Year 2 Home Learning 10th February

This weeks homework is in our Home Learning books.

In addition to this we would like the children to make a Lenten box to swap with their year 4 buddy.

Spellings

This week’s spelling are suffix ness

goodness darkness sadness lateness kindness weakness illness foolishness stillness

and word set 16

these only most those both cold

This week....

This week we have continued our mindfulness and yoga activities (I hope you have tried them at home too!). Everyone is feeling very chilled.

We have also been finding out about how to stay safe online. We have had interesting discussions about how long to stay on an digital device and what games we could play on them. We then watched a short film about Smartie the Penguin. Click here to watch at home. See if your child can remember some of the rules.

If you click on the button below you will find some online safety tips. Also, click here to watch a short video.

Online Safety TIPS FOR PARENTS OF PRE SCHOOL CHILDREN

Throughout the week story times have been dedicated to stories that help us understand the internet and more importantly stay safe. Here they are online!

Click here to listen to Once Upon and online

Click here to listen to Chicken Clicking

Michelle’s Blog

This week we have continued our theme of health and wellbeing and mindfulness. We love the bubble burst video, it really helps us to concentrate and to feel calm. Mindfulness activities have so many benefits for children’s wellbeing.

Yoga has been lots of fun this week as we continue to learn lots of new positions.

We were very surprised to find those sneaky snakes had returned and escaped all over nursery. It took us a while to find them all, some were even trying to escape out the window. Watch out, you never know where they might end up next!

Next week is half term, so we hope you all have a great week off and we will see you all after the holiday.

Don’t forget to look on purple mash for some fun activities.

See you soon,

Michelle

Apologies for the lack of photos. For some reason unknown to me they wouldn’t upload. I will ask Michelle to email them out to you…sorry. Fingers crossed for all the other photos! Barbara

Colette’s Blog

Hello everyone!  I can’t believe that we have come to the end of our first half term…where does the time go?? It was lovely to see some of you at the parent drop in this week and to be able to share some of the children’s learning with you from their floor book. We sat as a group last week and looked at all the things we have been learning since September and we couldn’t believe how much we have done together.

I really do hope that you all manage to spend some time together over this half term.

Thank you for all your support over this half term.

See you all after the holidays.

Colette.

Steph’s Blog

Hello everyone

It has been lovely this week watching the children be so kind to each other. They have worked together in the garden to find different ways of moving down the ramps. Some of the children pretended they were stuck and needed a superhero to help them! We ‘had a go’ like Tommy Turtle and ‘didn’t give up’ like Sadie Spider!

We have continued practising Number 7. We are so good at noticing the different ways we can make it – 4 and 3, 5 and 2, 6 and 1. Even 7 and 0! Ask your child to show you different ways on their fingers at home. We enjoyed playing a game on the big screen that let us practise counting 7 bees – we are so good at this! Have a go, click here, you can choose which number you would like to practise.

When we come back after half term we will continue looking at Number 7. We are going to make a rainbow each for our key group floor book, and fill the colours with 7 special things about us e.g. our favourite colour, our pets, what we like to play with. I can’t wait to hear what is special for your child.   

Have a lovely week off and I’ll see you soon.

Steph 

and just a few more from Justine!

Reading stories with our paired class, Mrs Hotchkiss and Year 3

This week we started our ‘getting together’ activities with our paired class. Year 3 came to visit us in nursery and to read us stories. It was so lovely! Some of the children even got to read along with their sibling!

Take a look at some of the photos. You may also want to check out the Year 3 blog for more pictures.

Lenten Boxes

As part of our Almsgiving, this year we will be decorating Lenten Boxes to give to children in our paired class (Year 3) and Year 3 will be decorating boxes for all the nursery children.

The boxes will be then sent home for each child to fill with the money they have earned by doing kind acts for others. When your box is full you can send it back to nursery. Last year was a bumper year for donations…let’s do even better this year!

