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Date: 12th Jun 2024 @ 10:53am
This week has flown by! It must be all the excitement leading up to our fantastic Summer term events.
In our RE lesson this week, we unpicked the Lord’s Prayer to comprehend the meaning behind the prayer and the terminology used. We identified that the Lord’s Prayer is a Christian prayer which Jesus taught his disciples to say. The prayer begins by making it clear who people are praying too because Christians believe that God is the Father of everyone.
This week we have carried out lessons to recap our learning and completed assessments to showcase our knowledge. The positivity and passion for learning that fills the room when the children are tasked with showcasing their thinking is incredible to see!
We are delighted to announce that our Multiplication Check is officially over and we couldn’t be prouder of the commitment and dedication the children have shown towards recalling their times tables. What a joy to hear from all of the children that the test ‘Really wasn’t anything to be worried about!’
A happy Father's Day this weekend. We hope you enjoy a weekend of makign memories with your loved ones... and of course watching the football!
A week full of hard work and smiles, Year 4. Thank you for shined brighter than the stars in the universe!
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 8:07pm
What another amazing week we have had in Nursery, the weeks really are flying by.
In Forest school this week, the children spent some time remembering our Forest school rules, calling sound and sitting circle. The Children were then set the challenge to make a mud face with water and mud and find different nature items in the Forest School area to add to their mud face
We have enjoyed re-capping phonics sounds already learnt and then learning the new sound ‘p’. For Maths the children have continued to use their counting skills and number tracks to find which number comes after a given number, up to 5. Super counting and problem solving.
We really enjoyed our trip to Windmill Farm where the children spent time exploring the farm and the different animals that lived there. They were able to feed the lambs as well as seeing goats and alpacas. The train ride was a firm favourite for all, as we enjoyed spotting the different animals. What a fabulous day out with lots of fun, laughter and memories made.
We hope all the Dads have a fabulous Father’s day and manage to put their feet up and enjoy the football!
Mrs Bevin, Mrs Molloy and the Nursery team
Reminders:
Please send into school a clearly labelled sun hat and sun cream
Wednesday 19th June – WOW service 2pm @ St Peter’s Church
Wednesday 26th June – Sports day
Date: 10th Jun 2024 @ 10:19am
We can hardly believe it's already Friday; this week has flown by!
On Thursday, we were treated to a fantastic and fun assembly as Jacob from ‘Rocksteady’ Music School visited to tell us about an exciting opportunity coming our way in September. First, he educated us on the different instruments that make up a rock band as well as treating us to lots of classic songs and singalongs. The children were engrossed (as were the adults) and so much fun was had!
Our Maths lessons this week involved recapping our mathematical learning so far this year through some assessments. We are delighted with the children’s positivity, resilience, maturity and overall effort in completing these assessments to the best of their ability. Well done, Year 5! Next week’s Maths lessons will focus on converting measurements (ml to L and g to kg).
In our other learning, we have been developing our tactical awareness in various sports. This week, we applied these skills to a new game for the children, Wazball. It was fantastic to see such competitiveness in PE lessons and a class that works so well as a team. Well done, everyone! We look forward to building on this in our PE lessons next week.
Wishing you all an enjoyable weekend and thank you, Year 5, for all your hard work during this week!
Reminders:
-Weekly spellings have been uploaded to Google Classroom, which will be tested next Friday (21st).
-English and Maths homework will continue as normal for the time being on Mirodo as usual.
-Should the weather warm up (it is June after all), please ensure that children apply suncream in preparation.
-The ‘Go Outside’ Year 5 trip will be on Wednesday 19th June.
Date: 8th Jun 2024 @ 9:57am
As we enter our final term in Year 3, our first week has been busy and filled with lots of fun in the sunshine.
This week in Maths, we have been persevering with time. The children built on their previous learning to tell the time to the nearest minute. We reminded ourselves that if the minute hand is pointing before 6, we use the phrase “past the hour” and if it is pointing after 6, we use the phrase “to the hour”. To find out how many minutes past/to the hour a time is, the children identified the 5-minute interval before and then counted individual minutes. To support the children when telling the time to the hour, we used a part-whole model to help them see the number bond to 60. The children were then formally introduced to the 12-hour digital clock. Children continue to use the phrases “minutes past/ to” the hour to tell the time on a digital clock. It was important to highlight the convention that we say “20 minutes to 4” to describe the time displayed on a digital clock as “3:40”, not “40 minutes past 3”. This built on the learning from the previous step where the children converted times past the hour to times to the hour.
