Year 6 Weekly Home Learning 1.12.23

SPELLING: this week we are CONSOLIDATING the spellings that we have previosuly learnt. This should be easier and give you another chance of getting any incorrect ones another try! Once you have practised there is also a Purple Mash quiz set for you to test yourself at home. I have also set a 2Do on Purple Mash, where you will find some downlaodable flash cards, that may help you if you want to print them off:

Mrs Barker’s Spelling Group

thing think three through very want

MATHS:

Let’s practice our place value skills with the short quiz on Purple Mash- please find the 2Do!

Continue practising speeding up your recall on halving and numbes bonds to 100 or decimals- such a vital skill we need to approach deeper learning- keep trying to beat your score!

hit the button

Science (two weeks to complete for our display)

This week we have started our topic on evolution, inheritance and adaptations. Next week we will be looking at inhetited characteristics that we get from our family. For homework, I would like you to please find a photograph of a family member or members who show these inherited characterisitcs… this photograph will be displayed in class so make sure we are ok to use this! Could you also write a few sentences/ paragraph on what inheirted characteristics you have from parent or grandparents!

It’s that time of year again …

URGENT- Please could you learn your lines that you now have- would be great if you knew this off by heart for next week’s rehearsal! Also, please practise and learn the next three songs off by heart for our Chrsitmas Concert…

Year 6 Weekly Blog- “Hope is being able to see that there is light desipte all of the darkness" Desmond Tutu

It is hard to believe that we are now coming up to the first week of Advent, the week of Hope. After a turbulent year which we see daily through the news, there is comfort to be found when we pause to read, pray, and reflect over the course of the Advent season in which we eagerly anticipate the celebration of Christ’s birth. The first Sunday of Advent gives us the opportunity to centre our thoughts on hope.It's a beautiful chance to remember the hope God offers our world, and what He's given us through Jesus. We will be celebrating the start of advent alongside Year 3 on Monday at church. Please, if you are available, it would be lovely for you to walk down with us and join us in prayer. We will be setting off from school at 9:10 ready for mass at 9:30am.

Hope, this week, has been at the forefront of our RE lessons and worship as we continue our unit of work on Justice and the refugee crisis. We will be moving on to the study of significant people that have stood up to these injustices and the hope this gives us for a better world.

Year 6 have loved Science this week. We have been looking closely at inheritance and deciding whether traits are environmental or inherited characteristics. We have looked at this through Mr Men and Little Miss, thinkign about the characterisitics they could pass down to their offspring- we had such good fun with our creations…

Leading Learners

Well done to Daisy and Molly-Ann this week.

Daisy, Wow Daisy you know how to work your socks off! You have such resilience, stickability and a desire to succeed, it’s contagious! Keep enjoying your learning and giving it your everything.

Molly-Ann, we have been so impressed with your focus during our writing this week, we know you love it but it is such a treat to see such enthusasim and flair! You have really set your mind to it, been extremely determined and created a beautiful piece of writing, reflecting on your targets and listening to advice.

Helpers in the mornings:

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

Stan Leo Georgia Dominic

Notices

Friday 8th December is a big day - £1 to wear your Chrsitmas jumper for the day, £1 if you would like to buy some cake and £3 if you would like to enter in the Our Lady’s Bake Off!! On your marks…Set… Bake!

We are out and about a lot next week, walking to church. Please could you make sure children have a warm coat and hat each day to keep warm.

We have decided as a school not to send individual Christmas cards to each other, but to instead put this money towards a chairty of your choice. Children can if they wish, write one card for the whole class.

Our Christmas performance is in church on Monday 18th December at 2pm and 6pm.

We close for Chrsitmas at 2pm on Thursday 21st December

Monday18th December Key Stage 2 Christmas party. Children can come to school in party clothes and sensible shoes. They can bring a non-fizzy drink and a small snack such as chocolate or a packet of crisps.

Have a lovely weekend all of you,

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker


Year 5 Homework- Due December 7th

Spellings

The focus for this week has been double letter words. The first 5 are words we have learned this week and the rest are other double letter words- some of which we have covered already this year.

