Spring 2, Week 3.
We have been learning about the beatitude mercy this week and discussed how we can show mercy to others. We have been creative in RE, using art and computer skills to create collages of the beatitudes – thank you to year 5 for supporting us with our computing.
We have also published our volcano writing and collected verbs, adjectives, nouns and similes about fireworks which we will be using to write poems next week.
New targets will be sent home next week on Friday – please check your child’s bag.
Home learning:
Spelling – words ending in gue and the sound spelt que.
league, plague, rogue, vague, fatigue, unique, antique, mosque, cheque, technique.
Science – We would like everyone to take part in the Big Garden Bird Watch. Your child has been given a data collection sheet and the newsletter has details about this whole school activity.
Please return your bird sheet on Wednesday. Spelling tests take place on Friday morning.
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Pringle
Year 6 – 24/01/20
In our Evolution science topic this week, we modelled the the timeline of our planet and were amazed to see that of a 200-sheet toilet roll, only the final couple of centimetres represented humans’ presence on Earth!
On Thursday afternoon, we welcomed a police officer and two PCSOs into the classroom to talk to the class about the dangers of carrying a knife and the possible consequences of a) carrying one and b) using one. It was very eye-opening and the children were full of questions.
In RE, we learnt about the Beatitudes and in particular the 8th Beatitude: Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. We learnt about St Maximilian Kolbe and wrote about how he embodied this Beatitude.
We did more eco-brick making on Tuesday; hopefully it won’t be too much longer until we can start making them into a seat for the playground.
In English, we heard about Ms Lawler’s hair-raising encounter with a phooka; we also read and wrote about trolls. In maths, we have continued our work on fractions and have learnt how to add and subtract fractions with different denominators.
This week’s home learning (due Tuesday 28th January) is as follows:
| English | (online) spag.com à Noun phrases x2, prepositions x2, expanded noun phrases |
| Spellings | i before e except after c and exceptions:
deceive conceive receive perceive ceiling receipt protein caffeine seize neither |
| Maths
Times tables |
(online) mathletics.com tasks – adding and subtracting fractions (3 tasks)
Continue to revise all times tables. |
| Science | British Bird Watch – see school newsletter for details |
| D&T | Please complete the measurements sheet in preparation for next week’s lesson |
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Donatantonio
Week 3
The children read and sang beautifully in our class assembly today about friends. A wonderful message to spread. Well done!
In Maths we have been looking at numbers to twenty. We have been using counters and tens frames to show how many tens and ones in a number.
The children made posters to show the different ways they can represent numbers.
In English the children planned and wrote their own stories based on The Last Noo.
In Science the children enjoyed looking at different pictures and finding the odd one out, giving great reasons for their choices.
Home Learning
Phonics—au, ey and oe.
Spellings—boat, coat, road, coach, goal, people and looked.
Big Garden Bird Watch—Sit in the garden for an hour and count the number of birds you see at any one time.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs Carey
Week 2
What a wonderful week of learning! The children have been engaged in our story The Last Noo-Noo By Jill Murphy. The children made wonderful noo-noo catchers at home and in school. We sequenced pictures and text and then the children wrote amazing recounts of the story. We are focusing on our handwriting to ensure each letter is on the line and is the correct size.
Our topic in PE is Seasons. This week we looked at ice skating, the children created their own movements to make a dance.
In Science we are learning about Materials. We sorted different objects into groups according to their materials. We found some objects were made of more than one material.
Home Learning
Our sounds this the week were ph, wh and ew. Please practise reading and writing words with these sounds.
Spellings- boot, took, foot, wood, good, when, little
Mrs Carey
Reception Spring Term Week 2
Reception have continued to focus on the story, ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ this week. On Monday, they worked together as a class and correctly sequenced the whole story and they also had fun building their own cottages for the bears to live in.
On Tuesday morning, the Reception children were astonished to find that their fairy tale cottage had been broken into and generally wrecked!
Porridge had been spilt everywhere, Baby Bear’s chair broken and the bears’ beds had been messed up. Mrs Theo immediately rang the police, and they told her to preserve the crime scene with some special tape. They also told her that they needed the help of the children to search for clues and gather evidence. The class then made their own police badges and despite the terrible weather they all went outside, as they were determined to track down the intruder.
As the week progressed, the children were no closer to catching the criminal and so after a class discussion, they decided to try and trap the criminal. The class made security cameras, wanted posters and designed and made traps!
After all their efforts, sadly, the case is as yet unsolved. If you have any information, please get in contact with one of the Reception police officers.
Next week, the children will be focussing on the story ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.
Wishing you a lovely weekend,
Mrs Theo and Mrs gymer
Year 6 – 17/01/20
We were all excited and intrigued this week by the mysterious stone that I came across in Gobions Wood at the weekend. Upon looking through the hole in the stone, I spotted an unusual-looking creature in the trees that only appeared when looking through the hole. After some research into this and reading about it in the Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, I found out that the stone is a gateway to a world full of hundreds of magical creatures. So in English this week, the children wrote persuasive posters to warn people in Gobions Wood that the lethal cockatrice had been spotted there. Today, we learnt all about another fantastical creature – the havoc-wreaking boggart – and the children imagined the mischief they would get up to if they were boggarts themselves. Here they are, up to no good:
In maths this week, the children have been comparing fractions with different denominators, whilst in RE they began learning about the Sermon on the Mount. In PE, we began our new dance unit in which the children created short sequences to Daft Punk. In science, we had our first lesson on our new Evolution topic; in geography, we started our Amazing Americas topic; in D&T, we started a unit in which we will design, make and evaluate a phone case.
This week’s home learning (due Tuesday 21st January) is as follows:
| English | You have each been given a sheet with your writing targets on and a story starter underneath. Your task is to write another paragraph of the story whilst focusing on your targets and attempting to use two of this week’s spelling words below. |
| Spellings | Words with a long /e/ sound spelt ‘ie’:
siege niece grief chief fiend shriek believe achieve convenience mischief |
| Maths
Times tables |
(online) Mathletics tasks – comparing and ordering fractions
Continue to revise all times tables. |
Elysia and Jude, here is the youtube to help you with Sunday’s psalm:
Spring 1, Week 2
I was extremely impressed with the children’s volcano home learning this week. We have continued to immerse ourselves in this geography topic by learning a volcano themed dance in PE and writing about visiting an active volcano in English. In maths we have continued our work on arrays.
Home learning:
Spelling – adding the prefix bi and re
bicycle, bilingual, reappear, redecorate, reapply, repay, replay, rebuild.
Reading for 10 minutes daily.
SPAG.com activities set.
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Pringle
Spring 1
Year 2 Blog Week 17
This week Year 2 led the school in an assembly all about our school’s patron saint – St. Paul VI. The children reflected on the life and work of St Paul VI and how he worked for Peace and Justice throughout the world. Year 2 sang beautifully and everyone delivered their lines with great confidence! Well done Year 2!
Home Learning
Spellings: Rule 7 – table, fable, apple, topple, bottle, little, middle, fiddle, juggle and double.
Year 2 common exception words: old, hold, every, even, great.
The Year 2 SAT’s presentation is now available on the class page in the drop-down menu.
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Davey
