Summer 1 Week 5

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This week was Spirituality week. on Monday we wrote a prayer for our prayer partner in Year 2. Then we met them in the Peace Garden and read our prayers to each other. On Tuesday, some of the Year 5 children led us in the Rosary. On Wednesday, we went on a nature walk to appreciate God’s world. On Thursday, we went to church for the feast of Ascension and then walked through the peace garden at church. Then the children took part in some prayer stations led by the Year 5 children.

In Maths, we have been learning to divide by sharing and grouping. The children have been using multiplication facts to support them when solving division questions. They have also been demonstrating an understanding of the problem by drawing a bar model.

In PE , we learnt how to serve in tennis. I was impressed with the children’s tennis skills.

In English, we finished watching Taking Flight, an adventure story. The children imagined they were one of the characters and wrote a diary entry using fronted adverbials.

In Design and Technology. The children practised cutting nets and making boxes in preparation for making their own magic box.

Year 3 took part in a Science workshop, the made sweets and slime.

Home Learning

Please send in a photo of the children on their First Holy Communion Day.

Spellings Spelling shed

science, scene, discipline, fascinate, crescent, scissors, ascend, scented, scenery, descend
Maths Mathletics and timetables rockstars
Reading Children to record some sentences about their reading book in their reading record.

Have a lovely weekend

 

Mrs Carey

Friday, 19th May 2023

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This week, the children in Year 4 celebrated  ‘Spirituality week’, focusing on our daily journeys with Jesus. On Monday, the class wrote a prayer for our prayer partners in Year 1. Later, we met in the Peace Garden and read our prayers to each other. On Tuesday, we looked at prayer and completed an activity titled, ‘praying in colours’ thinking of different titles we have for Jesus . On Wednesday, we went on a nature walk to appreciate God’s Creation. On Thursday, we walked to Church to celebrate Mass and then walked through the peace garden at church. In the afternoon, the children took part in some prayer stations led by the Year 5 children.

In Maths, the children moved on from their fraction learning to formal written multiplication. They revised mental strategies and known facts before moving onto the procedure, aligning their place value correctly.

In English, the class have written their final explanation texts, using causal conjunctions and fronted adverbials, sequencing their explanation logically. They have edited them and written them up in the neatest before adding their labelled diagrams.

In PE, we looked at serve this week and carried on practicing different hits.

In D&T, the children used fireproof lantern paper to start creating their electric bedside-lanterns. They incorporated different techniques and lines to  create a really imaginative and personal pattern. We will start building our circuits and switches next week, to complete the design.

Have a lovely weekend,

Ms Varga

See your Home Learning below:

Home Learning Due in by Tuesday, 23rd May 2023
Spelling https://www.edshed.com/en-gb

Words containing ‘sol’ and ‘real’- set 27
Reading https://readtheory.org/auth/login

Complete 2 activities and update your reading logs.
Multiplication https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

Please spend 15-20 mins practicing your mixed facts.
Maths Please open the attached documents and practice your written multiplication method. (answers included)

Multiplying-2-digit-numbers-by-1-digit-numbers-worksheets

Multiplying-3-digit-numbers-by-1-digit-numbers-worksheet

 

Reception Week Beginning 15.5.23

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This week, Reception have joined the rest of the school in participating in Spirituality Week. The focus for this week has been Walking with Jesus.

On Monday, the class wrote prayers for the children in Year 5 and gave them to them in the afternoon.

On Tuesday, the children took part in a beautiful, prayerful activity called Praying in Colour. We have never seen the Reception children so quiet and reflective!

On Wednesday, the class went on a walk around the field. They were encouraged to be silent and ‘notice’ God’s creation all around them. The children were asked: What can you hear? What can you smell? What can you see? The class finished with some time in the peace garden, where they were delighted to find that a pair of blue tits had built their nest in one of the bird boxes. They were amazed to see how frequently they brought back food for their young!

On Thursday, Reception took part in the wonderful prayer stations led by Year 5.

