Category: Buckstone Primary School

Good afternoon Everyone.

We have had a great week in P6NM and have been busy setting up our Learning Stories for P6. These have been sent home today so please check school bags! We hope that you enjoy looking over the Newsletter for this term and the targets. Once you have done this, please return the Learning Stories so that we can start to put evidence of learning in.

A few reminders:

• We are outdoors every afternoon so please remember a jacket!
• Please label all jumpers/cardigans as we no longer have access to a lost property box.
• In March, when the school closed we sent home packs of resources. Many of these have been returned, thank you. We are particularly keen to use the smart pals (clear folders which you can slip A4 sheets into) so if you still have these at home could you please send them back in. Thank you!

Here is a summary of our learning this week.

Maths

We have been learning to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.

Here is a poster which is useful to refer to.

We have also been using rounding to estimate an answer to a calculation. For example:

51 + 78 will be roughly 50+80=130

792 – 323 will be roughly 800 – 300 = 500

We also looked at the RUCSAC technique which helps us to solve word problems. Click on the link below to download a poster explaining this method.

RUCSAC POSTER

Opportunities for home learning:

• Give yourself a budget (e.g. £5) Ask an adult to give you 3 items to search for using supermarket prices online. Find the total cost of 3 items then calculate the change you would receive (if any) from your budget. Make this more difficult by adding more items or changing your budget.
• Challenge yourself with funny puzzles using your home environment. For example, ‘What is the number of doors in your house multiplied by your favourite number then divided by your age?’.
• Use Daily 10 on the Top Marks website to practise the concept of rounding. There are different levels so choose the appropriate level of challenge.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

Literacy

Spelling

Our spelling pattern this week has been soft c.

• c is soft (saying s) when it comes after e, i, y
• ce and ci are more commonly used in the middle of words than se and si

Writing

We had two opportunities for story writing this week. The first was an adventure story based on a short text called ‘Mission Possible’ which we read and analysed. The class came up with fantastic character names for the spies and the ‘baddies’ in their stories. I really enjoyed reading them! The second was an imaginative story based on a picture stimulus. The picture had the title ‘Time stood still but for all but one man…’ There were some very imaginative ideas in the stories!

Reading

We are nearing the end of our class novel ‘A Kind of Spark’ and are still really gripped by it. We have had some very in depth discussions about the issues raised in the book.

Opportunities for home learning:

• Reading homework (please check reading records!)
• Revise this week’s spelling words by creating your own word search or use this link to get you’re a computer to do it for you:

http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp

Ideas for writing activities related to our class novel:

• Have you ever felt sorry and wanted to apologise for what you had done but the other person wouldn’t listen or talk to you? Use these ideas to write an apology letter from Nina to Addie to apologise for all the issues/hurt they have both gone through.
• What advice would you give Addie about how to deal with Miss Murphy? Imagine you’re an agony aunt and Addie has written to you to explain her teacher seems to hate her and mistreats her. What would your reply be?

Other areas of the curriculum:

• We have been developing our fitness in outdoor PE lessons.
• We enjoyed working with different partners in outdoor learning activities such as making maths puzzles using natural materials.
• We enjoyed using the laptops to log into teams with our new passwords.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs McFarlane

 

Good afternoon everyone.

This week in P5 we started our new reading books, we read the first 10 pages and then concentrated on describing what we had found out about the main character. Class reading will be done on a Thursday and then pages will be given to read at home for the following Wednesday.

Our spelling pattern was

• Learning to add suffix ing / ed with no doubling.
• Learning more about root words before adding suffix ing / ed

Suffixing Rules:

• If you have a root word containing long vowel sounds – you just add ing

Here are the words

Magic e                          Long Vowel

phoned                           avoided

escaping                         delayed

thriving                          displayed

driving                           flowing

 

Here are the children’s reflections and ideas for home learning.

 

   

 

Have a great weekend

 

Please find attached a summary of our learning this week as well as our spelling words. Many thanks to the pupils who created the summaries.

