Year 6 Home Learning - Monday 29th November 2021

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And so Christmas begins.....

Helping Others

As you know, an important aspect of our whole school ethos is to support the vulnerable through our almsgiving and charity work. Over the years, working together, we have raised an enormous amount of money which has supported so many people and various charities. Over the last year this work has been more difficult and yet the need has never been greater. The children recognise this and are aware that so many people are struggling and need support. A charity close to all our hearts is Brian House; the children’s hospice up in Blackpool. Staff there work tirelessly, helping very poorly children and their families in what can be deeply distressing circumstances and do so with such love and laughter and deep compassion. It always fills us all with great warmth when collecting for our charity at the end of our KS2 church Nativity service, to find that everyone has been so generous, wanting to help and support.

After great discussion as a whole school community the children have agreed that if every family donates £5 per family, we will be able to raise a large sum to present to Brian House. To do this, they have planned two themed Fridays, the first on December 3rd – a Silly Sock or Terrible Tights Day (worn alongside their uniform). Make your socks or tights stand out! Customising (within reason!) is allowed. The second themed Friday is on December 10th – a Christmas themed clothes day; a jumper, a t-shirt or simply Christmas colours, bright and cheerful. Don’t worry of your child isn’t in nursery on these days just choose another day to join in the fun!

Please send your kind donation in a named envelope to the nursery office. Please know that we appreciate that times are tough and every single donation means so much, thank you. Each and every donation given with love is a true blessing and if anyone can’t manage to donate, please say a prayer for peace and love in lieu which will mean a great deal.

Following this we will be heading into school’s very own Christmas week when each class will enjoy a party day on Thursday 16th December and will have the chance to wear their own choice of partywear. On the same day, Jacqui and her team will be cooking our Christmas lunch, something we all look forward to. If your child doesn’t normally have a school lunch they can order a special Christmas Lunch. Please click here. We need to know numbers by Monday so please complete this form over the weekend and in time for the office to pass on the numbers to Jacqui at lunchtime.

If you have any queries drop me an email.

Barbara

"May your dreams defy the laws of gravity" H. Jackson-Brown Jr

What a super busy week! We’ve written more non-chronological text - as we finished our Ancient Greek work - for now (they keep popping up those Greeks). The children have used their digital literacy skills - to type and edit their work. We continued with these skills in our computing lessons as we typed our Advent promises. These promises will be displayed in class and the hall during this festive season. In preparation for Christmas too - we revisited the sacrament of reconciliation. In class, we completed a silent examination of conscience. This gave use the opportunity to reflect on what we have done and on what we have failed to do. Father Peter has been with us too to share the sacrament although he couldn’t listen to us all today and he will return next week. In maths we have puzzled our way through the week - so much reasoning and in science we studied gravity. Aristotle (ancient Greek) popped into the lesson, so did Sir Isaac Newton and his the falling apple. In RE we are exploring the depth of faith certain biblical figures had - truly heroic !! Please visit the wonderful Art gallery to see how creative we have been and in music we completed our Cop 26 Climate Change Rap we are filming next week - so watch this space!! PE progressed to Netball and the swimming progresses well! Finally, we started our new class novel - the perfect end to a packed week.

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Awards this week:

This week the Grow your brain certificates went to: Lexi (retrieving all her history facts) Holly (super reading progress) and an extra one James for all round focus and enthusiasm! Well done!!

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Important reminders

After great discussion about how to restart our charity work the children have agreed that if every family donates £5 we will be able to raise a large sum to present to Brian House. To do this they have planned two themed Fridays, the first on December 3rd – a Silly Sock or tight with uniform day - make your socks or tights stand out! The second on December 10th – a Christmas themed clothes day; a jumper, a t-shirt or simply Christmas colours. Mrs Hodges will organise ParentPay so that each family and members of staff can make a charitable donation.

Cap and sunglasses! We will be filming our rap next week - could you please bring a cap and sunglasses on Monday. As soon as we have filmed we will send them back home.

