Year 5 Weekly Blog 12.04.24- ' You are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence'

This week we have reflected on how our actions, regardless of their nature, have a consequence. We discussed what the ‘ripple effect’ is and how our actions can create a series of knock on effects- which is why we should always stick to our class targets of ‘being kind’ and ‘treating others how you would like to be treated’. We referred this to the Bible in how Mary is the untangler of knots- emphaising the importance of forgiveness and making the right choices.

And just like that, we are underway into our third and final term of the year! A mixture of nerves and excitement have been present in the children. Excited for the summer term, the nicer weather and closer to the six week break but also nervous of edging closer to their final year of primary school. The children’s focus, determination and resilience has remained on a high- even after the Easter break- allowing us to really get into our learning for the half term!

What have we been learning this week?

English- We have began our new poetry topic where we have began to investigate and read the opening of ‘The Highwayman’. The children have created a toolkit of their poetic devices and have been able to identify these in our poem. I have been super impressed with the children’s imagery and creative thinking- especially today when they were creating their own metaphors based from stanza one.

Maths- After two weeks of getting stuck into our long multiplication method, the children were amazed to discover ‘short multiplication’- a more effective way of using the same method but to answer bigger multiplication problems. The children have been able to use their times table knowledge to speedily answer difficult calculations- something they should be really proud of.

History- We have started our new topic- Crime and Punishment. This unit has hooked the children instantly, in which they have recognised the significance of the topic and understand the maturity that comes with learning it. We discussed about any crimes that we know of already and analysed these to rank them in order of seriousness. We then have been looking at what Crime was like in the 17th century- to understand why certain crimes were higher and what type of punishments were used.

Science- For this half term, our focus will be all things materials. We kicked the week off with looking at the different properties that a material can have and understanding what the vocabulary means. We have then experimented with different classroom materials to test which properties that have/don’t have.

Deeper thinking questions

Every week now, we would like children to explore their weekly learning at home by discussing interesting questions with family members. This may be at the table during dinner, before bedtime or when out for a walk. However you choose to discuss these questions is up to you but this may give you more of an insight into what we have been learning in class.

How do you think crime has changed over your lifetime?

Do you think prisons really work?

Let’s Celebrate

• Arthur for being a focused learner- You have come back after the Easter holidays and got stuck straight into your learning. Your eyes and body posture has been centered towards the teacher which shows that you are ready to learn and you have been able to answer all questions when chosen straight away. Keep this up for the rest of the year!

• Ruby for being an enthusiastic learner- I have loved your enthusiasm towards poetry and how you have just fully emerged yourself into it. You have enjoyed spotting our poetic devices in our new class poem and you have even been creating your own poems in your free time- which have been a delight to read.

  Excellent work!

• Virtue Butterflies- Our virtues for this half term are learned and wise. Our butterfly goes to Liam- you make such wise decisions both in and out of the classroom which really shows your maturity. You never let a game of football and the emotions get the better of you. Inside the classroom, even when you are sat with friends and they are not making the right choice, you still remain on task regardless of distractions.

  Lunchtime Certificates

  • Marvellous Manners- Rex

  • Role Model of the Week- Ruby

Notices

• Eco Trip- We will be going to Hope Park on Friday to check now our bulbs have grown after we planted them before Christmas. We will be going from 12:30-2:00. This will be weather dependant so make sure to check the forecast in the lead up.

• Netball Tournament- Mrs Gregan will be taking one team to the tournament on Thursday 18th April. Please check the sports page to see if your child has been chosen.

Year 1 Homework 12.4.24

Reading

Once again thank you for all of your hard work over the holidays, lots of the children have been telling me about the videos and we can tell they have watched them.

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

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Handwriting

We have enjoyed using letter join this week to help us with our pre-cursive handwriting. Please click on the button below for more information, there is another copy of the log in card on the second page. If you have any problems please email.

Once you log in, you can click on free play to explore at home or Year 1, there will be a box that comes up that says:

Find the letter ‘a’ and ‘d’, click on easy letters, then click on the ‘a’ and ‘d’ at the bottom of the screen. You can click on the play button to see how you write the letter, then click on try and the bottom of the screen under the play button so you can practice each letter.

