Year 6 Weekly Blog 'Lest we forget'

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. This week is always a poignant week as we stop and remember all of those fallen victims of war and conflict. We ended our week today with a reflective assembly and worship in class, sharing prayers for everyone who has been affected by war and conflict around the world.

Once again, we started the week off with Bikeability, where all children who completed their level 2 passed, there will be certificates to be presented in the next few weeks. The children have took this very seriously, listening well to the instructors, reflecting on their cycling skills and always thinking of the safety rules when on the road. The instructors praised the children on how well they listened and we couldn’t be more proud of them.

The week has flown by and we have done so much exciting and challenging learning. We have read chapter 9 of our class novel this week and even created our very own wonder, just as the main character did. Writing has been the focus of the week, as the children again reflected on their writing targets and wrote another diary entry in the perspective of Daniel. They have also put their formal letter writing to good use, writing to the Brazilian leader to express their concerns about the causes and consequences of deforestation. In RE we have started our Justice topic, where we reflected on the meaning of this work and firstly what it means.

Our Mathematics this week has been on fire and we are no unstoppable at finding fractions of number, using our reasoning skills to tackle problems and finding the whole quantity from the part. Very impressive!

In Art, we have dyed our fabric designs with instant coffee- we can’t wait to see the results!


Kidsafe

This week, we have completed our 5th and final Kidsafe lesson, before our recap in summer term, about hearing parents/carers arguing.

Please click the button below to find out more detail about this lesson.

kidsafe lesson 5

Leading Learners

Well done to Saul and Abi this week.

Saul, you have impressed us with your attitude to your work this week and your desire to improve. You have reflected on advice given and it has been a joy to watch you striving to reach these goals. We have been particularly proud of how you are challenging yourself on the books you are reading and what a joy it is to see the empathy and enjoyment you get from reading.

Abi, For... Being so curious in your learning, always seeking to find out more and what you can do to move your own learning forward. Abi you are a dream to teach, as you strive to hit those targets every day, reflecting on teachers advice and always showing us just what you are capable of! Never stop being curious, it’s the only way to learn!

Kind and compassionate butterflies

We have been on the look out for acts of kindness and compassion this week. Pure love and kindness has been shown in abundance this week. It definitely makes our classroom a happier and a richer place for it. Thank you to Lena . There have been so many times this week when you have gone out of your way to help someone in class. Thank you for all that you do!

Helpers in the mornings:

This week we have the following children helping to take the younger children to their class:

Abi Holly James Julia

Notices

Our Sports visit has moved- Instead we will be visited in school by Stuart Robinson on Wednesday 16th November. Stuart is a gold medal winning Paralympian, who represented GB in the recent Olympic games in wheel-chair rugby. Don’t forget to send in Sponsor Forms EARLY next week please.

Stuart’s visit is part of an event for Sports for Schools. This is an opportunity for the children to take part in a sporting event organised by Stuart, and to then hear about his story as part of an assembly. He will be with us all afternoon. This event is also an opportunity to raise money for our school - for PE, Sport and Active Learning.

17th November 6pm- Curriculum Evening. Please come along and learn with us. We would please like the following children to come and help at the event:

  • House captains

  • Head boy and girl

  • Sports Captains

18th November- please come to school in your PJ’s and bring a ‘furry friend’ to school- we just ask that you bring £1 with you to raise money for Brian House.

Have a lovely weekend all of you,

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Nel, Miss Forster and Mrs Webster

Year 3 Blog 11.11.22 - "I wear a little poppy, as red as it can be, to show that I remember, those who fought for me."

I can’t believe we are at the end of the week, it has absolutely flown! Throughout the week the children have been super focused in maths and we are now much more confident with our two subtracting strategies. It has been wonderful to hear the children share with one another how they got to the answer, these discussions are becoming more and more filled with fantastic vocabulary and understanding.

We have also started our exciting new English learning, which is all about DRAGONS! Together we looked at some reported sightings and read a very interesting non chronological report about the Manchester Ridge-Back. Miss Russell couldn’t wait to start reading to the children the first chapter of our class novel, The Boy Who Grew Dragons… I wonder what might happen next….

In History we have continued our learning about the Stone Age. The children have been reading an interesting article and have used the computers to note down all of the interesting new facts they had discovered through their reading!

Let’s celebrate…

Tilly S receives a Tommy Turtle Certificate for being a brave learner this week. Well done Tilly you are always ready to challenge yourself and have a go at your learning. Keep up the good work, be brave and see how much you are achieving.

