Autumn 1 Week 6

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In maths this week, we have begun learning about negative numbers. The children have been counting forwards and backwards across 0 and reading a range of negative number scales. In English, Year 5 have been improving their grammar and punctuation skills by using modal verbs, punctuating dialogue and varying sentence starters. These will be put to good use next week when we write our end of unit narrative set on a river.

In PE, we have begun looking at invasion games. Our focus this week was football. In the final two weeks, we will be doing rugby and hockey. It was great to take part in karate again this on Wednesday and learn new poses.

We had a wonderful time outside. Unfortunately, as the light drizzle turned to rain, we made our way inside.

 

Have a wonderful weekend

Mrs Lines

Home Learning:

Mathletics

Studyladder

Readtheory (10 tests)

Spellings  (Week 5)

Year 1 Home Learning

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Hi Year 1,

 

I hope you all had a lovely week. I miss seeing you all in class but heard you were working very hard!

Home Learning

studyladder.com – Please complete the reading, maths and phonics activities set.

Reading – Please read and talk about your book. Describe the characters and the setting.

Spellings

 

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Carey

Year 6 – 09/10/20

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This week, Year 6 started writing their narratives based on the whole-school text, River Story. Each day, they have been excited to write the next section to their story, so I am looking forward to reading them once they have been edited and written up in neat next week. This has linked to our geography topic on rivers, where this week we discussed physical geographical features of rivers.

In PE, the children have been practising jumping and had their second session in karate.

In Wellbeing this week, Year 6 found sticks upon which they attached bits of nature that they felt inspired by.

Maths Task assigned on Mathletics:

·         Money Problems: Four Operations (ensure you write £10.00 and not £10)
  Here are the instructions to create a Prodigy account in Miss Donatantonio’s classroom:

1.       Go to www.prodigygame.com/play

2.       Click ‘New Student’

3.       Enter the Class Code: B1EAD0A
Reading 30 minutes on https://readtheory.org/
Spellings This week’s words contain the suffix ­­-ant or -ent:

different

ancient

excellent

patient

violent

parliament

distant

hesitant

reluctant

restaurant

fragrant

vacant
SPaG Task assigned on https://www.spag.com/

·         Direct Speech Punctuation

·         Relative Clauses

Enjoy the weekend!

Miss Donatantonio

Year 2 Blog 09-10-2020

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What an action packed week it has been in Year 2! The highlight of our week was definitely our walk to Mimmshall Brook. We were blessed with a beautiful morning. With our wellington boots on, we made our way along muddy paths and ploughed fields until we reached the babbling brook. The water was crystal clear and Year 2 delighted in watching the stream flow under the beautiful old bridge. The children were wonderful ambassadors for our school and they were very responsible on our walk.  Next week we will begin writing our River stories as part of our whole school writing project. Watch this space!

Home Learning:

Spellings: Week 5 – Spelling test on Wednesday

Mathletics: Count forwards patterns, count backwards patterns, test.

Study ladder: Narrative- Riding my bike to school

Study ladder: Grammar – Developing language – adjectives

Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Davey

Friday, 9th October 2020 Home Learning

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Dear Year 4,

Thank you so much for sharing your lovely learning with us in the past couple of days. We really appreciate how well you have become accustomed to the new learning platform and how you have all carried on with your daily learning. Well done everyone!

We can’t wait to see you back in school but until then…we wish you a lovely weekend,

Ms Varga and Mrs McNamara

Please see your Home Learning below:

Spelling Please see the link for Spelling Frame where you can play games and test yourself on this week’s spelling words.

http://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/43/5-More-prefixes-2-of-3
Reading Please log onto Read Theory and complete 4 activities
Study Ladder/

Mathletics

 Please log onto Study Ladder to see your SPaG activity and log onto Mathletics to complete your assigned Maths tasks.

https://www.studyladder.co.uk/

https://login.mathletics.com/

 

Week 6

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We’ve had an action packed week in Y3! During RE we have looked at the symbols and actions used during Mass, while in Maths we have been estimating where to place numbers on number lines. Next week we will be looking at units of measurement.

We have used various painting techniques to create beautiful mountain and river paintings. I have been very impressed with the control the children have shown when painting. I am also really pleased with the story writing in Y3 this week – they have included prepositions, adjectives, noun phrases and verbs to interest the readers attention – well done Y3.

 

Home learning 

Spelling – https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/91/14-Adding-the-endings-ing-ed-er-est-and-y-to-words-ending-in-e

hiking
hiked
hiker
nicer
nicest
shiny
shiniest
shinier
shined
shining

Study ladder

Please complete the three activities set online (counting in 3s and sentence starters).

Read theory and reading 

Please complete 10 quizzes and log your reading in your reading records.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Pringle

 

 

 

 

 

Year 4 Assembly 9th October 2020

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Dear Parents,

On Monday, Year 4 led the school in a wonderful assembly about the Rosary.

