Year 6 – 20/11/20

This week has been anti-bullying week and so yesterday the children role-played cyber-bullying scenarios, after which we discussed the best course of action if we were to find ourselves in similar circumstances. It was reassuring to hear that the children understood the importance of reporting cyberbullying incidents to a trusted adult, rather than retaliating.

Year 6 are still loving both the karate sessions and hockey lessons and continue to develop their skills in the sports.

We made gratitude jars this afternoon for our wellbeing session. Each week, the children will add a slip of paper with something they are grateful for into their jar.

In Maths, we were learning how to find fraction, decimal and percentage equivalence, whilst in RE we have been using Lectio Divina to help us pray with passages from scripture. In English, the children imagined they were WW1 soldiers in the trenches and each wrote a letter home to their loved ones. Heather and Jamie very kindly brought in memorabilia from their relatives who fought in WW2, including war medals, a recipe book and fuel ration coupons. Thank you so much for sharing this with the class.

This week’s home learning:

Maths Task assigned on Mathletics:

·         Fractions to decimals

·         Fractions to decimals 2

·         Common fractions as percentages

Reading 30 minutes on https://readtheory.org/
Spellings This term’s spelling words revisit the official Year 5/6 Statutory Spelling List:

accommodate

aggressive

conscious

desperate

environment

equipment

especially

exaggerate

harass

hindrance

muscle

opportunity

physical

recommend

stomach

temperature

Autumn 1 Week 3

It was anti bullying week this week and this year’s theme is ‘United Against Bullying’. Year 5 had great ideas about how they can play their part to stop bullying and make a change for good.
We also spent time looking at why people bully and their feelings of everyone involved, from the victim and their family to the bystander.
On Wednesday, Fr Shaun visited us to lead us in a mass about trust. He reminded us that we should show love to others to build their trust in us. This was a particularly important message to reflect on this week. Thank you to Fr Shaun for joining us and allowing us to celebrate the Eucharist at this time.
On Thursday, the children took part in some outdoor learning about hedgerows and then created nature mandalas inspired by Andy Goldsworthy.
            
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs Lines
Home Learning
Mathletics
Studyladder
Spellings- Week 3
Readtheory.org – 10 tests

20th November 2020

Dear parents,

As we get ready to celebrate the feast of Christ the King this Sunday, we thought about the ways we are called to serve and how we can build up God’s Kingdom at home and at school. Please see the video below to share in our whole school virtual assembly on Christ the King.

Please see the video below for the presentation of this week’s Head Teacher Awards and Gold Awards.

Friday, 20th November 2020

Year 4 had another busy week!

On Tuesday, Miss Pringle helped them learn about the fantastic game of hockey! The children practiced different ways of holding their sticks and they also dribbled their hockey balls, ‘hoovering’ on the playground. They then consolidated these skills on Thursday and moved onto two new games where they could become goalkeepers. They did very well!

On Wednesday, the children had karate with Michael where they learnt new movements and techniques of meditation. Another chance for the children to be active came during our English lesson, where they acted out some of the characteristics that some of the main characters displayed in the play such as confidence, shyness, anger, etc  The children finished their second narrative piece this week with such imagination and showed that within their story their writing is progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary with an increasing range of sentence structures! Well done to Ben and Nathalie for receiving Head Teacher Awards for their pieces.

The children later brought balance to our week by participating in a serene and respectful Lectio Divina prayer session on Wednesday where they meditated and prayed on a piece of scripture from Luke’s Gospel.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Ms Varga and Mrs McNamara

Please see your Home Learning below:

Friday, 20th November 2020 Home Learning
Spelling Please log onto Spelling Frame to practice and test yourself on this week’s spellings.

https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/15/10-Endings-which-sound-like-sion

division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision
television, erosion, fusion, passion, pension
Reading Please log onto Read Theory and complete 2 activities.

https://readtheory.org/auth/login

Please make sure you put time aside to read and update your reading logs.

Study Ladder Please log onto Study Ladder and complete your assignments.

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

For this week’s tasks, I encourage you to write down your number sentences on a piece of paper using the vertical method presentation and calculate them on the paper, showing your exchanges before submitting them online.

Science In the next 3 weeks, I would like you to create a musical instrument using recycled materials. We are going to use these instruments during our final assessment lesson in the topic of Sound.

Your musical instrument must produce two different tones.

Once, you have created the instrument, please write up a short summary of :

  • how you have made it
  • what materials you have used
  • what you have had to do in order to produce two different tones.

Please bring your instrument into school latest on Monday, 14th December 2020

 

Week 3

A great week of learning. We began the week with an assembly to begin anti bullying week. The children recognised many ways that people bully others. They were able to identify bullying in different scenarios that we discussed. They were able to name five adults who they would tell if someone was upsetting them.

In Maths we have been subtracting with different objects and counting back on the number line. We have been recording subtraction in the cherry model to recognise the relationship between addition and subtraction. The children applied their learning to problem solving.

 

The children planned and wrote their own stories about losing something. They used the skills we have learnt this term in their writing; capital letters, fingers spaces, full stops, adjectives and the conjunction and.