A big thank you to everyone who managed to come along to out parent drop in session. It was so lovely to have time to catch up with you.

As you know nursery will be closed for half term from today (10th) until Monday 20th February so I have put a half term activity sheet in each bag if you wish to take up the challenges. Good luck and don’t forget to send us some pictures if you manage to complete any of the activities.

As always thank you all for your wonderful support and I will see you on the 20th.

Keep safe and God Bless

Barbara

Year 2 Weekly Blog 10th February - No Matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.

Year 2 Weekly Blog 10th February - No Matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.

At the end of each half term, I like to reflect and today I’ve encourage the children to do they same. We’ve thought about what we’ve done well, what we’ve achieved and what’s still to come. We all agreed we’re looking forward to some warmer weather and lighter mornings and nights.

We’ve come to the end of our Non Chronological Report unit in English. The children have worked really hard gathering information about barn owls and have written some wonderful final pieces of work. I’m looking forward to reading them all over half term.

During indoor PE, in small groups the children put together and practiced a dance routine based on all the seaside theme movements from or PE lessons over the last 5 weeks.

Tuesday was Safer Internet day. The children enjoyed watching a short clip about what to do if anything made them feel sad or gave them a ‘funny tummy’ when online. We sang the funny tummy song and learnt that we should TAG - Tell A Grown up.

In Maths we have been interpreting information on pictogram and bar graphs, writing statements using ‘more than’ and fewer than’. We extended this learning in Geography, when we made a tally chart and bar graph of places the children in year 2 had visited then wrote our own statements.

On Wednesday we had a special visitor, Miss Woodend and baby Millie. The children were so excited to see her and enjoyed asking lots of questions as well as sharing their own news.

Library - please accept my apologies, the link I posted last week did not work! I will try again after half term.

Let’s Celebrate


Ava you are a reading superstar! You have been working so hard, practicing your reading at home. You're really focusing and concentrating when you’re quizzing, working towards your target. It’s lovely to see and hear your about your love of reading and I’m really looking forward to taking you to visit the library next half term. Keep it up!

Alana, I’m really noticing how hard you have been trying in class recently. Your confidence is growing everyday and even when learning tasks are a bit tricky or you’re unsure you’re being brave and giving it a go. Believe in yourself, Alana – you can do it!

Notices

Our PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday.

Although the weather is a little brighter, it’s still cold outside - please ensure your child brings coat to school every day.

Please check the home learning section for this week’s homework.


Have a safe and restful half term break,
Mrs Marham , Mrs Maano and Mrs Carragher





Year 6 Home Learning 10.02.23

Maths

Please complete the following IXL strands:

L4 Equivalent fractions

L5 Patterns of equivalent fractions

Reading

Please complete the reading comprehension sheet and questions- don’t forget to underline or highlight key information on the text.

Research

Can you research William Shakespeare - what information can you find out about him? Then bring back your research after half term please for our English lessons. Think about the following titles: Early life; education; how he became a playwright; late life and legacy

LET’S GET CREATIVE

Two creative tasks for you to do over half term:

  1. Can you design and make a special lenten box for your Reception partner. This needs to be a specially designed and decorated container that you can give to your partner the first week back after half term ready for them to take home and collect money during lent for our chosen charity. Think about what your partner likes and what their interests are, this may help you when planning what to do. You could make your box out of any plastic container, cardboard box, it is up to you- just make sure it is fully cleaned out first!

  2. Start thinking about what character you want to become on World Book Day! Be creative with what you have!

Year 6 Weekly Blog - 'Don't be afraid to take on the biggest of challenges, they offer the greatest reward.'

We have reached the end of a very busy half term, and what a half term it has been. I know I say this most weeks, but I really am in awe of the work that the children are completing and the expectations that they have of themselves. Whether it be Science, Maths, RE or Art, the children always get fully stuck into their learning and become immersed by what they are being taught. I am so very proud of them all.