Toby receives a combination certificate this week for being a focused Cooper Crab and a co-operative Roger Robin. Well done Toby, we love the way that you are always ready to get on with your work and manage any distractions. You are also such a lovely learning partner.

Reminders

  • Stuart Robinson will be in school Wednesday this coming week. This means all children must be in their PE kit on this day. Please remember your sponsor forms too.

  • Curriculum evening - On Thursday 17th November (next week) we have our school curriculum evening. We hope you can come along to get more of an insight into our school life.

  • The Art Team (Miss Neves, Mrs Mather and Mrs Nel) are wanting items that can be recycled during art lessons in the next few weeks. Exciting projects - all will be revealed in a few weeks time! If you have any of the following items, please send them in to be used during art. Thank you in anticipation.

  • Cereal boxes / cereal bar boxes/ biscuit boxes/packages (eg oreos, Belvita etc)

  • Yogurt pots or yogurt bottles

  • Kitchen Rolls

  • Milk or juice cartons (small or normal size)

  • Bottle lids ( flat ones please eg. milk lids )

  • Pinecones real ones (if you go for a walk please see if you can find any of these) Thank you

Year 3 home learning to be handed in on 17.11

Spellings: words with the prefix im- and the suffix -ous

immature     

immortal      

immobile   

impossible  

impatient

impolite   

dangerous  

poisonous  

mountainous 

famous

Maths - IXL Subtraction

Please complete F5 and F6

 HRSE - Emotions

You will find a new 2Do set on Purple Mash. When on the 2Do, along the left hand side you will see a vocabulary list of positive emotions. What do each of these words mean? Can you complete the positive emotions poster?

For example, under the first section you might put the word confident. Underneath your drawing or image write: I feel confident when….

Year 6 Home Learning 11.11.22

Spelling

This week our focus is going to be on words ending in ‘ibly’ or ‘ably’. Please see the spelling quiz set for you to complete on Purple Mash to help you practice. These are the following words that you will be quizzed on:

adorably, comfortably, noticeably, understandably, terribly, horribly, incredibly, possibly

Maths

Get on TT Rockstars and practice the speed of your multiplication facts!

Reading

Please complete the reading in 5 minute sheet- to help build on reading skills and comprehnesion.

History - The six wives of Henry VIII.

One more week to complete.

Remembrance Day Art

You can create some beautiful pieces of artwork digitally. Can you create a Poppy?

Dance Festival: Final info!

Dear Parents,

 As you all know we are gearing up for our performance next week on Tuesday 15th November at the Winter Gardens. Here you should find all the final information that you may need regarding the event on Tuesday.

 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. This will either be a packed lunch or a school hot dinner. If your child does NOT usually have a school dinner on this day, please make sure that you have booked their school meal via ParentPay, this will be at a cost of £2.40 (remember as this is a long day we advise that you book a hot school meal as they will not be having their usual evening meal, however, you know your child and what they will/will not eat).

 After this we will then get on a coach which will take us to the Winter Gardens. This is 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).

 After the show we will walk the children to outside the Grand theatre. This is where you will be able to collect your child from.

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 which is 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.

 Thank you for your continued support.

Kind regards,

Miss Bassett and Miss Liddell

 

Year 1 Homework

Thank you for practising your lines over half term, the children have been amazing.

This weekend please can you continue to practise your lines ensuing that you say them slowly with a clear loud voice.

Please can you also practise these songs:

Feeling Song

I have feelings, you do too

Lets all sing about a few,

I am happy, I am sad,

I am scared and I am mad

I have feelings, you do too,

We just sang about a few.

 

If You’re Happy and you Know it

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.

If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it.

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.

 

If you’re angry and you know it stamp your feet.

If you’re angry and you know it stamp your feet.

If you’re angry and you know it, then your face will surely show it.

If you’re angry and you know it stamp your feet.

 

If you’re scared and you know it hide your eyes.

If you’re scared and you know it hide your eyes.

If you’re scared and you know it, then your face will surely show it.

If you’re scared and you know it hide your eyes.


If you’re shocked and you know it cover your face.

If you’re shocked and you know it cover your face.

If you’re shocked and you know it, then your face will surely show it.

If you’re shocked and you know it cover your face.

 

If you’re sad and you know it dry your eyes.

If you’re sad and you know it dry your eyes.

If you’re sad and you know it, then your face will surely show it.

If you’re sad and you know it dry your eyes.

 

If you’re calm and you know it take a deep breath.

If you’re calm and you know it take a deep breath.

If you’re calm and you know it, then your face will surely show it.

