Toucans week beg. 18th October, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 8:33am

Week beg 18^th October 2021

The children are all beginning to get excited about which parts they will play in our Christmas Production ‘Hoodwinked’. I have been delighted to see how enthusiastically they are reading their scripts. This week we will hold the auditions so that the children will have their parts sorted before half term and can begin to think about their costumes. The aim is that they will learn their lines over half term so we can begin rehearsals the first week back.  

Once again it has been a delight to see all the Maths homework completed on time and to a high standard.

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 got their log in details in the front of their homework diaries and they also all logged on in class today so that we know they will be able to this by themselves at home.

Homework

Spellings for next week will focus will focus on suffixes.  

Spellings will be tested on Thursday 21^st October – trader, making, grimy, persuaded, creating, appreciating, observant, fading, creation, famous

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

Homework is Written Multiplication and Division page 14 and page 15 of the SATs book.

Remember you will be set 2 pages to do weekly which you can mark yourself using the answers at the back of the book.

(Maths homework will be set on a Thursday and if the children could bring their books back into school for the following Wednesday so we can check them that would be great. If they are struggling with anything, please don’t hesitate to send the book back sooner and we will do some extra work with them in school)

Curriculum

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

RE – We will finish our unit of work on Diversity by celebrating how we are all different but should be treated equally.

Science – Light -

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.

PE day will be on Wednesday (Cricket Coach) and on Friday (Mr Ault). Children can come to school wearing their PE uniform on these days.

 

Kind regards,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing, Mr Beswick and Mr Corkill

WB 18.10.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 8:18am

Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?

I can’t quite believe we are looking ahead to the final week of the half term. Time really does fly when you’re having fun. We have had another excellent week in Skylarks Class!

 

Next week (W.B. 18.10.21)

In our English lesson next week, we will be using our plans produced this week to help us write a sequence of diaries entries in role as Annie Edson Taylor. We will be recapping the mastery keys learnt in this topic and applying these in our writing (e.g. using paragraphs, using commas after fronted adverbial and writing for an intended audience/purpose).

In maths we will be looking at mental calculations and inverse operations. We will also be applying our knowledge and understanding of addition and subtraction to help use solve tricky problems.

In science we will continue our learning on soluble and insoluble materials. The children will work collaboratively to plan their own investigations to find out which factors affect the rate of dissolving. The children must choose which variables to keep the same and which to change, ensuring they plan a fair test.

In RE we will bring together all of our learning from our Discipleship topic to answer the following questions: How does the ‘Sermon on the Mount’ help people to follow Jesus? How does Jesus want Christians to live out each verse in their lives?

During our topic day we will begin to look at our Year 5 theme of ‘Identity’. We will be thinking about our own identity and the identity of Northwich by sharing what we know already.

 

Our PE days for the Autumn will be Thursday (Swimming) and Friday (Games) 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 12 and 13 of their maths book to be returned by Thursday 21^st October. This homework is looking written addition and subtraction.

Please encourage your child to use column method which we have learnt in school.

 

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 Thursday 21^st October will be the next 10 words in the Y5/6 statutory word list:

available, average, awkward, bargain, bruise, category, cemetery, committee, communicate, community

Please remember that the words from the Y5/6 list are trickier than our spellings which follow a specific spelling rule. If your child is finding them really difficult, encourage them to focus on just 5 words to learn rather than all 10 ?

 

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

Miss Beattie x

Swallows Blog WB: 11.10.2021, by Miss Gillam

Date: 7th Oct 2021 @ 10:09pm

Hello everyone and welcome back to Swallows weekly blog!

Another busy week of super learning for our very lovely Swallows Class. I am so proud of the hard-working and enthusiastic attitudes shown in our classroom every single day. Keep it up Swallows!

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 focus on a brand new text this week. We will ask questions about animals, research facts and read other stories linking to the text. We will explore character and write a description of a very special journey. I wonder what our new text will be?

 

Maths

Our Maths learning will continue to focus on addition and subjection next week. We will be adding and subtracting 10s and 1s. To support your Swallow with this at home, it would be helpful to play games involving finding 10 more, 10 less, 1 more and 1 less than any given number to 100.

Read Write Inc

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 8.10.2021 

Our House 

Greyhounds 

Cool Houses 

New sounds: 

• Ire – fire fire
• Ew– chew the stew  
• Oa – Goat in a boat
• Ai – snail in the rain

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning 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 8.10.2021 

How silly! 

Silly games 

April Fool!  

 

New sounds: 

• Ire – fire fire
• Ew– chew the stew  
• Oa – Goat in a boat
• Ai – snail in the rain

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning 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 8.10.21 

Lost 

Which way is it ? 

No way 

New sounds: 

• ew– chew the stew 
• ear– hear with your ear 
• ure- sure it'spure 
• tion– it’s a celebration 

 

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 looking at speedy reading and we have been practicing reading our red words. You can’t Fred a red! These focus red words are found at the beginning of the book.  

We have also been practising our speedy green words by saying; Special friends, Fred talk read the word.  

 

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 08.10.21 

Come on Margo 

Dads and karts 

New sounds: 

• oa– goat in a boat 
• ew– chew the stew 
• ire – fire fire!
• ear – hear with your ear

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

Reading focus: Trying to read using ‘Fred in our head’ instead of fed talking out loud. 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 08.10.21 

Tab’s Kitten 

Yap Yap 

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

 

Reading focus: keep practicing the red words to become a speedier reader. Remember, you can’t Fred a red!  

 

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 08.10.21 

Chips 

Beth’s Chip Shop 

 

Practise our sounds of the week: 

• ee– what can you see? 
• igh– fly high 
• ow – blow the snow
• oo–look at a book 

 

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! 

 

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

 

even  every   everybody  eye  fast 

Maths - In preparation for learning our times tables, please continue to learn how to count in sequences of 2, 5, 10 and 3. Why not try making your own active counting game this week? Can you count in 5s while doing star jumps? Can you count in 10s while bouncing a ball?

 

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 11.4.21, by Mrs Evans

Date: 7th Oct 2021 @ 9:41pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

What a wonderfully busy week! I am so proud of the diary entry writing from Goldfinches and how much effort they are putting into understanding the place value of 4-digit numbers.

 Star of the week goes to: Lily

 Top Table award goes to: Josh

Worship: This week in worship we have watched the anti-bullying live lesson which focused on thinking about the Trusted 5 people we could share our worries with. We had a lovely worship listening to the story of friends and friendship and reflected on this by making a paper chain which links us all together in friendship.

Next Week:

Reading and Writing: This week we have learned to write a diary entry using fronted adverbials of time and manner. Next week we will focus on using a speech sandwich to help us to use and punctuate direct speech. Our shared reading text will help support us to learn to draw inferences about a character and find the evidence in the text.

Reading homework- I’m so impressed by how many children are reading regularly at home. Please continue to support your child to read for 10-20 minutes daily and to sign their diary.

Spelling homework: This week’s words are words with the suffix ‘ly’

Happily, cosily, sleepily, cheekily, angrily, breezily, heavily, frantically, basically, magically

Maths: Monday maths with Mrs Judge will continue to explore 2D shapes and their properties. Maths with Mrs Evans will focus on comparing 4-digit numbers and rounding to the nearest 1000.

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/

You might like to try a new game: birds vs robots

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

RE:  We will be interpreting Rublev’s Icon and connecting the art work to our learning about The Trinity.

Science: This week we will be presenting data in a bar chart.

