiving of ashes and thinking about the journey ahead over the next few weeks. We celebrated such a beautiful mass, full of contemplation. The children read beautifully and allowed us to reflect on what the coming weeks will bring.
Read moreHome 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
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English IXL
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Welcome Back!
It was wonderful to see so many smiley faces walking through the door on Monday morning, eager to start a new half term here in Year 2. The week has flown by, and before the blink of an eye, we’ve arrived at Friday again! The children have amazed me with how focused they have returned to school and how quickly they always adapt back to our school routines and expectations.
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