Yet another great week in Year 3 has come to an end! The children have been working very hard to listen and be good role models this week. That means they have now got TEN class hug, which means at some point they will be awarded there 5 minutes extra play- amazing job Year 3, let’s keep up the hard work! I can’t believe we have now been back to school for 4 weeks - time really does fly when you’re having fun. The children are working so hard and have settled in to life in the juniors much better than I could have ever expected.
Read moreYear 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 29th September 2021
Spelling
In Year 6, we have to learn all of the spelling patterns taught in KS2. Each week I will set you some spellings based on our work in class. Learn them for homework ready for a quiz next Tuesday. This week’s spellings continue to look at suffixes.
beginning, admittance, stoppable, permitting, preferred,
regrettable, wettest, forgotten, referring, forbiden
Maths
This week we have been looking at metric measures, linking with decimals. For homework, I would like you to cook or bake using metric measures at home.
Send me a photo of whatever you make! Discuss the metric measures with your parents at home.
Geography
We have been discussing retrieval in class and how we have to draw on prior knowledge. Can you complete the To Do that I have set you on Purple Mash? What can you remember about volcanoes? Think detailed and gather as much information as you can.
Geography
Over the next few weeks, you will be completing your own South America project at home. You will then be using the information that you have found to create your own interactive book. Please complete this piece of homework in your HOMEWORK BOOK.
This week is about your country’s food, culture and sports
Can you create an information page in your homework book about these?
Do they have a specific food that they eat? A specific sport that they play? A specific dance?
Year 3 Remote Learning- Monday 27th September 2021
Here is the remote learning for the week… lots of reading of fables, continuing our place value of number and more of a look in to the life of a stone age person …
Read more‘Kindness is love in action.’
What a busy week it has been in Reception, with each day that passes we are finding the routines that best work for the children.
Read moreYear 2 Home Learning - Week Ending 24th September 2021
This week’s home learning is to be completed online
Read moreYear 1 Home Learning 24.9.21
Home learning is set every Friday and is to be completed by the following Thursday.
Read more"We rise by lifting others"
I couldn’t feel more proud of all of the children this week! They are without a doubt now into the full swing of Year 2 and are showing just what they are capable of. I explained to the children this morning just how difficult it was to choose learning certificates as each and every person has shone and stood out in some way or another. Some have produced brilliant writing in English, whilst others have problem solved and taken their thinking to a real deep place in maths. Well done Year 2 - it’s great to teach such enthusiastic and focused children!
Read moreYear 4 blog. "Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except the ones that sang best.."
Let me begin by saying how very proud I have been of our Holy Communicants on both weeks. I am sure you will agree that they did so well. They were reverent and the whole experience was one of calm and siplicity.
It has been a lovely week in year 4. This week we welcomed our new pupil Dominic, all the way from El Salvador. He has settled in beautifully all thanks to your wonderful children who really are so welcoming and delightful.
RHE
This week we have focused a lot on our 2 key virtues for this half term - being learned and wise. We looked at quotes to help us reflect upon how to have wisdom. Now that we are getting older, it is important that we try to stop and think, before we act, always reflecting on our choices. Some of our favourite quotes were “I have learned that I still have a lot to learn,’ and “Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens.’
As our learning about time in maths has become more difficult, we have had lots of conversations this week about not being worried if we don’t understand things immediately. We discussed how we can keep listening, keep trying and believe that we will understand if we keep engaging with the learning fully.
Children have enjoyed Science this week. We have spent our English lessons applying our science understanding to write explanation texts all about Seed Dispersal. For the first piece of writing of the year, they are superb! Children have loved learning about dispersal and have been running into class with acorns and poppy seed heads they have found outside!
We have also looked at the results of our investigation into what seeds need in order to germinate. Children wanted to investigate further and we are now seeing if plants need light in order to grow healthily by leaving a germinated seed in the dark cupboard.
Also this week, we have been examining what different functions each part of a plant has. Below is our investigation to prove how the stem works! Oh the excitement we have had watching this happen!
Children really impressed me in their second recorder lesson this week. Children are already playing 2 tunes well. We have had some super PE lessons too!
Let’s Celebrate.
Rosa already met her reading target last week! Well done! We have just over 3 weeks to go everyone. Let’s go for it!
This week, our certificate winners go to:
Edi for being a brave learner (Tommy Turtle) who always has a go and tries to engage fully in everything.
Tabby (Lizzie Ladybird) for striving to improve -especially in her writing this week, which got better and better on each attempt.
Rosa (Roger Robin) for being such a supportive and helpful pupil in class. You make wise choices Rosa and try so hard in all you do.
PE stars this week were Nicola and Ruby-Lilly for super focus on apparatus.
French star this week was: Owen
Notices
You can now sign up for Parents day appointments. These will be on a platform called ‘Schoolcloud.’ I look forward to discussing your child’s learning with you.
Please help your child to meet their reading target this half term, by challenging them to read for 20 minutes each night, preferably aloud to you for some of this time.
Have a lovely weekend. The weather is changing and becoming blustery! Enjoy.
Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.
‘Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no-one alive that is you-er than you!’
We’ve had a wonderful time this week in Year 1. We’ve been scientists, classifying animals; mathematicians using number lines and have sung our hearts out in music. We’ve been very busy!
Read more"Some days are simply made for playing"- Mary Anne Radmacher
Each and every child has been making the most out of their lunchtime playtime.
Read moreYear 6 Weekly Blog - "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
At the start of the week we asked ourselves, '“What is the greatest gift that God has given to us?” Some children chose their eyes to see the world, some children chose their hands that do kind things and some children chose their brain to think deeply and to question.