If you’re calm and you know it take a deep breath.


If you’re loved and you know it hug yourself.

If you’re loved and you know it hug yourself.

If you’re loved and you know it, then your face will surely show it.

If you’re loved and you know it, hug yourself.

Please continue with Maths IXL, I am happy for you to go on other games if your child has completed ones that have been set previously. Please continue to read lots at home, we have changed books and will get back on track listening to readers after Tuesday.


We are so sorry we didn’t get chance to do our spellings this week but keep practising them and we will do them together on Friday.

Thank you,

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Weekly Blog 4.11.22

Welcome back, what a busy week we have had, we have been practising our class assembly every day. We are excited for you to watch us on Tuesday. I have been very impressed with the children learning their lines, and they have been working hard on making sure their voices are loud and clear, they have been brilliant!

As it was All Saints Day on Tuesday, we have been inspired by the Saints, we learnt about a different Saint each day: Saint Clare, Saint Pio, Saint Frances, Saint Martin and Saint Therese. We attended Mass on Tuesday to celebrate all the Saints . The children sat and sang beautifully and it was lovely to hear positive comments from other members of the church about our children.

The children are enjoying their phonics sessions and are making good progress, keep reading lots at home and please remember to bring reading folders in every day.

Today we discussed Fireworks and Bonfire Night and how we can all stay safe, we were excited to have Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 together. We enjoyed our creative activities and we learnt a poem!

In Art we learnt about Andy Goldsworthy and how he uses the environment to create his own art work. We went outside and created some wonderful art using resources we found outside.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to these children for super listening during our assembly practise, they know their lines, when to come on the stage and have supported the children around them.

Have a lovely weekend with Henry :).

 Reminders:

  • Our Class Assembly is on Tuesday 8th November at 9:10 for KS2 and 9:35 for EYFS and KS1, you can stay for both performances if you would like. Please continue to practise lines and songs.

  • On Friday 11th November, we will be visited in school by Stuart Robinson. Stuart is a gold medal-winning Paralympian, who represented GB in the recent Olympic games in wheelchair rugby.
    Stuart’s visit is part of an event for Sports for Schools. This is an opportunity for the children to take part in a sporting event organised by Stuart, and to then hear about his story as part of an assembly. He will be with us all afternoon. This event is also an opportunity to raise money for our school - for PE, Sport and Active Learning.
    The children have all brought a sponsor form home for them to collect as many sponsors as they can before the event next Friday. Please can all children come in their tracksuits on this day - Friday 11th November.

  • On Thursday 17th November at 6pm, we will be welcoming both parents and children into school for Curriculum Evening. We’ve been unable to hold the event for the last couple of years due to Covid, so we are looking forward to comingtogether as a whole school community once again to share how we promote that love of learning in our children. More information will be given about the evening.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Liddell and Miss Johnson

Year 5 Homework- Due Wednesday 10th November

Reading- PRIORITY

To read for a minimum of 20 minutes per day at home.

Maths

Will be online on IXL

DD1- What decimal is illustrated?

DD16- Comparing decimals

English

Will be online on IXL

Q2- Coordinating conjunctions

Q3- Subordinating conjunctions

Assembly practice

To practice this song for our Year 5 assembly. The theme of our assembly will be stewardship of the earth and how we should listen and carry the word of God.

Earth song by Micheal Jackson

Earth song lyrics



Year 5 Weekly Blog 04.11.22- ' A smile is the universal welcome'

A new month and a new half term! It has been lovely to have to children back. It has been a fun filled first week back with it starting on Monday, which was ‘All Hallows Eve’. We discussed the meaning of this as we prepped for mass on Tuesday, the day of All Saints, where we celebrated this at church. The Eco councilors also began their duties, each of them partaking in particular roles each day such as litter picking, switching off lights and emptying the compost bins. They also got to go out to Hope Park and plant some light bulbs. The children enjoyed their trip and were pleased with their contributions to the environment.

In Maths, we have continued our work with decimal fractions and we have explored decimal numbers greater than one. The children have shown a deep understanding of the value of the numbers and have been able to provide some brilliant reasoning into their answers. We have also been showing how we can represent decimals in various ways, along with comparing decimal numbers.

The children are wrapping up their final piece of History this term, where they have been writing diary entries as General Miltiades, the leader of the Athenian army who guided his soldiers to victory in the Battle of Marathon.

Let’s Celebrate

Christian for being a focused learner- You are always engaged across all of our subjects and you are ready to learn. I never have to remind you of your behaviour and you show me that you can work alongside anyone. You respond well to advice given to you by adults in the class which is a great learning quality. Well done Christian! Keep this up.

