Year 4 blog. Friday 19th November. "Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God; not herself."(Pope Benedict XV1)

This week, we have delved straight into our new RE topic, Trusting in God.’ Our focus is now on the New Testament. Children wrote some super letters as Zechariah, whose speech was taken away because he questioned the path God wanted for him. We then moved onto Mary and admired her for her obedience to God and deep faith in His plans for her. We love RE lessons in our class because children are so expressive in their feelings towards their faith and said such beautiful things about our Blessed Lady.

RHE

This week in Kidsafe we have focused on Computer and Internet safety and discussed age ratings on films and games. Please read the important letter below outlining what we discussed and what implications it has.

In English this week, children have been outraged that despite being such a loving and terrific pig, Mr Zuckerman still plans to butcher him at Christmastime! We have learned the power of persuasive language this week (so I apologise if your children get even better at persuading you for something they want!) Here they are in action, persuading their friends.

They have written some fantastic persuasive letters to Mr. Zuckerman expressing their feelings about this injustice.

In maths we have finished our block on place value - it is important to keep this ticking over - alongside revision of telling the time too. We are now moving onto addition and subtraction.

History has been so exciting this week and has created such a buzz. We have learned all about Tutankhamun and many children have shared their extra knowledge about this subject. Children worked together to write newspaper reports about this exciting discovery 99 years ago in the valley of the kings!

Let’s Celebrate!

This week our certificate winners are:

1. Alex for full and willing participation in all his tasks and

2. Lily-Mae for asking for advice in her learning, seeking to choose the best words she can in writing and bubbling with excitement about tomb discoveries!

PE stars this week were Molly-Ann and Owen

Music stars this week were Rosa and Iris

Have a lovely weekend everyone. God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

Year 3 Home Learning 19.11.21

Spellings:

This week’s strategy is called ‘Rainbow Writing’ …

Write the word in a different colours several times. 

(Use sharp coloured pencil crayons rather than felt tips if you can)

Our spellings this week are from our Year 3 focus words:

1. busy

2. address

3. breathe

4. breath

5. believe

6. actually

7. although

8. answer

Maths IXL:

Please complete B.2 - ‘comparing numbers up to 1,000’

English:

This week we have started our exciting English topic based around dragons. We have been reading all about them and even met one that lives within our classroom, but what we want to know is… what image do you have in your head when you think of a dragon? Can you design, draw and describe your own dragon. You will find the following sheet in your homework books to help you.

Please can you draw, label and write a short description of your very own dragon.

This week...

A fabulous week of learning at nursery. The children are growing each week in confidence and taking more challenge in their play and learning. We are proud of each and every one of them.

One of our number two challenges this week was to sort and pair socks and wellies, but guess what, we can’t find our sock box anywhere. Can you help? If you have any old socks of different sizes and patterns we would be most grateful for donations. Thank you in anticipation.

Clare, Colette and Hannah’s blog

This week we have continued to thank God for all the amazing animals on the planet! We have drawn even more interesting animals and we even had a vote for our favourite animal. Alongside this, we just had to learn an animal song too! Click here to watch the song ‘Animal House’

The Autumn winds have blown lots of leaves around Nursery garden…on Wednesday it was so windy that it looked like it was raining leaves!! We had lots of fun exploring the different kinds of leaves and looking at all the beautiful colours on the ground. We even discovered one or two wiggly worms hiding at the bottom of the pile of leaves.

We have been continuing to look at the Number three and have been continuing to practise our m, a, s, d and t sounds with our lovely Geraldine the Giraffe. Why not get wrapped up warm and head out on a lovely Autumn walk to see if you can find anything that starts with one of our sounds? There is usually a few things at the park beginning with ‘S’. Or try the sound quiz on purple mash… Click here

As we mentioned in last week’s blog we have begun to organise our Nativity play. We have been sharing the Christmas story with the children and they have been asking lots of questions (as they always do!!). Everyone has been getting excited about their role in the Nativity.

Now for the photos!

Next week we will be learning the songs for the Nativity and also our lines in readiness for filming. Costumes are ready, cameras are set, it’s all systems go… hopefully. The play will go live on this blog in a few weeks time, I will let you know the date as soon as I can…watch this space.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and wrap up warm, apparently it’s going to be cold…brrrrrr!

