Year 4 Weekly blog Thursday 28th March " He is Risen, Alleluia, Alleluia!"

Thank you all so much for your kind donations in Lenten boxes for CAFOD and thank you children for all those tasks you did to earn the money.What a beautiful and poignant week it has been throughout school. It has been so painful at times, as children have been sorrowful and reflective when thinking about the agonising events of Holy week. Our class assembly showed their maturity to understand the fear, abandonment, betrayal and agony of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. On Wednesday children wrote about their reflections and feelings towards the crucifixion. There was a mixture of deep sorrow, frustration and gratefulness for what Jesus did for us. Also, children wrote questions they wanted to ask about it. I read their work on Wednesday night and felt tearful myself at the depth of children’s emotion towards and understanding of Good Friday’s events. Today they were asked to do reflections of a different nature, about the hope that the Resurrection of Jesus brings.

As we get to the final term, we are encouraging children to strive to be independent and believe in their own ideas when writing. The above tasks really helped them to see that their best is good enough and that there is not one right answer to things. In English this week, children have been writing our story learned in class, “Brer Fox and the White Plums,’ to see if they can use all the year 4 writing skills when they compose. A lot of learning is ‘mind over matter,’ and just taking the plunge to go for it! We are developing our resilience and stamina to keep going when things are tricky - to stand us in good stead for life’s challenges.

In Science we have learned all about fossil formation this week and also enjoyed sifting through soil with our plastic gloves to see exactly what it was made out of. After the holidays, we will go on a trip to the beach via St Annes, looking out for rocks, erosion, fossils and collecting rocks to bring back to school and test.

We had a treat today when the Easter bunny had hidden eggs all over our garden for each child in school. The excitement of the hunt was lovely!

Conversation starters

We learned about the Earth’s tectonic plates in Geography this week by taking the ‘lid’ off a crunch cream biscuit and seeing what happened when 2 plates rub together/converge. This taught children about the causes of earthquakes and volcanoes. See if they can explain it to you. Why not look up the ‘Tectonic plates - Ring of Fire,’ and find out why it gets its name.

Let’s Celebrate!

Each half term the class are asked to vote for the certificate winners. Mrs Gregan asked children to focus this half term on learners who were reflective. The class picked Matilda for how hard she tries and how she is always seeking to improve, listening well to feedback. They picked Tommy because he inspired them in Shakespeare by learning so many lines. He always tries to get better. He is a good listener and a kind friend. They also picked William because he is so enthusiastic and does not give up. They said he listens to advice and improves every day!

Loving and Compassionate butterflies

This half term, our virtues are ‘Loving and Compassionate.’ This week our butterfly go to Grace for always showing such respect for others and such love for her peers. Grace - you are full of grace!

Music Stars: Joseph, Tilly, Lily and William

PE stars this week go to Louis and John-Paul for some super sling throwing!

GOING GREEN! This week, these children have been awarded their going green certificate for having completely green heatmaps - meaning they have mastered their times tables!

Finley, Logan and Toby

Well done! This is through sheer hard work and practice!

Notices

No swimming after the holidays. However, inside PE will be on a Thursday each week so children will need shorts under their tracksuits. Wednesday is outside PE.

Wednesday 10th April 9:10am Children will do another performance of their Romeo and Juliet in our school hall for anyone to come and see.

Thursday 11th April We are going on a trip to the beach in the morning and having lunch there. I have sent a text if your child is normally a hot dinner and has said you will prepare them a packed lunch. Please could children bring in £2 for an ice-cream and a plastic bag to carry their rocks back to school.

Have a lovely Easter with your little chicks!

Mrs Lyons , Mrs Ely, Miss Hennessey and Mrs Carter

Year 6 Weekly Blog - 'He is risen. He is not there.'

What a way to end a wonderful term together! I am sure that you were all moved by the children’s depiction of the Resurrection this morning - many a tear had to be wiped from the eye. This morning is what education is all about. The children having the opportunity to think outside of the box, be creative and to express themselves. We are incredibly proud of them all.

