Year 4 blog Friday 25th February. "To be grateful is to recognise the love of God in everything."

Well what a busy week we have had in year 4! We have blasted back into our learning like erupting volcanoes!

This half term our Jesuit Virtues are ‘Grateful and Generous.’ We have talked about the importance of seeing the good in each other and being grateful for our friends, our family and our world. In our worship, we have been reflecting on how we can use our bodies to be Christ’s body here on Earth, showing generosity to those around us and ‘Doing small things with great love.’

Class council

In our class council this week, we have started discussing our almsgiving during Lent. The school will be focusing on CAFOD’s ‘Walk Against Hunger.’ We will be trying to walk each day as a class and are planning a reachable target.

We have been gaining a deep understanding of the relationships between our times tables this week - focusing on the 2x 4x and 8x table. Children have been busy constructing the 8x table and noticing patterns such as 4x4 + 4x4 = 8 x 4. In our English lessons we have been writing a story of ‘The Dragon Slayer,’ trying hard to include all our Year 4 features of writing. Here are a few pictures of the children making arrays and being bookworms!

In our Geography lessons, children have shown an excellent understanding of the earth’s structure and how volcanoes erupt. We used sweet treats again to find out about tectonic plate boundaries and how they move in different ways to create earthquakes and volcanoes. We then conduced map work, looking at physical and tectonic maps of the world to find countries, cities, mountains and rivers.

In music, we have started to learn all about Samba! We even performed some with body percussion. Children are getting very good on their recorders and hopefully, some time in the future we will be able to perform for you.

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, our certificate winners are as follows:

A Lizzie Ladybird certificate goes to Edi for striving to improve in all he does. You are very responsive when given any advice on how to get better at things and it is really showing in your work.

A Kiki Chameleon certificate goes to Daisy for considering her ideas really carefully and creatively. You always give your best and put thought into what you do.

Music stars this week were Georgia and Leon.

Swimming stars were Tabby, Anncia, Max and Leo

PE stars were Stanley and Dominic for some excellent throwing skills.

Notices

WORLD BOOK DAY: World book day is on Thursday 3rd March and we will be celebrating its 25th anniversary! For this day, we would like to invite the children to dress up as their favourite book characters!

SWIMMING CONTINUES on Mondays - prompt at 8.30am

Also from Thursday 10th March - we will be going swimming twice a week. This will be the same time on a Thursday morning - 8.30am. Then sessions will end at Easter. This will be their second PE slot - so no PE on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Attention Year four… Art News

Year four, after we finish our Money Containers topic, we are moving on to Textiles and we will be tie dyeing a tshirt. So you will need to bring in a white tshirt, put your name on the label and bring it to school as soon as possible, we start the week after next. It can be a new one or a school or home tshirt that has gone a little grubby, it must not have any designs on it though. The good news is, that after we have finished with it in art, you can wear it to school with your PE kits on PE days to show off your creativity.

PARENT APPOINTMENTS - These are now live! Please sign up for an online meeting with me to discuss your child’s progress and targets. Also see if you can make it on Friday 11th March to look at your child’s books. I would love to see you there and meet you properly and they would love you to see how hard they work!

Have a peaceful weekend and lets hope this wind calms down!

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

This week....

It’s great to see everyone full of energy and raring to get learning after the holidays, and a huge well done to everyone who completed the half term challenges. We loved seeing the photos and chatting with the children about their work, thank you.

The children this week have been extremely busy. They are all still excited about the planets and space…I think they will continue finding out facts forever! A friend came to share with everyone that he had discovered Saturn had 82 moons! Wow!!

However, next week we will be introducing some new learning (as well as space). The children have a keen interest in fairies and other fantasy worlds and creatures. Perhaps you have fairies living at the bottom of your garden, just like we have discovered in our nursery garden.

Click on the button below to look at our plans for March! We are going to have great fun learning!

Key person blog

We have all settled back in so beautifully this week, eager to see our friends, share our holiday news and get back to growing our brains! We have played some lovely games in our Seaside Café; the role play has been wonderful, with lots of orders being taken, written down and then served! The playdough creations have been fabulous this week too - trays of cakes and chocolates amongst the many! Some of us have painted using magnets...we dragged paperclips through the paint to see what patterns and colour mixing we could do. It was great fun!

We also had a look at our friend Numberblock Five. Five arrives to get the band together, and the party started, with a big high five! Click here to see the friends 1-5. Some children accepted the challenge to draw round their hand to show ‘5’ and to be creative with number caterpillars. There was lots of Tommy Turtles having a go at writing numbers1-5! Well done children!!

