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Goldfinches WB 13.9.21, by Mrs Evans

Date: 9th Sep 2021 @ 6:19pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

The first blog for our wonderful new flock of Goldfinches

Well what a wonderful start back to term as grown up Year 4s! The children have made us so proud of their calmness, kindness and enthusiasm to get back into learning and it has been lovely to start getting to know each other.

 Star of the week goes to: Esmae and Yara

 Top Table award goes to: Amy

This week:

We have been so good at getting to know the routines within school and the classroom. Our new Goldfinches are already showing us how Ready, Respectful and Safe they are in school and how much they value our 3 school rules.

This week in worship we have introduced our focus Christian Value: 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.

We have enjoyed starting our new writing and reading focus texts, begun our maths focus on place value and have created some beautiful Goldfinch birds in art to sit in the tree in our classroom. Our Goldfinch birds represent the way we are all unique whilst being together in one ‘flock’.

Next Week:

Reading and Writing: We will 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: Please 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.

Spelling Homework:

Our focus spelling pattern is adding the prefixes un, in, im, mis, dis, to a word to give it the opposite meaning.

Spellings will be stuck into diaries on Fridays and the children will be tested the following Friday. Please support your child to learn the following spellings:

disagree, diasble, mistreat, misunderstood, unfair, unlikely, inhuman, inactive, misspell, mistrust

Maths: Monday Maths with Mrs Judge 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/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 made and heard and learning some of the key vocabulary.

RE: On Mondays Goldfinches will be learning about the Holy Spirit with Mrs Judge.

German: The children loved their first ‘live lesson’ with Mrs Judge this week and showed superb listening and participation skills.

History: The theme in Year 4 for our topic focus is LEGACY. Fridays will be our Topic themed days. Next week we will explore the legacy left behind by the Ancient Shang dynasty.

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. We loved reading ‘The Fogettery this week’ which was about treasured memories.

Music: While Mrs Evans is teaching the Year 5 class swimming, Miss Beattie will be enjoying a music lesson with Goldfinches each week following our Charanga programme and Abba theme this term.

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 lovely weekend and see you next week.

Mrs Evans, Mrs Judge and Mrs Shimmin.

Skylarks WB 13.09.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 9th Sep 2021 @ 8:18am

Hello everyone and welcome to Skylarks first weekly blog! I will post on our blog each Thursday keeping you up to date with our learning for the week ahead. I will also post information about homework, weekly spellings and any other important information ?

The children in Skylarks Class have had a FANTASTIC first week back in school and I am so proud of how quickly they have settled back into school routines and how hard they are working.

Next week (W.B. 13.09.21)

In our English lessons next week, we will be delving deeper into our new book ‘Queen of the Falls’ by Chris Van Allsburg. We will find out more about the daredevil feat carried out by Annie Edson Taylor and will use this to help us write a first person recount from the viewpoint of one of the anxious bystanders. We will be focusing on using commas after fronted adverbials and organising paragraphs around a theme.

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).

In maths we will be focusing on the place value of numbers to 100,000. We will place these numbers on a number line and will compare them using more than and less than symbols. We will also continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.

In science we will begin to explore our new topic all about materials. The children will plan their own investigations to help them explore the properties of a variety of everyday materials.

In RE we will be thinking about what we already know about Jesus’ teachings. We will consider what the bible says about how Christians should live, which will lead us into our new topic about the sermon on the mount.

During our topic day we will explore the question ‘Why did the Roman Empire conquer Britain?’ The children will use their enquiry skills to find out more about the importance of trade, land, slaves, food and growing an army for the Romans.

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 7 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 17^th September. This homework is looking at place value.

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 17^th September will focus on words ending with the silent letter b:

thumb, numb, crumb, debt, doubt, limb, combed, tomb

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

Toucans Week beg. 13.9.21, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 9th Sep 2021 @ 8:13am

Week beg 13^th September 2021

We warmly welcome all our pupils to Toucans Class. They have all settled in well and are working hard already! Thank you for reading with your child at home as this will benefit them enormously. The children are expected to read every night for 15 -20 mins. They will also have weekly spellings and a Maths task which will reflect what we are doing in class for that week.

Homework

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

Spellings will be tested on Friday 17^th September – spacious, vicious, precious, suspicious, conscious, delicious, malicious, gracious, atrocious, ferocious

Maths – The children have all been given their own Maths book – Key Stage Two Maths SATs Question Book. They will be set 2 pages to do weekly which they can mark themselves 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. 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.

In school we have been exploring Place Value this week so the homework is Ordering Numbers pages 2 and 3 of the SATs book.

Curriculum

Maths – Next week we will continue working on Place Value – Rounding Numbers, Negative Numbers before moving onto the Four Operations the following week.

History – We will begin our Conflict Topic by finding out about the Battle of Hastings.

RE – Our first unit is all about Diversity – appreciating the people all around us in the world today and celebrating their similarities and differences     

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.

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.

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.

We are delighted to have the support of Mr Corkill (associate teacher) with us this year in Toucans.

Kind regards,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing, Mr Beswick and Mr Corkill

Starlings WB 13.09.21, by Mrs Esling

Date: 6th Sep 2021 @ 5:00pm

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

Mrs Southern and I are so proud of how well the children have settled in and how well they are working, they really are all superstars.

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.

Maths

In maths, we will be continuing to compare quantities and measures up to 10.  Already we have been exploring our maths resources and using them to explain our thinking.

RWI

The children have been assessed to ascertain their groups for Read Write Inc.  They will be bringing a book home each Friday to have for the week before returning it the following Friday to exchange for their new book.

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 17^th September and the spellings are:

the     my     no      of       me

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. Please can you also make sure that if your child is wearing laced up trainers they are able to tie them independently.

Thank you

Starlings Final Blog, by Mrs O'Marah

Date: 19th Jul 2021 @ 9:36pm

Weekly Blog

Our final day!

