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Starlings WB 29.11.21, by Mrs Esling

Date: 25th Nov 2021 @ 9:48pm

 

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog!

We have had such a lovely week.  We have been practising the songs for our Christmas play and I have to say we are so proud of how well they are doing and they already sound amazing!

We are also loving the enthusiasm and excitement the children are showing with our new class text ‘Nibbles’.  The work they have already produced  is fantastic

You may have had a visit from Bertie or Matilda.  Starlings class are looking at the seasons and the changes that occur and in particular, we have been discussing how it goes darker much earlier in Autumn and Winter than it does in Spring and Summer.

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Thank you so much for taking the time to enjoy sharing stories with your Starling at home this week. The children will continue to bring home a Read Write Inc book, a book bag book and a bedtime story each week. This provides them with a variety of familiar, new and challenging texts to read. Bedtime storybooks are to be enjoyed with an adult. Reading TO the children ensures that they experience the magic of a story coming to life and have a purpose and love of reading.

 

English

This week we the children have been introduced to our new class text ‘Nibbles’. He has already nibbled through the book and some paper and now he has nibbled through Goldilocks and the three bears and eaten Baby Bear’s porridge! This week Nibbles has eaten his way through Little Red and taken her cape! What will he do next?

Maths

Starlings class have continued to explore the inverse operations of numbers.  We have also been looking at how addition is commutative and even when the numbers change the sum remains the same ( 4 + 2 = 6, 2 + 4 = 6)

RWI 

 

 

Orange Group- Miss Gillam 26.11.2021

Follow Me

Can you see me?

 

New sounds:

• ire- fire
• ear- hear with your ear
• ure- sure it’s pure
• tion- pay attention it’s a celebration

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading at an appropriate pace this week. Not too fast, not too slow!

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.

 

 

Yellow Group – Miss Gillam 26.11.2021

• Fun at the fair
• A mouse in the house

 

New sounds: New sounds:

• ire- fire fire
• ear- hear with your ear
• ure- sure it’s pure
• tion- pay attention it’s a celebration

 

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading at an appropriate pace this week. Not too fast, not too slow!

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.

Blue Group– Mrs Elson 26.11.21

At the seaside

A hole in my tooth

New sounds:

• Ire- fire fire
• ear- hear with your ear
• ure- sure it’s pure
• tion- pay attention it’s a celebration

Reading focus:  We are continuing to revisit our sounds and we have been looking at our non-fiction books and the features of those books.

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound cards. There are also speed words in the back of the books too.

 

Green Group – Mrs Southern 26.11.21

Tug, Tug

Lots of fish

New sounds:

• igh – fly high
• ow – blow the snow
• oo – poo at the zoo
• oo – look at a book
• ar – start the car

Reading focus: Check for special friends in every word.

 

Please continue to use your sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 26.11.21

The dressing up box

Sam’s Bag

 

New sounds

• ai – snail in the rain
• oa – goat in a boat
• ew – chew the stew

 

Reading focus This week we have been focusing on the punctuation in our book and changing the intonation In our voice to reflect this.

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.

 

Grey Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 26.11.21

 

Dear Vampire

The Train of Fear

Mythical Monsters

 

This week, we have been learning about using ‘y’ as a suffix and learning the rules about doubling the last consonant before adding ‘y’.

 

Practise reading and writing these words using our new rule:

mud = muddy, sag = saggy, bog = boggy, fun = funny, run = runny

 

Reading focus: We have been looking at clues in the text to tell us what might happen next in the story.

 

Please use your sounds book to practise words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.  

 

Yellow Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Brennan 26.11.21

 

The Foolish Witch

Tom’s Cooking Class

What’s in the Woods?

 

We have been revising our Set 3 sounds:

• ew – chew the stew
• are – care and share
• ur – nurse with a purse

 

 

Reading focus: This week we have been focusing on being super speedy readers.

 

Please use your sounds book to read words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.

 

 

 

Red Group – Mrs Southern 26.11.21

Pin it on

Let’s get wet

Practise our sounds of the week:

• ch
• qu
• ng
• nk

 

Reading focus: Re-cap the story to check your understanding.

 

 

 

 

 

Reading

 Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too. 

Spellings

During the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year One Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page of the previous weeks. 

This week’s spellings to be quizzed on 3^rd December are

do to today so day

 

PE

Our PE days will be Wednesday and Friday so your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue. Can we also ask that your child has a drink bottle that is clearly named and contains only water. We also request that if your child wears trainers with laces they are able to independently retie them if they become undone otherwise can they please wear trainers with a Velcro fastening.

 

 

Goldfinches WB 29.11.21, by Mrs Evans

Date: 25th Nov 2021 @ 8:57pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

Well done to all our hard workers this week.

 Friday Super Star goes to: Connor

 Top Table award goes to: Beth

Reminders:

Please note PE days this week are Tuesday and Friday

Worship: This week in worship we have focused on the story of Moses and the Burning Bush and what we can learn today from it.

Next Week:

Mrs Judge will be teaching in Year 5 so Mrs Evans will be in class on Monday.

Reading and Writing: This week we have been including a wider range of conjunctions (as, while, when, although, because) in our descriptive writing. Next week we will recap noun phrases and use them to help make rich and varied language choices.

Reading homework- Keep diving into these lovely books from school! We have so many wonderful choices. We are encouraging the children to read for 15 minutes every day at home

Spelling homework: This week our spelling rule is adding the ‘ious’ suffix

This week’s words: vicious, suspicious, curious, serious, obvious, anxious, tedious, furious, devious, oblivious

 Maths: This week we have continued our investigation into Roman Numerals and have used our knowledge of number bonds to 10 to add and subtract 3-digit numbers. We have added and subtract near multiples of 10 and 100 by adjusting. Next week we will explore adding 1, 10, 100 and 1000 to 4 digit numbers and will begin to recap the column methods of addition.

Times Tables Homework:

https://ttrockstars.com/

Try Hit the Button and choose the division 6x table facts to help prepare for our Gold x6 tables test which lots of children are now working on.  The next times tables will be 9x tables.

Have a go at Coconut multiples this week to help you practise https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples

Science: We have discovered what happens to a tooth left in acid and recorded the results. Following this we planned our own investigation into the effects of different drinks on our teeth. We chose to leave boiled eggs in coke, Lucozade, fresh orange juice, dilute cordial and sugar free lemonade. We will find out the results next week as well as exploring the different parts of the digestive system and their functions.

Geography: We will continue to map where the Ancient Greek Empire spread to in Europe.

History: We will learn about Alexander the Great by researching the question: ‘How Great was Alexander the Great?’

Art: We have continued to practise sketching a human figure in proportion and extended this to figures who are moving.  We created our own Greek pots to tell our own Legacy. We have also enjoyed making wreathes for our Christmas crafts.

PE: Mr Ault will teach Netball on Wednesday and Friday this week. Please remember to tie long hair back and remove earrings on PE days.

PSHCE: Our Heart Smart focus is: Don’t forget to let love in.

Music: We are enjoying learning the words to the songs for Hoodwinked.

As always, please don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss your child. Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Evans, Mrs Judge and Mr Beswick.

Starlings WB 22.11.21, by Mrs Esling

Date: 21st Nov 2021 @ 10:06pm

 

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog!

We have had such a lovely week.  We have been practising the songs for our Christmas play and I have to say we are so proud of how well they are doing and they already sound amazing!

We are also loving the enthusiasm and excitement the children are showing with our new class text ‘Nibbles’.  The work they have already produced is fantastic.

You may have had a visit from Bertie or Matilda.  Starlings class are looking at the seasons and the changes that occur and in particular, we have been discussing how it goes darker much earlier in Autumn and Winter than it does in Spring and Summer.

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Thank you so much for taking the time to enjoy sharing stories with your Starling at home this week. The children will continue to bring home a Read Write Inc book, a book bag book and a bedtime story each week. This provides them with a variety of familiar, new and challenging texts to read. Bedtime story books are to be enjoyed with an adult. Reading TO the children ensures that they experience the magic of a story coming to life and have a purpose and love of reading.

 

English

This week we the chdilren have been introduced to our new class text ‘Nibbles’. He has already nibbled through the book and some paper and now he has nibbled through Goldilocks and the three bears and eaten Baby Bear’s porridge!

Maths

This week following form our addition work we have been looking at subtraction and missing numbers.  Starlings class have also been exploring the fact that addition and subtraction are inverse operations and how understanding this helps us to calculate number sentences with missing numbers.

RWI 

Orange Group- Miss Gillam 19.11.2021 

A bad fright 

Fright night  

 

New sounds: 

er – A better letter 

ow – brown cow  

ai – snail in the rain  

oa – goat in a boat 

ew – chew the stew  

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading at an appropriate pace this week. Not too fast, not too slow!  

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card. 

 

 

Yellow Group – Miss Gillam 19.11.2021 

• A sweetcorn salad
• In the Park

 

New sounds: New sounds: 

er – A better letter 

ow – brown cow  

ai – snail in the rain  

oa – goat in a boat 

ew – chew the stew 

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading at an appropriate pace this week. Not too fast, not too slow!  

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.  

 

 

Blue Group– Mrs Elson 19.11.21 

The hole on the hill 

All alone 

Making sounds with instruments 

 

New sounds: 

• er – better letter
• ow- brown cow
• oa- goat inboat 
• ai – snail in the rain
• ew– chew the stew 

  

Reading focus:  We are continuing to revisit our sounds and we have been focusing on using  tone and pace with our voice to help with understand and enjoying the story better. 