In English, we began our new class book, ‘Zeraffa Giraffa’ by Diane Hoffmeyer. On Monday, we discovered some interesting clues that revealed the true story of Zeraffa the giraffe. These included: an original guide to the menagerie at the Jardin Des Plantes in Paris, a copy of the original ticket to see Zeraffa, the map of her journey with photographs of Muhammad Ali, Pasha of Egypt, and Charles X, King of France. After making some excellent predictions, we learnt that the giraffe was sent from Egypt to King Charles X of France as a gift. We then wrote fantastic letters from Muhammad Ali to Charles X King of France describing the long journey that the giraffe had to take from the southern plains of Africa to France.
In RE, we began to explore our new topic ‘Why do we celebrate Harvest?’ We discovered that the Harvest is mentioned many times in the Bible, particularly in the Old Testament. For example, in Genesis 8:22, after the flood, God promises Noah that there will always be a time for planting and harvesting. After discussing why we celebrate Harvest, we enjoyed reflecting on our own experiences of Harvest Festivals.
We ended our week on a high with the TSP Summer Fair. We were thrilled to make so many memories with our friends. We enjoyed a disco with face painting and party games, bouncy castles and an obstacle course. What a fantastic day!
We hope the sun continues to shine into the weekend. See you all Monday!
Date: 7th Jun 2024 @ 10:12am
We can’t believe it is here already…the FINAL half term of Year 5! Time certainly has raced by up to this point but we are not taking anything for granted as there is still so much left to achieve and plenty more memories to be made. For now, here are some highlights from our week…
In our Collective Worship work, our June monthly value focus is ‘Truthfulness’. In a particular session, we have focused on being true to ourselves by focusing upon our strengths and our uniqueness as individuals. A particular activity involved us “snowballing” each other’s names before each child gave a compliment to the person whose name they retrieved. A lovely activity that brought many a smile!
In Maths, we have focused on telling the time. This has involved reading both analogue and digital clocks to the nearest minute and converting between the two. We then extended our learning to the 24-hour clock clock. A particularly fun (and competitive) Maths lesson was our ‘Battle of the Bands’ Times Tables Rockstars lesson! Our class were split into two teams (The Rockers and The Rollers). Each team had to answer as many questions as they could (as accurately as they could) to contribute to their team’s overall final score. A close battle throughout but well done to The Rollers on your victory!
In English, we have been reading ‘The Hunter’ by Paul Geraghty, which is the story of a little girl called Jamina who goes out into the African bush with her grandfather. Her dream is to be a hunter when she is older but, when she is separated from her grandfather, she finds a baby elephant whimpering besides its dead mother. As Jamina bravely helps the little orphaned elephant, we are eager to find out where this journey takes her.
Thank you to Team TSP and all helpers for a fantastic ‘Rainbow Day’ on Friday. We had a great time on the obstacle course, inflatables and there was no better ending than a D-I-S-C-O!
A brilliant week and wishing you all a fantastic weekend. See you all on Monday!
Reminders:
-Brass lessons will continue to take place every Friday throughout this half term.
-Year 5 PE lessons will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays each week for this half term. Please ensure that your child attends school in their full PE kit on these days.
-Please also note that homework has been uploaded as usual to Mirodo as it will be each Friday throughout this half term. As previously, the homework will be set each Friday and should be completed on or before the following Wednesday.
-Weekly spellings have also been uploaded to Google Classroom, which will be tested next Friday (14th).
Date: 7th Jun 2024 @ 8:23am
What a fantastic start to our final term! We have had the greatest week in Year 1, filled with so much fun!
In Maths this week we continued to work on Position and Direction. We recapped and reviewed our learning from before half term, focusing on turns and left and right. We thoroughly enjoyed doing the Cha Cha Slide to help embed the positional language!
Our favourite story from this week was ‘Come all you little persons’. We loved reading this enchanting story book, we especially loved the beautiful illustrations. We enjoyed learning about nature within this story, and gave it a positive class vote at the end of the day!
In Geography this week we began our new topic ‘At the farm’. We explored different types of farms such as Arable farms, Dairy farms and Livestock farms. We shared lots of experiences about farms we have been to and discussed our understanding of farms and what they are for. We learned all about the features of each farm.
We were lucky enough to put our learning into practice on our school trip to Windmill Farm! We had a brilliant day exploring the features of the farm. We fed the lambs, they were super strong! Farmer Paul then gave us a tour of all of the animals at the farm, our favourites were the alpacas and the goats. We loved the train ride across the farm, we spotted all kinds of animals along the way. One of our highlights were getting to hold the critters! We had to be very brave as we held snakes, spiders and lizards! We made lots of memories and discovered so much about life on the farm!
