Year 4 blog for week ending Friday 17th September

It has been a super week in year 4 with many highlights! The most special of course was the beautiful service on Saturday with our First Holy Communicants. They did so well and it was such a simle yet lovely occasion. Take two this Saturday. I will begin sending photos to you next week.

Children are getting used to routines now and are such a lovely group. The way they look after their Year 1 friends at playtimes and lunchtimes is beautiful. They are being real role models! We will have two new children starting on Monday: Aviya and Dominic. I know how welcoming our lovely class will be.

This week we have started learning all about the Bible in RE. We have been thinking about how the Bible is Structured with Old and New Testaments and children have been learning how to find Bible references. We have thought about ‘The Gift of Water,’ in our Creation worship this week which also links beautifully to our Science work about plants. Children reflected on its life-giving force to us all and how fortunate we are to have access to water when others do not.

In English this week, we have been learning our Explanation text to help us get a feel for this genre of writing. Children have examined what all these words mean and have learned all the features of a good explanation text. They are now starting to write their own explanation text all about Seed Dispersal.

Maths has seen us carry on with learning the time. We have had brave Tommy Turtles who have a go and learn from their mistakes. We are making great progress. We are also going over the 3x table learned in Year 3. Please practise this and also telling the time as much as possible. (see homework)

We had our very first recorder lesson this week. Mrs Maddocks was very impressed with how quickly children picked up the first note already. As with everything, practise makes progress!

To top it all off, French lessons resumed this week too. Children are learning French words for the items in their pencil cases!

Let’s Celebrate!

A big shout out to Millie, Max and Leo who have already met their reading targets! Fantastic progress! Many are hot on their heels too.

French star this week was Jay for answering lots of questions and excellent listening.

PE stars this week were Daisy and Edi for good tactics in invasion games.

Our certificate winners this week are:

Stanley for being a real Clara Clownfish. Stanley - I love how you listen intently and try hard to figure things out. You always have such super questions.

Emilia for being a kind and friendly Roger Robin. You have settled into our school so well - it is like you have always been here. You are such a lovely partner to people and you are trying so hard.

Connor-Sean for being a real Sadie Spider who tries so hard. You are so determined and you are being such a role-model in Year 4. You are helpful, kind and supportive.

Notices

Holy Communion on Saturday. Please arrive at 8:45am so that we can take photos of your child on th altar. We look forward to seeing you there and sharing this special time.

• PE Please can I remind you that if your child has a verucca, their foot must be covered by a verucca sock for Friday PE sessions so as not to spread it. Normal socks are too slippy on apparatus. Also, it is best to leave earrings at home. Children should be wearing their PE shorts under their tracksuit bottoms please.

• Please could homework be handed in promptly on a Thursday, so that I can mark it.

• Recorders need to be brought into school every Monday for lessons.

I know there have been pockets of illness around school this week. A good rest and early nights are needed! We hope you have a lovely weekend with your families,

God bless, Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

Year 3 Home Learning 17.09.21

Home learning is set every Friday and is to be completed by the following Thursday - apart from this week!

Thank you for all of your wonderfully decorated books!

English

1. Please listen to the fable ‘The Hare on the Tortoise’ on the BBC website and discuss with an adult at home what you think the moral of the fable is. Can you write it in your homework books please.

2. Please complete IXL Year 3 English strand O1 ‘Use the correct Article’ (determiners).

READ, READ, READ

Children are doing really well with their reading, please keep reading at home and encourage them to read every night.

Spellings of the week …

This week our spelling focus has been adding the suffix - ly. We have found that with most words we don’t need to double, drop or swap any letters. However words that end with ‘y’ are different and we need to change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ before adding ‘ly’.

Please practise these spelling ready for our spelling quiz next Friday:

1. quick - quickly

2. glad - gladly

3. quiet - quietly

4. brave - bravely

5. speedy - speedily

6. happy - happily

Maths

Please go to purple Mash where is a 2Do to complete ‘Place Value in 3 digit numbers’.

This week....

Another fun week at nursery. We have been reading ‘The Colour Monster’ story to try and understand our feelings and emotions. Everyone loves the story, you may have even heard your child saying that they feel yellow or red! Click here to listen to the story and help your child to self- regulate their emotions using colour. Maybe, the children could draw how they are feeling using the corresponding colour…I hope they are all yellow or green!

You will have noticed that we have send home everyone’s Purple Mash log in details this week. Purple Mash is a cloud-based platform for primary-aged (and early years) children. It contains a wide range of age-appropriate, creative software tools for writing, drawing and activities across the early years curriculum. Click here for more information on how to log in. You will notice that I have pinned a quick tutorial video to help you navigate the virtual classroom. I hope you enjoy using it t home. Also, watch our for any activities your key person may have set!

Enjoy!

The children have started their key group ‘Learning together’ floor book. They have been drawing their pictures and have begun to record all the learning they have been doing at nursery.

Some of our families have been asking about Read, Write Inc. Click here to find out more. Please note that in nursery we will be introducing Set 1 speed sounds. Watch the video to see how we pronounce each sound. Also, Alphablocks is a good resource. Click here to watch the Alphablocks song!

Next week we will send home a Read Write Inc sound mat. Keep a lookout for it in your child’s book bag!

And now for the Key person blogs, your favourite bit I expect!

Clare’s blog

This week we have been looking closely at ourselves and talking about our emotions.

We helped our friend the Colour Monster to sort his emotions, he had got them all in a muddle.

He was feeling happy, sad, angry, scared, calm and love all at the same time!

So we connected each emotion with a colour to help him. You may want to ask your child to act out each emotion but be careful as they are very good at the angry emotion!
Over the next few weeks we will be working with the colour monster to better understand our own emotions.

