Year 1 Homework 30.09.22

Spellings

The spellings from now on will be a mixture of the Year 1 common exception words (these are words that your child is expected to be able to spell by the end of year 1) and red RWI words. The children will be quizzed (on paper) on the six spellings below on Friday. I have made a quiz on Purple Mash with these spelling and set as a 2do for your child to practise at home.

I the he

she to a

 

Maths IXL

Please continue to work through IXL challenges.

Numbers and Counting up to 5

B.1Identify numbers - up to 5

B.2Learn to count to 5

B.3Count to 5

B.4Count using stickers - up to 5

B.5Count cubes - up to 5

B.6Show numbers with cubes - up to 5

B.7Count on ten frames - up to 5

B.8Show numbers on ten frames - up to 5

B.9Represent numbers - up to 5

Numbers and counting up to 10

C.5Count cubes - up to 10

C.6Show numbers with cubes - up to 10

C.7Count on ten frames - up to 10

C.8Show numbers on ten frames - up to 10

C.9Represent numbers - up to 10

Reading:

Thank you for those who have been reading at home I can tell! Please continue to read at home, it is really important that you read regularly at home to help improve your child’s fluency and confidence. From next week your child will read to an adult in school at least once a week, if we are happy they are confidence with their book we will change it. Please can you sign in their books so we know they have read at home, you do not need to write a comment, just how many pages they have read. Their RWI books will be changed once a week on Mondays.

Thank you

Miss Drummond

Harvest

Wow, what a week! We have found out all about how to make bread and wheat. We all watched a powerpoint about my friend Pip. Click on the button to see the slides.

Pip find out about bread

We then made some bread…it was so yummy! We have been talking about all the foods that are made from wheat/flour. On Friday morning we read the story about a Runaway Chapati. Click here on the button below to read the story. On Friday afternoon….we ate chapati’s…..mmmmmmm

The Runaway Chapati

Harvest Festival

On Monday 17th October school will be off to Church to celebrate Harvest Festival. We have decided to have our own mini Harvest Festival in nursery (it will probably go on all week!!). As in previous years school and nursery will be collecting food for the Food Bank. Nursery has been asked to collect tins of soup. Any donations would be very welcome, just send them into nursery next week (by Friday please) and we will make sure they are delivered.

To help us celebrate Gods Creation of our wonderful planet we have all been doing the Harvest Samba! Watch out Strictly, we are very good! It’s a 10 from me! Click here to have a dance at home. Get your sparkles on!

If you still have any energy left click here.

Colette’s blog

Hello everyone! It’s been another very busy week here at Nursery.

We started the week with Barbara’s friend Pip who shared his journey to his friend’s farm where he saw the farmer gathering the wheat. Pip taught us how to make bread so we decided to have a go at making our own. I won’t say any more but I’ll let you have a look at the photos so you can see for yourselves!!  Needless to say it was yummy!

The children had also been noticing how many leaves had been falling in Nursery garden. The colours were so varied and beautiful and we decided to make a colourful autumn display by collecting some of the leaves and making leaf prints!

As always there has been lots of time spent in the garden making obstacle courses and practising our skills on the tricycles and the scooters.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend together.

Kind regards

Colette

Michelle’s blog

 Our week has been so busy, we have had so much fun and learnt so much. Our main focus has been Autumn and learning about the changes in the weather and the environment. We have used our new Autumn collecting baskets to forage and collect our Autumn treasures. We then used our foraged items to practise our cutting skills. This is such an important skill for the children to master, so we are giving them as much practice as possible. See here for some fun activities to develop cutting skills. Click here for some cutting activities to try. We also used our foraging treasures to make a very big Autumn collage. The children were fascinated by the shapes and colours of the leaves and made some wonderful leaf prints for the autumn display.

We have also had a very physical week, with lots of Wacky races, such as backwards races and  hopping races. During PE we have practised listening and following instructions to Sticky Kids. Here is one of our favourite songs. Click here to have a go at home.

Our learning continued as we met Numberblocks number 2. We had a tricky challenge as the number 1 and number 2 baskets got mixed up. We had to work hard to put everything back in the right baskets, working out which items belonged in the number 1 basket and which belonged in the number 2 one. But, we worked it out, like Tommy Turtle, we kept trying. Click here to meet number 2.