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 The nursery ladies were amazed at how many words the children came up with that start with ‘c’!! It was a colossal amount!! Geraldine the Giraffe found some we hadn't thought of in her search...can you come up with 5 ‘c’ words at home? Watch Geraldine here!

Colette, Hannah, Michelle, Justine and Frances

Almsgiving

In the lead up to Christmas, during Advent, together with the school we raised money for Brian House, a charity close to all our hearts, which provides much comfort to parents in times of great need. We have finally reached that magic £1,000 and have sent off the cheque last week. During Lent we are hoping to match this again.

As in previous years nursery will be sending home a named raisin box fir each child. We are asking that the children eat the raisins (mmm yummy) and then fill the box with money ( preferably silver coins). You may want to ask your child to complete a small act of kindness for each coin! When it is full please send it back to nursery to be counted.

Last year was a bumper year for donations, it would be great if could surpass it this year! No pressure parents!

In nursery we will be continuing our acts of kindness by growing and extra bit of love each day. Every time we spot a friend being kind and thoughtful to another they win a smiley face to put on our Lenten promise love heart. I bet we fill it!

I will keep you updated with how things are going.

Worship

Our worship this week was about our personal tastes and how we differ from one another. We learnt about how to recognise and describe our feelings as well as some ways of managing their emotions.

Our prayers acknowledged our moods and reassured us that Jesus is always there for us, no matter what we are feeling.

As you can see we are always busy at nursery! It’s no wonder we are all exhausted by Friday. Try and have a good rest this weekend. I am hopeful that it won’t be windy!!

Barbara

Year 3 Home Learning 25.02.22

Spelling:

This week we are giving the children some high frequency words to practice. Think about the variety of spelling strategies we have used before. Which ones were the most effective in helping you to learn your spellings? Use your preferred strategy to help you this wee.

1. would

2. could

3. should

4. there

5. their

6. they’re

7. to

8. too

9. who

10. how

English:

1. In our English lessons we have been looking at synonyms for verbs. These are other words that have a similar meaning and can make our writing more exciting to read to avoid us always using the same words. Please complete IXL English DD1 and DD2 on synonyms.

2. This week in our story we got up to the part when the main character Clac found two strange beings- the green children- huddled together in a hollow pit. Can you draw, paint, create a picture that shows this first meeting and round the picture write the feelings of these characters. It would be great if we could use these to go around our English display!

Maths:

Ongoing Maths homework for the next few weeks to complete the following strands on IXL:

F1 - Subtract one digit numbers

F2- Ways to subtract

F3- Write subtractions sentences

F6 - Subtractions with pictures

F7 - Write subtraction sentences based on pictures

Let's go swimming...

Please make sure your child is at the gate on Kenilworth Road for 8.35am, ready to go swimming.

The children need to bring their kit with them in a swimming bag:

• Swimming costume/swimming shorts

• Towel

• Hair brush

• Long sleeved top / leggings or trousers (for water safety)

We are very excited to get there and complete our swimming curriculum.

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 23rd February 2022

SPELLING FOCUS - Hyphens. Next week we will be looking at hyphens in GPS. Learn these spellings ready for next week.

high-spirited, life-size, brother-in-law, empty-handed, single-minded, three-dimensional, follow-up,

ultra-violet, short-change, old-fashioned, well-known, corn-fed, self-service, round-trip, off-peak

Can you find out what the job of a hyphen is? What is its purpose?

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MATHS - Arithmetic Focus.

Have a go at the half arithmetic paper that is in your revision folder. Think about the areas that you struggled with last time. Can you correct them on this paper? You may want to time yourself too? Remember to be as accurate as you can.

Look at your jottings - are you being accurate?

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GEOGRAPHY - PURPLE MASH

1. County quiz - can you label all of the counties of England?

2. A fact file about England - create a DETAILED fact file about our own country. What information can you find out and add in.

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POTIONS - Can you make yours?

Why don’t you create your own potion at home? Think about the ingredients that you will need and make it up? Can you make a film or a poster advertising your potion?

Year 3 Home Learning 11.02.22

Spelling:

Our strategy this week is to HIGHLIGHT any SUPRISES. This will make these trickier parts stand out and hopefully be remembered.

Our sound this week is the ‘sh ‘sound spelt ‘ch’

1. chef

2. chalet

3. brochure

4. charade

5. machine

6. parachute

7. crochet

8. chandelier

Reading:

Please make sure you are doing lots of reading over the holidays and make sure you are getting your quizzes done on AR Reader.

Online Safety:

This week we have been introduced to blogging and started our own class blog on the uses of the internet, the advantages, disadvantages and appropriates ways to behave and communicate online. Can you share this blog with your parents, discuss what we learnt in class and add a comment to our blog.