Year 5 Homework to be handed in Thursday 2nd March

Reading- PRIORITY

As we have started a new half term, the children’s reading targets have been reset so children can start earning points towards their new targets now and shoot up our solar system.

Spellings

This week, we have been looking at words containing double letters. The first 6 words are the new words we have looked at this week. The last 6 words are other double letter words that we have covered this year.

  1. immediately

  2. suggest

  3. marvellous

  4. necessary

  5. programme

  6. recommend

  7. according

  8. aggressive

  9. appreciate

  10. attached

  11. accommodate

  12. accompany

Mrs Mather’s group

  1. another

  2. around

  3. before

  4. after

  5. each

  6. every

SPAG

Their weekly sheet has been stuck in their homework books for them to complete.

Countdown

To the amazement of the Year 5 staff, majority of the children were unaware of the show ‘Countdown’, in which we have played this week to activate the children’s quick thinking skills . The game also gave us a chance to expand their vocabulary. Your task is to watch one episode of Countdown and play. This could be an opportunity for parents to play alongside the children. The children can write down their games in their homework book and we can share our answers next week.

Year 3 Home Learning to be handed in on 2.3.23

Spellings

Children will be tested next Friday on a selection of the words below. Can you explain the spelling rule to your grown ups for -ation?

History Words

Empire

Claudius

invasion

adding -ation to verbs to form nouns

admiration

information

sensation

preparation

explanation

accusation

temptation

TTRockstars

Please remember to keep going on to practise your timetables. We have one child who has very nearly completed their map!

Preparing for World Book Day

This Thursday is World Book Day. We ask that the children come to school dressed as one of their favourite book characters.

Science

We would like you to do some research to prepare you for our next lesson. What is a conductor of electricity and what is an insulator? Be ready to share your findings with your partner next week.

Year 6 Weekly Blog ‘A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues’ Cicero

Welcome back to the second half of the spring term. There is no doubt that it is going to be a busy term with lots and lots going on. I am really excited that we will end the term with an Easter assembly. It will be a lovely way to bring our class family: parents and children together.

This half term, we are focusing on the virtues of being grateful and generous. There is so much to be grateful for, we just need to open our eyes and see. I am especially grateful for all of your wonderful children and how hard they are all working. Keep supporting them at home with their daily reading, completion of homework and of course attendance, it is such a crucial time, that we can not miss any learning opportunity!

Turning to the Cross

This week, we celebrated Ash Wednesday in school, marking the start of Lent. Father Peter joined us in the hall leading the whole school in prayer and refection, with the help of our head boy and girl who read the Gospel. For our almsgiving this year, we have decided to raise money for CAFOD, and support their walk against hunger campaign. Each year group has decided on HOW they would like to raise money- Year 6 has decided they would like to hold a cake sale. Next week will decide when these sales will take place, but just for forward planning- your help may be required! Alongside this, we also have now exchanged our Lenten boxes with Reception, ready to collect money for Cafod during Lent. It was so clear how much effort all the children had put in to when creating their boxes and they loved getting together again to give it to their partner.

What have we been learning this week?

I am not sure that we have drawn breath this week - it has been full on, fast paced and thoroughly exciting.

  • English - Romeo and Juliet has continued to be the central point to our English unit. We have moved onto the most iconic scene - The Balcony Scene. The children were tasked with writing in role as Juliet. To really understand her emotions and to use Shakespeare’s language within their work. I was blown away! I cannot wait to share their work with you just after half term. Our grammar focus has been active and passive voice, as well as colons and semi-colons. The children have been experimenting with them and using them within their diary entries.

  • Maths - I am incredibly proud of the work that we have done this week on fractions- we have been comparing, ordering, adding and subtracting- it’s has all been going on. This is a tricky concept that the children have grabbed with both hands. Next stop…percentages!

  • RE - With Ash Wednesday taking place next week, the children have reflected on what Lent is and why we either give something up or do something extra.

Being an active and curious learner.

I am sure the children have come home to tell you that this week we sat our first mock SAT’ paper. We have really played these assessments down this year, focusing on the children’s learning, development and any gaps they have, rather than teaching them how to take a test. Year 6 knew the day before that they were going to complete this, as I didn’t want to give them too much time to dwell, however, they came in to school yesterday with great resilience and such a positive attitude. It is often really hard plunging into the unknown, but that is exactly what the children have done. Next week, we will continue to complete the Maths and Grammar, but they all understand the importance of this and I am sure lots of lessons will be learnt which will enable us to build and move forward together as a class. Once they have completed these assessment, they will of course be marked and handed back to them where they will be encouraged to think about their progress and where they want to be next time they take a set of papers. Marginal gains is what it is all about. Over the next few weeks, the children will be bringing folders home, with their papers in them. This is their opportunity to share their work with you, to purple pen, celebrate their successes and reflect on their mistakes. At this point, it is really important to remember that the Year 6 curriculum has not been fully covered yet and we still have plenty of time. Please celebrate your child’s achievements and help them to develop their own targets. You may also find, over the next few weeks, past papers or SAT examples may come home as part of their homework. This can be completed the best way you see fit- whether this is alongside your child, independently or even, if they independently start and then go over their answers after. Homework is not always about assessing your child, this is done in class, homework is all about consolidating what they have learnt in class, revising and practicing skills they will need.