Thank you to everyone who came to our parents meetings, and hopefully I will catch up with everyone soon. Don’t forget to check Purple Mash this weekend.

Have a good weekend, see you next week!

Michelle

Stephanie’s Blog

Hello everyone!

What another fun, busy week we have had. We have really enjoyed talking about Autumn and all the changes that have been happening to the trees and the weather. We collected different leaves from the garden and made leaf printing pictures using the paint. This was a great activity to look at different colours and talk about the textures of the leaves.

We spoke about our upcoming harvest festival and how we can help others by collecting food to donate. Your child may have told you about our Harvest Samba around the nursery – we loved singing about all the foods we can grow and eat. We’d love to see some photos if you have grown anything in your garden, or if you tried the potatoes we harvested from the nursery garden last week.

Making bread was so much fun! We took turns to add the flour and warm water to the bowl and made our own bread rolls to eat at snack time. We really enjoyed spreading butter on them ourselves!

We have continued to look at ourselves this week and all the things that make us the same and different. We have enjoyed books that show us different cultures and spoken about how we can be friends with everyone. We have practised different ways to say ‘hello’ and ‘happy’ in other languages and also using our hands to sign. Here is a video you could watch at home to practise ‘hello’ in different languages: Click here to find out more.

We have looked at Number 2 this week – Click here to watch We paired up with our friends to practise going from 1 to 2 and enjoyed doing 2 hops, jumps, claps etc outside in the garden. We also tried to see if we could fit 2 friends in the red twirly seat which then progressed to 3, 4 and even 5! It was a bit of a squeeze! We also led on the floor to see if we were taller or smaller than the shark we had drawn – have a look at our scared faces!

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you on Monday!

Steph

 I think you will agree it has been a fun week!

I’m sure about this weekends weather but enjoy it anyway. Get on the wellies and waterproofs and have a splashing time.

See you all on Monday

God Bless

Barbara

Year 3 30.9.22 "You are precious in my eyes."

We have continued our work on fables, this week and found our school mission statement lying at the heart of the fable, The Frog and the Ox. One of the characters in the story believes that he has no special talent like his friends. He tries to change himself to become more like the animals around him, however, it doesn’t work out very well! II takes another character to recognise the frogs special qualities. We found that this fable was teaching us a special message, that we are all special and unique. This made us think about our school missions statement and how we remember Jesus’ words, “You are precious in my eyes.” It also taught us that we can all help one another to find their special gifts and to celebrate these differences together.

We have also been getting stuck into our maths learning, focusing on finding efficient ways of adding three addends together. The children are now very confident when explaining their reasoning, sharing why they chose to add certain numbers together first. We have a lot of really enthusiastic mathematicians!

During PE this week we have been practising our tuck and pencil jumps. The children have worked together beautifully and each group created a wonderful gymnastic routine which include ways of travelling, jumps and small point balance. Well done our Roger Robins!

KIDSAFE - This week we have also started working through our KIDSAFE programme. Please see the attached letter which explains what the children will be learning during the programme and what we have been learning about this week.

KIDSAFE letter

Let’s celebrate!

Hudson our Keep Improving Lizzie Ladybird! You have wowed us with you focus and determination towards your learning, in particular during maths! Each lesson you have listened carefully before setting off to work to solve as many equations as possible! We are so proud of you Hudson and how hard you work! We just know that you are going to achieve target after target! Well done.

Lily and Naomi our Roger Robins! We have loved seeing how kind, caring and helpful you have been towards your learning partners this week. You worked so well during PE and really helped your group to create a lovely routine. Your kind smiles encourage those around you. These small acts of kindness are so special. Thank you for making our classroom a kind place!

Reminders:

  • Parents day. Friday 21st we have our online parents day. Above you will find the teacher that you are to book an appointment with.

Parents day groups

  • Assembly: Year 3’s assembly is on Tuesday 18th October at 9:10 and 9:35. We hope you will be able to come along to watch us perform!

  • Harvest: With Harvest time fast approaching, we are looking forward to celebrating as a whole school community once again for the first time since the pandemic. As in previous years, as a school, we will be collecting food items for local food banks. Year 3 are collecting tinned custard, so please donate if you can, before Friday 14th October.

  • Kidsafe:

  • Medical information: We have very nearly received everybody’s medical forms. If you have not already please complete the forms listed on our previous blog.