  1. embarrass

  2. excellent

  3. exaggerate

  4. especially

  5. interrupt

  6. accommodate

  7. appreciate

  8. aggressive

  9. address

  10. access

Christmas Concert Practice

The next 3 songs of our Christmas concert have been practiced this week. Next week, we will begin practicing at church so it is vital that children are learning the lyrics at home so they are prepared.

The Great Our Lady Bake Off & Christmas Jumpers- Friday 8th December

We are one week away from the Our Lady Christmas Bake Off. Both children and staff will be entering separate competitions and everyone will take part in judging all of our entries. This is all in aid to raise money for Brian House- to give children less fortunate than ourselves a wonderful Christmas.

£3 - Bake Off Entry Fee

£1 - Cake Sale

£1 - Christmas Jumper

9:00 - 9:30am - Judging! 

This will take place in the classroom for individual bakes and in the hall for the family bakes. The bakes will be judged on 2 things: flavour and festive appearance. Teaching team are judging the taste and the children are judging the appearance -one winner per class. For those children who are doing a family bake, these will come into the hall and Mrs Gregan and Mrs Nel will judge these. Make it special. Have a gingham altar at the front of your class and make it a real event. 

Breaktimes - Cake Sale

We will then separate the bakes and have some for the class bake sale and keep some for the parents in the afternoon. The children will be bringing in £1 for the cake sale. See how much is brought in and then decide how much the children can buy. 

2pm - 3pm: Parents Carols and Cakes

Year 3 Homework - Tuesday 28th November

English

Today we have revisited using commas in a list. For your homework please complete the commas in a list activity by completing the sentences.

Maths

Practise your 8 times table by playing BINGO as a family. You have all got a set of 4 BINGO cards to cut out and multiples of 8 to be called out. Keep rocking on TT Rockstars too. You are making brilliant progress!

Spellings

‘sh’ spelt ‘ch’
chute chef machine parachute chalet brochure charade chandelier moustache

Your spelling quiz will be on Monday 4th December













Year 1 Homework 24.11.23

We will be starting our Geography topic soon, we will be looking at our local environment and our home addresses, please could you bring in a stamped envelope with your child’s name and address on by Friday 1st December, thank you.

LEARNING THE SONGS

Mrs Hotchkiss has filmed the Year 2 children singing some of our songs today. The songs are easy to remember and very catchy - I hope you enjoy singing along too! The Lyrics are attached too so you can practise together.

Don't be afraid song Lyrics

Reading

Please keep reading at home books have been changed today. Please can you ensure that your child’s reading folder comes in to school every day. As we aim to listen to all children read to an adult at least once a week and change their books.

Purple Mash Ongoing

Please continue to practise logging on and off Purple Mash.

Spellings

Our spelling test will be on Friday 1st December, please practise these at home:

do is has

so by was

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 5 Homework- Due 30th November

Spellings

  1. frequent

  2. patient

  3. ancient

  4. innocent

  5. dependent

  6. intelligent

  7. obedient

  8. magnificent

  9. different

  10. confident

Christmas Concert Practice

We practiced the next few songs of our Christmas concert this week. Please dedicate some time to learning these songs to help make our concert amazing when in church.

Maths- Money

Will be on IXL;

  • R1- Comparing money amounts

  • R3- Add and subtract money amounts

Geography- Rivers

Next week, we will be starting our first geography topic of rivers. In preperation, choose one famous river in the world and create a poster about this river. Your poster might include facts such as location, size, length and other interesting facts about your chosen river.

Here is a list of some of the most known rivers around the world;

  • Thames

  • Nile

  • Amazon

  • Mississippi

  • Ganges

  • Yangzee

  • Rhine

  • Dandube

Year 6 Weekly Blog - 'Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.'

And in the blink of an eye…another week in Year 6 has passed. From the minute that the children walk into class in the morning to the moment that they walk out of the door, they are constantly learning and challenging themselves to be the best that they can be. It really astounds me just how much work that the children have completed. As we approach Advent, and the birth of Jesus Christ, we continue to strive to be Faithfilled and Hopefull in our actions, which are our two virtues this half term.