History and Geography: We have our wonderful Makers of History Greek workshop on Wednesday. I can’t wait for my Goldfinches to be immersed in all of the activities and learning experiences.

PE: More Gymnastics and team building games with Mr Ault on Friday.

PSHCE: Our focus to begin the year is ‘Get Heart Smart’ and we will continue reading our No Outsiders book Fabulous Frankie.  

Music: We will continue our listening and appraisal of Abba songs and practise for Harvest.

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.

Toucans Week Beg. 11th October, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 7th Oct 2021 @ 4:27pm

Week beg 11^th October 2021

This week we have begun thinking about our Christmas Production. We have been reading the script Hoodwinked (Robin Hood). Next week the children will tell me which parts they would like to audition for and then we can get the parts sorted before half term. This means we will be able to send home scripts with lines to learn over half term and suggestions for costumes so these can be put together. Keep an eye on our weekly blog for more updates.  

Once again it has been a delight to see all the Maths homework completed on time and to a high standard.

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 got their log in details in the front of their homework diaries and they also all logged on in class today so that we know they will be able to this by themselves at home.

Homework

Spellings for next week will focus will focus on words ending in the letter string - ough

Spellings will be tested on Friday 15^th October – thoroughly, borough, although, doughnut, plough, drought, boughs, thorough, ploughing, ploughed

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

Homework is Written Adding and Subtracting and Written Multiplication page 12 and page 13 of the SATs book.

Remember you will be set 2 pages to do weekly which you can mark yourself using the answers at the back of the book.

(Maths homework will be set on a Thursday and if the children could bring their books back into school for the following Wednesday so we can check them that would be great. If they are struggling with anything, please don’t hesitate to send the book back sooner and we will do some extra work with them in school)

Curriculum

Maths – Next week we will be looking at factors, multiples and prime numbers.

RE – We will continue with our research to find out how different religions celebrate the birth of a child.  The children will use their ICT skills to create a word document to share their findings with the class.

Computing – the children will be using their logos that they made in their lesson with Mr Corkill last week to do some branding this week.

Science – Light

Next week we will be measuring shadow and find out how shadows change.  

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

PE day will be on Wednesday (Cricket Coach) and on Friday (Mr Ault). Children can come to school wearing their PE uniform on these days.

 

Kind regards,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing, Mr Beswick and Mr Corkill

STARLINGS WB 11.10.21, by Mrs Esling

Date: 7th Oct 2021 @ 2:37pm

 

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog! We have had another super week of learning in Starlings Class ?.

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 8.10.2021

Our House

Greyhounds

Cool Houses

 

New sounds:

• Ire – fire fire
• Ew – chew the stew
• Oa – Goat in a boat
• Ai – snail in the rain

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning 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 8.10.2021

How silly!

Silly games

April Fool!

 

New sounds:

• Ire – fire fire
• Ew – chew the stew
• Oa – Goat in a boat
• Ai – snail in the rain

 

Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning 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 8.10.21

Lost

Which way is it ?

No way

New sounds:

• ew – chew the stew
• ear – hear with your ear
• ure- sure it's pure
• tion – it’s a celebration

 

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 looking at speedy reading and we have been practicing reading our red words. You can’t Fred a red! These focus red words are found at the beginning of the book.

We have also been practising our speedy green words by saying; Special friends, Fred talk read the word.

 

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 08.10.21

Come on Margo

Dads and karts

New sounds:

• oa – goat in a boat
• ew – chew the stew
• ire – fire fire!
• ear – hear with your ear

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

Reading focus: Trying to read using ‘Fred in our head’ instead of fed talking out loud.

 

 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 08.10.21

Tab’s Kitten

Yap Yap

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

 

Reading focus: keep practicing the red words to become a speedier reader. Remember, you can’t Fred a red!

 

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 08.10.21

Chips

Beth’s Chip Shop

 

Practise our sounds of the week:

• ee – what can you see?
• igh – fly high
• ow – blow the snow
• oo –look at a book

 

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!

 

 

 

Red Group – Mrs Judge 08.10.21

Wuff Wuff

Nip, Nip, Nip

 

New sounds:

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

 

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!

 

 

Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 08.10.21

Ditty sheets 7,8 and 9

New sounds:

• f
• e
• l
• h

Reading focus: Fred talking a little faster so that words can be blended easier.

 

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 15th October are

first second third fourth fifth

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.

Design & technology

Thank you so much for all the ‘junk modelling’ you kindly brought in for the children.   They had a fantastic ‘tinkering’ session where they designed and built a vehicle after which we tested it for strength and suitability.  We discovered that we needed to design something that would enable the wheels to turn and we also needed something stronger than a straw to support the wheels! 

 

 

Skylarks WB 11.10.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 7th Oct 2021 @ 7:57am

Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?

Another super week of learning for Skylarks Class. I am so proud of the hard-working and enthusiastic attitude shown in our classroom every single day. Keep it up Skylarks!

 

Next week (W.B. 11.10.21)

In our English lessons next week, we will finish reading our book ‘Queen of the Falls’ by Chris Van Allsburg. We will use our retrieval and summarising skills to help us create a timeline of the whole story. We will then look closely at a range of diary entries to help us understand the features of them. This will help us as we plan and write our own sequence of diary entries to end this unit of work.

In our reading lessons we will read about more inspirational woman in our text ‘Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls’. We will continue to focus on drawing inferences, justifying our answers with evidence (E.g. inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives) and making comparisons within and across texts.

In maths we will be moving on to look at the formal written methods of addition and subtraction, to include 6-digit numbers. We will also learn how we can use estimation and rounding to help us check an answer.

In science we will be defining the terms ‘soluble’ and ‘insoluble’. We will then predict which materials will dissolve and which won’t before carrying out an investigation to see if our predictions were correct.

In RE we will continue to debate the point, ‘Are Jesus’ teachings from the Sermon on the Mount still important today?’ This week, we will record our responses in our book, giving evidence to support our opinion.

We will also have a computing day on Friday where we will continue to work on our ‘Keynote’ presentations about how computers impact our lives.

 

Our PE days for the Autumn will be Thursday (Swimming) and Friday (Games) 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.

Next week we will have a one-off additional PE session on Wednesday 13^th October (cricket) and so the children may come to school in their PE on this day.

 

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 page 11 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 15^th October. This homework is looking at Roman numerals.    

 

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 15^th October will continue to focus on words with the -ible suffix:

invisible, edible, flexible, resistible, responsible, impossible, irreversible, convertible

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

 

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

Miss Beattie x

Goldfinches WB 4.10.21, by Mrs Evans

Date: 30th Sep 2021 @ 8:32pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

We have had another fun and hardworking week with lots of great focus and concentration in lessons.

 Star of the week goes to: Amy

 Top Table award goes to: Taylor

 

Worship: This week in worship we have enjoyed a live lesson on Harvest which helped us to learn all about seasonal foods and where our food comes from. We thought about what we could learn from Adam and Eve during an Open The Book Assembly and we have discussed encouragement after being inspired by Hansle Parchment, the Jamaican athlete.

 

Next Week:

Friday 8th October- we will be celebrating World Mental Health Day by being our brightest green and what better way of doing this than having a Forest School Session. Your child will be in tracksuit and hoodie already as it is PE day but please also send in spare shoes and socks to change into and a coat in case of wet weather.