Date: 6th Jun 2024 @ 4:19pm
We hope you all had a fabulous half term and all ready for a fun packed final half term in Reception!
For RE this week we have started to think about Prayer. We began our session thinking about when we pray and prayers that we knew. We then looked at lots of different objects we may use to help us pray, such as rosary beads and holding crosses. The children then wrote their own special prayer to God.
We were very excited to start our new theme ‘Superheroes’. The role play has been turned into a superhero headquarters, where the children have had the opportunity to dress up as a superhero and think about what the role of a super hero is. The children have enjoyed thinking about what makes a superhero and if they know any superheroes? The children also enjoyed thinking about if they were a superhero what super powers would they have and why? We look forward to seeing where our learning will take us!!!
As we finished for half term, we planted sunflower seeds. We were excited to see that seedlings had grown and a few leaves appeared on the stem. We made sure that our seedlings were in the sunlight, had lots of space and were watered regularly. We can’t wait to watch them grow!
On Thursday Reception enjoyed a gymnastics session with Pro Skill Sports. The children learnt lots of new skills and even got to use some new equipment. What fun we had!
On Friday, it was our school fair. The children enjoyed pony rides, face painting, bouncy castle and even a disco! Thank you so much to Team TSP for organising this for us.
We wish you all a lovely weekend and see you all next week!
Miss Dalley and the Reception team
Reminders:
Tuesday 11th June- Class Photos
Wednesday 12th June - TSP Father’s Day Present Room
Date: 6th Jun 2024 @ 9:39am
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The final term is upon us and we are delighted to be spending lots of opportunities learning and having fun in the sunshine.
In RE, we discussed how we have all had opportunities to pray in many different ways, through our school assemblies, time in church and our own reflective time. We explained what prayer means to us and concluded that a prayer is an expression of belief and commitment. Using our handprints, we unpicked using our five fingers, five things we pray for including those who teach us, lead us, those who love us and those who are sick and weak.
With a focus still on Time, we looked at how we convert between analogue and digital time, before exploring how time is recorded in a 24-hour format. We considered those times which occur during the day and times that pass by while we sleep.
Moving on from stories surrounding the wonders of volcanoes, we now delve into the depth of caves and caverns with inspiration from the wonderful book titled ‘Blue John’. The story sees us venturing down into the caves where the Queen of Darkness lives and we follow the adventures of her rare and precious baby, Blue John, who has been created using the blue of a glacier and the gold of the sun. Using the text, we discussed what stalactites are and used similes to describe how they grow. We used aspects of the text to correct the use of past tense and used commands to write a set of instructions.
In PE, we have been working hard to prepare for our up and coming Sports Day. From the egg and spoon race to the sack race, we smiled and laughed throughout as we raced our way to victory against our friends and even mastered a three-legged race. We cannot wait to show our parents and careers the races we have been practising in a couple of weeks
Our History lessons this term all stem around our perspectives of the Vikings and the stereotypes we hold. We generated a range of adjectives and nouns used to describe Vikings and reinforce the chronology of the times of the first Viking raid using a timeline of events. In the role of Saxon spies, we draw from memory, a Viking ship and then posed questions to analyse its features. Next week, we will examine why Vikings have such a bad reputation
On Friday, we attended the TSP Summer Fair. This is by far our most favourite event of the year and we were thrilled to be able to make memories with our friends. From the morning disco, face painting to the bouncy castles and obstacle course. We simply loved it all!
An excellent week and we hope that the sun continues to shine long into the weekend. Enjoy and see you on Monday!
Date: 5th Jun 2024 @ 12:14pm
Welcome back after a fabulous half term, it has been so lovely listening to all of the children’s half term news !
In Forest school this week, the children spent some time remembering our Forest school rules, they then were set a challenge to create their own necklace using leaves and other natural resources they could find. The necklaces looked amazing.
We have enjoyed re-capping phonics sounds already learnt and then learning the new sound ‘n’. For Maths we have enjoyed exploring the number 3 and 4 and the composition of them for example 2 + 1 = 3 also 1 + 2 = 3, 1 + 3 = 4, 2 + 2 = 4 The children then enjoyed exploring dominoes trying to find all of them that had number 3 or 4 on. Why not see if you can spot and numbers 3 or 4 when you are out and about.
For the next two weeks we are going to be learning all about sunflowers, answering questions such as; What do sunflowers look like? Do all sunflowers look the same? Where do sunflowers grow? We have started to look at different images of sunflowers and thought about what we noticed and what we liked about the different images. The children also enjoyed learning all about Vincent Van Gough and his famous art work ‘Sunflowers’, they then spent some time looking closely at the different colours shapes and patterns they could see in different sunflower pictures. The children created their own sunflower pictures that are displayed in our classroom. Some of the children simply enjoyed exploring with different colours and patterns they had noticed! Super work Nursery.