Daisy for being a reflective learner-You show such passion towards your work and how you present it. You are never shy to ask for help, which shows an eagarness to improve your work. You are happy to recieve feedback in which you always act upon this. You are a pleasure to teach and I am excited to watch you progress.

Notices

Year 5 assembly: Our assembly will take place on Tuesday 15th November. All parents and other family members are welcome to attend. We will be doing the assembly twice for both KS2 (starting at 9:10am) and KS1(starting at 9:35am).

Clarinets- A reminder to bring your clarinet to school on Monday for our music lesson.

This week.....

Welcome back everyone! I hope you managed to have a good rest over the holidays…I think you may have needed it. The next half term is going to be so very busy.

We have started the week with a huge splash of colour! we have been finding out about how we can mix two or even three clours to make new colours. Click here for the colours song and here for mix the colours song! We has such good fun and made some very unusual colours (and a whole lot of mess)! Check out the key person blog to see what we have been doing.

Read Write Inc

This week we have introduced the sounds m, a, s, t, d. If you want to practice and hear how to say the sounds click here .

Click here to access the parent guide to Read Write Inc. Please remember over the next couple of week we will only be focusing on m, a, s ,t, d.

Click on the button below for your speed sound set. It will show you the sequence we will be introducing each sound to your child. We need to walk before we can run!

Speed set 1

If you want to have a go writing the sounds fab! Here are the rhymes to help you. Click on the button below.

Read Write Inc Letter formation

As Bonfire Night looms we have had extensive discussions about firework safety….and Guy Fawkes! The children are all very excited but we have been instilling how to stay safe. Sorry no sparklers!

We have read stories and made firework sounds. We have even created firework splatter pictures and ICT pictures!!

Colette’s Blog

Welcome back everyone!  It has been so wonderful to see the children spring back in to Nursery after the half term holiday and be ready to learn.

We began the week looking at colours and we all talked about which one was our favourite. We decided to make a tally chart so we could see which colour we liked the best. The children had a go at mixing some coloured paint…we had to predict what colour our paints could make….it was messy but very fun! Please apologise to your washing machines!!

We have been continuing to look at numbers 1,2, and 3 and finding numbers everywhere! The children have been learning some new sounds…why don’t you see if they can tell you about them.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend together.

Kind regards

Colette

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone, hope you all had a fantastic half term! The next few weeks will be very busy as we have so much planned. This week we begin by learning all about fireworks. Noisy, loud, sparkly, colourful, and that’s just been the children as they pretended to be fireworks. We also learned that we have to be safe around fireworks and bonfires, as always, we like to follow the rules. We then made our very own fireworks pictures just like Jackson Pollock.  We  We have also made our own firework pictures on the computer as we explored mixing colours.

Stephanie’s Blog

Hello everyone!

We’ve had a lovely first week back, the children have enjoyed telling us what they got up to over the half term break.

We have started to explore colour this week, which has led us to discussions about Bonfire Night, fireworks and Diwali. One of our friends in Nursery celebrated Diwali with her family over the half term holiday. She brought in her special outfit and showed her friends pictures of how she celebrated. We spoke about how celebrating festivals is similar across religions – she said prayers and lit candles just like we do in church. She also wore special clothes, had a special family meal and received a gift – we said it sounded a bit like celebrating Christmas! The children loved seeing pictures of their friend on the big screen in the classroom. Some people make Rangoli patterns for their house to welcome in their guests and bring good luck. We had a go at drawing some with chalk in the garden and also decorated some with different coloured glitter on paper to take home. Here is a song about Diwali you can watch at home: Click here.

We have spoken about our favourite colours and explored what happens when we mix colours together. We were amazed to find out some colours mixed together make a whole new colour! It was great fun working out which colours we needed, and also adding more and seeing what happened. Barbara tried to trick us by hiding the paint on the table with shaving foam but we managed to mix it all and find the colours underneath! The white made our colours a bit lighter and we all enjoyed making handprints in our floor books with the colours that we made.

We have discussed how excited we are to see lots of different coloured fireworks in the sky this weekend, and how to be safe around fireworks and sparklers. I hope you all have a lovely weekend – I am looking forward to hearing about the colours you have spotted. I have put a firework painting activity on Purple Mash for you to have a go at – I can’t wait to see your pictures!

See you on Monday

Steph

 

and here’s a few extra photos from Justine !!!

Worship

Emotional Well-Being.

