Mrs Lomax

Summer Term

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Welcome to Corrie!

Everyone in the Reception Team are incredibly excited to see you all again!

The Reception team would like to welcome you to our year group page.

Here you will find information about what your child has been learning in Reception and how you can help them at home. This page will be updated with information about current and future topics.

What does your child need for Reception?

  • A school uniform and shoes
  • A water bottle
  • A coat
  • A pair of wellies
  • A set of spare clothes in a soft bag to hang on their peg.
  • A smile!

Please label all of your child’s belongings with their name.

Our new themes for learning are Traditional Tales and Planting!

During this term we will be learning all about traditional tales and planting. We will be exploring the kings and queens of our past and key historical figures. We will also be investigating how to care for a plant and plant lifecycles.

 

Maths

In Maths, in addition to following their own interests the children will be exploring:

Summer 1

  • Counting on and counting back
  • Numbers within 20
  • Numerical patterns

Summer 2

  • Shape
  • Measure
  • Sorting
  • Time

Click the links below to sing along to our core Maths songs:

Jack Hartmann – Number bonds to 5

Jack Hartmann – Number pairs to 10

MC Grammar – Number bonds to 10 

Literacy

As part of our Topics we will be exploring a variety of texts;

Summer 1

  • Jack and the Beanstalk by Nick Sharratt
  • George and the Dragon by Chris Wormell
  • Once Upon a Time by Nick Sharratt
  • Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott
  • Jasper’s Beanstalk by Nick Butterworth
  • Plant the Tiny Seed by Christie Matherson

Click the book covers to read them online

George and the Dragon  Once Upon a Time...Jack and the Beanstalk - Lift-the-Flap Fairy Tales (Paperback)Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Caldecott Honor Book) : McDermott, Gerald, McDermott, Gerald: Amazon.co.uk: BooksJasper: Jasper's BeanstalkPlant the Tiny Seed: A Springtime Book For Kids

Our Core Nursery Rhymes and Songs shared will be,

 

Phonics


In Phonics, the children will be recapping Phase 2 and 3 single letter sounds and learning digraph and trigraphs from Phase 3 Phonics and the phase two and three key words. These will be sent as homework for the children to practise at home.

We use the Story Time Phonics scheme to teach phonics. It supports the Phonics Planning of Letters and Sounds by learning the actions to the song for each new letter sound and the actions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics

 

Outdoor Learning

The children have access to the outdoor area where we develop children’s creative ideas through different role-play areas enhanced with quality play equipment. The outdoor learning gives children the platform to learn and explore through all the areas of the Early Years Foundation stage curriculum.

 

Learning at Home

Your child will bring home a library book and a reading book to share with you.

Their library, home reading book and homework book is handed in every Wednesday.

Their home reading book is changed on a Wednesday.

Your child’s library book will be changed every Friday.

Every Friday, your child will bring their homework book home to complete an activity that supports their learning that has taken place that week, which you can choose with your child from the menu below. These can be completed in any order. They can be completed in their homework book or presented and shared in any way that they choose. For example, photographs and videos taken can be shared by email at reception@corrie.tameside.sch.uk Their homework is due the following Wednesday every week.

 

Happy Learning from the Reception class team.

Mrs Macdonald, Mrs Lomax, Mrs Baguley, Miss Cross, Mrs Alderson and Miss Wrigley

Forest school – Spring Term

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Throughout the Spring term, the children in Reception have been exploring the outdoor area at Corrie. They have been particularly interested in the wildlife that surrounds us. They have used binoculars to investigate which different birds live in the trees on our school grounds and where they build their nests and the materials that they used. They have also then explored different insects that birds eat such as worms. The children learnt that if they stomp on wet ground then this encourages worms to come up to the surface.

Home Learning

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Mrs Marsden, Mr Macdonald and the whole Year 5 staff hope that you are all keeping well during this difficult time and are making the best of the weather and your time at home.

We are all missing you and we are doing some new things. Mr Macdonald has his chickens now, which are getting him up early and Mrs Marsden has been growing some vegetables for her garden and sewing some scrubs for the lovely NHS staff.

Here are the timetables for the next two weeks. They are just an outline and there are more detailed versions of these with the accompanying activities in your work packs which are available from the KS2 office or by email.

If your child works with Mrs Appleton Jones or Mrs Dyer, please contact school and we can email your morning work or have it ready for collection. The afternoon work is the same for everyone.

Week beginning 4.5.20

Monday

4.5.20

 Tuesday

5.5.20

 Wednesday

6.5.20

 Thursday

7.5.20

 Friday

8.5.20
Mad Maths!

Times-table Rock stars play your times table games

 

 

 Spag

Learn 5 spellings from

competition

 Mad Maths!

Times-table Rock stars

play times table games

 

 Spag

Learn 5 spellings from

competition

 VE Day

75th Anniversary

Today is a Bank Holiday

Find out about VE day
Reading:

Classic poem Matilda

 Reading:

Choose an online

e-book from Twinkl or Audible

 

 Reading:

Classic poem From a Railway carriage

 Reading:

Twinkl reading:

Rainforest Potoo

 

 VE Day
English:

Fronted Adverbials

 

 English:

Fronted

Adverbials

 English:

Write a letter

 

 English: Writing

You in the story
Break- Go outside and get some fresh air, or try some activities from active classroom if it’s raining.
Maths:

Roman Numerals

 Maths:

Roman Numerals

 

 Maths:

Roman Numerals

 

 Maths:

Roman Numerals

 

 

 

 

 VE Day Activities.

