Year 6 – 21/09/18

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(Please find Home Learning instructions at the end of this post).

There was great excitement this afternoon as Y6 met their Reception Learning Partners for the first time! They spent their time getting to know each other by reading and playing together in the Reception outdoor learning area. It was wonderful to see the Y6s acting so kindly and maturely with their partners; it is clear that they are going to be excellent role models to them for the year. Here they all are!

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I am looking forward to seeing your evacuee costumes on Tuesday for our WW2 trip! Have a great weekend.

Miss Donatantonio

This week’s home learning (due Tuesday 25th September) is as follows:

English Schofield & Sims English Skills : Section 1 Test 1 – to be completed in pink Home Learning book
Spellings Words from the Y3/Y4 and Y5/Y6 Statutory Spelling word lists – spelling sentences to be written in pink Home Learning book. See below for this week’s spellings. The children also have 2 envelopes – one containing this week’s words and one empty one. Once they feel they are secure with a word from Envelope 1 (short-term memory), they put it into Envelope 2 (long-term memory). I could test them on their long-term memory words at any time, and they will be revisiting them in class. If they misspell a word that they’ve put into Envelope 2, it goes back into Envelope 1.
Maths

Times tables

 Mathletics tasks:

·         Nearest Whole Number

·         Nearest 100

·         Nearest 1000

·         Rounding Numbers

·         Multiplying by 10, 100, 1000

·         Dividing by 10, 100, 1000
Reading Spend at least half an hour on readtheory.org

Daily reading. Reading Records are on order.

 

Spelling list (to be tested Friday 28th September)

Words from the Y3/Y4 and Y5/Y6 Spelling Lists
especially frequently
immediately sincerely
accidentally actually
occasionally probably
therefore though
thought thorough
through rhyme
rhythm temperature

Reception Week 3

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Reception started the week with the much anticipated, first ever PE lesson! After getting themselves dressed into their PE kits, the class went into the hall for their lesson and they loved it!

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On Tuesday the class attended the school’s very special Welcome Mass. The children impressed everyone with their reverence and excellent behaviour and the staff were very proud of them.

As the class story focus has been ‘Stick Man’ by Julia Donaldson this week, Reception decided to go on their very own nature hunt around the school grounds to find materials to use in class. As well as sticks and leaves and other natural objects, they uncovered a fantastic mini-beast world under a large piece of wood on the field. The children were excited to find snail and slug eggs, huge worms, beetles, centipedes, snails, slugs and spiders. The children put the wood back where they found it, to encourage the insects to stay and allow them to look at them again.

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In RE, Reception have been learning about the Eucharist and the story of The Last Supper. They  role-played receiving Holy Communion and enjoyed pretending that they were Father Shaun.

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Today,the children had a very exciting afternoon as they found out who our Year 6 Learning Partners were. Look out for the photos on the Year 6/ Reception joint blog!

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend,

The Reception Team

Reception Week 2

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What a busy week the children have had! There are definitely some very tired children and teachers this afternoon!

The children have continued getting to know their new learning environment and each other. We started the week off focussing on the story, ‘Owl Babies’ and related it to times in our lives when we have really missed members of our own families. The children have really enjoyed learning about owls and other nocturnal animals too.

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The children also opened up their very own grocery shop this week. It is proving to be a very popular role play area and the shop keepers are struggling to keep up with the consumer demands!

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The children also spent some time in the International Garden this week, reading books from the outdoor library. They then explored the field and had lots of fun rolling down the hill on the way back to class!

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On Wednesday, the children participated in their first class Act of Worship. We were so impressed with the reverence and respect that they demonstrated.

On Thursday, the children participated in Roald Dahl Day by reading ‘The Enormous Crocodile’. They then made junk model crocodiles, drew pictures about the story and created crocodile puppets.

Wishing you all a wonderful, restful weekend,

The Reception Team.

Welcome to Reception

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Welcome to Reception!

It was lovely to see so many of you at the Parent Information Meeting earlier today. If you missed it, please don’t worry as we will be sending home follow up notes (with correct dates!) on Monday.

