Year 6 Weekly Blog 'The Word was God ... and the Word became flesh' (John 1:14)

God came to Earth to deliver a very important message of love to us all and the children have been reflecting on the meaning of the mystery of the Incarnation during RE lessons. We looked closely at the meaning of the scripture, how God came in the human form and then we questioned the significance of this and why he did this. The children also looked at evidence in the Gospels that Jesus was homeless, persecuted and displaced. This has enhanced our virtues Learned and Wise even further, as we look for God in all things and use his teachings wisely in our every day life.

Where has our learning taken us this week?

Wow the learning in Year 6 has really started to pick up pace and Year 6 are rising to all of the challenges- we are all so proud of them. We are managing to fit in so much learning and they are even becoming much more organised in the mornings, getting all of their equipment and books ready for the lessons ahead.

  • English - This week we have peer marked and given feedback on our Pixar formal letter writing and have looked at numerous biographies, collecting and looking up unfamiliar language, collecting transferable language that we can use within our own writing and learnt how cohesive devices can link and give clarity to the reader. We can’t wait to start our class biography on Henry VIII next week. In grammar, we have been identifying prepositions and the object of prepositions, using them within our phrases and practicing our relative clauses, using them as embedded clauses and at the end of our sentences.

  • Maths - This week we have been looking at decimals, the value of all of the digits, comparing and ordering. We are now multiplying and dividing them by 10, 100 and 1000.

  • Art- We have finished our tye dye topic and the end product SHOULD be coming home shortly. They have concentrated so hard on this new skill, and we are so proud of the results! Take a look at our photographs below.

  • PE - This week in indoor PE we have been practicing and developing our athletics events and trying to beat our personal best in speed bounce, standing long jump and triple jump. In outdoor PE we started our hockey strand, where we looked at how we could develop our accuracy in our passing and receiving.

Leading Learners

Well done to John Joseph and Holly this week.

John Joseph you have thoroughly got involved in learning this week and pushed yourself to be better each day. You have listened carefully in lessons, applied this to your work and managed those distractions really well this week- keep this up!

Holly, you have been so resilient and focused this week on your learning. You are trying your hardest and even when you have come across challenges this week, you haven’t given up. Keep up with your positive approach!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Well done to our wonderful girl’s football team who won the finals and got through to the Lancashire finals today! They played so well and worked beautifully as a team- we are all so proud of them.

Learned and Wise butterflies

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that are learned in their actions, finding God in all things. Those who are wise, who use their learning for the common good. These children are the role models of the school, who drive their own learning and who have the wisdom to know when and how to apply one’s learning. This week we thank Jess for always working for the common good of our classroom.

Helpers in the morning

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

Christian James Olivia Stephanie

Notices

  • Please do continue to keep up to date with your child’s homework (particularly spelling). The vocabulary that the children are being asked to spell are getting more complex and they will need your support to figure out the best strategy to use. Learning them over time, rather than bulking them the night before, always seems like the best route to use.

  • Just a reminder that lip balms or any type of creams, are classed as a type of medication and therefore (if needed) need to be handed in to the teacher- thank you for your support.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in Thursday 19th January

Spellings

Children to learn these spellings for their weekly spelling test on Wednesday. The children also have a copy of these spellings in their homework books. For practicing at home, the children can look up the meaning of the word and create sentences to help them practice and remember these words.

  1. silence

  2. absence

  3. magnificence

  4. intelligence

  5. obedience

  6. dependence

  7. innocence

  8. patience

  9. confidence

  10. evidence

  11. sentence

  12. experience

Reading- PRIORITY

The children have completed their star reader tests, therefore their ZPD scores may have altered. Some children will have access to more books , in which they will take them home to read for at least 20 minutes a day at home.

English

Will be done on IXL, to practice using punctuation correctly.

OO1- Commas

Maths

Will be done in their homework books. There will be 3 worksheets to complete;

2 x factors sheets

1 x multiples sheets

Year 6 Home Learning 13.1.23

Spelling

Spelling - Silent letter spellings.

crumb, debt, plumb, scissors, scenario, plaque, design, foreign, reign, anchor, chemical

Maths

Please complete the IXL strands on comparing numbers.

J3- Multiply a decimal by 10, 100 or 1,000

K3- Divide a decimal by 10, 100 or 1,000

ENGLISH

Please complete the short mini test on Prepositions and then the worksheet in your homework books, to recap all of our work on prepositions.

History (last week to complete) on Purple Mash

Year 2 Home Learning 6th January

Reading

Please read for at least 20 minutes every day. The children’s targets have been reset on AR reader. Please note that quizzing is not currently available at home and will need to be done in school.