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Continuing to learn

We have continued to really push ourselves to learn in the last week of this term. In addition to focusing on the Easter assembly, the children have been writing their own versions of Jesus’ journey to His cross. This piece is being written in 1st person so the children really have to focus on the emotion of the event. I can’t wait to share these with you after half term. In maths, we have done lots of percetnage work and to make sure children remember everything they have learnt, it’s important to keep this ticking over during the Easter break- please see the home learning page.

All of the children have revision resources and some past SAT papers for over half term for them to practise and have a go at. They have worked so hard and we are now onto the final push. Support your child the best way you see fit, these will not be assessed by me, so whatever level input you feel is necessary then please feel free. If you click on the button below, it will take you to the section on the Year 6 web page ‘How to Help Your Child.’ I have updated the page with lots of useful sites for the children to access. If you see there is an area that children need more practice, then these sites should help, but remember one of the most crucial ways is through books. So please make sure you set aside time of Easter to read together.The final weeks after half term will be focused on revision and helping the children in each of the different areas.

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This week we went to visit the special visitors in Year 2 and we loved every minute if it …

Food Tech for after Easter …

Below is the dates, groups and the ingredients the children will need for after Easter…

Friday 12th April- Groups cooking(Mains)

Group 1:

Millie- parmesan (to sprinkle over pasta) and 1 lemon

Ruby Lilly- dry pasta(for 6 servings)

Poppy- 1 bunch of Parsley

Harvey- 1 pack of breadcrumbs

Leo- 5 garlic cloves

Group 2:

Max- x2 tomatoes 2x pepper's

Iris- 4 cloves of garlic 1x avocado

Owen- Taco shells x8 

Lilly- 1x natural yoghurt  2xlimes

Daisy- 2x red onions 2x avocados

Friday the 19th April - Groups cooking (desserts)

Group 1

Rosa-2x bars of cooking chocolate 

Charlie- 1x packs of strawberries

Georgia- 1x packs of marshmallows

Evan- 1x packs of strawberries

Group 2

Betsy- 1x meringue pack 

Tabby- 3x eggs    

Matilda-1x bar of cooking chocolate

Leon-Vanilla extract 

Jay- 1x strawberries

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LEARNER OF THE HALF TERM

Voted for by your classmates for being an excellent learning role model within our classroom. The class think you have shone this half term …

Angel and Owen

Love and Compassionate butterflies

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that stop and notice how others are experiencing their lives, and how they feel, and why they say and believe what they do.  Ultimately, it is what makes us kind and, at a deeper level, opens up the possibility of being loving through our just and merciful actions and forgiving words. This week we thank Emilia, Daisy and Matilda for always being compassionate and loving with others.

Lunch Time Awards …

Year 6 have been awarded class of the half term for good manners and being excellent role models in the dinner hall!

Helpers in the morning for after Easter

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

Edi Iris Nicola Harvey

Notices

Back to school on Monday 8th April

Leaver’s Hoodies

The leaver’s hoodies have been organised and are now ready to be sized. To ensure that your child receives the correct size, please take them into Top Marques to try them on. Top Marques will also take payment fpr the hoodie of £18.50 - hoodies will then be delivered to school before the children go on their next residential. You have until Friday 26th April to pop in and complete your orders.

On behalf of the Year 6 team, I wish you all a restful and holy Easter. Take time to spend with each other and to enjoy the beautiful weather- let’s hope it remains.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker

Year 6 Home Learning 28.03.24

Message to Parents

This year really is flying! The children are being asked to work incredibly hard in class and our pace of learning is incredible. As always, the children are rising to every challenge that they are being set.

After this week, we have 6 weeks until our assessment week. Maintaining a balanced curriculum is really important. They have to experience learning in all of the other subjects as well as the increased focus on Maths and English. There has been huge progress made in these areas because the children are so motivated and determined to do well.

Intrinsic motivation and the children being determined to succeed will inevitably lead to their success. Effort breeds success.

Please do get in touch if you need any more support.

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REVISION FOR OVER THE EASTER HOLIDAYS

SPELLING - Revise all of your spellings from your spelling book. Which words are you finding tricky? Is there a particular rule? Can you re-learn some of the spellings you have got wrong in your quizzes?

