4 years ago
Posted on 29th Apr 2020 by Mrs Branford

Our Favourite Authors

Today in school, we have had lots of fun talking about and researching our favourite authors. 📚

Here are some of the fantastic PowerPoints that the children in phase 2 have created today 😊

David Walliams by Theo

Roald Dahl by Lilli

David Walliams by Shelby

David Walliams by Oscar

Well done for a super effort! Great job 👌

4 years ago
Posted on 29th Apr 2020 by Mrs McEvoy

Set 3!

Hi everyone,

Some of you may find the spellings in this section a little tricky. If you normally work with Mrs Owen or are in Mrs Lloyd’s letters and sounds group, you may find this resource to practise your letters and sounds helpful.

Below is a link to a website which contains daily phonics lessons based on letters and sounds (the scheme we follow for phonics).

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw/featured

I would suggest that level 3 lessons would be most appropriate but if these are too tricky, try the previous level.

New lessons are uploaded at 11.30am each weekday.

Have fun with phonics!

4 years ago
Posted on 29th Apr 2020 by Mrs Sixsmith

Year Group Emails

Every year group now has an email address set up so families can email work that your child feels particularly proud of or even just to say hello! Emails will only be responded to during school hours and the purpose is for your child to feel that they can communicate positively with staff. Please look on your child’s year group area (within the Parents’ Area) on the new website for further details.

nurseryteam@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

receptionteam@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

year1team@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

year2team@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

year3team@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

year4team@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

year5team@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

year6team@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

Any general queries or issues still need to come directly to the school office by ringing or emailing admin@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

4 years ago
Posted on 29th Apr 2020 by Mrs McEvoy

Natwest Moneysense website

Hi everyone,

We hope you are all having a good week and enjoying the activities we have set for you.

Below is a link to a website with lots of free resources all about money. Have a little look over the next few days.

https://natwest.mymoneysense.com/home/

Don’t forget you can also access TTRS at home, as well as all of the BBC bitesize daily lessons in a range of subjects.

Happy home learning 🙂

4 years ago
Posted on 28th Apr 2020 by Mrs Sixsmith

Emotional Health and Wellbeing

We hope you are keeping safe and well. We know that for some, being in lockdown is difficult. We will try to keep adding resources and information which may help you. Thank you to Miss Slaney, one of our teaching assistants, for working really hard on this.

4 years ago
Posted on 28th Apr 2020 by Mrs Sixsmith

Y5 and Y6 Author Competitions

We have been sent details of three competitions from author Luke Temple. Having looked at this, we think it is suitable for our pupils in Years 5 and 6. Any entries need to be sent directly to the details given, not into school please. We’d love as many children to enter as possible- you could win a school visit from Luke!

Here are the details from Luke:

To help bring a bit of excitement to children’s ‘home schooling’, I have:

Made my most popular book, Mutating Mansion, completely free to download.
Created an activity pack for KS2, ‘Luke Temple’s Writing Toolbox‘. This contains lots of the tools I use to help make my books really exciting, fun and scary to read. I hope children can use the tools to have a go at their own writing.
There is also a competition in the activity pack to win a signed book and a free author visit to their school (there are 3 of these prizes up for grabs). The closing date for the competition is 31st May.

The book and activity pack, including the competition details, can be downloaded from www.luketemple.co.uk/toolbox

4 years ago
Posted on 27th Apr 2020 by Mrs McEvoy

Spelling shed :)

Your new spellings for this week are in the spellings folder and are also on Spelling shed.

Well done to Set 1 who are top of the school.

Children in the top 20 in the whole school are:

Heidi – 1st

Sophie-Mai – 2nd

Robyn – 4th

Oliver G – 9th

Sophie C – 10th

Oliver L – 13th

George H – 15th

Special mention to Reece, Skye D and Jack C who have also been playing lots of games over the last week!

Fantastic effort Year 5. Let’s see if we can get even more Year 5’s up there!

4 years ago
Posted on 27th Apr 2020 by Mrs McEvoy

Year 5 email address

Hi everyone,

We are all very eager to keep in touch with you all, hear how you are getting on and also see examples of all the fantastic work you have been doing at home.

On the website each week, there will be a variety of activities for you to complete in Maths, English and Foundation. If you are really proud of a piece of work you have completed or have photos to show we would love to see them!

You can now share direct to your year 5 teachers by emailing at the following email address:

year5team@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

Keep up all your hard work Year 5, we are very proud of you!

4 years ago
Posted on 27th Apr 2020 by Mrs Holt

Science – Changing Materials

This week’s science is all about materials that will dissolve. Some solids will dissolve in water to form a solution. These materials are known as soluble. Your challenge is to investigate which solids around your house will dissolve in water. Try mixing a small amount of the solid with water and observing what happens. You could try: salt, sugar, sand, soil, flour, chalk…

(Remember to ASK AN ADULT before you raid the kitchen cupboards!)

It would be brilliant if you could do this practically, but if not, you could always research the answers instead. The links below give you plenty of information to get you started.

BBC Bitesize What is dissolving?

BBC Bitesize Which materials dissolve in water?

We would love to hear what you have found out. You could take photographs, write up your investigation or create a table of your results – it’s up to you!

Extra Challenge: Can you investigate whether those solids will dissolve in other liquids, such as cooking oil?

4 years ago
Posted on 27th Apr 2020 by Mrs Branford

Literacy – Persuasive Writing and Reading!

This week’s literacy is all about persuasive writing.

1st task: Read the letter ‘School Prom’ and answer the questions about it.

Persuasive Letter Example School Prom

Questions about School Prom persuasive letter

2nd task: Read the letter to Mr Kane and complete the writing activity.

Persuasive Letter Example Mr Kane

Respond to letter from Mr Kane

Reading

We hope that you are all enjoying lots of reading. You could be reading any type of text, both digital/ online or paper including (but not limited to): stories, fact files, newspapers, recipe books, poems.

Here is the list of reading activities which is at the front of your reading diaries. Remember that you can complete any of these tasks each time you finish a book!

Reading tasks Phase 2