Entries by Margaret Joyce

Week 4

On Friday, we honoured Mary by placing flowers around her. The children were respectful throughout. Then the children sat in the peace garden and sketched a picture of Mary. This week we have been learning to order and compare numbers on a number line. If the number line ended in 20, we thought about what […]

Friday, 7th May 2021

Although, it has been only a short week, children were very busy in Year 4. On Tuesday, we made model houses to support our descriptive writing based on the book, The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig. Thank you so much to all of you Parents, who sent in beautiful flowers to help […]

Summer 1: Week 4

Year 3 have worked very hard this week. In Maths, they applied their fraction knowledge to create mathematical art work . In English, they have published their  documentaries and created class word banks to support their narrative writing. In RE, the children wrote prayers to St Joseph to remember his feast day and were very […]

Summer 1 Week 3

Year 5 have worked incredibly hard this week. In maths, they have continued to work on fractions by adding and subtracting them and converting the answer from improper fractions to mixed numbers. In English we have thought about how to show the emotion of a character without telling their audience how they feel. We have […]

Year 6 – 30/04/21

Year 6 have worked incredibly hard this week. In Maths, they took a set of test papers (1x arithmetic plus 2x reasoning papers) and showed great stamina and focus in these. In English, they have explored writing tools that evoke fear in the reader; next week, they will plan, draft and edit their own tale […]

Week 3

In Maths, we have continued to solve problem involving multiplication. The children made arrays using counters, cereal and drawing them.   We have been reading the story Click, Clack Moo Cows Can Type. The children planned and wrote their own stories based on this book. On Thursday, we had a cricket lesson, the children thoroughly […]

Friday, 30th April 2021

Year 4 has been very busy this week with lots of opportunities to participate in sport activities. On Tuesday, we enjoyed our first session with Mr Mills, learning core skills in tennis. The children did very well and could complete rallies up to 39 hits by end of our lesson! On Thursday, we participated in […]

Year 2 Blog 30/04/2021

We don’t like cricket…. oh no.. We LOVE it! The children have been learning about batting and fielding in their P.E. lessons this week. There was wonderful team-work on display in our Rounders games and a number of home-runs! Everyone really enjoyed their Cricket taster session this week. We loved it and we can’t wait […]

Summer 1: Week 3

This week we finished writing our animal documentaries and next week we will be recording them on the i-pads, before starting our narratives. We have also made clay tiles of pandas and tigers – I look forward to seeing the children paint them next week. In maths we have found fractions of amounts and learnt […]