This week.....

Holy Week at Nursery

It has been a reflective week as we have followed the schools Easter assemblies and their journey through Holy week. We have visited the chapel each day to discuss and retell Jesus’s last week. The children have asked many questions about why Jesus was crucified and which of His disciples let him down. The children thought they made ‘bad choices’. Each day we tried to understand why? What would we have done? How does the Easter story make you feel?

On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Gregan and Year six invited us to join their assembly rehearsal of the Resurrection. The children were silent and engrossed as the children depicted Holy Week using drama and music. We were all moved.

We started the week with finding lots of creative ways to make crosses. We even found them on hot cross buns. Then of course we had to spread butter on them and eat them, yummy! The children have asked me to buy some more when I go shopping…and of course I did! Who doesn’t enjoy a hot cross bun at Easter?

We must say a massive thank you for all your Lenten donations. I can announce that we have collected £131.49, our best year yet. I have passed the money to school to add to their total. When I have the whole school amount I will let you know.

The Platinum Jubilee

On Wednesday we started to discuss how we could celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We discussed who the Queen was by looking at pictures, we found out her name and how long she has been Queen for (this did lead to lots of other questions about other royals and their palaces). We decided that we should write her a letter and send it to Buckingham Palace, we also drew pictures of Her Majesty! We then popped everything into a large envelope, popped in a stamp (large) and then walked down to the postbox to post it! It was soooooo exciting!

We are now waiting for a reply, finger’s crossed.

I will be sending our more information after Easter about our planned celebration. The children has lots of ideas.

Key Persons blog

What a joy to start every day with a lap or two of the field for our CAFOD Walk for Hunger and then gather in the chapel for part of the Easter Story and singing. It is so uplifting and we are pleased they have been teaching you at home their chorus of ‘Sing Hosanna’!

 We have continued to practise our speedy sounds and rhyming games, and the children have been brilliant Bobby Bee’s. He is an enthusiastic Bee who loves to learn new things and he is helping all us in nursery too. We can chant together ‘I believe I can learn’ and if we find something tricky we have to remind ourselves of the key word YET as we say ‘I cant do it YET’ (but we will learn of course!)!!

Number 6 is becoming even more familiar and we are so proud of everyone for really working hard on their maths mastery. I wonder which numbers we will be looking at next?!

 The children led us this week, asking to make a Dr. Surgery. We have loved having the role play boxes out and people awaiting treatment!!

We have also had lots of fun playing pin the tail on the bunny, lots of giggles could be heard during this game. Blowing bubbles in the garden also caused great excitement as they grew bigger and bigger.

 We also had a great game of Pin The Tail on the Donkey, Easter magic box and dancing bunnies!!!

Michelle, Colette, Hannah, Justine and Frances

Outdoor activities for the holiday!

Click here for Forest Bathing

Click here for Birdy Surveys

Click here for Going on a Sound Walk

Click here for Barefoot Safari

Enjoy!

 A note from Hannah

On a personal note I want to say a huge thank you to all parents for giving me the opportunity to work with, care for and love your children. It has been an absolute privilege to spend the last year in nursery and see them grow and develop as the weeks go by. I am so proud of them as individuals and am sad to be leaving them...but its bittersweet as I will only be over the garden wall in Reception and will hopefully get to see a good number of the class come to school in September! Working in early years really is a magical, the team here are fantastic and there is so much joy in everyday.  I know the children will flourish when they return for the Summer term and I can’t wait to see them continuing to shine!

Hannah

As we have come to the end of another term at nursery I would just like to say that all the nursery team are so proud of the children’s learning. They never cease to amaze us at their eagerness to learn, their resilience when things go wrong and how they have embraced our nursery and school ethos. They all truly want to be more like Jesus.

On behalf of everyone here at Nursery I would like to wish you all a very Happy Easter and to thank for everything that you do for your child in support of Nursery. We are all so grateful to you.

We have more exciting (and challenging) learning planned for the Summer Term so watch this space! Make sure you have a good rest!!

Finally, the children have asked if I would upload some of the Easter activities we have done this week, I can’t resist their requests. Click on the buttons below to access them.

Keep safe

Barbara

Friday 8th April "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No-one comes to the Father except through Me."