Reading and Writing: This week we have enjoyed making our own gorilla fact books. Next week we will take on the role of Hannah, the main character in our Gorilla story, and write a diary entry using fronted adverbials of time and manner.  Our shared reading text will help support us to learn to draw inferences about a character and find the evidence in the text.

Reading homework- I’m so impressed by how many children are reading regularly at home. Please continue to support your child to read for 10-20 minutes daily and to sign their diary.

Spelling homework: This week’s words are words with the prefix ‘auto’

Autograph, autopilot, automobile, automatic, autocue, autobiography, automated, auto bus

Maths: Monday maths with Mrs Judge will continue to explore 2D shapes and their properties. Maths with Mrs Evans will focus on finding 1000 more and less, comparing and ordering 4-digit numbers. We will continue to work on arithmetic activities on some afternoons and will work on our times tables daily.

Times Tables Homework:

If you like a sing song try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7rYbk9PNuM

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/

Science: This week we will be investigating how sounds change as we move away from the source and will be measuring, recording and presenting the data we collect.

History: We will recap our knowledge of timelines and place the time periods we have already studied into the correct order as well as adding the new time period of Ancient Greece. We will use the terms BC, BCE, AD and CE.

PE: We will enjoy cricket on Wednesdays (until half term) and Gymnastics and team building games with Mr Ault on Fridays.

PSHCE: Our focus to begin the year is ‘Get Heart Smart’ and we will also be reading and exploring a range of No Outsiders books.

Music: We will continue our listening and appraisal of Abba songs.

German: This week we learnt lots of information about Germany and created a fact file.

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

Have a lovely weekend everybody,

Mrs Evans, Mrs Judge and Mrs Shimmin.

Swallows Blog WB 04.10.2021, by Miss Gillam

Date: 30th Sep 2021 @ 5:14pm

Hello Swallows families and welcome back to our weekly blog! We have had another wonderful week of super learning in Swallows Class and Miss Gillam and Mrs Elson have been so proud of us all.

Our fantastic attitudes towards our learning helped us to fill our recognition board once again this week, earning us a special class treat. Well done, Swallows!

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

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our class text ‘Troll Swap’ by Leigh Hodgkinson. We will be sequencing ideas to create our own adventure stories. We will orally re-tell the story, create a story map and finally write a new and exciting story using our newly created characters. We will then focus on the skill of editing and improving our own work.  

Maths

Our Maths learning will continue to focus on addition and subjection next week. We will be exploring number facts and fact families, comparing numbers, finding related facts and making number bonds to 100.

 

Read Write Inc

  

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 1.10.2021

King of the birds

The thirsty cow

Birds!

New sounds:

• ur – nurse with a purse
• er- a better letter
• ow – brown cow
• ai – snail in the rain

Reading focus: We have had a vocabulary focus in our RWI session’s this week. Can your Swallow share some of their favourite word choices from the text with you? Can they give you a definition to explain what the word means? Can they use the same word in a different spoken sentence?

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 1.10.2021

Looking after a hamster

Bert the explorer

A pet or pest?

New sounds:

• ur – nurse with a purse
• er- a better letter
• ow – brown cow
• ai – snail in the rain

Reading focus: We have had a vocabulary focus in our RWI session’s this week. Can your Swallow share some of their favourite word choices from the text with you? Can they give you a definition to explain what the word means? Can they use the same word in a different spoken sentence?

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 1.10.21

Robin Hood

A big bag of cash

Bushcraft

New sounds:

er- better letter

ow – brown cow

ai- snail in the rain

oa - goat in a boat

 

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card. Can you find the special friends really quickly and then use Fred in your head to read the word. This really helps us read trickier words speedily.

Reading focus: We have been looking at our punctuation this week. Can you find any question marks and exclamation marks? The punctuation helps us with our reading and our understanding of the story.

 

 

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 01.10.21

Too much!

A bad mood

New sounds:

• ur - nurse with a purse
• er - a better letter
• ow - brown cow
• ai – snail in the rain

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

Reading focus: Watching out for exclamation marks so that we can really emphasise the word or phrase.

 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 01.10.2020

The dressing up box

Sam’s Bag

• New sounds
• ur – nurse with a purse
• er- a better letter
• ow – brown cow

 

Reading focus: Practise ‘Fred in your head’ so we can get speedy!

 

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 01.10.21

Black Hat Bob

Red Hat Rob

New sounds:

• ir – whirl and twirl
• ou – shout it out
• oy – toy to enjoy

 

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

 

Reading focus: Practise ‘Fred in your head’ so we can get speedy!

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.

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

 

 

climb  clothes  could  cold  door

Maths - In preparation for learning our times tables, please continue to learn how to count in sequences of 2, 5, 10 and 3.

• Can you count in 5s four times?
• Can you count in 10s eight times?
• Can you count in 3s five times?
• Can you count in 2s eleven times?

 

Thank you for continuing to fill my day with smiles and laughter. I am so proud of the amazing attitudes you have all shown towards your learning once again this week.  See you on Monday for another week of SUPER learning.

 

Miss Gillam

 

 

Toucans Week beg. 4th October, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 30th Sep 2021 @ 5:12pm

Week beg 4^th October 2021

I can’t believe it is October already! It has been lovely chatting to parents this week to let everyone know how their child has settled into Year 6. Thank you for your continuous support in ensuring your child is settled and doing their best in school. We will continue to focus on handwriting next week so please encourage your child to use their joined handwriting when learning their spellings at home. 

Again it has been a delight to see all Maths homework completed on time and to a high standard. It was also lovely to hear so many parents say that they didn’t need to give their child any help with their tasks. I love to see and hear about this independence! We are also pleased to see the enthusiasm that the class are showing towards their reading at home. So many of them are recording their daily reading – 20mins – in their diaries independently. Thank you for your support with this.

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 got their log in details in the front of their homework diaries and they also all logged on in class today so that we know they will be able to this by themselves at home.

Homework

Spellings for next week will focus will focus on Suffixes

Spellings will be tested on Friday 8^th October – sprinting, shouted, sweetest, jumping, prouder, floated, rusting, hunter, yawning, asked

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

In school we have been Addition and Subtraction this week so the homework is Written Methods for Addition and Subtraction page 10 and page 11 of the SATs book.

Remember you will be set 2 pages to do weekly which you can mark yourself using the answers at the back of the book.

(Maths homework will be set on a Thursday and if the children could bring their books back into school for the following Wednesday so we can check them that would be great. If they are struggling with anything, please don’t hesitate to send the book back sooner and we will do some extra work with them in school)

Curriculum

Maths – Next week we will continue our work on the Four Operations by focusing on Multiplication and Division.

History – We will be finding out more about the War of the Roses and our War Artist – Paul Nash

RE – We will be focusing on our P4C question – If we are all different why should we be treated equally? We will also research how different religions celebrate the birth of a child.  

Science – Light

Next week we will continue finding out about light through a variety of investigations.

PE day will be on Wednesday (Cricket Coach) and on Friday (Mr Ault). Children can come to school wearing their PE uniform on these days.

 

Kind regards,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing, Mr Beswick and Mr Corkill

Skylarks WB 4.10.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 30th Sep 2021 @ 8:10am

Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?

This week Skylarks have continued to work exceptionally hard in all of our lessons. They have shown such enthusiasm towards everything that they are doing in school and I am sure you are enjoying hearing about their exciting learning when they arrive home.

I am looking forward to chatting with you tomorrow, Friday 1^st October, during out Parent/Teacher phone calls. If you are having any problems booking your slot, please contact the office who will be happy to help.