Primary 5M have had a great week this week learning about lots of different things:

Literacy

This week has been a big week for P5M for literacy. We started off the week practising using connectives in our sentences. To do this we enjoyed creating silly class rules using a range of connectives (such as; after, before, while and instead of) in small groups. The class rules included things like; you must shout ‘bingo’ instead of saying good morning to the teacher.

As well as practising our class spelling words, we also sat a ‘Single Word Spelling Test’ as a class. Similarly, P5M completed their ‘Big Writing’ assessment. We enjoyed doing this as it was an opportunity for us to write an imaginative story of our choice, using all the skills we have been developing over the past few weeks. To help us concentrate during this, we enjoyed having relaxing music on in the background.

P5M received their reading books this week which have been sent home. Our reading days will be on a Wednesday, therefore please see the ‘My Progress’ sheet given out with the books for the required reading pages. Please sign this progress report once the pages have been read and feel free to leave any comments in this box for me to see.

We continued our class novel ‘The Creakers’ and have all been laughing along with the kids of Wiffington Town trying to make do with no adults around.  

Things to do at home –

See the progress record for this week’s reading pages. Try summarising the main events of what you read to someone at home

Keep spotting connectives in any reading you do – this can be personal, or the reading book given

Please see spelling document posted on Monday

Maths and Numeracy

This week we have been learning about 3D objects. We have been learning to name different 3D objects and are describing their properties by saying how many edges, vertices and faces they have.

Following on from last week’s work on understanding the value of digits in numbers up to 10,000, we have continued working on rounding numbers to the nearest 10. We really challenged ourselves this week in maths by progressing on to rounding up to the nearest 100 and 1000. We did this through class discussion and whole class activities as well as written challenges.

Things to do at home –

Try to spot 3d objects around your house – name them and describe them to someone at home

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/place-value

Practice counting in 6’s to help with your 6 times table

Have a go rounding any numbers you come across (page numbers, door numbers, scales etc.) to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000.

Other curricular areas

• P5M started our ‘Free the Forest’ topic this week. We began by carrying out research in small groups about what global warming is. We then created fact files with all the information we found.
• In our outdoor learning time we carried out a scavenger hunt based around our 5 senses, finding objects that has different surfaces and made different sounds etc.
• This week we had fun in P.E playing games to improve our fitness levels, including eye-spy the P.E version. This involved pupils playing eye-spy in groups and if their guess/question was wrong, they performed a given exercise.

We also started to put together our Learning Stories this week. We identified our class targets and individual targets for Maths and Numeracy, Literacy and Health and Wellbeing. Please find this in your child’s bag today and return it to school next Friday.

P5M’s P.E days will be on a Monday and Wednesday. Please come ready for P.E in the morning.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Mangan

Welcome to our weekly blog!

This week we are delighted to be back to our classroom. Please see below some photos of the different areas of the room. The children have settled well and they are making very good use of all areas.

Numeracy

We have been working on numeracy skills such as subitising ( Subitising is a term that was coined by the theorist Piaget and defined the ability to instantaneously recognise the number of objects in a small group without the need to count them). We have worked on recognising numbers and dot patterns (to 10). We are working in small groups to ensure your children are supported and challenge when needed.

We have explored numbers to 10 (and to 20 for some) with matching activities.

We have worked on sequencing numbers within the range of 10 ( to 20 for some)

We have worked on counting forwards and backwards from different starting points.

https://videopress.com/v/fdLYDtq3?preloadContent=metadata

Home learning ideas:

At home you could support your child’s learning by:

• Practice number formation numbers 0 to 10: you don’t need to use a pencil, you can use flour, water and a paint brush, make the number with chalk and your child can trace it over with a car, etc.
• You could try one activity of your choice of this attached document.
•  You could use this game:

https://duckiedeck.com/play/finger-counting

• We have watched this video in class: Jack Hartmann

Literacy

• Practising our listening and talking skills through sharing our last Memory boxes.
• Exploring some single sounds of the alphabet. We have focused on a and t.
• We have been making letters outdoors using different items.