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card. 

 

Green Group – Mrs Southern 19.11.21 

The Spell 

A witch’s lunch 

New sounds: 

• ir–whirl and twirl 
• ou– shout it out 
• oy– a toy to enjoy 
• ay– may I play? 
• ee– what can you see? 

Reading focus: Point to the words as you are reading them. 

 

Please continue to use your sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card. 

 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 19.11.21 

In The Sun 

Rags 

New sounds 

• are – care and share
• ur – nurse with a purse
• er – a better letter
• ow – brown cow

 

 

Reading focus:  We are continuing to revisit our sounds and we have been looking at the speedy words at the back of the book to help improve the pace of our reading. We aim to be super, speedy readers. 

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.  

 

Grey Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 19.11.21 

 

Andrew 

The Lifeboat Crew 

The Deep Blue Sea 

 

This week, we have continued looking at the soft ‘c’ sound which comes before e, i and y. 

 

Practise reading and writing these words with the soft ‘c’ sound:  

circus, price, notice, concentrate, police 

 

Reading focus: We have been finding evidence in the text to prove what we know 

 

Please use your sounds book to practise words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.   

 

Yellow Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Brennan 19.11.21 

 

Danny and the Bump-a-lump 

Just Let Me Sleep 

Fun at Night 

 

 

New sounds: 

• kn – knock, knock
• ph– take a photo 
• wh– whisk, whisk 

 

Reading focus: This week we have been focusing on speed reading so we can become super speedy readers. Remember that if we know the word, we don’t need to Fred talk it. 

 

Please use your sounds book to read words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.  

 

 

 

Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 19.11.21 

Ditty sheets 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 

Practise our sounds of the week: 

• nk
• ck
• th
• sh
• ch

 

Reading focus: Re-cap the story to check your understanding. 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading

 Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too. 

Spellings

During the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year One Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page of the previous weeks. 

This week’s spellings to be quizzed on Friday 26th^th November are

I put are says were

PE

Our PE days will be Wednesday and Friday so your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue. Can we also ask that your child has a drink bottle that is clearly named and contains only water. We also request that if your child wears trainers with laces they are able to independently retie them if they become undone otherwise can they please wear trainers with a Velcro fastening.

 

 

Robins Wk Beg 22nd November 2021, by Mrs Rice

Date: 18th Nov 2021 @ 8:16pm

Hi Everyone

School has sounded wonderful this week with the happy sounds of children singing Christmas play songs. It is getting very exciting as we lead upto our KS2 Christmas production of Hoodwinked. Our class dance is coming along nicely, thank you for the Lumberjack costumes that we have had so far. 

A reminder that tomorrow (Friday 19th November) is Children in Need day. Please bring pennies for Pudsey and wear own clothes/pajamas. 

I have noticed a big improvement in the children's handwriting and presentation this week. I was extremely proud to share the children's books at our local cluster moderation. Several local primary schools gathered together and we moderated each other's work to check our assessments are accurate. 

Next week in Writing, we are contining to read Winter's Child. The pages are beautifully illustrated and the children are really enjoying this story so far. We will be applying our understanding of sentence structure to character and setting descriptions. The children will expore the characters of Tom, his mother and Nana through wriitng conversations, giving them time to practise their use of inverted commas for direct speech.  

The children are using their inference skills to work out how a character is feeling, what their motives might have been and why they have carried out certain actions in The Ice Palace story. They will learn more about the character of Ivan and infer what kind of person he is from the clues in the text. We will also continue to read out loud to our partners using pace, fluency and expression to bring the story to life.

In Maths, we will continue our addition work. The children have added ones crossing the tens boundary this week using partitioning. Next week we will add tens and ones to 3 digit numbers using a number line to calculate. We will also practise our multiplication and division facts, trying to give speedy answers. 

In Science,  we will explore how we see things and how light travels to our eyes. The children really enjoyed their light investigation this week, exploring why we can't see dull objects in the dark. 

We will be busy making Christmas crafts to be sold at the Christmas Fair as well as continuing to learn the songs for our play. The children will also have their German lesson with Mrs Judge where they will learn how to tell people where they live in German. They will enjoy a fabulous Ukuele lesson with Dan, PE with Mr Ault as well as their Cricket lesson on Wednesday. 

A very busy and fun filled week! As always, please come and see me if you have any queries.

Many thanks

Mrs Rice and Mrs Brennan

Goldfinches WB 22.11.21, by Mrs Evans

Date: 18th Nov 2021 @ 7:06pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

Fabulous focus this week.

 Friday Super Star goes to: Jake

 Top Table award goes to: Alexa

Reminders:

Individual photographs are on Monday

Worship: This week in worship we have focused on the anti-bullying week message of ‘One Kind Word’ and have enjoyed putting this in to practise by making personalised stickers for chosen people.

Next Week:

Reading and Writing: This week we have continued to focus on writing accurate simple and compound sentences based on our book Leon and the Place Between. Next week we will use our skills to help us write with a wider range of conjunctions (as, while, when, although, because) in our descriptive writing..

Reading homework- Keep diving into these lovely books from school! We have so many wonderful choices. We are encouraging the children to read for 15 minutes every day at home

Spelling homework: This week our spelling rule is adding the ‘ous’ suffix

This week’s words: famous, joyous, fabulous, tremendous, jealous, enormous, glamorous, disastrous, adventurous, nervous

 Maths: This week we have continued our unit on addition and subtraction and have been developing our reasoning skills to explain the mistakes in calculations. We enjoyed a thought-provoking investigation into Roman Numerals.

Next week we will begin to recap the column methods of addition.

Times Tables Homework:

https://ttrockstars.com/

Try Hit the Button and choose the division 6x table facts to help prepare for our Gold x6 tables test which lots of children are now working on.  The next times tables will be 9x tables.

Have another go at Maths Fishing this week to help you practise https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication

Science: We have predicted what happens to a tooth left in acid and will record the results in our next lesson. We will plan our own investigation into the effects of different drinks on our teeth.

Art: We have learned to sketch a human figure in proportion and are experimenting with the primary colours red and yellow to make different hues of colour. We will use the Greek pots as inspiration for our own designs to tell our own Legacy.

RE: Next week will continue to explore the theme of good news through The Nativity story.

German: Next week we will learn how to tell people where we live in German.

PE: Our Dance lessons on Wednesday afternoons will help us prepare for our Christmas play and Mr Ault will teach Netball on Fridays. Please remember to tie long hair back and remove earrings on PE days.

PSHCE: Our Heart Smart focus is: Don’t forget to let love in.

Music: We are enjoying learning the words to the songs for Hoodwinked.

As always, please don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss your child. Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Evans, Mrs Judge and Mr Beswick.

Toucans week beg. 22nd Nov, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 18th Nov 2021 @ 4:19pm

Week beg 22^nd November 2021

A big thank you for all the wonderful costumes that you have sent in this week. The children are getting really excited about their play now. Still a long way to go until our opening performance and plenty to do!!

Remember to encourage your child to read for 15 – 20 mins daily and to record their reading in their diaries. We have stapled a list of recommended books for Year 6 children in the front of their diaries and we would like them to read some of these throughout the year. We have a lot of these texts in our class library so the children can borrow them from school or they might find some at their local library. We have asked them to tick off the books that that they read on the list.

Homework

Spellings for next week will focus will focus on suffixes.  

Spellings will be tested on Friday 26^th November – happily, copier, mysterious, spying, beautiful, beginning, trying, heavily, happiness, tries

Maths Homework – Key Stage Two Maths SATs Question Book and Times Tables Rockstars

Homework is page 29 and page 30 on Fractions of the SATs book.

Curriculum

Maths – Next week we will be working on adding and subtracting Fractions

Music – cello and violins lessons as well as learning to sing songs for our Christmas Production.

History – children will be researching and presenting their findings on an aspect of World War 1.

Science – Investigating circuits

We will spend our afternoons (Wednesday – Friday) rehearsing for our Christmas Production

PE day will be every Friday (Mr Ault) and also on Wednesdays when we are not focusing on our Production.

 

Kind regards,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing, Mr Beswick and Mr Corkill

Skylarks WB 22.11.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 18th Nov 2021 @ 8:39am

Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?

We have had another super week of learning in Skylarks Class. The children have loved using their learning from our trip to the Lion Salt Works in their topic and science lessons. Our rehearsals for the Christmas play are also well underway and we can’t wait to show you what we have been practicing.

 

Reminders:

• Christmas Play Costumes - Our class will perform a party scene dance so your child will need to wear party clothes (e.g. a colourful t-shirt and jeans/legging, a dress, sparkly shoes, etc.). Please do not go out and buy anything new for our performance, any type of party wear your child already owns will be perfect. We would like these costumes to be in school for Monday 29^th November 2021.

 

Next Week (W.B. 22.11.21)

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our book ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray. We will be exploring characters more closely by completing a Venn diagram to compare the appearance and personality traits of 3 characters, before role-playing and writing out a conversation between these characters using inverted commas.

In our reading lessons next week, we will continue to explore our shared reading text ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti. We will be focussing on evaluating the authors’ language choice, including figurative language. This will link nicely with our writing lessons where we have been learning all about personification, similes, metaphors and alliteration.