On Friday, the class took part in a guided meditation sessions, focussed on meeting Jesus. The children were so impressive doing this and one child even fell asleep!

We are looking forward to seeing you at the Pentecost Celebration next week!

Have a lovely weekend,

The Reception Team

 

Summer 1 Week 5

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The children have worked extremely hard this week and have now finished their SATs. I am very proud of them all.

In the afternoons, the children have been busy gardening, watching the nesting blue tits in the peace garden, sketching and taking part in the Spirituality Week activities. They have also enjoyed a science workshop about changing states and their swimming lesson.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Pringle

Year 1 Summer Week 5 w.b. 16.05.2023

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Religion

This week Pope Paul has come together to pray and reflect for Spirituality week. On Monday, Year 1 met with their Year 4 prayer partners to share a prayer for each other. On Tuesday, Year 1 learned a technique called ‘prayer through colour’ and designed their own prayerful picture. On Wednesday, they explored the school grounds in search for signs of God’s creations. On Thursday, they reflected at the prayer stations which were led by Year 5. On Friday, they all met in a morning assembly to reflect on their Spirituality Week. Thank you to Miss Donatantonio for organising all the activities and resources for the week.

English

Year 1 worked so hard this week to produce their final pieces of writing on ‘How to wash a Woolly Mammoth’. It will be sent home next week so they can share it with you. We will start our poetry unit next week.

Maths

Year 1 have been continuing to learn about multiplication and division and this week focused on how to represent them through arrays. Please see the additional homelearning that has been sent to show you how Year 1 are to set it out and use this method.

Geography

The children enjoyed their second to last lesson with Mrs Poyiadzis as they went out to explore the local area. Next week they will be creating a map of their route and identifying physical and human geography features.  After half term, they will begin their Seaside Geography unit. There are two spare parent spaces for the school trip on Thursday 15th June. If you would like to join us, please may you let me know on Monday morning and then I can randomly select two parents, if there are more than two wanting to come.

Homelearning-

-Mathletics multiplication arrays has been set
-Spelling/ sounds revision- ure (picture, future and adventure) Available on Spelling Shed
-Phonic screening revision available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum-assessments-practice-materials and https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5 (First 3 games are free)
-Please remember to bring reading books in daily.

Enjoy the lovely weather this weekend and I will see you our last week before half term on Monday!

Miss Lambie

Wednesdays- P.E. kits for Swimming- GIRLS NO TIGHTS or LEGGINGS PLEASE
Friday- P.E. kits

Year 5 – 19/05/23 – Spirituality Week

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This week has been Spirituality Week, for which the focus has been Walking with Jesus.

On Monday, the children wrote prayers to Reception prayer partners and enjoyed exchanging the prayer cards with them:

On Tuesday, the class spent time Praying in Colour, which is a beautifully free and visual way to spend time talking to Jesus.

On Wednesday, we went for a sensory nature walk around the school grounds, focusing on the different textures in our natural world, and on the sounds that could be heard around us. It was really peaceful and made us appreciate the variety of interesting textures in God’s creation.

Thursday was an important day for Year 5, as they led the Spirituality Prayer Stations over the course of the day for the younger year groups. This gave them their first proper taste of what Y6 leadership will look like, and I was really proud of how well they took on their roles.

Also this week in Geography, Y5 made models on fold mountains; Mrs McDonald was extremely impressed with the variety of ways the class came up with to demonstrate how fold mountains are formed.

Home learning for this week (due next Wednesday):

Maths Mathletics assignments:

·         Multiply non-unit fractions by an integer

·         Multiply mixed numbers by an integer
SPaG Please complete the assignment set on spag.com:

·         Grammar – Y4 (B)
Reading 5 tests on Readtheory OR a daily updating of your reading record.
Spelling Log on to Spelling Shed using your EdShed login, and play a variety of games to practise this week’s spelling rule: Words from the Y5/Y6 Statutory Spellings

 

appreciate

cemetery

conscious

convenience

environment

immediately

language

sufficient

thorough

vegetable

Enjoy your weekend!