On Friday the children enjoyed taking part in our school ‘Rainbow Day’ the children were treated to Pony rides, bouncy castles and face painting to name a few! What a fabulous time we had.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Bevin, Mrs Molloy and the Nursery team
Reminders:
Please send into school a clearly labelled sun hat and sun cream
Tues 11th June - Class Photos
Wed 12th June - Windmill Farm Trip
Thursday 13th June (Nursery Only) - Father’s Day present room
Wednesday 19th June – WOW service 2pm @ St Peter’s Church
Date: 5th Jun 2024 @ 11:25am
We are now in our final half-term of primary school!
Since SATs, we have embarked on a rather exciting mathematical venture…designing a theme park! The children had to work together in small groups to design the layout of their park based on the costings of amenities and ride types and ensuring they meet all health and safety requirements, such as including the minimum number of toilets and park benches required. They also had to apply their mathematical knowledge by calculating the running and advertising costs and – from there – deciding on entrance admission fees to ensure they make a profit. The children then presented their ideas, including posters and trailers, and were assessed on their creativity, likelihood of success and business acumen. The children have absolutely LOVED this project and it has been a joy to see them so enthusiastic about completing each task – whilst learning new vocabulary such as ‘marketing’, ‘revenue’, ‘expenditure’ and ‘profit’!
As authors, we have produced another piece of work in our author books. The focus was how to advance the narrative of a story through dialogue, which was tricky as it required the children to revise their understanding of how to include dialogue and then how to advance a story through the conversation.
In Art, we reminded ourselves who Vincent Van Gogh was and focused on his piece, ‘The Starry Night’. The children used paint to create their own versions of the artwork and their finished pieces were great. Well done, Year 6!
To conclude the week, the children enjoyed their ‘Rainbow Day’. Thank you, Team TSP, for organising such a great day.
A special ‘well done’ to those children who represented the school as part of our tri-golf team and also debate team. They were excellent ambassadors for Trinity St. Peter’s!
Please ensure you have checked School Spider regarding our upcoming trip to Alton Towers.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Date: 4th Jun 2024 @ 8:00am
Year 2 – Summer 2 – Week 1
And just like that, we are in the final term of the year, let’s make the next 7 weeks the best they can be!
This week, the children in Year 2 have been completing a series of assessments in Maths and English and we are so proud of the commitment and effort the children have shown and continue to show. Due to being internal assessments, results will not be shared directly but will be indicated in their report towards the end of term.
Next week, in Maths, we will finish of our last topic on Time before moving on to statistics. In English, we will start our new book, a favourite of Miss Jones and a special surprise for the children!
In Music, we began to learn a new song linked to the five oceans. To start, we identified the differences between a chorus and a verse and how chorus’ are repeated throughout songs where as a verse is singular and changes. The children loved singing the song and even came up with some actions for the different verses, check out Twitter for a sneak peek!
In PE, we started our new topic Athletic on Monday, with a special focus on sprinting. We started by identifying the different movements that make up a sprint; high knees, opposite arm to leg movement and large strides. After, we developed these skills by building up to a sprint from a walk, timing our friends with the aim to beat our own score each time!
On Thursday, we had an exceptional morning, with a visit from the wonderful Kate, from Kate’s Krystal’s who will be working with us closely over the next 7 weeks on self-love and self-worth and developing confidence. As well as this, we completed a series of activities in relation to our Young Leaders award. This week, we focused the area ‘Kindness’, identify that all good leaders show kindness and how we should always be kind even when it isn’t seen or recognised by others.
Rainbow Day on Friday was a hit, the children loved riding the horses, completing the obstacle course and of course the school disco. It was truly an amazing day where each and every child was celebrated for being unique individuals!
Reminders
- PE days will continue to be on a Monday and a Thursday for the rest of half term.
- Class photos will be next Tuesday, June 4.
- Water bottles should be brought in each day.
Date: 22nd May 2024 @ 1:27pm
Well we cannot quite believe we are approaching half term!
For RE this week we have continued with our ‘Special places’ theme. The children really loved sharing their pictures of special places and discussing why these places were so special. The children had lots of interesting questions to ask each other, this also let us to think about Church as a special place to visit at times when we want to feel close to Jesus, although we did realise that we don’t always have to go to church to feel close to Jesus.
The week in Forest school, we planted our own sunflower seeds. We also talked about what we need to do to care for our plants to make sure they have what they need to grow. We can’t wait to see what happens next! What great fun we had!