In maths we will continue to look at line graphs. We will look again at how to draw our own line graphs and will work collaboratively with our peers to solve reasoning and problem-solving questions about statistics. We will also continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.

In RE we will continue to explore the titles given to Jesus at Christmas time. This week we will look at the titles ‘The Word’ and ‘Light’ and will explore what we think these titles might mean.

During our topic day, we will continue to work on our information leaflets about the Lion Salt Works. We will look at the process of making salt, the importance of the salt works and the effect the salt industry had on Northwich.

Our PE days for the Autumn will continue to be Thursday (Swimming) and Friday (Athletics) so your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue. On Thursday your child will also need to have their swimming costume and towel in a plastic bag.

 

Homework

In year 5 the children will be set a weekly maths homework that they should complete and mark at home using the answers in the back of the homework book.

If your child is finding the homework tricky, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime for your child to ask any questions or receive some support to complete their homework.

The children should complete pages 70 and 71 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 26^th November. This homework is looking interpreting and drawing line graphs.

 

Please also encourage your child to read for 20 minutes each evening and practice their spellings/times tables. The following websites are both great for times tables practice:

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 26^th November will be the next 10 words in the Year 5/6 word list:

Competition, conscience, conscious, controversy, convenience, correspond, criticise, curiosity, definite, desperate

 

Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?

Miss Beattie x

 

 

 

 

 

Swallows Blog 15.11.2021, by Miss Gillam

Date: 12th Nov 2021 @ 6:35am

Hello and welcome back to Swallows class blog!

 

Top Table: Joseph O          Praise Book: Olivia

Swallows have had another wonderful week of super learning and have one again made Mrs Elson and I so proud of their fantastic attitudes towards their learning. We enjoyed a beautiful Remembrance Day service at Lostock war memorial on Thursday and our children showed respect as the reflected on the lives lost in the World Wars. We also planted Poppy seeds into our new garden of Remembrance. We can’t wait to watch them grown.

 

Thank you so much to those who have accessed Times Tables Rock Stars at home this week. If you have not managed to log in yet, please have a go this week. It will really help to prepare you for our weekly times tables quiz in the classroom. As always, should if you need any help with this. 

 

Christmas play rehearsals have begun and we are well on the way to learning the eight songs which feature in our play this year. Swallows have learnt how to read a script and have a good understanding of the story. Our next job is to learn our lines by heart. Please encourage your child to learn their lines at home. It would help if they knew who spoke before them so that they know when to come in.

 

Reminders:

As the weather is turning colder and wetter now, please ensure your child has a coat in school every day.

 

Next Week

 

Maths

Our Maths work will continue to focus on addition and subtraction this week. We will use number lines and place value counters to help us to calculate. Our aim is to really understand what happens as we bridge ten.

We will also continue to learn our 10 x table this week. Please remember that we will have our times tables quiz each Friday.  Your child must show that they can answer all questions correctly three times before moving onto the silver challenge.

 

Writing

Our English work will continue to focus on the beautiful story ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ this week. Swallows will explore the use of different conjunctions and use them to extend their sentences. We will use co-coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or) to join clauses. We will then apply our knowledge of conjunctions by writing a setting description.

 

Read Write Inc

 

Orange Group- Miss Gillam 12.11.2021

I think I want to be a bee

A vet’s week

New sounds:

• o-e phone home
• u-e – huge brute
• are – care and share
• ur – nurse with a purse
• aw – yawn at dawn

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading at an appropriate pace this week. Not too fast, not too slow!

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.

 

 

Yellow Group – Miss Gillam 12.11.2021

The Foolish Witch

Tom’s cooking class

What’s in the woods?

 

New sounds:

• o-e phone home
• u-e – huge brute
• are – care and share
• ur – nurse with a purse
• aw – yawn at dawn

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading at an appropriate pace this week. Not too fast, not too slow!

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.

 

Blue Group– Mrs Elson 12.11.21

A box full of light

Dick Whittingham

The Sun

New sounds:

• o-e phone home
• u-e – huge brute
• are – care and share
• ur – nurse with a purse

 

Reading focus:  We are continuing to revisit our sounds and we have been looking at the speedy words at the back of the book to help improve the pace of our reading. We aim to be super, speedy readers.

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 12.11.21

Tab the cat

Pip the parrot

New sounds

• i_e – nice smile
• o_e phone home
• u_e huge brute
• aw yawn at dawn

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on using Fred in our head to help us to become speedier readers this week. Remember to spot special friends, Fred talk and then read the word. 

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.

 

Grey Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 12.11.21

Toad

Frog or Toad?

Pond Life

 

This week, we have continued our new RWI spelling scheme and spelling the or sound spelt a before 1 and ll. We have also started looking at the soft ‘c’ sound which we will continue with next week.

 

Practise reading and writing these words with the or sound: wall, talk, almost, stalk, chalk

Practise reading and writing these words with the soft ‘c’ sound: mice, icy, race, fancy, pencil

 

Reading focus: We have been focussing on comparing our text with other books we have read.

 

Homework

 

Reading

 Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too. Please remember to record any reading in your blue reading diary.

 

Spellings 

 Throughout the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year Two Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page from the previous week's page. 

kind  last  many  mind  money

Our next spelling quiz will be on Friday 19^th November.                                        

Maths Homework

Please continue to learn your 10 x table this week. We have given each child our Bronze times table challenge for this week. This involves learning the 10 x table in order. In addition to completing your written times table challenge, please log in to Times Tables Rock Stars. When you click into the TT Rock Stars home page, you need to select 'Garage' which is a single player game. This is where I can select specific tables for you to learn.  I have set you a little 10 times table challenge for this week. Remember, when you see the division sign, it is asking you how many tens are in that number. Use your counting in 10s to help you. Have fun choosing your rock star names and completing our special challenge

Our next times table quiz will be on Friday 19^th November. You will move onto the silver challenge once you have answered all questions correctly on three occasions in school. 

 

Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ? Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Miss Gillam

 

 

 

 

15.11.21, by Mrs Rice

Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 10:44pm

Hi Everyone

Wow, what an amazing week we have had. The children became scientists in our "Amazing Light" workshop led by Chester Cathedral. They explored opaque, transparant and translucent materials in a variety of ways using lots of exciting equipment. We enjoyed a beautiful Remembrance Day service at the war memorial this week, our children showed such repect, we were really proud of them. I am also really pleased with the progress the children are making in their ukuele music lessons. The children are learning how to read music, how to use pitch and the musical terms for parts of songs egchorus and bridge. We have enjoyed learning more songs for our Christmas production, Hoodwinked. Thank you for the costumes that we have had already, we can keep them safe in school. If you are having any problems in sourcing a checked shirt, please let me know.

In our Writing lessons next week we are really focusing on what makes a sentence. We are going back to basics to embed the fact that a sentence needs a noun and a verb. We will explore joining two clauses with a conjunction. Our descriptive writing will focus on winter scenes from our beautiful story Winter's Child by Angela McCallister. Our reading lessons will continue to be based upon The Ice Palace by Robert Swindells. We will explore new winter vocabulary in both texts, practise reading out loud using punctuation to enhance meaning and ask questions about the characters and plot. 

The children will be adding 3 digit numbers using partitioning, number lines and the column method. We will support this new learning with practical equipment such as place value counters and base ten equipment. We will also be working on our rapid recall of times tables facts. We use speed grids for this which the children really enjoy. Please log into TTRockstars where games have been set for the children to practise their times tables facts. Regular times tables and division facts practise is crucial for the retention of these important facts. 

In RE, the children will continue to explore how and why Christians support certain charities and world organisations such as Fair Trading. We will look at Bible quotes that inspire this charitable work and see if they are still relevant today. Mrs Judge will visit us again to teach the children their German lesson. So far they have learnt how to say hello, goodbye, my name is.... and numbers to ten. They have enjoyed singing happy birthday also. In History, we will explore where people who lived in the Stone Age lived and why. We will learn about their reasons for nomadic life, their temporary shelters and cave dwelling. 

As always, please come and chat with me if you have any questions or concerns. 

Many thanks

Mrs Rice and Mrs Brennan  

Goldfinches WB 15.11.21, by Mrs Evans

Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 8:27pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

We have had a wonderfully busy week and have enjoyed a wide range of activities and lessons.

 Star of the week goes to: Violet

 Top Table award goes to: Thomas

Reminders:

As the weather is turning colder and wetter now, please ensure your child has a coat in school every day.

It is lovely to hear that choir club is returning and that so many Goldfinches are keen to be involved. All rehearsals for the Christmas light switch on will be during school time for the next two weeks.

Worship: This week in worship we have focused on Remembrance and remembered those who gave their lives in the World Wars and who are still serving their countries today. We had a wonderful Remembrance service with Mrs Kendrick and Mr Cliff after planting our Poppy seeds into our new garden of Remembrance.

Next Week:

Reading and Writing: This week we have focused on writing accurate simple and compound sentences based on our book Leon and the Place Between. Next week we will use our skills to help us write a diary entry.

Reading homework- I am continuing to encourage the children to choose from a range of books around the classroom. We have just had a delivery of 50 of the top 100 recommended books for Year 4 as well as a lovely gift of books from Mrs Esling and her grown up children. So many choices!

Spelling homework: This week our spelling rule continues with the ei, ey and eigh patterns. As lots of them are homophones, please support your child to understand the meanings.