In your child’s yellow reading book there are log in cards for computers and tablets, ideally a tablet would be easier as they can use their finger to practice the formations. The online programme is great at helping learn the direction of each letter and where to start but it is important that they are using pencils to practice writing on paper. We have been learning a rhyme to help us hold our pencils correctly. We have focused on sitting at the table properly, feet on the floor our non writing hand holding our book or paper, sitting up straight. In the purple books there is a letter formation sheet and the pencil rhyme. I would like to see on the next page lots of ‘a’ and ‘d’ on the line and circle your best one.

Extra challenge can you write you name using pre-cursive letters?

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Optional Challenges!

It is wonderful that the children are so excited about their learning and to see how keen they are to continue this outside of school. We welcome any opportunity to share these learning experiences with you at home, which is why we have created ‘optional challenges’ across each year group which can be explored over this Summer 1 half term.

These challenges link to the wider area of our curriculum, there are some activities to help with retrival and some with topics that are coming up.

Below you will find the optional challenges linking to the topics and areas of learning that we will be exploring this half term. These fun challenges are designed to cover a range of skills without being stressful or time consuming for you at home. You are welcome to complete them in any order you wish and it would be lovely to see pictures or examples of things that the children have enjoyed at home.

As always, thank you for your continued support.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 5 Homework due Thursday 18th April

Spellings

1. accommodate

2. accompany

3. according

4. achieve

5. aggressive

6. amateur

7. ancient

8. apparent

9. appreciate

10. attached

11. available

12. average

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SPAG

The children have been given a set of grammar and punctuation questions which have been stuck in their books.

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Science- Materials

Pick an object/material in your house and analyse its properties by using the table to help you.

Year 4 Weekly blog Friday 12th April "Individually, we are one drop; together we are an ocean."

What a lovely first week we have had in year 4 - full of achievements! In our religion lessons this week, we have started to learn about the very first Christians, beginning with St Peter and then the Ascension of Jesus to heaven. We welcome back Miss Bassett who is teaching RE on Tuesdays in Year 4 and was very impressed with children’s reflective questions, especially in our worship about belief.

On Wednesday children performed their Shakespeare for the whole school. I am sure you were as proud as I was of them - what a performance! What a team! In our English lessons now, we are focusing on putting all our writing skills together to compose a story about a Dragon Slayer and then it will be time for our class novel, ‘The Firework-Maker’s daughter.’

In history, we have now moved onto our topic on Vikings. Children began this topic by meeting’Sven the boatbuilder’ who looked suspiciously like Mrs Lyons with a viking helmet on. Nevertheless, the children quizzed Sven about how great longships were made and why Vikings were such great sailors.

On Thursday, we ended our Science topic about Rocks by taking a trip through the square, examining buildings to theorise about what type of rocks were used. I won’t tell you any more - I will let the children do that (see conversation starter below)

In maths, we have been understanding multiplicative relationships and children have been using their times tables knowledge to great advantage by solving calculations like 154 x 6! The speed at which many children know their times tables makes this easy for them now!

Conversation starters

Tell your family all about our trip to the beach. What is our church made of? What has happened to it? What other types of rocks did we see on buildings? What bout the rocks you found on the beach? What did your rock tests suggest about their rock type? Also - why not take your family to the limestone wall of fossils near the YMCA?

Let’s Celebrate!

This week our certificates are as follows:

Amelia received a Sadie Spider/ Kiki Chameleon certificate for being so productive and getting so much work done - but also putting a lot of thouht into it all too!

Gus received a Bobby Bee/Clara Clownfish certificate for being so enthusiastic, being a great listener and explaining things in maths and Science so eloquently - with excellent use of vocabulary.

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 are children who are trying to drive their own learning forward. This week the butterfy goes to Lorenzo who is trying so hard to grow wise and reflect on how to improve.

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!

Hugo

Well done! This is through sheer hard work and practice! Keep going everyone else - you are almost there!

