Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 18th November 2020

Online Safety

This week we have completed our work on online safety and what our digital footprint says about us. Please complete the following 2 tasks:

1. Can you complete this anonymous survey on your screen time? We will be using the data to inform us in class.

   ONLINE SAFETY FORM

2. Complete the digital safety piece of work that I have set you on Purple Mash. Remember to use the prompts on the side of the page to inform your writing. I would like to see a detailed and informative piece of writing. Make sure that it reflects what you have done.

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Maths - Rockstars this week please!

Next week I will be setting you into some challenging tables so get practising this week. Make sure you get those skills up! The quicker the recall the better the results. Remember that Rockstars over practises skills until you have got them.

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Spellings - suffix ly

early, curly, unruly, simply, timidly, bristly, slightly, luckily, utterly, ideally, ghastly, probably, violently, generally, immediately.

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Year 4 blog -Two important notices!

Home/School Agreement

Please could you share and complete online the home school agreement form with your child this weekend. It is very short and will be good to remind children of their responsibilities in school. Part of it is a parent agreement too.

Illness.

Another thing that has changed in school is the way in which you report a child’s illness or absence from school. There is an online form to complete and submit in the ‘discover’ section of our website under attendance. The form is called ‘Reporting an Illness.’ This is a more simple and effective way of letting us know if your child is poorly.

"Your wings already exist all you need to do is fly!"

The children may have already told you about our science lessons this week! We have been investigating forces and to do this we made elastic firing rockets, paper aeroplanes and parachutes. It was been fun but very scientific. We have carefully collected data, evaluated our work and thought about other things we could test. I have placed a gallery of use busy at work in class! We have had a tricky time in maths, we are not all confident problem solvers of word problems yet and we need to keep revisiting the whole and part model to help us. In English we have continued to explore Hamlet through drama. Our ghost was pretty spectacular in the end. Alongside this work on the play we are learning to write a really good character description and the paired writing the children completed on Thursday was wonderful. Next week, we will be watching the RSC production in class! Mrs Harrison joined us again on Thursday and shared the story of Noah and the covenant he had with God. She is really enjoying teaching again after her short break. In RHE (relationship and health education) we explored gifts and talents - it was an interesting lesson as we often celebrate achievement but we also thought about who we are and how we are loved: how we are unique :

we are loved- not for what we do but for who we are.

I hope you all have fun with the homework this week ! More aeroplanes to investigate!

Grow your brain certificates this week went to: Emma and Georgia

Reminders:

The classroom is highly ventilated and as the days get colder the class does too. Please encourage your child to wear layers under their white t-shirt. I know some of them just don’t feel the cold but others do. The art room is particularly cool and Mrs Curtis is happy for the children to wear an old spare jumper under their painting shirt.

Thank you- have a lovely weekend

Mrs H xx

Reception Home Learning 13.11.20

Reading

Read, read, read! Read signs, read labels, read bedtime stories and please spend 5-10 minutes reading the book sent home with your child. This should be done at least three times during the week.

Please remember it’s not just about reading words:

• Make predictions of what will happen next

• Build character knowledge including descriptions and feelings

• Answer questions using evidence from the pictures or text

• Retell and sequence the story

• Embellish the story and even create alternative endings.

English

The class have shown a real interest in nocturnal animals, next week we will be finding out more about them.

Please choose one of the animals below to tell a story about.

You could make a little lolly stick puppet or something similar to help you tell the story or use some of the other nocturnal animals as other characters in your story.

Please record the story and send it to s.lavelle@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk. We will share them as a class next week.

Physical Development

Fine motor fun! Make or use playdough you have already to have a ‘Dough Disco’. Here is an example… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBsNhwxzgc&safe=active Put on a favourite song and enjoy, rolling, pinching, splatting, pressing, squeezing the playdough to the music.

Thank you and enjoy!

Miss Lavelle

Year 3 Home Learning 13th November 2020

THIS WEEK WE ARE USING COMPUTER BASED LEARNING.

This week’s homework should be completed by next Thursday please. Many thanks.

Reading:

Read at home every day. You can quiz during school time when a book has been completed.  Please remember that you should all be selecting books from the class library within your ZPD to read at home and at school. You may also choose to read extra books from home but these should be within your ZPD please.