This week’s words: drey, whey, convey, survey, eighth, eighteen, weight, neigh, neighbour, sleigh

Your child has brought a blank spelling doodle home as another way of practising.

Maths: This week we have begun our unit on addition and subtraction and have been exploring how the number bonds to 10 and 20, support us to find number bonds to 100 and 1000 e.g. 74 + 26 =100 so 740 + 260 = 1000

Times Tables Homework:

https://ttrockstars.com/

Try Hit the Button and choose the division 6x table facts to help prepare for our Gold x6 tables test which lots of children are now working on.  The next times tables will be 9x tables.

Have a go at Maths Fishing this week to help you practise https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication

Science: We have continued our new Teeth topic by learning about the parts of a tooth and the importance of enamel. Next week we will predict what happens to a tooth left in acid and record the results over a few days.

Geography: We have mapped the countries Ancient Greece used to be in on a map of Europe and have located some of the important city states: Athens, Sparta, Crete, Corinth and Olympia.

History/Art: We will look in detail at the artwork from ancient Greek pots and try to tell the story of the legacy they have left to learn about what life was like in Ancient Greek times. We will use the Greek pots as inspiration for our own designs and learn to sketch a human figure in proportion.

RE: Good News stories from the Bible.

German: Use our number knowledge and tell people our age.

 PE: Our Dance lessons on Wednesday afternoons will help us prepare for our Christmas play and Mr Ault will teach Netball on Fridays. Please remember to tie long hair back and remove earrings on PE days.

PSHCE: Our Heart Smart focus is: Don’t forget to let love in.

Music: We are enjoying learning the words to the songs for Hoodwinked.

Mrs Shimmin has been a wonderful part of Goldfinches class this term and we know she will continue her amazing work in the Nest. We welcome Mr Beswick to the Goldfinch team from next week and are looking forward to working with him.

As always, please don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss your child. Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Evans, Mrs Judge and Mrs Shimmin.

Starlings WB 15.11.21, by Mrs Esling

Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 6:47pm

 

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog!

We have had such a lovely week and the children are especially our new writing text ‘Nibbles’.

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Can you believe we are now on the Christmas stretch and what exciting things we have to look forward to this half term

Thank you so much for taking the time to enjoy sharing stories with your Starling at home this week. The children will continue to bring home a Read Write Inc book, a book bag book and a bedtime story each week. This provides them with a variety of familiar, new and challenging texts to read. Bedtime storybooks are to be enjoyed with an adult. Reading TO the children ensures that they experience the magic of a story coming to life and have a purpose and love of reading.

 

 

English

This week we the children have been introduced to our new class text ‘Nibbles’. He has already nibbled through the book and some paper and we are wondering what he might nibble next!

Maths

This week our focus has been on adding numbers using various resources to support our learning.

RWI  

Orange Group- Miss Gillam 12.11.2021

I think I want to be a bee

A vet’s week

New sounds:

• o-e phone home
• u-e – huge brute
• are – care and share
• ur – nurse with a purse
• aw – yawn at dawn

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading at an appropriate pace this week. Not too fast, not too slow!

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.

 

 

Yellow Group – Miss Gillam 12.11.2021

The Foolish Witch

Tom’s cooking class

What’s in the woods?

 

New sounds:

• o-e phone home
• u-e – huge brute
• are – care and share
• ur – nurse with a purse
• aw – yawn at dawn
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Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading at an appropriate pace this week. Not too fast, not too slow!

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Group– Mrs Elson 12.11.21

A box full of light

Dick Whittingham

The Sun

New sounds:

• o-e phone home
• u-e – huge brute
• are – care and share
• ur – nurse with a purse

 

Reading focus:  We are continuing to revisit our sounds and we have been looking at the speedy words at the back of the book to help improve the pace of our reading. We aim to be super, speedy readers.

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.

 

Green Group – Mrs Southern 12.11.21

My dog Ned

Pat, the vet

New sounds:

• oo– poo at the zoo
• oo – look at a book
• ar – start the car
• or – shut the door
• air – that’s not fair

Reading focus: Point to the words as you are reading them.

 

Please continue to use your sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.

 

 

 

 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 12.11.21

Tab the cat

Pip the parrot

New sounds

• i_e  - nice smile
• o_e -  phone home
• u_e -  huge brute
• aw -  yawn at dawn

 

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on using Fred in our head to help us to become speedier readers this week. Remember to spot special friends, Fred talk and then read the word. 

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.

 

Grey Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 12.11.21

 

Toad

Frog or Toad?

Pond Life

 

This week, we have continued our new RWI spelling scheme and spelling the or sound spelt a before 1 and ll. We have also started looking at the soft ‘c’ sound which we will continue with next week.

 

Practise reading and writing these words with the or sound: wall, talk, almost, stalk, chalk

Practise reading and writing these words with the soft ‘c’ sound: mice, icy, race, fancy, pencil

 

Reading focus: We have been focussing on comparing our text with other books we have read.

 

 

Yellow Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Brennan 12.11.21

 

Lost

No Way!

Which Way is it?

 

 

New sounds:

• ie – terrible tie
• au – Paul the Astronaut :
• e-e – Go Steve and Pete!
• kn – knock, knock

 

Reading focus: This week we have been focusing on punctuation and exploring how an exclamation mark in a sentence changes the way we say the word and encourages our use of expression in our reading.

 

Please use your sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.

 

 

 

Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 12.11.21

Ditty sheets 16, 17, 18

Practise our sounds of the week:

• ch
• q
• x
• ng
• nk

 

Reading focus: Re-cap the story to check your understanding.

 

 

 

 

 

Reading

 Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too. 

Spellings

During the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year One Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page of the previous weeks. 

This week’s spellings to be quizzed on Friday 19^th November are

is were the was they

 

PE

Our PE days will be Wednesday and Friday so your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue. Can we also ask that your child has a drink bottle that is clearly named and contains only water. We also request that if your child wears trainers with laces they are able to independently retie them if they become undone otherwise can they please wear trainers with a Velcro fastening.

 

 

Toucans week beg. 15.11.21, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 4:46pm

Our rehearsals for Hoodwinked are well under way and thank you for encouraging your child to learn their words at home. We are also sending home the words for the songs that we will be singing as we won’t be able to display the words on the night so need to learn the words asap.

Please speak to us if you are struggling to get a costume put together just speak to us. Costumes are due in school on Wednesday 17^th November.

Remember to encourage your child to read for 15 – 20 mins daily and to record their reading in their diaries. We have stapled a list of recommended books for Year 6 children in the front of their diaries and we would like them to read some of these throughout the year. We have a lot of these texts in our class library so the children can borrow them from school or they might find some at their local library. We have asked them to tick off the books that that they read on the list.

Homework

Spellings for next week will focus will focus on suffixes.  

Spellings will be tested on Thursday 19^th November – admitting, forgotten, beginner, regretted, forbidden, beginning, stoppable, wettest, preferred, referring

Maths Homework – Key Stage Two Maths SATs Question Book and Times Tables Rockstars

Homework is page 16 Written Divisions and page 17 Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100, 1000 of the SATs book.

Curriculum

Maths – Next week we will be looking at Fractions

Music – cello and violins lessons as well as learning to sing songs for our Christmas Production.

History – children will be researching and presenting their findings on an aspect of World War 1.

We will spend our afternoons (Wednesday – Friday) rehearsing for our Christmas Production

PE day will be every Friday (Mr Ault) and also on Wednesdays when we are not focusing on our Production.

 

Kind regards,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing, Mr Beswick and Mr Corkill

Skylarks WB 15.11.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 7:39am

Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?

We have had another super week of learning in Skylarks Class. The children represented our school so wonderfully during our visit to the Lion Salt Works and learnt an abundance of new knowledge. I’m sure you have heard all about our trip from your child, but you can also see lots of photos from the day on our school Twitter @LostockGralamPr

 

Reminders:

• Christmas Play Costumes - Our class will perform a party scene dance so your child will need to wear party clothes (e.g. a colourful t-shirt and jeans/legging, a dress, sparkly shoes, etc.). Please do not go out and buy anything new for our performance, any type of party wear your child already owns will be perfect. We would like these costumes to be in school for Monday 29^th November 2021.

 

Next Week (W.B. 15.11.21)

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our book ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray. We will be focusing most of our learning around building characterisation. We will look at how difference language devices (e.g. similes, alliteration, metaphors) and speech can help to develop our characters within stories. We will also look at using figurative language devices in a winter poem. 

In our reading lessons next week, we will continue to explore our shared reading text ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti. We will be focussing on identifying the themes and conventions in the story. We will be discussing the reoccurring themes and the ‘must-have’ characteristics of this type of story.

In maths we will be looking at line graphs. We will begin by learning how to read line graphs, before moving on to drawing our own. We will also continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.

In science, the children will investigate which processes are most effective for separating materials. We will use filtering, sieving, evaporating and magnetic attraction to separate different mixtures and solutions. This will link nicely to our work carried out at the Lion Salt Works on Tuesday.

During our topic day, we will use our learning from the Lion Salt Works to help us produce an information leaflet about the process of pumping brine and extracting salt, the importance of the salt works and the effect the salt industry had on Northwich.

Our PE days for the Autumn will continue to be Thursday (Swimming) and Friday (Athletics) so your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue. On Thursday your child will also need to have their swimming costume and towel in a plastic bag.

