“I am King Edward VI and sentence you to the Tower for your disloyalty towards me! Off with your head!”

SCENE ONE:   ACTION!

 

 

This week we continued our work on William Sharington using drama to help us think about the characters for our narrative writing pieces.  The children took on each role with consideration and acted well.  They took turns to watch each groups’ scenes and have been given advice on what to improve upon.  I look forward to seeing their improved scenes next week!

In Maths we have been revising the concept of regrouping which we looked at last week and learning about ‘re-balancing’.

In RE we have been focusing on Pope Paul VI and his canonisation which takes place in Rome this weekend.

Home Learning is a whole school focus on Pope Paul VI.

We look forward to reading your lovely prayers to St Paul VI.

Have a lovely weekend.  I’ll light a candle for your intentions in Rome.

Mrs McNamara

 

 

Year 2 have had a very creative week. The children completed a very special stained glass window for a school display. This display is part of our Year of our Eucharistic Journey 2018-2019 to enhance our understanding and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament.

 

We have continued work on representations of number in Maths. The children created beautiful WANTED number posters with plenty of different representations of number.

In English we have been learning about expanded noun phrases and conjunctions. The children applied these to their writing about Rapunzel. ‘Rapunzel was feeling elated because she could run wildly in the dark, gloomy forest.’ 

Home Learning: reading comprehension, handwriting, spellings wk 4 and Mathletics – Money.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Davey

Year 3 have been very busy this week – they have shown fantastic listening and team work skills in all areas of the curriculum – helping each other round three digit numbers and write noun phrases that include contractions!

In science they have been investigating what soil is made of and what types of soils we have in different areas of the school. They have played different games in class to help them learn their spellings, they have all performed well in their tests – thank you for your continued support to learn these at home. Mr Dugan challenged them to solve some very tricky problem solving this afternoon – they had to be very resourceful and resilient.

In RE we have been been focusing on how and where we see God in others and in nature. They were also very creative with their lego models of the Tabernacle and have sketched and painted some fantastic pictures of Pope Paul VI. We would like to say a special thank you to Michael for coming in on Wednesday afternoon and teaching us the hymn ‘All things bright and beautiful’ we really enjoyed singing with you.

Home learning

Please continue with the science home learning project set last week (due in next Wednesday) and practice the week 4 spellings. I haven’t set any matheletic activities but please encourage them to practice their 2, 3, 4 and 5 timetables and rounding skills. I have attached a rounding and ordering question as a challenge – please post your answers on this blog. Please read over the weekend and remember reading records next week.

Have a lovely weekend.

 

This week’s home learning (due Tuesday 9^th October) is as follows:

English	Schofield & Sims English Skills : Section 1 Test 2 – to be completed in pink Home Learning book
Spellings	Words from the Y3/Y4 Statutory Spelling word lists (see below for word list) – spelling sentences to be written in pink Home Learning book. The children also have 2 envelopes – one containing this week’s words and one empty one. Once they feel they are secure with a word from Envelope 1 (short-term memory), they put it into Envelope 2 (long-term memory). I could test them on their long-term memory words at any time, and they will be revisiting them in class. If they misspell a word that they’ve put into Envelope 2, it goes back into Envelope 1.
Maths Times tables	Mathletics tasks: ·         Estimation: Add and Subtract ·         Mental Methods Multiplication ·         Mental Methods Division ·         Estimation: Multiply and Divide Continue to revise all times tables.
Reading	Minimum of 30 minutes on readtheory.org Daily reading, with parent signature once a week.

 

Spelling list (to be tested Friday 12th October) Words from the Y3/Y4 Spelling List
exercise	experience
experiment	extreme
length	weight
height	strength
straight	eight
eighth	forwards
increase	position
quarter	various