What a special week it has been. The children were very proud of themselves for their class assembly - didn’t they do well. It was their first one in a very long time! We also were lucky enough to watch the Year 6 assembly about The Resurrection of Jesus on Thursday . In RE children have done some beautiful reflections about the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus and what it means to them.

In English this week, we have become poets as we wrote our own Limericks about characters from our novel. These were very funny and children soon got the knack of them. We have also invented our own Firework display becoming Firework Makers ourselves!

History has been a bit gruesome this week - as we discussed Anglo-Saxon forms of justice and children had to rate them for how well they would actually control crime!

In maths, we have learned about multiplying using a formal method - long multiplication. We are just coming to grips with this method but some of us need to learn our times tables more securely!

In Science, children enjoyed looking at the composition of soil and we carried out some investigations - which was the best draining soil and which was the best absorbing soil. We also did the ‘soil shake off’ to look at the different layers. Who would have thought soil was so interesting!

As a bit of a giggle, the children strut their stuff in their new Tie Dye t-shirts made in Art class - welcome to the Year 4 fashion show!

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, our certificate winners are:

The whole class! We have been so proud of you for so many reasons. We decided on a Tommy Turtle certificate for a class of Brave learners - I know you felt some nerves about the assembly but you ‘felt the fear and did it anyway.’ You are all children who ‘have a go’ and your confidence in everything has grown so much! I love teaching you and look forward to the Summer Term when we will GO FOR IT!

IMPORTANT Notices

1. School trip Friday 22nd April - (first week back) to Tatton Park. Please come in Anglo-Saxon Viking costume. If your child is normally a school dinner on Friday you are entitled to a packed lunch, which Jackie will make for them to take- unless you let me know that you are preparing one. Please do this over the holidays so I have numbers for Jackie when we return on Tuesday.

   CHILDREN NEED TO BE AT SCHOOL ON FRIDAY 22ND APRIL at 8:30am. Please pick them up at 3:45pm.

2. SWIMMING IS NOW FINISHED until Friday 10th June after the Spring bank 2 week holiday; f

3. Food Technology starting after half term. Children will be cooking/baking two different things. Please carefully read the list below (given also as a paper copy in bag) so you know which weeks they are cooking on - there are 2 different groups.

All that is left to say is - thank you for your continuing support over the last few weeks. The children are all doing so well.

Have a lovely Easter break everyone.

God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

Building castles..

Our meeting this month began with a beautiful prayer from Year 5, then we were all delighted to hear that the Year 6 councilors had met with our contractor to discuss the building of our new play castle!

After much careful consideration we have agreed on the final design, this will include scramble nets and climbing walls, amongst other wonderful things to alight our imagination.

We are planning, in the summer term, a return of the much loved Gym Jam Jog to help raise funds towards the costs. Councillors are going to finalise plans for this at our next meeting after the Easter break. 

Year 6 Weekly Home Learning - Wednesday 6th April 2022

You have all been given lots of revision materials for half term. Complete the papers in the time frames given to ensure that you are completing them in the correct amount of time:

GPS - 45 minutes

Reading - 30 minutes

Maths Revision - 30 minutes per booklet.

Bring all revision booklets back into class on Tuesday 19th April

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Year 3 Remote Learning Week Beginning 28.03.22

We hope you enjoy the remote learning this week, which closely mirrors what we will be doing in class…

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:

1. Add and subtract multiples of 100

2. Add and subtract ones

3. Add and subtract 3-digit and 1-digit numbers - not crossing 10

4. Add a 2-digit and 1-digit number - crossing 10

5. Add 3-digit and 1-digit numbers - crossing 10

Worksheets to go with the Maths lesson:

English:

MONDAY - WEDNESDAY:

This week is all about our writing stage in English. On Monday- Wednesday we will be doing a shared write together, where the children will take their innovated plan and rewrite the story alongside the teacher. This will then be marked each night and the children will have chance to reflect on whether they have mastered the writing focus. Please remind yourself of the story (found on the homework page) and your new innovated story map (if you were not in school on Friday then this will be emailed to you on Monday).

Then on purple mash you will find a task on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday where you will rewrite your own story alongside mine. Before you start, have a good read of mine and see if you can identify some of our key grammar skills (these will be highlighted red for you). The challenge is… can you use these within your own writing but adapt it slightly?

After each day once you have received feedback and edited your own, it’s time to innovate your story again using the plans from below and using the choices only provided which were different from your last story. I have put the example of the original story map to help you with this also.