This week we have enjoyed learning all about ‘Ladybirds’. The children have enjoyed painting different types of Ladybirds, making ladybirds out of playdough and also trying to find them in our outside area. The children learnt that Ladybirds lay their eggs in clusters or rows on the underside of a leaf, so also spent time looking under the leaves to see if they could find any ladybird eggs.
After allowing our clay bowls to dry over the weekend, we were able to paint them. They looked amazing!
We wish you all a lovely weekend and a fabulous half term!
Reminders:
Monday 3rd June return to school
Date: 22nd May 2024 @ 1:16pm
How have we reached this point already? The end of the penultimate half term of Year 5! Throughout this half term, we have achieved so much and you have hopefully gained a snapshot of our incredible learning either within this blog or via our class Twitter page. This week was no different in terms of memorable moments in learning with plenty to report…
In our Maths learning, we have been focusing on 3D shapes. Lessons have involved identifying the properties of 3D shapes by building skeleton shapes using blu-tack and art straws. We will continue our 3D shape focus after the half term break as well as exploring 2D shapes and shape nets too.
In our English learning, we have continued our poetry focus using the poem, ‘The Dreadful Menace’, as our inspiration. The language choices from the children were magnificent and they also experimented with a range of impressive poetic devices throughout (including: alliteration, similes, metaphors, personification and onomatopoeia). Year 5 were thoroughly in the zone as they crafted haunting, powerful poems that sent shivers down their teacher’s spines.
We also completed our AR (Augmented Reality) project in Computing. This involved us using our creativity to create our own “scenes” and then bringing them to life through AR within our classroom. The children enjoyed seeing their creations come to life and projecting their scenes and images around the room.
What a week and a fitting way to end this half term. See you all in a week’s time for the FINAL half term of Year 5. We’ll be sure to make it the best yet!
Reminders:
-PE lessons next half term will take place every Tuesday and Thursday.
-There is no set Maths and English homework for next week, however the Year 5 ‘Virtual Classroom’ has been updated and attached to this blog, which includes links to a variety of websites and resources. All pupils' individual passwords can be found on Google Classroom. Don't forget, there is also the ‘Practice’ section on Mirodo where the children can choose any topic they wish to practise for Maths, Reading, SPaG or Science.
-School re-opens on Monday 3rd June.
Date: 22nd May 2024 @ 11:03am
Well done on another fantastic week Year 1!
In Maths this week we began our new topic 'Position and Direction'. We started by discussing the STAR Vocabulary for this week, we explored new positional language such as left, right, half a turn, full turn and quarter turn. We had lots of fun engaging in some physical learning as we practiced the Cha Cha Slide to perfect our moves, focusing on left and right. This week involved us moving objects and ourselves from left to right, as well as making full, half and quarter turns. After this we moved on to forwards and backwards, and familiarised ourselves with this language by playing various games to put into practice our understanding of positions. We used dice, objects, toys and ourselves as part of this activity, using step by step instructions to move backwards and forwards.
We developed our Net and Wall skills by taking part in our final PE Lesson focused on Tennis. We used rackets and tennis balls to develop hitting over a net. By working in partners, we perfected our hitting skills, and practiced turn taking and keeping score. We enjoyed another game of Catch Tennis and challenged each other to catch the ball without a bounce! Finally, we took part in some partner practice using cones as a net to have a go at hitting the ball using the correct standing position.
In RE this week we explored World Faiths by reading stories about how other religions celebrate specific traditions and festivals. We recapped how Muslims celebrate Baptism and compared this to how we celebrate as Christians. We then looked at other special celebrations within various World Faiths such as Hinduism.
Our highlight this week was mufti day! We enjoyed some special games and celebrated another fantastic half term! We have learned lots and made lots more memories. I am so proud of all of your wonderful work during Summer 1, and can't wait to have an even greater Summer 2! Have a great week everyone, thank you for all the continued support!
Date: 19th May 2024 @ 11:55am
This week we have been working hard in English planning for our final big write. We have enjoyed studying the illustrations in our wordless book ‘Journey’ and creating an impressive word bank of new vocabulary we will we include in our writing. We have also been using a range of sentence types to create an atmosphere and change in mood. Next week, we will begin our big write in the style of ‘The Tilly Mint Tales’ (our class novel). Using prepositions, conjunctions, speech and adverbs to express time, place and cause the children will use their plan to write a story based on ‘Journey’.