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Home learning ideas

• To practice fine motor skills, use pegs, do and undo buttons, play with playdough, etc.
• Find words that start with a given sound: a and t this week.
• Read a story with your child every day (if possible) and chat about the book.

Other areas

PE

We are working on travelling movements. Most children found tricky skipping perhaps you could practice this skill at home.

Outdoor learning

We have reinforced the learning that took place in the classroom outdoors: making numbers, number recognition, letter recognition, etc.

Your weekly peak…

Other Information

• We will start uploading the sound cards next week on the blog, please ensure you practice with these at home.
• PE days are Tuesday and Thursday, your child should come dress appropriately for outdoor PE. Please not welly boots.
• Please continue help your child to dress/undress independently, this will help with our class routines. If your child has laces make sure she/he knows how to tie them independently.
• It would be really helpful if all items of clothing could be labelled, including shoes.We have some items of clothing that are not labelled and no one has claimed them. See photos:

• Please remember: not to stand at the classroom door (parents/carers should wait on the playground, not on the courtyard), don’t open the door or knock if you are late. If you are late your child will need to access school through the school office.
• Remember that Monday 21st September is a holiday.

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s learning.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro

Hello Wonderful Wolves and Happy Friday!
What a busy week of learning we have had! The children have worked hard on their learning this week – I am very proud of them! 😊

In literacy we have covered:

• CVC words
• Reading sentences independently and drawing pictures to match
• Re-cap of sounding out and blending
• Spelling words with digraph sounds (ai and ay) independently
• Tricky Words
• Reading comprehension strategies; visualisation and recalling main parts
• Reading and spelling assessments

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Ordering and sequencing numbers up to 100
• Numbers bonds to 10 and 20
• We played number bonds bingo and Around the World which was fun!
• Addition to 10, 20, 30 and beyond

P.E:

Our P.E days are a Monday and Wednesday.
This week for P.E we focused on fitness, co-ordination and team work:
• Fitness stations and relay races

Morning Starters:

• Monday – Weekend Whiteboard
• Tuesday – Numeracy Activity
• Wednesday – Numeracy activity
• Thursday – Literacy Activity
• Friday – Literacy Activity

Why is it important to be a kind and helpful class?

“It will make everybody happy!” Erin and Annie
“It’s nice to help people when they fall – its kind.” Maika
“So we can all be friends.” Jessica
“It makes people smile.” Erin
“So we can get things done quicker.” Ben

 

Reading:

• A new book will come home on a Monday and be collected on a Thursday – This will allow us to “quarantine” the books over the weekend and swap them with other groups/classes.
• Reading should come to school every day – please use your child’s purple folder to transport reading books to and from school. Books will stay in these folders and only come out at your child’s reading time
• I have set up new groups based on in-class assessments – these groups are fluid.
• Please don’t be alarmed or worried if your child moves groups – changes are only made in order to support your child’s individual development.
• I will re-assess reading over the next few weeks and make any changes/swaps necessary.
• I have attached an “at home reading guide” to support you at home – a paper copy will also be sent home on Monday with your child’s first book.
• At Home Reading Guide: Reading With Your Child at Home
• There will be no reading log book sent home – any reading information you need will be posted on the class blog.
• Please refer to the “at home reading guide” to support you with reading at home.
• Child specific information will be emailed via the Office Admin account.
Extra Information
• P.E is outside – we are trying our best to work with new guidelines re Covid-19 and deliver quality P.E.
• Windows are open in the classroom from 07.30 – 15.00. They are closed at the end of the day, so we can be organised for home time.
• Once we are more settled I will start to put photographs of our learning on the blog – at the moment with limited time in school this isn’t possible. We do have some super photos on our classroom display!
• Please label all items of school uniform as we don’t have access to a lost property box – thank you.

Have a lovely, relaxing weekend and I will see you all on Monday.
Mrs Williamson 

 

Hello Magic Monkeys and Happy Friday!