Notices

Inside PE will be on a Thursday each week so children will need shorts under their tracksuits. Wednesday is outside PE.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Lyons , Mrs Ely, Miss Hennessey and Mrs Carter

Year 4 home learning to be completed by Thursday 18th April

HALF TERMLY OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING

In line with our new homework policy, each class will now have some optional half termly tasks . Some tasks will build on previous learning and others will enrich this half term’s learning. Please click on the link below to view the tasks for this half term. You can do these in homework books, as photos, powerpoints or however you like.

Then we have our usual weekly learning - to be carried out by everyone:

Reading

Dedicate 15 - 30 minutes on reading. Have you quizzed yet this half term?

Maths

TTROCKSTARS 10 minutes per day in Garage - see if you can improve your heatmap. Also, can you use our method to complete the following calculations?

a) 14 x 6 b) 17 x 8 c) 19 x 5 d) 24 x 3 e) 28 x 4 f) 27 x 7 g) 49 x 3 h)234 x 5

In Year 4, we work them out by partitioning the larger number into its parts.

See the example below

16 x 7= (break it into the calculations below then add up the answers)

10 x 7=

6 x 7=

Spellings

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

actual, address, calendar, disappear, experience, particular, thought, separate, difficult, weight

Group 2 Practise these spellings below.

I’ve, I’m, now, call, house, school, would, could, should, other, mother, brother

Netball Tournament Selections

Next Thursday, the local netball tournament will be played at Lytham St Annes High School. It will start at 3.30pm, hoping to be finished by around 5.15pm at the latest. Please can you collect your child from school at 3.10pm and take them to the event.

We are only able to take one team to the tournament.

Well done to the following girls who have been selected:

Daisy, Iris, Nicola, Tabby, Millie, Faye, Esther, Bella

The girls’ will need to be in full netball kit and school PE kit with appropriate trainers. Plenty of fluid will be required to keep hydrated.

The tournament is being run by the young leaders from LSA who will be supporting, running the table, umpiring and lots of things. Please be kind and courteous to them.

This week...

Welcome back! I hope that everyone had a lovely Easter despite the rain and the wind!

We have started our new learning thread ‘growing’. A big thank you to everyone who has donated seeds and pots. Our delivery of soil arrived just before Easter…I may have over ordered, it’s HUGE bag.

On Monday we planted carrots, meadow seeds, lettuce, tomatoes and strawberries. Now we are waiting patiently. In the meanwhile we have been discussing what will be happening under the soil and what the seeds need to thrive. Click here to watch and here to see the seeds start to germinate.

Worship

This week we explored the concept of the Trinity, where God is three-in-one and each part loves the others and loves us. We discussed how Children we are made in the image of God, we are designed to love God and love one another in our wider communities too.

Our word of the week is ‘believe’. Even though we have seen the season of Lent cumulate in Easter Sunday, and Jesus’ Resurrection, Eastertide still continues. Now ids the time to celebrate in the risen Lord; during which we are called to grow in friendship with Jesus, believe in Him, and tell others about the Resurrection. We have been learning the hymn ‘Be Still for the Presence of the Lord’. Click here to join in at home.

Emma’s Blog

Hello everyone, 

Welcome back. I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. It's been lovely hearing the children telling us all what they have been up to over the holidays.

As it’s a new term and Summer is here, we have been busy planting seeds in our garden. We have planted strawberry, carrot, tomato and cucumber plants as well as wild flower seeds, and lots more. We have been working our brains and learning about how seeds germinate, and how the roots of the seed need water and nutrients to feed the plant and to help it grow from under the ground. Talking about nutrition in the soil, how does the soil gets the nutrition I here you ask? Earthworms are fantastic burrowing creatures and are the living, breathing, engineers of the underworld, eating and recycling organic matter to keep our soil healthy with nutrition ready for planting.

We also found out lots of interesting facts about the earthworm, and here is a link for you to look at: Click here to learn more.

The children have been working together to make a wormery in nursery, to see how the worms live and eat underground. The children really enjoyed looking for the worms and layering their new home with sand and soil and feeding them by leaving out dead leaves and plants on top of the soil. I will keep you all updated with how they are getting on.