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Miss Bassett, Miss Brisco, Miss Russell and Mrs Carter

Year 3 Home Learning to be handed in on 6.10.22

Spellings

1, said  

2. word  

3. first  

4. more  

5. like  

6. water  

7. any  

8, many  

9. who  

10.. other  

Maths:

Please log in to IXL and complete the following units: E.1 and E.2

Assembly parts (To be handed out on Monday):

At the start of next week we will begin rehearsing for our assembly. Speaking parts will be handed out on Monday and will need to be learnt as soon as possible. Don’t forget to practice saying with expression and emotion.

Year 6 home learning 30th September

English - Reading - Read, read, read, read every single day for AT LEAST 30 minutes. Are you quizzing regularly enough? Some still haven’t quiz since they’ve been back, let’s change that and get to our targets.

Grammar- This week we have been identifying main and subordinate clauses, on IXL and in other areas of grammar these are sometimes called independent (main) and dependent (subordinate) clauses. These helps us to identify and write different types of sentences. Please see the picture below to help you and then complete the following IXL strands.

EE 7- IDENTIFY DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT CLAUSES

EE9- IS THE SENTENCE SIMPLE, COMPOUND OR COMPLEX?


Spellings - this week we are focusing on words with the ending ‘tial’

Maths - Please complete the following strands on IXL to add and subtract fractions:

M2- Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator using number lines

M3- Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator

Geography- You each have a sheet with a number of South American flags, can you colour them in correctly, cut them out, stick them in your homework books and label the country it belongs to.

Year 1 Homework

Spellings on Purple Mash

The children’s spellings this week have been set for them to practise on Purple Mash. The children will be quizzed (on paper) on five of the spellings below on Friday.

rain wait train paid afraid

oil join coin point soil

Following this link will allow your child to practise the weekly spellings as many times as they would like to. All you have to do is select the weekly spellings quiz and have another go at the quiz; I am unable to set the task as a repeated 2do.

Purple Mash Spellings Quiz Autumn 1 Week 1

 

Maths IXL

To consolidate their learning of counting, here are LOTS of IXL challenges for your child to have a go at. I have included the ones from last week. Start with numbers to 5 then move onto 10 once your child is confident. Please see this as an ongoing learning challenge and certainly not to be completed by next Thursday.

Numbers and Counting up to 5

B.1Identify numbers - up to 5

B.2Learn to count to 5

B.3Count to 5

B.4Count using stickers - up to 5

B.5Count cubes - up to 5

B.6Show numbers with cubes - up to 5

B.7Count on ten frames - up to 5

B.8Show numbers on ten frames - up to 5

B.9Represent numbers - up to 5

Numbers and counting up to 10

C.5Count cubes - up to 10

C.6Show numbers with cubes - up to 10

C.7Count on ten frames - up to 10

C.8Show numbers on ten frames - up to 10

C.9Represent numbers - up to 10

Please continue to read at home.

Thank you

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Class Blog 23.09.22 'And I think to myself what a wonderful world’

‘And I think to myself what a wonderful world’

This week we have started our class story ‘Supertato’. We have only started reading the first 2 pages so have been making predictions about the story and discussing the characters we have met so far. We have been thinking about how they are feeling and what has happened to them. We loved our drama session Miss Liddell was Mrs Carrot then a few children wanted to be Mr Broccoli. We had to think of questions and if we were Mr Broccoli then we had to think of what he would say. The children though of some excellent questions and I was impressed with Mr Broccoli’s answers, well done!

During R.E. lessons this week we have begun to explore our understanding of ‘God’s Great Plan’. The children have been thinking deeply about all of the beautiful things God had made in our world. I wonder if they can spot any more beautiful things over the weekend? 

In Maths we continued grouping different objects, counting objects from a group of 10. Finding 5 in the numbers 6,7,8,9 and 10 and representing numbers in different ways.

We have loved our different continuous provision challenges this week, this is a great chance to develop our independence and practise skills taught in our lessons.

Let’s Celebrate

Well done to our last week awardees for being a Kiki Chameleon and being creative with our Maths grouping, by putting the objects in groups of 5.

Copper Crab- Well done Jude for setting a great example to the rest of the class as he always listens and makes good choices.

Todays awardees are a Lizzy Ladybird for a super week reflecting on themselves and working hard and Bobby Bee for being enthusiastic in her learning this week, well done :).