In Maths, we have been focusing on ‘Time’. We started with the small step of introducing the children to Roman numerals and the Roman number system. They focused only on Roman numerals for numbers 1 to 12, using the context of a clock face. By the end of this step, the children understood that numbers in the Roman number system follow these principles: letters are not usually written four times (for example, 4 is written as IV, instead of IIII); if a lower value digit is written to the left of a higher value digit, it is subtracted (for example, IV = 5 − 1) and if it is written to the right, it is added (for example, VI = 5 + 1). We then recapped how to read and write “o’clock” and “half past” the hour. The children were then given the opportunity to create times using individual clocks with moveable hands. Next week, we will continue working on time looking closely at telling the time to 5 minutes and then to 1 minute.
During our RE lessons, we have enjoyed developing our understanding of religions worldwide and the rules they follow. Last week we focussed on Islam and ‘The Five Pillars of Islam.’ This week, we learned all about ‘The Five K’s of Sikhism’. These are a set of symbols that Sikhs wear to show their dedication to Sikhism and to show they belong to the Khalsa.
Another busy week in Year 3! Enjoy the sun this weekend and we look forward to welcoming you all back on Monday. 😊
Date: 17th May 2024 @ 1:03pm
Well what an exciting week we have had!
For RE this week we enjoyed visiting St Peter’s Church for our WOW service. Caroline and Anne talked about how the church is a special place. Anne talked to the children about Pentecost and what it is. We also sang happy birthday to St Peter’s church to celebrate it’s special day.
On Thursday, Caroline came in to talk to the children about what happens during holy communion at church. Caroline showed the children a special cloth that is used and the chalice. The children were then able to taste the wafer that would be blessed by vicar in church. Thank you, Caroline for a lovely session.
This week we were very excited to see that our butterflies had hatched out of their cocoons, some of the children were even lucky enough to watch it happen! We then went to the outdoor area to set them free. We thought about where they might go next!
The children were very excited to explore using clay this week. We first felt the clay and practiced manipulating it with our fingers and using different tools. After a discussion, we decided that we were going to make bowls for our little treasures that we may have at home. Well done Reception, they look amazing!
We hope you all have a lovely weekend and see you next week!
Miss Dalley and the Reception team
Reminders:
Friday 24th May – Break up for half term
Date: 16th May 2024 @ 10:16am
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The end of term is upon us, our spirits are high and we have lots of reasons to feel proud of ourselves this term.
In Collective Worship, we considered all the times we have been courageous by facing your fears and showing strength in the face of adversity. We recognised how courage refers not only to physical courage but also to moral or emotional courage. As a class, we decided that our favourite courageous moment this term was our efforts to face our fears and enter the Bat Cave at Chester Zoo! In RE, we designed notice boards worth of stading outside our local churches. Our notcie boards promoted the special uses a church has, that enable our communities to come together.
We moved onto looking at time in Maths, reminding ourselves of how to read an analogue clock before moving onto converting and comparing different units of time. We identified how often a leap year and discussed how there are approximately 4 weeks in a month, although most months are slightly longer than this.
It was a joy to revisit some of our English books from Year 2 and look back at a piece of poetry we wrote inspired by the Matilda Musical song ‘When I grow up’. From Lamborghinis to flying off to space, our dreams had no limits! We adopted our poems from two years ago and changed the verses to include a more up to date focus on our future hopes and dreams, consider the hopes we have for others too. We used a repetitive pattern and the phrase ‘so that I’ to add justification for our hopes and dreams. Our poems are definitely worthy to be read aloud on the West End Stage!
In Spanish, we learnt the Spanish words associated with the items we use daily in the classroom and the equipment we need to support our learning. We learnt how we can use the phrase ‘Tengo’ to mean ‘I have’ and add the Spanish word for the equipment in front of us to finish the phase to explain to someone the things we have in our pencil class. Our focus turned to considering whether to use ‘un’ or ‘una’ and how ‘mi’ should be used if we are talking about an item that is mine.
Please see or updated virtual classroom attached to this blog if you would like to explore any of the themes we will be exploring after the half term.
Have a restful Half Term, Year 4!
Date: 16th May 2024 @ 9:59am
Another great week in Year 4!
It was time to get crafty in RE and design our very own churches. Taking a step by step approach to outline the church building, we then added the finer details to show our awareness of the features in a church. Our churches came to life with the addition of stain glasses windows, created using coloured tissue paper to make our desired effect.
Excitement filled the classroom as our preparations and research projects for Chester Zoo got underway. After analysing virtual information boards around the zoo, we created our own information board bursting with factual information about the rainforest and the wildlife that might be found inside it. We selected our own catchy headings, pictures, 3 second summary and sub-headings to support the factual information we recorder to share with the reader. We recognised the importance of making the information board engaging to read and discussed how the use of questions, alliteration and both headings and sub-headings can contribute towards this.