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Silly Socks!

Our final meeting of the year began with a beautiful prayer which was written by the councillors in Year 5, then it was straight down to business. Our councillors were brimming with ideas for ways to raise money for our Christmas charity, Brian House, from silly socks to being a teacher for the day! Each class council had come up with so many ideas . This made it difficult for the Student Council to make decisions, but make decisions they did. Look out on your class blog for the big announcement.
It was also decided that Student Council this year are going to be designing and funding a new  item for the playground, we are thinking about trains or boats or racing cars - we are only limited by our imagination. Our final decision will be made in the new year., and hopefully by summer money can be raised, resources bought and the new development installed! 

Year 4 blog. Friday 26th November "An angel in your heart, they say; will give you guidance every day."

There has been a lot of deep thinking in Year 4 this week! In our worship, we have been focusing on how Jesus is king of our hearts and is interested in what our hearts are filled with - hobbies, memories, people, hopes and dreams. In RE lessons we have been reflecting on Angels and finding evidence for their presence in the bible. Children asked so many questions and listened to their friends’ beliefs about angels, using them to refine their own beliefs on this mystery of our faith.

We have an angel to guide our class council each week.

We also practise this prayer in class:

Angel of God, my guardian dear,

To whom God’s love commits me here,

Ever this day (night) be at my side,

To light, to guard, to rule and to guide,

Amen

It is a lovely prayer you could say at night, to bring comfort and foster trust in God’s plan for us.

In other news:

We had a brilliant day on Monday, when children brought in their amazing pyramid creations and all those questions! We looked at evidence to find out who really built the pyramids in Egypt. We found that you cannot always rely on films to tell us the truth in history. Usually artefacts are a super source of evidence and children deduced from what was found, who really did build them.

In maths, we are revising key concepts in addition and subtraction, getting those maths brains flexing ready for some tricky calculations and concepts coming up soon.

On Tuesday, we ended our lovely novel, Charlotte’s Web. We have learned so much about friendship and kindness through this novel, as well as many new reading skills and lots of writing opportunities. We have now started to study our new novel, The Butterfly Lion. Already, children have been so curious, writing many questions and making predictions about this book from reading only the first page!

HRSE

This week in Kidsafe we have focused on Keeping our bodies safe and also discussed keeping secrets. Please read the important letter below outlining what we discussed and what implications it has.

Let’s Celebrate!

These chidren have met their reading targets already: Nicola, Connor-Sean, Millie and Aviya!

This week our certificate winners are:

1. Angel for listening so carefully to teacher feedback and striving to improve in all he does, and

2. Jay for being a very determined young man and trying so hard to do his best.

PE stars this week were Leon and Molly-Ann For super teamwork and focus when practising their sequence.

Music stars this week were Franek and Aviya.

Notices

After great discussion about how to restart our charity work the children have agreed that if every family donates £5 we will be able to raise a large sum to present to Brian House. To do this they have planned two themed Fridays, the first on December 3rd – a Silly Sock or tight with uniform day - make your socks or tights stand out!

The second on December 10th – a Christmas themed clothes day; a jumper, a t-shirt or simply Christmas colours. Mrs Hodges will organise ParentPay so that each family and members of staff can make a charitable donation.

Have a lovely weekend everyone. God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

Year 3 Home Learning 26.11.21

Spellings:

This week's strategy is called ‘Quick write’. The aim is to write the word as many times as possible in one minute. Your child may look at the word to begin with but should be encouraged to memorise it towards the end of the one minute or as soon as they feel confident. 

Even though children are writing quickly they should still be encouraged to present work to a high standard. 

If you would like to extend the homework you may want your child to think, say and write one or more sentences with one or more of the words in. 

 Our spelling focus this week is adding the suffix -ous. When adding this suffix we sometimes need to change the root word and sometimes the root word remains the same. Remember, “Is there a letter I need to swap? Is there a letter to double or drop?”