GPS - You have a paper to work through at home. Are you comfortable with all concepts? What could you research further? Could you use IXL for further consolidation?

MATHS - I have given you a reasoning paper to have a go at over the holidays, reason your way through this along side an adult for support. I have added White Rose Home Learning to the button below. You can watch videos to help you in any area of maths that you are not sure about.

Please keep our precentage work ticking over ready to take off where we started after the holidays, by having a go at the following IXL strands:

T1 What percentage is illustrated?

T2 Understanding percents: bar models

READING - Please make sure you are reading every day over half term and be ready to quiz when you come back!

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Year 3 Homework- Tuesday 26th March

Spellings

This weeks focus is long vowel sounds.
Spelling quiz will be on Monday 8th April.

1. cake

2. time

3. home

4. complete

5. arrive

6. decide

7. describe

8. extreme

9. surprise

10. twice

Reading
The children have made fantastic progress towards their reading targets this half term. Reading targets will be reset ready for the summer term.
Our Author of the month for April will be Peter Brown.

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Easter Holidays Challenge!

Homework over the half term is to relax and enjoy spending time with your family and friends - you have all worked very hard this half term, rest and get ready for Summer!

Year 1 Homework 22.3.24

Reading

Please continue to read regularly at home and sign the challenge boxes, just a reminder it is one box per day.

Don’t forget you have the QR codes for the RWI videos these are great to practise their sounds at home, let me know if you need another copy.

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Spellings

It will be our big spelling test after the Easter break with a mix of the spellings from this half term and last. It will be on Friday 12th April.

The spellings are:

my were are said here our house pull

love come put do was by some they full they

of you we

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Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 5 Weekly Blog 22.03.24- ' Give me your strength when I am discouraged and not to stay crushed by my sadness'

As we approach holy week, we have been balancing our in classroom workload along with our Easter preparations. The children have been brilliant in transition by constantly needing to switching their focus based on the busy schedule.

We have spent the last two science lessons experimenting with shadows by using different types of objects to create different shades of shadows. We were then able to change the size of shadows depending on the distance from the light source to our object.

In Maths, we have began our big topic of multiplication. We have been looking at larger multiplication calculations that are much harder to do mentally- in which we have been partioning our biggest number. We then applied these skills into our new tidy method called ‘Long Multiplication’ or ‘Column Multiplication’.

In English, we have been touching over lots of SPAG skills that we have learnt this year and applying these to grammatically correct examples of work and to break sentences down into different clauses.

In PE, Mr Murray and Mr Holford took the class on an orenteering session, where the class hid objects around the school grounds and the children used maps to locate the hidden objects.

Let’s Celebrate

• Isaac for being a co-operative learner: You really do make mine and Mrs Mather’s life easier when it comes to group activities. You are so adaptive in working alongside anyone and your calming mature approach really makes you a good teammate. Whether it  is a classroom activity or a PE task, you always treat your group in the right manner.
  

• Cora for being an enthusiastic learner: Your focus and attention to detail throughout our assembly practices have been excellent Cora. This is clearly evident by your characterisation and the commitment to your role- you are always staying in character. Great work!

• Virtue Butterflies: Our butterfly this week goes to Pippa for being loving and compassionate. You are not just loving and compassionate towards your friends, which is seen by the teachers everyday on the playground, you are also so kind and respectful towards our members of staff. This really doesn’t go unnoticed.
  

  Lunchtime Certificates

  • Role Model of the Week- Esther

  • Marvelous Manners- Rafe

Notices

• Easter Assembly- Our focus in the lead up to Easter will be the Crucifixion, which will take place on Wednesday 27th March at 9:15am.

• Easter Holidays- School will close for Easter on Thursday 28th March at 2pm

This week...

What a week! You may have noticed that our garden is nearing completion. The children have been thrilled to be able to access our new builders yard. They have been laying pipes, hoisting brick and mixing cement! On Wednesday we had a had a beach delivered! We are now in the process of cleaning our sand area and trundling the new sand into situe…it is really exhausting. The only thing that we are waiting for is our new flooring for the house, then we can move in! We can’t wait!

