Reception Class Week Beginning 28.2.22

Wow! What an exciting week Reception have had!

This week, Reception have had two full days of whole school celebrations.

On Tuesday, the children celebrated Mardi Gras, by making fabulous masks, learning about how it is celebrated all over the world, eating pancakes, participating in pancake races and joining in with the whole school Mardi Gras dance! The class had so much fun!

On Thursday, the children also enjoyed participating in World Book Day. Thank you for providing your children with such wonderful costumes.

The day started with a whole school celebratory assembly. Here the children were able to see the amazing array of costumes worn by the children across the school. They were then invited onto the stage, where they told the children and staff which book character they had come dressed as. In class, the children made reading crowns and enjoyed doing a story scavenger hunt.

As we are due some sunshine next week, we are aiming to take the children for a walk over the farmland next to the school, as part of our new class focus, ‘On the Farm’. This will most likely be on Tuesday. If you haven’t done so already, can you please supply a pair of wellington boots for your child, as it will be quite muddy over there after the recent rain. Thank you!

*Apologies, we are currently unable to upload photos to this page; I will add them onto your child’s Tapestry account.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend,

The Reception Team

 

Friday 4th March, 2022

This week in Year 5 we have embraced a very busy but exciting week!

We celebrated Shrove Tuesday with our Mardi Gras theme and wow, did our children design wonderful masks that they showed off to the rest of the school during our whole school parade.  Ti was our class winner for the fastest pancake flipper and he joined the rest of the class winners in Key Stage 2 and competed against them in a nail biting final.

We ended the day of celebration with our whole school Mardi Gras dance and ate pancakes.  The Year 5 and 6 Netball Team attended Dame Alice Owen’s School for a netball tournament.  The played together really well as a team and enjoyed the afternoon representing our school alongside other schools.  Well done to them!

On Ash Wednesday, the children watched the mass from the classroom and they sang, listened to Caroline read the First Reading, received ashes on their foreheads and Dale gave us Holy Communion.

On Thursday, it was World Book Day! and again, our class was full of colour and excited children talking about their favourite books.  We logged onto the World Book Day website and joined one of their digital events: log in and have a look.  Click on the photo below for the link.

On top of all the events happening through the week, VJ has written about some of the learning that Year 5 have been doing below:

‘In Maths we have been revisiting our work on multiplication and have now started our work on division.  We have been developing our understanding of  short division for numbers up to 4-digits.  In English we have continued to read The London Eye Mystery and have been writing a diary entry about what happened on the day when Salim went missing using adverbs of possibility and modal verbs. We also wrote a social media post using pronouns to stop writing ‘Salim’ in our writing whilst we wrote the post.  In Science, we continued with our unit using every day items to test if they were insulators or conductors.’

Wishing you and your family a wonderful weekend.
The home learning for the children is below.

 

Mrs McNamara and Mrs Lines

 

Home Learning:

Read theory: complete 4 of the activities

Mathletics:  Log on and complete the tasks set.

Times table Rockstars: log on and practise your times tables.

SPAG.com:  Log on and complete the tasks that have been set.

Weekly Spellings: log onto spelling frame and practise this week’s spellings.

Words from the Year 5/6 list

controversy, controversial, convenience, convenient, correspond, correspondence, criticise, curious, curiosity, definite, desperate, develop

Remember: hand in your research on the Stations of the Cross on Tuesday

 

Spring 2 Week 2

On Tuesday, we celebrated Mardi Gras buy taking part in pancake races, dancing, making masks and eating pancakes.

On Thursday we celebrated the 25th anniversary of World Book Day by dressing up as characters from our favourite books. The children recommended, shared and discussed their books and characters.

If you have time this weekend please could you write a letter back to your child answering their communication questions. The children are keen to share your responses.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Pringle

Home learning – to be completed by Wednesday

Please complete the verb activities on Studyladder and timetable Mathletics activities I have set.

Spelling – https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/249/HFW17

water
away
good
want
over
how
did
man
going
where

 

 

 

Spring 2 – Week 2

We have had a busy and fun week in school!

On Tuesday, we celebrated Mardi Gras by taking part in pancake races, dancing, making masks and eating pancakes.

On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as characters from our favourite books. The children were able to discuss their characters and name their favourite. Then we had book tasting in class. The children read a few pages of lots of books and decided whether they would like to continue reading the book and wrote short reviews of what they thought.

 

In Maths, we have continued learning column addition with regrouping. Next week we will move onto column subtraction.

In English, we started a new unit of work on instructions and explanations. The children have been playing games and writing instructions. They have learnt about the features of instructions.

In RE, the children made their Lenten promises and added them to the display in the hall. Thank you for the beautiful decorated stones that the children made for the class display. Please send in your stone next week. We have also been learning about the history of the Stations of the Cross.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Carey

Home learning – to be completed by Wednesday

Spellings

https://spellingframe.co.uk/

 

autopilot, autograph, automatic, autobiography, autonomy, autofocus, superman, superior, supermarket, superstar, superficial, supernatural
Timetables Rockstars

https://ttrockstars.com/

 

Please login and complete the studio game. This should be complete 10 times so the children’s time can be recorded.

