Football Tournament Information

Well done to the children who have been selected for the football tournament next Tuesday afternoon. It will take place at AKS from 2pm until 4.30pm.

Jacob

Harvey

Emmanuel

Mark

Fin

James

Elise

Emma

Kaya

Ava

The children will have their lunch before they leave school. They will need to be collected from school at 1.30pm to be taken to AKS by a parent or guardian. Please ensure that they have plenty of fluid for the afternoon.

The children will all be issued with school kit on Monday. They just need to ensure that they have shin pads and boots/trainers.

Any questions, please do ask.

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 16th March - REVISION

Message to Parents

This year really is flying! The children are being asked to work incredibly hard in class and our pace of learning is incredible. As always, the children are rising to every challenge that they are being set.

After this week, we have 7 weeks until our assessment week. Maintaining a balanced curriculum is really important to me. They have to experience learning in all of the other subjects as well as the increased focus on maths and english. There has been huge progress made in these areas because the children are so motivated and determined to do well. Each morning, children visit the revision boxes in the classroom and help themselves to the resources that they know they will need to consolidate in each subject area. The revision folders that the children have should be now bursting with material.

Intrinsic motivation and the children being determined to succeed will inevitably lead to their success. Effort breeds success.

Please do get in touch if you need any more support. I had so many conversations with you at the book look in the hall and parents’ evening - your constant support is appreciated!

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REVISION WEEK

Next week you will be taking your next set of papers in the run up to SATs. I have absolutely no doubt that you will make progress due to the effort and work that you are putting into your class work.

SPELLING - Revise all of your spellings from your spelling book. Which words are you finding tricky? Is there a particular rule?

GPS - You have two short papers to work through at home. Are you comfortable with all concepts? What could you research further? Could you use IXL for further consolidation?

MATHS - I have given you an arithmetic paper (this is where you can increase your scores) and you should have chosen an extra area of maths. I have added White Rose Home Learning to the button below. You can watch videos to help you in any area of maths that you are not sure about.

READING - Have a look at previous papers…where have you lost marks?

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Year 3 Home Learning 11.03.22

Spelling:

This week our focus has been: adding the prefix ‘re’.

1. redo

1. replace

2. reheat

High frequency spellings:

4. because

5. looked

6. people

7. have

Year 3 key spellings:

8. address

9. answer

10. busy

English:

This week we have been looking at using inverted commas when using direct speech. Can you have a go at the task on Purple Mash, ‘Mark wants chicken’, it will be under your 2do’s.

Maths:

The last week to complete the Maths areas 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

Hand in hand with fairy grace.....

A very special week has occurred in nursery. It stared with a special visitor coming to nursery, a fairy called Fairy Love (the children named her). She helped us to investigate the fantasy world of all things fairies and pixies. We even found fairy footprints in nursery and the garden as well as a sprinkle of fairy dust!

Fairy Love brought us some tiny potions bottles full of magic. We have started to make up our own spells and potions in the water play. It was a different colour every day with different pixie dust…..better beware everyone!

We have been practising our rhyming skills by making silly soup. Click on the button to play at home.

We also played rhyming words with a huge cauldron and a ‘real’ magic wand. We knew it was real because it lit up when the magic was happening!

Whilst we were doing our daily walk for Lent we happened upon two gargantuan (our favourite word) branches which we dragged back to nursery to make a fairy glen…it is soooo magical. Outside in the garden we made a forbidden forest!

Frances and a team of intrepid gardeners have also started preparing the garden for summer planting. They began by weeding the big tractor tyre and planted a meadow to attract butterflies and bees in the summer.

We have been so very busy and nursery has been transformed into a magical kingdom…watch out for the pictures on next weeks blog

Key Person blog

It has been a magical time this week at Nursery. We have noticed some evidence of fairies all around. The children know how to tell if a fairy has been near:

Soft chiming bells, a sprinkle of fairy dust, tiny flickers of light and a gentle breeze in the air.

With all this in mind we have created our own fairy drawings and paintings, explored fairy sounds by using our own soft chiming bells. We have also made the most ‘fairylicious’ sparkling playdough which was red, blue and yellow. The children have made their own indoor fairy glen with sparkling lights and created their own story using a story map. Thank you to the wonderful gardeners who did some lovely spring planting.

Have a lovely weekend.

Hannah, Colette, Justine, Frances and Michelle.

 Worship

 This week we continued talking about our Lenten promises and how we could be more like Jesus. Our Lenten promise chart is getting very full as we complete many acts of kindness and generosity.