Hello Starlings and welcome last weekly blog page of Year One!

We wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all so much for everything. It has been a challenging year with remote learning and lock downs and we have finally made it to the end which feels bitter sweet. The children (and us) are so ready for a rest but to say goodbye to this lovely class of children will be difficult for us all.

Every single one of our lovely Starlings has put a huge effort into their learning this year and they have made huge amounts of progress. They have also grown so much and have made us so incredibly proud!

Phonics round-up

This week our groups have reviewed our set 2 and set 3 sounds and we have played games to help us to learn and review sounds.

Can we please ask that any RWI books you have at home be returned as soon as you can?

Fun-Day

The children had an absolute blast on the bouncy castle during our Friday fun-day and it was lovely to see the wide smiles on their faces and to hear the giggles and laughter after such a challenging year. Thank you for your contributions.

Have the very best summer, stay safe and we will see you in September!

Mrs. O’Marah, Mrs. Judge, Mrs. Esling and Mrs. Southern.

Goldfinches 2020-2021 final blog. WB 19th July, by Mrs Evans

Date: 16th Jul 2021 @ 5:46pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

My final blog for my wonderful class of 20-21

Goldfinches you have made me so proud. You have persevered, worked hard, shown endless enthusiasm and had fun throughout yet another strange and testing year and I couldn’t be any prouder of you all than I am now. I just hope you keep your promise to keep chatting to me next year even though you will be big, grown-up Skylarks!

Parents thank you for all of your kindness, support, patience and understanding during the year. I have enjoyed our phone calls and it has been lovely getting to know you all. I just hope that soon, we will be able to have an actual person to person conversation in the playground!

 Star of the week goes to: William and Isabelle

 Top Table award goes to: Georgia and Grace I

What another busy and productive week we have had!

This week in worship we thought about the Christian Value of courage and planned our own class worship around this theme. It took courage to perform and we were all very proud of our performance when we watched the video back.

DT- we showed enormous patience and perseverance during our torch making day and learned a lot from our successes, mistakes and failures. Mrs Evans was extremely proud of our teamwork and cooperation as we worked together and supported each other.

We then became super chefs on our Greek salad making day. We taste tested a range of ingredients and lots of us even tried olives, tzatziki and taramasalata! We learned to cut and slice safely using the bridge method and then finished the day enjoying our delicious and healthy salads. We should be able to help make them with an adult during the summer holidays now!

Geography- We wowed Mrs Evans with our ability to use a range of mapping skills using atlases and google maps to locate some of the countries in Europe the Romans would have travelled through, some capital cities and the rivers running through them and even some of the mountain ranges.

Geography /Science-We had fun learning about the water cycle with Mrs Evans’ propagator and created some beautiful water coloured pencil diagrams to explain it.

Maths- We have continued our work on Fractions and learned how to add and subtract fractions with the same denominator. We were able to use improper fractions and mixed numbers to help us do this along a number line.

Spellings- your child will be bringing home a summary sheet of the words they have been working on this year. The highlighted/crossed out words are words they have spelt accurately this week and the un-highlighted/not crossed out words are words they still need more practice on so you may wish to work on with your child over the summer holidays. This information has been passed up to Miss Beattie for next year.

Friday Funday- What a fantastic day! We had fun games in PE with Mr Ault, followed by extra-long playtime and then bouncy castle time with our friends. After cooling off with an ice pop we had a picnic lunch outside under the shade of the trees, more playtime outside then a fun game of heads down thumbs up before our movie afternoon. Moana with cake and popcorn! Fabulous fun making memories together.

Next week please remember we finish at 1pm on Tuesday and I’m sure we will have time to squeeze in a few more fun activities before then.

Finally, I would like to wish you all a happy and fun-filled (hopefully sunny) summer holiday. Time to relax now and looking forward to seeing you all back in September. You have been amazing!

Best wishes

Mrs Evans  xxx

Goldfinches week beginning 12th July, by Mrs Evans

Date: 12th Jul 2021 @ 8:38am

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

Well here we are in our penultimate week...

 Star of the week goes to: Gia and Grace D

 Top Table award goes to: Abi and Toby

This week in worship we will look at the Christian Value of courage and plan a worship around this theme.

Friday fun day is coming up! We are looking forward to a day of fun on the 16^th.

Friday 16^th is also Mrs Shimmin’s last day with us so we will be wishing her well as she moves into her teaching career.

DT- Please send any final plastic bottles, tubs, pots into school by Tuesday when we will be making our torches during DT. We will also be making our own versions of Greek salads as a delicious way to finish our Greek learning.

Spellings- there is no list of spellings to learn, I have asked the children to look back through the spelling lists in their diaries to practise any words they got wrong or found tricky. This week we will go over the Y3/4 words in class.

Maths and Science- we will be creating our own charts and graphs to represent the data we collected in our ice melting experiment.

Geography and Science -We will learn all about the water cycle and consider the question ‘How old is the water in our taps?’

RE-  we will complete our topic learning about Judaism.

History – we worked together to research and find out what life was like in Britain when the Romans had invaded. We will go on to compare this with the life of the Celts before the Roman invasion and the changes and inventions they brought to ‘Britannia’

Geography – we will track the route the Romans took across Europe on their way to Britain, labelling the countries and some capital cities and locating some of the key landscapes (mountains and rivers) on the way.

German- We will learn different body parts this week.

 PE- More great teamwork in our PE lessons this week, with inter team competitions. Goldfinches have also been playing some wonderful team games during their break times.

I am always happy to talk to you if you have any questions about your child at school.

Have a lovely week,

Mrs Evans.

Starlings Blog w/c 12/7/21, by Mrs O'Marah

Date: 8th Jul 2021 @ 8:54pm

Weekly Blog

Week commencing Monday 12^th July

Hello Starlings and welcome back to our weekly class blog.