 

English Please play your favourite game at home then write instructions to tell someone else how to play. Remember a title, the aim of the game, a list of what you need and then numbers before each instruction.
Mathletics Complete the activities

 

 

Friday, 4th March 2022

The children in Year 4, had a fun filled week. They built their shells for their bedside lamps on Monday, whilst on Tuesday, they participated in a very busy Mardi Gras day. They flipped pancakes, decorated masks and sampled some lovely scotch pancakes in class.

On Wednesday, they have received ashes during Mass and thought about their Lenten promises. It has been lovely to see that the children not only decided to give up chocolates or sweets but promised to give up some of their free time as well, to play with siblings or to help out at home.

On Thursday, the class celebrated World Book Day and participated in a ‘parade’, showing off their imaginative costumes and book choices.

In the meantime, they consolidated their understanding of unit, and non-unit fractions of sets of objects and numbers in Maths. In English, they looked at features of historical reports and developed research and note taking techniques. In RE, they used Scripture to reflect on the symbolic meaning of the Stations of the Cross. In Geography, they used atlases and satellite pictures to locate Florida-the Sunshine State and look at its features. In French, they continued looking at specific items of clothing, creating different outfits in French.

Have a lovely weekend after such a busy week,

Ms Varga

Home Learning

Home Learning Due by Tuesday, 8th March 2022
Spelling Spelling Rule 18 – Words with the /s/ sound spelt sc (Latin in origin) (e.g. science, ascent… etc.)

https://spellingframe.co.uk/

Please practice this week’s spelling words before testing yourselves on them.

Reading Log onto Read Theory and complete 2 tasks. Please also update your reading logs and be prepared to present them on Wednesday.

https://readtheory.org/auth/login

Multiplication Please log onto TT Rockstars and practice your allocated tables. Well done for Eliana, our leader, who gained more than 27,000 coins so far! Excellent effort!

https://ttrockstars.com/

English Please be ready to present your A4 plans (1 detailed map+ 1 or more for 2 animal, 2 plant species and 1 inhabitant) about your ‘Land of Neverbelieve’ on MONDAY. Use last week’s blog info and watch the attached clip again, if necessary. Please include lots of details about habitat, diet, dimensions (hight, weight, parts, body parts, special features, climate they prefer, etc)

Spring Term Week 8 28.02.22

What a busy week for our school! Year 1 participated in Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday and World Book Day all in one week!

Mrs Moccia said the children really enjoyed learning to spell numbers to twenty in words this week. I heard some French numbers were also learnt!

Mrs Heymoz continued Year 1’s R.E. unit ‘From Lent to Easter’ and taught the children The Stations of the Cross. The children learnt about each important station that led up to Jesus’ crucifixion and challenged themselves to put them in the correct order.

The children began their Lenten journey this week on Tuesday with Mardi Gras celebrations. I heard the pancake race was especially exciting! Year 1 learnt about almsgiving, prayer and fasting during Lent and thought hard about what their personal Lenten promises will be. They  wrote them on palm leaves before presenting them at Friday’s assembly. I heard they were very respectful during their Ash Wednesday service and sang beautifully.

I hope you have a restful weekend and hope to see you all on Monday,

Miss Lambie

 

 

Home learning.

Please use www.spellingframe.co.uk to support the sounds taught this week:
New sounds learnt: aw (or) , wh (w) and ph (f)
-Spelling rule #27 ‘aw’ yawn at dawn
-Tricky/ High Frequency words List #16 Phase 5 https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/tricky-trucks?phase=5
Spelling Frame does not have any games for wh and ph but I have found a few resources you may use to support learning this sound
wh:
1. https://wordwall.net/resource/2435870/phonics/wh-words
2. https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/resource/phonics-phase-5-wh-sound-video-in-the-phonics-factory/
ph:
1. https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/poopDeck/index.html
2. https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/bingoOriginal/index.html

• We have been playing ‘Hit the button’ at the start of our maths lessons to build our speed at number bonds to 10. We managed to score 25 in one minute. Can you set your score and beat your score? https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

Year 6 – 04/03/22

It’s a been an extremely busy but exciting week this week, with Mardi Gras on Tuesday, followed by Ash Wednesday and then World Book Day on Thursday.

Have a look at the fantastic Mardi Gras masks that they made!

We ended the day on a high with a pancake race and a Mardi Gras dance led by Mrs McNamara!

Well done for the fantastic World Book Day costumes yesterday!

Here is this week’s home learning:

Maths Mathletics assignment:

·        Divide fractions

Times Tables Last week, we lost against Year 5 in the times tables battle on TTRockStars.com

Let’s have another go this week. Come on Year 6!

Reading Please complete 5 passages on ReadTheory.org
Spelling To be tested: 11/03/22

Prefixes:

disappoint

disagree

disobey

inactive

incorrect

illegal

illegible

immature

immortal

imperfect

impossible

impatient

 

Practise on SpellingFrame.co.uk (Year 3 and 4 Spelling Rule 4)