Learning is always fast paced in Year 6 and this week has been no exception. This week it has been all about our writing! Every day, the children have taken a paragraph/ event from our class novel and we have either written our very own as a class or the they have independently innovated the main ideas to create their own paragraph. The next day, they look at the feedback they have been given and challenge themselves to meet this target. Wow, what wonderful writing they have created. They have all worked so hard and produced such depth, trying hard to blend their description, dialogue and action throughout.

In Maths we have been adjusting the calculations to be more efficient and accurate. Our RE topic this term is such a reflective unit of work, as we ask the children to reflect on the injustices within our world today. They are often surprised that some of the situations still occur. We spent today reflecting on a poem about the plight of refugees in our world. Why not read the poem and see what you think?

They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way.

Now read the poem backwards. What a powerful poem with a really significant meaning. The discussion around this and the empathy the children showed was so humbling, what a group of compassionate children you have. Following this lesson, the children have started to write their own poems about refugees.

Earlier this week we met our Recpetion partners, we did lots of talking to find out a little bit more about them and read a book together…

Leading Learners

Well done to Leo and Evan this week.

Leo, I have loved reading your writing this week. Your creativity and desire to hook the reader in and entertain them with your words, is beautiful. You have been so creative with your descriptions that I felt like I was actually IN your story! You have also controlled the pace of your writing creatively with your punctuation and variation of sentence lengths, just at the right time. Thank you for working so hard and reflecting on your targets. 

Evan, you are so focused on your learning and always engaged, ready to learn and answer any questions thrown your way! You listen to the learning, reflect, manage any distractions extremely well and challenge yourself in your work. You work so hard to improve and hit your targets every day and this is reflected in your work. A big well done Evan- keep up the great work!

Helpers in the mornings:

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

Edi Harvey Tabby Iris

Notices

Our Christmas performance is in church on Monday 18th December at 2pm and 6pm.

We close for Chrsitmas at 2pm on Thursday 21st December

Friday 8th December is a big day - £1 to wear your Chrsitmas jumper for the day, £1 if you would like to buy some cake and £3 if you would like to enter in the Our Lady’s Bake Off!! On your marks…Set… Bake!

Have a lovely weekend all of you,

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker



Year 6 Weekly Home Learning 23.11.23

English - Please complete the short comprehension sheet on the DEFORESTATION.

SPELLING: this week we are continuing to focus on words ending in ‘ough’. Once you have practised there is also a Purple Mash quiz set for you to test yourself at home. I have also set a 2Do on Purple Mash, where you will find some downlaodable flash cards, that may help you if you want to print them off:

Mrs Barker’s Spelling Group

Same Sentence show small sound take

MATHS:

Let’s practice our reasoning skills with a short quiz!

Also, there are many children in class we have spotted this week that need to practise recalling half of numbers, especially odd numbers. Please can we spend a bit of time throughout the week on the game ‘hit the button’

OR are you one of the children that needed to practise their number bonds to 100 or decimal frations…if so please practise 10 minutes a day on Hit the Button…

hit the button

Science (two weeks to complete for our display)

This week we have started our topic on evolution, inheritance and adaptations. Next week we will be looking at inhetited characteristics that we get from our family. For homework, I would like you to please find a photograph of a family member or members who show these inherited characterisitcs… this photograph will be displayed in class so make sure we are ok to use this! Could you also write a few sentences/ paragraph on what inheirted characteristics you have from parent or grandparents!

It’s that time of year again …

Please could you next learn the next two songs off by heart for our Chrsitmas Concert…

Year 3 Homework - Tuesday 21st November

RE

This week we have read about the annunciation to Mary. Can you remember what happened? Think about what the Angel Gabriel said to Mary and how she felt.

Maths

IXL Counting and number patterns

3 Skip-counting by 8

TT Rockstars

Later this week we will begin learning the 8 times table. Can you challenge yourself on TT Rockstars to get yourself ready for Thursday? Remember to go onto Studio to get your Rockstar Status!

Spellings

Prefix ‘sub’
subway subzero submarine subtitle subheading subsoil subdivide subtropical submerge subtotal


Your spelling quiz will be on Monday 27th November