 

Homework

In year 5 the children will be set a weekly maths homework that they should complete and mark at home using the answers in the back of the homework book.

If your child is finding the homework tricky, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime for your child to ask any questions or receive some support to complete their homework.

The children should complete pages 48 and 49 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 19^th November. This homework is looking finding the perimeter of shapes.  

 

Please also encourage your child to read for 20 minutes each evening and practice their spellings/times tables. The following websites are both great for times tables practice:

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 19^th November will continue to focus on words containing the suffix -able:

adaptable, predictable, knowledgeable, beatable, comfortable, reasonable, available, fashionable, miserable, believable

Please encourage your child to learn the root word before adding the -able suffix.

 

Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?

Miss Beattie x

 

 

 

 

Swallows Blog 08.11.2021, by Miss Gillam

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 9:25pm

Hello Everyone!

Welcome back to Swallows class blog.

 

Praise Book:  Jayden B         Top Table: Ella

What an amazing start to this half term we have had! Mrs Elson and I have been so impressed with the children's fantastic attitudes towards their learning. We have enjoyed our first Cricket PE lesson with Andy, learnt the first song from our Christmas production, had a fantastic History focus day and enjoyed a whole day of active Maths.

We are looking forward to another week of being busy little bee’s next week. Please take a look at what we will be learning below.

English

Our English work will continue to focus on the beautiful story ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ this week. Swallows will create and perform their own firework poems, sort information into subheading and write complex sentences using a range of conjunctions.

 

Maths

Our Maths work will focus on adding and subtracting two 2 digit numbers this week. We will continue to focus on our times tables during our arithmetic lesson’s.

 

Read Write Inc

Please check your child's diary to see which group they are currently working in. Please remember that the children sometimes need to repeat sounds/books in order to develop fluency and understanding. If you child has remained on the same colour reading book, this is not a problem. It just means that they need to really focus on using speedy Fred in their head to read at a faster pace. 

 

Orange Group- Miss Gillam 5.11.2021

Playday

We can play!

Jam tarts

 

New sounds:

• ea – cup of tea
• oi – spoil the boy
• a_e – make a cake
• i_e – nice smile

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on using Fred in our head to help us to become speedier readers this week. Remember to spot special friends, Fred talk and then read the word.  

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.

 

Yellow Group – Miss Gillam 5.11.2021

Grow your own radishes

The radish contest

plants

 

New sounds:

• ea – cup of tea
• oi – spoil the boy
• a_e – make a cake
• i_e – nice smile

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on using Fred in our head to help us to become speedier readers this week. Remember to spot special friends, Fred talk and then read the word. 

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.

 

Blue Group– Mrs Elson 5.11.21

Jelly Bean

Small but deadly

Beastly Pet

New sounds:

• ea- cup of tea
• oi – spoil the boy
• a-e – make a cake
• I-e – nice smile

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.

Reading focus:  We are continuing to revisit our sounds and we have been looking at different ways of spelling the same in differently.

 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 5.11.21

Scruffy Ted

Scruffy Ted gets lost

new sounds

• ea – cup of tea
• oi – spoil the boy
• a_e – make a cake
• i_e – nice smile

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on using Fred in our head to help us to become speedier readers this week. Remember to spot special friends, Fred talk and then read the word. 

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.

 

Grey Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 5.11.21

 

Wailing Winny’s Car Boot Sale

Dad Makes a Mistake

Amazing Caves

 

This week, we have started our new RWI spelling scheme and have focussed on spelling the or sound spelt a before 1 and ll

 

Practise reading and writing these words: tall, small, also, always, altogether, already

 

Reading focus: We have been focussing on reading with expression and using the punctuation marks to convey how the characters are feeling.

 

 

 

 

 

Homework

Reading

 Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too. Please remember to record any reading in your blue reading diary.

 

Spellings 

 Throughout the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year Two Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page from the previous week's page. 

great  hour  half    hold   improve

Our next spelling quiz will be on Friday 12^th November.  

Maths Homework

Please have a go at learning your 10 x table this week. We have each child our Bronze times table challenge for this week. This involves learning the 10 x table in order. In addition to completing your written times table challenge, please log in to Times Tables Rock Stars. When you click into the TT Rock Stars home page, you need to select 'Garage' which is a single player game. This is where I can select specific tables for you to learn.  I have set you a little 10 times table challenge for this week. Remember, when you see the division sign, it is asking you how many tens are in that number. Use your counting in 10s to help you J. Have fun choosing your rock star names and completing our special challenge

Our first times table quiz will be on Friday 12^th November.  

 

 

Nativity – Christmas with the Aliens

We look forward to sending our play scripts home with your child early next week. We are currently introducing parts in school this week before sending the scripts home for learning. Please use the script to learn any highlighted words that your child will need to learn by heart ready for our performances. Every child who wanted a speaking role has one.

Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ? Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Miss Gillam

 

 

Wk Beg 8th November 2021, by Mrs Rice

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 8:22pm

Hi Everyone

What a wonderful start to this half term we have had! I have been so impressed with the children's attitudes to learning and their engagement in all lessons. We have enjoyed our first Cricket PE lesson, our first Ukuele lesson (where we played and sang at the same time!) and learnt the first song from our Christmas production, Hoodwinked! It is just wonderful to hear children singing again in school. The children also enoyed exploring the properties of shape during our Maths Day. 

Mrs Rice's spelling group have explored common exception words that contain a silent letter or a lerter that we pronounce quietly. Our words to learn this week are:

library, length, strength, business, February, island, answer

 

Mrs Brennan's spelling group have explored adding the suffix er and est with words ending in a y. The y is dropped and chamged to an i before adding er and est

For example: happy, happier, happiest. 

Next week, we will begin to explore a new story in our Writing lessons, Winter's Child by Angela McAllister. We will be using illustrations from the book to make predictions, explore a range of new vocabulary associated with the text and focus on our sentence structure and punctuation. This is a beautiful story with inviting illustrations, a great stocking filler! In our Reading lessons, we will focus on the pace of our independent reading, our expression and intonation to enhance meaning when reading out loud. The story, The Ice Palace by Robert Swindell will be the focus text in our Reading lessons. We will infer a character's feelings and actions by hunting for clues in the text and 'reading between the lines'.  

We will begin our new Science topic, Light - How we see things. The children will explore different sources of light and how how light travels. Our virtual Stone Age visitor will join us again and help us to learn about life in PreHistoric times. We are also taking part in a Science Light and Faith workshop, led by a lady from Chester Cathedral which we are extremely looking forward to. 

Times Tables Rock Stars has lots of times tables games and practice for the children. We are currently working on our 5 times tables and the children are making great progress with their rapid recall of the facts. Please continue to practise times tables with your children at home as having these facts at the ends of their finger tips, makes so many other areas of Maths more accessable. 

Thank you for your support with home reading. The children are enjoying reading a wide variety of stories and poems from our class library. This website, has the Top 100 Reads for each year group on, we have a selction of texts from Year Two and Year Three recommendations for the children to explore in class. These could make fantastic Christmas presents! 

https://www.thereaderteacher.com/year3

The children will have PE with Mr Ault on a Monday and now a Cricket lesson on a Wednesday. Please ensure that your child comes to school in warm school PE uniform on Mondays and Wednesdays as the lessons can be outside. 

Please always ask me if you have any questions or queries about anything. 

Many thanks

Mrs Rice and Mrs Brennan xxx

 

Starlings WB 8.11.21, by Mrs Esling

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 7:19pm

 

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog!

We hope you enjoyed a lovely half term and had lots of fun as a family.

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Can you believe we are now on the Christmas stretch and what exciting things we have to look forward to this half term.

Thank you so much for taking the time to enjoy sharing stories with your Starling at home this week. The children will continue to bring home a Read Write Inc book, a book bag book and a bedtime story each week. This provides them with a variety of familiar, new and challenging texts to read. Bedtime storybooks are to be enjoyed with an adult. Reading TO the children ensures that they experience the magic of a story coming to life and have a purpose and love of reading.

 

English

We are currently having a sentence focus.  We have been exploring how we can make our sentences interesting and we have also been improving my incorrect sentences.

Maths

This week we have been exploring adding numbers together. We have worked hard to group objects and then explore the different ways we can write a number sentence.

RWI 

Orange Group- Miss Gillam 5.11.2021 

Playday  

We can play! 

Jam tarts 

 

New sounds: 

• ea – cup of tea
• oi – spoil the boy
• a_e – make a cake
• i_e – nice smile

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on using Fred in our head to help us to become speedier readers this week. Remember to spot special friends, Fred talk and then read the word.   

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card. 

 

Yellow Group – Miss Gillam 5.11.2021 

Grow your own radishes  

The radish contest  

plants 

 

New sounds: 

• ea – a cup of tea
• oi – spoil the boy
• a_e – make a cake
• i_e – nice smile

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on using Fred in our head to help us to become speedier readers this week. Remember to spot special friends, Fred talk and then read the word.   

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card. 

 

Blue Group– Mrs Elson 5.11.21 

Jelly Bean 

Small but deadly 

Beastly Pet 

New sounds: 

• ea- cup of tea
• oi – spoil the boy
• a-e – make a cake
• I-e – nice smile

  

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card. 

Reading focus:  We are continuing to revisit our sounds and we have been looking at different ways of spelling the same in differently. 