We have been talking about likes, dislikes and self-acceptance. Click on the button below to read the story. and discuss at home.

I like, you like, we all like

As you can see we have started the half term with a BANG (no pun intended. Next week will be just as busy as we find out about poppies and Remembrance Day. There will be more on ‘sounds’ and we will be finding out about the number 4. I can’t wait!

Have a fabulous weekend and see you on Monday.

God bless

Barbara

Year 6 Weekly Blog ‘Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving’ Albert Einstein

Welcome back to our second half term together and this week has certainly gone with a bang! We have completed so much work in every single lesson, I really feel like we are flying!

Thank you to all those parents who saw me on parents’ day. I always enjoy celebrating the children and to share just how well they have settled in to Year 6. We cannot ask the children to work any harder than they are doing, they just need to work smart too and produce the best work that they possibly can. Always use the opportunity to showcase just what you can do!

We started the week with Bikeablility, and what an exciting way to kick start the half term. The children were so sensible and focused at completing each task that was set, we were so proud of them all.

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Year 3 Weekly Blog 4.11.22 - "Dream big, sparkle more, shine bright."

On Monday we welcomed everybody back as we began our new half term. I must admit that this half term is up there with my favourites! During the coming weeks we will begin to prepare for Advent and Christmas and there are so many exciting events to look forward to! It is always such a magical time in school and one which will be all the more special after missing out on these events in the recent years.

We have jumped straight back into our maths learning, this week focusing on subtracting through the ten. We have been learning a strategy very similar to our addition work before the half term. When looking at a sum such as 14 - 5, the children have been partitioning the 5 into 2 parts… I wonder if you could ask your child what 2 parts we would split the number 5 into in the example above and why?

On Tuesday we walked to church to celebrate the feast of All Saints. The children found it really interesting to learn a little more about All Hallows eve and how this leads into our Christian feast days of All Saints and All Souls. The following day, as it was All Souls day, we spent time to pray for our loved ones who are up in heaven. The children listened to each other as they shared their own intentions and was such a calm, prayerful and special part of our week!

We have also started our new history topic, STONE AGE. We started off by thinking about a world without our favourite foods, activities and transport… the disappointment when we thought of a world without pizza was one almost too much to bare! Following this we then looked closely at a picture which represented that of the stone age. The children used this picture to discover more about how Mankind lived during this time, many great, inquisitive questions were asked! It was great to see the children’s fascination towards our new history topic, we cannot wait to find out more and to become Stone age experts.

Finally, this weekend many of us will celebrate Bonfire night and so, on Friday the children have been thinking about how we can stay safe and have fun this weekend. I wonder what they can remember?

Let’s celebrate!

Both Seth and Jacob - Our Co-operative and Focused learners!

This week we have chosen a pair of children who have been learning partners throughout the week. They have worked together beautifully, encouraging one another to be the best learner they can be. It has been a delight to watch the pair of you support each other! Well done boys!

On Friday 11th November, we will be visited in school by Stuart Robinson. Stuart is a gold medal winning Paralympian, who represented GB in the recent Olympic games in wheel-chair rugby.

Stuart’s visit is part of an event for Sports for Schools. This is an opportunity for the children to take part in a sporting event organised by Stuart, and to then hear about his story as part of an assembly. He will be with us all afternoon. This event is also an opportunity to raise money for our school - for PE, Sport and Active Learning.

The children have all brought a sponsor form home for them to collect as many sponsors as they can before the event next Friday.

We hope that you have a lovely weekend!
Miss Bassett, Miss Brisco, Miss Russell and Mrs Carter

Year 6 Weekly Homework 4.11.22

Spelling

This week our focus is going to be on words ending in ‘ible’ or ‘able’. Please see the spelling quiz set for you to complete on Purple Mash to help you practice. These are the following words that you will be quizzed on:

changeable, noticeable, knowledgeable, manageable, serviceable, forcible, illegible, legible, elligible, terrible,

Could you also complete the IXL strand English U8 ‘words with ible and able’.

Maths

Please complete the Purple Mash task on finding fractions of amounts.

History - The six wives of Henry VIII.

You have two weeks to complete this, as we are expecting depth and quality (no copy and pasting).

Henry VIII was a significant monarch in British History, but what can you find out about his 6 wives?

Gather as much information as you can about the wives and what happened to them. You can show your research in any way, in your books, on purple mash or on a piece of paper.

What was their date of birth and death?

How old were they when they came to the throne as Henry’s wife?

Did they have any children?

What was their influence on Henry?