Online Safety

In the midst of our busy week, we devoted a large amount of conversation time to online safety. Tuesday was National Online Safety Day. Children from all over the country will have been looking carefully at their online behaviour; hopefully they will have learnt a thing or two.

In class we started by looking at all of the ways technology enhances our lives. Medical science featured heavily and the fact that parents can now work from home as the result of technological advances. This then led onto the discussion around screen time. I asked the children to record their screen time and non-screen time for an average week - the results were alarming! As a class we then looked at the data this was showing us and we reflected on whether we needed to make any changes to our lifestyles and how this would impact our well-being in a positive way.

We also met with our Reception buddies and got to know them a little better …

Where has our learning taken us this week?

Week 2, and we have continued with the same desire to learn new knowledge that we had last week.

  • English - ‘Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou Romeo.’ Drama is a brilliant way to bring text to life and we will be using drama throughout this entire unit. We have filmed and photographed the prologue to Romeo and Juliet. Please enjoy our film below. This we have also explored Romeo and Juliet’s first encounter and written a recount in role- very romantic!

  • Maths - We have continued with our long division practice and consolidation- this will be ongoing now, so please do not worry if we are not 100% confident with this just YET- we WILL get there, we just have to be Sadie Spiders! Fractions has been a big part of the week, we have been dividing fractions in our fluency, finding equivalent fractions and simplifying!

  • RE - What happens during the Liturgy of the word- we have looked at the Nicene Creed and how this is a profession of our faith.

  • Art- This week we have made our very own clay pendants…

Leading Learners

Well done to Grace and India this week.

Grace you are joy to teach, you are working so hard, listening to feedback and then quietly and carefully acting upon this in your work. You never compare yourself to others or compete, you focus on your own work and each time push yourself to achieve your goals- what an independent learner you are!

India you are so focused during lessons, managing your distractions and getting lost in each task. Your writing this work reflected this beautifully. You listened to the lesson and applied what you had learnt, to create a beautiful, carefully planned diary entry, which showed such depth and emotion. Well done India.

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 Evie for working for the common good of our classroom this week.

Helpers in the morning

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

Isabella Abi Steph Jack

Notices

  • If any of Year 6 are interested in Altar Serving then we have applications in class

  • Judo for Year 6 begins after half term- check out the sport page for more information.

  • World Book Day 2nd March- dress up as your favourite BOOK characters

  • Book fair in the hall after half term- watch this space!

  • Wednesday 8th March- Parent coffee afternoon and book look- 2:20pm- we would love to share our work with you so please come along!

  • Water Parks Meeting on 16th March at 4pm in the school hall.

  • Don’t forget to see the weekly newsletter to book your parents meetings with me.

  • 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.

Have a wonderful and restful half term.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Nel, Miss Forster and Mrs Barker

Year 5 Weekly Blog 10.02.23 ' Nothing brings people together like good food’

Here we are! The end of another half term and a week off for which is well deserved for the children. They have continued to learn and mature as role models of our school. The whole of the year 5 staff are proud of how the children have developed and look forward to the rest of the academic year. We started our week with a very exciting French lesson. As we continued our topic of money and shopping in France, the class turned into a restaurant for the afternoon as the children explored and tasted some classic French foods.

On Tuesday, it was all things computing as it was online safety day. This is a pivotal part of our curriculum as we focused on recognizing the risks of being online and how we can solve these problems. There was also a focus on the use of social media apps and discussing the age rating of each app.

We finished our week by joining up with our ‘buddy class’ for the first time since it was announced. We have been partnered up with Year 1 for our lenten box challenge. The children beautifully welcomed our younger children into our classroom and were partnered up together. They all know now who they are making lenten boxes for and have all got a lenten box slip which includes details about their partner. More information about the lenten boxes is on the homework blog.


In Maths, we have been powering through our division topic and the children have really worked hard throughout this unit. They have shown in every lesson that they are operating at a year 5 level but showing the learning attitude of year 6 children.