As we draw closer to carrying out our Multiplication Check, we are focusing on the tricky times tables that require a few tricks and tips to help us master. Learning through songs, games and number lines are all strategies we are finding help us grasp the trickier facts we need to recall. We have also been confirming our understanding of converting pence to pounds, finding change and solving money problems by combining and sharing amounts of money.
What a day we had on Friday! If the coach trip itself wasn’t exciting enough, our smiles filled the zoo as we watched the elephants showering, tigers roaring and penguins gliding. We headed off to explore different enclosures, spoke to many of the Zoo Keepers and ventured through their very own rainforest. To conclude the day, we mustered up the courage to enter the free flying bat cave.
Date: 15th May 2024 @ 2:31pm
Well, we are one week closer to the holidays, and we have certainly had a blast!
We have to start by talking about our amazing school trip which was hosted by the wonderful Southport Eco Centre. Julie, our guide, took us on a detailed tour of the beach and sand dunes where we learnt a wealth of information. We were shocked to learn how much the beach has eroded over the years and how many protected, endangered animals there are. We all agreed that we must do more to protect our coast line such as ensuring we take our rubbish home after every visit!
This week, we also covered our RSE topics, ensuring we recapped prior learning from Year 1 – identifying and using the correct names for the different parts of our body including our privates as well as discussing the word consent. After, we looked at how we have changed over time recognising the similarities and differences between ourselves now, and as a baby this allowed us to explore the life cycles over other animals, with a special focus on frogs.
In English, we finished reading our story, The Last Wolf, and were happy to see Little Red Riding Hood identify how she can help the animals in the forest by replanting trees. We then planned our own letters to other people, real and fairy tale, attempting to persuade them to help out too.
In Maths, we stared our new topic on time, first recapping reading the time to the o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past. After, we explored reading time to in the 5-minute intervals. Next week, we will continue to explore the topic on time in more detail.
On Friday, we had our termly Computing Day. This term we developed out uploading skills, focusing on uploading images, text and voice notes to our Seesaw platform, all with a Maths theme.
Reminders
- PE days will continue to be on a Monday and a Thursday.
- Children should bring their own bottle, cap and sun cream to school. They should be, where possible, be able to apply the sun cream themselves as staff are unable to apply this to their face’s.
Date: 15th May 2024 @ 2:22pm
We have had another great week in Year 1! Well done on all of your hard work everyone!
We began this week by focusing on Fractions, we have been working on finding a half and a quarter of shapes and objects. We started by using various sized and coloured shapes to explore making half, we had a brilliant understanding of how 2 halves make a whole. We then developed our learning by recognising and finding a quarter of various shapes and objects. We started by folding and cutting shapes into 4 equal parts, then put our learning into practice by independently working on questions.
In RE this week we explored how other World Faiths celebrate Baptism. We discussed what we already know about Baptism and how Christians celebrate Baptism. We learned about how Muslims celebrate Baptism, and considered the similarities and differences of how the two world faiths celebrate the special day.
We enjoyed a very calm yoga session on Wednesday as we developed our skills in PE, we have thoroughly enjoyed learning all about yoga and how it helps both our mind and body. As a part of our Net and Wall game topic in PE we extended our skills by using a tennis racket to practice new tricks. We played a game of floor tennis to develop our sending and receiving skills.
Our highlight of the week was our Computing day! We love getting onto the iPads and trying out lots of new skills. We find this day very exciting! This week explored mini beasts linking with our Science topic on plants, we went on a hunt to find any hidden mini beasts on our school grounds.
Well done on another fantastic week Year 1!
Date: 15th May 2024 @ 9:58am
What a fun time we have had this week.
On Wednesday we went to our WOW service where Anne talked about the upcoming trip to Uganda. On Thursday we were delighted to see Caroline from Church who had come to school for our Godly Play time. Caroline told the children the story ……….. and talked about ……….. Thank you so much Caroline and Anne.
The children and continuing to amaze us with their phonics knowledge and this week enjoyed learning the sound ‘t’. They have also been exploring 3D shapes for Maths, we particularly enjoyed using the wooden blocks to make bridges using cubes and cuboids as well as spotting cylinders and exploring how they roll and stack.
The children have also spent some time as part of our RSE week talking about families and how all our families are made up of different people, some of the children don’t have any brothers or sisters and some of the children do. We also discussed how there may be different people who live in our house and that this is ok. All families are unique and each family is special. We reminded the children how they are all special and unique, all having different gifts and talents to offer.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Bevin, Mrs Molloy and the Nursery team
Reminders:
Friday 24th Mufti Day - Rainbow Raffle Items
Term Ends - Friday 24th May
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 1:09pm
A typically busy week in the Year 5 classroom! Please see just some of our highlights…
In RE, we continued our focus on Women in the Old Testament as we delved into the lives of a range of significant women. The children completed a range of puzzle activities and matched families together too. Then they were tasked with creating profiles about a significant biblical woman, noting her main biblical accomplishments and life lessons.
