Spring Term Week 7 Reception

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Have you ever wondered what happened to the dish and the spoon when they ran away in the nursery rhyme, Hey Diddle, Diddle? This week Reception class found out when they heard the story, ‘The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon’ by Mini Grey. The children had lots of fun thinking and writing about what they would do if they found a big bag of money; ideas ranged from giving it to the poor, to buying a gold Lamborghini! In the story, the dish and the spoon make some poor life decisions and as a result the spoon is put in prison.  To re-enact this, Reception decided that they wanted the outside role play area to be a police station, complete with a jail and so they have been very busy working together to create and then play in it.

In RE, the children have learnt about the importance of buying Fairtrade in order to support hardworking farmers, so that they will get fair and better prices for their products, have decent working conditions, be in a position to make their own decisions and control their future and lead the dignified lives that they all deserve. The children then designed their own posters telling everyone to buy Fairtrade. Today, they reinforced their learning by discussing Fairtrade and then drawing the Fairtrade logo with their Learning Partners.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend,

Mrs Theo and Mrs Gymer

Year 6 – 01/03/19

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This week, we have been recognising the first half of Fairtrade Fortnight: on Tuesday afternoon, the Fairtrade Group went to The Wroxham School to teach them about the principles of Fairtrade and to encourage them to purchase Fairtrade products. They spoke very professionally and were truly living out the Catholic calling of working for the Common Good.

This morning, Year 6 worked with Year 1 to make their own role plays explaining why we should be buying Fairtrade products where possible.

Also this week, we were kindly visited by a volunteer from the church who demonstrated burning last year’s palms into ash for this coming week’s Ash Wednesday masses.

In English, we have started – along with the rest of the school – our new text, The Adventures Of The Dish And The Spoon; in maths, we have been learning about circle geometry and properties of 3D shapes; in RE, we recorded podcasts about the Sacraments of Healing (QR Codes to be included in next week’s blog to listen to these – watch this space!); in PE, we took advantage of the fantastic weather and did some athletics outside.

This week’s home learning (due Tuesday 5th March) is as follows:

English spag.com – KS2 SATs Grammar Test (D)
Spellings The adjectival suffix –ful becomes –fully when turned into an adverb. From the list below, write spelling sentences choosing either the adjective or adverb version of each word (eg. If you write on for hopeful, then you don’t have to write one for hopefully). I want to see a mix of both though.
Maths

Times tables

 Questions to be completed in the yellow Home Learning book:

·        CGP Year 6 book pp. 58-61 (Shape Properties and Circles)

Continue to revise all times tables.
Reading Continue to use readtheory.org

Daily reading, with parent signature once a week.
Spelling list (to be tested Friday 8th March)

Suffix ful -> fully
hopeful hopefully
careful carefully
thoughtful thoughtfully
deceitful deceitfully
woeful woefully
doubtful doubtfully
fateful fatefully
successful successfully
skilful skilfully
merciful mercifully

Have a great weekend.

Miss Donatantonio

(SN and SD – here is the psalm for you to practice):

Spring Term Week 7

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It is Fairtrade fortnight and so Year 5 have been reminding themselves of its importance. They also evaluated how relevant its message of social justice is to us as Catholics by using evidence found in Scripture.

Along with the rest of the school, we have begun our learning based on the book, ‘The Adventures of Dish and Spoon’. It is an imaginative text that explores what happened after the duo ran away together in the famous rhyme, Hey Diddle Diddle. We have depended our understanding of the characters through role play.

During Mini Police this week, Year 5 explored the concept of antisocial behaviour. They identified different types and thought about how the victims would feel.

It was wonderful to meet with you at the parent consultation evenings this week to share the children’s success and targets.

 

Have a fantastic weekend,

 

Mrs Lines

Spring 2 Week 1

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I hope you had a relaxing half term. The children returned to school with lots of exciting news and were eager to learn. We started the week by reading The Adventures of Dish and Spoon, written by Mini Grey, which the children seem to love. The whole school are reading and writing about this book.

In maths we have been practicing our 3 and 4 times tables and investigation multiplication as repeated addition and in RE we have been learning about Fairtrade.

The children have enjoyed weeding the gardens and spotting signs of spring!

Next Thursday we will be celebrating World Book Day, please ensure your child brings a book with them to share with the class – an online newsletter has been sent out about the day.

Home learning:

SPAG.com  and mathletic activities have been set – please complete by Wednesday.

Spelling list for everyone: Spring 2, week 1

Year 3/4 word list

build, busy, extreme, February, forward, forwards, group, heard, heart, history, important, increase.

Miss Pringle