In literacy we have covered:

• Single sounds of the alphabet
• Sounding out/blending/spelling CVC words
• Independent writing ‘At the Weekend’
• Sounding out and spelling ai and ay words
• Digraphs (ai and ay)
• ai words – nail, jail, pain, rain, brain, train
• ay words – day, pay, say, play, clay, tray
• We played digraph bingo and even had some prizes!
• Creating word searches
• Letter formation – cursive and non-cursive
• Reading Groups – in class
• Reading sent home

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Number bonds to 10
• Number bonds to 20
• Addition to 10, 20 and beyond
• Addition with missing numbers (eg 5 + ? = 9)
• Exploring tens and units
• Chilli Challenge addition
• Number formation

P.E:

• Fitness – circuits outside
• Cosmic Kids Yoga
• What skills are we developing during P.E discussions

Morning Starters:

• Monday – Weekend Whiteboard
• Tuesday – Literacy Activity
• Wednesday – Learning Partner activity
• Thursday – Numeracy activity
• Friday – Exercise activity

Something I would like to learn:

“art and make toy castles” – Eesha

“about space” – Lily

“tricky words in books, really tricky words!” – Louise

“more about insects” – Mahdis

“About dinosaurs” – Max

“about being a police officer” – Rayyan

“more about reading so I can read a whole book” – Hugo

“more about maths and maths up to 100” – Megan

“about the sea” – Carl

“about addition calculations” –Lewis 

“Shapes” – Roman

“about earthquakes” – Eliza

“about the jungle” – Ella

Reading:

• Reading books were sent home on Monday (07.09.2020)
• A new book will come home on a Monday and be collected on a Thursday – This will allow us to “quarantine” the books over the weekend and swap them with other groups/classes.
• Reading should come to school every day – please use your child’s purple folder to transport reading books to and from school. Books will stay in these folders and only come out at your child’s reading time
• I have set up new groups based on in-class assessments – these groups are fluid.
• Please don’t be alarmed or worried if your child moves groups – changes are only made in order to support your child’s individual development.
• I will re-assess reading over the next few weeks and make any changes/swaps necessary.
• I have attached an “at home reading guide” to support you at home – a paper copy was sent home on Monday along with your child’s first book.
• At Home Reading Guide: Reading With Your Child at Home
• There will be no reading log book sent home – any reading information you need will be posted on the class blog.
• Please refer to the “at home reading guide” to support you with reading at home.
• Child specific information will be emailed via the Office Admin account.

Extra Information 

• Learning Folders will be sent home today – we are still awaiting folder so for now your child’s learning story is in a ‘polly-pocket’
• Please keep this at home – I have the originals to file when the folders come in.
• Small plea – if any has anyone unwanted/unloved dominoes at home we would love to have them at school to support our learning!
• Once we are more settled I will start to put photographs of our learning on the blog – at the moment with limited time in school this isn’t possible. We do have some super photos on our classroom display!
• Please label all items of school uniform as we don’t have access to a lost property box – thank you.
• If possible please fill your child’s bottle with water, thank you.
• Please feel free to contact me via Office Admin if you have any questions

Have a lovely weekend – have fun and stay safe,

Miss McGhee

Another super week of learning in the Golden Treasures class! We have settled into all of our routines really well now!

Important information: learning stories are being sent home with your child today. Please take the time to look at our plans for the term and your child’s targets. Please send purple folders back to school for Friday 18th. (Due to a lack of folders, the contents of the P3 learning stories are being sent home in poly-pockets. Please keep this copy at home, we have taken a photocopy for school which will be filed once the folders arrive).

Here’s what we’ve been learning this week.

Literacy

• P2s and P3s- continuing to revise our tricky words from Block 1 and 2- reading and spelling
• P2s- revising ay/ai sounds
• P3s- spelling words with initial consonant blends such as str and scr
• Everyone has received their first reading book. Thanks for having these in school each day- this is really helpful. We have been reading aloud and having discussions in our groups
• Reading- making predictions about our own reading books. Making predictions about our new class story Operation Night Monster by either drawing, writing or a combination of both
• Writing- practising our cursive letter formation. We practise cursive writing throughout the school. At the moment we are continuing to work on our letter formation and are not joining our letters yet.