Spellings

Spellings to learn this week:

WR words (silent w) - wrap wreck wrong wrist wriggle wrote wrestle write wrinkle

Spelling quizzes will take place on Fridays.

Year 2 Weekly Blog 6th January 2023“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” —Melody Beattie

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a happy and peaceful Christmas.

It was lovely to see the children return to school this week, excited and ready to start learning again.
We’ve eased ourselves into the new term with a new book and lots of exciting learning opportunities with it. The children have thoroughly enjoyed reading Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot.
On Friday, we had a very special visitor…Miss Tiddles - a real tortoise who is just 2 years old.

We have made our own tortoises with plasticine and next week we will be weighing them and comparing their weights.



The children’s reading targets have been reset, as they are at the start of each half term. Please continue reading daily at home with your children, it really does make such a huge difference. At the moment AR reader is set for quizzing in school only, it will not be accessible at home - I will keep you up to date with any changes.

Notices

Our PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday.


Special Announcement

Miss Woodend’s little girl, Millie, was born on 30th December. We send lots of love and a huge congratulations to her and her family.

Thank you to those parents who accompanied us to church on Friday morning.

Year 1 Homework 6.1.23

Thank you for those who have decorated their homework books and brought them in, if you haven’t please could you decorate and bring back next week. I have two books in school without names so if yours is missing please let me know and I will write names on and give back to your child :).

Please can you focus on reading and spelling this week, it is really improtant that your child reads regularly at home aiming for at least 30 mins per day. Start with a few minutes then build it up each week. We are starting to test the children on their book using Accerated Reader in school and I will let you know their test days. We will also try and listen to your child read at least once a week in school. So we know you have read with your child please sign in their reading record if they have read a few pages write where you read to so we can continue at school. Thank you.

Here are some whys you can support your child at home with their reading.

Support your child with reading

The spellings this week are:

have little saw

do our out

You can use your homework book to practise the spellings.

Thank you

Miss Drummond

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone and welcome back. I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and you were on the good list!!!

All the children have been happy to be back at nursery and to tell us all about what Father Christmas had brought for them. You will be pleased to know that the nursery ladies were on the good list too…phew!

Over the past three days we have been reminding ourselves of the routines of the day and refreshing our numeracy and phonics before we continue on our learning journey next week…it will be all systems go! You may want to go on to Purple Mash to reinvigorate the children’s number and sound knowledge!

For our learning thread this half term will be finding out about…dinosaurs!!!! Before Christmas we had a whole group discussion about what we would like to learn more about and dinosaurs were a unanimous decision.

If you click on the button below to look at our planning. You will be able to join in with our learning at home. We are all sooooo excited!

Dinosaurs

Remember to have a restful weekend!

We will see you on Monday ready to ‘find out’ about dinosaurs!

God Bless

Barbara

Year 5 Homework due on Thursday 12th January

Spellings

This weeks focus has been words with double letters. The first 5 words are new words we have learned this week and the other 7 are other double letter words we have done this year. Children are to be tested on these words every Wednesday morning.

  1. embarrass

  2. excellent

  3. exaggerate

  4. especially

  5. interrupt

  6. accompany

  7. according

  8. appreciate

  9. attached

  10. accommodate

  11. aggressive

  12. assessment

English

We have been going over our word classes (noun, adjective, verb, adverb) during retrieval tasks in English. Homework is to complete these IXL tasks to continue with our retrieval.

EE2- Identify nouns

KK6- Identify adverbs

Maths

Will be on IXL. Children are to continue practicing their times tables until we get TTRS back up and running.

D8- Multiplication facts up to 12: find the missing factor.

D2- Multiplication facts for 2,3,4,5,6,8 and 10: find the missing factor,

Year 1 Weekly Blog 6.1.22

What a great start to the week, although we have only been in for three days we have been very busy.

In Maths we have looked at how to make 7 in different ways.

Our English topic is monsters, we read the Gruffalo and retold the story outside. We then had some special visitors in Class and we asked them lots of questions.

We disscussed that there are lots of different families, and talked about our own in RE, we drew our families who live with us and our other families members.

We had a lovely Mass service today. The three Kings arrived to see baby Jesus with their gifts and Logan was one of the kings he was amazing he had the special job of giving his gift to baby Jesus.

Let’s Celebrate:

Henry is going home with this person for super handwriting well done :).

Reminders:

  •  Please bring in spare clothes for your child, especially now the weather is wet. So they can get changed if they fall over and have wet clothes.

  • Please check the home learning section for the homework, It is really important that you are reading reguarly at home so your child can make good progress with their reading especially as they will have their Phonics screening in June.

  • Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond and Miss Johnson