Please watch the video below for the Year 4 Assembly and the presentation of this week’s Gold Awards and Head Teacher Awards.

Year 1 Week ending Friday 9th October

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It has been an exciting week in Year 1 with a visit from Father Shaun on Tuesday. Father Shaun spoke to the class about baptism and then the children had great fun baptising babies, making baptismal candles and writing about the event. Karate followed on Wednesday; Michael our instructor was very impressed with the concentration and focus of the children. Well done!
As Mrs Carey is not able to be in school at the moment, Year 1 have been taught by members of the senior Leadership Team; Mrs Joyce, Miss Pemberton, Mrs McNamara and myself supported by our Learning Support assistants, Mrs Vieyra and Mrs Hilton. It was a joy to explore our River story book with the class on Thursday. We focussed on what they could see out of the window and then they explored what they would like to see out of their own windows at home. Some created a seaside scene and others built lego houses, snowy mountains and planes!
Please enjoy the photos! Have a lovely weekend! We are missing you Mrs Carey!!
Mrs Heymoz

Friday 9th October

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Good Morning Year 4.

I hope that your parents received the email inviting you to log into our Google Classroom!  If you have not received an email from us, please email us via year4@popepaul.herts.sch.uk.  We are missing you all very much but know that we will be together soon.

Our Class Assembly on The Rosary is on the website too.  Please make sure you have a look at it!

 

Today’s learning:

You have been invited to a google meet with me this morning at 9am until 930am. Log in if you are able to.

Prayer

Find somewhere quiet to sit and as you make the sign of the cross, remember that Jesus loves you very much.
Before you listen to this song, ‘Share the Light of Jesus’ think about how you can share Jesus’ light today in all that you say and do.
Finish your quiet time by saying the mission prayer:

We believe that we are all God’s work of Art.
We strive to respect and care for each other and to use our talents to do our best.
By doing this, we are learning in the light of Christ.
Amen.

Song Link: ‘Share the Light’

English

Continuing on from yesterday we would like you to draft a paragraph of our narrative. Use the planning sheet to collect words/ phrases and ideas for your writing. Then look at the model paragraph to guide you. Take time to consider what you would like to say and make sure you apply our previous learning on conjunctions and adverbs for your description. Click below for the planning sheet and model paragraph.

Planning sheet – Click here

Maths

Fluency Starter: log onto https://www.mathschase.com/times-tables/ and practise your 4 and 6 times tables.
Main Activity:
This is your Maths Work for today. Listen carefully to the instructions on the power point and complete the activity using the sheet attached.

Click here for the powerpoint      here for the  worksheet

Wellbeing

Silly Billy Powerpoint

Click here for the comprehension questions to answer.

There is a power point and pdf to open for this activity. It is based on the story of ‘Silly Billy’ by Anthony Browne. If you would like to email me your answers to the comprehension activity, that would be lovely. The class email is: year4@popepaul.herts.sch.uk

Wishing you a lovely day of learning!

Mrs McNamara and Ms Varga

You have also been assigned some activities on your Mathletics Account…..log in and have a go at some of the activities!

Thursday, 8th October 2020

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Dear Year 4,

Thank you for being so flexible and patient in these challenging times. I hope you are all well! Please remember to contact us via our Year 4 email if you want to share any of your learning or if you just want to send us a message.

Please see below today’s learning:

Spelling Click here for your dictation.

Listen to the sentences and practice using our previous spelling words.
Reading Please log onto Study Ladder and complete Time Travel Reading activity.

http://www.studyladder.co.uk
English Today and tomorrow, I would like you to draft a paragraph of our narrative.

Use the planning sheet to collect words/ phrases and ideas for your writing. Then look at my model paragraph to guide you.

Remember less is sometimes more. Make sure you apply our previous learning on conjunctions and adverbs for description.

Click here for the planning sheet and model paragraph.
Maths Moving on in our learning, I would like you to look at adding and subtracting ones, tens, hundreds and thousands. Please use the link bellow to watch a teaching video, then complete the activities on the attached sheet.

https://vimeo.com/461777711

Click here for the sheet.
Wider Curriculum In our Geography Topic , we have looked at the features of Megacities. We looked at both human and physical geography of cities such as:

Tokyo, New York, Delhi, Mumbai, Karachi, Dhaka and Beijing.

Today, your task is to use Secondary Sources to research one of these megacities.

Create a report using non-fiction genre features such as bullet points, headings, subheadings, maps, keys, pictures, labels and captions.

Include information on the location of the city, the size and population of this city. . You may want to report on the most important buildings/sites/attractions in or near this city. Other ideas for you to research are finding details on physical geography (mountains, rivers, etc.,) weather, languages used, currency, main religion. and finding out about this city’s import and export goods.

Try and draw conclusions as to why would so many people choose to live in this particular city. What features are there to support mass living?

Use Computing tools if possible; a Popplet, a PowerPoint presentation, a Word document.