The children have had a fantastic first week at Pope Paul and we are astonished at how quickly they have settled into school life!  Today was the first morning that we welcomed all 30 children in together. They came in excitedly and confidently with no tears! They are already showing encouraging signs of being great learners; demonstrating fantastic listening skills and following instructions from the class adults.

The children have really enjoyed getting to know one another and exploring the inside and outside learning areas.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend,

The Reception Team

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Sports Day and Pirates

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We have had a very busy couple of weeks in Reception. Thank you for supporting Sports Day- they did so well in the heat!

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We hope you enjoyed the family picnic after. Some of those spreads were very impressive!

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This week, Mrs Theo and Mrs Gymer have been very busy doing home visits. The children have been enjoying the theme ‘Pirates’ inspired by the book ‘The Night Pirates’, and have had fun participating in role play, creating pirate ships, treasure chests and maps, telescopes and flags.

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Have a wonderful weekend,

The Reception Team

Slugs, Snails and All Things Slimy!

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The children have had a wonderful week getting to know the local slugs and snails in the outside area. They  discovered that the slimy creatures tend to hide out in dark and damp places such as under flowerpots, dead leaves and the bug hotel!

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Reception also enjoyed reading ‘The Snail and the Whale’ as part of their Literacy learning and experimenting with lots of different ways of making trails and spiral patterns.

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The children had some very special visitors this week- some African snails and their eggs. The class were fascinated by them and most of the children were keen to take an even closer look by holding them!

The adults preferred to view from a distance!

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Next week, we will be learning about spiders!

 

Worms!

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This week Reception have been very busy learning about the secret lives of worms. Did you know that a worm has tiny little hairs all over it’s body that help it to move around under the ground? To take a closer look at these little wiggly creatures, the children have been making wormeries, digging around in the soil for worms and observing them under the class hovercam.

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On Tuesday, the class watched their Year 6 Reading Partners in their class production of ‘Bugsy Malone’. The children were very excited to see their friends on the stage and were very proud of all of them!

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Today was a very busy day, as the class participated in an exciting drama workshop based on the theme of the jungle. Immediately after, they met their new class teacher and then finished the day with a visit to the Year 1 classroom as part of the transition process.

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I am sure they have lots to tell you about!

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend,

The Reception Team

Bugs!

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We hope you all had fun at the carnival last weekend; the children were a wonderful sight in their customised t-shirts and head wear! They worked very hard in class creating them.

Our last half term is upon us and our new topic about mini-beasts is well underway! Reception class have been very busy creating bug hotels and searching for mini-beasts around the outside area. They have learnt about the life-cycle of a butterfly and explored the concepts of both halving and symmetry. They have also participated in lots of interesting group discussions about where they would fly to if they were a butterfly. Some ideas included flying to Africa, going up to space and visiting family in other European countries.

In RE this week, we learnt the story of The Good Samaritan and acted it out in groups on the outside stage area.

Next week, we will be learning about worms and other creatures that live under the ground. We will also be focussing on the story ‘Superworm’IMG_1460 IMG_1492 IMG_1493 IMG_1495 IMG_1496 IMG_1500 IMG_1585 IMG_1586 IMG_1588 IMG_1589 IMG_1590 IMG_1591 IMG_1593 IMG_1595 IMG_1596 IMG_1598 IMG_1614 IMG_1616 IMG_1617 IMG_1619 IMG_1620 IMG_1622 IMG_1623 IMG_1626 IMG_1653 IMG_1655 IMG_1664 IMG_1666 IMG_1672 by Julia Donaldson.

Have a lovely weekend,

The Reception Team

 

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Fundraising for the JIA Foundation

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Thank you for all your support today fundraising for the JIA  Foundation. The purple looked great and the cakes were delicious! Well done to Gloria and the Year 6 for organising the day! Thank you to everyone who donated cakes for our sale. A special thank you to the parishioners who arrived at school bearing two huge plates of cakes and to Eliana, Gloria’s Reception reading partner, for her very generous donation of cakes. We raised a fabulous £250! Thank you everyone!

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