Well we are heading into our final full week of Year One! Summer is fast approaching and we are so excited that FOOTBALL IS COMING HOME! Whatever happens in Sunday's final, there will be a lot for our Starlings to talk about and learn about. We are so excited. 

English

In writing we have finished reading the ‘Toys in Space’ story by Mini Grey and we have planned our own adventure stories inspired by the events in the book.

Next week, we will be using our plans to write our stories.

Maths

In Maths we have been learning all about numbers to 100. We have explored number patterns and used our knowledge of tens and ones to partition numbers.

Next week we will be continuing our work on numbers to 100 by comparing and ordering numbers using < > and = to help us.

Design and Technology   

This week we have enjoyed designing and making our own vehicles. We learnt about wheels and axels and tried to make sure all of our own vehicles had their own wheels and axels. Keeping to our plan was tricky but we did a really good job!

Phonics

This week our groups have been learning:

Pink Group

Sounds focus: i_e, o_e, u_e

Book: In the Sun

Orange Group

Sounds focus: e, ie

Book: Follow Me

Yellow Group – Mrs. Southern’s Group

Sounds focus: i_e, o_e, u_e

Book: The Gingerbread Man

Yellow Group – Mrs. Esling’s Group

Sounds focus: i_e, o_e, u_e

Book: Tom Thumb

Blue Group

Sounds focus: tious/cious, e, ie

Book: The Poor Goose

Grey Group

Sounds focus: tious/cious, e, ie

Book: Toad

Wishing you all a lovely week ahead.

Mrs. O’Marah, Mrs. Judge, Mrs. Esling and Mrs. Southern.

Skylarks WB 12.7.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 8th Jul 2021 @ 8:05am

Hello everyone and welcome back to our weekly blog ? I can’t believe that we are looking ahead to the final full week of the year!

Next week in our writing lessons we will be using research to find out more about Chris Hadfield. We will then group this information into themes before writing about him in the style of a biography.

In maths we will be focussing on writing decimals as fractions. We will also continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.

Throughout next week, we will be focussing our learning heavily on our topic and DT themes and will embark on two projects. First, we will think about how the Vikings would load and unload their boats and will then design and make a machine that uses a pulley mechanism that is fit for this purpose. We will then think about seasonality and the problems faced by the Vikings when their land was infertile. We will then taste, design and make our own healthy soup, focusing on developing skills such as measuring, peeling, chopping, blending and simmering.

On Friday 16^th July, all children will enjoy a fun takeover day where they can come to school in their own clothes, have a PE slot with Mr Ault, enjoy time on a bouncy castle and have a special picnic lunch. Children should pay £2 on the school gate and all money raised will go towards new play equipment chosen by the children.

Head Student and Team Captains

Thank you so much to all the children who applied for one of the above roles, we are so exceptionally proud of them all and want to thank the children for putting so much time and effort into their presentations. Well done to our new head students (Bella, Robyn, Jack, Lauren) and tree team captains (Gabriel, Leyla, Scarlett, Cody) ?

Fishing

We have one more week of fishing left where the remaining children in Year 5 will have the opportunity to attend (weather dependent). Parents will be emailed the Monday before your child is due to go. Children should wear warm, comfortable clothes and appropriate footwear.

Our PE days are Thursday 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.

Homework

The children should complete pages 38 and 39 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 16^th July. This homework is looking at ordering and comparing decimals.   

Remember, if your child is unable to complete their homework at home, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime so that they can complete it in school. During this lunchtime, any children who may be struggling on a particular question at home can also come to ask an adult for help.

Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings/times tables in addition to their maths homework.

Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 16^th July will be the next 10 words from the year 5/6 statutory word list:

prejudice, privilege, profession, programme, pronunciation, queue, recognise, recommend, relevant, rhyme

If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to get in contact ?

Miss Beattie x

Swallows 5/7/21, by Miss Gillam

Date: 5th Jul 2021 @ 6:48am

Good morning and welcome back to Swallows class blog,

Swallows have been working so hard once again this week and Miss Gillam is so proud of them all. We wrote exciting recounts of our school trip to Delamere, finished our Multiplication unit in Maths, found out about how the human body changes as it gets older in Science and learnt about the life of Florence Nightingale. Swallows desperately wanted to watch the video of her life story again. Please see the link below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/true-stories-florence-nightingale/z68fcqt

Homework

• Times Tables Rockstars
• Reading – Can we beat our raffle tickle record this week?
  You will find a sticker in your diary explaining which reading books you will be taking home for the last few weeks of term. Please aim for at least 3 reads each week.  
• Spellings – please continue to learn the Year Two Common Exception words for this week. You will find our ‘Look Cover Write Check’ activity in your child’s diary for this week. Our next quiz will be on Friday 9th July.

Swallows are looking forward to their transition morning with Mrs Rice and Mrs Brennan next week. We will be completing lots of lovely activities and spending time getting to know our new teachers for next year. 

PE will be on Friday this week with both Mr Russell and Mr Ault.

I hope that you enjoyed reading your child’s report this week. Please remember to book a telephone appointment if you have any questions or anything you would like to discuss further.

Miss Gillam

Starlings Class Blog w/c 5th July, by Mrs O'Marah

Date: 4th Jul 2021 @ 8:30pm

Weekly Blog

Week commencing Monday 5^th July

Hello Starlings and welcome back to our weekly class blog.

We cannot believe there are only 3 weeks left in Starlings class. The children are continuing to amaze us every day and make us proud. Here’s a little snapshot of what we have achieved in this past week and will be learning in the week ahead.  

English

In writing we have continued to use the text ‘Toys in Space’ by Mini Grey to inspire our writing. We have been learning to add suffixes to words when writing in the past tense and we have written some letters for different purposes, including to say sorry to a friend and to invite friends to a party.

