Dance important information

With our performance soon approaching there are a few things we want to make you aware of. By now we hope that you all have managed to book your tickets, they were selling very quickly but I know a few more have been released. We are keeping our costumes simple - not to take away from the dance. We therefore ask if you could just provide a pair of black leggings or shorts that your child could wear and we have coloured t-shirt.

The day of our performance: Tuesday 15th November.

On this day the children will come to school as normal (wear PE kit). They will access their usual morning lessons before we all have lunch at an earlier time. As this is a long day we advise that you book a hot school meal as they will not be having their usual evening meals, however this is not a must - you know your child and what they will/will not eat. After we have eaten lunch we will then get on a coach which will take us to the Winter Gardens where we will remain for the rest of the day - until the show has finished. We will have 1 rehearsal on the stage and the remainder of the time we will be backstage - we therefore ask that you bring a couple of books, colouring books or puzzle books to keep you busy (nothing valuable). We ask that you bring to school a packed meal (this will be your evening meal which we will eat at the Winter Gardens). After the show we will take the children to a meeting place (TBC via text nearer the time) and this is where you will collect your child.

To clarify your checklist for the day:

  • wear school tracksuit and bring a coat.

  • make sure your leggings are in school ready to take with us.

  • pack your bag with a couple of books, crayons and colouring book/puzzle book (no tech/valuables as belongings won’t always be supervised).

  • book a school meal or bring a packed lunch for our lunchtime at school.

  • bring a packed meal (in a plastic bag-easy to throw away after) that we will eat during our evening at the Winter Gardens.

  • make sure you have a snack or two and a water bottle/drinks(non fizzy) to keep you going throughout the day.

Final rehearsals

Our final rehearsals are as followed:

Monday 31st October

Monday 7th November

Monday 14th November

A huge well done to the children so far who have been working so hard during our rehearsals, we cannot wait for you to see what they have been working on!

Have a wonderful half term.

Miss Bassett and Miss Lavelle

Time for a rest!

It’s hard to believe that we have been at nursery for seven weeks! Half term starts today and we return on Monday 31st October, hopefully bright eyed and busy tailed. The second half of the Autumn Term is even busier as we have Bonfire Night, Remembrance Day and of course Christmas. Nursery along with Reception are already thinking about our Nativity! Watch this space for more information.

As I say every week we have not stopped. Our number work is coming along leaps and bounds, we have even started to make number bonds to 3! We have been:

  • comparing numbers 1, 2 and 3 - ‘bigger’ and ‘smaller’

  • Ordering numbers to 3

  • Understanding that 3 is made of 2 and 1 or three 1s

  • Recognising the numerals in the environment

After the half term break we will be starting ‘Read Write Inc’. We will focus on five sounds every couple of weeks. The children love learning sounds. I will be posting on the blog a sound mat and activities so you can join in the fun at home!

We have been discussing at length about oral health and food that out teeth don’t like. I have noticed that everyone is questioning everything that we eat! Sorry.

Harvest

On Monday the children joined Reception for a short Harvest Festival.

We gave thanks to Our Lord for all our food and our lovely world but we also remembered those children who may be hungry and need our help. We then danced around the hall, performing our Harvest samba. Here is the Harvest Festival song if you would like to have a dance at home. Click here .

After all the fun of our dancing we got down to some serious business and helped to pack all the generous donations for the food bank. Click here if you would like to know more about the food bank in St Annes.

Colette’s Blog

Hello everyone! Just because it was a short week didn’t mean it was a quiet one….oh no! The children and Nursery Ladies have definitely not been resting! Sadly, we have had a few bouts of illness in Nursery but I hope that the half term holiday allows everyone to rest and recharge those tired batteries!

On Monday Nursery and Reception shared their own Harvest Festival celebration in the hall. We thanked God for all the wonderful things that grow on our planet earth and we even had time to dance our favourite ‘Harvest Samba!’ Thank you to all of you that donated the tins of soup!!

As always, there have been lots of building, puzzles singing and number fun. We have been continuing to look at number 3 and all the ways we can make a three… 2 plus 1 more or 3 and zero!

In our hall time we tried out some new songs, the floating song using some different coloured ribbons and the bean bag song where we had to follow the instructions and try not to drop the bean bag!!! Click here to have a go yourself!

We have finally arrived at our half term holiday. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support and I hope you all enjoy a lovely half term together.

Kind regards

Colette

Michelle’s Blog

A shorter week than normal but that doesn’t mean we have been any less busy than normal. I think we have packed more learning into our week!