 

Next week (W.B. 4.10.21)

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our book ‘Queen of the Falls’ by Chris Van Allsburg. We will extend our learning on recount writing from last week’s lessons. We will first create our own story map which we will use to help us write a first-person recount of Annie’s journey along the river. We will also be consolidating our understanding of fronted adverbials and commas and will be applying these throughout our writing.  

In our reading lessons we will read about more inspirational woman in our text ‘Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls’. We will continue to focus on drawing inferences, justifying our answers with evidence (E.g. inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives) and making comparisons within and across texts.

In maths we will consolidate our learning on place value by solving tricky reasoning and problem solving questions. We will then move on to look at the formal written method of addition to include 6-digit numbers.

In science we will use our investigation plans from the previous lesson to help us answer the question ‘Which material is most effective for the inner lining of a lunch box to keep it cool?’ After completing our investigation, we will choose an appropriate way to present our findings (e.g. table, bar chart, line graph).

In RE we will use our Christian values of respect and friendship to have a class debate. We will use our learning from our discipleship topic to help us debate the question, ‘Do you think Jesus’ teachings from the Sermon on the Mount are still important today?’

During our topic day we will extend our learning on rivers. We will recap the different features of rivers, before thinking about why rivers are so important (e.g. leisure, tourism, power, industry and transport).

 

Our PE days for the Autumn will be Thursday (Swimming) and Friday (Games) 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 page 10 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 8^th October. This homework is looking at rounding numbers.   

 

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 8^th October will focus on words with the -ible suffix:

possible, terrible, legible, horrible, sensible, reversible, credible, visible

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

 

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

Miss Beattie x

 

 

STARLINGS WB 4.10.21, by Mrs Esling

Date: 29th Sep 2021 @ 9:13pm

 

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog! We have had another super week of learning in Starlings Class ?.

 

I have really enjoyed talking to you and letting you know how fantastically well your little Starling has settled into Year 1.

Thank you so much for your continued support, Mrs Southern and I  really appreciate it.

Our gorgeous Starlings, together with the other children in KS1, have really enjoyed attending worship in the hall. We have also all been on a tour of the school as this is a brand-new experience for them all.

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 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

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our text ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers.  We have been discussing how the different characters have felt during the story and we will be continuing with this next week when we create an emotions graph together.  We have also been enjoying our additional class text ‘Meerkat mail’ by Emily Gravett. So Far Sunny has left home and has sent a postcard to his family telling them of his adventures.

Maths

Next week we will be continuing exploring the composition of numbers 0-5 before progressing on to the composition of numbers 6-10.

RWI 

 

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 1.10.2021 

King of the birds 

The thirsty cow 

Birds! 

New sounds: 

• ur– nurse with a purse 
• er- a better letter
• ow – brown cow
• ai – snail in the rain

Reading focus: We have had a vocabulary focus in our RWI session’s this week. Can your Swallow share some of their favourite word choices from the text with you? Can they give you a definition to explain what the word means? Can they use the same word in a different spoken sentence? 

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 1.10.2021 

Looking after a hamster 

Bert the explorer 

A pet or pest? 

 

New sounds: 

• ur– nurse with a purse 
• er- a better letter
• ow – brown cow
• ai – snail in the rain
•  

Reading focus: We have had a vocabulary focus in our RWI session’s this week. Can your Swallow share some of their favourite word choices from the text with you? Can they give you a definition to explain what the word means? Can they use the same word in a different spoken sentence? 

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 1.10.21 

 

Robin Hood 

A big bag of cash 

Bushcraft 

 

New sounds: 

er- better letter 

ow – brown cow 

ai- snail in the rain 

oa - goat in a boat 

  

 

Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card. Can you find the special friends really quickly? 

Reading focus: We have been looking at our punctuation this week. Can you find the question marks and exclamations? The punctuation helps us with our reading and our understanding of the story. 

 

 

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 01.10.21 

 

Too much! 

A bad mood 

 

New sounds: 

• ur- nurse with a purse 
• er - a better letter
• ow - brown cow
• ai – snail in the rain
•  

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

Reading focus: Watching out for exclamation marks so that we can really emphasise the word. 

 

 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 01.10.2020 

The dressing up box 

Sam’s Bag 

 

• New sounds
• ur– nurse with a purse 
• er- a better letter
• ow – brown cow

 

Reading focus: Practise ‘Fred in your head’ so we can get speedy! 

 

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 01.10.21 

 

Black Hat Bob 

Red Hat Rob 

 

New sounds: 

• ir– whirl and twirl 
• ou– shout it out 
• oy – toy to enjoy

 

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

 

Reading focus: Practise ‘Fred in your head’ so we can get speedy! 

 

 

 

Red Group – Mrs Judge 01.10.21 

Jam 

The Big Net 

Practise our special friends: 

• qu– qu, qu, queen 
• ng – a thing on a string
• nk– I think I stink 
• sh– shhhh says the horse to the hissing snake 
• th– thank you says the princess to the horse 
• ch– ch ch choooo sneezes the horse 

 

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

 

Reading focus: Using our red Fred words to become a speedier reader.  

 

Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 01.10.21 

Ditty sheets 4,5 and 6 

New sounds:  

• c
• k
• u
• b

Reading focus: Fred talking a little faster so that words can be blended easier. 

 Homework

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 week's. 

This week’s spellings to be quizzed on Friday 8th October are

six seven eight nine ten

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.

 

Swallows Blog - WB 27.09.2021, by Miss Gillam

Date: 23rd Sep 2021 @ 9:53pm

Hello Swallows families and welcome to our weekly blog! We have had another super week of learning in Swallows Class ?

 

Mrs Elson and I continue to be proud of all our Swallows learners as they continue to try their best and work hard in their lessons. We have been super scientists, musicians, writers, mathematicians, problem solvers and much more this week.

Thank you so much for taking the time to enjoy sharing stories with your Swallow 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

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our class text ‘Troll Swap’ by Leigh Hodgkinson. We will continue to explore character and write a diary in the role of Tabitha. We will focus on expanding our vocabulary, seeing if we can use exciting adjectives to add detail to our sentences.

 

Maths

Our Maths learning will focus on addition and subjection next week. We will be exploring number facts and fact families, comparing numbers and finding related facts.

 

Read Write Inc

Please see below for details of our new sounds and the texts we have been reading in our Read Write Inc groups this week. To support your child’s progress, it would help if they read and spelt words containing each sound at home.

 

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 24.9.2021 

Hairy Fairy 

A job for Hairy Fairy 

It’s so hairy 

New sounds: 

• o-e Phone home
• u-e Huge brute  
• aw Yawn at dawn 
• are care and share 

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud and taking note of the punctuation when reading. What does the author want us to do when we get to a comma or a full stop?  

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. 

 

Grey Group – Miss Gillam 24.9.2021 

I dare you 

Men on the moon 

Nancy Roman’s space telescope  

New sounds: 

• o-e Phone home
• u-e Huge brute  
• aw Yawn at dawn 
• are care and share

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud and taking note of the punctuation when reading. What does the author want us to do when we get to a comma or a full stop?  

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. 

 

Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 24.09.21 

Tom Thumb 

Stuck in fog 

Bugs 

New sounds: 

 I-e  nice smile 

• o-e- phone home 
• aw– yawn at dawn 
• are-care and share 

 ur – nurse with a purse 

 

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

Reading focus: Using our knowledge of red words to become super speedy readers. Remember, you don’t Fred a red! We also focused on reading punctuation to help with our story telling voice.  