Miss Donatantonio

Bawdsey Manor Day 3

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Well the day has been a busy one again with the children enjoying the lovely sunny weather!

Today, the activities have included canoeing, rifle shooting, buggy building and challenge course.

The children enjoyed their last ‘wet’ activity with their instructor in the beautiful lake in Bawdsey Manor this morning.  The lake has been newly constructed and our school was one of the first schools this week to experience this new activity on the itinerary.  The children were taught the importance of:  getting in and out of a canoe, holding the paddle, understanding steering, going straight, forward stroke and forward sweep. to name but a few! In the evening,  the children took part in ‘capture the flag’ activity and returned to their dorms via the Manor House and various tunnels that are built around it.  The view down to the beach is breathtaking….something we are going to explore more of over the next few days.

Thank you to Mrs Carey who has been so kind to message all parents via their group whats app the photos of our stay.

We hope that you enjoy gaining an insight into the many activities the children have been participating in over this week.

Watch out for Thursdays post!

 

Mrs McNamara, Mrs Heymoz, Lorcan Keller, Mrs Lopez.

Bawdsey Manor May 2023 Day 2

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Good Morning!

Well, the evening activity of Cluedo was rearranged to a Quiz.  Cluedo is coming later this week.

Today has been action-packed – Raft building, Zip Wire, Orienteering and Trapeze!

We are ending the day with a Campfire session and toasting marshmallows!!

Thank you for the letters that you have sent in their luggage; the children have loved receiving them from you.

As the children head off to dinner, they are excited for tomorrow’s activities.

Thank you to Mrs Carey for passing on the photos that we have taken to your parents whats app.

 

Friday 12th May

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Dear Parents

Here are some of the photos from our Coronation Celebrations last week.  Please click here.

This week has been busy with the children doing their SATs.  A huge well done to our class who have worked their socks off this week.  Well done to all of them!

They had a special surprise this afternoon….a special cake was made for them by Lisa and Emma who are part of our Herts Catering Staff which they enjoyed immensely.

   

 

They received their Year 6 hoodies is afternoon also – thank you to Violet’s mum and Dad and Finn’s mum for coming into school and handing these out.

Enjoy your weekend.

We look forward to  seeing you on Monday morning with suitcases in tow ready for the exciting week ahead in Bawdsey Manor!

 

Summer 1 Week 4

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This week the children have been multiplying a two digit number by a one-digit number using regrouping and short multiplication. The children have worked hard to develop their skills and it is wonderful to see the children practising their timetables at home.

In English, we have started a new topic about adventure stories. We watched a video clip of an adventure story called ‘Taking Flight.’ Each day we have watched a little part of the clip and the children have been excited to watch the next part each day. We are learning about how adventure stories are page turners, they make you want to read more to find out what happens next. They have been writing expanded noun phrases and prepositional phrases to describe the characters. They have also been using a thesaurus to find synonyms for words to make their writing interesting.

In Religion, we listened to Luke’s recount of Pentecost and then rewrote the story in our own words. Then they made flames to represent the Holy Spirit using coloured paper.

In PE, the children continued their lessons of Tennis. On Wednesday they learn how to play rounders and develop their teamwork skills.

Eight children from our class took part in the first Year 3 challenge. Out of 200 schools, our two teams came 18th and 23rd. One team will compete in the final at the end of May. Well done to Emily, Brody, Jayden, Emilia, Jack F, Gabriella, Oliver and Mark!

Home Learning

Spellings Complete spelling shed activities

vague, league, plague, tongue, fatigue, antique, unique, grotesque, mosque, plaque
Mathletics Complete activities and complete the maths sheets sent home.
Timetables Please practise the 3, 4 and 8 timetables.

https://www.mathschase.com/

 

 

Good luck to Leo B, Rose, Dino, Clodagh, Ruben, Herbie, Joseph, Emilia, Scarlett, Emily and Jack P who are making their First Holy Communion on Saturday. Have a wonderful day. Please send in a photograph of them on their own for the class display.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Carey