Entries by Margaret Joyce

Week 3

Another fun, busy week in Year 3! In Maths, we have continued using equipment and pictures to make numbers to 100. We have been using mathematical vocabulary to compare numbers and have been investigating different ways of making 3-digit numbers. In English, we read War and Peas by Michael Foreman. We imagined we met the […]

Friday, 17th September 2021

The children in Year 4 had yet another busy week. In English, they spent a few days planning and writing their own ‘Dirty Beast’ poems inspired by Roald Dahl before starting their new unit of work based on David Wiesner’s Flotsam. They became beach detectives on Thursday, opening bags of flotsam left behind, trying to […]

Year 2, Week 2

Gardening Thank you for the donations to our class gardens, as you can see we have been busy preparing the soil and planning where to put the plants.  The children have loved taking ownership of these gardens and are looking forward to watching them bloom. I was also very pleased with the care they took, […]

Year 6 – 17/09/21

In RE this week, we begun learning about the four sources of revelation. We went outside and looked for where God reveals himself to us in nature, and we thought about traditions in our faith which come from our beliefs in God. In English, we continued our with our unit linked to evacuation. The children […]

Y2 Week 1

We have had a lot of fun with our learning this week. During RE we have looked at how our mums ae like Mary, when she protects, cares and comforts us. We really enjoyed celebrating Marys birthday. In Maths, we have been using our number bonds and ordering skills to place missing numbers along blank  […]

Year 6 – 10/09/21

It’s been an exciting and very busy first full week back! This morning, Year 6 attended Mass then had a leadership morning at the church, during which they found out about inspirational female leaders in the modern world, and discussed how they displayed different qualities of Mary. This then led them to think about the […]

Friday, 10th September 2021

Happy Birthday Mary! During a busy week in Year 4, the children revised their key writing tools such as adverbs, conjunctions and noun phrases in English. We put emphasis on handwriting and introduced the first set of spelling words. In Maths, we introduced Roman numerals and looked at the history of this ancient number system. […]

Week 2

We have had a busy week in Year 3! In Maths, we have been using equipment to make different numbers in different ways to show the value of each digit. Then the children explained the similarities and difference between two numbers. In English, we have been reading different fables and identifying their morals. Then we […]

Year 6 – 03/09/21

Welcome back! We have had a fantastic first day in Year 6, and I am delighted with the focus, kindness and beautiful manners that the children have displayed today. We spent much of the day exploring our Mission Prayer; we identified where in scripture the mission values come from, and we thought about how we […]

Welcome to Y2

Welcome to Year 2 and our special Year of Growth! It has been wonderful getting to know the children today and seeing how happy they were to see each other again.  I have also been very impressed with their learning and behaviour. Well done Year 2, you are proving to be very good role models […]