 

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 24.09.21 

Follow me 

Can you see me? 

New sounds: 

• o-e phone home
• u-e huge brute
• aw yawn at dawn
• are care and share

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

Reading focus: Attempting to ‘Fred in our head’ more when reading a story. 

 

 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 24.09.2021 

In the sun 

Rags 

New sounds: 

• o-e Phone home
• u-eHuge brute  
• aw Yawn at dawn
• are care and share

 

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud and taking note of the punctuation when reading. What does the author want us to do when we get to a comma or a full stop?  

 

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 24.09.21 

The Spell 

A Witch’s Lunch 

New sounds: 

• oo– poo at the zoo 
• oo– look at a book 
• ar– start the car 
• or – shut the door

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

Reading focus: Using our red Fred words to become a speedier reader. To read and notice punctuation to help with our story telling voice. 

  

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.

 

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. 

 

busy     child    children   Christmas   class

 

Maths - In preparation for learning our times tables, please continue to learn how to count in sequences of 2, 5, 10 and 3. Here is a link to the ‘Super Mover’ times table videos that Swallows loved watching in school this week. Please use these videos to learn your tables this week.

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-5-times-table/zhbm47h
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-10-times-table-with-webster-the-spider/zm32cqt
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-2-times-table-with-bridget-the-lioness/zrrx92p
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-maths-the-3-times-table/z6sw382

 

Thank you for continuing to fill my day with smiles and laughter. I am so proud of the fantastic attitudes you have all shown towards your learning once again this week.  See you on Monday for another week of SUPER learning.

 

Miss Gillam

 

Goldfinches WB 27.09.21, by Mrs Evans

Date: 23rd Sep 2021 @ 9:03pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

We have had a hardworking week with lots of great focus and concentration in lessons.

  Star of the week goes to: James

 Top Table award goes to: Esmae

Worship: This week in worship we have continue to focus on our Christian Value of Friendship and have enjoyed discussion, practical and reflective activities based around this theme. We loved reading the No Outsiders book ‘Red’ which linked beautifully with the theme of friendship. It was wonderful to be back in the hall for Mrs Powell’s Monday worship as well as Open the Book.

Tuesday 28^th I look forward to our parent-teacher appointment phone calls. Thank you to all who have booked phone calls. If you haven’t yet done so, please book a slot via the school office.

Next Week:

Reading and Writing: We will take on the role of Hannah, the main character in our Gorilla story, and write a diary entry.

Reading homework- I’m so impressed by how many children are reading regularly at home. Please continue to support your child to read for 10-20 minutes daily and to sign their diary.

Spellings: This week’s words are taken from the Y3/4 Statutory spelling list (first column)

accident, accidental, accidentally, address, answer, appear, arrive, believe, bicycle, breath

Maths: Maths with Mrs Evans will focus on reading and placing numbers on a  number line to 10,000 and learning Roman Numerals. We will continue to work on arithmetic activities on some afternoons and will work on our times tables daily.

Times Tables Homework: We have made 6x table flick flack fortune tellers this week which you can use at home to help practise.

If you like a sing song try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7rYbk9PNuM

The children have also all got their TTRockstars logins stuck in the front of their diaries. https://ttrockstars.com/

Computing: We will begin our new computing unit ‘My Very Own Game’ where we will be designing a prototype of a new game.

Science: This week we will be predicting which instrument makes the loudest sound and recording the results using a data-logger.

History: We will learn about the sources of evidence of story-telling and legend to find out about Ancient Greek and listen to the story of The Trojan Horse.

Geography: We will begin to work in groups to research the geographical features of modern Greece.

PE: We will enjoy cricket on Wednesdays (until half term) and Gymnastics and team building games with Mr Ault on Fridays.

PSHCE: Our focus to begin the year is ‘Get Heart Smart’ and we will also be reading and exploring a range of No Outsiders books.

Music: We loved our music lesson this week and had a great sing along to Abba. More to come next week.

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

Have a wonderful weekend everyone

Mrs Evans, Mrs Judge and Mrs Shimmin. 

Toucans week beg. 27th September, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 23rd Sep 2021 @ 12:27pm

Week beg 27^th September 2021

Toucans have worked hard again this week. They have all amazed us with their positive attitude towards everything that they are doing in school, from learning to play cricket, playing their musical instruments, learning German and working so hard to improve their handwriting. We have spent a lot of time over the past couple of weeks to ensure everyone is joining their letters correctly. Please encourage your child to use their joined handwriting when learning their spellings at home.  

Again it has been a delight to see all Maths homework completed on time and to a high standard. We are also pleased to see the enthusiasm that the class are showing towards their reading at home. So many of them are recording their daily reading – 20mins – in their diaries independently. Thank you for your support with this.

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 got their log in details in the front of their homework diaries and they also all logged on in class today so that we know they will be able to this by themselves at home.

Homework

Spellings for next week will focus on words ending in shul spelt –cial or -tial

Spellings will be tested on Friday 1^st October – official, special, social, artificial, financial, essential, partial, confidential, initial, torrential

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

In school we have been applying our knowledge of Place Value this week so the homework is Mixed Practice page 8 and page 9 of the SATs book.

Remember you will be set 2 pages to do weekly which you can mark yourself using the answers at the back of the book.

(Maths homework will be set on a Thursday and if the children could bring their books back into school for the following Wednesday so we can check them that would be great. If they are struggling with anything, please don’t hesitate to send the book back sooner and we will do some extra work with them in school)

Curriculum

Maths – Next week we will continue our work on the Four Operations by focusing on Addition and Subtraction.

History – We will be finding out about the War of the Roses

RE – Our first unit is all about Diversity – appreciating the people all around us in the world today and celebrating their similarities and differences. This week we will be celebrating what makes us each unique.

Science – Light

Next week they will be looking at how light travels in straight lines and carry out lots of investigations

PE day will be on Wednesday (Cricket Coach) and on Friday (Mr Ault). Children can come to school wearing their PE uniform on these days.

 

Kind regards,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing, Mr Beswick and Mr Corkill

Skylarks WB 27.09.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 23rd Sep 2021 @ 8:00am

Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?

We have had another fantastic week in Skylarks Class and the children have all blown me away with their knowledge of the Romans and keen interest to learn more! I can’t wait to continue to explore our topics further next week ?

 

Parent phone calls

Hopefully you have managed to book your Parents’ Evening phone call through school spider for next week. Skylark’s phone calls will take place on Friday 1^st October. This will be an opportunity to discuss how the children have settled into year 5 and will give you the chance to ask any questions you may have. If you are having any problems booking your slot, please contact the office who will be happy to help.

 

Next week (W.B. 27.09.21)

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our book ‘Queen of the Falls’ by Chris Van Allsburg. We will continue to work on our Newspaper reports from last week, before moving on to look at first-person recount writing.

In our reading lessons we will read about more inspirational woman in our text ‘Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls’. We will continue to focus on drawing inferences, justifying our answers with evidence (E.g. inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives) and making comparisons within and across texts.

In maths we will continue to focus on place value and will extend our learning to include numbers to 1,000,000. We will place these numbers on number lines, compare and order numbers and round to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 and 100,000. We will also continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.

In science we will continue our learning on thermal insulators and thermal conductors. We will become scientists and will plan our own investigation to answer the enquiry question ‘Which material is most effective for the inner lining of a lunch box to keep it cool?’