 

Green Group – Mrs Southern 5.11.21 

On the bus 

The din on the bus 

New sounds: 

• ay – may I play?
• ee – what can you see?
• igh – fly high
• ow – blow the snow

Please continue to use your sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card. 

Reading focus: Use the table at the back of the book to speed read the words from the story. 

  

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 5.11.21 

Scruffy Ted 

Scruffy Ted gets lost 

new sounds 

• ea – cup of tea
• oi – spoil the boy
• a_e – make a cake
• i_e – nice smile

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on using Fred in our head to help us to become speedier readers this week. Remember to spot special friends, Fred talk and then read the word.   

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card. 

 

Grey Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 5.11.21 

 

Wailing Winny’s Car Boot Sale 

Dad Makes a Mistake 

Amazing Caves 

 

This week, we have started our new RWI spelling scheme and have focussed on spelling the or sound spelt a before 1 and ll 

 

Practise reading and writing these words: tall, small, also, always, altogether, already  

 

Reading focus: We have been focussing on reading with expression and using punctuation marks to convey how the characters are feeling. 

 

 

Yellow Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Brennan 5.11.21 

 

Robin Hood 

A Big Bag of Cash 

Bushcraft  

• Practise our new sounds: 
• e– he, she, we, be, me 
• ie –terrible tie 
• au – Paul the astronaut  

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.  

 

Reading focus: This week we have been focusing on punctuation and exploring how a question mark in a sentence changes the way we say the word and encourages our use of expression in our reading. 

 

Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 5.11.21 

Ditty sheets 12, 13,14 & 15  

Practise our sounds of the week: 

• y
• w
• th
• z

 

Reading focus: Continue to ‘Fred talk’ faster to help you to blend the words. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading

 Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime storybooks. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too. 

Spellings

During the Autumn term, our spellings will be focused on the Year One Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page of the previous weeks. 

This week’s spellings to be quizzed on Friday 12^th November are

 

said   your   you   what   I'm

 

 

PE

Our PE days will be Wednesday and Friday so your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue. Can we also ask that your child has a drink bottle that is clearly named and contains only water. We also request that if your child wears trainers with laces they are able to independently retie them if they become undone otherwise can they please wear trainers with a Velcro fastening.

 

 

Goldfinches WB 8.11.21, by Mrs Evans

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 7:07pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

A wonderful start by everybody to our new half term. I am so proud of how well the children have settled back in to the classroom routines and of how hard they are working.

 Star of the week goes to: Gracie

 Top Table award goes to: Frazer

Reminders:

As the weather is turning colder now please ensure your child has a coat in school every day.

Please remember that as part of our Healthy school policy the children should have water in the bottles they drink from throughout the day.

Worship: This week in worship we have learned about the importance decisions being made at the COP26 conference and have celebrated our love for God’s world and the winning video we made to show this.

Next Week:

Reading and Writing: This week we edited our Gorilla stories and then the classroom turned into a circus as we welcomed in our new book ‘Leon and the Place Between’. Next week we will continue to delve into the story whilst perfecting our use of simple sentences and expanded noun phrases

Reading homework- I am continuing to encourage the children to choose from a range of books around the classroom. We have just had a delivery of 50 of the top 100 recommended books for Year 4 as well as a lovely gift of books from Mrs Esling and her grown up children. So many choices!

Spelling homework: This week our new spelling rule is words with the ey, ei and eigh sounds:

This week’s words: grey, prey, obey, they, eight, eighty, freight, vein, veil, rein

Maths: This week we have learned about negative numbers and how to count on and back. We had great fun exploring perimeter on our maths day. Next week Mrs Judge will continue to explore shape and solving shape problems and Mrs Evans will continue to consolidate perimeter.

Times Tables Homework:

https://ttrockstars.com/

Try Hit the Button and choose the division 6x table facts to help prepare for our Gold x6 tables test which lots of children are now working on.  The next times tables will be 9x tables.

Have a go at Tommy’s Trek to help practice your times tables. https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/318/Tommys-Trek-Times-Tables

Science: We have begun our new Teeth topic by finding out which types of human teeth there are and having a tooth count of our own teeth. This week we will learn about the different types of teeth and their functions.

History and Geography: We will explore artefacts and discover what they can tell us about the Ancient Greek civilisation. We will discuss the difference between real and replica.

RE: we will be discussing the importance of Remembrance Day and why we have it.

German: we will learn how to introduce ourselves and take part in a mini-role play.

PE: Our Dance lessons on Wednesday afternoons will help us prepare for our Christmas play and Mr Ault will teach Netball on Fridays. Please remember to tie long hair back and remove earrings on PE days.

PSHCE: We will begin our new Heart Smart focus: Don’t forget to let love in.

Music: We are enjoying learning the words to the songs for Hoodwinked.

As always, please don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss your child. Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Evans, Mrs Judge and Mrs Shimmin.

Toucans week beg. 8.11.21, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 5:27pm

Week beg 8^th November 2021

We have been really impressed by the positive attitudes shown by all the children this week. They have clearly worked hard to learn their lines for our production already. This is great as it means we can focus on the acting and singing in school.

If your child does not know their lines please encourage them to learn them this week. Also if anyone is struggling to get a costume together please don’t panic but just speak to us. We want to keep all costumes as simple as possible and we will add props in school so it will be clear who is who!

For homework, we will set another 2 pages in their Maths books this week, please see below. We would also like them to log onto Times Tables Rockstars at least 3 times a week for 15 mins. They have their log in details in the front of their homework diaries if needed.

Remember to encourage your child to read for 15 – 20 mins daily and to record their reading in their diaries. We have stapled a list of recommended books for Year 6 children in the front of their diaries and we would like them to read some of these throughout the year. We have a lot of these texts in our class library so the children can borrow them from school or they might find some at their local library. We have asked them to tick off the books that that they read on the list.

Homework

Spellings for next week will focus will focus on suffixes.  

Spellings will be tested on Thursday 12^th November – gently, simply, wriggly, beautiful, thoughtless, powerful, definitely, judgement, immediately, laziness

Maths Homework – Key Stage Two Maths SATs Question Book and Times Tables Rockstars

Homework is Order of Operations page 20 and page 21 of the SATs book.

They have been doing this Maths work in class this week so just remind them of BIDMAS – brackets, indices, division, multiplication, addition and then finally subtraction when working out the problems.

Curriculum

Maths – Next week we will be looking some more  at the order of operations.

Music – cello and violins lessons as well as learning to sing songs for our upcoming Harvest festival

History – children will be researching what happened during the War of the Roses.

We will spend our afternoons (Wednesday – Friday) rehearsing for our Christmas Production

PE day will be every Friday (Mr Ault) and also on Wednesdays when we are not focusing on our Production.

 

Kind regards,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing, Mr Beswick and Mr Corkill

Skylarks WB 8.11.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 7:55am

Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?

I hope you all had a restful and enjoyable half term. Skylarks have come back with such enthusiasm and have had a fantastic few days of learning!

 

Reminders:

• Lion Salt Works Trip – Skylarks Class will visit the Lion Salt Works on Tuesday 9^th November 2021. Please give your consent and pay using school gateway. Children should come to school in their full uniform (including a waterproof coat) and bring their packed lunch with them in a named plastic bag.

• Christmas Play Costumes - Our class will perform a party scene dance so your child will need to wear party clothes (e.g. a colourful t-shirt and jeans/legging, a dress, sparkly shoes, etc.). Please do not go out and buy anything new for our performance, any type of party wear your child already owns will be perfect. We would like these costumes to be in school for Monday 29^th November 2021.

 

Next Week (W.B. 8.11.21)

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our new book ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray. We will be recapping our learning on expanded noun phrases and will use these to help us write a short 100-word story about the main character Jub, as well as a character description of the witch. 

In our reading lessons next week, we will explore our new shared reading text ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti. We will be focussing on vocabulary and will evaluate the author’s choice of language, including the use of figurative language.

In maths we will be moving onto our new topic looking at graphs and tables. We will begin by learning how to interpret tables, before moving on to look at more complex two-way tables. We will also continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.

In RE we will continue our learning on our new topic on ‘incarnation’. We recap the different titles given to Jesus at Christmas time that we learnt about last week, before digging deeper into the title ‘Emmanuel’. We will discuss and research what this title means and present our findings in a pic-collage using our IT skills.

 

Our PE days for the Autumn will continue to be Thursday (Swimming) and Friday (Athletics) so your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue. On Thursday your child will also need to have their swimming costume and towel in a plastic bag.

 

Homework

In year 5 the children will be set a weekly maths homework that they should complete and mark at home using the answers in the back of the homework book.

If your child is finding the homework tricky, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime for your child to ask any questions or receive some support to complete their homework.

The children should complete pages 14 and 15 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 12^th November. This homework is looking mental addition and subtraction, as well as using rounding to check answers.

Please also encourage your child to read for 20 minutes each evening and practice their spellings/times tables. The following websites are both great for times tables practice:

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 12^th November will focus on words containing the suffix -able:

understandable, breakable, suitable, enjoyable, noticeable, changeable, adorable, reliable, enviable, bearable

Please encourage your child to learn the root word before adding the -able suffix.

 

Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?

Miss Beattie x

 

Goldfinches WB 1.11.21, by Mrs Evans

Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 6:55pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

We are so proud of the stories and timeline work Goldfinches have produced this week.