Leading Learners

Well done to Hollie-Rose and Evie this week.

Hollie-Rose we are so proud of your attitude towards your learning and your drive to succeed. In everything you do, you are trying your best, reflecting on mistakes you make and being an pro-active, independent learner, striving to improve every time! This is why you have made such great progress!

Evie, you are so focused during lessons, managing your distractions and getting lost in each task. Your work always reflects your capabilities, but also your creativity, and we love the way you never stop at what is expected from you, you always challenge yourself to take your learning to the next step!

Grateful and Generous butterflies

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that are grateful for their own gifts, the gifts of others and the blessings of each day. We will also be spotting children who are generous, who use their gifts to help others. These children are the role models of the school. This week we thank Kiefer for always being generous with his own gifts to help others.

Helpers in the morning

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

Jacob O Christian Jessica Evie

Notices

  • WORLD BOOK DAY - Thursday 2nd March. The children need to come to school in their WORLD BOOK DAY costumes!

  • Parents’ Evening - Please make sure that you have booked an appointment via Mrs Gregan’s blog.

  • Don’t forget to come to our Book Look afternoon on Wednesday 8th March 2:30pm

  • Water Parks meeting is on Thursday 16th March 4pm.


Have a lovely weekend. The sun looks like it will be shining.

I will see you on Monday.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Nel, Mrs Barker and Miss Forster


Year 6 Home Learning 23.02.24

Maths

Please get on TT Rockstars this week and speed up with your times tables- some of you are in desperate need! This will HUGELY help you with your fractions work!

Grammar

Many of us are making mistakes when using apostrophes in contractions within our writing- this needs revising and revisiting before lessons next week. Please complete the following IXL strands:

NN.Contractions

  1. Pronoun-verb contractions

  2. Contractions with 'not'

Reading

Please complete the reading comprehension- remember you can do this independently or alongside an adult to help you practice certain strategies.

Spellings

This week’s spelling focus are words ending with ‘ence’ ‘ency’ and ‘ent’. There is a quiz for you to complete on PurpleMash and flash cards if they help you. I have also put an ideas that may help you to learn your spellings below- just another staretgy that will help!

Mrs Barker’s Group

move must need page picture point

Research (due next Thursday)

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


Year 1 Homework 10.2.23

I would love to hear what you have been up to during the hoildays, please encourage your child to write a few sentences independently, in their purple homework books.

Half term homework

 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.

I have changed how we are going to have our spelling tests, to encourage the children I have made some spelling certificates you will receive a copy of their spelling test so you can see how they have done. Please click on the button for more information.

Spelling homework
Year 1 common exception words


Two creative tasks for you to do over half term:  

  1. Today we went into Year 5 to meet our partners and talk about our likes and interests. Please can you design and make a special Lenten box for your Year 5 partner. Their name is in their reading folder or you can send me an email if you are not sure. 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, or you can have an Easter/ Lenten theme: eggs, the cross, chicks, flowers etc, 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! I’m excited to see your designs 😊 

  2. World Book Day is on Thursday 3rd March, start thinking about what character you would like to become. Be creative with what you have!  


Thank you

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Weekly Blog 10.2.23

We love our music lessons with Miss Lavelle, on Monday we had to keep to the beat to the sparkle song, we made our own orchestra and had to take it in turns to play our instruments.

On Tuesday it was Online Safety Day we had a lovely day filled with lots of different activities. We made our own online safety posters, listen to the story of Hanni and the Magic window and created our own windows and learnt this online safety song to help us remember how to stay safe online.

On Wednesday we went to church to see Father Peter and learn about Baptisms and look at the features of a church. We asked him some questions and found out lots of information. We enjoyed our Baptism of baby Elizabeth, we even had parents and God parents to help with the ceremony. We celebrated her being welcomed into God’s family by having a party today, she even had her own cake! It was lovely to see and discuss our own Baptisms, thank you for completing the homework.

We loved looking at our amazing display in the worship area and finding all of our work, we felt proud to see it displayed for the whole school to see.

We orally retold and wrote the story of Where the Wild Things Are in English. We are looking forward to our next topic Peter Rabbit after half term.

 Today we went into Year 5 to meet our Lenten box buddy’s, your child will have a slip of paper with their buddy’s name and their interests to help you with your decorations. I am excited to see your Lenten Boxes, please bring these in during the first week back to school.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our awardees for super sentence writing in English and for using lots of expression when reading in phonics.

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

Well done to Sasha who has won the highly commended prize for her ‘The Beach’ artwork, I am looking forward to seeing you recieve your prize at the Lytham Heritage Centre.

Phonics Stay and Play

We are delighted to invite grown ups to our Phonics stay and play. These will take place on Tuesday 21st February and Thursday 23rd February at 9:15-10:15.

Please click on the link below to find your date.

Phonics Stay and Play Groups

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,

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



    Have a lovely half term

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

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