Henry the Dog

Each week a different child who has worked hard, will get to take our class dog home to look after over the weekend. Henry loves going on lots of adventures. We hope you have a lovely weekend with Henry, we can’t wait to hear what you have been up to :).

Class Councillors

Congratulations to our Year 1 Class Councillors. This is a big position of responsibility; I have no doubt that you will both rise to the challenge! Well done to all of the children who put themselves forward and spoke to the class about why they would like to be a Class Councillor too, we were very impressed with all of the speeches, the children then voted.

 

Have a brilliant weekend,

Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson

Year 5 Weekly Blog 23.09.22 - 'Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives, but often a description of a community'- Queen Elizabeth II

This week has flown by because of the bank holiday on Monday. It was lovely to hear about how the children celebrated Queen Elizabeth II’s life and service to our country. Thank you for completing homework this week. Apologies for any technical issues on purple mash and IXL, think it may be a few teething issues which we will be looking to sort.

In Maths, we have been focusing solely on rounding and have moved up to rounding to 10,000 and 100,000. The children have adapted to the bigger numbers excellently by remembering our ‘High 5’ rule. We have ended the week by applying the children’s rounding skills to word problems to solve and to apply reasoning for their answers. The use of a number line also gives the numbers a visual representation of which number to round to.

In English, we have finished our first legends story of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth and have introduced our next story, the legend of Gelert. We have read through our new story and explored the vocabulary that the children found interesting. We have also looked at the elements of fiction stories, relating to the plot, settings and theme and use these to compare our two legend stories.

It was brilliant to see so many of you on Wednesday evening as we discussed the year ahead. I really hope I didn’t take up too much of your time as we know you all have busy lives, which makes it all the more special for you to take the time out to attend. Don’t worry if you were unavailable to attend, if you require any information discussed on the evening then please drop me an email and I can send over the presentation.

Let’s Celebrate

Matilda and Iris for being enthusiastic learners: After a successful PE lesson last week, the children were allowed to keep their same partners for gymnastics. Both Matilda and Iris have shown a keen interest in our topic and are happy to share their creations with the class. They have led the way of how to behave throughout PE lessons, including how to handle equipment, working brilliantly as a team and being considerate of others around them. Keep it up girls!

Edi for being a focused learner: I could give this award to Edi every week if possible. He is always ready for the task being set and is constantly setting an example of how to behave in the classroom, especially at the start of the day when we begin our morning activity. Edi never needs reminding on what he needs to be doing because he is such a good listener. An absolute joy to teach!

Reminders

Football- Football training will resume to its normal time which is Monday at 8am. Football fixtures begin on Tuesday, with kick off at 4pm. The teams will be decided during Mondays training session, with kits being handed out that day. If your child has not made it into the football team, they are still free to attend training sessions on Monday. Additional information regarding the sports fixtures and the schedule is available on the sports newsletter/calendar on the ENGAGE page of the school website.

Netball- Netball training will still be on a Thursday at 3:30pm and fixtures will also begin this Tuesday. More information regarding the netball fixtures and schedule will be available on the sports newsletter/calendar on the ENGAGE page of the school website.

Choir- Thursday 3:30pm

Dance- Will resume on Monday at 3:30pm.

Art- Please can you bring in your art t-shirts as Mrs Mather is keen to begin painting in her lessons. Art lessons are on Tuesdays.

Reading Books- It looks like children have been doing lots of reading at home but can children remember to put their reading books back in their bags ready to bring them into school.

Homework- Homework this week be on paper copies. This will be in the children’s homework folders which are to be completed and stuck into their homework books, ready to be handed in on Tuesday.

Year 5 Home Learning- To be handed in on Tuesday 27th September

This week your homework is in your homework books.


Reading- PRIORITY

To complete 20 minutes a day at home of reading. Children are to read their chosen books from school and then they can quiz on their books in school, when they have finished the book.

English/RE

This week we introduced our new RE topic of ‘Stewardship of the Earth’. Over the next few weeks, we will look at how we damage the earth and how we can fix these problems through biodiversity etc. The homework will be to read through their recycling information leaflet and then use this to answer their questions.

Maths

There are two question sheets to complete for maths this week. The first will be an arithmetic sheet, which will include multiplication , division, addition and subtraction questions. The next sheet will be rounding up to 100,000.