In RE, the children have been focusing on researching, as we have been looking at lots of inspirational people such as Father Damien, Sister Josephine and Pier Giorgio and researching their lives and how they all lived within the beatitudes.

In English/Science, we have continued to read through our book ‘The Universe’ and have been responding to the book by defining the vocabulary, discussing what we have learnt and applying this knowledge towards VIPERS questions.

Let’s Celebrate

Harvey and Georgia for being focused learners: For being so focused in our maths lessons. Your eagerness to be involved in our lessons is growing each day and you are wanting to get all of your work done.

Lily-Mae for being an inquisitive learner: For showing such a great interest in our space topic. You have even devoted your reading focus to non-fiction space books, which you have used to share with the class all of your newly learnt knowledge.

Notices

  • Judo Club- Will be available for Year 5/6 when we come back after half term. This will be every Friday at 8am

  • Sports Timetable- The newly updated sports timetable has been posted on the sports page. This includes changes to the netball schedule, football and netball matches returning and addition of new clubs.

  • World Book Day- Will be on 2nd March. Children can dress up as their favourite character from a book.



Year 5 homework for half term

Spelling

This week we have been focusing on words ending in -ant,-ance and -ancy.

  1. distance

  2. defiant

  3. assistant

  4. elegance

  5. vacancy

  6. relevant

  7. tolerance

  8. pregnancy

  9. observant

  10. instance

  11. hesitant

  12. substance

Mrs Mather’s group

their

there

they’re

these

other

oil

Reading

All children have been given reading targets for half term (a post it note in their reading book) for them to challenge themselves with lots of reading over half term.

Maths

Will be on IXL (make sure you are doing lots of jotting to help work out the answer)

H13- Dividing 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers

H24- division word problems- estimating the qoutient(answer)

English

A weekly SPAG worksheet which has been stuck in their homework books.

Science

This week, we have looked at the life cycle of a star and the children have recreated their own life cycle posters from our textbook ‘The Universe’. This life cycle focused on the birth of a star. Your task is to create another life cycle of a star: How a star dies. This can be either created as a poster( one side of A4) and then stuck into your homework books or it can be created as a poster on purple mash. The information sheet has already been stuck in the children’s homework books. Here is some examples of life cycle diagrams for the children to use for their layout.

Examples of Life CYCLE dIAGRAMS

Lenten Boxes

Children are to make a Lenten box for their chosen Year 1 partner to collect money over lent. Use the ideas sheet to help create your box and bring it in on our first day back.

Ideas for Lenten boxes

Year 2 Home Learning 3rd February

Ooops….We were so busy Friday afternoon that we forgot to send the home learning books home! So, this weeks homework will be online.

Next week, in English we will be looking at joining sentences. Take a look at this website, the videos and activities on the page will give you a head start!

Using conjunctions to join ideas - English - Learning with BBC Bitesize - BBC Bitesize

In Maths, we’ve looked at subtraction word problems. Please complete IXL I6 and I11

Spellings

This week’s spelling are ‘ey’ words that sound like ‘ee’

kidney honey money jockey trolley key donkey chimney turkey

and word set 15 above great human walk talk because

Year 1 Homework 3.2.23

This week we continued our computing sessions please continue to practise logging on and off purple mash.

On Wednesday we are going to church for our RE topic to watch an exemplar baptism and learn about the features of a church. We have thought of some questions for Father Peter too.

For your homework, I would love it if you could bring in a picture of you when you were baptised (these can be stuck in homework books or I can photocopy in school to stick in) and a bit of information about what happened during the day. Or find out some information about baptisms what happens? Please could this be done for Monday as this is when our next RE lesson is.

We have listened to everyone read in school this week and all books have been changed, please can you continue reading at home, thank you.

Next weeks spellings are:

other brother would

should mother could

You can use your homework book to practise these spellings, the children will be tested on Friday.

ONLINE SAFETY- EXCITING CREATIVE OPPORTUNITY!