We also painted our own portraits, first we looked at ourselves in the reflection of a mirror, noting all the details we could see, then we set to work painting. The portraits are completed and they are fabulous and we hope to display them soon, we will post a picture of the display here on the blog next week.

The children are all still being wonderful, loving making friends and doing lots and lots of important playing.

Clare

Hannah’s blog

What another wonderful week at nursery! The children are continuing to settle in beautifully and make friendships as they explore the nursery environment. We have been lucky with more lovely sunshine meaning we can enjoy our learning and playing outside. The children have done so well recalling all the mixed up emotions in the story of The Colour Monster and have been recognising these emotions in themselves as we continue to talk about how we feel. It really is so important to understand our feelings and begin to think about how we can then help ourselves and one another if we need to with sad, angry or scared feelings! We have also done some great work with our Numberblock friend ‘Number 1’ and have started to explore healthy eating choices and how we can look after our bodies!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Hannah

Colette’s blog

What another great week in Nursery! The children have been entering Nursery with smiles on their faces, it has been so wonderful to watch them.

We have been very fortunate with the weather too which meant we were able to enjoy that beautiful sunshine whilst we played. The children have been making and building in the garden, we have made some houses for the three little pigs but the big bad wolf was able to blown them down! We better look for some stronger materials next week and make sure they are wolf proof!

There was also time to build an obstacle course, which the children worked together to build. We were able to practise our jumping and landing skills too.

As always, there has been lots and lots of reading inside and outside of nursery, there have been books everywhere!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend together.

Colette.

I must say a big thank you to everyone who took time out of their busy schedule to come along and speak to their key person. It was so lovely to eventually see you in person. Please don’t worry of you have not managed to touch base with you child’s key person yet, just drop them and email and make an appointment.

I have it on good authority (the BBC weather app) that Saturday is going to be a nice day, we must make the most of it!

We will see you all on Monday for another wonderful week of learning.

Barbara

Year 3 17.09.21 'They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel'

Year 3 have not stopped this week, they have immersed themselves in all of their learning and have shown just how eager they are to grow their brains! They have really impressed us this week with how much they love their reading, coming in on Monday with many of them so eager to quiz, it was truly wonderful to see. We had a long discussion this day on how it is not the amount of times that we quiz that counts, but whether we are challenging ourselves with the books we read, whether we enjoy what we are reading and of course how well we understood what we have read. The children have really took this on board and we are seeing much more suitable choices in regards to books.

We started off the week with such a pleasant surprise- our first assembly in the hall. Although the infants did not join us, it was so lovely to celebrate all of the Year 6 jobs as a key stage and Year 3 listened and sat so beautifully.

On Wednesday, the children shared their Class Council speeches and what a job they did too! From poems, to posters, motivational speeches and even videos with guest appearances! They all did a fantastic job, speaking out so confidently and bravely in front of their class. What we were most proud of, was the support and encouragement they all gave to one another, hence the quote title today. Thank you Year 3 for being supportive of one another.

It was a very close vote, but the two children with the most votes were:

Ella and Liam

Congratulations to you both, I am sure you will represent Year 3 incredibly well.

On Thursday we continued our coding work in computing, by learning how to create a ticking clock, by creating ‘Code blocks’. We had to create a sequence of instructions to make our clocks tick  and ring a bell. All of the children showed their resilience, tweaking and problem solving their work until they had successfully completed the task.

In RE we continued to think about God’s world. We thought about some of our favourite things about the world and shared these together. We have also been thinking about our families, reflecting on our happy memories and thinking about what we can do to help one another.

We ended the week with our first spelling quiz were we focused on the spelling rule: ’dropping the ’e’ when adding the ’y’. We had lots of 100% which has set the bar very high! Keep up the great work Year 3, I wonder if we could get everybody to beat or maintain (those of you who got 100%) your score next week…

Year 3 Learning this week …

In English this week, we have continued our fables work, focusing on the morals and sequencing of the stories. There were some wonderful sentences created when we sequenced ‘the Lion and the Mouse’.

The Maths focus continues to be place value, this week we have looked at drawings to represent numbers up to 1,000 and looking at the value of each digit.

Let’s Celebrate!

Millie for being focused and brave:

You pushed yourself outside of your comfort zone by sharing a wonderful speech in front of your peers. We have also been impressed by your wonderful focus during each and every lesson! You set yourself goals and you stay focused to make sure you achieve them. This is fantastic to see Millie. We cannot wait to watch you grow and achieve your goals this year! Well done Millie!

Bella for being focused:

We have been so impressed by your focus this week! During our gymnastics lesson you concentrated carefully, managed your distractions and created a beautiful sequence! Not only have we seen your focus this week, we have also spotted your kindness. You are always one of the first to offer their help, making you a great learning partner! Well done Bella, we are so proud of you!

Notices…

• Still outstanding forms need to be competed.

• Please see the Home Learning section of the Year 3 page to see your child’s home learning this week

Year 3 Remote Learning- Monday 20th September

We are continuing to look closely at fables, this week we are looking closely at the characters and their behaviour. Place Value is still the area of focus in Mathematics, looking at how we can represent numbers up to 1,000. Have a look at the timetable below to help you structure your week of remote learning in Year 3 …

Home Learning - Week beginning 16th September 2021

Please click on the button above to access home learning for the week beginning the 16th September.

Year 3 Remote Learning- Monday 13th September

We are continuing to look closely at fables and really understand what morals are and whether we can sequence the fables in the order of events. Place Value is still the area of focus in maths, looking at how we can represent numbers up to 1,000. Have a look at the timetable below to help you structure your week of remote learning in Year 3 …