Next week, we will be completing our unit of work on ‘Toys in Space’. We will reading the end of the story and using the past tense to write diary recounts of important events in the book. We will also be sequencing the events from the story before planning and writing our own adventure stories inspired by ‘Toys in Space’.  

Maths

In Maths we have been solving addition and subtraction word problems using numbers to 50. We also reviewed our home learning focus and completed lots of practical activities to support our knowledge and learning of measurements for weight and capacity.

Next week we will be preparing for Year 2 by learning all about numbers to 100. We will be learning to count to 100, and to explore number patterns and partition numbers to 100 using what we already know to help us.   

Phonics

This week our groups have been learning:

Pink Group

Sounds focus: ea, oi, a_e

Book: Tab the Cat  

Orange Group

Sounds focus: ure, tion, tious/cious

Book: Playday

Yellow Group – Mrs. Southern’s Group

Sounds focus: ea, oi, a_e

Book: The Duckchick

Yellow Group – Mrs. Esling’s Group

Sounds focus: ea, oi, a_e

Book: Off Sick

Blue Group

Sounds focus: ear, ure, tion

Book: Barker

Grey Group

Sounds focus: ear, ure, tion

Book: Wailing Winny’s Car Boot Sale

Wishing you all a lovely week ahead.

Mrs. O’Marah, Mrs. Judge, Mrs. Esling and Mrs. Southern.

Skylarks WB 5.7.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 2nd Jul 2021 @ 11:18am

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

Next week in our English lessons, we will be focusing on summarising the story ‘The Darkest Dark’. We will create our own timelines of Chris Hadfield’s childhood, considering how he felt and acted at each point in his life. We will then work in pairs to choose and write about one key event in his life, applying all of our learning from this half term. We will focus on using effective vocabulary and varied sentences, including adverbial phrases, relative clauses and brackets to indicate parenthesis.

In our reading lessons will continue to read about the International Space Station and Astronaut Chris Hadfield. Our main focus will remain on how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.  

In maths we will continue our work on fractions. We will consolidate our knowledge of multiplying fractions, before moving on to finding fractions of amounts (e.g. 4/6 of 72). We will also continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.

In RE we will be writing a diary entry from a Christian point of view. In it we will explain the connection/differences between forgiveness and justice.

During our topic day, we will work collaboratively to research and compare the human and physical geography of a North American region with a European region that we have studied so far.

Transition Morning

Next week, the children will also spend time with Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham and Mr Beswick during our transition morning, which is a great opportunity for the children to ask questions and get to know their teachers ready for September ?

Head Student and Team Captains

On Monday 5^th July, Skylarks will have the opportunity to apply for the above roles. They will be asked to present their application to the rest of the class, which will be recorded and shared with staff members too. Skylarks children and staff members will then vote in a secret ballot, before the results will be announced.

Fishing

We have two more weeks of fishing left where the remaining children in Year 5 will have the opportunity to attend (weather dependent). Parents will be emailed the Monday before your child is due to go. Children should wear warm, comfortable clothes and appropriate footwear.

Our PE days are Thursday 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.

Homework

The children should complete pages 32 and 33 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 9^th July. This homework is looking at multiplying fractions.   

Remember, if your child is unable to complete their homework at home, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime so that they can complete it in school. During this lunchtime, any children who may be struggling on a particular question at home can also come to ask an adult for help.

Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings/times tables in addition to their maths homework.

Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 9th July will focus on words containing the ‘ee’ sound spelt ‘ei’.

receive, deceive, conceit, conceive, seize, protein, caffeine, neither

If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to get in contact ?

Miss Beattie x

Week Beginning 5th July, by Mrs Evans

Date: 1st Jul 2021 @ 7:59pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

Once again, we have been so busy and worked so hard. Well done all of my lovely Goldfinches.

 Star of the week goes to: Brooke and Savannah

 Top Table award goes to: Finley

In worship this week we have been discussing Global Goal 14- life below water where we learned about a fisherman, his job and the problems of over fishing. We finished our sustainability project of turning old t-shirts into bags for life and we also had the pleasure of watching a worship with Mr Campion as he told us all about his journey in becoming an author.

In preparation for our DT project in the week beginning 12^th July, please send in a clean, empty plastic milk or pop bottle, clear yoghurt pot or small tin-foil tray or any small thin cardboard boxes (e.g. cereal bar boxes) with your child so we can re-use and recycle into a (hopefully) working torch!

English- On Tuesday we had a totally tropical start to our new text ‘When the Giant Stirred’ when the classroom took on the theme of a Pacific island with decorations, music, fishing clues and our island display. We enjoyed using our sense of taste to try out the tropical fruits and have created expanded noun phrases and varied our uses of nouns and pronouns as well as being immersed in a wealth of tropical vocabulary. More to come next week

Spellings- words containing the k sound spelt que.

Our words this week are: unique, antique, cheque, grotesque, boutique, picturesque, plaque, arabesque, mosque, opaque

Please work with your child to ensure he or she understands the meanings of the words and can use them in a sentence as well as being able to spell them. There are different suggestions of activities to do each week to support practising the spellings.

Reading- We will continue to use our skills of retrieval and inference within our new shared reading story.

Maths- we have learned about equivalent fractions and have begun to solve problems with fractions and decimals. Next week we will look at addition and subtraction of fractions with the same denominator.

Please keep going with TTRockStars, Coconut Multiples and Hit the Button.

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

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples

Science- we have enjoyed making observations of ice hands in our new ‘Changing State’ topic and will have a go at making our own fair tests next week to investigate the conditions that affect ice and make it melt quickest.

RE- We enjoyed working together to act out the story of The Parting of the Red Sea.