Competition set by Mrs Gregan - to be in on Monday 6th February (optional)

Online safety video competition


Thank you

Miss Drummond

Year 2 Weekly Blog 3rd February 2023 - 'Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning' William Arthur Ward

We have had an another amazing, productive week in Year 2. As we approach the half way through the year point, I’m really noticing how the children are growing, not only in height but as independent learners.

In English, we have been researching and gathering information about barn owls in preparation for writing our non chronological reports next week. We have been sorting the information we have collected under subheadings and have even found some fascinating facts for our fact boxes!

During indoor PE, we watched a clip about sea creature then spoke about how they moved around their habitat. We then replicated those moves with our dance partners. I wonder if the children could share some of their moves at home.

On Tuesday, World Mental Health Day, we really enjoyed our Yoga session with The Yogi group. The children learnt about breathing techniques and when they might use them, as well as a few tricky yoga poses.

The children have been using their photography skills in science to take picture of micro habitats around the school.

In Geography, we talked about places we have visited around the world and how we got to them. Next week we’ll be putting al the information together in graphs.

After half term we will be visiting St. Anne’s library, the library is such a wonderful place for the children to visit and further enhance their love of books and stories. Please fill in this short form to let me know if your child is a member of the library or not. Please don’t worry if they aren’t, prior to our visit I will make arrangements and send any necessary forms home so your child can become a member too.

Library Membership

Let’s Celebrate


Bea is a wonderful member of our class. She sets a fantastic example to everyone. Her work is always completed to the best of her ability and she is always focused and ready to learn. Bea’s manners are impeccable, you really are a credit to our class and school.

Alice, you’ve been a real Creative Kiki Chameleon in our English lessons. You’ve used superb adjectives to describe the wolf and the characters in your story.  It is wonderful to see your creative flair, not just in your writing but across the whole curriculum. You think outside the box and have some wonderful ideas.

Notices



Our PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday.

Although the weather is a little brighter, it’s still cold outside - please ensure your child brings coat to school every day.

Please check the home learning section for this week’s homework.


Have a great weekend,
Mrs Marham , Mrs Maano and Mrs Carragher




This week....

A different kind of week. We have been trying to think of ways we can look after our minds and bodies. When everything is so busy around us we need to take time to rest. This week we have been doing just that.

The children and nursery ladies have have been taking part in mindfulness exercises. Firstly, we did a mindful breathing exercise called ‘Smell the Flower and Blow the Candle’. Click here to have a go at home.

We have also been practising mindful looking. Click here for this exercise.

Ask your child to show you Hummingbird breathing, hand breathing and some of the yoga poses!!!

This prepared us for our session with the Yogi on Tuesday….more of that (and pictures) later.

Colette’s Blog

Hello everyone!  It has been such a calm and relaxing atmosphere at Nursery this week, we have all felt very peaceful. I wonder if your child can remember some of the ways we have found our calm?

The children have been enjoying looking at the numberblocks again this week. On Thursday we looked at numbers 1-5 and how they can be made up of different numbers. Why don’t you take a look at this episode of Numberblocks where they show us what they are made of, all the parts that make a whole! Click here to watch.

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend together.

Colette.

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone,

We have had a very restful week as we have been practising mindfulness and yoga. We joined in with the rest of the school to take part in a yoga session in the hall, learning lots of poses such as the cobra, the plank and the downward dog. We continued with Caterpillar yoga, pretending to be an egg, a caterpillar, a cocoon and finally a butterfly. For more poses click here.

We have worked very hard learning our new phonic sounds this week, e, l, h, sh and r. We have amazed all the nursery ladies with how many of the phonic sounds we can remember. We cant wait till next week to learn some more sounds.

Have a good weekend

Michelle

Steph’s Blog

Hello everyone!