We continue to learn about healthy food and how to make sure we make healthy choices with our food to care for our teeth and the importance of exercise by taking our PE lessons outside and having lots of running races on the school field, including a running backwards race. This was tricky but lots of fun!  We then could feel our hearts beating fast in our chests, this means we are getting lots of exercise to keep our hearts healthy. Hopefully you can all get outside during half term, here are some ideas for you to try. Click here.

We have all had a fantastic start to our nursery year, and I can’t believe it is half term all ready. I have been amazed at how well the children have settled in and taken to all the routines. The children are all working so hard on their independence skills, especially putting their coats on. Next half term I will be making sure we are getting lots of practise using scissors, I hope you all enjoyed the cutting and sticking homework I sent home. Click here for some more scissor skills activities, which are really good for developing hand muscles needed for holding a pencil and writing. Click here.

Finally, I hope you all have a wonderful half term and I will see you soon.

Steph’s Blog

Hello everyone!

What a lovely last week of term we have had. We have enjoyed role play this week, making food and drink in the house and the sand area outside. We’ve also looked after the dolls making sure they were warm enough to go outside and we even went on an aeroplane! We all lined up on the bridge and our pilot flew us to a lovely hot destination! Of course we needed snacks and drinks too – we’ve had lovely discussions about family and favourite things. It’s been so nice listening to the children having conversations with each other and continuing to develop their friendships.

We have continued to practise numbers 1, 2 and 3 – we found things in the garden and tried to match them up to the correct number. The children have developed their mathematical language without even realising – ‘I need one more!’, ‘Now I have 3! You have 2 and I have 3!’. Barbara also tried to trick us by hiding numbers and slowly revealing them but she can’t trick us! We are great at recognising 1, 2 and 3 now!

On Monday we had our first assembly in the hall with Reception. The children loved it, especially doing the Harvest Samba around the hall. We gathered all our tins of soup for the people that have hungry tummies, thank you for all your generous donations.

The children have continued to love the ‘Where’s the Monkey?’ video and have been singing the song themselves and hiding our monkey – look out for the photos of it on our heads! One of our friends even brought in his guitar from home and we sang the song together on the stage outside. I went outside this morning and found the monkey in one of our tubes! Here is the video again if you would like to watch it over half term and hide things around your house! Click here

I hope you all have a lovely week off together – get lots of rest and have lots of fun!

See you soon

Steph

Just in case you are at a loose end next week click on the buttons below for a couple of ideas! Enjoy! It would be lovely if you could send us some pictures of your adventures to share during circle time!

Coastal Spotter
Ways to have a mini adventure

When we return after the holiday I will be posting the events for the half term….keep a look out so that you don’t miss anything!

I hope you all manage to have some family time and a chance to make memories that will last forever. Keep safe and well. I will see you on the 31st!

God Bless

Barbara

Year 3 Weekly Blog 20.10.22 - "Autumn is the season that teaches us that change can be beautiful."

And so we have reached the end of our first half term. To say the time has flown by is a slight understatement! We started our week with a visit to church to celebrate the Harvest festival and what a lovely start to the week this was. Thank you again for your generosity, collecting tins which will already be on their way to help those who need it! It was just wonderful to hear our children celebrating mass, joining in responses and singing away to the hymn “Freely, Freely…” our final hymn during the mass.

Following this we through ourselves back into rehearsing for our assembly. The children were very excited to share their assembly with you all and, although the nerves were there at the beginning, the feeling afterward they had performed was of great elation. I always find watching the children help and support one another during their performances so heart warming and find myself holding back the tears. We were so proud of each and every one of them!

The children have also had their creative hats on, setting to work on writing their own fables. Seeing our children enthusiastically get their ideas down on paper was wonderful and hearing them proudly sharing with each other their opening sentences led me to do a happy dance… what is a teacher to do when she hears such great vocabulary?!

Let’s celebrate

Louis for being a Concentrating Cooper crab: Louis you have shown such focus this week! We were so proud of you and how you learnt your assembly part, becoming so confident in delivering your lines and helping others too! You have also shown this same focus within our lessons and have completed a wonderful piece of writing. Keep it up Louis, we are SO impressed!

Toby for also being a Concentrating Cooper crab: Toby you always show great interest and determination when learning something new. You focus carefully during our class discussions and always show great enthusiasm when faced with a challenge. You look carefully to solve problems and it is always such a special moment when we see the happiness spread across your face once you have solved a problem. Well done Toby!