We have also been busy learning our new sounds, ng, nk, qu, th, ch this week. The children are working really hard with their sounds.

See you all next week.

Emma

Michelle’s blog

Hello, and welcome to this week’s nursery blog. I hope you all had a restful and peaceful Easter and didn’t eat too many eggs.

This week we have jumped straight into our new topic of spring and growing with both feet, or should that be both wellies?

We have decided we want to grow lots of things , lots of flowers and lots of fruit and vegetable. We have spent some time planting seeds and plants with pots and compost. We keep looking but they haven’t grown yet.

Here are some fantastic spring ideas for you to try at home. Click here.

If you would like to have a go at growing at home but are short on space or time, here are some ideas for growing using vegetable scraps, click here

In PE we have continued to practise our Fundamental Movement skills of throwing, catching, jumping, running and hopping. Catching is really tricky but we keep practising. This is a skill that you could try practising with your child, as you can throw and catch anything, it doesn’t have to be a ball.

We have also continued  exploring numbers this week and have been growing our brains trying to find all the different ways we can make different numbers and also looking for numbers in the environment. When you look, they are everywhere! Which numbers can you spot?

Here is a link to some fantastic number games, including letter formation, counting and number recognition. Click here.

That’s all for now. Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week.

Michelle

Storytime

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle; Click here

Please look out for a seeds sequencing card game to make at home…coming home this week! Enjoy!

Lastly, it has been so lovely to see everyone back at nursery this week, ready and eager to learn. Next week…more growing! We can’t wait.

Have a lovely weekend

God Bless

Barbara

Year 6 Home Learning 11.04.24

READING

Lots of reading please- let’s get quizzing!

Maths

This week we have looked at percentages. Please have a go at the following IXL strand to revisit your learning.

T3 Convert fractions to percents using grid models

T4Convert between percents, fractions and decimals

Then please complete the arithmetic booklet. This can be either completed independently to a time (30 minutes) or alongside a grown up where you can discuss the strategies and methods you use- you must decide what is going to be most beneficial for you.

Spellings

This week’s spelling focus are words that contain a double consonant. Remember to practice these throughout the week and to complete the quiz on Purple Mash.

Optional revision:

1) Why don’t use look at the pronouns sections in IXL English GG PRONOUNS. We have been doing this in class so it would be great to reinforce!

2) Below is a list of the Year 5 and 6 word list that children are expected to be able to spell by the end of Year 6. Why not take a look at them and see how many you know how to spell? How many do you know you need to work on?

Summer 1 Extra-Curricular Names and Places

Please find above the names of the children who have signed up for the extra-curricular clubs this half term.

Archery, Judo and Mr Nay’s football sessions start tomorrow.

For the archery and judo, can all children come in through the main entrance, they will then be directed to where they need to go; depending on where the activity is. Please ensure that you have paid £28 before the session starts tomorrow.

The cricket clubs start next week and will run for the next 5 weeks.

Year 1 Homework 28.3.24

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, click on the buttons to get the codes.

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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 Easter Break

Miss Drummond

This week...

Such an emotional week. We have travelled through Holy Week attending each moving assembly which has depicted Jesus’ journey to the cross. We have been discussing each event by visiting the stations of the cross. The children have been truly reflective, trying to comprehend ‘why’? On the morning of the Crucifixion assembly we were so overcome with sadness it made some of us cry.

It has not been all sadness though, we have enjoyed lots of fun in the garden, organising everything in readiness for a planting bonanza when we return!!

Our learning thread focusses on ‘cycles’; plants and animals, and also a complementary thread- ‘Superheroes’! Click on the button below to see our planning.

We were lucky enough to have Year 2 newly hatched chicks come to nursery for us to look after. It was thrilling. We watched a video of one of the chicks emerging from its shell (see year 2 blog from last week).

Easter Egg Hunt!

On Thursday Easter bunny came to nursery and hid eggs for everyone in the garden. We had great fun searching for them. Take a look!

Read, Write Inc.