 
Lunch
Reading for pleasure – Read a book or continue to listen to your audible book.
PE

Active Classroom website

or

You could create your own gym

 

 

 Handwriting:

Practice your handwriting

 

 

Topic: Mayans

What did the Mayans wear?

 

 

 Science

Materials: Invisible Ink experiment

 Handwriting:

Practice your handwriting

 

 

Topic: Mayans

Create a rainforest collage, painting or drawing.

 

   VE Day Activities.
French

Vocabulary linked to the home

 

 

 

 Golden Time

If your parents agree you may

do an activity of your choice.

 

 

 

 

 

Week beginning 11.5.20

Monday

11.5.20

 Tuesday  12.5.20 Wednesday

13.5.20

 Thursday

14.8.80

 Friday

15.5.80
Spelling

Spelling mistake

activity

 

 Mad Maths!

TT Rockstars play times table games.

 

 Spelling

Complete one of spelling mistake worksheets

 

 Mad Maths!

TT Rockstars

play times

table games.

 

 Spelling

Spelling mistake

activity

 
Reading:

Choose an online e-book from Twinkl or Audible

 

 Reading:

Classic poem

The Tyger

 Reading:

Choose an online

e-book from

Twinkl or Audible

 

 Reading:

Classic poetry:

The Owl and the Pussy Cat

 

 Reading free choice

Choose an online e-book

from Twinkl/Audible  or

Dinosaur Comprehension
English:

Recognising Parenthesis

 

 

 English:

Recognising Parenthesis

 

 English: Writing Descriptive Setting 1

 

 

 English: Writing Descriptive Setting 2

 

 English: Writing

Descriptive Setting 3
Maths:

Multi-step problems

 

 Maths:

Multi-step problems

 

 

 Maths:

Multi-step

problems

 

 

 Maths:

Multi-step

problems

 

 

 Maths:

Multi-step

problems

 

 
PE:

Five-a-day activity

 Handwriting:

Practice your handwriting

 

Topic:

What was life like for ancient Mayans?

 

 Science

 

Materials

 

Oil and Water

experiment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Handwriting:

Practice your handwriting

 

Topic: Art & Design

Mayan Jewellery

 

Create your own Mayan jewellery!

 

 

  PE:

Pok-a-Pok

or

Active Classroom website

or

You could create your own gym

 
French:

Food Vocabulary

 

 

 Golden Time

If your parents agree you may do an activity of your choice.

 

 

If you have any questions or queries please email: year5@corrie.tameside.sch.uk and Mr Macdonald or Mrs Marsden will be happy to help you.

Please try to complete your work and make sure you try some creative activities and science experiments.

Keep smiling and take care.

Year 5 Team

Tree sculptures

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Year 5 have been taking part in an eco/art project called ‘Keen to be Green’. They have worked with artist, Sam Owen Hall, and used recycled materials to create tree sculptures. The focus of the project was to take rubbish and transform it into something beautiful that looks like it belongs to nature. We think the outcomes look beautiful!

Plastic bottle lids

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Did you know that lids from plastic bottles and milk bottles are not recyclable?
Please collect any bottle lids and bring them into school. Eco club are going to try and create an art project using them.

The Big Battery Hunt!

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The Big Battery Hunt is returning to Corrie. We’re really focusing on helping the environment at Corrie Primary and want to help in any way we can. We have joined the national schools partnership initiative to collect used batteries and send them off for recycling. There is also the opportunity to win lots of great prizes.

Each school that books a collection for their batteries will be automatically entered into the Big Battery Hunt prize draw. By helping us to recycle as many batteries as possible our school could win:

  • A 2-night class trip to the sustainability centre
  • A 3-year subscription to MyMaths worth £1,000
  • £2000 worth of school equipment vouchers
  • iPads
  • Certificates and trophies

Lyla’s Litter Poem

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Stop littering!
I am a little litter bin,

If I am empty then I am sad,

Only when you fill me up, do I get really glad.

So when you have some rubbish,

Don’t throw it on the floor.

Feed it to me quickly,

Then go and get me some more!

Tree Planting!

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Tree planting last half term was a huge success! Every class in the school came out in force with their teachers to plant more trees around our school. The trees are making great progress and are battling hard against the very cold weather we’ve been having. Next the Eco team plan to grow some wild flowers in our school grounds too.

Eco Meeting 04.02.19

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On Monday 4th February the Eco team met to discuss matters to be tackled during this term.
In attendance: LRG/AR/RB/EH/NJ/TD/ET.
We discussed the planning of waste week that will take place in March of Spring two. The children felt that it would be good to begin to take an audit of the energy levels used around our school and decide on ways in which we can begin to cut excess energy usage. We have also decided that the Eco team will make posters in order to advertise and raise awareness of this event.

Next on our agenda was our planters. We discussed which vegetables we would like to try and grow in them over the coming months. The children decided that instead of just selling the vegetables to parents, we should try to include some of them in the salad bar during lunch times. NJ suggested that we create an activity during health week that enables children to become more involved in the growth of fruit and vegetables at Corrie.

Thirdly we discussed the amount of litter that seems to be around our school grounds at the moment. The children all agreed that there are far too many children and adults throwing litter on the ground, particularly in a morning. We discussed the possibility of arranging more bins around the school grounds and posters to try and encourage people not to litter.

Year 5 letters to the Government.

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Last year, Year 5 wrote letters to Michael Gove to persuade him to alter current approaches to reducing plastic waste and to encourage the Government to do something about it.  This is an example of the reply’s we got back from the House of Commons.