Year 1 has a remote trip with Whipsnade Zoo! We learnt about the different types of animals and their diets. They asked fantastic questions and listened to the speaker. We had Toto the lion listening to our questions.

In Art we learnt to mix primary colours to make other colours.

This week, we have been practising the prayer Hail Mary. Please continue to practise this prayer with your child.

Thank you for supporting your children to make bird feeders. All of them looked wonderful! The children were able to tell the class how they made them. They have taken them home to see if they can catch a bird eating in their feeder. Send in photos if you catch them!

Next week we will be learning and applying the Phase 5 sounds. I will be sending some phonics for home learning so please send in your plastic Home Learning folders on Monday.

Home Learning

Studyladder

Reading and Spelling

Can you find an animal living in your garden or in the park? Look for worms, ladybirds, spiders or snails. Take a photo or write a description about it!

Have a lovely weekend.

 

Mrs Carey

Autumn 2 Week 3

This week we have finished our dragon writing, using alliteration, similes and noun phrases. They are wonderful! We have also painted our dragon eyes, which are very impressive too.

 

In Maths we have been adding 0ne and two digit numbers to three digit numbers, while in RE we have learnt to find Bible references and understand why we pray the Hail Mary and what it means.

    We have developed our punching technique in Karate and block tackling in hockey. In science we have explored the functions of our skeleton, identified some major bones, looked at x-rays and learnt about different animal skeletons.

Spelling  – ion suffix

Follow this link and learn these words https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/15/10-Endings-which-sound-like-sion

division
invasion
confusion
decision
collision
television
erosion
fusion
passion
pension

Reading

Please record your independent reading in your reading records and complete five read theory quizzes.

Maths 

Study ladder activities have been set. Please revise your 3, 4 and 5 timetables.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Pringle

 

 

 

 

Reception Week Beginning 9.11.20

Reception Class have been very busy learning about Remembrance Day this week. The children made some beautiful poppies to wear, created poppy paintings, wreaths and medals and held a two minutes silence with the rest of the school on Wednesday, as part of the virtual Remembrance Day assembly.

 

On Wednesday, the children were taught Karate in the big hall. This is to be a new weekly session right up until Christmas!

Reception have a new imaginary role play area- a church! They have filled it with lots of religious artefacts made in class, including Bibles, stained glass windows and tabernacles, to name a few.

In Maths this week, the children have been learning about sorting objects into groups and have had lots of hands-on fun when doing so!

The children have now been taught all of the Phase 2 Letters and Sounds and tricky words. We will now be revising all sounds and words daily and will  continue to focus on applying them in reading and writing. Please continue to practise all sounds taught whenever possible. Thank you !

This week, we also welcomed Caitlin, a student from Oaklands College. Caitlin will be working with Reception every Monday and Friday, from now until the end of the academic year. She is really looking forward to getting to know all of the children.

Have a lovely weekend,

The Reception Team

13th November 2020

Dear parents,

Please see the video below for presentation of Head Teacher Awards and Gold Awards.

Year 6 – 13/11/20

This week we began our History topic for this half term: Potters Bar at War. After experiencing an air raid, we looked at the chronology from the lead-up to World War One all the way to the outbreak of World War Two. We’re looking forward to seeing, in the coming weeks, how these two wars affected the town in which we live today.

It has also been Maths Week England this week, so in addition to our maths lessons and our maths fluency sessions, we have also been solving tricky problems using bar modelling each morning.

In karate this, we learnt how to perform the Pinan Nidan kata, which is a flow of moves and postures from one to the next.

Our hockey sessions continued with practising keeping possession and passing with control.

Here is your home learning for this week:

Maths Task assigned on Mathletics:

·         Comparing fractions

·         Ordering fractions

Reading 30 minutes on https://readtheory.org/
Spellings This term’s spelling words revisit the official Year 5/6 Statutory Spelling List:

apparent

cemetery

communicate

curiosity

dictionary

foreign

identity

language

privilege

pronunciation

recognise

soldier

variety

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

·         Formal & informal

Please also bring in an empty and clean jar for next Friday, when we shall be making gratitude jars!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Miss Donatantonio

Year 2 Blog 13-11-2020

This week Year 2 took part in the whole school virtual Remembrance Assembly. It was very special to come together and pray for those who lost their lives serving their countries and for our loved ones who are no longer with us. May they rest in peace. Amen

In Maths we have been learning all about balancing and rebalancing. The children have been looking at rebalancing number sentences. The children identified the number in their calculation that was near a friendly number (multiple of ten) and used a bead string to rebalance their calculation.

In English we have turned our attention to fairy tales. We have been looking at the tale of Rapunzel. The children generated plenty of amazing adjectives to describe Rapunzel in Beth Woolvin’s version of this tale.

Rapunzel is an adventurous, brave and crafty character.  The children thought carefully about what the witch says in the story. They had great fun role-playing the wicked, nasty witch from this tale.

Home Learning:

Spellings week 2

Mathletics: Problems – Add and Subtract, Adding to 2-digit numbers

Study ladder: I’d like to fly – Narrative, Synonyms 2:1

Wishing you all a peaceful weekend,

Miss Davey