Reminders

  • After school club for Year 3 commence on the first Tuesday back (1st November) and will be from 3:30 until 4:15. Please find the list below to see for the children who have signed up.

  • Mass: On Tuesday 1st November we will be heading to church to celebrate All Souls day.

Finally…

A big thank you for taking the time to discuss your child’s first half term in year 3 and how we can work together to best support them going forward. We really appreciate you taking the time out of your day for these discussions and it was, as always, a pleasure to get to chat with you all!

We hope you all have a very well deserved half term and we very much look forward to seeing the children on Monday 31st October as we begin the second half to our Autumn term together.

God bless,

Miss Bassett, Miss Brisco, Miss Russell and Mrs Carter.

Year 3 Home learning to be handed in on Thursday 3rd November

Spellings

TT Rockstars

Please spend some time each day during half term on TT Rockstar’s. Make sure you spend time particularly focusing on the 5 and 10 timetables. You should be able to speedily recall these number facts.

Five finger breathing

This week we have been looking at finding ways of self regulating ourselves and have used this strategy to bring us back to a calmer place. Each child has created their own poster to remind them of how to practice this way of calming themselves. I would like them to find a place to display their poster at home. We will review how we have found using this coping strategy when we return from the half term.

Online safety - optional

On Tuesday we had Online safety day. We would like to see how much you can remember by creating your own online safety poster. This is something you could discuss as a family and maybe create a couple of online safety rules at home. There is a 2do set on Purple Mash for you to complete this.

Year 6 Weekly Home Learning 19.10.22

English - Reading - Read, read, read, read every single day for AT LEAST 30 minutes. Are you quizzing regularly enough? Be ready to quiz when you come back.

Could you please complete the reading comprehension on ‘electricity’. Remember to use full sentences and refer to the text where you can.

Grammar- Please complete IXL OO2- commas with compound and complex sentences.

Spellings - Please learn and practice spelling the following words from the Year 5 and 6 spelling list:

  1. accompany

  2. awkward

  3. bruise

  4. familiar

  5. opportunity

  6. physical

  7. recognise

  8. system

Maths - Please complete the following strand on IXL to find fractions of numbers:

N10- Fractions of a number

BIKEABILITY- Get out on your bike, wear your helmet and get practicing ready for the first day back!


Year 1 Homework 14.10.22

Spellings

The children will be quizzed (on paper) on the six spellings below on Friday.

by go so no off of

 

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. 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. I am sorry we have not been able to change all books today. So I will change them on Monday.

Thank you

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Weekly Blog 14.10.22

We have had another exciting week in Year 1.

In English we thought about how we could trap the Evil Pea. We had lots of great ideas such as hiding in the classroom and throwing a blanket over him, making a trap with a rope and net, we decided the best way would to be make jelly and trap him, like they do in the book.

We loved making jelly, we all worked hard together and then we wrote up the instructions. The next day we discovered that we had caught the Evil Pea Army. We had lots of ideas how they managed to get stuck in the jelly such as: using the jelly as a trampoline, singing with their eyes closed and not seeing the jelly and eating the jelly and getting stuck.

 

We have been counting up to 100 in Maths can you practise this at home? We have used the rekenreks and concrete apparatus to compare numbers up to 10. Using the language greater than, less than and equal to, to make these comparisons.

 

Also, this week, we started our Kidsafe programme  - A series of lessons which teach children about keeping themselves safe
This week, we focused on trust and completed a trust building exercise. We also thought about the Feelings we get when we are feeling sad, scared and/or worried and how we more listen to what our body is telling us. Please read the letter below, explaining this approach and the first lesson in more detail.

Kidsafe Session 1

Our music lessons have been great we have loved learning this song and we were excited to record our performance for the blog.

Celebrations:

Well done to our awardees:

Bobby Bee: for super concentration and brilliant phonics work.

Lizzie Ladybird: for trying really hard during carpet input and feeling proud of yourself when completing independent work.

Henry is going home with this person, for being an enthusiastic learner especially during English you have used your phonics knowledge to support your reading and writing, well done.

 Reminders:

  • Thank you for all the donations of long life milk.

  • Parents’ Day on Monday 17th October. Have you booked your meeting?

 

Have a great weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson

This week....

What a soggy old week!!!

