More fantastic work from Year 5 submitted to Class Dojo. Cody has written a wonderful poem about his time in lockdown, how much he misses everyone and his frizzy hair! Amelie has designed an excellent poster encouraging everyone to stay happy and demonstrating social distancing with monsters! Finally, Ella has been hard at work completing extra comprehensions and maths work. Well done and keep it up.
Olly and Faith have both been hard at work at home. Olly has been keeping up with his maths whilst Faith has been mixing colours in her artwork.
Alba has been using plastic cups for her phonic work, blending letters to make words. She has also been counting Lego brick and putting them into the correct number cup. Keep up the hard work.
Year 3 continue to lead the way with their exceptionally hard work. Raymond has been working hard learning about the parts of a plant and keeping up with his RE work; at home Connor has been concentrating really hard and produced some brilliant work; whilst Fern has written a wonderful poem about walking in the PE district; Logan and his brother Hadley made decorations to celebrate VE day, which looked wonderful and Noah has been learning about British inventions, heiroglyphics and keeping up with his reading. Well done to all of you.
Our Year 3 pupils continue to be busy, which Mrs Farrell is most impressed with. James has continued to work very hard at home and has especially been enjoying reading the The Midnight Gang by David Walliams and has completed lots of maths work including work on fractions and using part-whole models. Brilliant work and keep it up.
Children from year 5 have been hard at work this on their home learning. Matteo has again been hard at work on his maths, English and keeping up with his times tables. Beth has produced some fantastic art work in the style of impressionist artist Monet. Finally, Amelie has made a model of a Mayan god along with a sign to show how much she misses everyone at St. Mary’s.
We have even more fantastic examples of your home learning being sent in. Matteo has been hard at work with his maths and English, whilst Caleb and Luca have bee hard at work planting seeds, drawing sunflower pictures and finding out funfacts. Finally, Bobby and Aria have been producing some fantastic artwork and enjoying their maths. Keep up the hard work.
Wow! The children of St. Mary’s are certainly getting stuck into their home learning and producing some amazing English, maths and lots of other amazing activities. Orlaith and James have been busy getting stuck into their maths and English work whilst the Days have been exceptionally busy making, baking and creating. Meanwhile, Josh has just received his caterpillars in the post and is looking forward to see their life-cycle first hand to match this terms topic of Spring and growth. Keep up the hard work and sending in your brilliant activities. All the teachers and staff love finding out about what you have been up to.
Some more fantastic examples of the work and activties children have been undertaking at home from keeping up with their phonics, handwriting, maths and researching and learning about the solar system to perfecting their skills on the perfecting their circus skills. Thanks for letting us know what you are up to and keep the updates coming in.
The Premier League Stars website has a host of resources to support children’s learning at home. These include the football fun activity pack, the super movers, times tables with football mascots and a range of maths and English activities based on solve, shoot, score!
Below is an entire list of websites offering free subscriptions due to the school closure
Follow these links for a wealth maths websites that you can use to support your child’s home learning:
This half term in Nursery we have been very busy learning all about Winter. We have used our senses to look for signs of Winter outside and discuss the changes we have seen.
In Literacy we have focussed on the books ‘Say hello to the snowy animals’ and ‘Lost and Found.’ We have been working hard on developing our mark-making skills practising different patterns each week and also thinking carefully about the initial sounds in words we can hear. The children have helped to create story maps of each story and also innovated the stories to change and add our own pages and endings.
In phonics we have focused on alliteration and played lots of fun games to get us tuned into hearing the initial sounds of words. The children have especially loved making our own silly soup!
In Maths we have continued to focus on numbers to 5 but also been working on suing some new vocabulary to describe quantities- ‘more, ‘less’ and ‘same’. The children have enjoyed singing new counting songs and rhymes around our polar animal theme and have also been practising counting other things that can’t be moved such as jumps and claps.
We have been thinking a lot about changes we can see outside during Winter and also exploring ice in different forms. The children have discussed clothes to wear in Winter weather and also learnt the names of some arctic animals. We found out that Penguins are from the South Pole and what it is like there. We have also celebrated Chinese New year and tried some yummy Chinese food. The children enjoyed making lanterns and finding out about the Zodiac calendar and animal race.
In R.E we have been getting to know Jesus and how he showed love to other’s. We have learnt about some of the miracles he performed and also thought about how we can show our love and be kind to others.
We have loved our new weekly dance lesson in the hall, practising some basic movements and also listening carefully to instructions. The children have mastered taking off/ putting on their shoes and socks in record time! Their favourite activity was singing ‘sleeping bunnies’ but changing the names and movements to some of the arctic animals we have learnt about in class.
In PSHE we have been learning about how we are all special and unique and the children have been able to think about what makes them who they are. They particularly enjoyed making their ‘I am special crowns’.
Outdoor learning has been fun with lots of discussions around the Winter weather we have experienced and also the signs of winter in the environment. Children have been busy making winter soups in the mud kitchen, fixing things in our new tool station and dressing the dolls ready for the winter weather.
Our next topic is ‘Under the Sea’ with a special trip to the Sea life Centre planned for 10th March. We will also be beginning our ‘Little Biker’s course in school each Friday next half term where children will learn to ride a balance bike.
What a great start to 2020 it has been in F1. Have a lovely February half term everyone 🙂
Today we have been learning all about the Chinese New Year. We found out about the different ways that Chinese people celebrate the New Year and listened to the story about how the different years got their animal names: this is the year of the rat! In our class we have looked carefully at different Chinese artefacts: the children particularly liked the red envelopes which are given as gifts with money inside. In our maths area we have been having a go at writing some Chinese numbers. We have been very creative, making dragon masks, Chinese red lanterns and Happy New Year cards. We also enjoyed some Chinese food tasting. The jury is still out on sweet and sour sauce, but the prawn crackers were a big hit! Happy Chinese New Year to all who are celebrating.
In maths we have been looking at splitting 5 in different ways using objects. The two key words that we have been using are “whole” and “part”. To begin with, we had a teddy bears’ picnic in our classroom with fruit! We put 5 pieces of fruit (the whole) into a hoop, then looked at different ways that we could split the whole into two different parts for two hungry bears e.g (five and zero, four and one, three and two…). We have continued to explore this in our maths work using different contexts, using cubes and pictures to represent different objects.
You can continue to have fun with this at home during your daily routine: how many different ways can you split five grapes or five toothbrushes into two parts?
Year 4 had a great morning showing their parents how their maths skills have developed through the mastery programme that we use in school. Using comparative bar models, the children demonstrated how to solve some tricky problems and reason to support an answer given. It was a great turn out and we thank all parents who came along- and were brave enough to join in!
Year 5 enjoyed their trip over to St Thomas More for the second part of their maths STEM workshop, the children immersed themselves in the high school environment and their behaviour was exemplary, the teachers were very complimentary. The children again demonstrated a high level of code cracking skills and managed to decode some very complicated codes. A great experience for the children, developing their problem solving skills.
Year 6 enjoyed an afternoon of maths at St. Thomas More on Monday afternoon, with maths teacher Miss Griffin. They were able to demonstrate their knowledge of shape, angles and coordinates to solve the murder mystery. Miss Griffin was especially pleased with the children’s subject knowledge and their teamwork and collaborative learning.