Read more"You cannot be brave without fear"
Being brave and jumping in at the deep end was the perfect metaphor for our week! Please read on for our weekly class update!
Read moreYear 3 24.09.21- 'It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop'
What a lovely week we have had in Year 3! The children are continuing to work extremely hard and there seems to be lots of learning points being given to children for their focused, resilient and enthusiastic attitudes! We have talked a lot about presentation of their work in class, how our books show what pride we take in our work and many of the children have worked extra hard to make sure every piece of work reflects what hard work they are putting in. As it says on the title, ‘it doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop’. I really hope the children get to share their work with you at some point this year, as we are sure you will be impressed!
Read moreYear 3 Home Learning 24.09.21
English
Next week we are starting to plan our own fables. Please can the children choose two animals that are totally different like ‘the tortoise and the Hare’ or my example of ‘cheetah and the elephant’ and create a fact file on Purple Mash for them. Please do not choose the same animals as these- let’s be creative! I have set a 2Do for this, so just click on it and you will see the first page is modelled for you to copy the structure. Can this please be handed in ready for our lesson on Wednesday?
This week we have started to look at adverbs, focusing on how they can describe how we move. Please have a go at the ’ Adverbs quiz’ under your 2Do’s in Purple Mash. Watch this fun song that we will be looking in class first to help you … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enZr3N0bRgE&t=2s
Spellings of the week …
Don’t forget to keep practising your half termly spellings, there is only 4 weeks left!
This week our spelling focus has been that often when words start with w, wh and qu followed by an ‘a’ - the ‘a’ makes an ‘o’ sound. We have learnt the rhyme: “Spell ‘o’ with an ‘a’ after ‘w’ as in wash. Spell ‘o’ with an ‘a’ after ‘qu’ as in squash.
Our spellings this week are:
was
what
want
watch
wander
wallet
quality
quarrel
Maths
Please complete the IXL strands A6 Skip-Counting Sequences and A9 Counting Patterns
Year 5 Home Learning to be completed by Friday 1 October
Spelling and writing (postcard) included this week - the children will need time to re-read and edit - thank you for all your support - the Year 5 team
Read moreArt news... Week 3
Art News…
Week 3
Art News… Week 3
There is a nip in the air as Autumn draws in, leaves are falling and days are getting shorter. In school we are still full of Summer joy, happy to learn, laugh and live our best versions of ourselves!
In Art…
Read moreThis week....
A lovely sunny start to the week, but by Thursday there has been a definite Autumnal chill in the air. The leaves are changing colour and beginning to fall from the all the trees in the nursery garden, a bit faster than we can sweep them up some days!
The conkers have also started to fall from our Horse Chestnut tree, the children were very excited about opening each one to reveal the conker inside, some were big, some were small and one or two were really tiny! We have collected them in a large bowl so that we are able to count them and order them according to size.
If you are going for a walk this weekend why not take this leaf spotting checklist with you. Click on the button below.
Our Fabulous Friends display is completed. I am sure you will agree that everyone has worked very hard!
Worship
This term we are celebrating creation. Thanking God for our beautiful planet Earth, which God made as a home for everyone.
This week we have been thanking God for the gift of air. Together we have been taking deep breathes, feeling the air as it tickles our noses. We then thanked God for this wonderful gift.
You may want to breathe in our lovely clean air with your child and thank God together.
Clare’s blog
This week we have been so very busy.
We decorated our key person books and made it very colourful. We are now excited to fill it full of our learning. We have continued to look deeply at number one, so that we can really understand its value, the children collected one toy and then they took one photo of it all by themselves
We have been rolling balls, balancing, even making a bridge. We enjoyed dressing up as doctors and have also been reading lots of books, your children really love stories!
Clare
Hannah’s blog
The children have been busy growing their friendships this week and playing beautifully with one another. A lovely sunny week (in the main) has meant we have had the perfect backdrop for challenging our bodies with lots of climbing and balancing on our obstacle courses. The children have set up the equipment themselves and love the satisfaction of getting from one end of the nursery garden to another! I have enjoyed our story times and the songs we have sang together this week, we really are growing our listening and joining in skills! Lots of super recognition with our friend ‘Number 1’ and many of us have had a look at the sound ‘m’ – have a look at the sound mat that has been sent home … can you remember what the sound looked like?
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Hannah
Colette’s blog
Sadly, Colette has not been at nursery this week. I know you have missed her as much as we have but don’t worry she will be back on Monday.
The children in Colette’s group have been working closely with the rest of the nursery team. Rest assured they have been loved, cared for and have continued on their individual learning journey, as you can see in the photos.
Lastly, it remains for say, have a lovely weekend and we will see you all on Monday for another busy week.
Barbara
Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 22nd September 2021
Spelling
In Year 6, we have to learn all of the spelling patterns taught in KS2. Each week I will set you some spellings based on our work in class. Learn them for homework ready for a quiz next Tuesday. This week’s spellings continue to look at suffixes.
beautiful, careless, hopeful, deceitful, thoughtless, government,
powerful, judgement, achievement, definitely
Maths
This week has been all about place value and decimal knowledge. Can you complete these IXL strands to consolidate your understanding.
IXL Year 6 maths - K2, K3 and BB.3
Geography
Over the next few weeks, you will be completing your own South America project at home. You will then be using the information that you have found to create your own interactive book. Please complete this piece of homework in your HOMEWORK BOOK.
This week is about your country’s capital city.
Can you create an information page in your homework book about the capital city?
What is its population? Size of the capital city? Landmarks? Location? Interesting facts?
“Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.” ~ Mr. Rogers
What a wonderful week we have had!
Read more‘A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be!’
It has been a fantastic week of full days in Reception, I think there will be some very tired children and teachers this weekend!
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