In RE we will continue to explore the book of Matthew. We will read a range of verses, considering the meaning of each and drawing out any advice given to Christians on how they should live.

During our topic day we will use our mapping skills to locate rivers in and around Northwich. We will then focus on developing our understanding of technical vocabulary needed to help us with our future learning on rivers. We will use our ICT skills to help us produce a river glossary. 

 

Our PE days for the Autumn will be Thursday (Swimming) and Friday (Games) 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 page 9 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 1^st October. This homework is looking at counting in powers of 10 (e.g. counting in jumps of 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000).

 

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 1^st October will be the first 10 words from the Year 5/6 statutory word list:

accommodate, accompany, according, achieve, aggressive, amateur, ancient, apparent, appreciate, attached

These words are understandably more difficult than our spellings which follow a specific spelling rule. However, please remember that these spellings are set for both Year 5 and Year 6 children and so we have lots of time to revisit and revise them over the next two years. If your child is finding them really tricky, encourage them to focus on just 5 words to learn rather than all 10 ?

 

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

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Miss Beattie x

Starlings WB 27.09.21, by Mrs Esling

Date: 22nd Sep 2021 @ 8:36pm

 

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog! We have had another super week of learning in Starlings Class ?

We continue to be proud of all our Starlings as they continue to try their best and work hard in their lessons. We have been super historians this week when we used our skills and knowledge to place a range of bikes in chronological order.

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

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our text ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers and we will be discussing how the characters in the book are feeling at different points in the story.

Maths

Next week we will be exploring ordinal numbers before progressing to the composition of numbers 0 to 5.  We will be participating in lots of practical activities and using our maths resources to support our learning.

RWI

 

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 24.9.2021 

Hairy Fairy 

A job for Hairy Fairy 

It’s so hairy 

New sounds: 

• o-e Phone home
• u-e Huge brute  
• aw Yawn at dawn 
• are care and share 

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud and taking note of the punctuation when reading. What does the author want us to do when we get to a comma or a full stop?  

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. 

 

Grey Group – Miss Gillam 24.9.2021 

I dare you 

Men on the moon 

Nancy Roman’s space telescope  

New sounds: 

• o-e Phone home
• u-e Huge brute  
• aw Yawn at dawn 
• are care and share

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud and taking note of the punctuation when reading. What does the author want us to do when we get to a comma or a full stop?  

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. 

  

Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 24.09.21 

Tom Thumb 

Stuck in fog 

Bugs 

New sounds: 

 I-e  nice smile 

• o-e- phone home 
• aw– yawn at dawn 
• are-care and share 

 ur – nurse with a purse 

 

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

Reading focus: Using our red Fred words to become a speedier reader. To read and notice punctuation to help with our story telling voice. 

  

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 24.09.21 

Follow me 

Can you see me? 

New sounds: 

• o-e phone home
• u-e huge brute
• aw yawn at dawn
• are care and share

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

Reading focus: Attempting to ‘Fred in our head’ more when reading a story. 

 

 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling 24.09.2021 

In the sun 

Rags 

New sounds: 

• o-e Phone home
• u-e huge brute  
• aw Yawn at dawn
• are care and share

 

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud and taking note of the punctuation when reading. What does the author want us to do when we get to a comma or a full stop?  

 

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 24.09.21 

The Spell 

A Witch’s Lunch 

New sounds: 

• oo– poo at the zoo 
• oo– look at a book 
• ar– start the car 
• or – shut the door

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

Reading focus: Using our red Fred words to become a speedier reader. To read and notice punctuation to help with our story telling voice. 

 

 

 

Red Group – Mrs Judge 

Cat in a Pot 

The Bug 

New sounds: 

• qu– qu, qu, queen 
• ng – a thing on a string
• nk– I think I stink 

 

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

Reading focus: Using our red Fred words to become a speedier reader.  

 

Ditty Group – Mrs Southern 24.09.21 

Ditty sheets 1,2,3 and 4 

New sounds:  

• i
• n
• p
• g
• o

Reading focus: Fred talking a little faster so that words can be blended easier. 

 

Homework

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 from the previous week's page. 

This weeks spellings to be quizzed on Friday 1^st October are

one two three four five

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 20.09.21, by Mrs Rice

Date: 16th Sep 2021 @ 10:43pm

Welcome to Robins Weekly Blog

We have had a wonderful week in Robins class. I am really pleased with how the children have settled down to their learning routines in class. We are filling our recognition board regularly and have enjoyed playing 'hide and seek' and 'stuck in the mud' as our rewards together. This week, our Top Table award goes to Alexa and our Prasie Book award goes to Alexia. Well done girls :) 

You will be able to book a 'Parents Evening' phonecall on Monday 20th September. This will be a ten minute phonecall to touch base and discuss how the children have settled. Year Three phonecalls are on Tuesday 28th September. I am really looking forward to talking to you all and getting to know you :) 

Our spelling quizes will take place each Friday morning. This week, some children will have spellings that begin with the 'wr' sound such as 'wrong' and some children will have spellings that begin with the prefix dis and in such as 'disconnect and invisible'. The children wil have a list of their spellings in their reading diaries that they will tick/dot to let you know which words they spelt correctly during the quiz.

Reading - We have given the children a reading book from our class library. This may be a RWI book aimed at your child's reading level plus a story/non fiction book from our class library to share with you at home or a text from our class library. Please let me know if you feel the texts the children are selecting are too challenging or not challenging enough. I have now extended our class library with texts that the children are familiar with from Year Two for them to enjoy. We are continuing to read The Sea Book by Charlottle Milner in our whole class reading lessons. This week we will continue to discover new vocabulary, retrieve literal information and explore how the features of a non fiction text and it's structure all help the reader to understand the information. 

Writing - The children are really enjoying reading 'Seal Surfer' by Micheal Foreman. We have loved learning new facts about seals and watching video clips of them in their natural environments. We will be writing a non chronological report about seals using paragraphs to organise our information. We will also be using prepositions of place and noun phrases to enhance the detail in our sentences. 

 

Maths - We will continue to explore our place value knowledge and understanding of three digit numbers. The children will represent three digit numbers in a variety of ways, learning the value of each digit and positioning them on a numberline. Each morning, on entering the classroom, the children complete a '4 a day' arithmetic activity. This involves questions from all four operations ( addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) so that these skills are continuously developing. We have also introduced a times tables grid which allows the children to pratise and rehearse their mutliplication and divsion facts. This term, we will consolidate the 2, 5 and 10 times tables as well as introducing the three and four times tables. I have set weekly games on Times Tables Rock Stars for the children to enjoy. 

Geography - We will be consolidating Year Two knowledge of features of English forests verses a rain forest, looking at the human and physical features of both. The children will use atlases to locate rain forests around the world, exploring reasons as to why they are positioned near to the equator. 

RE - The children will explore a variety of Bible stories, considering the message for Christians that each one gives about God. 

PE - Mr Ault will teach the children how to play football, focusing on space, pace and invasion techniques. 

DT -  The children are learning about the seasonality of food and will be making apple crumble as they have identified that apples are in season in the autumn in the uk. I will send a letter out with further information. 

Thank you for your continued support with reading, spellings and times tables at home. These three things are the basis of our weekly homework.

Please contact me if you have any questions, I am aways available for you.