History – we worked together to research and find out what life was like in Britain when the Romans had invaded. We will go on to compare this with the life of the Celts before the Roman invasion and the changes and inventions they brought to ‘Britannia’

Geography – We spent an enjoyable morning learning about the 8 compass points and using them to locate human and physical geographical features in the school grounds. We will apply our compass skills to the world map to be able to locate the direction of different places from Britain.

Next week we will combine History and Geography to map the route the Roman army took as its empire spread through Europe.

 German- Last week we learned how to ask each other our age and give and answer.

‘Wie alt bist du?’

 ‘Ich bin acht jahre alt.’  or  ‘ Ich bin nein jahre alt.’

 PE- More great teamwork in our PE lessons this week. Goldfinches have also been playing some wonderful team games during their break times.

Forest School- This week we used a forest school morning to investigate a question ‘Which shape makes the strongest structure?’ We enjoyed using the forest area to forage for sticks and twigs to make shelters for Lego people based on Ancient Round Houses, Egyptian Pyramids and our more modern square and rectangular houses.

Looking forward to another action-packed week! 

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you wish to discuss your child.

Mrs Evans

Toucans week beg. 5th July, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 1st Jul 2021 @ 4:25pm

Week beg 5^thJuly 2021

Transition day for pupils going to Rudheath Senior Academy on Tuesday 6^th July 9.30 – 2.30

Homework

Continue to just focus on Reading and Spellings alongside Times Tables Rockstars.

Spellings for next few week will focus on the Year 5/6 Statutory Words

Spellings will be tested on Friday 9^th July – variety, accompany, ancient, average, cemetery, conscience, criticise, develop, equip, excellent

Curriculum

Maths –Ratio and Proportion

History

We will continue to find out about the Ancient Mayan Civilisation and complete our Enquiry Project. Children are presenting their final piece as a poster or as a PowerPoint presentation.

RE – Sikhism

We will use I Pads and PicCollage to show everything that we have found out about Sikhism.     

Science – Electricity

We will finish off our work on electricity.

ART/DT – Mayan Masks and Temples to design and build

PE day will be on Thursday (Cricket Coach) and on Friday (Mr Ault)

Toucans can also attend Mr Ault’s after school club on Fridays.  

Kind regards,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing and Mr Beswick

Skylarks WB 28.6.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 9:30am

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

Next week in our English lessons, we will be focusing on inferring character’s thoughts and feelings. We will begin by completing a zone of relevance for the character Chris to help us gain a better understanding of how he might feel. We will then use these thoughts and feelings to help us write quotes that we imagine Chris might have said, as well as a recount of Chris’ life before and after the first moon landing.

In our reading lessons will continue to read about the International Space Station and Astronaut Chris Hadfield. Our main focus will remain on how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.  

In maths we will continue our work on fractions. We will consolidate our knowledge of subtracting fractions, before moving on to look at multiplying fractions. We will continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.

In science we will continue to explore Earth and Space. We will be making our own sundials and exploring how we can use the position of the sun in the sky to tell the approximate time.

In RE we will reading a Letter written by Paul in the book of Corinthians. We will explore what happens in the verse and will also reflect on what the passage teaches Christians today about forgiveness and justice.  

During our topic day, we will become geographers and will use our map skills to help us explore the wider world, including North America. First, we will learn about the lines of latitude and longitude and will use these to help us locate the equator, northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere, Arctic circle, Antarctic circle and the Tropics of Cancer/Capricorn. We will then use maps, atlases and globes to locate the countries and surrounding oceans/seas of North America.

Our PE days are Thursday 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.

Homework

The children should complete page 26 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 2^nd July. This homework is looking at solving calculation word problems.  

Remember, if your child is unable to complete their homework at home, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime so that they can complete it in school. During this lunchtime, any children who may be struggling on a particular question at home can also come to ask an adult for help.

Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings/times tables in addition to their maths homework.

Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 2^nd July will be the next 10 words from the Year 5/6 statutory word list:

muscle, necessary, neighbour, nuisance, occupy, occur, opportunity, parliament, persuade, physical

If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to get in contact ?

Miss Beattie x

Swallows 25.6.21, by Miss Gillam

Date: 24th Jun 2021 @ 4:50pm

Swallows Weekly Blog – 24.6.21

Hello Swallows and welcome back to our class blog.

We have had another fantastic week of learning in Swallows class this week. We enjoyed our first trip of the year to Delamere forest. We played games, built dens, sat in hammocks, splashed through streams and even did a little bit of yoga in the forest. Swallows represented our school brilliantly and made many magical memories together.  I wonder if your Swallow could teach you how to play the river bank game, show you how to spot woodland habitats or take you on a journey to the most beautiful stream.

Swallows enjoyed showing what they know in our Summer term quizzes this week. We are looking forward to our class sports day tomorrow. Please remember to come to school wearing your PE uniform and trainers.

Please see your diary for this week’s spellings. Our next quiz will be on Friday 2^nd July 2021.

• Clothes
• Only
• Who
• Any
• Water
• Again
• Both

Please look out for a sticker informing you of your new Read Write Inc group in your diary next week.

Thank you for another amazing week in Swallows class, I am so proud of you all. Wishing you all a lovely, happy and safe weekend. I am SO excited for sports day tomorrow!

With lots of love from

Miss Gillam

Toucans week beg. 28th June, by Mrs Whittingham

Date: 24th Jun 2021 @ 3:37pm

Week beg 28^thJune 2021

Monday 28^th June – Tattenhall Centre

We are so excited about our upcoming visit for Toucans class to the Tattenhall Centre where they will have a fun filled day of outdoor adventure activities. To ensure the visit can go ahead, we have had to complete enhanced risk assessments with the Local Authority and Public Health; please can you make sure you read the Covid-19 information below.

As a reminder, the visit will include sessions ran by the centre staff on the low ropes, the zip line and a tree climbing activity. The children will need to be in school for a prompt departure by 9am so we are asking all children to arrive at 8:30am and will return later in the day. To celebrate the end of the school year, we are inviting the children to remain in school until 7:30pm where they will take part in team games led by Mr Ault and tea will be provided by school; we have also booked the ice cream van to come too! This part of the day will be fully funded by school.