In Maths, we have continued our focus on translation and extended this to translation involving coordinates and symmetry. Next week’s Maths will move on to 3D shape, reflection and rotation.
In our English learning, we have begun our new writing focus which is centred around poetry. Using a classic BBC advert used for the Winter Olympics titled ‘The Dreadful Menace’, this encapsulating, eerie advert is narrated by a powerful, domineering voice. This ‘Dreadful Menace’ that promises to ‘summon armies of wind and rain and snow' is, in fact, a mountain. The children loved hearing this poem with the accompanying imagery of the advert itself. They also engaged brilliantly with the opportunity to explore the figurative language and poetic devices used throughout. Next, Year 5 will attempt to create haunting poetic versions of their very own!
An excellent week and we hope that the sunshine returns for this weekend!
Reminders:
-Homework will continue to be set via Mirodo (as usual) for this week and spellings will continue to be set via Google Classroom.
-As per previous reminders via School Spider, next week is RSE (Relationships and Sex Education) week across the school.
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 7:53am
Well...what a week indeed!
After plenty of preparation and build-up, the time to sit our KS2 SATs finally arrived! We could not be any prouder of all the children; they showed such positivity, resilience and optimism throughout the week. Despite the 'dull' nature of sitting assessments, we did also manage to find many opportunities to have laughs along the way too and the children agreed that the SATs process wasn't actually as bad as they thought it could be! Lots of the children would like to visit the Year 5 children before the end of term to let them know this too. Well done, everyone - you are all superstars!
On Friday, we had our post-SATs celebration at Formby Beach. Lots of well-deserved rest and fun was had...and the sun was shining! A great end to the week.
We hope the children all have a well-earned break this weekend..they certainly deserve it!
See you all on Monday!
Date: 10th May 2024 @ 3:36pm
Another week closer to summer, and what a week it has been even though it has only been 4 days!
In Maths, we finished off our topic on Fractions, identifying and finding quarters, thirds and three quarters of given numbers both pictorially and using abstract methods. The children have worked extremely hard at this and have shown true determination. Next week, we will start our new topic, time.
In English, we continued to read our story and found out that the Last Wolf no longer had food to eat due to the forest being cut down and the lack of habitats for his prey. We then decided to come up with solutions to help the the wolf and his friends. Later in the week, we had to help Little Red Riding Hood get home safely, and using the map of the woods, we created our own paths from the Last Wolf's house to her house. We then told our friends the instructions to get home and wrote our instructions using adjectives and adverbs to make our writing more interesting.
In Geography, we explored the coasts of the United Kingdom and itdentified the human and physical features and compared them to the beaches around the world. As well as this we recapped the oceans and seas surronding the United Kingdom.
In Art, we made started out topic on clay and over the course of the afternoon we practised and learnt how to mold the clay, and make various shapes by rolling it into a ball, sausage and other shapes like triangles. This allowed us to create our own models of various things like cats, birds, dogs and even a snail.
Reminders
- Our school trip is next Wednesday 15th May in the moring. Please ensure your child is in long trousers and a sun hat.
Date: 10th May 2024 @ 11:30am
A shorter week but still equally full of highlights and achievements for our brilliant Year 5 class! Here are just a few of them…
Our Maths work has focused on plotting coordinates across four quadrants. Alongside games of battleships against our shoulder partners, we also channelled our inner Mondrian as we created our own artwork using coordinate grids in the style of Piet Mondrian’s iconic images. Next week, we will extend our learning onto translation using coordinate grids.
In English, we completed our author book work which was the culmination of our writing from the half term so far. The children were tasked with writing a scathing letter to a local councillor concerning some pollution within the local area. To achieve this, the children had to apply knowledge gained from our lessons on environmental awareness from our focus picturebook, ‘The Paperbag Prince’. The children’s impressive writing was also accompanied by some equally impressive artwork of a toxic wasteland known as the Poison Pool.
In RE, we began our new unit that focused upon ‘Women in the Old Testament’. The aim of this is to widen the children’s knowledge and understanding of the role and significance of women in the Bible and God’s big story. Our first lesson involved us completing some code breaking activities that provided us with the name of a significant female biblical figure and their role. This enabled us to expand our knowledge base.
Just think of how much we will be able to achieve in five days rather than four next week! Until then…enjoy the weekend!