Ideas for home learning

• Choosing one of the spelling activities below to help with the tricky words or to practise your sounds
• Reading aloud to your child as much as you can and getting them to read to you if they can
• Making a prediction about a story/tv show/film at home that you haven’t shared before based on the title and pictures
• Practising handwriting together at home. We have attached a sheet to show how the letters are formed with a rhyme attached to each letter

Numeracy and Maths

• saying numbers sequences forwards and backwards from a variety of starting points
• practising our recognition of 2 digit numbers and being able to find them on a 100 square
• thinking about place value and recognising tens and units in 2 digit numbers
• practising number formation, particularly getting our numbers the right way around
• practising number bonds to 10 and 20
• practising addition skills using a variety of games and activities
• reading and displaying information in charts. In our pictograms this week one picture stood for 2 items so we were also thinking about counting in 2s.

Ideas for home learning

• Practise your number formation
• Look for numbers all around you- on buses, doors, signs. Can you recognise these numbers? What do they mean?
• Practising quick recall of number bonds- have fun listening to and dancing along to this clip
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9tjBUiXs0
• Have a go at this place value game to practise- you can choose the numbers that you work with
• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Other Areas

• Outdoor PE- fitness circuits and running- please remember to wear PE kit for school on a Tuesday and Thursday
• Starting our Roald Dahl topic: sketching in the style of Quentin Blake and finding out a bit of information about both Roald Dahl
• Preparing our Learning Story targets and star steps, which are coming home today. Please return folders to school by 18th September (P3s you can keep yours as per note above)

Ideas for home learning

Continue to sketch in Quentin Blake’s style, below is a clip to help you draw The Twits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsqZ1aMPldQ

Have a great weekend!
Here are some pictures of our addition maths tasks this week.

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Reflective Friday – 11.9.20 – by Jessica, Eilidh G, Rebecca B, Tosia, Shahmir and Ruairi 

Literacy 

This week we have done a big writing assessment based of the black hole. We have made them with ideas from the black hole video on the literacy shed https://www.literacyshed.com/blackhole.html. We were not allowed any help from the teacher, but we could use thesauruses and dictionaries if we wanted for spelling and up levelling words. 

We have also done some Kensuke’s Kingdom work where everyone taken notes of descriptions on how the island looked in our heads, then we decided how it would be from a view from above the island drew it in our literacy jotters then later on in the week we went outside and using natural materials to recreate it. Have a look at some of our great islands! 

On Friday we had to do an assembly. To do this we used the time we had in between break and lunch on Wednesday. After this we had a run through it on Thursday and before the assembly on Friday. This went very well, and we all had a lot of fun doing this. 

Numeracy/ Maths 

This week in maths we have been adding decimals in chimney sums to help us with rounding decimals. 

On Tuesday we also practised rounding to the nearest 10,100,1000,10 00,100 000 and 100 000 000. Also on Friday we worked on many of our maths skills whilst doing our numeracy ninjas work sheets, where we had five minutes to complete three columns of questions and at the end depending on how many questions we questions we answered correct we would stay at the same ranking of belt or you can go up a belt. 

IDL/other 

This week we made our own seismometer with paper, pen, and pencil when we finished making our own we shook the tables to see what magnitude it will give us.In PE we did stations of fitness with hoops. We had stations including squats, burpees and running. 

We were the first class to give a virtual assembly! We made a PowerPoint about our topic natural disasters and we updated the morning safety PowerPoint. We put it all in the assembly. We also included a Kahoot quiz at the end to see if everyone recognised the different areas in the school. Here is our PPT for our natural disasters.

What we enjoyed 

We have enjoyed doing the assembly, because we got to talk about our learning and redoing the safety PowerPoint. 

We enjoyed making our own Richter scale and seismometers the we put them on the wall. 

We also enjoyed writing our big writing pieces about a black hole and putting our own spin on it 

Next steps/home learning 

At home we could read some more books to help us with words to up-level our writing.  

At home we could research things about the layers of the Earth or some other natural disasters to help us in school. 

Please find below our reflective Friday for this week ….