On Monday, the children will need to wear old comfy clothes including tracksuit bottoms, trainers, and a water proof coat to enjoy each activity safely. Please ensure that you apply sun cream on your child before they come to school. Please also bring an additional water bottle for them to have throughout the day. The children can bring their own packed lunch with a drink in a carrier bag that we can dispose of, no packed lunch bags or boxes please.

Homework

Continue to just focus on Reading and Spellings alongside Times Tables Rockstars.

Spellings for next few week will focus on the Year 5/6 Statutory Words

Spellings will be tested on Friday 2^nd July – harass, individual, lightning, neighbour, parliament, profession, recommend, sacrifice, sincerely, symbol

Curriculum

Maths –Ratio and Proportion

History

We will continue to find out about the Ancient Mayan Civilisation

RE – Sikhism

We will use I Pads and PicCollage to show everything that we have found out about Sikhism.     

Science – Electricity

We will finish off our work on electricity.

ART/DT – Mayan Masks and Temples to design and build

PE day will be on Thursday (Cricket Coach) and on Friday (Mr Ault)

Toucans can also attend Mr Ault’s after school club on Fridays.  

Kind regards,

Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing and Mr Beswick

Goldfinches WB 28.6.21, by Mrs Evans

Date: 23rd Jun 2021 @ 10:19pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

What another wonderful week of learning.

Star of the week goes to: Lola and Anthony

Top Table award goes to: Isabella

The Makers of History company gave us full day of fun-packed learning on Wednesday where Goldfinches had chance to act in role, investigate, play games, become musicians, try out weapons, juggle with peacock feathers and armour, learn how and why the Roman Army was so successful with their organisation, marches and battle formations and make Roman or Celt art out of clay.

I am so proud of how respectful, polite and enthusiastic our lovely Goldfinches were to our Historians and I can’t quite believe just how much learning we packed into one day! I tried to tweet as much as I could!

I am also proud of how hard our Goldfinches have worked in their assessments this week.

In worship this week we have been discussing Rosie’s Dolls through the theme of No Outsiders.

English- We will begin our new story this week. It’s a lovely one!

Spellings- we will be focusing on words with double consonants.

Our words this week are: shattered, giggly, collector, wettest, fitter, travelled,  , fizzing, stopped, planning, terrify

Please work with your child to ensure he or she understands the meanings of the words and can use them in a sentence as well as being able to spell them. There are different suggestions of activities to do each week to support practising the spellings.

Reading- We will begin our new reading text for shared reading as we begin our new writing text.

Maths- we have learned about equivalent fractions and have begun to simplify fractions. We will continue to work on fractions with addition and subtraction.

We completed our trial of the Multiplication Tables Check App this week but will continue to work on our times tables in preparation for moving into Year 5. Please keep going with TTRockStars, Coconut Multiples and Hit the Button.

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

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples

Science- we have begun to compare the properties of solids, liquids and gases in our new ‘Changing State’ topic.

RE- We enjoyed working together to act out the story of The Parting of the Red Sea.

History - we began investigating the chronology of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the Romans in Britain to create our own Roman timelines.

German- This week we learned how to ask each other our age and give and answer.

‘Wie alt bist du?’

 ‘Ich bin acht jahre alt.’  or  ‘ Ich bin nein jahre alt.’

PE- We are looking forward to our Sport’s Day. We know this will be quite different to our usual events, however we are determined to make it the best we can, act as fantastic sports people and be wonderful spectators for each other.

You are always welcome to contact me with any questions you have about your child.

Mrs Evans

Goldfinches WB21.6.21, by Mrs Evans

Date: 17th Jun 2021 @ 9:43pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

What another hardworking week we have had whilst enjoying the fact that summer really is here! Once again, your Goldfinches have all made me so proud of their passion for learning.

 Star of the week goes to: Mason M

 Top Table award goes to: Francesca

Trip (in school) we are looking forward to having The Makers of History company on Wednesday for our experience going back in time to the Roman Empire.

In worship this week we have been discussing Global Goal 13- Climate Action. We have loved listening to Jack Johnson’s 3 Rs song to help us think about the actions we can take to recycle, reuse and reduce our waste. We watched the video which explains how to turn our old t-shirts into re-useable bags and look forward to doing this on Friday.

It was lovely to zoom call with our lovely Miss Randles for her last day of work before starting her maternity leave last week.

And.. what a lovely surprise visit we had from Rocky the parrot! A super start to our Thursday! Thank you Ryan and  Ryan's mum!

English- I cannot be more proud of the enthusiasm, care and effort all of our lovely Goldfinches have put into their ‘best piece of writing yet’ in Y4. Our stories of ‘Escape to Pompeii’ are wonderful.

Spellings- we will be focusing on words from the 4th column of the Y3/4 words.

Our words this week are: minute, natural, naughty, notice, occasion, occasionally, often, opposite, ordinary, signature

Please work with your child to ensure he or she understands the meanings of the words and can use them in a sentence as well as being able to spell them. There are different suggestions of activities to do each week to support practising the spellings.

Reading- We have continued with our ‘Volcanoes’ book and have enjoyed using questioning strategies to form our own questions for each other to answer.

Maths- we have begun learning about decimal numbers and equivalent fractions and have really impressed Mrs Evans with our quick learning.

The Multiplication Tables Check App is coming up soon- we will be ready to have a go at the trial version by the 25^th June.

The official Y4 multiplication check has been postponed until next year, however, as a school we have made the decision to trial it for ourselves this year. The game below is almost the same as the format for the multiplication check we will do in June. Please support your child to practise using this at home regularly alongside TTRock Stars

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

This week we will have a go at the official practise site to become familiar with how it works and what we have to do.