Many thanks

Mrs Rice and Mrs Brennan

Goldfinches WB 20.09.21, by Mrs Evans

Date: 16th Sep 2021 @ 9:02pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

Another busy week for our new Year 4s! The children are settling beautifully and have continued to make us so proud of their calmness, kindness and enthusiasm to get back into learning. We look forward to another week of learning next week.

 Star of the week goes to: Alexa

 Top Table award goes to: Kyan

This week in worship we have focused on our Christian Value of Friendship and have enjoyed discussion, practical and reflective activities based around this theme. There have been some lovely moments of kindness between the children throughout the week with children from the nest making flapjack for us to share and making friendship bracelets for each other.

Next Week:

Reading and Writing: We will continue to explore more of our writing text ‘Gorilla’ by Anthony Browne and find out about real Gorillas. Our reading text ‘A world full of animal stories’ will help us to explore asking questions in order to find out more and delve deeper.

Reading homework- I’m so impressed by how many children are reading regularly at home. Please continue to support your child to read for 10-20 minutes daily. Across the week this can be a mixture of your child reading to themselves and talking about the book with you, your child reading aloud to you and you reading aloud to your child. Please sign in your child’s diary when s/he has read. The children will be supported to choose from a range of books available in the classroom. Reading can include articles from Children’s First News Papers and science or animal magazines (like National Geographic, Chester Zoo magazines) as well as Fact and research books on linked science and history topics.

Spellings: our spelling focus this week is: words containing 'sure' measure, pleasure, treasure, leisure, enclosure, measuring, measurement, measured, treasured, leisurely 

Maths: Monday Maths will focus on angles and arithmetic.

Maths with Mrs Evans will focus on representing 4 digit numbers in different ways including on a number line. We will continue to work on arithmetic activities on some afternoons and will work on our times tables daily.

Times Tables Homework: Times tables are a big focus for Year 4 so each week I will be linking an online times table game or sending a paper game home with the children to support them to practise in a fun way.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples - try coconut multiples for the 6x table or…

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

Use Hit the Button to recap the times tables for last year (3X, 4X, 8X) and have a go at the 6X. If you are a tables whizz, have a go at the mixed game.

The children have also all got their TTRockstars logins stuck in the front of their diaries. https://ttrockstars.com/

Science: Our science focus for this half term is Sound so we will enjoy exploring how sounds are heard this week.

History: Next week we will order the events we have learned about in history in chronological order and identify where the Ancient Greek civilisation fits in on the time line.

PE: We will enjoy cricket on Wednesdays (until half term) and Gymnastics and team building games with Mr Ault on Fridays

PSHCE: Our focus to begin the year is ‘Get Heart Smart’ and we will also be reading and exploring a range of No Outsiders books. This week we enjoyed getting Happy Snappy to reflect on the things we are grateful for.

Music: We loved our music lesson this week and being introduced to the song ‘Dancing Queen’ by ABBA. Lots of our Goldfinches recognised this famous song.

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.

Swallows Blog WB 20.09.2021, by Miss Gillam

Date: 16th Sep 2021 @ 5:50pm

Friday 17^th September 2021

 

Hello and welcome back to Swallows class blog!

 

Swallows have had yet another wonderful week of super learning, making Mrs Elson and Miss Gillam proud every single day. We loved designing and describing our own trolls in our Writing lessons, using playdough to explore materials in Science, playing a new song on the ukulele in our Music lesson and much much more! We are such busy, SUPER learners.

 

Thank you so much for taking the time to enjoy sharing stories with your Swallow 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.

 

Read Write Inc

Please see below for details of our new sounds and the texts we have been reading in our Read Write Inc groups this week. To support your child’s progress, it would help if they read and spelt words containing each sound at home.

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 

The Poor Goose  

A horse on Dartmoor 

Running contests 

New sounds: 

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

 

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud.  

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

 

Grey Group – Miss Gillam 

The lion’s paw 

King Midas 

The Romans 

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: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud.  

 

Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 

Off Sick 

Miss Smith is ill 

What happens to your sandwich 

New sounds: 

 u-e huge brute 

• ea- cup of tea and ee – what can you see 
• oi– spoil the boy 
• a-e- Make a cake

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

Reading focus: Using our Fred talk when reading unfamiliar words and not just having a guess. Fred in our heads helps us to be more fluent readers.  

 

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 

I think I want to be a bee  

A vet’s week 

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: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud. 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling  

Tab the cat  

Pip the parrot 

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: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud. 

 

Green Group – Mrs Judge 

My Dog Ned 

Pat, the Vet 

New sounds: 

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

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

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud. 

 

Next week

Maths – Our Maths work will continue to focus on place value next week.  We will compare and order numbers to 100 and count in multiples of 2, 5, 10 and 3. Having a little count at home will prepare you for this!

English – Our English work will continue to focus on the wonderful story ‘Troll Swap’ this week. We will explore character, write letters and write our own diary entries.

Read Write Inc – Swallows we continue with their Read Write Inc learning this week, focusing on a brand new story. They will bring home new books each Friday. We look forward to completing our first spelling quiz tomorrow too!

 

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.

 

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. 

 

because  behind  both  break   busy

 

Maths - In preparation for learning our times tables, please continue to learn how to count in sequences of 2, 5, 10 and 3. Here is a link to a lovely counting rap to help you.  Enjoy ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2NYeVU-Me4

 

Thank you for continuing to fill my day with smiles and laughter. I am so proud of the fantastic attitudes you have all shown towards your learning this week.  See you on Monday for another week of SUPER learning.

 

Miss Gillam

 

 

Toucans week beg. 20.9.21, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 16th Sep 2021 @ 5:29pm

Week beg 20^th September 2021

We are so proud of how well Toucans have settled into Year 6. They have been a pleasure to teach and we are delighted with their positive attitude towards learning both in school and at home.

We have been delighted to see that the children have been completing their homework as expected. Lots of great reading taking place every night. Remember 15 – 20mins and please encourage your child to record what they read in their homework diaries.

Lots of great scores last week with their first weekly spelling test which has shown that they have been working on these at home so thank you.

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 got their log in details in the front of their homework diaries and they also all logged on in class today so that we know they will be able to this by themselves at home.

Homework

Spellings for next week will focus on words ending in shus spelt -tious

Spellings will be tested on Friday 24^th September – cautious, infectious, ambitious, superstitious, nutritious, scrumptious, fictitious, infection, nutrition, ambition,

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

In school we have been exploring Place Value this week so the homework is Negative Numbers page 4 and Rounding page 7 of the SATs book.

Remember you will be set 2 pages to do weekly which you can mark yourself using the answers at the back of the book.

(Maths homework will be set on a Thursday and if the children could bring their books back into school for the following Wednesday so we can check them that would be great. If they are struggling with anything, please don’t hesitate to send the book back sooner and we will do some extra work with them in school)

Curriculum

Maths – Next week we will continue our work on the Four Operations by focusing on Addition and Subtraction.

History – We will continue to learn about the Battle of Hastings and think about why conflicts take place

RE – Our first unit is all about Diversity – appreciating the people all around us in the world today and celebrating their similarities and differences. We will be finding out more about the different religions in the UK     

Science – Light

The children have been revising what they know already about light before exploring our topic further. Next week they will be looking at how light travels in straight lines and carry out some investigations

On Friday the 24^th September we will have an ART Day focusing on the War Artist Paul Nash. The children will be developing their sketching and painting skills before producing a picture in the style of Nash to reflect the hardship of conflicts. We have their old art t-shirts from last year in school but you are very welcome to send in a fresh one if you wish.