On Friday our compost arrives. We have started to prepare the planting boxes by removing all the weeds and turning the earth. We have also managed to plant some potatoes, a buddleia, an apple tree and some strawberries. Can I say a big thank you to everyone who has donated seeds and plants to make our garden BEAUTIFUL!

As we continue our exploration of the solar system we happened across a new planet song. The children thought to was wonderful, although we were a bit sad about Pluto! Click here to listen at home

As we have been spotting daffodils everywhere around school we decided to paint pictures of them. Take a look.

Daffodils

by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone, 

I hope you've all been enjoying the bit of spring sunshine we have been having this week. 

We have been so busy this week working hard as always and we have all enjoyed being challenged in Mr Nays PE class. Mr Nay had us working hard with a tricky game, we had to really listen and follow his instructions. We had four teams; our challenge was to run around cones, find a ball, then pass it onto a friend. Whichever team had the most balls at the end were the winners. The children did so well in understanding what they had to do, it was complicated!

We have also been working hard in the garden, weeding, sweeping, planting, tidying up, and helping put the new sand in the sand pit, getting ready for Spring. The children have really enjoyed finding insects in the garden, and looking at all their different shapes and sizes. The children used magnifying glasses and pots to observe how they moved. Now all of the weeds have gone, we will be ready for even more planting after the Easter break. Thank you for all the wonderful garden donations.

The children have enjoyed being back in the garden which is now finished. The garden looks brilliant and the children  have been busy playing and leaning in all of the new areas.  

We met number 8 this week or should I say 'Octoblock'. We worked out that by adding one more to 7, this made 8, and that we could find different ways to make 8 with our fingers. The children also have also been practicing how to write the number. The rhyme helps us to remember how to write Octoblock 8, here it is:

S to start looking great, and loop back up and there's your eight.' Here is a rap all about the number 8, enjoy. Click here

Thank you to the parents I have have seen and spoken to earlier this week. It was nice to chat and catch up on your child's development.

Have a fabulous weekend, see you all on Monday.

Emma 

Michelle’s Blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s blog. We have continued this week in our worship learning about the Easter story. We have thought really hard about how the individuals felt. How did Jesus feel and how did Mary feel? We watched a film about how people celebrate Easter. Click here to watch at home. We also completed a quiz to find out what we know about the festival of Easter, click here and then watched a film about an artist who works with sand. The children thought it was wonderful click here.

This week we have also met Numberblock number 8, Octoblock and have been growing our brains working out how we can make number bonds to 8. There are lots of different ways. Maybe you can think of some ways to make 8 at home.

In PE we were excited to play team games with Mr Nay and Mr Murray. We also practised hopping and jumping.

We have been very lucky to have had some sunshine this week and this has allowed us to do some gardening, to weed and to plant some new plants. We are very excited to wait and see if they grow.

We also had an opportunity to eat the moon this week, as we made our very own moon biscuits, complete with moon craters. They were delicious!

See you all next week

Michelle

Meet Octoblock!

We have been saying and counting numbers up to 8. Our aim for the children to recognise the cardinal principle of counting that the last number counted represents the entire set of objects counted.

We have also been partitioning and counting to 8. We have learnt that Eight is formed from combining One and Seven and then partitioned again. Tricky stuff!

With this in mind now watch the episode. Click here

Story Time

We read two fabulous new stories this week. I promised that i would put the on the blog, so here goes:

Billy’s Bucket: Click here

Stone Soup: Click here

Enjoy!

Worship

We have visited the Chapel this week, to see the prayer area that Mrs Gregan has made. The children reconised the crown of thrns which was resting on the cross. We discussed how it made us feel. We recalled the Easter story in detail, the children even remembered the role of Simon of Cyrene and Veronica. The children offered a prayer for someone. They spoke with such compassion and understanding it was hard to believe they are only three and four years old. We we so moved.

On Friday we start the our Holy week in school with Jesus riding into Jerusalem. We will continue to follow Jesus’ journey throughout next week.

Lenten boxes

From Monday we will start collecting in the Lenten boxes.