We started the week by thinking about all the parts of our body that help us to do things, without us realising, such as our brain, heart, lungs, stomach….you get where I’m going with this?! First we watched a short video about body parts. Click here to watch at home. We then went for a jog around the garden to exercise our heart! When we came back to nursery we felt our heart beating inside our body….that was really exciting!

We have continued to talk about our thinking machine (brain), breathing machines (lungs) and stomach and what happens to the bits of food and drink we eat that our bodies don’t’ use! That was a very interesting conversation! BUT the message was very clear if we eat unhealthy foods there is no goodness for our bodies to take and store! I must remember that this weekend!

Colette’s Key Group

Hello everyone! What another busy week!

We have continued to look at our wonderful bones and we know that our smallest bone is in our ear (called a stirrup) and the largest bone is in our leg (called the femur!) We have danced our skeleton dance and continued to move and shake our bones in our hall time!

Numbers have also been around Nursery this week! The number 3 Numberblock has made an appearance and we have been singing the song ‘1, 2, 3 everybody look at me’ click here to watch and join in at home!

The children have been noticing that even more leaves and sycamore seeds have been  falling down from the trees so we have enjoyed sweeping them in to piles and looking at all the different colours. Some of us have made our own paintings using the beautiful Autumn colours!

We have certainly noticed that it is getting a bit colder now....I had better start looking for my favourite bobble hat for after the half term holiday!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend together.

Colette

Stephanie’s Key Group

Hello everyone! It has been so lovely to be with the children again this week! We have enjoyed spending time in the garden and the big hall developing our physical skills – we also managed to practice our numbers doing this too! We made some ‘action cards’ together – you could try this at home. We used the numbers we have already met – 1 and 2 and our new number this week, 3! We had to do 1 hop, 2 claps, 3 jumps – my favourite was 3 wiggles! The children’s favourite was definitely 10 ‘unicorn jumps!’ – something new for me to learn! It was great fun.

We have also been counting around the classroom – I’ve heard lots of comments this week - ‘I have 2 bears’, ‘I have 2 ice creams’, ‘I have 3 plates’. Some of us even noticed if we join 2 and 1 together it makes 3. You can watch Numberblock 3 here .

This week we have spoken all about teeth and how to care for them. You should all have taken a toothbrush and toothpaste home with you – we’d love to see some photos of you using them! We have spoken about foods that are better for our teeth and some that we shouldn’t have all the time to help keep our teeth healthy.

We practised our positional language – some of us have found this a bit tricky and this video helped us practise the language: click here. The children loved trying to spot where the monkey was hiding next! Try it at home and see if your child can remember how to describe where the monkey is. We also explored this by making a train in the garden, asking our friends who they were sitting in front of or who was behind them. Positional language can help your child to be more independent – many instructions in school will involve them understanding where they need to be, or where something is that they might need e.g. ‘your snack is in your tray’, ‘the cups are on the shelf’.

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

Steph

Michelle’s Key Group

This week we have continued our learning about our bodies. We worked as a team to build the skeleton, making sure we put the bones in the right place. Great team work everyone!

We have also been very busy practising our sticky kids songs. This is a new song that we have loved this week. Click here to have a go at home!!! I hope you have lots of energy!!!

When we run, we can feel that our hearts are beating very fast. We know this mans we are getting lots of exercise and looking after our bodies.

We have also learnt about foods that are good for us and foods that are not so good for us and some of these foods are not very good for our teeth. Hopefully, you will all have found the new toothbrush and toothpaste in your book bags, we hope you use them to keep your teeth shiny and white.

We used some healthy foods and did some art work, making prints with apples and oranges. This was a bit messy but we concentrated to make a pattern of three.

We continued our healthy exercises by riding the bikes and computers in the garden. We are trying really hard to use the pedals on the bikes, its tricky but ewe are getting really skilled at this. We have also been practising putting our coats on by ourselves, this is something we can all practise at home too!

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

Michelle

 

We would like to thank everyone for coming to parents meetings. All the team have been overwhelmed by your lovely comments. You must believe us when we say it is an absolute privilege to be able to work alongside yourselves and your children. There truly is no better job. Thank you.

Next week will be a shorter week as we close for half term on Thursday. I think we are all in need of a rest and recharge. If you click on the button below you will be able to see what we will be learning…we will also be continuing with our mighty quest to make healthy choices and look after our bodies. On Monday the children will be joining with Reception for a short Harvest Festival assembly. I must thank everyone for all their kind donations, you have been so generous.

November Planning

 Have a fabulous weekend everyone and I will see you next week.

God Bless

Barbara