1. dangerous

2. poisonous

3. hazardous

4. nervous

5. generous

6. ridiculous

7. tremendous

8. venomous

Maths IXL:

Please complete B.6 - ‘Greatest and least word problems’

English:

This week we have started to look at main clauses and how these can be used as either a simple sentence or joined together using a coordinating conjunction. To help us remember the coordinating conjunctions, we use the term FANBOYS (please see below).

For your homework, see if you can spot any of these compound sentences when you are reading your books together and discuss where the main clauses are and the meaning of the conjunction within the sentence.

Then could you please have a go at the following strands on IXL:

IXL English- W.1. - ‘Use conjunctions’

This week....

Such an exciting week!

The nursery ladies have been watching carefully and noticed that a large group of our children are great builders, some love a cosy moment in the book area whilst other enjoy the home corner. With this in mind, one night after school the nursery fairies decided to rearrange nursery! We now have a huge construction area, an even cosier book corner with cushions and rugs and our home corner, wow the children LOVE it!

It is our plan to give you a guided virtual tour, hopefully next week! Hannah is on to it, fingers crossed and watch this space!

Can I highlight that next week our monthly newsletter will be sent out. It is full of Christmas events that are happening over the next few weeks. Be sure you don’t miss out on the festive fun! If you have any questions just give me a ring or drop me an email.

Clare, Colette and Hannah’s blog

Wow...we are indeed a musical lot this year! A few of the children were enjoying finding different objects around nursery and garden to see what sounds the objects made. Within minutes we had our very own band as numbers had multiplied and we had a plethora of wonderful sounds! This musicality is hopefully going to shine through when its Nativity time!!

Perhaps you can practice our songs at home? Click here for a new version of Away in a Manger (only the first verse please) and here for Sing and Dance for Joy (we are singing ‘dance’ instead of shout for joy etc).

We have had more fun in the hall this week,  - our new favourite is ‘The Circle Song’! Might be a tricky one to practice at home but our group was super at following the moves! Here is the music if you fancy a go!

The three little pigs made another visit with our friends the Numberblocks this week… the children love this story in any form and enjoyed the maths game many of them played alongside it. Perhaps have a go at home at drawing house number one with one window, number two with two windows and three with three windows? Send them into nursery next week and can display them. Good luck!

Clare, Colette and Hannah

Lastly, with the start of Advent fast approaching (yes, it’s next Wednesday!) the children have been planning where we will put our tree and how we should decorate it! It’s all very exciting! We also thought we could recreate the stable in Bethlehem and ‘Christmasify’ (I’m not sure that’s a word) all the areas of the continuous provision. We will take lots of photos to share with you all next week.

We hope that everyone has a calm and restful weekend, not too much Christmas shopping! We look forward to an even busier week at nursery next week!

Barbara

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 24th November 2021

Spelling - Retrieval test! This week’s spellings are all of the ones that we have been learning since half term. Next week I will give you a random test on them.

expansion, permission, comprehension, admission, tension, profession, possession, impression, collision, revision, confession, progression, direction, explanation, competition, cautious, especially, appreciate, ancient, delicious, subtraction, politician, infection, international, crying, reliable, busily, happiness, heavily, beautifully, mysterious, applied, business, heavier, copier, happily.

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

IXL - Maths M2 and M3 - adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator. This should be a good one to whizz through. You all know how to add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.

CHALLENGE - M4 - adding and subtracting fractions word problems

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English - Henry VIII biographical notes

Over the next three weeks, we will be starting to write our Outcome 1 and Outcome 2 of our biographical unit of work. For us to be able to write really good biographies, we have to have a really good knowledge about the person that we are writing about. I want you to continue to gather content all about Henry VIII this week. What further information can you find out about him? I have set you a Purple Mash template for you to record your research on.

Think about:

• DATES - significant dates that appear in Henry’s life.

• Significant people.

• Significant places.

• Context specific vocabulary.

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