Year 6 home learning 7th October

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- Over the half term our focus is on sentence structure, looking at different sentence types and how we can connect clauses using conjunctions. There are two main type of conjunctions and we have to be able to identify and us these. Please practice using the IXL strands below:

MM1 - Identify coordinating conjunctions

MM2- Identify subordinating conjunctions

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

Maths - Please complete the following strands on IXL to multiply fractions:

N1- Multiply unit fractions by whole numbers using number lines

N2- Multiply unit fractions by whole numbers using models

Year 4 homework to be handed in by Thursday 13th October

Assembly parts.

Please continue to learn your parts and the songs below to deliver with confidence on Tuesday. Our assembly is on Tuesday 11th October. There are two showings 9:10 am and 9:35am. You are most welcome to come and watch, parents.

Song 1 - This is me!

Song 2 - Autumn Days

The whole school will join in with us as we sing this - but lets try to learn the lyrics too.

Science

You started this in class, but please finish your explanatory text about Germination in Purple mash. Use scientific vocabulary and our causal connectives, such as: therefore, consequently, this means that, as a result, however, due to the fact that, etc

Maths

We have now completed column subtraction. Show your adults how you can do the calculations below, using the squared paper I have placed in your book. I have given you 2 column addition so you remember this method too!

a) 345 - 142 = b) 571 - 248 = c) 718 - 263 = d) 604 - 243 = e) 632 - 88= f) 506 - 269 = g) 800 - 654=

and addition: g) 435+ 292 = h) 288 + 78=

Music

This week, you have taken home your Clarinets for the first time! The site below (Charanga) is where you visit each week to do your music homework that Mrs Maddocks sets. Your log in is stuck to the green label attached to your clarinet case.

This week, Mrs Maddocks wants you to have a go at the tune on there. But very importantly, she wants you to rewatch the video about putting together your clarinet with your parents so they can help you if you need it.

This week...

What a week! We have been finding out all about our skeleton and where it is hiding! We have looked at the skeletons of animals too!!!

Making fruit Kebabs

This week we made healthy fruit kebabs…mmmmmm, they were yummy! We chopped up the fruit and then carefully put the pieces onto a kebab stick!

Worship

Me, My Body, My Health

Over the next few weeks we will be meeting the story book characters of Freddy Teddy, Mollie the Cat and Billy Bird.

We will be learning about our uniqueness, including celebrating differences and individual gifts, talents and abilities. We will be have been learning about looking after and using their God-given bodies. Click on the button to look at this weeks slides.

Stephanie’s Blog

Sadly Steph is poorly so hasn’t been in nursery since Monday. We are missing her lots! So guess what…. I have been a stand in for your children this week! It’s been great fun.

On Monday we met Henry our skeleton. We talked about all the bones in our body and how they work! We found our there are 206 bones in our skeleton and they help up to stand up, run, wave, hop and dance, in fact they help us to do EVERYTHING! We have chalked a picture of our skeleton, have a look at the picure of our busy bones display!

Click here to find out more about body parts.

We have also been talking about how to stay health and the foods we should be eating. We played a game where we had to make our meal only using healthy choices! Click here to watch what humans need to stay healthy. There is even a quiz at the end! Next week we will be finding out about how to take care of our teeth!

In PE we danced to the bones song. Click here to do it at home!

Number 2 is still being explored click here to watch and sing along to the Number Rap 2!

Hopefully Steph will fit and well and be able to come back to nursery next week.

Enjoy your weekend

Barbara

Colette’s Blog

Hello everyone! The weather has been so mixed this week. One minute raining, then sunny, windy and one day it was so windy we had to wrap up really warm. The wild wind has delivered us a huge amount of sycamore seeds all over the garden. As you can imagine, we have just had to throw them up in the air and pretend they were helicopters!!! We seem to have an amazing number of ladybirds too (lots of spots to count!)

We began the week looking at our lovely bones and talking about the fact that we all have a skeleton inside our bodies, if we had no skeleton we would all be like a wibbly wobbly jelly. We have made some chalk drawings of our skeletons….they looked so amazing that we even made a skeleton display! We had fun dancing to a skeleton dance . Why don’t you try it at home? Click here.

We have enjoyed our hall time this week with lots of walking, head, shoulders, knees and toes (watch out it goes really fast at the end), the stand-up sit down song and some lovely cool down time too.

What another busy week!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend together.

Kind regards

Colette

Michelle’s Blog

This week we have continued to learn about our bodies and have produced some fantastic pictures of our skeletons using chalk. We have learnt the names of our bones and how to keep our bodies fit and healthy. Did you now we have 206 bones in our body?

As well as looking after our skeletons we have also had fun learning about how we can keep our bodies healthy by eating healthy food. We made delicious fruit kebabs. They were lovely.

We have continued to learn all about number one and number two. We had a tricky challenge to work out how many of our body parts we have one of and how many we have two of and make a number chart. This made us use our brains to think really hard. But we got it in the end.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week.