What a lovely, calm week! We have been practising mindfulness this week with lots of breathing exercises and calming music. Your child may have told you about ‘smelling the flower’ and ‘blowing out the candle’, which we used to practise long, deep breaths to help us to feel calm. On Tuesday we had a visit from the Yogi group. We went into the hall with Reception and we learnt different ways of breathing and moving our bodies to help us to feel calm – some of us nearly fell asleep! The lovely lady ended the session with us telling ourselves some positive affirmations – ‘I am happy’ and ‘I am amazing’.

This week we have been making shape dinosaurs. We have used different shapes in different colours to make our favourite dinosaurs – the children also chose to use the felt tips to draw markings and faces on their creations. I love how each dinosaur turned out differently! I have sent home a dinosaur shape sheet you can look at with your child at home.

We have continued to build and practise climbing in the garden – the children just love it and it is brilliant for developing their confidence and perseverance skills. They are so proud of themselves!

Here is a lovely calming video that you might like to watch over the weekend - click here

Have a lovely weekend and I’ll see you next week!

Steph

…and extras from Justine!

With the help of Smartie the Penguin, next week we will be discussing online safety. We have lots of exciting stories to read and lots to discuss. Watch this space or click on the button be low to look at our planning. So much to do…so little time!

Planning

This week we have started to introduce the book the whole school will be studying for World Book Day. It is a magical story without words and it evokes lots of interpretation and discussion. Each child sees different things in the pictures as they try to understand what may has just happened or what may happen next. Click here to join in the conversation at home. It is called The Journey by Aaron Becker.

Don’t forget to keep an eye on Purple Mash and activities which have been sent home in your child’s bag.

Number 7

The children were very excited to meet a new number…lucky number 7! Click here to meet 7. Why not make collections of 7 at home…seven forks, seven spoon, seven teddies, you get the idea!!

Parent drop in session

This terms session is on Wednesday 8th February 3.45-4.45pm. Please pop in and say hello and have a quick chat with your child’s key person.

Lastly, as we approach the last week of the half term I would like to say a huge thank you to all of YOU for everything that you do for your child in support of nursery. We are all so very grateful and never take your hard work for granted.

Year 5 Weekly Blog 03.02.23- ' Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health'

There has been lots of fun-filled lessons this week. Starting off on Monday, we welcomed Mrs Gregan into our classroom, her first time seeing what life in Year 5 is like under her new role. She was full of praise for the children and was blown away by their focus, work ethic and teamwork.

On Tuesday, we celebrated mental health day with a whole class eco trip to Point Dune for the annual year 5 Christmas tree planting day. The children managed to bare the weather and put in a hard shift on a breezy, wet winter morning. I heard brilliant things from the teachers on the trip of the children’s’ behaviour and how they represented the school. Even so, I received a lovely email from Blackpool Transport to say thank you for how lovely the children were on the bus, which just filled us with joy.

In the afternoon, we took part in a wonderful yoga session which focused on breathing/stretching techniques and how we can calm our body and mind whenever we are feeling stressed. We finished the day with an art lesson, focusing on mindfulness and what makes you happy. The children created mood boards to resemble what makes them happy.

Let’s Celebrate

Matilda for being a co-operative learner: For showing your teachers that you are a trusting learner by being able to work alongside your friends whilst still producing high quality work. You have also been a wonderful learning partner in group activities.

Connor Sean for being a determined and enthusiastic learner: For showing such resilience throughout all of our lessons this week. You never give up if you are struggling and you always reach out for help, to make sure you get the most out of your learning.

Notices

Online Safety Day- Will take place on Tuesday. We will be discussing the importance of being safe online and look at ways to prevent ourselves coming into any harm/danger when online. Please can all parents share this message with children on how important online safety is and to keep an eye on your child’s online activity at home.

Half herm- Next week will be our last week until we finish for half term, finishing on Friday 10th February. School will finish at normal time on the Friday and we will be back in school on Monday 20th February.

Film Competition- Deadline for the competition is Monday 6th February. More information about this is available on last weeks blog and also Mrs. Gregan’s blog.