 Star of the week goes to: Jessica

 Top Table award goes to: Yara

Please remember Friday 22^nd  and Monday 1^st November are INSET days.

Worship: This week in worship we have continued to explore our Christian Value of friendship and have reflected by thinking of a peaceful place where we can be calm and speak to God.

Next Week:

Reading and Writing: This week the children have impressed me so much with their stories based on Gorilla. I have really enjoyed watching them read their plans and ideas to each other and give positive feedback. After half term we will begin to explore our new text. (No spoilers yet though!)

Reading homework- I am encouraging the children to choose from a range of books around the classroom. We currently have a lovely collection of Anthony Browne’s picture books, a range of Greek non-fiction books, and myths, Science sound books as well as the wide range of story books which the children are all welcome to borrow and read at home.

Spelling homework: No new words over half term but if you want to continue to practice, we will be testing the set of Y3/4 statutory words on Friday 5^th November:

breathe, build, busy, business, calendar, caught, centre, certain, accidentally, answer, bicycle

We have loved making posters to help us practice our tricky words this week.

Maths: Maths with Mrs Evans will focus on counting in 25’s and negative numbers.

On our Maths day (Thursday 4^th November) we will explore perimeter in lots of different practical ways.

Times Tables Homework:

https://ttrockstars.com/

Try Hit the Button and choose the division 6x table facts to help prepare for our Gold x6 tables test.

Have a go at Tommy’s Trek to help practice your times tables. https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/318/Tommys-Trek-Times-Tables

Science: We will begin our new Teeth topic

History and Geography: We will explore artefacts and discover what they can tell us about the Ancient Greek civilisation. We will discuss the difference between real and replica.

PE: We will start Dance on Wednesday afternoons and Netball with Mr Ault on Fridays.

PSHCE: We will begin our new Heart Smart focus: Don’t forget to let love in.

Music: We will begin to learn the words to the songs for Hoodwinked.

We hope you have a restful week off and look forward to seeing you back on Tuesday 2^nd November.

Mrs Evans, Mrs Judge and Mrs Shimmin.

Skylarks WB 1.11.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 5:41pm

Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks final blog of the half term ?

Can you believe it is half term already? And what a super half term it has been! I am so proud of each and every Skylark and everything that we have achieved during our first half term in Year 5.

 

Reminders:

• Inset Day - School is closed for an INSET day on Monday 1^st November 2021.
• Lion Salt Works Trip – Skylarks Class will visit the Lion Salt Works on Tuesday 9^th November 2021. Please give your consent and pay using school gateway.
• Christmas Play Costumes - Our class will perform a party scene dance so your child will need to wear party clothes (e.g. a colourful t-shirt and jeans/legging, a dress, sparkly shoes, etc.). Please do not go out and buy anything new for our performance, any type of party wear your child already owns will be perfect. We would like these costumes to be in school for Monday 29^th November 2021.

 

After half term (W.B. 1.11.21)

In our English lessons after half term, we will begin to explore our new book ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray. We will explore the book page by page, asking relevant questions, making predictions and identifying characters, themes and conventions.

In maths we consolidate our understanding of addition and subtraction by using both mental and written methods to reason and problem solve. We will also have an active maths day on Thursday 4^th November where will explore aspects of shape and measure through hands-on, practical exploration.

In science we will continue our learning on soluble and insoluble materials. The children will carry out their fair tests exploring dissolving which they planned before half term. In groups, they children will have to chose an appropriate way to record and present their findings.

In RE we will start our new topic on ‘incarnation’. We will begin by exploring the different titles given to people today, before comparing these to the titles given to Jesus at Christmas time.

During our topic day we will continue to look at our Year 5 theme of ‘Identity’. We will begin by recapping human and physical features, before going on a walk of our school grounds to identify some of these features in our local area. We will then use our knowledge of 6 figure grid references to help us draw a sketch map of our school grounds. In the afternoon we will further consolidate our understanding of 6 figure grid references by identifying the features of Northwich on an Ordinance Survey map.

We will also have a computing day on Friday 5^th November 2021 where we will continue to work on our Keynote presentations about how computers impact our lives. We will look at the history of games and how they have developed over the decades.

 

Our PE days for the Autumn will continue to be Thursday (Swimming) and Friday (Athletics) so your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue. On Thursday your child will also need to have their swimming costume and towel in a plastic bag.

 

Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ? Have a lovely half term everyone!

Miss Beattie x

Robins Blog Wk Beg 18.10.21, by Mrs Rice

Date: 15th Oct 2021 @ 12:32pm

Hi Everyone

Robins have had another wonderful week of learning together. I have been so impressed with the friendship they have shown to each other. The children have written short stories based on our book Seal Surfer by Michael Foremen and have used prespositions of time and place well. 

Next week, we will be writing letters in role as the characters from the story using new ways to begin each paragraph. The children will be using their mastery keys of noun phrases, prepsotions and speech punctuation to ensure that their writing is fantastic.  In Maths, we will be exploring place value problem solving and puzzles as we apply our knowledge and understanding to new contexts. The children are getting speedier and speedier at completing their times tables grids each week, it is lovely to watch their confidence growing with this. Times Tables Rock Stars is all set up for the children to play on at home. Please encourage your children to practise their 2, 5 and 10 times tables regularly at home. We are working on giving speedy answers within five seconds!

My spelling group this week will look at the suffix ly. Our new words to lean are:

humbly, gently, simply, horribly, carefully, finally, quietly and completely. 

 

Mrs Brennan's spelling group are exploring the suffixes er and est. Their new words to learn are:

nicer, nicest, happier, happiest, wilder, wildest

We will meet our virtual Stone Age visitor again as we learn about the clothes, tools and food that he has. The children will place key events in time along a time line using their skill of chronology. In Science, we will explore thefunction of the human skeleton and learn the names of important bones. We are also looking forward to our next German lesson where we will continue to practise greeting each other and saying please/thankyou. In RE, the children will explore Bible stories that show our understanding of God. We will discuss how God is presented in the story and reflect on what God means to us personally. 

 

I am really excited to let you know that after the half term holidays, Robins class will have another PE lesson on a Thursday afternoon. They will be taught outside by a cricket coach. Please send your child in to school wearing their PE kits next half term on a Monday and a Thursday. The children will need tracksuit bottoms and a school PE hoodie as it will be cold. Please ensure they also have a waterproof coat with them.

As always, please come and speak to me if you have any worries or questions. Thank you for your continued support.

Love from Mrs Rice and Mrs Brennan.

Swallows Blog WB: 18.10.2021, by Miss Gillam

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 9:21pm

 

 

Hello everyone and welcome back to Swallows weekly blog ?

 

Praise Book: Layla           Top Table: Anya

 

I can’t quite believe we are looking ahead to the final week of the half term already. Please remember that school finishes for half term on Thursday 21^st October as Friday 22^nd is an INSET day.

We are looking forward to another week of super learning next week. Please take a look at what we will be learning below.

English

Our English work will continue to focus on the beautiful story ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ this week. We will write sentences to describe fireworks, write a character description for Plop and enjoy learning and performing Autumn poems.

Maths

Our Maths learning will continue to focus on addition and subjection next week. We will be continuing to add and subtract  10s and 1s and we will be adding a 2 digit number to a 1 digit number. Please continue to support your Swallow at home by adding and subtracting 10s and 1s from different starting points. A 100 square may help your Swallow with this if they are finding it tricky.  

https://mathszone.co.uk/using-applying/puzzles-and-logic-problems/splat-square100-primary-games-3/

 

 

Read Write Inc

 

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 15.10.2021

 

The jar of oil

A second jar of oil

Our invisible planet

 

New sounds:

• ear – hear with your ear
• ure – sure it’s pure
• tion – pay attention, it’s a celebration
• tious – scrumptious delicious

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning again this week, taking time to discuss the key events in the text. When becoming a speedy reader, it is important that we understand what we are reading. Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the RWI text to test your child’s understanding of what they have read. Perhaps you could record your answers and show me next week?  

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card.

 

Grey Group – Miss Gillam 15.10.2021

Wailing Winny’s car boot sale

Dad makes a mistake

Amazing caves

New sounds:

• ear – hear with your ear
• ure – sure it’s pure
• tion – pay attention, it’s a celebration
• tious – scrumptious delicious

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning again this week, taking time to discuss the key events in the text. When becoming a speedy reader, it is important that we understand what we are reading. Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the RWI text to test your child’s understanding of what they have read. Perhaps you could record your answers and show me next week? 

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card.

 

Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 15.10.21

The gingerbread Man

A hungry Fox

Grab a snack

New sounds:

• tious– scrumptious and delicious
• ck- tick tock
• au- Paul the astronaut
• e-e Go Pete and Steve!
• kn- Knock knock who’s there?

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.

Reading focus: We have been continuing to look at speedy reading and we have been practicing reading our green words by saying in our head; Special friends, Fred talk read the word. How many green words can you speed read now?

 

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 15.10.21

My sort of horse

Born on a farm

New sounds:

• ire – fire fire!
• ure – sure it’s pure
• tion – pay attention, it’s a celebration!
• tious/cious – Scrumptious delicious

Please continue to use your sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.

Reading focus: Do we understand what we have just read? Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the books to check your understanding.

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 15.10.21

Sanjay stays in bed

My holiday

new sounds

• Ire – fire, fire
• Are – care and share
• ure- sure it's pure

Reading focus: This week we have been focusing on punctuation and exploring how an exclamation mark in a sentence changes the way we say the word and encourages our use of expression in our reading.