Barbara, Clare, Colette, Hannah and Frances

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 17th November 2021

Spelling - Please practise these spellings for next week.

expansion, permission, comprehension, admission, tension, profession, possession, impression, collision, revision, confession, progression

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Maths - Please can you continue to learn these fraction, decimal and % equivalences

IXL - Maths L12 - comparing and ordering fractions.

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English - Disney Film Review

This week we have been looking at Walt Disney’s biography and getting a better understanding of his life and times. But, what is your favourite Disney film? For homework I would like you to either watch your favourite Disney film or watch a Disney film that you have not seen before. I have set you a film review on Purple Mash to complete based on the film.

Don’t forget to follow the ‘Think about’ box that will prompt you with what to include.

Send me a photo of you watching you film! I even give you permission to get a range of film snacks to enjoy.

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Year 4 blog: " Church is not something you go to, its a family you belong to."

What a lovely week we have had in year 4! This week we have been reflecting, during our worship, on God’s language of love. Each day we have thought of different ways we can show love for others, such as giving kind gifts and saying encouraging words. We have a whole class of such loving children - they love to be kind and supportive to each other!

We also went to church this week. Since Covid, many of us have stayed away from church to be safe. On Wednesday, we wanted to re-introduce children to church and we prepared a question and answer session for Father Peter! He explained to them why people go to mass and the three main parts - saying sorry, listing to God’s Word and receiving Jesus in Holy Communion. Then children had some time to explore and learn about parts of their church. They listened intently to Father and also improvised with lots more questions! Father Peter loved having them and looks forward to seeing them at church. They will have so much knowledge the next time they go!

Other highlights this week involve creating our own design for our Computer coding program we will make next week, ranking the characters in order of kindness in Charlotte’s Web and getting to grips with ordering, comparing and rounding numbers in Place Value maths. History was exciting - children looked at a source of evidence - a wall painting from the tomb of Nebamun, to see if they could interpret what they saw to find out about Ancient Egyptian life. Super little historians! Children have been set some exciting work on Pyramids for homework and have learned the meaning of these words: interpret, evidence, source, tomb, artefact, irrigation, reservoir, provide and crops. Why not ask them what they mean and see if they can remember.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, Evan has received a Bobby Bee certificate for always engaging with every subject and putting his absolute all into lessons. Evan, you are an absolute star. Owen received a Kiki Chameleon certificate for giving everything his best go and putting so much effort, care and thought into all his work. However, both brothers could have had either certificate - you both try so incredibly hard and your enthusiasm is endless. Thank-you!

Music stars this week were: Lily-Mae, Ruby-Lilly and Connor-Sean.

PE stars this week were:

Notices

• Please could children bring in a pair of wellies in a plastic bag, to keep in school. Please put their names in. We can then use our outside area more during the inclement weather.

• Please do not forget that all children need art shirts to keep in their tray as in past years. This can be an old t-shirt or shirt - anything to ensure uniform is kept clean!

RHE

This week in our Kidsafe session, we have thought about Bullying - what is it and how can we stop it. Please read the following letter:

Year 3 Home Learning 12.11.21

Spellings:

 This week’s strategy is Drawing around the word to show the shape.

Draw around the words making a clear distinction in size where there are ascenders and descenders. Children need to look carefully at the shape of the word and the letters in each box. Then try to write the word making sure that you get the same shape.  

This weeks spelling rule: Adding ‘im’ to root words beginning with m or p to make their opposites:

1. polite

2. impolite

3. mobile

4. immobile

5. mature

6. immature

7. impatient

8. impossible

I will be interested to find out how you found this strategy!

Maths IXL:

Please complete A.12 ‘counting forward’ and A.13 ‘counting patterns’

History:

This week you decide on which homework you want to complete, choosing one (or more if you are really a Bobby Bee) of the following ideas from below. We would love to see what you have done, whether this is through a photograph sent by email, in your books or if you have carried your work out on a piece of paper (we could even display this). We can’t wait to see what you choose to do …