We are so proud of ourselves…we have completed Speed Set 1 sounds, phew! We now need to keep practising them so that we get better and better.

Click here for z

Click here for ch

Click here for qu

Click here for x

Click here for ng

Click here for nk

Try and think of words with these sounds in them. Good luck, it’s tricky!

Emma’s blog

Hello everyone 

We have had a fun packed 4 days this week.

Nursery has been into the school assembly every day this week to watch years 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, tell different parts of the Easter story. We have really enjoyed it. 

The children have continued learning about the 14 stations of the cross by using objects to represent each station. For example, a rock represents the tomb, 3 plasters represents Jesus falling 3 times, lolly sticks for the cross and many more. The children linked the objects to each station to help us remember and retell the Easter Story.

A big thank you for bringing back your Lenten boxes. Your kindness will really help those less fortunate.

We were so excited we met x and z letter sounds this week as the children have been waiting so long for these as its seems they really like saying them. The children also use there whole body to represent X.

We had some visitors in nursery this week. Some baby chick's from year 2, where the children in year 2 have been looking after them. They have had them since they were eggs and looked after them as they hatched. The children in nursery were really grateful that they got to see and touch them. Thank you year 2 for letting us spend time with your chick's.

As Easter is this weekend, here is a recipe to make chocolate nests and an Easter counting game. Click here and here. Enjoy!

Have a wonderful Easter and enjoy your week off, and I can’t wait to hear what you have all been up to.

Emma 

Michelle’s blog

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.

This week we have had assembly every morning as we have watched the juniors tell the story of Easter. Mrs Gregan has said she was very impressed when visiting nursery at how much the children could recall about Easter. The children are very aware of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection as we have had many discussions over the previous weeks about many aspects of Easter.

Thank you so much for all the Lenten boxes that have been returned. We have been very humbled by your generosity.

We have continued learning new letter sounds this week and have been practising our writing too.  Here is a reminder of the sounds we have learnt so far.

Click here

We are enjoying our revamped garden and have been enjoying it, whatever the weather.

Have a lovely Easter and we will see you after the holidays.

Michelle 

Finally, I would like to wish everyone and Happy and Holy Easter. Thank you for all your support of nursery this term, you are truly wonderful!

Stay safe and God bless, I will see you on the 8th April.

Barbara

Year 5 Weekly Blog 287.03.24- ' Into your hands Lord, I commend my spirit'

Wow! What an emotional yet exhilarating final week of the term- where we all came together as one to witness Holy Week. Each day, we came into the hall in silence and reflection as we relived the story of Jesus’s death and resurrection. Wednesday was our big day as the children had the biggest of tasks of recreating the Crucifixion of Jesus. The children were fantastic in their character roles, their emotive behaviour and their delivery of prayer and scripture.

With the end of our Holy Week in school, Year 6 closed us out with a beautiful portray of the resurrection which was followed by celebrations of an Easter Egg Hunt! With a surprise visit from our Easter bunny, they had hidden an egg for each child around the gardens of the school. The children’s quick-witted investigating skills came in handy as they all found their eggs!

Let’s Celebrate

With it being the end of a term, the certificates were chosen by the children themselves- with the theme being a reflective learner'. Our winners for this term are;

Michael: You have been chosen by your classmates for:

• Being an excellent learning partner

• Putting lots of work into your handwriting practice

• Pushing through till the end when things get tough

• Taking every word from the teacher and wanting the improve

Elsie: You have been chosen by your classmates for:

• High focus during independent tasks to make sure your work is your best

• Pushing through till the end when things get tough

• You like receiving feedback because it gives you a chance to improve

• Always being kind to everyone and reflect how other people are feeling

Virtue Butterflies: Our butterfly this week goes to Ruby. You live and breath kindness and you are so respectful to all members of staff. You don’t just treat your closest friends with love and compassion but everyone you come across.

Notices

• Homework for half term: Spellings will be the same as last weeks due to not having a spelling test this week. Any missed IXL’s or Art homework from last week needs to be completed. Lots of reading and times tables practice over the Easter break.

• School will reopen on Monday 8th April