(Parents: Don’t forget you can check on your child’s progress on Accelerated Reader -  this will let you know which books they have read and quizzed on and also their progress towards their reading target.)

Maths:

IXL maths using the IXL website.  Please complete any of the units G (addition) How many of these units can you complete?

Keep playing the number bonds game on mathplayground to practise your number bonds.

https://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_20.html

Play Save the Whale. Finding the number bonds—how fast can you be?

Spellings:

Please learn the spellings below ready for a spelling quiz in class next week.

disappear opposite  perhaps   forwards  tunnel  parcel  cancel  squirrel

The first 4 spellings are high frequency words. The next 4 all have the -el spelling pattern. Can you say put you spellings into a sentence? Thank you.

Don’t forget to find different activities from “Fun Ways to Learn your Spellings” sheet to help your child to learn their spellings.

The children should be able to write the spellings independently - this will need to be written clearly and correctly during the spelling quiz.

Computing:

For the last 2 computing lessons, one of the activities has been working on creating a story of the fable ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’. The children have worked really hard on them and now they just need finishing off please.

Step 1—Open your work by accessing your 2dos and finding the one called ‘2Create a story’ and then pressing the ‘Continue work’ button.

Step 2—Finish off the remaining pages of your story by

· Adding drawings or clip art images for pictures.

· Writing  your sentences underneath.

· Adding Sprites using the dragon button at the top—can you add animation and sound to them using the red cross buttons?

· Adding buttons to go on to the next page using the button at the top with the purple background and the white links.

· Step 3—When complete save it and press the hand in button which will allow me to mark it.

Note—if you struggle to find it on their 2do list it will be because your child has accidentally handed their work in before finishing it. Follow this step to open your child’s work.

Find the 2do called 2create a story (it may be at the bottom of their 2do list) and press ‘Open work’, this will then allow them to continue. Follow the steps then as above.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

This week we have had some lovely prayer and liturgy time thinking about humility. We have thought about how we can put others before ourselves in our thoughts, actions, words and prayers.

Again in PE we have been working together as a team. We had another very exciting lesson this morning with a variety of challenges where the children had to be like little Roger Robins, working together to solve the problems. In maths this week, we have continued with our adding and subtracting. We have also been trying to recall number facts quickly so that we don’t have to work them out. (How fast can you do it?) In English, we have been expanding our vocabulary and looking up the meaning of different words in the dictionary. We have made predictions about what we think might have happened and what is going to happen. In History we have looked at the ancient settlement of Skara Brae and found out what life was like there.

Let’s Celebrate:

This week our certificates go to Max and Millie.  Both children received Cooper Crab certificates because they have been really focused this week. Max you have been really focusing on what you have been asked to do and doing it straight away. This has meant that you have been much more organised this week and ready to do your learning. You have been amazing! Keep up the good work. Millie, you are always so focused and ready to do you work and you manage your distractions well. You are also a kind and considerate learning partner. Well done! We are also so proud of Edi who received Jacqui’s Marvellous Manners certificate this week. Well done Edi.

We are delighted that Jay and Owen (second time this term for Owen with a very high target set) have achieved 100% of their reading target already. Well done boys. You are so focused when it comes to your reading and you have worked really hard, reading lots of books.  I am also so proud to say that we have a big group of children who are almost reaching their target and with all the reading that I know they will do over the weekend and next week, I am sure that we will have lots more children to celebrate next week. Well done children—keep up the good work.

Things to Note:

• Please can I remind you about the Home School Agreement form which I sent the link for with your child’s mid term report. If you have not yet completed this form please complete and submit it asap. We are still awaiting responses from a number of families. Many thanks.(see the button below)

• It is good to see that children are wearing layers in class and keeping warm. Thank you.

• Please make sure that you look at the home learning page for this week’s home learning. This should be completed by next Thursday.  This week’s learning is COMPUTER BASED. Many thanks.

Thank you for all your continued support and co-operation this term. Another successful week!

We hope that you have a lovely weekend and have a chance to share some time together as a family.

Take care and stay safe

The Year 3 Team      Miss Brisco, Miss Edmondson, Miss Woodrow and Mrs Mather.

Contact us at:

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

k.edmondson@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 2 Home Learning - Week Ending 13th November 2020

English

Read for at least 10 minutes each day. Don’t forget about the reading challenge mentioned on this week’s blog! If you take your time to read and quiz carefully, it might just be you taking home one of those special books!