Science- we used our knowledge of classification keys to classify leaves and creating our own questions. We had a lovely walk in track time on Thursday to identify some of the trees in our school grounds

RE- Our RE topic is Judaism where we worked very hard to write about the Israelites on Monday.

History and Geography- we completed our inquiry about our big question: What Legacy was left by the Ancient Greek civilisation? by studying and researching different themes and sub-questions about Ancient Greece.

German- this week we will have enjoyed learning to ask ‘Wo wohnst du? (where do you live?).

PE- this half term will focus on Athletics and Striking and Batting games (rounders and cricket). It will continue to be on Monday and Friday afternoons. Please ensure your child wears the Lostock Gralam PE uniform and has long hair tied back and earrings removed or covered please.

Cricket club was very well attended. Please ensure that if your child is attending they wear their PE uniform, not their own clothes during the day and follow the same safety rules of bringing a hair band for long hair and taking earrings out/covering them with tape.

As always, please don’t hesitate to contact me via the school office if you want to discuss anything regarding your child.

Mrs Evans

Starlings Class Blog w/c 21st June, by Mrs O'Marah

Date: 17th Jun 2021 @ 8:55pm

Weekly Blog

Week commencing Monday 21^st June

Hello Starlings and welcome back to our weekly class blog.

We have had another busy and sun-filled week in Starlings class and are so proud of the hard work we are doing to join our handwriting.

English

In writing we have continued to use the text ‘Toys in Space’ by Mini Grey to inspire our writing. We have been looking at the different characters in the book and thinking about how we can describe and compare them. In our sentence writing, we have been learning to use ! and ? at the end of our sentences.

Next week, we will be using the senses to help us to explore how the toys might be feeling. We will also be writing descriptive sentences for our own space creatures.

Maths

In Maths we have been using our knowledge of numbers to 50 and the symbols less than < and greater than  >  to help us to compare and order objects and numbers.

Next week we will be counting in twos and fives, and we will be applying our learning to help us to solve word problems for addition and subtraction.  

History

In topic this week we have been using our history skills to learn about how cars have changed throughout time and exploring the differences in their size, shapes, what materials they were made from and what they were used for. We made timelines to show chronological order.

Phonics

This week our groups have been learning:

Red Group

Sounds focus: ck, sh

Book: A Cat in a Pot

Green Group

Sounds focus: ay, ee, igh

Book: The Web

Pink Group

Sounds focus: ai, oa, ew

Book: Snow  

Orange Group

Sounds focus: ie, au, e_e

Book: My Best Shirt

Yellow Group

Sounds focus: cious/tious, e, ie

Book: Robin Hood

Blue Group

Sounds focus: ai, oa, ew

Book: JellyBean

Grey Group

Sounds focus: ai, oa, ew

Book: How Silly!

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.

Mrs. O’Marah, Mrs. Judge, Mrs. Esling and Mrs. Southern.

Swallows WB 18.6.21, by Miss Gillam

Date: 17th Jun 2021 @ 4:45pm

Swallows Weekly Blog – 18.6.21

Hello Swallows and welcome back to our class blog.

Wow! What a busy week we have had!

Thank you so much for persevering with our tricky spellings this week. I am amazed by how many of you chose to use our new and exciting vocabulary in your writing this week. Focusing on spelling topic based vocabulary often gives the children the confidence to use more adventurous word choices independently in their writing. I am very proud of you all for writing such amazing adventure stories.

Our Maths learning focused on multiplication this week. We made and described arrays and represented equal groups using both pictures and objects.  Please continue to use Times Tables Rock Stars to learn your times tables.

Our reading focused on clarifying vocabulary and inferring meaning this week. We answered comprehension style questions and used the text to explain how we know we are right. Please encourage your Swallow to refer to the text when answering questions about what they are reading at home.

Please see your diary for this week’s spellings. Our next quiz will be on Friday 25^th June 2021.

• Everybody
• Should
• Could
• Would
• Sky
• Dry
• Terrify

TRIP

Swallows class will visit Delamere Forest on Monday 21^st June. We will be going on a forest walk to explore habitats and build dens. We will splash in the stream, hug a tree and enjoy team games in the beautiful forest setting.

Please ensure that you are in school for 8:30 on Monday morning. We will return at approximately 4pm.

The children need to wear old clothes including tracksuit bottoms to protect their legs, wellies and a waterproof coat. Please also ensure that you apply sun cream before coming to school in the morning.

The children can bring their own lunch in a named carrier bag which can be disposed of when finished.  No packed lunch bags or boxes please. Mrs Macey will prepare pre-ordered school lunch bags which contain a small drink. It is important that the children bring an additional, named water bottle to drink throughout the day.  

Wishing you all a lovely, happy and safe weekend. I am SO excited for Monday!

With lots of love from

Miss Gillam

Skylarks W.B. 21.06.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 17th Jun 2021 @ 8:05am

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

In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our text ‘The Darkest Dark’ by Chris Hadfield. We will also read an accompanying book called ‘One Giant Leap’ and will use this text to retrieve and record factual information about the first moon landing. We will then develop these facts to create sentences with parenthesis (extra information or an afterthought usually marked off with brackets, dashes, or commas).

In our reading lessons will continue to read about the International Space Station and will focus our learning on how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning. We will also focus on differentiating between fact and opinion.

In maths we will be focusing on subtracting fractions, including improper fractions and mixed numbers. We will also use our knowledge of equivalent fractions to help us give our answers in the simplest form. We will continue to consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through daily 4-a-day activities.

In science we will continue to add to our knowledge of the solar system. We will make models to help us understand that day and night are caused by the rotation of the Earth, and that the Sun only appears to move across the sky.

In RE we will be learning about the connection between forgiveness and acting justly. We will think about the different verses we have read so far and will use role play to show how the pharisees and teachers of the law did not act justly and will make suggestions as to how they should have acted instead.