PE day will be on Wednesday (Cricket Coach) and on Friday (Mr Ault). Children can come to school wearing their PE uniform on these days.

 

Kind regards,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing, Mr Beswick and Mr Corkill

Skylarks WB 20.09.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 16th Sep 2021 @ 7:42am

Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?

The children in Skylarks Class have had another super week of learning. I have particular enjoyed hearing about their swimming achievements. Mrs Evans has been so impressed with the children’s effort and attitudes during their lessons. Keep it up Skylarks!

 

Next week (W.B. 20.09.21)

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our book ‘Queen of the Falls’ by Chris Van Allsburg. We will first be looking at letter writing, taking account of audience and purpose. We will also consider our first impressions of different characters, as well as the impressions the characters may have of each other. We will then use this to help us write a newspaper report prior to Annie’s daredevil feat. 

In our reading lessons we will read about more inspirational woman in our text ‘Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls’. We will focus on drawing inferences and justifying our answers with evidence (E.g. inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives). We will also make comparisons within and across texts.

In maths we will continue to focus on place value. Specifically, we will look at rounding numbers within 100,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000. We will also revise Roman numeral base numbers to help us write numbers to 10,000. We will also continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.

In science we will learn about thermal insulators and thermal conductors and will be developing our conclusion writing skills. We will look at a table of results showing the temperature of tea in different containers over a one-hour period, before concluding what we can learn from the table of results.

In RE we will be exploring the ‘Salt and Light’ verses from Matthew 5:13-15. We will read the verses together and draw annotated pictures to help us understand them better.

During our topic day we will use our mapping skills to gain a better understanding of where the Romans conquered when they first arrived in Britain. We will also look at how Britain changed once the Roman Empire arrived and the legacy the Roman Empire left behind.   

 

Our PE days for the Autumn will be Thursday (Swimming) and Friday (Games) 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 page 8 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 24^th September. This homework is looking at place value (ordering and comparing big numbers).

 

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 24^th September will continue to focus on words ending with the silent letter b:

climb, subtle, bomb, lamb, doubted, plumber, crumbling, numbing

 

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

Miss Beattie x

 

Starlings WB 20.09.21, by Mrs Esling

Date: 15th Sep 2021 @ 9:14pm

 

STARLINGS CLASS

Hello Starling families and welcome to our weekly blog! We have had another super week of learning in Skylarks Class ?

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

English

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our text ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers.  We have already used clues from the text to make predictions about what the story may be about. We have also helped out at the ‘Lost and Found'  office where we wrote labels for the missing animals!

Maths

In maths, we will be continuing to compare quantities and measures up to 10.  This week we have used our maths resources to support our learning of greater than, less than and equal to.  Next week we will be exploring ‘parts’ and ‘wholes.

RWI

The children are enjoying being in their phonics groups.  They will continue to bring home new books each Friday which they can keep at home to be returned the following Friday.  The children each have a sounds booklet in their book bag.  Please practice the sounds that your child has been taught that week to consolidate learning and boost confidence.

Read Write Inc

Please see below for details of our new sounds and the texts we have been reading in our Read Write Inc groups this week. To support your child’s progress, it would help if they read and spell the words containing each sound at home.

Blue Group - Miss Gillam 

The Poor Goose  

A horse on Dartmoor 

Running contests 

New sounds: 

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

 

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud.  

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

 

Grey Group – Miss Gillam 

The lion’s paw 

King Midas 

The Romans 

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: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud.  

 

Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 

Off Sick 

Miss Smith is ill 

What happens to your sandwich 

New sounds: 

 u-e huge brute 

• ea- cup of tea and ee – what can you see 
• oi– spoil the boy 
• a-e- Make a cake

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

Reading focus: Using our Fred talk when reading unfamiliar words and not just having a guess. Fred in our heads helps us to be more fluent readers.  

 

Orange Group – Mrs Southern 

I think I want to be a bee  

A vet’s week 

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: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud. 

 

Pink Group – Mrs Esling  

Tab the cat  

Pip the parrot 

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: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud. 

 

Green Group – Mrs Judge 

My Dog Ned 

Pat, the Vet 

New sounds: 

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

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

Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud. 

 

Spellings

The children will receive a list of spellings each week and we will quiz them on a Friday morning. The next quiz will be on 24^th September and the spellings are:

be he she me we

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.

Robins wk beg 13.09.21, by Mrs Rice

Date: 12th Sep 2021 @ 9:15pm

Hi Everyone

A very warm welcome to Robins Class.

Mrs Brennan and I have loved getting to know everybody, we are going to have a wonderful year. 

Our PE day this term is on a Monday, the children will be taught on a Monday afternoon by Mr Ault. We will also be having a weekly German lesson on a Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Judge which is very exciting :) 

Each Tuesday afternoon, we will have a times tables quiz. We will let you know which times table your child is working on and will put a sticker into their reading diary to let you know their weekly score. Our weekly spelling quiz will take place on a Friday morning. They will be words containing the spelling rule/pattern that we have been exploring throughout the week or based upon the statutory words for Y3 from the National Curriculum. 

We are currently reading Seal Surfer by Michael Foreman in our Writing lessons. Our focuses are on using a rich and varied vocabulary, organising our writing into paragraphs and using prepositions of time, place and cause.  We are also enjoying learning new facts about life in the oceans using The Sea Book by Charlotte Milner in our whole class Reading lessons. 

It has been delightful to sing with your children and hear their voices after such a long time. Their singing has warmed our hearts.

Please feel free to come and talk to me at any time if you have a question or a concern. I am also available on the phone or via email. I am really looking forward to a fabulous year ahead.

Many thanks

Mrs Rice 

Swallows WB: 13.9.21, by Miss Gillam

Date: 9th Sep 2021 @ 11:28pm

Welcome to Swallows Class Blog

Miss Gillam and Mrs Elson have been so impressed with how kind, calm and hard-working Swallows have been this week. Swallows have been ready, respectful and safe and even managed to fill their class recognition board this week. We have enjoyed learning our new class routines and had lots of fun exploring our focus Christian Value for this half term, friendship. We have enjoyed starting our new writing and reading focus texts this week, begun our maths focus on place value and completed our Read Write Inc assessments. We are now in brand new groups, ready to get started with learning new sounds next week. We also enjoyed our first PE and Music lessons with Mr Ault and Dan this week.

 

Next week:

 

English – We will continue to explore our exciting new text ‘Troll Swap by Leigh Hodgkinson next week, making links to other familiar troll stories.  We will write character descriptions and write letters to Timothy and Tabitha’s grandparents.

Our Read Write Inc group work will begin next week. We will learn a new sound each day which will be shared in homework diaries each week.

Maths – In Maths we will be focusing on the place value of numbers to 100. We will represent, compare and order numbers.

Swallows will enjoy a weekly ukulele lesson with Dan each Thursday afternoon until October half term.

 

 

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.

 

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 the spelling whiteboard in your child’s bag to help them to learn their spellings each week.

 

after  again  any  bath  beautiful

 

Maths -  Please spend some time learning how to count in sequences of 2, 5 and 10 this week.

0  2  4   6  8  10  12  14  16  18  20

5 10  15  20  25  30  35  40  45  50

10 20  30  40  50  60  70  80  90  100

 

We look forward to getting to know you over the coming weeks. Please don’t hesitate to contact us via the office if you would like to discuss anything about your child. Have a wonderful weekend and see you next week.

 

Miss Gillam and Mrs Elson