Please continue to use your new sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. You will find the words on the back of the speed sound card.

 

Green Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 15.10.21

The web

Leggy

Practise our sounds of the week:

• ar – start the car
• or – shut the door
• air – That's not fair
• ir– whirl and twirl

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.

Reading focus: Keep practicing the red words to become a speedier reader. Remember, you can’t Fred a red! How many red words can you read in 30 seconds? Please use the red words written in the front of ‘The Web’ to play this game. You may end up reading the same word several times ?.

 

 

Homework

Reading – Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too. Please remember to record any reading in your blue reading diary.

 

Spellings – During the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year Two Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary next each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page from the previous week's page. 

To make learning our spellings more fun, we created a special roll and spell game in school this week. Please use this game to learn your spellings at home this week. If you haven’t got a dice, please write the numbers 1-6 on pieces of paper and select a number as a lucky dip. You can then still enjoy the game. ?

Roll and Spell
1	Write the word with your other hand
2	Write the word as fast as you can
3	Write the word with your eyes closed
4	Write the word in a fancy way
5	Write the word in capital letters and stick your tongue out
6	Write the word using tiny letters

 

father  find  floor  gold grass

Our next quiz will be on Thursday 21st October. 

Maths

We look forward to sending home your first times table challenge next week. Please continue to focus on learning how to count in multiples of 2, 3, 5 and 10 this week. Can you complete a one minute challenge for each multiple? Eg. How any multiples of 2 can you write in 1 minute? Repeat with the 3s, 5s and 10s.

0  2  4    6   8  10  12  14  16  18  20  22  24

 

Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ? Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Miss Gillam

 

 

 

 

Goldfinches WB 18.10.21, by Mrs Evans

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 8:05pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

What a wonderfully busy week! We had so much fun and learned so much new knowledge during our Greek day.

 Star of the week goes to: Beth

 Top Table award goes to: Hetty

Please remember school finishes for half term on Thursday 21^st October as Friday 22^nd is an INSET day.

Please ensure your child has a water bottle in school and is bringing water and not juice to dring throughout the day.

Worship: This week in worship we have continued to explore our Christian Value of friendship by making friendship paper chains and discussing the artwork of Mary and Martha by the artist He Qi. We have reflected by thinking of a peaceful place where we can be calm and speak to God.

Forest Schools: We had a wonderful time in our outdoor learning last Friday when we made God’s Eyes. I saw so much perseverance and enjoyment.

School Council: We had our first class council meeting lead by our newly elected councillors (Beth and Taylor) to share ideas about what is working well and ideas of what could be even better.

Next Week:

Reading and Writing: This week we have written our speech sandwich using the correct speech punctuation and have enjoyed writing a setting description for the café Hannah and Gorilla visit. We have started to plan our own story based on Gorilla.

Reading homework- I am encouraging the children to choose from a range of books around the classroom. We currently have a lovely collection of Anthony Browne’s picture books, a range of Greek non-fiction books, and myths, Science sound books as well as the wide range of story books which the children are all welcome to borrow and read at home.

Spelling homework: This week’s words are Y3/4 Statutory words:

breathe, build, busy, business, calendar, caught, centre, certain, accidentally, answer, bicycle

(Some of the trickier spellings have been repeated from earlier in the term)

Maths: Monday maths with Mrs Judge will continue to explore 2D shapes and their properties. Maths with Mrs Evans will focus on rounding to the nearest 1000, solving rounding problems, counting in 25’s and we will make a link with the BC part of the timeline with negative numbers.

Times Tables Homework:

For mixed Times table practise use TTRock Stars or Maths Frame Multiplication Table Check https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

https://ttrockstars.com/

How did you get on with the new game: birds vs robots? Here is the link again:

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/573/Birds-v-Robots-Maths-Battle

RE:  We will prepare and perform our Harvest Poems.

Science: This week we will be continuing to explore pitch.

History and Geography: We will reflect on the learning from our knowledge-packed Greek day and will place the Ancient Greek civilisation on the timeline to identify where it fits in with the other civilisations.

PE: Our final cricket session will be on Wednesday afternoon.

PSHCE: We are learning to ‘Get Heart Smart’ where we consider the importance of our feelings, the effect of kindness and being kind to ourselves.

Music: We will continue to focus on rhythm and pace in our warm up games and appraise a new Abba song.

German: We will be learning how to introduce ourselves in German and ask someone their name.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us via the office if you would like to discuss anything about your child.

Mrs Evans, Mrs Judge and Mrs Shimmin.

STARLINGS WB 18.10.21, by Mrs Esling

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 4:22pm

 

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog! We have had another super week of learning in Starlings Class and I can’t quite believe his is the last week of the first half term.  ?.

We continue to be proud of all our Starlings as they continue to try their best and work hard in their lessons.

Thank you so much for taking the time to enjoy sharing stories with your Starling at home this week. The children will continue to bring home a Read Write Inc book, a book bag book and a bedtime story each week. This provides them with a variety of familiar, new and challenging texts to read. Bedtime story books are to be enjoyed with an adult. Reading TO the children ensures that they experience the magic of a story coming to life and have a purpose and love of reading.

 

English

In our English lessons next week, we will be coming to the end of our unit.  As a class we have created a story pathway help us sequence the events. We will then write our own adventure story based on the ‘Lost and Found text’ but with a new character.

Maths

Next week we will be exploring the composition of numbers 6-10 and we will continue to discuss odd and even numbers.

RWI 

 

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 15.10.2021 

 

The jar of oil 

A second jar of oil 

Our invisible planet 

 

New sounds: 

• ear – hear with your ear
• ure– sure it’s pure 
• tion– pay attention, it’s a celebration 
• tious– scrumptious delicious  

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning again this week, taking time to discuss the key events in the text. When becoming a speedy reader, it is important that we understand what we are reading. Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the RWI text to test your child’s understanding of what they have read. Perhaps you could record your answers and show me next week?   

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card. 

  

 

 

 

 

Grey Group – Miss Gillam 15.10.2021 

Wailing Winny’s car boot sale 

Dad makes a mistake  

Amazing caves  

New sounds: 

• ear – hear with your ear
• ure – sure it’s pure
• tion – pay attention, it’s a celebration
• tious – scrumptious delicious 

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning again this week, taking time to discuss the key events in the text. When becoming a speedy reader, it is important that we understand what we are reading. Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the RWI text to test your child’s understanding of what they have read. Perhaps you could record your answers and show me next week?   

 

Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card. 

 

 

 

Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 15.10.21 

The gingerbread Man 

A hungry Fox 

Grab a snack 

New sounds: 

• tious–scrumptious and delicious 
• ck- tick tock
• au- Paul the astronaut
• e-e Go Pete and Steve!
• kn- Knockknock who’s there? 

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card. 

Reading focus: We have been continuing to look at speedy reading and we have been practicing reading our green words by saying in our head; Special friends, Fred talk read the word. How many green words can you speed read now? 

 

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 15.10.21 

My sort of horse 

Born on a farm 

New sounds: 

• ire – firefire! 
• ure– sure it’s pure 
• tion– pay attention, it’s a celebration! 
• tious/cious– Scrumptious delicious 

Please continue to use your sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card. 

Reading focus: Do we understand what we have just read? Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the books to check your understanding. 

 

 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 15.10.21 

Sanjay stays in bed 

My holiday 

new sounds 

• ire – fire, fire
• are – care and share
• ure- sure it's pure

 

 

Reading focus: This week we have been focusing on punctuation and exploring how an exclamation mark in a sentence changes the way we say the word and encourages our use of expression in our reading. 

 

Please continue to use your new sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. You will find the words on the back of the speed sound card. 

 

Green Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 15.10.21 

 

The web 

Leggy  

 

Practise our sounds of the week: 

• ar– start the car 
• or – shut the door 
• air – That's not fair
• ir– whirl and twirl 

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.  

 

Reading focus: Keep practicing the red words to become a speedier reader. Remember, you can’t Fred a red! How many red words can you read in 30 seconds? Please use the red words written in the front of ‘The Web’ to play this game. You may end up reading the same word several times ?. 

 

 

 

Red Group – Mrs Judge 15.10.21 

Let’s sing 

The band  

 

Practise our sounds of the week: 

• ar– start the car 
• or – shut the door 
• air – That's not fair
• ir– whirl and twirl 

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.  

 

Reading focus: Keep practicing the red words to become a speedier reader. Remember, you can’t Fred a red! How many red words can you read in 30 seconds? Please use the red words written in the front of ‘Let’s sing’ to play this game. You may end up reading the same word several times ?.  

 

 

Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 15.10.21 

Ditty sheets 10 and 11 

New sounds:  

• sh
• r
• j
• v

Reading focus: Does the word I am saying fit with the sentence? When blending a word, think about the words you have already said in the sentence and think whether it makes sense. 

 

 

 

 

Reading

 Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too. 

Spellings

During the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year One Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page of the previous weeks. 

This week’s spellings to be quizzed on Thursday 21st October are

sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth

PE

Our PE days will be Wednesday and Friday so your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue. Can we also ask that your child has a drink bottle that is clearly named and contains only water. We also request that if your child wears trainers with laces they are able to independently retie them if they become undone otherwise can they please wear trainers with a Velcro fastening.