Once you have planned this please could you type this up on Purple Mash and then send it to Mrs Harrison for her to mark. Remember to include all of those key grammar skills.

RE

This week we are continuing to focus on our understanding of the last supper. please work your way through the two PowerPoints. They involve lots of discussion and reflection so make sure you have a family member to discuss your thoughts throughout. Please use your homework book when completing a task.

Year 3 Home Learning 1.04.22

Spelling:

This week our high frequency spellings are:

1. are

2. said

3. like

4. began

5. water

6. find

7. tree

This weeks key spellings:

8. believe

9. caught

10. calendar

English:

This week we have innovated our story maps ready to write on Monday. Please could you practice and rehearse your story map so that you are very familiar with it by Monday. You may even want to add some adjectives or improve verbs if you didn’t get chance to in class. Please make sure you stick to the story though as this is crucial to our writing stage. Below you will find the original story that has not been innovated, in case you need a help in hand to remember…

Maths:

Please complete the following areas over the next few weeks. We will be checking that everyone has completed them after the Easter holidays …

This week...

One more week before the Easter holiday, I hope we can make it! The children have worked so hard this half term and they are all now in need of a good rest….and chocolate!

I hope all our mummy’s enjoyed their Mothers’ Day surprises. The children were so excited to give them to you, especially the chocolates!

You will have noticed that our new outdoor areas are now complete. We officially unveiled the bridge and took turns to walk across it. We all agreed it is much “bigger” and “higher” than the previous one. We love it!!! The children now would like a tunnel which they could slide inside…no pressure!

Key Person Blog

Well it’s been another fun packed busy week in nursery. The children have been busy making colourful Easter cards and beautiful Easter light catchers that are currently brightening up our nursery windows and making it look like church stained glass windows.

We have been building bridges, walkways and all sorts of balancing apparatus with our new wooden planks and building resources. The children have been practicing their fundamental movement skills over the past weeks and it is noticeable how good their jumping, hopping, running and catching and throwing is getting. We have had great fun using the parachute with games such as cat and mouse, teddy bounce and catching the air inside the parachute to make a huge balloon. We also have introduced our giant outdoor stretchy band. We played Sally go round the moon, stretched the band into an enormous circle and then let it go….wow it was very springy!

The children have been asking to play lots of board games (Snakes and Ladders is a firm favourite). Our turn taking and dice skills are just getting better and better.

On our new stage area outside the children has been a huge success. On Thursday the children performed an act for their friends. Britain’s got Talent here we come! We thought we would video the next performance and then you can watch too!

Michelle, Colette, Justine, Frances and Hannah

Worship

We continue our journey through Holy Week. The children now confidently recall the events leading up to Jesus' death by crucifixion and His Resurrection. Click here to watch a video of the Easter Story.

Each day we have tried to be a little bit more like Jesus and our Lenten Heart is overflowing with smiley faces, one for each act of generosity, gratitude, kindness, love, helpfulness and thoughtfulness. Also, thank you for your kind generosity, our Lenten collection now stands at £119.58…fantastic! Thank you so much!

Each day, rain or shine we have completed our Cafod Walk against Hunger. Click here if you would like to find out more. The children have been stoic in their determination to walk and to help others. We are so proud of them all.

Phonics

For anyone that has missed Gerald Giraffe here are the sounds we have been focusing on this half term (c, k, u, b, f,)

Click here for c

Click here for K

Click here for u

Click here for b

Click here for f

Heads up for next half term e, l, h, sh, r

Mathematics

Here are some number games for you to play if you have time!

Click here for Easter Teddy numbers

Click here for the Gingerbread Man game

Click here for Buds number Garden

After Easter Hannah will be moving next door to work in Reception. This is a huge transitional asset for the children who will be going into Reception in September.

Just like all of the nursery team I’m sure you would like to wish her well. Although she will be greatly missed in nursery, we will still be able to see her over the garden wall!

For the Summer term I will be taking over Hannah’s key group, supported by Justine. We will have a fabulous time, I can’t wait!

Next week I will be sending home some fun activity sheets for the Easter holidays, I hope you enjoy doing them. Watch out for them in your child’s book bag.

Finally, we break for the Easter Holidays on Friday at 2pm and return on Tuesday 19th April. Have a lovely weekend everyone and we look forward to seeing you on Monday.

Barbara