Our PE days will be Thursday 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.

Homework

The children should complete pages 48 and 49 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 25^th June. This homework is looking at calculating perimeter.

Remember, if your child is unable to complete their homework at home, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime so that they can complete it in school. During this lunchtime, any children who may be struggling on a particular question at home can also come to ask an adult for help.

Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings/times tables in addition to their maths homework.

Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 25^th June will focus on words ending in the suffix -ence:

absence, evidence, independence, intelligence, silence, confidence, competence, magnificence

If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to get in contact ?

Miss Beattie x

Starlings wb 14.6.21, by Mrs O'Marah

Date: 13th Jun 2021 @ 10:23pm

Weekly Blog

14th June 2021

Hello Starlings and welcome back to our weekly class blog.

Last week we had a wonderful return to school following the half term break and we have been very busy learning and having fun in the sunshine!

English

In writing we have started our brand new text ‘Toys in Space’ by Mini Grey. We have been introduced to the different characters and have been using the very important skill of inference to think about how the toys might feel and what they might be thinking. We then wrote sentences to share our ideas, using the word ‘and’ to join more than one idea in a sentence.

This week we will be learning to punctuate sentences with ? ! and .

We will also be comparing the different characters from the book.

Maths

In Maths we have been learning all about numbers to 50. We can now count to 50 and find missing numbers to 50, and we can use part part whole to represent numbers to 50 by using tens and ones.

This week we will be counting in twos, and then using < and > to compare sets of objects.

Topic

Last week we learned all about The Flying Scotsman, we found out where it got its name from, plotted where it travelled on the map, talked about the impact it made on people’s lives and measured out its length.

Phonics

This week our groups have been learning:

Red Group

Sounds focus: ng, nk

Book: Wuff Wuff

Green Group

Sounds focus: ir, ou, oy

Book: Tug Tug

Pink Group

Sounds focus: ue, er, ow

Book: The Greedy Gremlin  

Orange Group

Sounds focus: tion, tious/cious

Book: My sort of house

Yellow Group

Sounds focus: ure, tion, tious/cious

Book: The Gingerbread Man

Blue Group

Sounds focus: ue, er, ow

Book: Hairy Fairy

Grey Group

Sounds focus: eu, er, ow

Wishing you all a lovely week ahead.

Mrs. O’Marah, Mrs. Judge, Mrs. Esling and Mrs. Southern.

Skylarks W.B. 14.06.21, by Miss Beattie

Date: 13th Jun 2021 @ 7:39pm

Hello everyone ?

Welcome back to our weekly blog! A great first week back for Skylarks Class. Our trip on Tuesday was fantastic and I’m sure the children have told you all about their new knowledge of Viking and Anglo-Saxon society. The children were a credit to themselves and Lostock ?

This week in our English lessons we will delve into our new book ‘The Darkest Dark’ by Chris Hadfield. We will focus on technical vocabulary and relative clauses and will use these to write a biography about Hadfield’s early life and a recount of one of his childhood events.

In our reading lessons will continue to read about the International Space Station and will focus our learning on how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.

In maths we will continue to focus on fractions. In particular, we will learn how to add and subtract fractions including mixed numbers. We will also consolidate our knowledge of the four operations through 4-a-day activities.

During our topic day we will use our learning from our trip to Tatton Hall as well as further research to answer the enquiry question, ‘Were the Vikings ruthless killers or peaceful settlers?’

In science we will learn the name, size and position of each of the planets and will create our own labelled diagrams. We will also learn about the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the Sun. Finally, we will discover that ancient astronomers believed in the geocentric model of the solar system, and the reasons why it was replaced by the heliocentric model.

In RE we will be learning about the difference between ‘forgiveness’ and ‘justice’. We will look at examples of both in the bible before debating whether forgiveness and justice can go hand in hand.

Our PE days will be Thursday 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.

Homework

The children should complete pages 30 and 31 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 18^th June. This homework is looking at adding and subtracting fractions.  

Remember, if your child is unable to complete their homework at home, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime so that they can complete it in school. During this lunchtime, any children who may be struggling on a particular question at home can also come to ask an adult for help.

Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings/times tables in addition to their maths homework.

Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 18^th June will be the next 10 words from the year 5/6 statutory word list:

identity, immediately, individual, interfere, interrupt, language, leisure, lightning, marvellous, mischievous

If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to get in contact ?

Miss Beattie x

Robins 14th June 2021, by Mrs Rice

Date: 11th Jun 2021 @ 3:51pm

Hi everyone

What a fabulous week of learning we have had after the half term holidays. Robins class have been using their Geography skills to locate human and physical features of our grounds using the 8 points of the compass. We have been exploring our new Christian Value of Courage and how we can use the lessons that Jesus gives us in the Bible in our own lives.

Next week, in Maths, we will continue our work with fractions. The children will be adding and subtracting parts of the whole and finding fractions of amounts.

In Writing, we will begin a new exciting book Zeraffa Giraffa by Diane Hoffmeyer. We will be learning about how organisational devices such as headings and sub headings can help to present information clearly. We will also be learning how to use alliteration and repeating phrases to persuade the reader.

Our Reading lessons will focus on reading comprehensions skills based around inference. The children will also explore themes within Iron Man and what we think the author's massage to the reader was. 

This week's spellings focus on the prexix 'sub' meaning below or under.

subzero, subsoil, subdivide, subway, submarine, subtitle, subheading, submerge.

Our Science learning is based around 'Animals and Humans'. This week, we will learning about the type and amount of nutritian that humans need and what is meant by a balanced diet. 

Our RE lessons are based upon how Hindu families celebrate and worship God. 

I am really proud of the children's attitudes to learning and their kindness to each other. 

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Many thanks

Mrs Rice and Mrs Brennan