We have had lots of soup donation for our Harvest Festival…thank you soooo much for your generosity! Have you tried the Harvest Samba yet?

It’s been a bit of a wet and windy week and the children have been reluctant to go into the garden…especially on Friday. Wow we had never seen rain like it! We wondered if we should start to build and Ark! One of the children suggested that we bet a boat.

Let’s hope this weekend isn’t too rainy.

Have a restful weekend and see you on Monday.

God Bless

Barbara

Year 1 Blog 30.09.22

When we arrived a school we discovered a crime scene in our classroom, somebody had snuck in during the night and destroyed the fruit and vegetables! We noticed sand on the table and on the floor so we think the intruder came in from the back door!

We thought about how the fruit and vegetables would feel and why. We then decided we should make posters to see if anyone had information about the crime scene.

We put some of our posters up around the school, we let lots of people know what had happened in our classroom. So they can tell us if they find out any information.

In Maths we have loved completing lots of practical activities with numbers up to 10. We ordered them drew pictures to represent the number, counted out a specific number of objects, matched the words to the numerals and found the missing numbers.  

During RE we have learnt about Adam and Eve we acted out the story. We thought deeply about why God was disappointed by their choices and thought of some questions to ask them:

• Why did you listen to the bad serpent?

• How did you feel when you ate the fruit?

•  Why did you eat the fruit when God told you not to?

• Why did you not listen to God?

• Why did you hide from God after you ate the apple?

We thought of a time when we made a good choice and discussed it with the class.

Celebrations:

Well done to our awardees:

Tommy Turtle for having a go at being Eve in RE, you did a brilliant job well done!

Kiki Chameleon you were a super Mr Broccoli and gave some great answers to all the different questions. Well done!

Henry is going home with this person for always working hard, super listening on the carpet and for excellent work in his RWI sessions well done!

 Harvest Plea

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 1 are collecting Long Life Milk, so please donate if you can, before Friday 14th October.

Reminders:

• School dinners are free up until Year 3, if your child would like a school dinner, they can let us know in the morning.

• Please ensure your child has a spare set of clothes, just in case of any accidents (not just toilet accidents) such as falling in a puddle or spilling something over themselves.

•  If you have any spare boys underwear, we would be grateful if you could donate them to our class, as we do not have many spare at the moment.

•  Please can you return any borrowed uniform back to school as soon a possible.

  Thank you

   Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson

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

Year 4 Weekly blog 30.9.22 "The creation of a thousand forests can begin with one acorn.""

What a hardworking bunch of children we have had this week. From learning column subtraction, to explaining in writing all about seed dispersal each day, their effort has been phenomenal! Their use of language in their writing has been superb.

In other news, we have now moved onto learning about the process of Germination in Science and next week, will find out all about the life cycle of a flowering plant. In Geography this week, we learned about extreme environments - ask your children all about deserts!

In the clarinet lesson, children spent the whole time learning how to put it together. It can be tricky as they are a fragile and expensive bit of kit.

This week, we have done our second kidsafe lesson. This week it was all about the nature of bullying. We learned the acronym STOP Several Times on Purpose. We thought about how bullying can make us feel and what to do about it.

Notices

On Tuesday October 11th it is our class assembly at school in the hall. (Children’s homework is based on this, this week.) We do two performances - one at 9:10am and the other at 9:35am. You are most welcome to come and see your child.

You will receive a consent letter about clarinets tonight, which we would like you and your child to read and fill in. If you bring it back on Monday, your child will be able to take their clarinet home after the lesson.

On Monday 17th October, it will be our Harvest festival celebration in church. This year, we are asking Year 4 to bring in packets of biscuits to give to local food banks. Please could you start sending these in - by Friday 14th October.

Let’s Celebrate!

Learning certificates this week:

Benjamin received a Bobby Bee certificate for always contributing so enthusiastically in all lessons and being such an excellent listener.

Faye received a Cooper Crab certificate for giving her full concentration in lessons and managing any distractions around her.

Swimming stars this week were Sophia and Ella for lovely strokes and full effort.

PE stars were Isaac and Cora

Keep warm everyone and have a lovely Autumnal weekend.

God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Miss Hennessy and Mrs Mather.

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.

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

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.

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.

• 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 4 homework to be handed in by Thursday 6th October

This week I would like your complete homework focus to be on learning your assembly parts and the lyrics/tunes to the songs below.

Assembly parts.

We will be practising lots next week, starting on Tuesday, so please try and learn your part off by heart. Can you say it in a loud, confident voice?

Song 1 - This is me!

I have slightly changed the lyrics to this one (as practised in class). I have included the lyrics for you to learn as you practise singing the song.

Song 2 - Autumn Days

The whole school will join in with us as we sing this - but lets try to learn the lyrics too.

WHAT A JOLLY HOMEWORK!

Our assembly is on Tuesday 11th October. There are two showings 9:10 am and 9:35am. You are most welcome to come and watch, parents.