Year 5 Homework Due Thursday 28th March

Spellings

Tricky words again for this week with the first 4 words being our new spellings and the rest are previous tricky words that we have done this year.

1. bruise

2. nuisance

3. recognise

4. criticise

5. buoyancy

6. fictitious

7. superstitious

8. immediately

9. necessary

10. receive

11. determined

12. obedience

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English

Will be on IXL;

T1- Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes.

Y3- Use the correct homophone

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Art- Poetry

Mrs Mather has set everyone the task of finding/writing your favourite poem in your homework books. You can either select a pre-written poem and stick/write this in your books or you can create your own.

Year 4 Weekly blog Friday 22nd March "Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory."

We are so proud of all the Year 4 children this week! They have learned a lot about who they are this week and how hard work, passion and effort can help them overcome barriers and achieve greatly. They were absolute stars at the Shakespeare Playmaking Festival at Hodgson High School. They spoke out so clearly and all their hard work paid off in their excellent delivery of their 6 scenes. They were so respectful of other schools when they were rehearsing and were so thankful towards members of staff there. At the end, the Montague and Capulet family are reconciled, teaching all children the power of forgiveness.

A real change of tempo and atmosphere on Thursday night came in their Sacrament of Reconciliation. Now it was their turn to be reconciled with God and others. They showed such reflection and maturity through all sessions and this really showed on Thursday evening. What beautiful voices they all have too!

Also on Thursday, they had their last swimming lesson! Another great achievement - children had a fun week doing relays and playing water polo. Again they are to be commended on their excellent sportsmanship and kindness to each other in these games.

In other news, they have also written their own version of a Brer Rabbit story this week and learned about weathering and erosion in Science. Eagerly, they are practising their assembly for next week.

Conversation starters

As it has been a big week for Year 4, I have asked the children to reflect upon themselves. Now your sins have been forgiven, what does your relationship with God feel like? How have you grown this week? What have you achieved? How have you managed to do all of these great things. How do you overcome nerves? Who are you as a person and how do you want to change and grow next?

Let’s Celebrate!

This week, it is impossible to single any of you out so I have one learning certificate with all the learning characters for the whole class. You have outdone yourselves in so many ways and worked as a great class team. What a class you are becoming! Keep this enthusiasm and resilience up Year 4.

Loving and Compassionate butterflies

This half term, our virtues are ‘Loving and Compassionate.’ This week our butterflies go to Logan for showing such loving care for people and William for being such a respectful, grateful and peaceful person.

Lunchtime role model of the week was: John-Paul

Marvellous Manners in the hall - Louis

Music Stars: Josh and

GOING GREEN! This week, these children have been awarded their going green certificate for having completely green heatmaps - meaning they have mastered their times tables!

Lorenzo and Sean

Well done!

Notices

Soil! Please could children bring a small sandwich bag of soil from their garden or nearby park for our Science lesson on Thursday morning.

TUESDAY 26th March Year 4 online Parent appointments.

Tuesday 26th March 9:15am Year 4 class Easter assembly on The Garden of Gethsemane

Thursday 28th March - we break up for Easter at 2pm

Wednesday 10th April 9:10am Children will do another performance of their Romeo and Juliet in our school hall for anyone to come and see.

Enjoy your weekend

Mrs Lyons, , Mrs Ely, Miss Hennessey and Mrs Carter

Year 6 Weekly Blog - 'For God so loved the World.'

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And so, we approach Holy Week in school. As we have continued to learn in class, the whole school has been busy putting together their depictions of the passion. The hall has been filled with song, emotion and wonderful drama. This morning, we had the pleasure of watching the Year 2 rehearsal of Palm Sunday. It was such a beautiful start to our school Holy Week.

Next Thursday, we will be performing our interpretation of the resurrection. I am excited for you to see it and for you to share it with us. The children need to bring into school on Monday a pair of black leggings/trousers/joggers for the assembly and some of them need to bring a black t-shirt- they know who they are, we call them our masked people. Thank you. Throughout next week, we will be discussing and writing about these events in our RE lessons. I would love to show the children clips from the film ‘Jesus of Nazareth’, as this is a fantastic resource to fully comprehend the feelings and emotions involved which will impact their writing. This film is a PG however, we will start next Monday, so if you have any objections with this then please do get in touch. If I do not hear from you, I will assume you have given consent. Many thanks.