We have been reading so many fairytales in class this week, but have paid particular attention to The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf. I have set a 2Do on Purple Mash to retell the story of The Three Little Pigs in your own words. Remember I will look at these and mark them, so please try your best!

Spellings

Set 7 - have do little out our saw

Kn or gn - knee knife know knight knock gnome

Online Safety

On Tuesday, we will be having our first Online Safety Day of the year. It would be great if the children could complete the quiz set for them on Purple Mash to see what they can remember from last year.

Maths IXL

H.1 H.2 H.3 H.4 H.5

English IXL

F.1 F.2 F.3 F.4 F.5

Year 4 blog "Friendship is built on two things; Respect and trust."

What an interesting week we have had! This week children have been given learning targets to help them strive to be the best learner they can be, which they keep in their pencil cases. They have worked their absolute socks off this week! In English, they finished their fairy tale based on the Pied Piper and then wrote another story, ‘The Little Match Girl.’was a very sad story which helped us to feel so grateful for all we have.

In history this week, we have formed our own Anglo-Saxon village - ‘Angleville.’ Each child has a character and a family they belong to. We have done a huge detailed drawing of our lovely village to find out more about Anglo-Saxon life. We found out why they invaded our country, this week. Children were challenged to make their first ever movie, explaining this and and the winning one would be put online. Here it is:

Well done to the Shoemaker family - very good attempt at your first movie! I bet children will enjoy their Anglo-Saxon homework task this week - they are loving being immersed in the Anglo-Saxon world!

In maths this week, we mastered column subtraction - be sure to watch the video on our help section to see how we do it at our school.

We had a lovely worship of remembrance on Wednesday and took part in two minutes of silence.

RHE focus

This week we focused on God’s purpose for us and how we can grow closer to God in prayer. We learned that we are never bothering God and He wants us to trust him with our worries and our daily thoughts. We then did one of Mrs Lyons’ stories - “Whisper your Worries, Rosie Wren,’ and we had a brilliant conversation in class about what worries us. We discussed together how we can manage our worries and not let them control us. We learned about putting our trust in God - that He always knows what is best for us.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, Mrs Maddocks gave out Music awards. Both Lena and Jacob O got this for excellent listening and effort.

The certificate winners this week are Jacob M (Bobby Bee) for super enthusiasm and effort and Olivia received a Kiki Chameleon certificate for superb writing and always thinking of creative ways to do things.

PE champs this week are Hollie-Rose and John-Joseph for super skills

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

God bless, Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather, Miss Forster and Miss Edmondson

When Goldilocks came to nursery!

Over the past two weeks we have been reading the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children have been retelling the story using puppets, drawing pictures and acting out. It’s been great fun!

We have also been focusing on the number three and trying to think of any other stories or rhymes we might know with the number three in it. We did think of quite a few books to explore as well as some stories we made up too!

On Wednesday we found out that Goldilocks had visited nursery whilst we were all at home and played with all our toys. She even broke one of our chairs!!

Click on the slide show below to see the pictures of all the things Goldilocks got up to and ask your child to tell you a story all about them!

Watch this space because next week we will be reading the Three Billy Goats Gruff!!! I hope the troll doesn’t pay us a visit!

Have a lovely weekend. Plenty of time for telling stories!

Barbara

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 11th November 2020

Spellings - suffix ful

boastful, disrespectful, insightful, neglectful, truthful, prayerful, skillful, watchful, harmful, powerful, peaceful, dreadful, wrongful, vengeful, beautiful

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Maths - IXL

Please complete the division units of work D4, D5 and D6

Can you also visit Times Tables Rockstars?

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Remembrance Day Art

You can create some beautiful pieces of artwork digitally. Can you create a Poppy?

Next week we will be creating some digital artwork as we turn ourselves into Kings and Queens of Tudor times. Have a practice for home learning. Using the to do that I have set you on Purple Mash, can you create a poppy. Think about what tools you are going to use to get your desired effect. Be creative!

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Online Safety

Next Tuesday is this term’s online safety day so I have set you two challenges on Purple Mash. One is a game…what keeps us safe online? The second is a quiz about your digital footprint. We will be exploring how our digital footprint has changed, especially during lockdown…so have a think about what you use the internet for at home? What digital devices have you got?