May we say a big thank you for your Lenten Almsgiving our magic counting jar is getting full. If you haven’t sent your donation in yet don’t worry…you still have time. Some of the children have sent in with their donation a list of the acts of kindness they have been doing at home. Well done everybody!

We also talked about how we should all be grateful for our wonderful world and everyone and everything on it.

We started to read the Easter story. We started by reading about Palm Sunday.

The children continue to explore and play with number and also we have been developing our understanding of shape and space including how things fit together, movements like turning and flipping, symmetry and scale. They are also beginning to predict and recognise familiar routes for example how to get to the chapel, field etc.

We have been loving finding lots of books which have a magical or fantasy theme. We read Room on a Broom and a huge red dragon appeared! Click here to watch.

One of our other favourites is ‘On the Way Home’ by Jill Murphy. Click here.

Next week be will post our own story and the display we are currently painting…it’s a bit scary!

Everyone has worked so very hard this week, I am sure a well earned rest is in order. Have a restful weekend before we continue on our magical quest next week, where we will be exploring the world of dragons, boggarts and much much more. We can’t wait!!!!!!

Keep safe and we will see you on Monday!

Barbara

Year 4 blog Friday 11th March "See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."

Another super week in Year 4 - albeit a lot of absence this week. It was so lovely to touch base with so many of you today and also speak to you regarding your child’s progress on Wednesday. Aren’t they doing well! They are very proud of all they have achieved.

I look forward to round two of parent meetings in a couple of weeks.

We have begun our new novel in English this week by Phillip Pullman ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter,' - it has some very quirky characters! It is apparent that we are really mastering our Year 4 reading skills now. We just need to read lots and lots and get quizzing!

In maths, the children are becoming so good at seeing the links between concepts and figuring out how to work out Multiplication and division problems. We have consolidated the 6x table this week and have also moved onto the 9x. Patterns galore!

Our history has been exciting this week, as we continued working in our Anglo-Saxon families! We also explored push and pull factors which influenced the Anglo-Saxons leaving their homeland to settle here and also used map evidence to find out where they settled. Did you know that they settled locally?

We have been rock detectives in Science - finding our about how rock is formed and the 3 main types of rock. We then conducted the hardness test, water test and acid test on our rock samples to interpret our results and deduce which type of rock they must be.

Also, using less creative and more analytical skills - children have moved from thinking about life in volcanic areas (and the advatages of this) in Geography, very nicely onto different types of rocks. Children classified rocks according to their properties and then made close observational drawings before naming 6 main types of rock.

We have got into full flow with our Walk Against Hunger this week. Already, we have walked between us….. Walking around the school block twice to bolster this

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, our certificate winners are as follows:

A Cooper Crab certificate goes to Dominic for always giving your full focus and effort to all tasks. You are a hard-working young man and you are doing so well!

A Lizzie Ladybird certificate goes to Stanley for really striving to improve and for taking any advice gratefully. I loved to see you acting on your advice in your last story Stanley - well done!

Swimming stars were Edi, Rosa, Alex, Tabby, Emilia, Georgia and Matilda

Music stars were Rosa and Aviya

Notices

IMPORTANT NOTICE: SWIMMING CONTINUES on Mondays and Thursdays - prompt at 8.30am

SCHOOL TRIP NEWS - Tuesday 29th March. We are walking through St Annes square and onto the beach to examine rocks, look at buildings and find fossils! There will be no cost to this trip but we are hoping to have our lunch on the beach, so a packed lunch in a plastic bag will be needed. They will be using the plastic bag to carry their rocks back to school.

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.

Enjoy your weekend everyone. God Bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

Year 3 Remote Learning Week Beginning 7th March

This work will closely mirror the work we are doing in class this week:

ENGLISH:

This week we have been learning how to punctuate direct speech with inverted commas and continuing our shared reading of ‘the Greenling’ …

Read the text above and make sure you understand all of the vocabulary and the meaning of the text.

Have a look at the dialogue below and answer the questions around the side. Can you have a go at acting out what one of the characters says, thinking about how they would say it?

MATHS:

Please follow the link below to see all of the lesson videos, you should click the following link on the website then watch the videos in the following order:

Thursday: multiply by 4

Friday: ‘The 4 times table’

Worksheets to go with the Maths lesson:

On top of this please don’t forget to keep on top of your reading, quizzing, TT Rockstars and Nessy (if you are on this program)