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What have we been learning this week?

Learning has been full on and fast paced this week. I am so impressed by the attitude of the children and their desire to make progress.

English - The children have been busy analysing and collecting vocabulary and cohesive devices from our discussion around the last supper and garden of Gethsemane. We have really worked on our grammar this week and boxed off identifying determiners, prepositions and revision work on prepositional phrases.

Maths - We have enjoyed maths this week, coming to end of our fraction work and answering some tricky multi step fraction problems- what reslience we have had!

RE - What are the events of Good Friday? How did this impact on us and what did the disciples feel? We have been looking closely at the events that took place on Holy Thursday, and analysing how Jesus and his disciples may have felt.

You will see from the homework this week that we are really gearing up to the final weeks of teaching. Please continue to keep asking questions and I will help you wherever I can. Over Easter we will be sending a number of practice papers home to have a go at over the holidays, all of these will be due back the first day back after the Easter holidays. Support your child the best way you see fit, these will not be assessed by me, so whatever level input you feel is necessary then please feel free. If you click on the button below, it will take you to the section on the Year 6 web page ‘How to Help Your Child.’ I have updated the page with lots of useful sites for the children to access. If you see there is an area that children need more practice, then these sites should help, but remember one of the most crucial ways is through books. So please make sure you set aside time of Easter to read together. Below also is the timetable and just so information about SAT’s week.

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Leading Learners

Well done to Dominic and Jay this week.

Dominic, you are being such a reflective and curious learner. Your determination to succeed and desire to do the best you can has not got unnoticed! We love how engaged you are in lessons, how you always ask if you need something clarifying and your focus- keep it up Dominic!

Jay You are working so hard and are extremely focused during lessons. We love how you are getting lost in tasks, showing great resilience and listened to advice. Keep up with your passion for reading, as this unlocks so many learning opportunities!

Love and Compassionate butterflies

This half term we will be on the lookout for all the children that stop and notice how others are experiencing their lives, and how they feel, and why they say and believe what they do.  Ultimately, it is what makes us kind and, at a deeper level, opens up the possibility of being loving through our just and merciful actions and forgiving words. This week we thank Evan, Connor-Sean and Nicola for always being compassionate and loving with others.

Lunch Time Awards …

Marvelous Manners awards … Nicola

Role Model of the week … Christian

Helpers in the morning

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

Nicola Jay Georgia Rosa

Notices

• Year 6 Resurrection Assembly- Thursday 28th March at 9:15, please arrive a little earlier to be seated.

• Next Monday 25th March- Lenten boxes to be returned.

• The information regarding leaver’s hoodies will be released over the coming week. You will be able to order via the school office.

• We break up at 2pm on Thursday 28th March.

Have a lovely weekend.

I will see you on Monday.

Mrs Harrison, Mrs Webster and Mrs Barker

Year 4 home learning to be completed by Thursday 28th March

Rest and Reflection

You have had a big week! Performing Shakespeare on stage, your last swimming lesson and also your Reconciliation on Thursday. Can you reflect on what you have learned about yourself in these last few days? What is your relationship with God? What are you like as a person? What can you do now that you couldn’t before? How have you managed to achieve this? You can just discuss this with your adults OR you can make a little page about it in your homework book.

Reading

Dedicate 15 - 30 minutes on reading. Have you met your reading target?

Maths

TTROCKSTARS 10 minutes per day in Garage - see if you can improve your heatmap

Spellings

Group 1: First practise the spellings below and complete quiz in purple mash

special, strange, possible, probably, strength, surprise, remember, although, notice, recent

Group 2 Practise these spellings below.

have,   do,  little,  out,   our,   saw,    when,   who,   where, here,  how,  why

Now everyone read the words below with the s sound spelt sc. Can you spell any of these? Do you know what they mean?

scent, science descend, scene, scenery, conscience, ascend,